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 Welcome. Good to see you. This is our second week here in this place. Bear with us. As you can see, we've changed things up again. We're just going to keep trying different things. Is that okay? One thing that we felt as though when we came here last week was that, oh, it doesn't feel as cozy as upstairs. But then, and then upstairs is too cozy. And then it's kind of like, well, what do we do? And actually, this is a nice thing that we did. And I told my wife, I said, hey, how can we make it more cozy? I don't know what that even means. Can we make it? And then she said, say no more.

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 Say no more. And before you know it, there's a tree. There's a tree. It's an olive tree is what it is. Praise the Lord for Jesus and for Taobao. And so the tree arrived. The staff at church had no idea what this was. None of us did invite it, then it came. And now it's here. It's quite nice. I mean, the olive tree is a beautiful symbol, of course, of our Lord. He spent a lot of time teaching, not to say that I'm here to take his place.

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 But actually, it just reminds us of just people gathering. And of course, the place, the place, the garden, where he uttered those words, would you, Lord, remove the cup of suffering from me?

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 But not my will, but yours is all that matters. And so feel as though it's nice. It's symbolic. It actually feels nice. And I guess it's not real.

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 Okay. Just in case you're worrying. But the little Christmas tree back there is real. The little tiny one. So if you want to go and give it a sniff, that one is real.

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 But here we are. We're going to try and figure this out. Okay. It looks like we actually have a few seats. So it feels less crowded than I was worried about.

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 And so I'm glad. Which means we can continue to invite friends until it gets really, really full. Again, Christmas service, December 21st.

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 Please bring. We're going to have this floor and upstairs. And we're going to have a Christmas market. We're going to try to anyway and see how it all goes.

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 And we're going to have some fun there. Christmas. What is the reason for this season? Of course, it's Jesus.

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 We all know that intellectually. But we've been trying to kind of go through this Advent series. What does the word Advent mean?

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 It comes from the Latin word Adventist, which means arrival. And so it's actually Jesus is arriving soon.

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 And we are gathered here because one, he arrived and two, he's coming back again.

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 And so what did he come for? What was the reason why he came? And last week, I said he came for a certain reason.

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 Who remembers what it was? To save. To seek and save the lost. Miss Brown.

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 And you gave a model answer that actually Jesus came to save you, to choose you, to bring you out.

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 And actually then your dear husband then followed up with an extra bit, which he always does because he always has something to say.

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 Always has something to say. Which was what, Dr. Brown? What did you say?

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 To give us life and life to the full.

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 That's it. To give us life. Jesus came to give us life and life to the full.

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 And so I took that as inspiration for today's sermon.

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 And we're going to talk about that passage.

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 Any points to those who, anyone who knows where that passage is from?

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 To give life and life to the full. John 10.

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 John 10.10. Easy to remember. John 10.10.

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 So welcome to those who are new, by the way. It's really good to see you.

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 Don't worry. I will only pick on you if I know your name.

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 Okay? If I don't know your name, then you can relax a little bit.

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 Jesus came to seek and save and to redeem, which was lost.

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 That's what he came to do.

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 Which is actually different to actually, maybe those outside of the church don't see that.

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 They see Jesus as this strict, or God as this strict God that has rules.

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 Doesn't like people to have fun.

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 And so when people walk into the church, they're like, hmm, what is the impression I will get of church?

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 And actually, we were talking with our life group on Monday about,

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 what's the thing that separates Christianity from the other religions?

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 And if you were to boil it down to one word, there's one word.

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 What would that be?

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 Anyone, any ideas?

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 I want to pick on someone from my life group just because we talked about it.

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 But what is that word?

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 It begins with G, or Jesus is the word, but it begins with G.

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 It's the word I would say separates.

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 Grace.

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 I want to answer you.

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 You're just going to go for it.

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 Grace.

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 Grace.

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 If you're going to say, what's the one thing that separates Christianity?

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 It's grace.

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 All the other religions will tell you, hey, this is how you get to heaven.

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 You do this, you do that, you do this, and you do that, you do it better and better,

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 and eventually you'll climb your way to heaven.

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 But Christianity says, no, you'll never get there, and you don't deserve to be there.

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 Heaven is perfect.

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 It's paradise.

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 It's 100% pure.

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 So the moment you walk in, it won't be unless you have a secret recipe, a secret weapon,

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 and that is Jesus, and that is the grace of Jesus that comes to save you when you don't deserve it.

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 That's grace.

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 So here's another challenge.

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 For those of us who have walked in here, maybe for the first time, you're not even a Christian.

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 Do you feel grace?

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 I worry about that because those outside of the church look in and go, I don't see grace.

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 I see judgment.

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 I see hypocrisy.

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 I see rules.

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 But Jesus came to give life and life to the full, right?

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 But often when we look at the body of Christ, the people of Christ, do we see people who are living abundant lives?

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 Do we see people who are genuinely happy?

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 Sometimes.

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 Sometimes they look miserable.

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 And you wonder, well, why is that?

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 Because Jesus says he came to give life and life to the full.

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 What is really happiness?

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 One of the ways that Christina and I like to relax, coming from England, as we watch this TV show, and honestly, you're going to judge us a little bit, but it's the Graham Norton show.

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 Has anyone watched the movie?

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 Yes.

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 Thank you.

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 I mean, he's just a really funny guy.

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 That's really all there is.

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 And so yesterday we were exhausted.

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 And so we decided just to put on something just to kind of just relax.

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 And Graham Norton and Taylor Swift was on there.

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 Any Swifties in the house?

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 It's my number two on Spotify.

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 It's your number two on Spotify.

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 Wow.

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 And you speak with such pride about this.

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 Well, Danny's got you.

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 Danny did a very embarrassed kind of, but Taylor Swift is not her big main love.

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 BTS is her main one.

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 And she said this one thing that was interesting that caught my eye, which was, she said, well, actually, I've decided that in order for me to have happiness, I have to go and make it myself.

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 I didn't create the happiness myself.

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 I have to fake it until I make it is really what she's saying.

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 We have this thing.

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 We all have a dream, which is that we would just be happy.

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 You ask any parent, what do you want for your child?

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 I thought they would just be happy.

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 My question to you today is what does happy mean?

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 What does happy mean?

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 When you think of someone who is happy, what do you think of?

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 What comes to mind?

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 Jasper, you're nodding.

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 Tell me, tell me a bit more.

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 What's happy to you?

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 Calmness.

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 I like peace.

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 Peace.

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 Secure.

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 Calm.

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 Anything else?

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 Have love.

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 Have love.

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 Everyone, this is actually my mother.

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 This is Mrs. Tang.

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 She's here, so that's why she's not afraid to speak up.

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 So she's going to be here.

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 So yes, anyway, now that distracts you a little bit.

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 Fulfillment.

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 Fulfillment.

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 It's interesting, when we're looking at the topic of happiness, when you say all I want

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 is for you to be happy, all I want is for me to be happy, what are we talking about?

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 We're talking that we actually have a purpose that we feel fulfilled.

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 There is purpose in our lives.

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 There is value in our lives.

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 There is coherence in our lives.

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 That actually everything in our lives just seem to work together.

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 And all of that, really, you can describe as just human flourishing.

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 When everything is working together and you know why you're here, you know who you are,

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 that's when we are truly happy.

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 Here's the problem.

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 Why are we, actually, put your hand up.

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 Do you feel in this moment right now, I'm not going to embarrass you, who thinks that

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 they are actually genuinely happy in their lives right now?

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 Just eye test, I don't know, half the room.

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 Yeah.

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 But here's the thing.

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 Jesus says he came to give life and life to the full.

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 Why are we not happy?

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 Why are we not fully happy?

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 My hypothesis, what I'm going to propose to you today is I think we struggle with that

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 concept of happiness because we misunderstand the context of this passage, what he is actually

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 saying when he says, I've come to give life to the full, who he's actually talking to.

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 And if we understood that, if we understood what he was trying to say, I think it would set

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 us up well for actually being able to be happy.

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 There's a book that I just started reading.

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 It actually won the book of the year from the Gospel Coalition.

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 And it's called Everything is Never Enough.

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 And it talks about my favorite, actually not my wife's favorite book in the Bible, which

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 is Ecclesiastes, which tells you a little bit about Christina if you want to know about

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 her.

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 Okay.

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 So everything is meaningless.

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 Everything is pointless.

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 Everything is vanity.

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 So what's the point?

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 And so you've got this writer of Ecclesiastes who goes into this.

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 And of course, he ends up with some summaries at the end.

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 And if you haven't read it, I won't spoil it for you.

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 But this book about Ecclesiastes talks about this topic of actually, how do we get that

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 happiness?

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 How do we zoom out in life and actually address the low grade hum that we all have, that anxious

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 feeling that we all have, that burden, that heaviness that we all have, and actually live

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 lives that are lives to the full.

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 That we can actually say, oh, my life is just abundant.

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 My heart is just abundant right now.

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 How do we get that?

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 I think we need to understand what John 10 is actually saying, because I think the reason

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 why we don't have that is what St. Augustine talked about, which is that we have disordered

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 loves.

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 We're supposed to love things in a certain order.

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 And if you love things in a certain order, starts with God, then everything will work

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 out and your life will start to flourish.

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 But we have disordered loves.

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 We start loving things that actually aren't good for us.

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 And that's why we have this low grade hum.

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 That's why we have this anxiety.

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 That's why we don't feel like we are truly happy, that we don't truly belong or are flourishing.

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 In this society here, we settle for things that don't really give us happiness.

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 We settle for counterfeits.

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 We settle for things that are not really good.

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 And then we wonder why we don't have the flourishing life that we're supposed to have.

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 The Westminster catechism is this, that the chief end of man is to glorify him and to enjoy

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 him forever.

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 Yes, Caleb, Taylor Swift and catechisms.

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 You are an interesting person.

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 But I don't think we enjoy him forever.

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 But it's also because I don't think we glorify him.

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 Right.

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 And so if we're going to figure out what that means, we're going to have to look into scripture

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 and to look into scripture.

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 I'm going to ask someone from my life group is Dr.

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 Kelvin Lowe, famous orthopedic in Hong Kong.

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 And he's going to come up and he's going to minister to us with the word.

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 If you're new here, I'd like to introduce you to a tradition we have, which is when we

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 read the Bible, we actually stand.

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 It's a symbol.

