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 Father, we ask that the Holy Spirit would help us to see ourselves in your Word,

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 and to see ourselves in your Word in a way that makes us long,

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 to have the Gospel become more real in our hearts,

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 and for your Holy Spirit to change us more and more in a way, Father,

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 that is for our true good, and that fits us for heaven,

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 and is for the true good of the world around us.

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 And this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son, and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 This is the first Sunday I'm doing a service with a hearing aid in,

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 and I'm still getting used to the fact, those of you who have hearing aids,

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 I'm still getting used to the fact that I hear my voice in my head in a different way.

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 And if you're not familiar with that idea, I can just tell you it's something that it just throws me off a bit.

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 Anyway, one of the things which is very true about being human

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 is that we can be very, very, very bothered about things which don't really matter that much,

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 but not be very bothered by things which matter a great deal.

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 In other words, we can feel guilty about something that really God doesn't care about,

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 and not feel guilty at all about things that God really does care about.

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 I'll give you an example.

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 It might be that somebody could be feeling very guilty or very depressed right now about their weight,

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 but not feel even remotely guilty about the fact that they just told several lies to their best friend

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 or to their boss the day before.

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 People can feel very, very guilty about maybe the condition of their vehicle

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 or what type of vehicle they have.

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 They can feel very bad or very proud, but often very bad,

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 yet not even feel a tinge, a twinge of guilt over something like, I don't know,

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 lying on your income tax, which is in effect a type of stealing.

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 So it's just one of the things about human beings that we can,

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 and we all probably could give examples afterwards about other people, of course,

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 never about ourselves, about how something very, very trivial really bothers them,

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 bends them out of shape they feel guilty about or they feel very proud about.

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 And we know that God doesn't give a hoot about it.

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 It's a very, very common human problem.

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 The Bible text that we're going to look at today speaks into this.

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 In fact, we have to keep this in the back of our mind as we're reading the Bible text

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 because it's going to speak into this particular condition.

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 It's going to speak into this condition more and more in the weeks to come

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 as we look into the text that comes after it.

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 But this is a text which starts to look at this human problem,

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 and it's Colossians 2, verses 16 to 23.

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 Now, actually, just before we look at this, two things.

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 I'm going to be looking at actually the few verses before it,

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 which aren't going to be on the screen,

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 which is just a good reason to have your own Bibles with you,

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 either a paper Bible like this

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 or having something like YouVersion on your phone

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 so that you can read the Bible on your phone.

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 But the other thing is that you're going to notice that when I'm reading the Bible text,

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 when we get into 16 to 23,

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 I'm going to be reading from the English Standard Version,

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 but I think, I hope, the text on the screen won't always be the English Standard Version.

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 And part of the reason for that is this text is a notoriously difficult text

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 if you read academic Bible commentaries.

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 It's a notoriously difficult text to translate,

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 in a sense, in a very literal type of way,

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 because there's nuances in the original language which don't exist in English.

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 So what I've done, what you'll see above me,

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 and sometimes I'll refer to it,

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 is either from the academic commentary that I've read.

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 Basically, it all comes from the academic commentary that I've read.

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 I've tried to give you a version on the screen

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 that gives the basic sense of the text.

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 And if you look at the English Standard Version,

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 you can see that that's the right way,

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 you know, that that's a way to interpret it.

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 So anyway, that's why there's going to be sometimes a bit of a gap.

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 I'm going to read this, and you're looking up at the screen,

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 and you're looking up at the screen and say,

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 that's why I've provided a bit of a help on the screen.

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 Anyway, so the problem is,

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 what is it about human beings

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 that we can feel very, very bent out of shape and guilty

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 about things that we probably would recognize don't really matter,

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 although obviously to many people in the world it really matters,

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 yet not even be remotely guilty about something else.

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 Somebody can feel very, very, very guilty

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 about the fact that they drive an old car,

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 that they're not really, you know, with it,

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 and have a new car really nice and clean,

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 but they don't feel any guilt at all

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 about the fact that they show no generosity whatsoever.

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 They're very, very just ungenerous, ungracious people.

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 So why is that about us?

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 Why is it we worry about maybe our weight?

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 The Bible doesn't care about that,

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 but we don't worry about lying,

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 or about betraying confidences.

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 Why is that going on?

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 Well, what we looked at last week,

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 as part of the flow,

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 because we're preaching through the book of Colossians,

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 is last week what we looked at,

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 it's all sort of developing this idea

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 that when you receive Christ Jesus,

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 you receive him as the Lord,

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 and so we have to learn how to walk in him.

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 And the text that we looked at last week

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 talked really about this profound idea

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 that when we give ourselves to Christ,

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 we, in a sense, enter into him,

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 and he enters into us.

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 This is one of the many profound ways

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 that the Bible, and I think only the Bible,

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 really accounts for features of human experience

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 that we take for granted,

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 and that other systems of thought

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 and other religions can't really account for,

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 because it's, in fact, a part of personal relationships

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 that we, in a sense, enter into the other person's life,

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 and the other person enters into our life.

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 And for Christians, we understand that,

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 ultimately, this is rooted in the very nature of God,

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 that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

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 that from all eternity,

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 the Father, in a sense, has given himself to the Son,

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 and the Son has received the Father into his life,

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 and the Son gives himself to the Father,

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 and the Father receives himself,

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 receives the Son into his life.

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 And human beings bearing God's image,

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 it's the same thing for us.

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 So, if we've ever been at, let's say,

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 a wedding reception or a funeral reception,

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 back in the day when you could meet

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 without being socially distanced,

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 and you're at a table of strangers,

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 and you try to make conversation with the person beside you,

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 and they either ignore you,

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 or they give brief, grunt answers,

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 which they grunt affirmative,

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 or they grunt negative.

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 And obviously, what they're doing

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 is they're keeping their force fields up

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 to not let you into their lives.

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 And you're trying to just be friendly with them.

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 But in things like love,

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 and friendship, and family,

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 there's this very, very real sense

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 that as you share things about yourself,

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 you're hoping that the things you share

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 with the other person will be received.

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 And we can almost picture that being received as,

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 to use body language like this

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 is just a very natural thing to say to be received,

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 because we open ourselves up

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 to let the other person come into our life.

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 And then we share something back.

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 And I use language like,

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 my hands like this,

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 and we hope that they receive it like this,

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 that they open their lives up.

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 And that's why, you know,

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 when we experience the death of a friend,

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 or a family member,

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 or like a spouse,

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 it actually feels as if something

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 from inside of us has been taken away.

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 There's now a hole inside of us

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 that wasn't there before.

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 Because there is a real sense

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 that human beings enter into each other.

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 And we know that it's not just emotions,

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 that there's some other thing which goes on,

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 that there's not really human words,

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 English words that can capture.

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 And the Bible is saying,

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 all the way through the book of Colossians,

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 the phrase, in Christ,

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 is, it's said over and over

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 and over and over again.

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 And what the Bible is telling us

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 is that when you trust Jesus

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 as your Savior and your Lord,

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 you enter into him,

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 and he enters into you.

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 That it's not just an analogy,

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 it's not a metaphor,

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 it's not an experience per se,

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 but that in the case of Christ,

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 it's real,

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 it actually happens.

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 You enter into Christ

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 and now, in a sense,

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 live in him.

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 And he enters into you

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 and in a very real and true sense,

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 enters into you and is in you.

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 The two truths are very, very true.

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 And we looked at that last week.

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 And then the Bible text talked about

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 using two analogies,

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 one of circumcision from the Old Testament

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 and then baptism in the New Testament,

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 and showed how both of those

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 symbolic actions,

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 so to speak,

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 are signifying something that God does.

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 And then it culminates in verses 13 to 15.

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 And you who were dead in your trespasses

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 and the uncircumcision of your flesh,

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 God made alive together with him,

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 having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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 here's the thing I want to point to,

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 by canceling the record of debt

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 that stood against us

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 with its legal demands.

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 This he set aside,

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 nailing it to the cross.

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 And last week I shared how this word

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 legal demands

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 is sort of a,

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 it's a very, very legal,

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 it's a very, very literally correct word,

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 but it actually isn't,

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 it doesn't really capture

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 the right sense in English.

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 And what the Bible text is saying

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 is this very wonderful

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 and profound truth.

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 It's saying that when you,

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 like when you give yourself to Christ

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 and you enter into him,

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 it means then in a very real sense

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 that the death Jesus dies on the cross

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 is your death.

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 And his resurrection

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 is also your resurrection

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 because you're in him.

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 And just as in,

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 you can sort of see it over there

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 a little bit with the stained glass,

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 that if you read the gospel accounts,

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 it was very typical with crucifixion

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 that a brief summary of the charge

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 against the person

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 was nailed above the cross

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 so that everybody walking by

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 would know that this is why

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 the person was dying.

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 And so Paul uses this analogy

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 because crucifixion

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 was a very common form of punishment.

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 Hundreds of thousands of people

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 died of crucifixion

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 in the Roman Empire.

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 And so it's a very, very common thing,

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 a very shameful way of dying.

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 And Paul says,

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 what do you need to imagine is this,

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 that the first part of that,

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 which it talks about

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 the record of debt,

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 that's referring to real objective,

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 from God's point of view,

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 moral wrong.

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 Every lie that I've ever told,

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 every time that I had an opportunity

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 to do something good

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 and I didn't do that good,

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 a sin of omission,

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 every betrayal of a confidence,

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 every stealing,

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 every slander about another human being,

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 every sexual thing,

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 every injustice,

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 everything which from God

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 who sees perfectly,

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 every single real wrong,

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 objective wrong thing

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 that I have ever done,

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 well, that's nailed to the cross

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 above Jesus.

