WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.599 Hi, my name is George Sinclair. I'm the lead pastor of Church of the Messiah. 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:20.480 ! It is wonderful that you would like to check out some of the sermons done by Church of the Messiah, 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:25.679 either by myself or some of the others. Listen, just a couple of things. First of all, would you pray for us 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:32.159 that we will open God's Word well to His glory and for the good of people like yourself? 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:37.359 The second thing is, if you aren't connected to a church and if you are a Christian, 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:42.159 we really, I would really like to encourage you to find a good local church where they believe the 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:48.799 Bible, they preach the gospel, and if you have some trouble finding that, send us an email. We will do 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:55.120 what we can to help connect you with a good local church wherever you are. And if you're a non-Christian, 00:00:55.119 --> 00:01:00.320 checking us out, we're really, really, really glad you're doing that. Don't hesitate to send us 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:05.280 questions. It helps me actually to know, as I'm preaching, how to deal with the types of things 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:07.759 that you're really struggling with. So God bless. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.920 Just bow our heads in prayer, please, for a moment. Father, 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:24.000 we read these stories over and over and they just sort of wash over us, but 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:29.680 we know that they form us at some level. But we thank you for these very old stories that you have 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:37.280 put in your Word. We ask, Father, that you would so grip us with this story and the truths in them, 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:42.960 and the beauty and the wisdom and the goodness in them. May they grip our hearts in the context of 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:49.439 the gospel and so change us, Father, that we will be people not of the lie but of the truth, not of evil, 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:57.200 but of goodness, not of ugliness, but of beauty, not of injustice, but of justice. Father, may your 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:03.599 Word form us. And we ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen. Please be seated. 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:14.400 I just, I'm really fortunate. I'm really just fortunate. Bless. Keep praying for me. But, 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:20.479 you know, there's lots of times during the week that I get into conversations with people. And I can say 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:25.439 that every time, like this week, I had several conversations in coffee shops. And every week, 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:31.280 they've just been a real blessing to me. They've often really challenged me. The people have, you know, 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:37.759 insight and good questions and they're good, respectful conversations. And this week in particular, 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.719 God used two people outside the Christian faith who asked me questions about this sermon to help me 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:49.280 put my sermon together a little bit. So if by chance, either of them are watching, like a shout out to 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:56.240 you. Thank you for asking me questions and engaging in really, really good conversation. And one of the 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:02.159 conversations that I had was with a person that, you know, saw me studying and everything like that, 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.560 asked who I was and what I did. And, you know, I told her I was a pastor of a church and, you know, 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:12.560 what I was about to do. And then I asked her a little bit about her spiritual connections, traditions, 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:20.160 or whatever, you know, goals. And she, like a lot of people beyond a certain age, sort of had a tiny bit 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:25.919 of Christian experience a long time ago when she was young, now would consider herself spiritual, not 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:32.159 religious, and sort of interested in Buddhism. And so we got talking about why I would be looking at a 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:38.159 Bible text and why we would look at it on Sunday morning. And I said to her, and this is what was 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:43.039 really helpful, her asking me these types of questions, like, especially as it was just God's 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.680 providence as I'm trying to put my sermon together. And I said, well, you know what, in a lot of Christian 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.040 traditions, when it comes to the Bible, because at the end of the day, they just, 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.560 they think they're just some human reflections, and therefore they're very time-bound, they'll 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:01.840 either just dismiss them, maybe take a little phrase and then sort of run with it with their 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:06.719 own types of ideas. That's, I said often, what happens in a lot of Anglican and United churches and 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:11.520 others like that. And then I said, on the other hand, you get some churches that it's almost as if 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:17.519 they're doing, they think they're doing a documentary about the ancient world. But 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:24.639 that has nothing to do with us today. And I said, what I believe and what I try to do is, 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:29.120 and I said, if you think about it, this Sunday, we're going to look at a story that might very 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:37.680 well have been written 3,300, 3,400 years ago. So why is it that for 3,400 years, people have read this 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:45.599 story? She said, oh, that's an interesting idea. And I said, the reason is that the stories touch on 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:50.960 something very deep connected to the human condition. And not only do they touch on something 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:56.720 in the human condition, they touch on something so that you can see examples of that talked about 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:04.800 all the time, but they put it in a transcendent frame, and it's a story that it opens up into far 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.879 bigger things than just like other types of stories in terms of God and the eternal. So I said, 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:15.439 this week, in some ways, the story that we're looking at is a little bit like a rom-com. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.279 And depending on the type of rom-com, I'm not going to say that much about it, because as my wife will 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:29.360 tell you, I don't normally pick a rom-com to watch ever. So I like guns and stuff like that, and 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:39.040 tension and drama. Classic guy in that sense. But often, there's a couple, or maybe there's a couple, 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.640 and you can see very early on that there's an attraction between the two of them, but they 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:47.840 spend the entire movie fighting that attraction, until at the very end, if it's a happy ending, 00:05:47.840 --> 00:05:53.280 they end up connecting. And I said, sometimes in those types of rom-coms, there's a parallel couple 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:58.720 who also have attraction to each other, but they don't end up connecting, and it ends up not being 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:06.080 very well for them. And I said, so rom-coms explore the idea, why is it that we can be drawn to somebody 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:12.399 and love them, but want to fight against that? And then I said, it's connected to other types of 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:16.319 movies, like maybe trying to discover the truth more than movies I like to add. This is something 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:21.360 I've just added since then, thinking about it after. Because this person, very, very helpful, 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:27.360 pushed me in a certain direction, where people are resisting the truth. So why is that such a part of 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:32.879 the human condition that we all can relate to? Well, the story that we're looking at today actually 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:37.759 speaks into this, and it also speaks into this in a way that's going to touch on really, really, 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:44.000 really big issues of the heart and of the mind. So it'd be a great help if you get your own copy of 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:49.360 the Bible and look at it, because I want to help you read the Bible. So turn to Joshua chapter 2. 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:56.560 We're going through the book of Joshua. And the context is that the first five books of the Bible, 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:03.199 amongst other things, they'll describe, especially the second, third, fourth, and fifth book of the 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:10.399 Bible, which is just before this, God delivering his people out of slavery in Egypt by Moses, 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:16.000 and they cross the Red Sea. They refuse to go into the Promised Land. And as a result of that, 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:21.680 God says, because you haven't trusted me and won't go into the Promised Land, you're frightened. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:26.959 You're going to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. And at the end of the 40 years, I will bring 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.759 you into the Promised Land. Your children will be the ones, not you. And that's what happens. And at 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.759 the end of Deuteronomy, because of some other things, Moses, who's like the super, super, 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:42.480 superstar of all of the Old Testament, he dies. And so the book of Joshua begins with a funeral. 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:47.519 It's the aftermath of the funeral of Moses. And here we have the superstar, 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:52.879 superstar of superstars, the goat of the Old Testament. Moses has died, and his lowly, 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:58.319 lowly assistant, Joshua, is said to, you are going to go into the Promised Land. And one of the reasons, 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:03.599 lead the people, and one of the reasons the book of Joshua is so important is because it's a book 00:08:03.599 --> 00:08:08.719 time and time and time again that's challenging us from when the Lord calls us to do hard and 00:08:08.719 --> 00:08:17.120 seemingly impossible things. And so God promises Joshua that he's going to be with him. In a sense, 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:24.560 he's going to fight for him, and the land has been given to the people by God. Now, 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:29.600 already some of you might be a little bit nervous about that, and some of you might know that Joshua 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:34.399 is a book that people often go to in the Bible now as to why you shouldn't trust the Bible or be a 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:40.560 Christian, because the book of Joshua seems to encourage genocide, ethnic cleansing, violence, 00:08:40.560 --> 00:08:46.720 imperialism, colonialism, stealing land, and a whole pile of other bad things. And as it comes up, 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:52.160 I'm going to deal with some of those objections. And I want to deal with them because if you are 00:08:52.160 --> 00:08:55.680 worried about the objections, you won't get the really beautiful things in the book. 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.920 And so anyway, let's look. God's promised them the land. What's going to happen next? Well, 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:07.120 I mean, we might just expect that if God's already promised the land, they just go in, 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:10.960 they just go in, and God does all the fighting. But no, that's not how the story is going to go. Look at 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:17.280 what happens in verse 1. And Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men secretly from Shittim, 00:09:17.280 --> 00:09:24.720 as spies, saying, Go, view the land, especially Jericho. That was the closest big fortified... 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:32.160 Jericho is like a city-state. It's like Singapore. Canaan was like a region of Singapore's 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:39.439 city-state. So there'd be often a fortress or a citadel at the center, or a strategic part, and then 00:09:39.439 --> 00:09:45.759 farmland around. And so Jericho is the closest. So Go view the land, especially Jericho. And they went 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:52.799 and came into the house of a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. Now, just sort of pause. 