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 It's a reminder for us to have reverence and awe for the word of God.

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 Actually, there's nothing that I will say here that will be more important than the word

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 of God.

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 So can I invite Caleb and can I invite you to stand as well?

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 John 10.

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 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs

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 in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.

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 But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep, and to him the gatekeepers open.

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 The sheep hears his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for

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 they know his voice.

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 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, and they do not know the voice

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 of the strangers.

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 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying

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 to them.

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 So Jesus again said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

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 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

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 I am the door, and if anyone enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and

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 find pasture.

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 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, and I came that they may have life

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 and have it abundantly.

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 I am the good shepherd.

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 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

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 This is the word of the Lord.

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 Praise Peter.

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 Please take a seat.

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 Thank you, Kalo.

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 It's on that note.

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 Well, actually, we're going to start a new thing, which is also hand out the Bibles.

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 Bonnie, are there the Bibles at the back?

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 Can we just hand them out?

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 If you feel convicted and guilt-tripped by me, then please hold on to it and open it

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 and read it.

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 If you have a stone heart, then you can just pass it on and move it on.

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 Welcome to the gathering.

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 We believe in two things, Jesus and paper Bibles.

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 That is it.

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 So we're just going to pass them out because we realize it's very hard to actually get

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 them when you're walking in because it's so cramped.

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 So we're just going to pass them out and force you to pass the word of God on to someone

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 else.

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 It's another one of our secret tricks is which if you get bored of the sermon, I can

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 trick you into reading the Bible instead.

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 So just feel free.

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 Open up to John 10.

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 10.

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 Well, actually, we're going to do John 10 verse 1 to 11, and you can follow along.

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 Okay?

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 Thank you very much, ladies, for passing that out.

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 So, I came to give life and life to the full.

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 We love that verse.

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 We hold on to it.

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 But the problem is, if you're like me, I'm like, okay, you came to give me life to the

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 full, but I don't really feel it.

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 It's also because Aidan needs a Bible over there.

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 It's all right.

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 I got you, bro.

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 He needs Bible.

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 He needs Jesus.

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 We take that verse.

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 I came to give life and life to the full, but we ignore everything else, and then we

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 wonder why we don't really have life to the full.

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 So we need to understand the preceding verses to it.

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 I see the Bible there.

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 Who's Jesus talking to is my first question.

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 Brave souls.

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 Who's Jesus talking to?

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 The Pharisees.

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 I need to rewind your mind a little bit, because actually, when you look at Scripture, you look

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 at where things are.

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 It's very important.

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 So John 10 is where he talks about this, and I'm your shepherd.

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 I'm the door, and I'm all these great things.

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 But you need to know who he's talking to, because once you find out who he's talking

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 to, it changes what he's actually saying.

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 And then we understand what he's actually saying here.

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 And so John 9, let me just tell you a little bit.

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 There's a man who was born blind.

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 And during that time, if you had a physical ailment, people would look at you and go,

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 not only do you have a physical ailment, you have a spiritual one.

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 You are a sinner.

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 We're going to cast you out of society because you're blind.

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 Can you imagine that?

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 You were already born blind.

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 You already don't see anything.

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 And now society won't even allow you in because they say that you have committed sins,

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 that you had no pie in some ways.

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 And so that's the person.

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 And then, of course, Jesus comes to save him and actually grant him his sight.

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 It's a fascinating passage because what happens after that is a cat and mouse race

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 because it's like, who healed you?

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 Jesus, where is he?

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 I don't know.

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 Find him.

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 Are you following him?

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 No.

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 He just helped me with my blindness.

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 Do you follow him?

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 No.

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 But do you?

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 Why are you so interested?

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 So this is passive aggressive conversation that's happening that's really interesting.

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 And so finally, the man sees.

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 The Pharisees figure out that it is Jesus.

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 And so they confront him and say, and what's their biggest problem?

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 Why did you heal this man on the Sabbath?

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 I'm going to completely ignore the miracle that you just did.

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 And I'm going to hold on to the fact that you did it on the day that you weren't supposed to.

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 And Jesus is just like, you're blind.

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 You don't see.

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 And it's on that note that he then jumps into John 10.

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 And so he says this.

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 And so there's a thief and there's a robber.

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 Truly, truly, I say to you again, when we're reading the Bible, if someone says truly, truly, you pay attention.

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 Okay.

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 Because he's saying, hey, this is really serious.

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 This is in block capital letters that he's saying this now.

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 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in by another way.

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 That man is a thief and a robber.

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 What he's saying is you Pharisees, you false teachers, you are the thieves and you are the robbers.

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 You've been exercising control over these people for so long.

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 So many of them are illiterate and you're the ones who are teaching them how to get to God.

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 And you're telling them the way to get to God is to satisfy you and your rules and your laws.

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 That's what he's saying.

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 He's saying, actually, you're not giving these sheep life.

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 You are stealing from them and you are a robber in their eyes.

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 And you weren't supposed to be here and you're not supposed to be doing this.

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 Just think about the political climate in that moment for him to say that.

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 Jesus does not hold back.

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 He is gentle and lowly, as Nathan reminded us during pre-service prayer, but he is also fierce when it comes to the truth.

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 He's also fierce when it comes to love.

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 There is a thief and there is a robber.

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 Of course, it's not just the Pharisees and the false teachers.

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 The main thief and the main robber, of course, is the enemy himself, Satan.

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 Peter talks about him as a lion who's waiting to prowl.

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 You're sat here.

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 Can you imagine the moment you walk out?

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 There is a lion just following you, just in your shadows, waiting to pounce on you, to distract you, to pull you away from God.

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 The gospel says he's the father of lies.

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 He's speaking lies into you.

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 That's why we hold on to this.

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 That's why we keep coming here, because we have to go, well, what is the truth?

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 We need to know the truth, because out there, there are so many lies.

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 Deep Seek lies to me all the time.

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 I ask it things and it will tell me some random answers and I'll go to that place and it's not there.

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 And then I'll say, are you sure?

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 And then it will say, oh, sorry, I got it wrong.

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 Like, we don't really know what's true out there anymore.

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 The father of lies is sowing division and distraction.

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 He is the thief and he is the robber.

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 The problem with that, if we follow him, we won't have the life and life to the full.

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 So that's the second half of that verse 10.

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 The first half is this.

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 And we're just going to jump to verse 10 first.

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 John 10.10.

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 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

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 I came that they may have life and life to the full abundantly.

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 So first we have to acknowledge there is a thief.

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 He is coming to steal.

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 He's coming to kill.

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 And he's coming to destroy.

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 I think if we can address those things,

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 then I think we'll stand a better chance at understanding how we have this life abundant

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 that God has actually designed and designated for us.

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 But before that, we have to really focus on what does he steal?

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 What does this thief come and steal?

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 Have a think.

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 What does the thief come to steal?

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 What does the enemy come to steal from society, from us, from humanity?

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 Thoughts?

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 Joy.

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 Absolutely.

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 It steals the joy.

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 That's one.

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 Hmm?

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 Peace.

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 You guys are writing my sermon for me.

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 Thank you, Jackie.

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 Identity.

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 Let's start with that one.

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 The first thing the thief does is to steal your identity.

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 Because if you don't know who you are and you don't know what you're capable of

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 and you don't know whose you are, then he's got you.

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 The identity is the key piece.

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 Imagine if you walked out of here and you were fully secure in the fact that your father was the father,

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 your heavenly father was the creator of heaven and earth,

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 in control of everything, the sovereign God.

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 How would that change the way you behave?

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 Your identity.

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 The problem is we live in a society, actually, we don't quite, society has no answers to tell us who we are, by the way.

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 All it does is actually show us who we are not and what we do not have.

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 Okay?

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 So the first thing it does is actually, the thief does, is come to steal our identity.

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 When we forget who we are, then actually, we actually also forget who God is.

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 So actually, he comes to steal our identity and because of that, we also don't know who God is.

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 Think about the very first mistake that mankind made, Adam and Eve, when they didn't trust in God.

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 They, at that point, already don't understand the father's heart.

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 Before the fall, Genesis says, he made man and woman and they were naked and unashamed.

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 Before the fall, which that means the word shame covers everything that happens after the fall.

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 And why?

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 They make the mistake.

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 And then what do they do?

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 They hide.

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 They have this thought already from the very beginning that by making a mistake, they're going to be destroyed by God.

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 And so they are fearful of him.

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 So they hide.

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 Yet God comes and speaks in such an interesting way.

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 He's not like, I told you not to do that.

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 He asks questions.

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 Just read the Genesis account again and you'll see that actually the God that we have is way more gracious, way more compassionate, way more merciful than we give him credit for.

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 We all want to, you know, I recently had someone who has spent his whole life trying to hear the voice of God.

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 We are trying to hear the voice of God.

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 Until there was a moment he realized the reason why he couldn't hear the voice of God was because he thought the voice of God would be so much harsher and so much more strict than he thought.

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 That actually is the truth.

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 When we realize that actually God is speaking words of love and affirmation, look at the New Testament.

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 Every time he opens up the clouds and speaks, what does he say?

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 This is my beloved with whom I am well pleased.

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 Who am I?

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 I am the God.

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 I am the Lord your God.

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 I am gracious and compassionate.

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 I am slow to anger.

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 I am abounding in steadfast love.

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 I am quick to forgive.

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 Measure that up with what God says about himself to what your view of God is.

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 Often it's a very different, very different perception.

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 So if we don't know who God is, then we don't really know ourselves.

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 And that's the problem.

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 Because when we truly understand that we are actually loved, it changes everything.

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 When was the last time you thought to yourself, I am beloved?

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 What does the word beloved even mean?

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 It just means be loved.

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 When was the last time we were willing to be loved?

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 To receive the love of the Father?

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 Because in him we find our identity.

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 But the thief comes to steal that identity.

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 And in doing so, he kills peace, joy.

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 The word peace is shalom.

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 That we feel everything is well.

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 All is well.

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 And yet we don't feel that.

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 There's this low-grade hum that's going on.

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 There's this constant anxiety that we have.

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 And that's the thief coming to say, hey, actually, you don't know who you are.

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 You don't know who you belong to.

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 You're not safe.

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 But as followers of Christ, what do we have?

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 We have this peace that surpasses understanding.

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 This peace that this world cannot give.

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 This peace that doesn't really make sense.