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 But the other word

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 is really implying

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 human regulations,

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 the human judgments

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 that we make on each other.

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 And human judgments

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 might have a bit of a grain

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 of truth to them,

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 but they're a bit very,

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 very different.

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 The way that people condemn you

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 because you're too skinny,

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 too fat,

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 too muscular,

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 are not muscular enough.

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 You eat crappy food.

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 You're too obsessed

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 about eating healthy food.

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 You only eat organic.

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 You never eat organic.

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 You only go to Tim Hortons.

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 You never go to Tim Hortons.

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 You think you're better than people

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 by going to a hipster coffee place.

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 You drink wine

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 out of a little box

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 that has plastic

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 or you only drink

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 the finest vintages.

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 All of the normal human things

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 that we mean

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 to put each other down

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 or evaluate everybody else,

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 those also

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 are nailed to the cross.

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 That's what regulations are,

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 human assessments

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 that make us feel guilty.

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 And so it's this profound truth

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 that on the cross,

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 I'm to imagine,

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 well, imagine,

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 it's not just imagining

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 because the Bible's telling us

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 it's actually what happens,

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 is that every accusation

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 that a human being

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 could make against me

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 that gives me worth

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 or doesn't give me worth,

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 that's nailed to the cross as well.

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 Now, God's going to help us

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 to sort out

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 what of those human things

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 are right or wrong

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 because sometimes

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 human views of things

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 are right.

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 We might say

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 that such and such a thing

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 is cowardly

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 or such and such a thing

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 is foolhardy

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 and it might be right

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 or there's a germ of truth in it

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 that the germ of truth

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 is to be too concerned

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 about food is a sin

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 or to be too underweight

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 or too overweight,

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 of course,

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 is bad for the body

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 and there's a germ

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 of some sin in there.

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 It's hard for us

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 to figure it out

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 but the comforting thing is

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 that it's all nailed

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 to the cross.

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 Jesus died for all of that

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 and part of what will happen

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 as we walk with Christ

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 is those human regulations

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 start to get hopefully

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 sorted out in our lives.

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 That's what Christ wants to do

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 and definitely in eternity.

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 It's all sorted out

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 but all of those accusations,

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 they're all up there

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 on the cross

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 and that's why it goes on

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 to say in verse 15,

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 Jesus disarms

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 the rulers and authorities

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 and puts them to open shame

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 by triumphing over them in him.

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 As I shared before,

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 rulers and authorities here

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 are two different types

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 of angelic beings,

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 demonic beings,

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 I should say.

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 And so the main way

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 as I shared last week

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 that most of us experience

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 demons in our lives

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 is by guilt,

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 accusation,

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 slander and lies.

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 In a sense,

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 the demon speaks lies

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 into our ears

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 and they go into our hearts.

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 And the lies could be,

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 you were right,

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 you're always right.

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 Or the lie could be,

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 you're wrong,

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 you're always wrong.

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 And the devil tells you

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 the lie,

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 you're right,

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 you're always right

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 when you've just done

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 something wrong.

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 When you've just done

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 something right,

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 the devil tells you

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 the lie,

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 you're wrong,

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 you're always doing

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 something wrong.

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 But he tells you lies,

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 he slanders you

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 and they go deep into you.

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 And in a sense,

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 how does understanding

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 the cross help

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 to disarm it?

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 You see,

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 if you understand

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 that you're not quite sure

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 how to figure out

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 the whole weight thing

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 and what you should

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 feel guilty about

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 and what you shouldn't

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 really feel guilty about,

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 but the thing is

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 that is profoundly comforting

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 is you can just think,

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 Jesus knew

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 every accusation

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 against me.

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 Those are nailed

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 to the cross

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 and Jesus died for them.

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 He's over time

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 going to help me

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 to understand

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 what needs to be done

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 about some of these things.

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 And in fact,

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 in chapter 3,

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 we're going to see

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 how Paul starts

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 to help us

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 to figure out

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 what true north is,

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 like where we really are.

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 That's what he's going

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 to talk about

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 in chapter 3.

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 But it's all been,

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 all these accusations,

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 they're all dealt with.

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 So then,

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 if we put up verse 16

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 on the screen,

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 you'll notice

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 in the English Standard Version,

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 it begins with,

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 therefore,

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 let no one pass judgment

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 on you in questions

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 of food and drink

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 or with regard

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 to a festival

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 or a new moon

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 or a Sabbath.

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 These are a shadow

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 of the things to come,

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 but the substance

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 belongs to Christ.

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 Now,

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 what Paul is doing here,

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 you'll notice it says,

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 therefore,

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 that's how it begins.

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 And the verses 16 to 23,

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 and by the way,

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 I don't know how to pronounce

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 this correctly.

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 One of you can shout it out.

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 You know,

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 there's that,

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 it's an ancient,

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 I think it's an old

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 Greek god

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 or it's a part

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 of a Greek story,

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 a Janus figure.

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 I don't know

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 if it's pronounced

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 Janus or Janus.

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 It's, eh?

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 Janus.

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 Okay,

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 thank you very much.

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 So a Janus

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 is a figure

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 that has two faces

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 looking in opposite directions.

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 And lots of times

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 in the Bible,

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 there's a text

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 which in a sense

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 is a Janus text.

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 And this is a Janus text.

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 In other words,

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 verses 16 to 23

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 on one hand

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 is looking back

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 from all the things

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 that have happened

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 from chapter 1

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 to chapter 2.

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 And it's looking back

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 at that

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 and bringing it

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 to a bit of a conclusion.

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 But it's also

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 a Janus text

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 in the sense

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 that it's looking forward

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 to chapter 3

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 and it's giving us

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 a bit of an introduction

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 about what's going to come.

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 But it begins

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 with this powerful word,

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 therefore,

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 let no one

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 pass judgment on you

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 in questions

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 of food and drink.

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 Now,

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 what's going on here

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 is this.

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 So I've just shared

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 the gospel with you.

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 You put your faith

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 and trust in Christ

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 and every accusation

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 against you,

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 the ones that have

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 just purely

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 human regulations,

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 the ones which are,

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 in fact,

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 that God could say

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 are objectively wrong,

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 they're all nailed

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 to the cross.

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 So when you walk

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 out the door

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 after the service

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 and you begin now

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 to live the rest

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 of your week

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 or even maybe

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 as you're listening

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 to the sermon,

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 how are you going to live?

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 Like,

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 how do you live?

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 How do you live

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 when you walk

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 out the door

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 of the church?

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 And in a sense,

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 it's not just

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 how do you live

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 when you walk

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 out the door

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 of the church,

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 it's also,

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 in a sense,

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 how are you right

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 now evaluating things?

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 Will you,

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 that's the question.

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 So here's,

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 you see,

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 the problem

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 is that what happens

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 is we often

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 as human beings,

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 in fact,

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 it almost always happens

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 as human beings,

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 that we hear this

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 wonderful news

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 about the gospel,

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 but we walk

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 out the door

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 and now we start

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 to live

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 as if the gospel

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 isn't true,

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 but we live

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 as if to develop

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 as a human being,

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 to develop

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 as a godly person,

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 as to develop

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 as a person

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 that God would use,

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 to develop

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 as God's friend,

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 whatever the analogy

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 is as God's child,

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 as soon as we walk

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 out the door,

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 we very quickly

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 start to use

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 regulations

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 to frame

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 how we live

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 our lives.

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 In other words,

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 human rules.

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 And what the Bible

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 is going to do

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 in this text

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 is it's going

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 to give us,

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 in a sense,

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 the classic six,

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 the classic six ways

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 that human beings

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 use regulations

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 to try to understand

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 how to get better

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 with God,

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 how to grow with God,

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 how to become

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 more Christ-like,

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 how to be fit

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 for heaven,

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 how to live

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 a godly life,

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 how to live

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 a spiritual life,

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 how to be,

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 all those different

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 analogies,

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 and there's

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 these classic six.

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 They're not always

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 as prevalent

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 in certain subgroups

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 or certain times

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 as others,

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 but they're the historic

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 classic six.

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 And here's how it is.

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 So let no one

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 pass judgment.

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 And the word there,

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 I think,

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 I think I used

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 the word condemn

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 up here.

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 That's the sense of it.

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 It's a sense of

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 disqualify you

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 or condemn you.

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 It's not just

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 passing judgment

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 on you as if,

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 oh, you're a good,

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 it's what,

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 how do people

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 condemn you?

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 And look at the

00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:45.400
 first of the six,

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 food and drink.

00:18:47.180 --> 00:18:47.560
 Well, I mean,

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 isn't that true?

00:18:49.280 --> 00:18:50.500
 This coffee only uses,

00:18:50.600 --> 00:18:51.480
 this church only uses

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 fair trade coffee.

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 Oh, we're very good,

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 aren't we?

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 And other churches say,

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 yeah,

00:18:56.259 --> 00:18:56.839
 these guys,

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 they just want to be

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 hipsters and cool

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 and all that stuff.

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 We use Tim Horton's

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 coffee because we're

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 of the people

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 or something like that.

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 Or, you know,

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 we only have organic.

00:19:05.339 --> 00:19:06.319
 Well, you know,

00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:07.640
 organic people,

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 they just want to be

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 politically correct

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 and hipster.

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 They don't know

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 what it's like

00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:11.660
 in the real life.

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 They have lots

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 of disposable cash.

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 They don't live

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 from paycheck

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 to paycheck.

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 You can finish

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 the rant if you want.