00:09:55.039 --> 00:10:00.879 So first of all, the next part of the story, in the level of the original language, makes clear 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:06.960 that the spies didn't go there for sex with the prostitute. That's not what happened. It's clear 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:14.879 in the Hebrew that that's not the case. But she's both a prostitute and probably running something like 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:20.159 an inn. So something where somebody could get some alcoholic beverages, maybe some food to eat, 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:24.320 and there would be some rooms. And then, of course, because she's a prostitute, there's that other aspect 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:29.360 of it as well. But I guess the spies, they go. I don't know what... They don't tell you why they picked 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:33.519 that, but they go to her house. God leads them. That would be ultimately what I would say. 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:40.000 And then we see something really, really surprising. And this is going to be an important, 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:46.000 constant theme. And it's very, very helpful to us. Because the problem that we can have as 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.759 Christians, maybe if you're outside the Christian faith, you don't know this about Christians, 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:56.159 we can be really intimidated by, like, superstar types, and think that everybody in the Old Testament 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:03.839 are like superstars. And we're duffers. We're not very good Christians. And so, like, they can do 00:11:03.839 --> 00:11:08.240 all these things. But then there's us down here, not like them. No. But look, it's really funny what 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:17.839 happens next. Verse 2 and 3. And it was told to the king of Jericho, so that the spies go in to the inn, 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:22.480 and they're going to get some lodging. And then verse 2, it was told to the king of Jericho, 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:29.120 behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land. Then the king of Jericho sent 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:34.960 to Rahab, saying, bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:40.080 to search out all the land. Now, what's so funny about this? These are the world's most incompetent spies. 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:47.920 They're there like 15, 20 minutes, and already they blow in their cover. Already they blow in their 00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:54.720 cover. Like, 20 minutes, they're exposed. Completely, utterly, massively incompetent. That should be an 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:01.200 encouragement to every single one of us, that God can still do things even with massively incompetent 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:08.480 people. So incompetent that they send the message immediately to the king of Jericho. And the king of 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:13.440 Jericho, obviously, as you're going to see in a moment, he's unbelievably, he's really, really 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:19.600 frightened about these guys, the Israelites. And he sends to capture them, and he would do bad things 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:30.960 to them. And so they completely and utterly blow it immediately. And so the next bit is actually one 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:36.080 of those, you know, those of you who come to the church often know that I constantly have asides. 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:41.360 And I think one day it was the staff who said, you know, George, you're preaching always have 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:46.639 asides, but you can't talk to anybody without having asides. So you just preach like the way you talk. 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:50.960 But there's this aside that's about to happen that really gets a lot of people worried that I'm going 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:56.560 to spend next to no time with. But you'll see why it gets a lot of people worried. Look, look what 00:12:56.560 --> 00:13:01.040 happened. So they go and they're talking to Rahab, you know, probably a couple of, you know, armed 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:08.079 guys, because they want to capture these spies. And what happens next? Look at verse 4. 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:15.519 But the woman, Rahab, had taken already. I'm guessing what happened, she thought to herself, 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:23.279 these guys are so incompetent. They just said that in public. And saw the local snitch going out. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:29.360 She had to do something to help these massively incompetent men. So verse 4, 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:35.680 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said to the soldiers, the king of 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:42.240 Jericho's men, True, true, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they were from. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:49.200 That's a lie. And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. That's a lie. 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:57.120 I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them. Lie, lie, lie, lie. 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:04.480 Lie. Because it says in verse 6, But she had brought them up to the roof earlier, implied, 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:09.919 and hidden them, hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:17.440 So the men, the soldiers' men, pursued after the spies on the way to the Jordan, as far as the 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:23.280 fords. And the gate was shut, that was the gate of Jericho, as soon as the pursuers had gone out. 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:31.360 Now, you can obviously see why this exercises a lot of Christians. You could well imagine that if 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:36.960 this was read at a coffee shop or in your Bible study group, it seems to imply, especially in the 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:41.840 rest of the story, that Rahab was right to lie. And so you can get onto a big whole series of 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:46.240 discussions around that. I'm not going to say anything about that other than to say that just 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:50.240 because something happens in an Old Testament story doesn't mean you should go and do it. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:56.720 It's just something that happens. And it's also going to be very important because, you know, 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:02.160 one of the things that we have as ideas about people who become Christians or something like 00:15:02.160 --> 00:15:07.920 that is that... So here's the problem. A lot of times the world and Christians themselves think that 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:15.199 Christian is another way of saying a good person. And so the objection would be, this person's a liar, 00:15:15.199 --> 00:15:22.159 not a good person, right? But it's... That's not what Christianity is all about at all. So that... 