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 So we can sit in those places of tension and go, I still know who I am.

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 I still know what I'm here for.

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 St. Augustine says this,

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 You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

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 Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

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 We don't have this life abundant often because we don't rest in the Lord.

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 C.S. Lewis talks about this desire that's in us that nothing in the world can satisfy.

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 And he makes the logical conclusion,

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 If there is nothing in this world that satisfies this hunger inside us,

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 that means that we were made for something outside of this world.

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 And yet we keep going to the things of this world to find that satisfaction.

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 And then we wonder why it's not there.

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 He came to give life and life to the full.

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 Joy he kills.

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 Joy he kills.

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 The thief of joy, of course, is comparison.

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 Right?

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 And that's what social media, that's what the greatest minds in the world are causing us to do.

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 We're looking and comparing at what everyone else does.

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 And Hong Kong is just prime target for that because we're so close together.

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 Everywhere you walk, you're told what you don't have,

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 who you don't know,

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 who you are not.

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 Can you see how we've fallen into the trap of the thief?

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 That he's coming to rob us of our peace,

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 rob us of our joy,

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 and finally, rob us of our hope.

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 How many people do you meet who are like,

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 you know what?

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 I'm never going to get out of this slump.

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 No one truly understands what I'm going through.

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 I don't think I'll ever get out of this slump.

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 I'm hopeless.

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 And then you see society,

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 you see the challenges of mental health,

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 you see the suicide rates going up,

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 and you wonder if only people knew who they were.

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 If only people knew how much they were loved.

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 If only people had this peace that came from outside of this world.

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 This joy that comes from knowing your purpose,

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 your value.

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 And yet there is a thief.

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 There is a thief who keeps coming to destroy.

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 And what does it finally destroy?

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 Love.

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 Our relationship with ourselves,

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 first and foremost.

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 We don't feel comfortable in ourselves anymore.

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 We have relationships with others that are fractured.

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 You see this on a family level.

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 You see this on a societal level.

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 And you see this just our relationship with the world.

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 Genesis 1.26.

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 What were we supposed to do?

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 We were supposed to come and create culture that glorifies God.

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 We were supposed to have dominion over creation.

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 And yet we have just drained creation's resources.

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 Our purpose was to show God's glory through creation.

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 And yet we've decided the only way you can be happy

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 is if you focus on yourself.

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 And if we're honest, we've all tried it.

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 And we've all failed.

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 Because you realize you cannot actually be truly happy.

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 You can't, so one of the things the book says,

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 Everything is Never Enough,

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 is that you can't achieve happiness by pursuing happiness.

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 That's not how you do it.

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 You can't achieve satisfaction by focusing just on yourself.

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 The only way that you can truly have that human flourishing

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 is if you focus on something outside of yourself,

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 something that's bigger than yourself.

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 When your purpose is beyond yourself.

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 And what is that?

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 That is us understanding life is not about us.

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 This world does not revolve around us.

00:26:37.700 --> 00:26:40.920
 But if we can figure out how to obtain access to that love,

00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:44.220
 which is one of sacrifice, one of selfless giving.

00:26:44.460 --> 00:26:45.840
 You see, the template is here.

00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:46.620
 We know this.

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:47.660
 John 15, it says,

00:26:47.740 --> 00:26:49.019
 The greatest act of love is what?

00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:51.299
 The one would lay down his life for his friend.

00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:54.360
 And yet we keep chasing this idea of love.

00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:58.259
 The greatest form of love is when I feel completely satisfied

00:26:58.259 --> 00:27:00.879
 and cosy and fulfilled in everything that I need.

00:27:03.979 --> 00:27:06.819
 The one thing that does is deprive us of this abundant life

00:27:06.819 --> 00:27:09.019
 that God is promising us.

00:27:09.019 --> 00:27:10.859
 So the question really is, what do we do?

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.639
 We know there's a thief.

00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:15.440
 He's come to steal, kill and destroy.

00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:16.700
 But what do we do?

00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:18.619
 And I don't want to leave us here hopeless,

00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:20.240
 just focused on the thief,

00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:21.539
 because that's not Jesus's point either.

00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:24.940
 He points himself, everyone to himself.

00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:26.099
 And he says two things.

00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:27.240
 The one thing I want to say is,

00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:28.700
 if we're going to have this abundant life,

00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:30.660
 first of all, we have to acknowledge that we are sheep.

00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:32.559
 Okay.

00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:33.659
 We have to acknowledge that.

00:27:33.899 --> 00:27:36.220
 Because we take control of our own lives,

00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:40.619
 and then we wonder why we're not going the way we want to go

00:27:40.619 --> 00:27:41.299
 or why we're lost.

00:27:41.579 --> 00:27:45.139
 And then we blame God for us not having the abundant life

00:27:45.139 --> 00:27:45.980
 that he promised us.

00:27:46.619 --> 00:27:48.099
 But he says you have the abundant life

00:27:48.099 --> 00:27:49.659
 if you recognize that actually you are sheep.

00:27:49.879 --> 00:27:51.539
 Give me some characteristics and traits of sheep.

00:27:51.679 --> 00:27:53.859
 Aidan, what's the first thing you think of

00:27:53.859 --> 00:27:54.539
 when you think about sheep?

00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:56.960
 Obedient.

00:27:57.819 --> 00:27:58.220
 Trusting.

00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:00.759
 Well, they just don't know any better.

00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.200
 This is what we should be doing.

00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:04.039
 Obedient.

00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:05.420
 What else is there about sheep, Danny?

00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:07.599
 Brainless.

00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:09.359
 Stupid.

00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:12.180
 Actually, I've been banned by my daughters

00:28:12.180 --> 00:28:13.259
 to use that word at home.

00:28:14.539 --> 00:28:15.799
 So I use the Chinese version,

00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:17.599
 seethal, but...

00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:18.599
 And the complete...

00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:23.460
 Sheep is stupid.

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:25.720
 Psalm 23, it says,

00:28:26.500 --> 00:28:27.819
 you know, the shepherd leads them,

00:28:27.819 --> 00:28:30.799
 but then he has to guide them with his rod and staff.

00:28:30.879 --> 00:28:30.980
 Why?

00:28:31.059 --> 00:28:32.179
 Because they get caught in bushes

00:28:32.179 --> 00:28:33.859
 because they walk close to the cliff

00:28:33.859 --> 00:28:35.359
 and then they walk off the cliff.

00:28:36.659 --> 00:28:38.279
 But here's the interesting thing about sheep

00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:39.000
 is they are helpless,

00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:40.759
 but they are actually also very valuable.

00:28:41.179 --> 00:28:43.179
 Otherwise, why would the shepherd who has 99

00:28:43.179 --> 00:28:44.259
 still go after the one?

00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:45.399
 Because in those days,

00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:47.339
 I don't think any of us are experts of sheep here.

00:28:47.399 --> 00:28:48.099
 Paul, you're from...

00:28:48.099 --> 00:28:49.879
 Are you an expert of sheep in any way from Australia?

00:28:53.879 --> 00:28:54.619
 You've seen sheep?

00:28:54.619 --> 00:28:55.299
 I've seen it.

00:28:55.439 --> 00:28:56.219
 You've seen it.

00:28:56.719 --> 00:28:57.479
 Okay, no, actually.

00:28:57.979 --> 00:28:59.319
 Sorry, I poked fun at Paul.

00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:00.699
 Just for context here,

00:29:00.719 --> 00:29:01.619
 I always poked fun at Paul.

00:29:02.479 --> 00:29:03.159
 But the other is,

00:29:03.239 --> 00:29:04.299
 he's actually a chocolatier.

00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:05.699
 He comes from a family of chocolatiers,

00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:06.839
 so quite the opposite, I guess.

00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:08.959
 But anyway, ask him about chocolate,

00:29:09.179 --> 00:29:09.839
 but not about sheep.

00:29:12.179 --> 00:29:13.379
 Sheep are actually very valuable.

00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.739
 From the wool to the skin to the meat.

00:29:16.899 --> 00:29:18.479
 So whilst sheep are helpless

00:29:18.479 --> 00:29:19.839
 and stupid and brainless,

00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:22.299
 they actually also were very valuable

00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:23.419
 to the people of the day.

00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:27.080
 Jesus is, again,

00:29:27.180 --> 00:29:28.039
 using these analogies

00:29:28.039 --> 00:29:30.140
 to show us there is something about us.

00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:30.560
 And actually,

00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:32.060
 I also too,

00:29:32.220 --> 00:29:33.519
 and I do still sometimes believe

00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:35.380
 that sheep aren't the smartest creatures,

00:29:35.600 --> 00:29:37.700
 but they do have some capacities

00:29:37.700 --> 00:29:38.920
 that actually surprise me.

00:29:39.740 --> 00:29:41.740
 That actually sheep were able to recognize

00:29:41.740 --> 00:29:44.220
 the sound of their shepherd.

00:29:44.460 --> 00:29:45.539
 If the shepherd sang a song,

00:29:46.660 --> 00:29:47.420
 the sheep within...

00:29:47.420 --> 00:29:48.100
 Now, often,

00:29:48.420 --> 00:29:49.620
 different flocks of sheep

00:29:49.620 --> 00:29:50.259
 would all be together,

00:29:50.380 --> 00:29:51.680
 but if one shepherd sang a song,

00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:53.500
 his sheep would actually respond

00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:54.420
 and actually come out.

00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:55.940
 Did you know that sheep

00:29:55.940 --> 00:29:57.060
 could actually recognize

00:29:57.060 --> 00:29:58.620
 the face of 50 other sheep?

00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:00.880
 Just, like,

00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:02.480
 I can barely tell the difference

00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:03.220
 between Chinese people.

00:30:05.299 --> 00:30:05.980
 But then,

00:30:06.259 --> 00:30:07.220
 the sheep can actually tell.

00:30:08.060 --> 00:30:08.500
 Hey, Tommy.

00:30:09.500 --> 00:30:10.259
 Hey, Clive.

00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:11.340
 What's up?

00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:11.840
 How's it going?

00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:13.019
 Good day today.

00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:15.180
 Oh, that's our song.

00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:15.560
 Let's go.

00:30:17.560 --> 00:30:19.140
 Sheep have emotional intelligence.

00:30:19.140 --> 00:30:21.460
 When they lose one of their flock,

00:30:21.540 --> 00:30:23.080
 they would actually go into a time of grieving.