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 Some of you have

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 those rants in your head,

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 right?

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 You go grocery shopping,

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 you see the organic section

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 and in your head,

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 there's a rant

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 about people who buy it.

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 Or in your head,

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 you know,

00:19:29.059 --> 00:19:29.700
 as you're buying

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 from the organic,

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 there's the rant

00:19:31.220 --> 00:19:31.919
 about the people

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 who are going

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 to the sale

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 and you think about,

00:19:33.899 --> 00:19:34.019
 yeah,

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 they don't care

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 about slave labor,

00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:36.220
 they don't care,

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 but you know,

00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:37.559
 that's what goes on

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 in our heads,

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 right?

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 And it's not just that,

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 you know,

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 there's the clean

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 and unclean food

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 and then it goes on,

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 new moon,

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 or sort of a festival.

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 And I'm going

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 to give you

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 secular versions

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 and I'm going

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 to go back

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 and give you

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 religious versions

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 of some of these

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 types of things.

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 How many people

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 in our society

00:19:54.399 --> 00:19:55.079
 evaluate us

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 by whether or not

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 we'd go to a gay pride parade?

00:19:59.359 --> 00:19:59.720
 Like,

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 you wouldn't go

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 to the gay pride parade?

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 You wouldn't organize that?

00:20:02.500 --> 00:20:02.700
 Like,

00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:03.599
 you're a terrible person.

00:20:04.460 --> 00:20:06.000
 You're against inclusivity?

00:20:06.139 --> 00:20:07.139
 You're against inclusion?

00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:08.359
 You hate gays?

00:20:09.500 --> 00:20:09.740
 Like,

00:20:09.879 --> 00:20:10.480
 you hate,

00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:11.700
 like what are you,

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 like a Trump supporter

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 or something like that?

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 Make America Great?

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 Like,

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 the judgments

00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:17.460
 would come immediately

00:20:17.460 --> 00:20:19.180
 upon that type of thing.

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 And then,

00:20:20.420 --> 00:20:23.080
 you know,

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 or let me tell you,

00:20:25.520 --> 00:20:26.940
 I'll finish the ones,

00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:27.840
 new moon.

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 And a new moon,

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 that's in a sense that,

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 I mean,

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 on one level,

00:20:31.460 --> 00:20:32.060
 all of these have

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 Old Testament precursors,

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 but new moon is really

00:20:35.340 --> 00:20:36.340
 how much do we get told

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 to keep in touch

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 with nature,

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 to get with the rhythms?

00:20:40.259 --> 00:20:40.440
 Like,

00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:41.560
 isn't one of the advantages

00:20:41.560 --> 00:20:42.320
 of Wiccan,

00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:43.360
 why is Wicca

00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:44.539
 a better religion

00:20:44.539 --> 00:20:45.559
 than Christianity?

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 Because Wicca

00:20:46.459 --> 00:20:48.479
 respects natural rhythms.

00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:49.899
 Wicca respects,

00:20:50.019 --> 00:20:50.619
 in particular,

00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:51.240
 the rhythms

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 of a woman's body

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 with her period

00:20:54.679 --> 00:20:55.679
 and all of that

00:20:55.679 --> 00:20:56.279
 type of stuff.

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 It respects the moon

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 and the tides.

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 It's one with nature

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 and we have to be

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 at one with nature.

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 And then,

00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:03.879
 you go on to Sabbath

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 and then it could be,

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 of course,

00:21:05.719 --> 00:21:05.740
 that,

00:21:06.019 --> 00:21:06.199
 you know,

00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:07.000
 Sabbath,

00:21:07.139 --> 00:21:07.799
 not necessarily

00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:08.659
 in a religious sense,

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 but you need to have

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 a time of rest,

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 you need to have

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 your alone time.

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 And you see what I mean

00:21:12.340 --> 00:21:12.980
 that all of these

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 types of things

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 are the types of things

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 that judgments come about

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 and they all have

00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.620
 the religious versions

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 as well.

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 You know,

00:21:22.840 --> 00:21:23.660
 in terms of,

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 you know,

00:21:24.420 --> 00:21:24.920
 food or drink,

00:21:24.980 --> 00:21:25.700
 I've already mentioned

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 the ones that churches

00:21:26.580 --> 00:21:27.500
 can start to divide

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 over what type of coffee

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 they have

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 or what type of food

00:21:30.040 --> 00:21:30.660
 they serve

00:21:30.660 --> 00:21:32.200
 or vegetarianism

00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:33.440
 or not being vegetarian.

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 Festival,

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 I'll just use

00:21:36.779 --> 00:21:38.299
 Anglicanism as an example.

00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:38.799
 Like,

00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:40.120
 people will get

00:21:40.120 --> 00:21:41.039
 all bent out of shape.

00:21:41.120 --> 00:21:41.480
 Some of you

00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.420
 who are old Anglicans

00:21:42.420 --> 00:21:43.160
 will tell you

00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:45.980
 how transgressive

00:21:45.980 --> 00:21:46.860
 it was

00:21:46.860 --> 00:21:47.920
 in our church

00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:48.500
 when I sang

00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:49.460
 a Christmas carol

00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:50.759
 before Christmas Eve.

00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:52.420
 Like,

00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:53.579
 that was going

00:21:53.579 --> 00:21:54.799
 against a huge

00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:56.480
 Anglican religious rule.

00:21:57.140 --> 00:21:58.019
 When I said

00:21:58.019 --> 00:21:58.980
 Alleluia

00:21:58.980 --> 00:21:59.720
 in church

00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:00.579
 during Lent,

00:22:00.779 --> 00:22:01.519
 I was being

00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:03.000
 very transgressive

00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:04.120
 against a whole pile

00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:05.039
 of Anglican

00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:06.959
 religious rules.

00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:08.799
 You know,

00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:10.159
 and you can go on

00:22:10.159 --> 00:22:10.819
 in terms of,

00:22:10.979 --> 00:22:11.139
 you know,

00:22:11.199 --> 00:22:11.859
 we've had people

00:22:11.859 --> 00:22:12.459
 in this church

00:22:12.459 --> 00:22:13.079
 who've been very,

00:22:13.179 --> 00:22:13.359
 very,

00:22:13.439 --> 00:22:14.039
 very upset

00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:14.859
 because when there was

00:22:14.859 --> 00:22:16.039
 coffee time after church

00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:16.839
 we went to a store

00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:17.559
 to buy cream

00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:18.019
 and we weren't

00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:18.899
 keeping the Sabbath.

00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:21.000
 But all of a sudden

00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:23.139
 there's a whole range

00:22:23.139 --> 00:22:24.019
 of different types

00:22:24.019 --> 00:22:24.539
 of rules

00:22:24.539 --> 00:22:25.679
 about how you keep

00:22:25.679 --> 00:22:26.379
 these things

00:22:26.379 --> 00:22:27.419
 and you need to keep them

00:22:27.419 --> 00:22:28.000
 if you're the right

00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:28.859
 type of church.

00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:29.939
 I mean,

00:22:29.959 --> 00:22:30.719
 it even comes up

00:22:30.719 --> 00:22:31.219
 in the fact

00:22:31.219 --> 00:22:31.859
 that for many,

00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:32.500
 many churches

00:22:32.500 --> 00:22:33.219
 they would say

00:22:33.219 --> 00:22:34.039
 that one of the

00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:35.119
 problems with us

00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:36.079
 is that we actually

00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:36.639
 have something

00:22:36.639 --> 00:22:38.079
 like a liturgical year

00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:39.519
 but ironically

00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:40.539
 those same people

00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:41.059
 would often

00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:42.039
 probably judge me

00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:42.599
 that George said

00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:43.159
 one of the reasons

00:22:43.159 --> 00:22:44.059
 your church doesn't grow

00:22:44.059 --> 00:22:44.440
 is you don't do

00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:44.839
 a big thing

00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:45.619
 about Mother's Day.

00:22:46.019 --> 00:22:46.539
 You don't do

00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:46.920
 a big thing

00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:47.779
 about Father's Day.

00:22:47.819 --> 00:22:48.139
 You don't do

00:22:48.139 --> 00:22:48.559
 a big thing

00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:49.279
 about Thanksgiving.

00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:49.839
 You don't do

00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:50.339
 a big thing

00:22:50.339 --> 00:22:51.299
 about Remembrance Day.

00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:51.680
 You don't do

00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.139
 a big thing

00:22:52.139 --> 00:22:52.779
 about this and that

00:22:52.779 --> 00:22:53.180
 and we'll go

00:22:53.180 --> 00:22:53.379
 whoa,

00:22:53.379 --> 00:22:53.519
 whoa,

00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:53.759
 whoa,

00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:53.920
 whoa,

00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:54.059
 whoa,

00:22:54.059 --> 00:22:54.159
 whoa,

00:22:54.159 --> 00:22:54.299
 whoa.

00:22:55.019 --> 00:22:56.559
 These are secular festivals

00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:58.279
 and you're using

00:22:58.279 --> 00:22:58.819
 art keeping

00:22:58.819 --> 00:23:00.000
 of a secular festival

00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:01.039
 to judge us?

00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:04.200
 like your church

00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:05.940
 non-liturgically

00:23:05.940 --> 00:23:06.460
 your church

00:23:06.460 --> 00:23:07.119
 you're superior

00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:07.460
 to us

00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:08.180
 because you keep

00:23:08.180 --> 00:23:08.980
 Mother's Day?