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.679 So the reason I'm not going to say anything more about it other than to say it's not making any 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:30.479 comment about whether lies are good or bad, and I'm not going to get into it because the whole 00:15:30.479 --> 00:15:37.360 literary structure... Sorry, geek moment of grammar, there's a very clear in the original language 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:46.879 structure to the story. Sorry, geek moment. And you can have them in five parts. And it's like A, B, C, 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:52.639 B with a little mark, and A with a little mark. So there's a pattern. Something happens, something 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:57.680 happens. The key to the whole story, a similar thing to the thing just before the key, and then a similar 00:15:57.680 --> 00:16:02.800 thing to the beginning. That's how the whole story is structured. And the key to the entire story is 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:09.359 verses 9 to 11. I mean, it's in a sense... We just celebrated. Some people remembered 9-11 on Friday. 00:16:09.359 --> 00:16:16.319 The key to this story is a different 9-11. The whole story revolves around 9-11, and the whole story 00:16:16.319 --> 00:16:22.079 around 9-11 is going... In this book, is going to help you understand what's going on and what's going 00:16:22.079 --> 00:16:28.159 on with the whole story of Israel going into the Promised Land and why it's going on and why these things 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:33.759 are happening. It's the key to the whole story. So for me to spend a long time on the lie would be as 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:40.879 if... Louise knows that I'm maybe having some people over, and I come home, and it's just been one of 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:46.719 those things I can't help her get things ready. And she's made... She says, you know, go downstairs, 00:16:46.719 --> 00:16:51.679 and I made a really, really wonderful thing. There's wonderful desserts. There's maybe a wonderful 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:56.799 antipasto tray, hummus, all those things. And she says, go down and have a look at it, because she's all 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:01.599 proud that she's done this to help me. And I go down, and as I'm opening the fridge, I look at the top of 00:17:01.599 --> 00:17:07.039 the fridge and see dust. And I spend the next 10 minutes talking about the dust on top of the fridge 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:12.559 rather than the feast inside the fridge. And then afterwards, she said to you guys, you know what 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.200 George did? He called, George, what are you worried about the dust on the fridge when there's all this 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:23.519 food? That's what's going on in the story. The story's hurrying on, and it's going to emphasize that we're 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.839 made right with God completely and utterly by mercy and grace. And it's hurrying on to this 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:34.799 remarkable thing, the heart of the entire text. So what is the heart of the text? Verse 8, 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:42.879 before the men lay down, she came up to them. They were thinking they were going to sleep, by the way. 00:17:42.879 --> 00:17:47.759 Before the men lay down to sleep, she came up to them on the roof. And here's 9 to 11. 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:56.559 And she said to the men, I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:04.400 has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. Just pause before 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:10.480 any go anywhere any further. It's not as obvious in the English translation. It's there if you look in 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:18.640 9, 10 to 11. But what she's going to tell them is that she's aware of what the Lord has done for them. 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:26.400 And she uses two sort of big summary points. The parting of the red, the delivery from the world's 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:32.240 most power, that region's whole most powerful empire, Egypt. Their delivery from slavery. 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:39.359 The defeat of Pharaoh, the crossing, the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea. And at the end of the day, 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:46.400 the Sihon and Og story, it's a little bit, because of the huge number advantage of Sihon and Og, and the 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:53.359 technological advantage, I think a little bit, almost like people with pointy sticks going after people 00:18:53.359 --> 00:19:00.000 who have armor and swords and muskets and cannons. And the people with the pointy sticks winning the battle, 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:05.359 even though they're outnumbered. And so she's going to tell them that she's knowing about that. But the 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:11.839 emphasis all upon is not just the news, but a sense of God's presence that's fallen on them. 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:20.799 It's not just the you in terms of the people, it's the you including God, that there's a sense that has 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:30.240 come upon the people that the Lord is present with power. The Lord is present with power, 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:34.159 and it's the Lord who's done these things. So I'll read verse 9 again. It's not as obvious in the 00:19:34.159 --> 00:19:37.919 English, but in the original language, and some translations do it better than others. 00:19:37.919 --> 00:19:42.559 I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:49.759 and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:56.159 the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of 00:19:56.159 --> 00:20:03.759 the Amorites who are beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. And I'll say 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:11.039 something about that in a moment. And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted. And the sense here is 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:18.079 their hearts melted because the language in the Hebrew is they melted in the presence of the Lord. 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:25.039 There's a conviction of the Lord's presence that melts their hearts. And as soon as we heard it, 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:32.399 our hearts melted, and there's no spirit left in any man because of you. For the Lord your God, 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:38.879 now this is a remarkable confession of faith, and if you're curious, you can catch the echoes of it in 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:45.280 Exodus and Deuteronomy. For the Lord, that's the name that Yahweh, the Lord your God, 00:20:46.080 --> 00:20:51.840 he is the God. He is God in heaven above, heavens above, and on the earth beneath. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:59.840 That he is God in heavens above and on the earth beneath. So the implication here is that there's only, 00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:04.640 she's come to the recognition that there's only out of all the gods, they're not really gods, 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:10.720 there's ultimately only one God, and that is the God of Israel, the Lord. Capital L, capital O, capital 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:17.520 R, capital D. In Hebrew, they guess the way to pronounce it is Yahweh. He is the only God. He is 00:21:17.520 --> 00:21:22.560 the one who has done these things. He is the one, because he is over all the heavens and over all the 00:21:22.560 --> 00:21:28.560 earth, he is almighty. There's an implicit sense there in the original language that there's something 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:35.599 majestic about him. So he's mighty, he is majestic, and he acts into his creation, and he's acted in his 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:42.159 creation on behalf of these Jewish people, and he has brought them there, and the sense that he has done 00:21:42.159 --> 00:21:51.519 this has fallen upon all of the people. That's the heart of the text. That's this remarkable thing that's 00:21:51.519 --> 00:22:00.639 happened. Now, this is one of the issues then. I'm not going to talk very much about devoted to 00:22:00.639 --> 00:22:06.240 destruction. I'm going to leave that for a couple of weeks when it's sort of more important, but remember, 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:11.200 why do people not want to read the book of Joshua? Well, they don't want to read the book of Joshua 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:17.519 because they believe, amongst other things, that teaches genocide, ethnic cleansing, violence, imperialism, 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:23.039 taking of land, stealing of land, all of those types of things. It's just a matter of brute force. 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:29.839 Why does God do this? Why aren't there some other types of options? And the second chapter of the book 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:42.319 says there is an option. There's a contrast between the king of Jericho and Rahab. The king of Jericho and 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:52.240 Rahab both know about the Red Sea. Both know about Sihon and Og. Both have a sense of God's presence, 00:22:52.879 --> 00:23:01.200 and it's causing them a sense of fear. Both have the exact same thing, and they react in radically 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:15.120 different ways. The king, in a sense, says this to God. Rahab does this. And in a sense, actually, 00:23:15.120 --> 00:23:19.279 I'm not going to do it because I'll fall off camera. What she, in a sense, does at a spiritual level, 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:28.400 at the level of the heart, is to get down on her knees and do this. The king and the majority of the 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:36.480 people sense God's presence and know what he's done, and they do this. But Rahab, there's no...you don't 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:43.840 have to do that. Rahab, in a sense, at the level of the heart, gets on her knees and does this, or maybe 00:23:43.839 --> 00:24:02.079 like this. She acknowledges the Lord and casts herself on him for mercy. She recognizes that he 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:12.480 showed mercy to the people of Israel when they were in bondage of slavery in Egypt. And he showed mercy 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:20.240 to them in defeating the Egyptian army, and he showed mercy to them when he parted the Red Sea so that 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:30.799 they could go through. He is a God of mercy, and she casts herself upon him that he might have mercy on her. 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:41.279 Her faith expressed in verses 9 to 11 is what you now know drove her to do the things before and all of 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:50.559 the things after. It's not that...so it's her 9-11 faith that drives her into hiding the men. 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:59.279 Just the bottom line is, the Bible does say you don't lie. Don't lie. It's not justifying her lie. 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:03.920 But if you want to understand everything she did before and everything she does after, it's because 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:10.560 of who she knows the Lord is and her plea to him that he would show mercy, her hope that she would show 00:25:10.560 --> 00:25:18.000 mercy. That's what drives her. And it's not...you can't read the story and just think, well, she's just 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:24.480 being opportunistic. Once again, remember, the people in Canaan are technologically superior and 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:30.720 numerically superior and they have the home field advantage and they have large fortified cities 00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:38.480 over the people of Israel. And it's not just opportunism that's driving her. Her conversion is 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:44.079 real. And how do we know her conversion is real? Because she's given as an example of faith in James, 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:49.039 the book of James in the New Testament. If you go back later on and read through Hebrews 11 in the New 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:55.039 Testament. Hebrews 11 is that it goes of all the heroes of faith, people who've had faith in the 00:25:55.039 --> 00:26:02.480 Lord and they're heroic. And Rahab is listed on the list as a person of heroic faith. And the most 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:08.559 dramatic thing, go back later on and read the first chapter of Matthew. And the book of Matthew begins 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:15.759 with a genealogy on the human side that goes...that is going to culminate in Joseph, the adopted father 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:23.119 of Jesus. And who is one of the people in that genealogy through which the Messiah comes is Rahab. 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:32.319 She's mentioned by name. She's become part of God's worshiping people. This is her conversion. And God 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:39.039 accepts her in his mercy. It's real. And so one of the things here which the story is telling us 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:45.279 is...remember that one of the complaints...remember every week...not every week, but most weeks I'm just 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:50.559 going to take one little strand of the problem that people have with the book and try to deal with it. 00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:55.599 You know that it looks like there's just this no choice before the Canaanites that God's just going 00:26:55.599 --> 00:27:00.960 to do these massive things. But what we see here right at the beginning of the book, chapter two, 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:08.399 is that repentance is always an option. And in fact, it's always the best option. 