00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:25.740
 They were trusting.

00:30:25.900 --> 00:30:26.800
 They were obedient.

00:30:28.180 --> 00:30:28.900
 So, last week,

00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:29.800
 I was trying to convince you

00:30:29.800 --> 00:30:30.640
 that you are lost,

00:30:31.100 --> 00:30:32.060
 that actually you need saving,

00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:33.580
 because I think some of us sit here

00:30:33.580 --> 00:30:35.340
 thinking that we're sat here

00:30:35.340 --> 00:30:36.640
 entering into the kingdom of God

00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:37.480
 by our own merit,

00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:39.060
 because we went to a good school,

00:30:39.120 --> 00:30:39.759
 because we're doing well,

00:30:39.820 --> 00:30:40.960
 we're impacting society,

00:30:41.380 --> 00:30:43.140
 and that's what's going to make...

00:30:43.140 --> 00:30:43.900
 And we're going to church.

00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:45.340
 But I'm trying to convince you,

00:30:45.380 --> 00:30:45.840
 no, no, no, no.

00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.039
 The only requirement for us to be saved

00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:48.740
 is that we recognize

00:30:48.740 --> 00:30:49.619
 that we need to be saved.

00:30:49.699 --> 00:30:51.299
 The only requirement for us to see

00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:52.139
 is that we acknowledge

00:30:52.139 --> 00:30:52.799
 that we are blind.

00:30:53.819 --> 00:30:55.019
 So, today, I'm going to convince you,

00:30:55.179 --> 00:30:56.539
 if you want the abundant life,

00:30:56.779 --> 00:30:57.839
 you have to be a sheep.

00:30:59.019 --> 00:31:00.599
 You have to submit and trust

00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:01.759
 the shepherd.

00:31:02.139 --> 00:31:03.019
 That's the only way.

00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:05.279
 And you know that makes sense,

00:31:05.299 --> 00:31:06.699
 because you've tried getting satisfaction

00:31:06.699 --> 00:31:07.500
 in your own ways.

00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:10.039
 And you've tried taking the wheel,

00:31:10.099 --> 00:31:10.720
 and it's not worked.

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:13.180
 And so, you know that, actually,

00:31:13.299 --> 00:31:14.000
 the key to this

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:15.940
 is knowing that there is a shepherd,

00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:17.559
 and that you must follow.

00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:21.059
 If the Lord is your shepherd,

00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:21.940
 you shall lack nothing.

00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:22.779
 You shall not want.

00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:24.279
 He will lead you to the green pastures,

00:31:24.380 --> 00:31:25.860
 and he will lead you to the still waters.

00:31:26.579 --> 00:31:27.140
 So, number one,

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:27.880
 you must be a sheep

00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:29.500
 in order to have this abundant life.

00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:30.279
 Number two,

00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:31.860
 is you also must acknowledge

00:31:31.860 --> 00:31:33.680
 that he is the shepherd.

00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:35.420
 He talks, actually,

00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:36.640
 what Jesus does here

00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:37.400
 in these 11 verses

00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:38.339
 is lay down

00:31:38.339 --> 00:31:40.259
 this leadership pastoral template

00:31:40.259 --> 00:31:41.500
 of what shepherds should be.

00:31:41.879 --> 00:31:42.619
 He says, actually,

00:31:42.980 --> 00:31:43.740
 the shepherd,

00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:45.000
 the sheep hear his voice,

00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:46.059
 and he calls his own sheep

00:31:46.059 --> 00:31:47.200
 by name and leads them.

00:31:48.879 --> 00:31:50.420
 I wish, I hope, I pray

00:31:50.420 --> 00:31:51.799
 that I get to know

00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:52.839
 more and more names each week,

00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:54.920
 that I can call you by name

00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:56.500
 and cause you to be nervous

00:31:56.500 --> 00:31:57.539
 and have to answer

00:31:57.539 --> 00:31:58.960
 amongst the flock here,

00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:00.039
 because I think

00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:01.140
 that's the only way to lead.

00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:03.940
 I think that's the only way

00:32:03.940 --> 00:32:04.480
 to shepherd

00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:06.299
 if you know the sheep by name.

00:32:06.299 --> 00:32:06.980
 Of course, if you're here

00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:07.480
 as a visitor,

00:32:07.859 --> 00:32:09.519
 I'd love to know your name

00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:10.359
 so I can ask you a question

00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:10.799
 next week.

00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:13.660
 But Jesus says,

00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:14.920
 I know my sheep

00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:15.660
 and my sheep know me.

00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:17.240
 If we're going to have

00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:17.879
 this abundant life,

00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:19.059
 we must at least recognize

00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:20.339
 the shepherd's voice.

00:32:20.740 --> 00:32:22.500
 We must recognize his song.

00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:23.960
 But the problem is

00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:25.099
 we don't recognize his song.

00:32:25.180 --> 00:32:25.619
 It says here,

00:32:25.819 --> 00:32:27.059
 it's interesting in verse five,

00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:27.259
 it says,

00:32:27.339 --> 00:32:28.420
 a stranger they will not follow,

00:32:28.500 --> 00:32:29.420
 but they will flee from him.

00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:31.079
 So if a shepherd comes in,

00:32:31.099 --> 00:32:31.819
 a thief or a robber

00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:32.740
 comes into the fold

00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:33.960
 and he calls out the sheep,

00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:34.519
 hey, Tommy,

00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:36.139
 can you come and follow me?

00:32:36.460 --> 00:32:36.799
 They won't,

00:32:36.980 --> 00:32:37.900
 Tommy won't follow him

00:32:37.900 --> 00:32:38.660
 because Tommy doesn't

00:32:38.660 --> 00:32:39.480
 recognize his voice.

00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:41.860
 That's what sheep do,

00:32:42.019 --> 00:32:42.800
 but sometimes I think

00:32:42.800 --> 00:32:43.860
 we're even worse than sheep.

00:32:44.280 --> 00:32:45.320
 We actually do follow

00:32:45.320 --> 00:32:46.320
 the voices of strangers.

00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:48.480
 We look at society,

00:32:48.620 --> 00:32:49.660
 we see what other people are doing,

00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:50.440
 we barely know

00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:51.200
 these other people,

00:32:51.280 --> 00:32:52.200
 yet because they're doing it,

00:32:52.259 --> 00:32:52.759
 we do it too.

00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:56.640
 Someone in our company

00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:57.500
 who we know

00:32:57.500 --> 00:32:58.280
 doesn't follow Christ

00:32:58.280 --> 00:32:59.200
 says something,

00:32:59.280 --> 00:32:59.380
 he says,

00:32:59.420 --> 00:33:00.240
 oh, I should do that too.

00:33:01.040 --> 00:33:02.000
 Isn't that even more stupid

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:02.380
 than sheep?

00:33:04.120 --> 00:33:04.620
 We do,

00:33:04.740 --> 00:33:05.360
 that's the problem,

00:33:05.460 --> 00:33:06.220
 we do follow

00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:07.120
 the voice of strangers.

00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:09.720
 And so if we're to have

00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:10.440
 that abundant life,

00:33:10.560 --> 00:33:11.740
 we must at least repent of that

00:33:11.740 --> 00:33:12.420
 and going back

00:33:12.420 --> 00:33:13.940
 to actually knowing

00:33:13.940 --> 00:33:15.380
 the voice of our shepherd.

00:33:15.460 --> 00:33:16.259
 And how do you do that?

00:33:16.420 --> 00:33:17.300
 It's just time.

00:33:18.820 --> 00:33:20.480
 How can you tell the difference

00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:22.180
 between my brother and I

00:33:22.180 --> 00:33:22.820
 and our voices?

00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:25.160
 Because many of you say

00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:25.920
 that we look the same

00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:26.540
 and sound the same,

00:33:26.600 --> 00:33:28.200
 which is an incredible insult to me.

00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:32.460
 But how do you recognize

00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:33.420
 the difference between us?

00:33:33.940 --> 00:33:34.960
 There's only one person

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:36.040
 in this room that does,

00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:37.519
 and that is this lady

00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:38.059
 right here.

00:33:39.059 --> 00:33:39.259
 Why?

00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:40.500
 Because she spent time with us.

00:33:40.980 --> 00:33:41.859
 Because she knows us.

00:33:42.059 --> 00:33:42.920
 She knows one of us

00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:43.960
 is so much more intelligent

00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:44.480
 than the other.

00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:47.639
 And she wishes

00:33:47.639 --> 00:33:48.180
 that she would have

00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:48.819
 just stopped me.

00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:49.839
 But unfortunately,

00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:51.859
 that would have been

00:33:51.859 --> 00:33:52.859
 too much for the Tang Clan.

00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:53.740
 The glory would have been

00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:55.099
 too enormous.

00:33:56.019 --> 00:33:57.420
 So we had to balance it out

00:33:57.420 --> 00:33:59.420
 with some stupidity.

00:33:59.420 --> 00:34:02.740
 The only way you will

00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:03.539
 recognize the difference,

00:34:03.840 --> 00:34:04.039
 it's okay,

00:34:04.140 --> 00:34:04.820
 for those of us

00:34:04.820 --> 00:34:06.519
 who know Joe and I

00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:07.039
 a little bit more,

00:34:07.380 --> 00:34:08.780
 you will slowly grow

00:34:08.780 --> 00:34:10.000
 in clarity

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:10.619
 and in the light

00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:11.360
 and you will see

00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:11.760
 that we look

00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:12.360
 completely different.

00:34:13.180 --> 00:34:14.460
 Now he might poke fun

00:34:14.460 --> 00:34:15.220
 at my hairstyle,

00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:16.700
 but he just doesn't recognize

00:34:16.700 --> 00:34:17.380
 I'm just a few years

00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:17.820
 ahead of him.

00:34:21.720 --> 00:34:22.539
 But you will see

00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:22.960
 a difference.

00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:24.480
 You will see

00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:25.639
 that actually we talk

00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:26.519
 and act and live

00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:27.000
 and those of us

00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:28.360
 who know us very well

00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:28.840
 all know that we're

00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:29.420
 completely different.

00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:31.920
 The shepherd knows

00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:32.320
 the sheep,

00:34:33.140 --> 00:34:34.180
 knows who to call

00:34:34.180 --> 00:34:37.400
 and he leads them.

00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:39.200
 And so we must trust.