00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:09.700
 That was invented

00:23:09.700 --> 00:23:11.319
 by greeting card companies

00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:12.039
 folks

00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:14.200
 and you're passing

00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:15.099
 judgment on us

00:23:15.099 --> 00:23:15.899
 because we remember

00:23:15.899 --> 00:23:16.399
 Advent?

00:23:16.980 --> 00:23:17.200
 Like

00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:20.000
 you see how it works

00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:21.480
 in church circles?

00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.079
 It's a bit

00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:24.720
 of an aside.

00:23:25.819 --> 00:23:26.660
 I'm clueless

00:23:26.660 --> 00:23:27.079
 about a whole

00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:27.660
 pile of things.

00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:28.299
 I've been in this

00:23:28.299 --> 00:23:29.579
 church so long

00:23:29.579 --> 00:23:30.420
 I've lost track

00:23:30.420 --> 00:23:30.960
 of a whole pile

00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:31.779
 of Anglican rules

00:23:31.779 --> 00:23:32.559
 but at one point

00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:32.799
 in time

00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:33.759
 in Anglican history

00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:35.539
 you walk in the door

00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:36.200
 and the fact

00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:36.680
 that I have

00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:37.420
 this collar on

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:37.880
 rather than

00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:38.579
 another collar

00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:39.380
 would tell you

00:23:39.380 --> 00:23:40.539
 that the circle

00:23:40.539 --> 00:23:41.039
 the collar

00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:41.819
 that goes all around

00:23:41.819 --> 00:23:42.160
 they'd say

00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:42.640
 ah,

00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:43.660
 he's the right

00:23:43.660 --> 00:23:44.240
 sort of the wrong

00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:44.480
 sort.

00:23:44.620 --> 00:23:44.759
 Oh,

00:23:44.860 --> 00:23:45.579
 a collar like this

00:23:45.579 --> 00:23:46.120
 he's the right

00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:46.720
 sort of the wrong

00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:47.140
 sort.

00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:49.599
 They'd instantly

00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:50.240
 figure that out.

00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:50.819
 The mere fact

00:23:50.819 --> 00:23:52.679
 sorry

00:23:52.679 --> 00:23:53.659
 I could keep

00:23:53.659 --> 00:23:54.419
 going on and on

00:23:54.419 --> 00:23:55.019
 about this.

00:23:55.299 --> 00:23:55.740
 On one level

00:23:55.740 --> 00:23:56.339
 it's a bit fun

00:23:56.339 --> 00:23:57.000
 to look at a text

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 like this.

00:23:58.159 --> 00:23:59.099
 Because we don't

00:23:59.099 --> 00:23:59.460
 have,

00:23:59.559 --> 00:23:59.980
 I don't wear

00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:01.200
 all of the robes

00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:02.039
 that were developed

00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:02.839
 like I don't know

00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:04.279
 like in the 1600s

00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:05.379
 or the 1700s

00:24:05.379 --> 00:24:05.919
 with all these

00:24:05.919 --> 00:24:06.639
 processions

00:24:06.639 --> 00:24:07.779
 we've had people

00:24:07.779 --> 00:24:08.399
 come from other

00:24:08.399 --> 00:24:09.200
 Anglican churches

00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:09.679
 that say that

00:24:09.679 --> 00:24:10.099
 we're not even

00:24:10.099 --> 00:24:10.759
 Anglican

00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:12.139
 because we don't

00:24:12.139 --> 00:24:12.759
 do all of that

00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:13.039
 stuff.

00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:13.519
 I don't wear

00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:14.079
 the robes

00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:15.139
 to be well dressed

00:24:15.139 --> 00:24:15.819
 for the year

00:24:15.819 --> 00:24:16.980
 1650.

00:24:17.439 --> 00:24:17.779
 I mean

00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:18.919
 as soon as I say

00:24:18.919 --> 00:24:19.460
 that obviously

00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:20.240
 I'm mocking it,

00:24:20.299 --> 00:24:20.460
 right?

00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:21.279
 But the fact

00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:21.559
 of the matter

00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:22.000
 is these are

00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:22.799
 very very powerful

00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:23.100
 things.

00:24:23.180 --> 00:24:23.440
 I'm using

00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.360
 Anglican examples

00:24:24.360 --> 00:24:25.400
 but there's

00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:25.720
 even,

00:24:25.860 --> 00:24:26.420
 there's Baptist

00:24:26.420 --> 00:24:26.980
 examples

00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:27.440
 and there's

00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:28.600
 charismatic examples.

00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:29.180
 They're all

00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:29.920
 examples in

00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:30.480
 everything that

00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:31.140
 all of a sudden

00:24:31.140 --> 00:24:31.660
 you have these

00:24:31.660 --> 00:24:32.180
 rules and

00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:32.799
 regulations

00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:34.480
 that come from

00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:35.220
 who knows where

00:24:35.220 --> 00:24:35.840
 often from

00:24:35.840 --> 00:24:36.380
 certain things

00:24:36.380 --> 00:24:36.900
 in the culture

00:24:36.900 --> 00:24:37.420
 and it's means

00:24:37.420 --> 00:24:37.920
 by which you

00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:38.600
 evaluate whether

00:24:38.600 --> 00:24:39.019
 it's a good

00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:39.440
 church or a

00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:39.819
 bad church.

00:24:40.180 --> 00:24:40.960
 I've had people

00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:41.420
 come to the

00:24:41.420 --> 00:24:41.759
 church and

00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:42.120
 they've never

00:24:42.120 --> 00:24:43.160
 come back again.

00:24:43.319 --> 00:24:43.600
 Why?

00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:44.759
 Because of

00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:45.140
 these.

00:24:45.140 --> 00:24:49.540
 because it's

00:24:49.540 --> 00:24:50.040
 an offense

00:24:50.040 --> 00:24:50.440
 against

00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:51.420
 idolatry.

00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:52.540
 It's

00:24:52.540 --> 00:24:53.320
 idolatry.

00:24:54.080 --> 00:24:54.540
 It's

00:24:54.540 --> 00:24:55.460
 against

00:24:55.460 --> 00:24:56.120
 the Bible.

00:24:58.259 --> 00:24:58.740
 Like I think

00:24:58.740 --> 00:24:59.180
 to myself

00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:00.380
 you'd never

00:25:00.380 --> 00:25:01.080
 have a

00:25:01.080 --> 00:25:01.780
 kid's

00:25:01.780 --> 00:25:02.520
 storybook

00:25:02.520 --> 00:25:02.920
 that has

00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:03.380
 a picture

00:25:03.380 --> 00:25:04.020
 of Jesus

00:25:04.020 --> 00:25:06.160
 in it?

00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:07.259
 Like what

00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:07.540
 do you do

00:25:07.540 --> 00:25:07.740
 when you

00:25:07.740 --> 00:25:08.060
 tell a

00:25:08.060 --> 00:25:08.640
 Christmas story

00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:08.980
 about the

00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:09.920
 nativity story?

00:25:10.080 --> 00:25:10.340
 Like is it

00:25:10.340 --> 00:25:10.960
 just words?

00:25:11.020 --> 00:25:11.320
 There's no

00:25:11.320 --> 00:25:11.880
 pictures for

00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:12.420
 your kids?

00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:12.900
 Anyway,

00:25:13.060 --> 00:25:13.460
 I won't go

00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:13.800
 into it.

00:25:13.820 --> 00:25:14.100
 But you see

00:25:14.100 --> 00:25:14.460
 what I mean?

00:25:14.800 --> 00:25:15.500
 There's secular

00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:16.000
 and religious

00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:16.420
 things.

00:25:16.800 --> 00:25:17.240
 So here's

00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:17.640
 you see the

00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:18.019
 thing which

00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:18.340
 is going

00:25:18.340 --> 00:25:18.700
 on.

00:25:19.180 --> 00:25:20.380
 You have

00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:20.700
 to watch

00:25:20.700 --> 00:25:21.039
 the time.

00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:22.720
 So what

00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:23.100
 the text

00:25:23.100 --> 00:25:23.360
 is saying,

00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:23.740
 I just

00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:24.060
 gave you

00:25:24.060 --> 00:25:24.340
 that the

00:25:24.340 --> 00:25:24.800
 first part

00:25:24.800 --> 00:25:25.019
 of the

00:25:25.019 --> 00:25:25.279
 sermon

00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:25.700
 was all

00:25:25.700 --> 00:25:26.080
 about this

00:25:26.080 --> 00:25:26.500
 wonderful

00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:26.980
 thing about

00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:27.580
 the gospel

00:25:27.580 --> 00:25:28.519
 that God

00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:29.200
 doesn't look

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:29.700
 at me and

00:25:29.700 --> 00:25:29.980
 say,

00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:30.920
 God looks

00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:31.300
 at me and

00:25:31.300 --> 00:25:31.700
 knows that

00:25:31.700 --> 00:25:32.080
 George,

00:25:32.320 --> 00:25:33.220
 if all of

00:25:33.220 --> 00:25:33.759
 the things

00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:34.620
 that were

00:25:34.620 --> 00:25:35.480
 listed against

00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:36.140
 George by

00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:36.800
 our culture

00:25:36.800 --> 00:25:37.480
 and all of

00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:37.820
 the things

00:25:37.820 --> 00:25:38.380
 that I could

00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:39.039
 put against

00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:39.660
 George which

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:40.240
 are actually

00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:40.920
 correct,

00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:41.620
 objectively

00:25:41.620 --> 00:25:42.200
 true,

00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:43.800
 moral wrongs

00:25:43.800 --> 00:25:44.340
 that George

00:25:44.340 --> 00:25:44.860
 did and I

00:25:44.860 --> 00:25:45.220
 put them

00:25:45.220 --> 00:25:45.519
 all up.