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:14.160 And that's one of the things that we can take a home away for ourselves, by the way. What's the best 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.360 option when you've done something wrong? Repentance. 00:27:19.600 --> 00:27:24.560 That's the best option always. Acknowledge you've done wrong. 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:29.360 Call out for help to amend your life. 00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:35.840 You know, pray for the Holy Spirit. It's one of the...one of the call-ups or part of the book of 00:27:35.840 --> 00:27:39.920 Common Prayer, I can't remember where it is, where we pray for the Holy Spirit and amendment of life. 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:45.279 Like that's a such a brilliant biblical summary. Ask for the Holy Spirit and amendment of life. 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:52.160 That's repentance, turning to Christ. And so the book of...before we get into anything to do with 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:59.680 him entering, the task before is, will you react to God's presence and his miraculous power? 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:04.559 Will you react to that like the king, or will you react to it like Rahab? 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:10.960 Repentance is always an option, and it is the option that the Lord prefers. 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:16.079 You see, you might...some of you, if you were here last week, or if you've listened to my sermon, 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:22.879 one of the things I said about the people of Israel going into the Promised Land is that 00:28:22.879 --> 00:28:30.000 what you need to understand is that on one level, God doesn't care about biology or genetics. 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:35.200 He doesn't care about Jewish people per se. What he cares about are worshippers. 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:42.960 He wants the land to be filled with worshippers under his rule. And that's what you see here in 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:49.759 this story, that it's not so much about Jewish people, it's about worshippers. And I shared with 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:54.720 you that one of the big themes in Joshua, which is a big theme in the Bible, if you go back and read 00:28:54.720 --> 00:29:00.960 Genesis 1 and 2, you're seeing the story of how God has made the earth and the entire cosmos for the, 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:06.799 for human beings to inhabit under God and in fellowship with God. And then you see that's 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:11.839 breaking. And all the way through it, there's this constant theme, and it ends with the book of 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:18.160 Revelation with God, the Father and the Son in the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling amongst his people 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:24.400 in the new heaven and the new earth. Because a big theme of the Bible is that the Lord's people 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:33.040 in the Lord's place, in the Lord's presence, under the Lord's saving rule. That's his heart. He wants to 00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:39.200 call people to himself. He's going to put us in a place, in the, in the Old Testament it's Israel, 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:45.040 after Matthew chapter 28, after the resurrection of Jesus, Jesus says, go to every single people group 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:50.720 on the planet. In a sense, I have people in every people group on the planet. And where you are in 00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:59.839 my will, that is your place. And I want you to be my people in my place, in my presence, under my saving 00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:06.319 rule. And so, you know, I know some of you are from all over the world and, and all over the, but for now 00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:13.039 we're, we're here. This is where God has called you to be, us to be, and we are to be his people in this 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:20.480 place, in his presence, under his saving rule. We are here to seek the good of the city. We are here 00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:26.960 to speak truth and model love and goodness and justice and mercy and practice it. And we are here to 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:33.359 share the gospel so that more and more people will come under his saving rule and be his people in his 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:40.559 place, in his presence. Because he wants worshipers. Why do more people need to know about Jesus? Because he wants more 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:47.519 people to enjoy his presence and worship him. And he picks people like you and me. 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:53.839 And so what you see in the book, and this is touching another heart issue for us, 00:30:54.480 --> 00:31:04.720 is the Lord does not make treaties with idols or with sin. The Lord does not make treaties with idols or 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:10.640 sin. I'll finish the quote in a moment. You see that, that's the, that's part of the Christian growth, 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:17.200 right? So maybe some of you, you have had a long besetting sin. Maybe it's pornography. Maybe it's 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:22.799 gambling. Maybe it's resentment. Maybe it's unforgiveness. Maybe it's ungen-, it's being completely 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:29.680 ungenerous because you worship money. Like whatever your besetting sin is, the spiritual danger for us is 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:36.560 to make a treaty with it. We say, okay, I'll just be, okay God, I'll give you, yeah, yeah, I know I 00:31:36.560 --> 00:31:41.840 worship money and it's an idol in my life, but I'm going to make a treaty with that and I'll get, 00:31:41.840 --> 00:31:46.560 you know, I'll be generous with like 10 bucks a week and then I can have the rest because I want 00:31:46.560 --> 00:31:53.600 to make a treaty with sin or with an idol. And the book of Joshua shows God makes no treaties 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:58.399 with sin. He makes no treaties with idols. Never does. 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:08.879 But he will redeem we who worship idols and we who sin when we repent and believe. 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:16.879 Rahab's not making a treaty with the Lord. She repents and believes. You're going to see later on 00:32:16.879 --> 00:32:20.799 in the story, people want to try to make treaties, but they want to make treaties where they keep their 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:26.319 idols, keep their sin. God doesn't make treaties with idols, doesn't make treaties with sin. He wants us 00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:34.000 to repent and to believe. And so this whole story shows this remarkable insight about human nature. 