00:34:41.160 --> 00:34:42.019
 I think sometimes

00:34:42.019 --> 00:34:42.500
 we don't have

00:34:42.500 --> 00:34:43.140
 this abundant life

00:34:43.140 --> 00:34:44.160
 is we don't trust

00:34:44.160 --> 00:34:44.960
 that that's where

00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:45.579
 he's leading us.

00:34:45.940 --> 00:34:46.420
 Psalm 23,

00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:46.840
 when it says

00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:47.539
 the Lord is your shepherd,

00:34:47.640 --> 00:34:48.300
 he will lead you

00:34:48.300 --> 00:34:49.140
 to the green pastures

00:34:49.140 --> 00:34:50.160
 and to the still waters

00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:51.180
 and we're like,

00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:51.860
 are you sure?

00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:55.340
 Is where you're leading me

00:34:55.340 --> 00:34:56.079
 actually better

00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:57.260
 than where all those

00:34:57.260 --> 00:34:58.340
 other sheep are going?

00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.500
 But it starts

00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:01.300
 with us recognizing

00:35:01.300 --> 00:35:01.800
 that he,

00:35:02.059 --> 00:35:02.800
 and he says this

00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:03.559
 and he kind of

00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:04.500
 answers his own credentials.

00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:04.740
 He says,

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:05.780
 I am the good shepherd.

00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:08.780
 I am the one who knows.

00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:10.320
 Remember again,

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:11.660
 he's talking to the Pharisees here.

00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:12.079
 He's like,

00:35:12.120 --> 00:35:12.760
 actually you guys

00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:13.500
 are leading people

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:14.860
 but you're stealing them away.

00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:15.900
 You're stealing their identity.

00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:17.700
 You're stealing their peace,

00:35:17.780 --> 00:35:18.079
 their joy,

00:35:18.180 --> 00:35:18.539
 their hope.

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:20.099
 But me,

00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:21.019
 as the good shepherd,

00:35:21.539 --> 00:35:23.240
 I'm willing to lay

00:35:23.240 --> 00:35:24.579
 my life down for you.

00:35:24.579 --> 00:35:28.319
 So that's why we love

00:35:28.319 --> 00:35:28.860
 this idea

00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:29.559
 when Jesus says,

00:35:29.699 --> 00:35:30.319
 I am the good shepherd.

00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:31.599
 I am for your good.

00:35:31.659 --> 00:35:33.119
 I am here to care for you.

00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:34.699
 But there's one final thing

00:35:34.699 --> 00:35:35.880
 that I wanted to point out here

00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:36.860
 before we go into a time

00:35:36.860 --> 00:35:38.139
 of response and communion

00:35:38.139 --> 00:35:38.880
 is this.

00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:40.000
 He doesn't just say

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.079
 that I am the good shepherd.

00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:41.900
 He says something else.

00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:43.380
 He actually says,

00:35:43.819 --> 00:35:44.519
 he describes himself

00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:45.000
 in another way.

00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:45.380
 What is it?

00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:47.299
 It's kind of snuck

00:35:47.299 --> 00:35:48.219
 into the passage there.

00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:50.900
 The door.

00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:52.940
 He is the door,

00:35:52.940 --> 00:35:53.860
 which doesn't sound

00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:54.300
 as glamorous

00:35:54.300 --> 00:35:55.599
 as the shepherd.

00:35:57.220 --> 00:35:58.019
 It's just the door.

00:35:59.179 --> 00:36:00.559
 But I think this is important

00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:02.780
 because if we just kept

00:36:02.780 --> 00:36:03.519
 to the shepherd,

00:36:04.179 --> 00:36:05.059
 the Pharisees would have been like,

00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:05.260
 okay,

00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:05.440
 well,

00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:06.159
 that's how you lead.

00:36:06.260 --> 00:36:06.400
 Okay,

00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:06.619
 well,

00:36:07.179 --> 00:36:08.539
 it becomes human-centered.

00:36:08.659 --> 00:36:09.280
 It becomes actually,

00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:09.900
 all we have to do

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:10.700
 is find a good shepherd

00:36:10.700 --> 00:36:11.380
 for us to lead.

00:36:12.099 --> 00:36:12.960
 And he will lead us

00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:13.940
 and he will know us by name

00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:14.300
 and he will know

00:36:14.300 --> 00:36:15.159
 the troubles that we have

00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:16.280
 or know the struggles

00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:17.000
 I have at work

00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:17.700
 and with my family

00:36:17.700 --> 00:36:18.440
 and all these things.

00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:19.300
 And as long as I have

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:19.900
 a good shepherd,

00:36:20.200 --> 00:36:20.760
 as long as I have

00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:21.360
 a good shepherd

00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:22.920
 that I know cares

00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:23.200
 for me,

00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:24.000
 that's going to be

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:24.659
 enough for me.

00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:26.720
 But if he just stopped there,

00:36:26.740 --> 00:36:27.440
 that wouldn't be enough.

00:36:27.500 --> 00:36:28.639
 That would actually lose

00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:30.639
 the point,

00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:31.460
 which is actually

00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:32.099
 all of this needs

00:36:32.099 --> 00:36:33.059
 to center on Christ.

00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:35.220
 It would lose that edge

00:36:35.220 --> 00:36:37.680
 because he needs

00:36:37.680 --> 00:36:38.200
 to say this.

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:38.639
 And actually,

00:36:38.680 --> 00:36:39.119
 it's interesting

00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:40.780
 in verse six,

00:36:41.420 --> 00:36:42.139
 this figure of speech

00:36:42.139 --> 00:36:43.039
 Jesus used with them,

00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:44.220
 they did not understand

00:36:44.220 --> 00:36:45.360
 what he was saying to them.

00:36:45.619 --> 00:36:46.559
 So Jesus is trying

00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:47.059
 to teach them.

00:36:47.099 --> 00:36:47.380
 He's saying,

00:36:47.380 --> 00:36:47.579
 look,

00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:48.579
 you guys don't actually

00:36:48.579 --> 00:36:49.260
 know your sheep.

00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:50.000
 You don't care

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:50.760
 for your sheep

00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:51.380
 like I do.

00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:52.119
 You won't lay down

00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:52.839
 your sheep,

00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:54.159
 lay down your life

00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:54.659
 for your sheep

00:36:54.659 --> 00:36:55.239
 like I will.

00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:56.579
 And then they still

00:36:56.579 --> 00:36:57.159
 don't understand

00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:58.599
 because they still think

00:36:58.599 --> 00:36:59.199
 it's going to be about

00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:00.039
 them being better

00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:00.359
 and better.

00:37:00.739 --> 00:37:01.519
 But then when he changes,

00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:01.799
 he's like,

00:37:01.859 --> 00:37:02.119
 I forget,

00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:03.079
 scrap that,

00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:04.239
 I am the door.

00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:07.339
 Which on the surface

00:37:07.339 --> 00:37:09.339
 sounds even more confusing

00:37:09.339 --> 00:37:11.199
 until you realize

00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:12.839
 why Jesus really came.

00:37:13.279 --> 00:37:14.159
 The only way

00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:15.019
 that we can have life

00:37:15.019 --> 00:37:15.460
 to the full

00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:16.239
 is if we go

00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:17.599
 through him.

00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:19.440
 John 14,

00:37:19.699 --> 00:37:20.259
 he says later

00:37:20.259 --> 00:37:21.019
 that I am the way,

00:37:21.339 --> 00:37:21.719
 the truth,

00:37:21.860 --> 00:37:22.279
 and the life.

00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:23.099
 What does that mean?

00:37:23.279 --> 00:37:24.400
 That means I am the only

00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:25.559
 real and living way.

00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:27.559
 If you think about

00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:28.159
 the doors

00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:29.079
 in the Bible,

00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:30.779
 what's the very first door

00:37:30.779 --> 00:37:32.079
 that we see in the Bible?

00:37:34.539 --> 00:37:35.259
 Any ideas?

00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:39.299
 The very first door,

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:41.000
 we're blocked out.

00:37:41.619 --> 00:37:41.880
 Josh,

00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:42.440
 have you got an idea?

00:37:43.659 --> 00:37:44.279
 No, no, no.

00:37:44.319 --> 00:37:44.880
 Before that,

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:45.779
 all day before that,

00:37:45.780 --> 00:37:46.600
 Eden,

00:37:46.720 --> 00:37:47.560
 the Garden of Eden.

00:37:47.820 --> 00:37:48.840
 They make the mistake.

00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:49.220
 They say,

00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:50.340
 can God really be trusted?

00:37:50.660 --> 00:37:51.080
 I don't think

00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:51.720
 I'm going to trust him.

00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:52.000
 I don't think

00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:52.540
 I'm going to obey him.

00:37:52.560 --> 00:37:53.620
 I'm going to eat that apple.

00:37:55.680 --> 00:37:56.280
 And there,

00:37:57.640 --> 00:37:58.860
 mankind is blocked out

00:37:58.860 --> 00:37:59.800
 of the garden

00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:00.760
 via a door.

00:38:00.860 --> 00:38:01.100
 Of course,

00:38:01.140 --> 00:38:02.460
 this door is quite threatening.

00:38:02.460 --> 00:38:04.580
 It's two swinging swords

00:38:04.580 --> 00:38:05.640
 ready to chop us in half.

00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:06.840
 The first time

00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:07.740
 there was a separation

00:38:07.740 --> 00:38:09.360
 between humanity

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:10.400
 and God.

00:38:11.140 --> 00:38:11.880
 And from that point,

00:38:11.940 --> 00:38:12.519
 you cannot get

00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:13.780
 so close to this holy God.

00:38:14.080 --> 00:38:15.500
 Because just being

00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:16.239
 in his presence,

00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:17.460
 as it says in Exodus,

00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:19.079
 you would die.

00:38:19.699 --> 00:38:20.360
 You can't even look

00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:20.880
 at his face.

00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.000
 So the only way

00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:24.019
 is if very,

00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:24.900
 very select people

00:38:24.900 --> 00:38:25.920
 once a year

00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:26.980
 would go into this door,

00:38:27.059 --> 00:38:28.000
 go through this curtain

00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.019
 into the holy of holies.

00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:32.340
 Because we,

00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:33.719
 through our consequence,

00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:34.559
 through the decisions

00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:35.139
 that we made,

00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:36.679
 we've been separated.