00:25:45.580 --> 00:25:45.900
 There's no

00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:46.220
 way that

00:25:46.220 --> 00:25:46.660
 George could

00:25:46.660 --> 00:25:47.140
 sacrifice

00:25:47.140 --> 00:25:47.560
 enough,

00:25:48.360 --> 00:25:49.019
 atone for

00:25:49.019 --> 00:25:49.220
 it.

00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:50.820
 He'd come

00:25:50.820 --> 00:25:51.519
 under judgment

00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:52.779
 and God

00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.279
 makes this

00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:54.140
 profound offer

00:25:54.140 --> 00:25:54.680
 to you and

00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:55.100
 me and he

00:25:55.100 --> 00:25:55.320
 says,

00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:55.560
 listen,

00:25:55.660 --> 00:25:55.920
 put your

00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:56.340
 faith in

00:25:56.340 --> 00:25:56.680
 Christ.

00:25:58.880 --> 00:25:59.420
 And when

00:25:59.420 --> 00:25:59.800
 you put your

00:25:59.800 --> 00:26:00.180
 faith in

00:26:00.180 --> 00:26:00.480
 Christ,

00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:01.240
 you enter

00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:01.620
 into him

00:26:01.620 --> 00:26:01.779
 and he

00:26:01.779 --> 00:26:02.340
 enters into

00:26:02.340 --> 00:26:02.660
 you.

00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:03.960
 And the

00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:04.320
 death he

00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:04.600
 died,

00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:04.920
 George,

00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:05.460
 he died

00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:06.660
 listing all

00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:07.100
 those things

00:26:07.100 --> 00:26:07.740
 against you

00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:08.880
 and he

00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:09.380
 offers you

00:26:09.380 --> 00:26:09.920
 his life

00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:10.740
 and it's

00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:11.220
 all grace,

00:26:11.300 --> 00:26:11.580
 it's all

00:26:11.580 --> 00:26:11.920
 free.

00:26:12.120 --> 00:26:12.519
 It's not

00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:13.740
 because I'm

00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:14.220
 weighing how

00:26:14.220 --> 00:26:14.860
 wonderful you

00:26:14.860 --> 00:26:15.000
 are,

00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:15.340
 it's because

00:26:15.340 --> 00:26:15.940
 I'm pardoning

00:26:15.940 --> 00:26:16.500
 your offenses,

00:26:16.500 --> 00:26:17.039
 it's not

00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:17.680
 because you're

00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:18.960
 so unbelievably

00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:20.800
 spectacular by

00:26:20.800 --> 00:26:21.220
 your own

00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:21.660
 definition,

00:26:21.779 --> 00:26:22.360
 it's because I

00:26:22.360 --> 00:26:23.060
 just love you

00:26:23.060 --> 00:26:24.100
 so much and

00:26:24.100 --> 00:26:25.019
 I value you

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:25.759
 and I want

00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:26.539
 you to be

00:26:26.539 --> 00:26:27.100
 with me for

00:26:27.100 --> 00:26:27.759
 eternity and

00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:28.120
 it's all

00:26:28.120 --> 00:26:28.440
 love,

00:26:28.539 --> 00:26:28.800
 it's all

00:26:28.800 --> 00:26:29.120
 grace,

00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:29.480
 it's all

00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:29.779
 mercy,

00:26:29.900 --> 00:26:30.140
 it's all

00:26:30.140 --> 00:26:30.620
 kindness,

00:26:31.340 --> 00:26:31.920
 it's all

00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:32.480
 goodness.

00:26:35.340 --> 00:26:36.000
 But as

00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:36.519
 soon as we

00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:38.019
 hear that,

00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:39.420
 instantly we

00:26:39.420 --> 00:26:40.019
 want to

00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:41.200
 grow ourselves,

00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:42.019
 we're going

00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:42.400
 to see that

00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:42.840
 in a moment

00:26:42.840 --> 00:26:43.440
 in the text.

00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:44.580
 The fundamental

00:26:44.580 --> 00:26:45.279
 choice before

00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:45.720
 us as

00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:46.440
 Christians is

00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:46.920
 will God

00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:47.440
 grow us

00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.240
 or will I

00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:48.779
 grow us?

00:26:49.360 --> 00:26:49.820
 Actually it's

00:26:49.820 --> 00:26:50.180
 even more

00:26:50.180 --> 00:26:50.600
 than that as

00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:50.820
 we're going

00:26:50.820 --> 00:26:51.120
 to see in a

00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:51.560
 moment is

00:26:51.560 --> 00:26:53.500
 will God

00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:54.039
 grow me

00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:55.900
 or will I

00:26:55.900 --> 00:26:56.900
 grow me?

00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:57.960
 Me,

00:26:58.440 --> 00:26:59.440
 me,

00:26:59.660 --> 00:27:00.200
 me,

00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:01.279
 I will

00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:02.460
 grow me

00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:03.960
 and they have

00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:04.700
 religious ways,

00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:04.920
 we have

00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:05.920
 charismatic ways

00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:06.380
 of doing

00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:06.900
 that,

00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:08.160
 you know,

00:27:08.220 --> 00:27:08.620
 like there's

00:27:08.620 --> 00:27:09.720
 the right

00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:10.259
 way to lift

00:27:10.259 --> 00:27:10.820
 your hands

00:27:10.820 --> 00:27:11.279
 at the right

00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:11.920
 time and

00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:12.259
 there's the

00:27:12.259 --> 00:27:12.840
 wrong way to

00:27:12.840 --> 00:27:13.200
 lift your

00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:13.860
 hands at the

00:27:13.860 --> 00:27:14.660
 right time and

00:27:14.660 --> 00:27:14.940
 there's the

00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:15.560
 right time to

00:27:15.560 --> 00:27:15.880
 lift your

00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:16.380
 hands in the

00:27:16.380 --> 00:27:17.120
 wrong time and

00:27:17.120 --> 00:27:17.580
 you don't do

00:27:17.580 --> 00:27:18.019
 it the wrong

00:27:18.019 --> 00:27:18.460
 time,

00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:19.360
 you do it the

00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:19.960
 wrong time and

00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:20.580
 people look down

00:27:20.580 --> 00:27:21.279
 their nose at

00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:22.259
 you and there's

00:27:22.259 --> 00:27:23.360
 Anglican things as

00:27:23.360 --> 00:27:23.720
 to whether you

00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:24.519
 bow enough or

00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:25.320
 kneel enough or

00:27:25.320 --> 00:27:26.259
 deep enough and

00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:28.019
 it's all just

00:27:28.019 --> 00:27:28.940
 regulations and

00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:29.320
 rules.

00:27:30.120 --> 00:27:30.640
 Look at verse

00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:31.180
 17,

00:27:31.320 --> 00:27:31.820
 these are a

00:27:31.820 --> 00:27:32.519
 shadow of the

00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:33.279
 things to come but

00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:33.840
 the substance

00:27:33.840 --> 00:27:34.519
 belongs to

00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:34.800
 Christ.

00:27:34.900 --> 00:27:35.240
 In other words,

00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:35.759
 these are just,

00:27:36.420 --> 00:27:36.980
 at best,

00:27:37.099 --> 00:27:37.779
 there's something

00:27:37.779 --> 00:27:40.120
 that sort of

00:27:40.120 --> 00:27:40.700
 points to

00:27:40.700 --> 00:27:41.759
 Christ but the

00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:42.140
 fact of the

00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:42.660
 matter is it's

00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:42.980
 just you're

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:43.380
 talking about

00:27:43.380 --> 00:27:43.900
 shadows,

00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:44.640
 you're not

00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:45.160
 actually talking

00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:45.880
 about reality

00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:47.500
 and I've helped

00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:48.559
 you here with

00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:49.120
 the text up

00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:49.620
 above us.

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:52.519
 Literally in the

00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:53.440
 original language

00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:54.599
 it's pointing

00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:55.539
 backwards to

00:27:55.539 --> 00:27:55.900
 Christ.

00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:57.460
 So I think the

00:27:57.460 --> 00:27:58.120
 way I've worded

00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:58.640
 it up above

00:27:58.640 --> 00:27:59.120
 without having

00:27:59.120 --> 00:27:59.579
 to turn my

00:27:59.579 --> 00:28:00.779
 head is,

00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:01.559
 and this has

00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:02.259
 actually captured

00:28:02.259 --> 00:28:02.680
 it better,

00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.259
 these are a

00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:05.000
 shadow of the

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:05.539
 things that

00:28:05.539 --> 00:28:06.039
 were to

00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:08.500
 come because

00:28:08.500 --> 00:28:09.000
 it came in

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:09.319
 Christ.

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:09.619
 We're not

00:28:09.619 --> 00:28:10.200
 waiting for it

00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:10.819
 in the future.

00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:12.680
 It's all in

00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:13.059
 Christ.

00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:14.519
 These are a

00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:15.359
 shadow of the

00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:15.859
 things that

00:28:15.859 --> 00:28:16.619
 were to come.

00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:17.240
 The reality,

00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:17.660
 however,

00:28:17.859 --> 00:28:18.920
 is found in

00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:19.279
 Christ.

00:28:20.420 --> 00:28:21.579
 And then the

00:28:21.579 --> 00:28:22.279
 Bible gives you

00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:23.480
 two more of the

00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:24.039
 big six.

00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:24.819
 Right here it's

00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:25.339
 giving you food

00:28:25.339 --> 00:28:25.839
 and drink,

00:28:26.059 --> 00:28:26.480
 festivals,

00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:27.200
 new moons,

00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:28.500
 Sabbaths.