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:39.919 J.C. Ryle, one of his famous quotes in lots of his books and articles and sermons is, 00:32:39.919 --> 00:32:50.240 the same sun, that's S-U-N, like the sun out in space, the same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay. 00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:56.879 The same sun that melts the clay. 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:05.039 The Lord's presence melts Rahab's heart. 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:08.000 She is wax. 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:16.079 But in some mystery, it hardens the king's heart. And so there's an invitation here. You might say, 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:21.519 well, George, I guess that's just, I'm just, I'm just clay and all this stuff just hardens me. But 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:25.279 the, I, the, repentance is an option. 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:29.359 It's the Lord's preferred option for you. 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:33.359 Like there's no time better now than to say, Lord, 00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:40.000 I don't want to be the clay, I want to be wax. I want you to melt me into belief. 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:48.559 Father, I, I, I come before you and I, in my heart, everything in me is clay. It is, I am such a clay 00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:55.279 person and hearing these things hardens me. Have mercy on me. I throw myself on your mercy and may 00:33:55.279 --> 00:34:03.119 you melt me. May I be wax. May I be Rahab, not the king of Jericho. That's what the Lord wants us to 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:08.400 desire us. You see, if the Lord's presence and the truth about him melts your heart with fear, 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.359 not, not everybody has this, but especially in many parts of the world, fear of judgment and 00:34:15.359 --> 00:34:19.440 stuff like that. If the Lord's presence and the truth about him melts your heart with fear, 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:26.159 it is only so you will make that you will seek him and have him as your saving refuge. 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:34.799 That's, that's, that's what his heart is for you. I have to sort of wrap things up. 00:34:37.759 --> 00:34:41.519 Another person that I had, I told you there were two people who really helped me with my sermon. 00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:48.239 There was another fellow that I've just really, really fine guy, really, really fine, fine man. And 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:58.719 he asked me about my sermon and it turns out he's from a Muslim, he's a Muslim and he's read the Bible 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:04.879 now. And he said this remarkable thing to me. He said, when I heard, I told him what I was going to 00:35:04.879 --> 00:35:10.479 be preaching on. He said, you know, read the whole Bible. He said, the first part is brutal. That's what 00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:19.760 he said. The first part is brutal. The second part is beautiful. And I didn't know he was going to say 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:25.760 that. Some of you were praying for me. Thank you. Keep doing it. And I said something roughly like 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:35.599 this, which I'm going to say to you. I said, you know, for Christians, we don't just stop with this 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:42.239 story. But it's all one big story, including the end. And I said, you need to know the end of the 00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:48.400 story and how knowing who Jesus is and what he's done for you on the cross changes everything. And 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:54.480 you have to see how this story here helps you to understand who Jesus is better. In other words, 00:35:54.480 --> 00:36:01.920 the beauty of Jesus is what informs and infuses the surface brutality of the text. I've added that. 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:05.440 I wasn't that articulate with them. Don't think I was that articulate with them. I was 00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:13.440 probably blah, blah, blah, blah, the odd little word of wisdom when I was actually trying to talk to 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:27.280 him. But, you know, the fact is that the cross shows... You see, so the thing about the resurrection is it 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:33.440 not like... So, you know, here's the thing, right? Here's the thing about the story. Good grief. If people 00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:40.400 knew and actually came to believe that God was able... There was a God who existed who could part the Red Sea, 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:47.599 like, shouldn't that make you, like, not want to run from him? Like, shouldn't you at least be more 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:52.880 curious? Like, why is it that we're not curious? If Jesus really did rise from the dead, that has to 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:59.920 change everything. Like, then it means it really is a God. It means that the true God is the God described 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:06.159 by Jesus. It means we should be listening to his teachings. Like, why would we fight that or run 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:11.760 from that? Like, and are Christians somehow special than others? That, no, no, we're not special. God 00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:17.760 somehow does his work of miracle because many of us, we fight at first wanting to know God. And even in 00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:22.880 our Christian life, part of discipleship is we fight God. We resist the truth, the call to be generous, 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:29.360 the call to be chaste, the call to be forgiving, the call to do justice, the call to share the gospel. 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:34.880 We resist these things and we fight against them, but we shouldn't because our heart's longing should 00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:40.000 be in those places and really is. When we actually do it, we realize this is the true, the good, the 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:46.079 beautiful, the loving, the just, and that is where we were meant to dwell. And we acknowledge that 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:51.119 there's part of human beings that run from God and part of them are attracted for God. And these stories 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:56.559 are reminding us that God just wants us to come to him, that he, and he will do things with his Holy 00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:02.000 Spirit to help draw us there, something bigger than ourselves and helpful, like a wave that helps to 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:08.159 carry us or wind that blows us. He does things in our lives and don't fight it, but let him draw you 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:12.480 into himself. And here's the thing, 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:25.920 Jesus Messiah was devoted to destruction so that in him you are delivered from destruction and devoted 00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:31.519 into his presence. I'm going to say more about devoted to destruction in a couple of weeks, 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:39.360 but that's what this story is pointing us to in Christ. Devoted to destruction? Who was the most devoted 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:45.599 to destruction? One set aside for destruction? Who did the whole people of Israel and the whole Roman 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:55.120 Empire want to destroy? It was Jesus. And he was devoted to destruction so that in him you are delivered 00:38:55.120 --> 00:38:58.880 from destruction and delivered into his presence. 