00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:37.960
 We are on the outside

00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:38.900
 of the door.

00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:41.099
 Until Jesus comes

00:38:41.099 --> 00:38:41.420
 and says,

00:38:41.579 --> 00:38:43.300
 I am the door.

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:44.800
 through what I'm going

00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:45.880
 to do on the cross,

00:38:46.019 --> 00:38:47.000
 I will tear

00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:48.080
 that veil

00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:48.940
 wide open

00:38:48.940 --> 00:38:49.480
 so that now

00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:50.960
 you can have access

00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:52.660
 to the Father

00:38:52.660 --> 00:38:53.900
 through me.

00:38:54.120 --> 00:38:55.140
 You don't have

00:38:55.140 --> 00:38:56.180
 abundant life

00:38:56.180 --> 00:38:57.640
 because you've gone

00:38:57.640 --> 00:38:58.680
 through the wrong

00:38:58.680 --> 00:38:59.420
 door.

00:39:03.340 --> 00:39:04.740
 There are so many doors

00:39:04.740 --> 00:39:05.600
 in Hong Kong.

00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:07.740
 There are so many doors

00:39:07.740 --> 00:39:08.900
 we can get distracted with.

00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:11.380
 Our work is the biggest door.

00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:12.019
 Our studies,

00:39:12.160 --> 00:39:12.619
 our exams,

00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:13.700
 which are good things,

00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:16.340
 but there are so many doors.

00:39:17.940 --> 00:39:19.019
 So Jesus comes out

00:39:19.019 --> 00:39:19.619
 with this analogy

00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:20.000
 and says,

00:39:20.059 --> 00:39:20.340
 actually,

00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:21.760
 there is only really

00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:22.700
 one door.

00:39:23.139 --> 00:39:24.280
 If you go through that door,

00:39:24.380 --> 00:39:24.800
 you will drink

00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:26.119
 and you will never be thirsty again.

00:39:26.160 --> 00:39:26.940
 Just like he spoke

00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:27.539
 to the woman

00:39:27.539 --> 00:39:29.200
 by the well in John 4.

00:39:30.539 --> 00:39:31.420
 But every other door

00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:31.880
 you go through,

00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:32.480
 the drinks that you're

00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:32.980
 going to have there,

00:39:33.099 --> 00:39:33.960
 you will end up

00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:34.480
 more thirsty.

00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:36.320
 And we all know

00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:37.440
 the feeling of drinking

00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:38.160
 some of those things

00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:38.839
 and how good it is

00:39:38.839 --> 00:39:39.559
 in that moment.

00:39:42.099 --> 00:39:42.879
 But then we end up

00:39:42.879 --> 00:39:43.940
 thirsty again so quickly.

00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:46.159
 And it's interesting.

00:39:46.739 --> 00:39:47.460
 And the enemy's

00:39:47.460 --> 00:39:48.359
 greatest success

00:39:48.359 --> 00:39:49.579
 is he'll tease you

00:39:49.579 --> 00:39:50.519
 to have a little bit

00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:50.859
 of this

00:39:50.859 --> 00:39:51.920
 and you'll have it.

00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:52.440
 And then actually

00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:53.339
 the worst thing he can do

00:39:53.339 --> 00:39:54.399
 is give it to you.

00:39:54.879 --> 00:39:55.699
 And once you get it,

00:39:55.739 --> 00:39:56.259
 you want more.

00:39:56.519 --> 00:39:57.440
 And then you want more

00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:57.739
 and more.

00:39:57.899 --> 00:39:58.659
 And then you want more

00:39:58.659 --> 00:39:59.239
 and more and more.

00:40:01.279 --> 00:40:01.879
 Jesus says,

00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:03.019
 go through me.

00:40:03.139 --> 00:40:04.159
 I am the only door.

00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:04.859
 I am the only

00:40:04.859 --> 00:40:06.960
 real and living way.

00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:10.819
 Think about Exodus again.

00:40:10.940 --> 00:40:12.079
 Think about the Passover.

00:40:12.940 --> 00:40:13.219
 Actually,

00:40:13.259 --> 00:40:13.859
 it was the first song

00:40:13.859 --> 00:40:14.339
 that we sang.

00:40:15.339 --> 00:40:16.099
 That it was the door

00:40:16.099 --> 00:40:18.480
 that was protecting us.

00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:18.859
 Can I just,

00:40:19.139 --> 00:40:19.899
 this is where I'll finish.

00:40:20.879 --> 00:40:21.639
 Can we take us back

00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:22.199
 to that moment

00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:23.219
 in Exodus

00:40:23.219 --> 00:40:24.599
 where every family

00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:25.639
 starts to receive news

00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:26.259
 that, hey,

00:40:26.299 --> 00:40:26.859
 the firstborn

00:40:26.859 --> 00:40:27.839
 is going to pass away

00:40:27.839 --> 00:40:28.679
 unless you go behind

00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:29.039
 this door.

00:40:30.299 --> 00:40:30.659
 Actually,

00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:31.920
 sacrifice a lamb,

00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:32.699
 use some of the blood

00:40:32.699 --> 00:40:33.199
 and cover

00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:34.480
 the door

00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:35.239
 with the blood.

00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:37.219
 If you ever thought,

00:40:37.339 --> 00:40:37.919
 why didn't God

00:40:37.919 --> 00:40:38.819
 just punish the people

00:40:38.819 --> 00:40:39.759
 just without the door?

00:40:40.839 --> 00:40:41.679
 He could have just said,

00:40:41.919 --> 00:40:42.119
 hey,

00:40:42.459 --> 00:40:43.239
 all the firstborns,

00:40:44.179 --> 00:40:45.059
 Thanos time.

00:40:46.659 --> 00:40:47.399
 But he didn't.

00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:49.039
 He gave people a chance.

00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:49.359
 He gave people,

00:40:49.439 --> 00:40:49.539
 hey,

00:40:49.619 --> 00:40:49.919
 actually,

00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:50.939
 if you trust me,

00:40:50.959 --> 00:40:51.479
 you have to walk

00:40:51.479 --> 00:40:51.959
 through this door.

00:40:54.259 --> 00:40:54.979
 And of course,

00:40:55.359 --> 00:40:56.000
 imagine you,

00:40:56.119 --> 00:40:56.679
 one of the people

00:40:56.679 --> 00:40:57.519
 or your families

00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:58.519
 being one of the families

00:40:58.519 --> 00:40:58.779
 that say,

00:40:58.779 --> 00:40:58.979
 hey,

00:40:59.219 --> 00:40:59.599
 get in.

00:41:00.099 --> 00:41:00.779
 We need to hide

00:41:00.779 --> 00:41:01.500
 behind this door.

00:41:01.699 --> 00:41:02.899
 We need to cover this door

00:41:02.899 --> 00:41:03.379
 with the blood

00:41:03.379 --> 00:41:03.859
 of this lamb.

00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:05.480
 And imagine just sitting there,

00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:06.160
 not knowing

00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:07.160
 why you were doing it.

00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:08.480
 Not knowing

00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:09.280
 why all this happened.

00:41:09.720 --> 00:41:10.460
 And so you just sat

00:41:10.460 --> 00:41:11.059
 in silence,

00:41:11.820 --> 00:41:12.140
 waiting.

00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:13.079
 Because you know

00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:13.700
 something's happened

00:41:13.700 --> 00:41:14.200
 and you've seen

00:41:14.200 --> 00:41:14.980
 enough plagues to go,

00:41:15.099 --> 00:41:15.300
 something,

00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:16.380
 this God is for real,

00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.220
 something is happening,

00:41:17.500 --> 00:41:18.079
 let's just wait.

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:19.180
 And then you start hearing

00:41:19.180 --> 00:41:19.680
 the screams

00:41:19.680 --> 00:41:20.720
 in the rest of the village.

00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:21.559
 You start hearing

00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:22.579
 the other houses

00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:23.920
 that didn't do

00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:25.160
 the same thing

00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:25.820
 that you guys did,

00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:26.539
 that didn't cover

00:41:26.539 --> 00:41:27.140
 their doors

00:41:27.140 --> 00:41:28.039
 with the blood

00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:28.620
 of the lamb.

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:29.519
 And you start hearing

00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:30.019
 screaming.

00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:32.620
 And what will you

00:41:32.620 --> 00:41:33.059
 just be saying?

00:41:33.059 --> 00:41:33.579
 Thank goodness

00:41:33.579 --> 00:41:34.039
 for the door.

00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:35.699
 Thank goodness

00:41:35.699 --> 00:41:36.279
 for what we did.

00:41:37.619 --> 00:41:37.860
 See,

00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:38.440
 the reason why

00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:39.039
 I think God

00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:39.719
 gives us a chance

00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:40.279
 that he actually

00:41:40.279 --> 00:41:40.960
 tells us to go

00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:41.579
 behind the door

00:41:41.579 --> 00:41:42.139
 and not just

00:41:42.139 --> 00:41:42.940
 do this

00:41:42.940 --> 00:41:43.820
 is because it

00:41:43.820 --> 00:41:44.480
 requires us

00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:45.119
 to actually step

00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:45.320
 through.

00:41:45.900 --> 00:41:46.799
 It requires us

00:41:46.799 --> 00:41:47.480
 to put our trust

00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:47.799
 in him.

00:41:47.799 --> 00:41:48.639
 And not just

00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:49.940
 in what we do

00:41:49.940 --> 00:41:50.599
 by stepping through,

00:41:50.799 --> 00:41:51.460
 but by the blood

00:41:51.460 --> 00:41:51.980
 of the lamb.

00:41:53.259 --> 00:41:54.079
 And then suddenly

00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:54.639
 Jesus says,

00:41:54.759 --> 00:41:55.940
 I am the door.

00:41:55.940 --> 00:41:59.980
 in Genesis,

00:42:00.139 --> 00:42:00.920
 you see the first

00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:01.740
 door that bans

00:42:01.740 --> 00:42:02.599
 mankind from the

00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:03.159
 presence of God.

00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:03.760
 And then at the

00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:04.360
 very end in

00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:04.760
 Revelation,

00:42:04.940 --> 00:42:05.579
 you see Jesus

00:42:05.579 --> 00:42:06.179
 again saying,

00:42:06.300 --> 00:42:06.480
 behold,

00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:07.220
 I stand at the

00:42:07.220 --> 00:42:07.700
 door and knock.