00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:29.440
 But then in

00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:30.019
 verse 18 it

00:28:30.019 --> 00:28:30.359
 goes on,

00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:30.960
 let no one

00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:32.119
 again disqualify

00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:32.940
 you or judge

00:28:32.940 --> 00:28:33.660
 you or condemn

00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:33.980
 you,

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:35.440
 insisting on

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.019
 asceticism and

00:28:37.019 --> 00:28:38.000
 worship of angels,

00:28:38.420 --> 00:28:39.279
 going on in

00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:40.180
 details about

00:28:40.180 --> 00:28:40.880
 visions,

00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:42.160
 puffed up without

00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.220
 reason by his

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:44.299
 sensuous mind,

00:28:44.819 --> 00:28:45.700
 and not holding

00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:46.680
 fast to the

00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:47.500
 head from whom

00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:48.440
 the whole body

00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:49.200
 nourished and

00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:50.140
 knit together

00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:51.039
 through its

00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:51.680
 joints and

00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:52.119
 ligaments.

00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:53.220
 And here's,

00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:54.359
 there's two big

00:28:54.359 --> 00:28:55.279
 ideas in the text

00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:55.839
 and here's one

00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.139
 of them,

00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:58.539
 grows with a

00:28:58.539 --> 00:28:59.920
 growth that is

00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:00.559
 from God.

00:29:01.879 --> 00:29:02.359
 See,

00:29:02.420 --> 00:29:02.899
 that's the

00:29:02.899 --> 00:29:03.799
 fundamental choice

00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:04.700
 before us.

00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:06.319
 Will it be me

00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:06.799
 by my

00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:07.279
 disciplines?

00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:09.519
 Will it be us

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:10.420
 by our disciplines

00:29:10.420 --> 00:29:10.980
 that grows?

00:29:11.619 --> 00:29:12.200
 Or will we

00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:12.740
 acknowledge that

00:29:12.740 --> 00:29:13.399
 all growth comes

00:29:13.399 --> 00:29:13.960
 from God?

00:29:14.639 --> 00:29:15.359
 And if all

00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:16.059
 growth comes

00:29:16.059 --> 00:29:16.879
 from God,

00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:18.539
 it's going to

00:29:18.539 --> 00:29:19.259
 suggest that we

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:19.879
 have different,

00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:20.319
 in a sense,

00:29:20.379 --> 00:29:21.500
 types of postures

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:24.220
 in responses to

00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:25.000
 God's word.

00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:25.879
 that allows,

00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:26.879
 that God,

00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:28.019
 that causes God

00:29:28.019 --> 00:29:28.799
 to grow us.

00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:31.000
 Because,

00:29:31.460 --> 00:29:32.160
 in a sense,

00:29:32.420 --> 00:29:33.079
 if we understand

00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:33.619
 that all growth

00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:34.399
 comes from God,

00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:34.819
 it means I

00:29:34.819 --> 00:29:35.619
 always come before

00:29:35.619 --> 00:29:36.440
 God with empty

00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:36.940
 hands.

00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:39.200
 In fact,

00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:40.299
 unclean hands

00:29:40.299 --> 00:29:41.639
 and an unclean

00:29:41.639 --> 00:29:41.980
 heart.

00:29:44.339 --> 00:29:45.519
 And a mind

00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:46.879
 that sometimes

00:29:46.879 --> 00:29:47.500
 can be very,

00:29:47.619 --> 00:29:48.059
 very true,

00:29:48.139 --> 00:29:48.799
 but often gets

00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:49.460
 me into trouble.

00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:50.079
 And a will

00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:51.200
 that can often

00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:51.619
 be very,

00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:52.039
 very good,

00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:52.740
 but often gets

00:29:52.740 --> 00:29:53.480
 me into trouble.

00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:54.720
 And emotions

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.400
 that sometimes

00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:55.960
 can be very

00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:56.140
 good,

00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:57.100
 but often get

00:29:57.100 --> 00:29:57.740
 me into trouble.

00:29:57.860 --> 00:29:58.440
 They're out of

00:29:58.440 --> 00:29:58.759
 whack.

00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:00.940
 I get bothered

00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:01.579
 by somebody

00:30:01.579 --> 00:30:02.259
 putting me down

00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:02.839
 because I drive

00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:03.539
 a 1998

00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:04.660
 Honda Accord.

00:30:05.660 --> 00:30:06.400
 Because if I was

00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:07.240
 a really successful

00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:07.660
 Christian,

00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:08.240
 I wouldn't be

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:08.920
 driving a car

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:10.000
 that's 23 years

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:10.360
 old.

00:30:12.740 --> 00:30:13.360
 I'd have a

00:30:13.360 --> 00:30:13.920
 Beamer or a

00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:14.579
 Lexus or

00:30:14.579 --> 00:30:15.880
 something like

00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:16.039
 that.

00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:16.319
 But if I was

00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:17.120
 a real successful

00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:17.579
 Christian,

00:30:17.579 --> 00:30:18.299
 really with it,

00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:18.779
 you know,

00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:20.399
 and I can

00:30:20.399 --> 00:30:21.240
 get beat up.

00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:21.519
 Actually,

00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:21.859
 I don't get

00:30:21.859 --> 00:30:22.319
 beat up about

00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:22.799
 the car at all.

00:30:22.859 --> 00:30:23.240
 That's why I'm

00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:23.759
 using it as an

00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:24.139
 example.

00:30:24.399 --> 00:30:24.799
 I don't want

00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:25.200
 to use an

00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:25.779
 example that

00:30:25.779 --> 00:30:26.420
 might actually

00:30:26.420 --> 00:30:27.859
 betray the

00:30:27.859 --> 00:30:28.619
 sinfulness of

00:30:28.619 --> 00:30:29.279
 my heart.

00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:31.119
 Frankly,

00:30:31.339 --> 00:30:32.299
 I just want a

00:30:32.299 --> 00:30:32.920
 car that's as

00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:33.759
 cheap as possible

00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:34.299
 that when I

00:30:34.299 --> 00:30:35.139
 turn the key,

00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:35.720
 it starts,

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:36.559
 gets me to

00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.200
 point A and

00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:38.079
 back home,

00:30:38.339 --> 00:30:38.940
 and I don't

00:30:38.940 --> 00:30:39.660
 care how ugly

00:30:39.660 --> 00:30:40.059
 it is.

00:30:40.099 --> 00:30:40.660
 I'm sorry.

00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:41.460
 I have a

00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:42.039
 whole pile of

00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:42.579
 other sins.

00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:43.160
 That's just

00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:44.599
 not one of my

00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:45.859
 particular sins

00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:46.420
 or virtues.

00:30:46.579 --> 00:30:47.039
 I don't care

00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:47.839
 about cars.

00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:49.339
 Anyway,

00:30:50.159 --> 00:30:51.159
 but the point

00:30:51.159 --> 00:30:51.740
 is right here,

00:30:51.819 --> 00:30:52.299
 go back to

00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:52.459
 that,

00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:52.939
 let no one

00:30:52.939 --> 00:30:53.699
 disqualify you

00:30:53.699 --> 00:30:54.740
 insisting on

00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:55.599
 asceticism,

00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:56.919
 and here it's

00:30:56.919 --> 00:30:57.599
 really all about

00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:58.419
 self-control.

00:30:59.399 --> 00:31:00.259
 The big

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:01.359
 besetting sin

00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:01.959
 of much

00:31:01.959 --> 00:31:02.980
 Christian teaching

00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:04.059
 is it basically

00:31:04.059 --> 00:31:04.839
 is teaching

00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:06.099
 about self-control.

00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:09.299
 Do these

00:31:09.299 --> 00:31:10.039
 five things

00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:10.299
 and you're

00:31:10.299 --> 00:31:10.579
 going to have

00:31:10.579 --> 00:31:10.839
 a better

00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:11.379
 marriage.

00:31:11.639 --> 00:31:12.199
 Do these

00:31:12.199 --> 00:31:12.959
 four things

00:31:12.959 --> 00:31:13.259
 and you're

00:31:13.259 --> 00:31:13.500
 going to be

00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:13.819
 able to

00:31:13.819 --> 00:31:14.039
 forgive.

00:31:14.299 --> 00:31:14.779
 Do these

00:31:14.779 --> 00:31:15.779
 seven things

00:31:15.779 --> 00:31:16.079
 and you'll

00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:16.419
 get that

00:31:16.419 --> 00:31:16.859
 promotion.

00:31:17.059 --> 00:31:17.459
 Do these

00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:18.180
 nine things

00:31:18.180 --> 00:31:18.440
 and you'll

00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:19.079
 have financial

00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:19.720
 security.

00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:21.039
 And then you

00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:21.460
 don't have

00:31:21.460 --> 00:31:21.900
 those things.

00:31:21.980 --> 00:31:22.200
 Well, it's

00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:22.819
 ultimately because

00:31:22.819 --> 00:31:23.220
 you don't have

00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:24.160
 any self-control.

00:31:25.500 --> 00:31:26.120
 Sucks to be

00:31:26.120 --> 00:31:26.380
 you.

00:31:26.620 --> 00:31:26.960
 I mean, we

00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:27.360
 don't say

00:31:27.360 --> 00:31:27.880
 that, right?

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.319
 We have

00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:28.900
 polite

00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:29.740
 Christian ways

00:31:29.740 --> 00:31:30.720
 to cover

00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:31.059
 the fact

00:31:31.059 --> 00:31:31.440
 that that's

00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:31.680
 what we

00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:31.980
 think.