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:12.400 I said this story is a little bit like a rom-com. I mean, what the Bible here story is telling us that at a 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:19.599 very big level, the most important level, we are, parts of us are always, parts of us are the King of 00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:27.200 Jericho and parts of us are Rahab. And that's part of the human condition. Just as in a sense, in a rom-com 00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:32.399 like Jericho fighting love or fighting the truth like in spy movies or detective movies 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:39.279 and Rahab accepting love or accepting truth. And there is this battle and it's because at a very cosmic, 00:39:39.439 --> 00:39:43.119 transcendent, eternal level that is true of the entire human condition. 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:49.359 And when at the highest and deepest level of the true, the good, the beautiful, the just, the merciful, 00:39:49.839 --> 00:39:54.559 the kind, the generous, the end of our longings and our yearnings and we're messed up with that, 00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:59.920 we're going to be messed up with the lesser truths and lesser goods and lesser beauty and lesser mercies. 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:06.480 And so our hearts need to be reordered at that very, very final level. And the final takeaway from 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:12.400 this sermon, many, many people worry that if they become a Christian, they will become less concerned 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:17.360 with truth. They will become less concerned with beauty. They will be less concerned with justice. 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:19.360 They will be less concerned with mercy. 00:40:22.720 --> 00:40:27.360 But, and there's reasons why people fear that which are valid because often Christians, 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:31.760 I was just sharing with somebody a little while ago, if they're here, they know who it was, 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.039 that one of the things that haunts me is Martin Luther King's letter from a Birmingham jail 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:43.119 where because he was fighting the terrible segregation in the South, he was thrown in jail and a group of 00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:48.239 white pastors told him he should shut up. And he wrote a very famous response called Letters from a 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:54.320 Birmingham jail. And I said, I never want to be that pastor, that white pastor in Alabama. I want to be 00:40:54.320 --> 00:41:02.000 with Martin Luther King in the jail. That's who I want to be. I want to be in favor of justice and goodness 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.519 and truth and mercy. And I want to be a church that we say, you know, we're going to be against 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:12.720 anti-Semitism and if that means we have less people, then so be it. We're going to speak against 00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:21.039 injustice and we have less people because it will so be it. Not about numbers. But what is in fact this 00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:25.679 story showing from the beginning to the end of the Bible that once you give your life to Christ, 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:31.759 what is the current of the Holy Spirit? Where will the Holy Spirit push you? Even if you're kicking 00:41:31.759 --> 00:41:36.000 and screaming, even if you're fighting against, but where will the Holy Spirit constantly push you 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:43.279 to be like Rahab at a deeper level? It's going to push you to delight in God's presence, not run from it. 00:41:43.279 --> 00:41:49.519 To delight in the truth, to know the truth and not run from it. To delight in goodness and not run. 00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:56.239 To delight in justice. To delight in beauty. To delight in generosity. To delight in forgiveness. 00:41:56.239 --> 00:42:01.280 That is the current of the Holy Spirit in your lives when you put your faith and trust in Jesus. 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:08.159 And let us pray for each other that we will be a Rahab congregation, not a King of Jericho 00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:13.599 congregation. And that whether it's our youth groups or our women's groups or our men's groups or our 00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:18.400 small groups or our friendships that we will, or whether at a whole level of a church, that we will 00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:24.719 encourage each other to be a Rahab church and not a King of Jericho church. I invite you to stand. 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:43.439 Father, we give you thanks and praise that you don't weigh and count our merits, but you pardon our 00:42:43.439 --> 00:42:50.959 offenses. And we give you thanks and praise that you put pressure on our lives and the pressure that 00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:56.480 comes on our lives from you, whether it's through conscience or whatever it is, Father, that your 00:42:56.480 --> 00:43:02.159 desire is always that we will repent, always that we will turn to you, always that we will seek refuge 00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:08.159 in you, always that we will seek mercy in you, always that we will let you form us in the ways of the true 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:13.119 and the good and the beautiful, the just and the loving, the generous and the kind and the forgiving, 00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:18.880 that that's how you desire to form us. And so, Father, we ask that you help us to be like Rahab and not 00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:25.200 approach you in the truth and goodness and beauty with fists up, but on our knees with open hands, 00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:30.880 that you might work deep within us for our good, for the good of this city and for your glory. 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.400 And we pray this in Jesus name. Amen. 00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:50.960 Amen. 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:53.039 Amen. 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.099 Amen. 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099 00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:55.099