00:42:08.340 --> 00:42:08.880
 You have been

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:09.320
 lukewarm.

00:42:09.380 --> 00:42:09.940
 I want to spit

00:42:09.940 --> 00:42:10.500
 you out of my

00:42:10.500 --> 00:42:10.840
 mouth.

00:42:11.980 --> 00:42:12.480
 You're neither

00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:13.340
 hot nor cold.

00:42:13.340 --> 00:42:17.460
 But I still

00:42:17.460 --> 00:42:17.960
 stand at the

00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:18.159
 door.

00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:20.700
 Would you

00:42:20.700 --> 00:42:21.700
 just open up?

00:42:21.699 --> 00:42:25.199
 Would you

00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:25.579
 open up?

00:42:25.659 --> 00:42:26.000
 Would you

00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:26.699
 be with me?

00:42:26.779 --> 00:42:27.199
 And if you

00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:27.739
 are with me,

00:42:27.779 --> 00:42:28.279
 then you will

00:42:28.279 --> 00:42:29.779
 have life and

00:42:29.779 --> 00:42:31.039
 life to the

00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:31.299
 full.

00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:33.059
 Don't listen to

00:42:33.059 --> 00:42:34.079
 the voice of

00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:34.699
 the thief or

00:42:34.699 --> 00:42:35.139
 the robber

00:42:35.139 --> 00:42:35.879
 anymore.

00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:37.319
 Don't go.

00:42:37.419 --> 00:42:37.939
 Don't keep

00:42:37.939 --> 00:42:38.539
 going through

00:42:38.539 --> 00:42:38.980
 the wrong

00:42:38.980 --> 00:42:39.399
 doors.

00:42:40.839 --> 00:42:41.579
 There is only

00:42:41.579 --> 00:42:41.859
 one.

00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:44.219
 There is only

00:42:44.219 --> 00:42:44.559
 one.

00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:45.759
 And that is

00:42:45.759 --> 00:42:45.960
 me.

00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:47.759
 And if you

00:42:47.759 --> 00:42:48.099
 come in,

00:42:48.179 --> 00:42:48.659
 if you open

00:42:48.659 --> 00:42:49.059
 that door,

00:42:49.419 --> 00:42:49.859
 I will come

00:42:49.859 --> 00:42:50.119
 in and I

00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:50.419
 will sit

00:42:50.419 --> 00:42:50.779
 and eat

00:42:50.779 --> 00:42:51.179
 with you.

00:42:51.699 --> 00:42:53.419
 that by

00:42:53.419 --> 00:42:54.199
 restoring the

00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:54.699
 relationship,

00:42:54.919 --> 00:42:55.119
 that by

00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:55.980
 reconciling

00:42:55.980 --> 00:42:58.339
 man to

00:42:58.339 --> 00:42:58.819
 his creator.

00:43:00.939 --> 00:43:01.559
 The thief

00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:02.099
 comes to

00:43:02.099 --> 00:43:02.379
 steal,

00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:02.939
 kill,

00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:03.619
 and destroy,

00:43:03.819 --> 00:43:04.099
 but I

00:43:04.099 --> 00:43:04.439
 came to

00:43:04.439 --> 00:43:04.919
 give life

00:43:04.919 --> 00:43:05.339
 and life

00:43:05.339 --> 00:43:05.599
 to the

00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:05.799
 full.

00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:06.579
 Would we

00:43:06.579 --> 00:43:06.919
 remind

00:43:06.919 --> 00:43:07.359
 ourselves

00:43:07.359 --> 00:43:08.379
 that we

00:43:08.379 --> 00:43:08.699
 are truly

00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:10.019
 sheep in

00:43:10.019 --> 00:43:10.339
 the best

00:43:10.339 --> 00:43:10.539
 way?

00:43:11.699 --> 00:43:12.379
 That if we

00:43:12.379 --> 00:43:12.899
 trust him,

00:43:12.980 --> 00:43:13.619
 he will lead

00:43:13.619 --> 00:43:14.039
 us to the

00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:14.599
 green pastures,

00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:15.239
 he will lead

00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:15.619
 us to the

00:43:15.619 --> 00:43:16.039
 still waters,

00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:16.399
 we would

00:43:16.399 --> 00:43:16.879
 have the

00:43:16.879 --> 00:43:17.259
 peace that

00:43:17.259 --> 00:43:17.679
 surpasses

00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:18.159
 understanding

00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:18.619
 this world

00:43:18.619 --> 00:43:19.159
 cannot give.

00:43:19.819 --> 00:43:20.460
 We will have

00:43:20.460 --> 00:43:20.939
 the joy.

00:43:21.059 --> 00:43:21.259
 Why?

00:43:21.260 --> 00:43:21.700
 Because we

00:43:21.700 --> 00:43:22.120
 are simply

00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:22.620
 in his

00:43:22.620 --> 00:43:23.020
 presence,

00:43:23.020 --> 00:43:23.500
 because we

00:43:23.500 --> 00:43:24.000
 are with

00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:24.600
 our shepherd,

00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:25.340
 our good

00:43:25.340 --> 00:43:25.840
 shepherd who

00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:27.240
 knows our

00:43:27.240 --> 00:43:27.520
 name.

00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:29.280
 And how do

00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:29.720
 we get to

00:43:29.720 --> 00:43:29.900
 him?

00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:30.820
 There is

00:43:30.820 --> 00:43:31.680
 only one

00:43:31.680 --> 00:43:31.880
 door.

00:43:32.620 --> 00:43:33.160
 He is both

00:43:33.160 --> 00:43:33.520
 the shepherd

00:43:33.520 --> 00:43:34.440
 and the

00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:34.640
 door.

00:43:34.900 --> 00:43:35.520
 He leads

00:43:35.520 --> 00:43:36.000
 us to the

00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:36.360
 door and

00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:36.660
 then we

00:43:36.660 --> 00:43:37.540
 realize he

00:43:37.540 --> 00:43:38.200
 is the

00:43:38.200 --> 00:43:38.420
 door.

00:43:38.820 --> 00:43:39.220
 And in

00:43:39.220 --> 00:43:39.720
 his final

00:43:39.720 --> 00:43:40.560
 prayer before

00:43:40.560 --> 00:43:41.840
 he goes,

00:43:42.600 --> 00:43:43.660
 sat under

00:43:43.660 --> 00:43:44.780
 an olive

00:43:44.780 --> 00:43:45.100
 tree,

00:43:46.040 --> 00:43:46.480
 likely,

00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:47.600
 maybe,

00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:50.099
 he says

00:43:50.099 --> 00:43:50.360
 this,

00:43:50.539 --> 00:43:50.900
 I pray

00:43:50.900 --> 00:43:51.199
 that they

00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:52.299
 would have

00:43:52.299 --> 00:43:52.639
 eternal

00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:52.960
 life,

00:43:53.019 --> 00:43:53.259
 which is

00:43:53.259 --> 00:43:53.500
 what?

00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:54.639
 To know

00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:54.880
 you.

00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:55.559
 John 17

00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:55.839
 3.

00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:56.659
 That's it.

00:43:57.679 --> 00:43:58.259
 Last week

00:43:58.259 --> 00:43:58.659
 I said there

00:43:58.659 --> 00:43:58.920
 are some

00:43:58.920 --> 00:43:59.219
 of us who

00:43:59.219 --> 00:43:59.619
 are guilty

00:43:59.619 --> 00:44:00.199
 of following

00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:01.659
 Christ or

00:44:01.659 --> 00:44:02.119
 coming to

00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:02.579
 church because

00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:03.119
 we see him

00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:03.719
 as a post

00:44:03.719 --> 00:44:04.940
 life insurance

00:44:04.940 --> 00:44:05.420
 policy.

00:44:06.819 --> 00:44:07.279
 I'm just

00:44:07.279 --> 00:44:07.699
 going to give

00:44:07.699 --> 00:44:08.779
 up 90

00:44:08.779 --> 00:44:09.159
 minutes of

00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:09.559
 my time

00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:10.019
 per week

00:44:10.019 --> 00:44:10.940
 to ensure

00:44:10.940 --> 00:44:11.319
 that I

00:44:11.319 --> 00:44:11.619
 have

00:44:11.619 --> 00:44:12.539
 eternity

00:44:12.539 --> 00:44:13.059
 with him

00:44:13.059 --> 00:44:16.839
 until we

00:44:16.839 --> 00:44:17.299
 realize that

00:44:17.299 --> 00:44:17.900
 actually we

00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:18.480
 can have

00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:19.119
 access to

00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:19.920
 that now.

00:44:21.619 --> 00:44:22.139
 That eternal

00:44:22.139 --> 00:44:22.719
 life begins

00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:23.359
 now because

00:44:23.359 --> 00:44:23.619
 it's a

00:44:23.619 --> 00:44:24.099
 relationship

00:44:24.099 --> 00:44:24.779
 with him,

00:44:26.039 --> 00:44:26.679
 the good

00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:27.199
 shepherd that

00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:27.559
 calls our

00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:28.920
 name and

00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:29.279
 grants us

00:44:29.279 --> 00:44:29.679
 access.

00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:41.059
 I was

00:44:41.059 --> 00:44:41.480
 just asking

00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:41.839
 the Lord,

00:44:41.919 --> 00:44:42.119
 is there

00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:42.539
 anything I

00:44:42.539 --> 00:44:42.799
 missed?

00:44:42.879 --> 00:44:43.099
 Is there

00:44:43.099 --> 00:44:43.639
 anything that

00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:44.079
 you want to

00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:44.500
 say to

00:44:44.500 --> 00:44:44.980
 your people?

00:44:45.899 --> 00:44:46.079
 And I was

00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:47.399
 just reminded

00:44:47.399 --> 00:44:47.919
 of you later

00:44:47.919 --> 00:44:48.279
 in this

00:44:48.279 --> 00:44:48.679
 passage.