00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:32.539
 It's one of

00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:32.900
 the reasons

00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:33.680
 why evangelical

00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:34.500
 Christians

00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:35.380
 and charismatic

00:31:35.380 --> 00:31:35.840
 Christians

00:31:35.840 --> 00:31:36.340
 have a very

00:31:36.340 --> 00:31:36.860
 profound,

00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:37.620
 hard time

00:31:37.620 --> 00:31:38.100
 with mental

00:31:38.100 --> 00:31:38.579
 illness

00:31:38.579 --> 00:31:39.819
 and have a

00:31:39.819 --> 00:31:40.460
 very profound

00:31:40.460 --> 00:31:40.920
 and hard

00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:41.500
 time against

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:42.240
 other types

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:42.720
 of things

00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:43.079
 which are

00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:43.840
 just physically

00:31:43.840 --> 00:31:44.559
 wrong with

00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:44.860
 us.

00:31:44.859 --> 00:31:46.579
 like we

00:31:46.579 --> 00:31:47.039
 can be in

00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:47.740
 great judgment

00:31:47.740 --> 00:31:48.819
 on a street

00:31:48.819 --> 00:31:49.500
 person who

00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:49.939
 has no

00:31:49.939 --> 00:31:50.579
 control of

00:31:50.579 --> 00:31:51.000
 alcohol

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:51.559
 whatsoever.

00:31:51.899 --> 00:31:52.059
 Why?

00:31:52.179 --> 00:31:52.779
 Because I

00:31:52.779 --> 00:31:53.740
 have control

00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:55.759
 and I never

00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.559
 stop to think

00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:57.139
 about the fact

00:31:57.139 --> 00:31:57.599
 that there's

00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:58.019
 something

00:31:58.019 --> 00:31:59.019
 probably

00:31:59.019 --> 00:31:59.919
 actually

00:31:59.919 --> 00:32:01.219
 biologically

00:32:01.219 --> 00:32:02.259
 broken in

00:32:02.259 --> 00:32:03.199
 them connected

00:32:03.199 --> 00:32:03.959
 to a will

00:32:03.959 --> 00:32:04.500
 that has been

00:32:04.500 --> 00:32:05.479
 broken by past

00:32:05.479 --> 00:32:07.039
 experiences which

00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:07.639
 means that they

00:32:07.639 --> 00:32:08.039
 will be

00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:09.459
 profoundly more

00:32:09.459 --> 00:32:10.240
 drawn to

00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:10.859
 alcohol or

00:32:10.859 --> 00:32:11.379
 drug abuse

00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:11.680
 than I

00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:12.180
 ever will

00:32:12.180 --> 00:32:12.480
 be.

00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:14.300
 And I

00:32:14.300 --> 00:32:15.820
 worship or

00:32:15.820 --> 00:32:16.900
 I trust in

00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:17.820
 my willpower.

00:32:18.940 --> 00:32:19.540
 And that's

00:32:19.540 --> 00:32:20.040
 what this word

00:32:20.040 --> 00:32:20.920
 asceticism is

00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:21.340
 getting at.

00:32:21.420 --> 00:32:21.860
 It's the way

00:32:21.860 --> 00:32:22.520
 to deal with

00:32:22.520 --> 00:32:22.860
 the body.

00:32:22.980 --> 00:32:23.360
 It's connected

00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:23.940
 to a whole lot

00:32:23.940 --> 00:32:24.600
 of other types

00:32:24.600 --> 00:32:25.060
 of messy

00:32:25.060 --> 00:32:25.740
 things as well

00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:26.280
 in the Christian

00:32:26.280 --> 00:32:26.720
 faith.

00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:27.980
 But look at

00:32:27.980 --> 00:32:28.200
 the game.

00:32:28.280 --> 00:32:28.720
 Let no one

00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:29.760
 disqualify you.

00:32:29.780 --> 00:32:30.240
 Verse 18.

00:32:30.360 --> 00:32:31.400
 Insisting on

00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:32.040
 asceticism,

00:32:32.540 --> 00:32:33.000
 worship of

00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:33.480
 angels,

00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:34.820
 and going on

00:32:34.820 --> 00:32:35.540
 in detail about

00:32:35.540 --> 00:32:35.940
 visions.

00:32:36.120 --> 00:32:36.400
 And that's

00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:36.840
 sort of two

00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:37.520
 different ideas.

00:32:38.340 --> 00:32:39.100
 One of them

00:32:39.100 --> 00:32:39.820
 wouldn't be

00:32:39.820 --> 00:32:41.020
 true necessarily

00:32:41.019 --> 00:32:42.039
 in a lot of

00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:43.180
 the types of

00:32:43.180 --> 00:32:43.619
 churches that

00:32:43.619 --> 00:32:44.079
 we would go

00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:44.420
 to.

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:45.879
 But it's

00:32:45.879 --> 00:32:46.319
 drawing on

00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:47.500
 spiritual powers.

00:32:47.819 --> 00:32:48.220
 It's a very

00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:49.079
 common thing in

00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:49.900
 the world that

00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:50.579
 you manipulate

00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:51.900
 energies around

00:32:51.900 --> 00:32:52.319
 people.

00:32:52.879 --> 00:32:53.559
 I went to an

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:54.400
 ultra-liberal

00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:56.759
 equivalent to

00:32:56.759 --> 00:32:57.319
 seminary.

00:32:57.819 --> 00:32:58.379
 I am not

00:32:58.379 --> 00:32:59.220
 making this up.

00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:00.259
 And I had to

00:33:00.259 --> 00:33:02.119
 go to a place

00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:02.819
 to learn how to

00:33:02.819 --> 00:33:03.980
 massage people's

00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:04.539
 auras.

00:33:05.059 --> 00:33:05.539
 Not making

00:33:05.539 --> 00:33:05.980
 this up.

00:33:06.900 --> 00:33:08.759
 And I was

00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:09.359
 to try to

00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:10.119
 sense the

00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:10.879
 colors and

00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:11.740
 auras around

00:33:11.740 --> 00:33:11.920
 them.

00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:12.240
 And I was

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:12.820
 to move my

00:33:12.820 --> 00:33:13.560
 hands around

00:33:13.560 --> 00:33:14.460
 their body in

00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:15.280
 such a way that

00:33:15.280 --> 00:33:15.880
 it helped to

00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:16.900
 rebalance the

00:33:16.900 --> 00:33:18.320
 auras so

00:33:18.320 --> 00:33:18.640
 they had no

00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:19.020
 wholeness.

00:33:19.120 --> 00:33:19.480
 I am not

00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:20.160
 making this up.

00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:20.740
 Liberal

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:21.320
 seminary.

00:33:21.560 --> 00:33:21.980
 Catholic

00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:22.840
 seminary.

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:24.700
 The same

00:33:24.700 --> 00:33:25.480
 seminary.

00:33:25.700 --> 00:33:26.580
 I almost got

00:33:26.580 --> 00:33:27.140
 fired.

00:33:27.320 --> 00:33:27.880
 Not fired.

00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:31.600
 We were

00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:33.340
 told to go

00:33:33.340 --> 00:33:33.720
 into deep

00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:34.180
 states of

00:33:34.180 --> 00:33:34.780
 relaxation,

00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:36.100
 get in touch

00:33:36.100 --> 00:33:36.760
 with animal

00:33:36.760 --> 00:33:37.460
 guides from

00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:38.240
 our subconscious

00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:38.900
 to help us

00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:39.519
 to guide us

00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:39.819
 to a

00:33:39.819 --> 00:33:40.180
 collective

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:40.519
 and kind.

00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:40.720
 I am not

00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:41.059
 making this

00:33:41.059 --> 00:33:41.220
 up.

00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:42.059
 It goes on

00:33:42.059 --> 00:33:42.400
 in certain

00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:42.839
 churches.

00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:44.319
 But there is

00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:45.299
 evangelical and

00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:45.960
 charismatic and

00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:47.400
 Catholic equivalents

00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:48.019
 to all of these

00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:48.920
 types of things.

00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:49.960
 How many

00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:50.980
 charismatic and

00:33:50.980 --> 00:33:52.059
 evangelical books

00:33:52.059 --> 00:33:53.180
 value somebody

00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:53.599
 who has had a

00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:54.200
 vision of heaven

00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:54.680
 as if they

00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:55.460
 somehow have a

00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:55.920
 better way to

00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:56.500
 speak into the

00:33:56.500 --> 00:33:57.099
 Christian life than

00:33:57.099 --> 00:33:57.640
 other people?

00:33:57.880 --> 00:33:58.319
 It is because

00:33:58.319 --> 00:33:58.720
 they have had a

00:33:58.720 --> 00:33:58.980
 vision.

00:34:00.120 --> 00:34:00.559
 Well the Bible

00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:01.180
 just says here,

00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:02.380
 look what it

00:34:02.380 --> 00:34:03.579
 says about it.

00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:04.819
 Look what it

00:34:04.819 --> 00:34:05.059
 says.

00:34:05.259 --> 00:34:05.799
 Verse 18,

00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:06.359
 let no one

00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:07.440
 disqualify you

00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:08.820
 or judge you

00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:09.519
 or condemn you,

00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:10.079
 insisting on

00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:10.920
 asceticism and

00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:11.519
 the worship of

00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:12.159
 angels, like

00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.320
 getting in touch

00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:13.920
 with spiritual

00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:14.400
 powers,

00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.579
 entering into

00:34:15.579 --> 00:34:16.519
 all the details

00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:16.900
 of their

00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:17.420
 visions.