00:44:49.859 --> 00:44:50.419
 In chapter

00:44:50.419 --> 00:44:50.799
 10 he

00:44:50.799 --> 00:44:51.319
 says this,

00:44:54.339 --> 00:44:54.859
 I'm the

00:44:54.859 --> 00:44:55.239
 good shepherd

00:44:55.239 --> 00:44:55.599
 and I know

00:44:55.599 --> 00:44:56.019
 my own

00:44:56.019 --> 00:44:56.480
 and my own

00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:56.919
 know me

00:44:56.919 --> 00:44:57.639
 just as the

00:44:57.639 --> 00:44:58.139
 father knows

00:44:58.139 --> 00:44:58.579
 me and I

00:44:58.579 --> 00:44:58.859
 know the

00:44:58.859 --> 00:44:59.559
 father and I

00:44:59.559 --> 00:44:59.920
 lay down

00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:00.360
 my life

00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:00.579
 for the

00:45:00.579 --> 00:45:01.500
 sheep and

00:45:01.500 --> 00:45:01.799
 I have

00:45:01.799 --> 00:45:02.380
 other sheep

00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:02.719
 that are

00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:03.159
 not of

00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:03.659
 this fold.

00:45:03.900 --> 00:45:04.279
 I must

00:45:04.279 --> 00:45:04.719
 bring them

00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:05.599
 also and

00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:05.900
 they will

00:45:05.900 --> 00:45:06.380
 listen to

00:45:06.380 --> 00:45:06.880
 my voice.

00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:09.380
 So there

00:45:09.380 --> 00:45:09.820
 will be one

00:45:09.820 --> 00:45:10.219
 flock and

00:45:10.219 --> 00:45:10.659
 one shepherd.

00:45:10.799 --> 00:45:11.099
 For this

00:45:11.099 --> 00:45:11.539
 reason the

00:45:11.539 --> 00:45:12.039
 father loves

00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:12.440
 me because

00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:13.000
 I lay down

00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:13.579
 my life that

00:45:13.579 --> 00:45:14.139
 I may take

00:45:14.139 --> 00:45:14.659
 it up again.

00:45:14.799 --> 00:45:15.119
 No one

00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:15.480
 takes it

00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:16.299
 from me but

00:45:16.299 --> 00:45:16.739
 I lay it

00:45:16.739 --> 00:45:17.219
 down of my

00:45:17.219 --> 00:45:17.699
 own accord.

00:45:17.779 --> 00:45:18.199
 He came

00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:19.799
 to be the

00:45:19.799 --> 00:45:20.219
 good shepherd

00:45:20.219 --> 00:45:20.659
 and there

00:45:20.659 --> 00:45:21.579
 are sheep

00:45:21.579 --> 00:45:23.299
 out there

00:45:23.299 --> 00:45:24.400
 that actually

00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:24.840
 would know

00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:25.460
 his voice if

00:45:25.460 --> 00:45:25.860
 they heard

00:45:25.860 --> 00:45:26.360
 his voice but

00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:26.739
 they haven't

00:45:26.739 --> 00:45:27.279
 had a chance

00:45:27.279 --> 00:45:27.659
 yet because

00:45:27.659 --> 00:45:28.119
 they are not

00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:28.480
 in this

00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:28.699
 fold.

00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:32.759
 Do you

00:45:32.759 --> 00:45:33.299
 realize that

00:45:33.299 --> 00:45:33.860
 that's speaking

00:45:33.860 --> 00:45:34.639
 about us?

00:45:38.539 --> 00:45:39.119
 He was in

00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:39.420
 a Jewish

00:45:39.420 --> 00:45:40.119
 context there

00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:40.659
 where those

00:45:40.659 --> 00:45:41.039
 were like

00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:41.480
 we're the

00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:42.039
 chosen people

00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:42.320
 but he

00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:43.500
 says there

00:45:43.500 --> 00:45:43.880
 are sheep

00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:44.199
 that are

00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:44.799
 not of

00:45:44.799 --> 00:45:45.900
 the fold

00:45:45.900 --> 00:45:46.380
 just yet

00:45:46.380 --> 00:45:48.259
 and so

00:45:48.259 --> 00:45:48.599
 that's why

00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:48.980
 I came

00:45:48.980 --> 00:45:49.420
 to seek

00:45:49.420 --> 00:45:49.799
 and save

00:45:49.799 --> 00:45:50.259
 the lost

00:45:50.259 --> 00:45:51.619
 and they

00:45:51.619 --> 00:45:52.279
 will recognize

00:45:52.279 --> 00:45:52.799
 my voice

00:45:52.799 --> 00:45:54.279
 and so that's

00:45:54.279 --> 00:45:55.000
 why I must

00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:55.239
 go.

00:45:55.460 --> 00:45:55.739
 That's why

00:45:55.739 --> 00:45:56.199
 I must lay

00:45:56.199 --> 00:45:56.539
 down my

00:45:56.539 --> 00:45:56.699
 life.

00:45:56.759 --> 00:45:57.139
 Hey do you

00:45:57.139 --> 00:45:57.519
 think that

00:45:57.519 --> 00:45:58.039
 I don't have

00:45:58.039 --> 00:45:58.579
 control of

00:45:58.579 --> 00:45:58.920
 my own

00:45:58.920 --> 00:45:59.279
 life is

00:45:59.280 --> 00:45:59.540
 what he's

00:45:59.540 --> 00:45:59.720
 saying?

00:46:00.720 --> 00:46:00.940
 Do you

00:46:00.940 --> 00:46:01.160
 think they

00:46:01.160 --> 00:46:01.519
 could really

00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:01.960
 take my

00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:02.700
 life if I

00:46:02.700 --> 00:46:03.040
 didn't want

00:46:03.040 --> 00:46:03.360
 them to?

00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:04.280
 No I

00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:04.820
 came to

00:46:04.820 --> 00:46:05.220
 give my

00:46:05.220 --> 00:46:05.820
 life so

00:46:05.820 --> 00:46:06.600
 that those

00:46:06.600 --> 00:46:07.000
 sheep on

00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:07.440
 the outside

00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:07.920
 would come

00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:08.100
 in.

00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:10.860
 That's the

00:46:10.860 --> 00:46:11.580
 beauty, that's

00:46:11.580 --> 00:46:12.120
 the sacrifice

00:46:12.120 --> 00:46:12.600
 of Jesus.

00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:15.660
 So I would

00:46:15.660 --> 00:46:16.340
 be remiss if

00:46:16.340 --> 00:46:16.740
 I didn't

00:46:16.740 --> 00:46:17.340
 remind us

00:46:17.340 --> 00:46:18.000
 here that

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:19.440
 we made

00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:19.740
 it in

00:46:19.740 --> 00:46:22.040
 but there

00:46:22.040 --> 00:46:22.460
 are still

00:46:22.460 --> 00:46:22.760
 sheep

00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:23.220
 outside

00:46:23.220 --> 00:46:25.160
 not of

00:46:25.160 --> 00:46:25.640
 this fault.

00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:26.760
 We don't

00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:27.420
 get to hear

00:46:27.420 --> 00:46:28.039
 the truth

00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:28.460
 and the

00:46:28.460 --> 00:46:29.019
 good news

00:46:29.019 --> 00:46:29.559
 of Jesus

00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:30.619
 who actually

00:46:30.619 --> 00:46:31.180
 if they had

00:46:31.180 --> 00:46:31.639
 a chance

00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:32.159
 to hear

00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:32.780
 his voice

00:46:32.780 --> 00:46:33.500
 to hear

00:46:33.500 --> 00:46:34.099
 the news

00:46:34.099 --> 00:46:36.139
 they would

00:46:36.139 --> 00:46:36.760
 recognize it

00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:38.700
 and I say

00:46:38.700 --> 00:46:39.260
 that for one

00:46:39.260 --> 00:46:39.780
 reason and one

00:46:39.780 --> 00:46:40.320
 reason only.

00:46:42.180 --> 00:46:42.940
 Who do you

00:46:42.940 --> 00:46:43.559
 need to go share

00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:43.940
 this with?

00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:46.200
 Who in your

00:46:46.200 --> 00:46:47.300
 life right

00:46:47.300 --> 00:46:49.659
 now would

00:46:49.659 --> 00:46:50.360
 actually recognize

00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:51.159
 his voice if they

00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:51.539
 heard it?

00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:52.420
 Who don't know

00:46:52.420 --> 00:46:52.960
 it just yet?

00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:57.800
 Let us

00:46:57.800 --> 00:46:58.619
 follow in the

00:46:58.619 --> 00:46:59.260
 way of our

00:46:59.260 --> 00:46:59.500
 shepherd

00:46:59.500 --> 00:47:01.599
 that we

00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:01.900
 would not

00:47:01.900 --> 00:47:02.400
 just settle

00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:04.059
 here and

00:47:04.059 --> 00:47:04.619
 that person

00:47:04.619 --> 00:47:05.400
 that name

00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:06.159
 that face

00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:06.440
 that has

00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:06.920
 just come

00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:07.260
 to mind

00:47:07.260 --> 00:47:07.559
 for you

00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:08.099
 right now

00:47:08.099 --> 00:47:12.079
 go to

00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:12.840
 them and

00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:13.199
 share the

00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:13.500
 love of

00:47:13.500 --> 00:47:13.960
 Jesus with

00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:14.240
 them.

00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:17.199
 Later he

00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:17.559
 says that

00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:18.300
 actually everyone

00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:18.800
 that is in

00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:19.260
 my hand

00:47:19.260 --> 00:47:20.039
 cannot be

00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:20.320
 snatched

00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:20.539
 away.

00:47:20.619 --> 00:47:21.099
 He is that

00:47:21.099 --> 00:47:21.440
 strong.

00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:22.519
 So you

00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:22.940
 can go in

00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:23.619
 full confidence

00:47:23.619 --> 00:47:24.019
 knowing that

00:47:24.019 --> 00:47:24.380
 Alex is not

00:47:24.380 --> 00:47:24.880
 you that does

00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:25.260
 it, it's

00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:25.960
 him that does

00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:26.139
 it.

00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:28.280
 Would you

00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:28.460
 go?

00:47:28.980 --> 00:47:29.400
 Would we

00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:29.579
 go?

00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:31.340
 Brothers and

00:47:31.340 --> 00:47:31.880
 sisters, may

00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:32.440
 the Lord be

00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:32.940
 with you as

00:47:32.940 --> 00:47:33.900
 you go from

00:47:33.900 --> 00:47:34.920
 here, as we

00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:35.460
 gather and as

00:47:35.460 --> 00:47:35.880
 we scatter.

00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:37.119
 Will the Spirit

00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:37.559
 of the Lord be

00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:37.840
 with you.

00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:39.000
 See you next

00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:39.200
 week.