00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:18.579
 What does it

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:18.759
 say?

00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:19.880
 They are puffed

00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:20.980
 up without

00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:22.579
 reason by

00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:23.119
 their fallen

00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:23.739
 mind.

00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:26.559
 They are

00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:27.159
 actually just

00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:27.759
 puffed up with

00:34:27.759 --> 00:34:28.079
 pride.

00:34:28.259 --> 00:34:29.300
 We are just

00:34:29.300 --> 00:34:29.960
 puffed up with

00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:30.519
 pride, not

00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:31.579
 them, we are,

00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:33.300
 and not holding

00:34:33.300 --> 00:34:33.980
 fast to the

00:34:33.980 --> 00:34:34.679
 head from whom

00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:35.460
 the whole body

00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:36.099
 nourished and

00:34:36.099 --> 00:34:36.599
 knit together

00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:37.099
 through its

00:34:37.099 --> 00:34:37.579
 joints and

00:34:37.579 --> 00:34:38.340
 ligaments grows

00:34:38.340 --> 00:34:38.980
 with a growth

00:34:38.980 --> 00:34:39.780
 that is from

00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:40.099
 God.

00:34:40.980 --> 00:34:41.720
 We are saved

00:34:41.720 --> 00:34:42.699
 by God, we

00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:43.440
 grow by God.

00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:46.539
 Nothing in

00:34:46.539 --> 00:34:47.220
 my hands I

00:34:47.220 --> 00:34:47.960
 bring simply

00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:48.740
 to the cross

00:34:48.740 --> 00:34:49.860
 I cling to

00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:50.420
 be saved.

00:34:50.699 --> 00:34:51.179
 Nothing in

00:34:51.179 --> 00:34:51.720
 my hands I

00:34:51.720 --> 00:34:52.300
 bring simply

00:34:52.300 --> 00:34:52.800
 to the cross

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:53.400
 I cling to

00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:53.619
 grow.

00:34:57.380 --> 00:34:58.059
 So verse

00:34:58.059 --> 00:34:58.880
 20, if with

00:34:58.880 --> 00:34:59.480
 Christ you

00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:00.079
 died to the

00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.000
 elemental spirits

00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:01.699
 of the world,

00:35:02.220 --> 00:35:03.039
 why as if you

00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:03.900
 were still alive

00:35:03.900 --> 00:35:04.420
 in the world,

00:35:04.500 --> 00:35:04.900
 in other words,

00:35:04.900 --> 00:35:05.639
 or why as if

00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:06.840
 you let the

00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:08.340
 world set the

00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:09.639
 agenda, verse

00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:11.059
 20, do you

00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:11.559
 submit to

00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:12.160
 regulations?

00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:13.840
 That word

00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:14.820
 regulations is

00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:15.460
 the same there,

00:35:15.780 --> 00:35:16.400
 the word that

00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:17.099
 was there before

00:35:17.099 --> 00:35:18.099
 translated in a

00:35:18.099 --> 00:35:18.860
 different way in

00:35:18.860 --> 00:35:23.380
 verse 13,

00:35:23.579 --> 00:35:24.340
 basically the

00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:25.280
 same ideas as

00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:25.579
 the word

00:35:25.579 --> 00:35:26.900
 translated earlier

00:35:26.900 --> 00:35:27.559
 with legal

00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:28.340
 demands in the

00:35:28.340 --> 00:35:28.860
 English Standard

00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:29.380
 Version in

00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:30.079
 verse 14.

00:35:30.740 --> 00:35:31.360
 So all these

00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.240
 regulations that

00:35:32.240 --> 00:35:32.639
 come from the

00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:32.820
 world.

00:35:32.820 --> 00:35:34.500
 So if in

00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:34.980
 fact when you

00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:35.820
 put, you're

00:35:35.820 --> 00:35:36.600
 in Christ and

00:35:36.600 --> 00:35:38.800
 his death is

00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:40.740
 your death and

00:35:40.740 --> 00:35:41.400
 his resurrection

00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:41.820
 is your

00:35:41.820 --> 00:35:42.539
 resurrection and

00:35:42.539 --> 00:35:43.200
 you're in him

00:35:43.200 --> 00:35:44.260
 and he fills

00:35:44.260 --> 00:35:45.780
 you, if this is

00:35:45.780 --> 00:35:46.320
 the fundamental

00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:48.320
 truth, and

00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:50.580
 because on one

00:35:50.580 --> 00:35:51.519
 hand it's already

00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:52.240
 true that he

00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:53.180
 completely fills you

00:35:53.180 --> 00:35:54.120
 but it's also the

00:35:54.120 --> 00:35:54.900
 not yet, you

00:35:54.900 --> 00:35:55.600
 don't live, I

00:35:55.600 --> 00:35:56.340
 don't live in this

00:35:56.340 --> 00:35:58.140
 world as if I've

00:35:58.140 --> 00:35:59.140
 never fallen and

00:35:59.140 --> 00:36:00.480
 I don't have a

00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.219
 sinful nature, it's

00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:03.139
 already true but

00:36:03.139 --> 00:36:04.099
 it's not yet fully

00:36:04.099 --> 00:36:04.820
 true, it will only

00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:06.300
 be fully true in

00:36:06.300 --> 00:36:06.880
 the new heaven and

00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:07.559
 the new earth, it

00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:08.260
 will only be fully

00:36:08.260 --> 00:36:08.920
 true when I see

00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:10.179
 Jesus face to face

00:36:10.179 --> 00:36:11.940
 that all that sin

00:36:11.940 --> 00:36:12.539
 will be burned

00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:13.480
 away but right now

00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:14.740
 I live in a world

00:36:14.740 --> 00:36:15.760
 and I still have

00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:16.559
 these things and I

00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:17.380
 have to deal with

00:36:17.380 --> 00:36:18.139
 them in Christ

00:36:18.139 --> 00:36:20.780
 but if it's true

00:36:20.780 --> 00:36:21.679
 that I've died then

00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.039
 why do I live as

00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:24.240
 if the world is

00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:24.980
 setting the agenda?

00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:26.559
 That's what it

00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:27.519
 means, do not

00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:28.260
 handle, do not

00:36:28.260 --> 00:36:28.900
 taste, do not

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:30.639
 touch, verse 21

00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:31.599
 referring to

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.400
 things that all

00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:33.300
 perish as they

00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:34.360
 are used according

00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:35.740
 to human precepts

00:36:35.740 --> 00:36:36.320
 and teachings

00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:37.440
 in other words

00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:38.519
 why is it do you

00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:39.000
 think that you

00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:39.800
 can prepare for

00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:41.160
 eternity by

00:36:41.160 --> 00:36:42.320
 manipulating that

00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:43.680
 which passes away

00:36:43.680 --> 00:36:45.360
 as you use it?

00:36:47.860 --> 00:36:48.980
 Why do you think

00:36:48.980 --> 00:36:49.820
 that will fit you

00:36:49.820 --> 00:36:52.039
 for heaven by

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.260
 manipulating things

00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:54.039
 that perish as

00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:54.619
 you use it?

00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:56.900
 And here's the

00:36:56.900 --> 00:36:58.300
 second big teaching

00:36:58.300 --> 00:36:59.120
 in the text.

00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:01.000
 It fits with the

00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:01.640
 first one about

00:37:01.640 --> 00:37:02.260
 all the growth

00:37:02.260 --> 00:37:02.900
 that comes from

00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:03.260
 God.

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:05.180
 These have an

00:37:05.180 --> 00:37:06.840
 indeed, these have

00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:07.820
 indeed an appearance

00:37:07.820 --> 00:37:09.539
 of wisdom in

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:11.380
 promoting self-made

00:37:11.380 --> 00:37:13.180
 religion and

00:37:13.180 --> 00:37:14.500
 asceticism and

00:37:14.500 --> 00:37:15.280
 severity to the

00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:15.600
 body.

00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:17.300
 And what this

00:37:17.300 --> 00:37:18.060
 means is it

00:37:18.060 --> 00:37:19.660
 means these all

00:37:19.660 --> 00:37:20.500
 have the appearance

00:37:20.500 --> 00:37:21.480
 of wisdom because

00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:22.580
 they promote

00:37:22.580 --> 00:37:24.680
 strong devotion to

00:37:24.680 --> 00:37:26.300
 religious rules and

00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:27.180
 religions that you've

00:37:27.179 --> 00:37:28.159
 made up for yourself.

00:37:28.579 --> 00:37:29.699
 But it emphasizes

00:37:29.699 --> 00:37:30.779
 strong devotion.

00:37:31.859 --> 00:37:33.019
 And these all have

00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:34.119
 an appearance of

00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.239
 wisdom in promoting

00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:37.399
 asceticism.

00:37:37.500 --> 00:37:38.239
 In other words,

00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:40.199
 pious self-denial.

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.419
 And they all have

00:37:43.419 --> 00:37:44.359
 an appearance of

00:37:44.359 --> 00:37:45.419
 wisdom because they

00:37:45.419 --> 00:37:47.219
 seem to show a

00:37:47.219 --> 00:37:48.219
 severity to the body

00:37:48.219 --> 00:37:49.579
 or a severe body

00:37:49.579 --> 00:37:50.139
 discipline.

00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:52.019
 Like great mind

00:37:52.019 --> 00:37:52.819
 over matter.

00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:54.720
 great emotional

00:37:54.720 --> 00:37:56.760
 control and

00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:57.860
 willpower and

00:37:57.860 --> 00:37:58.860
 mental abilities.

00:37:58.860 --> 00:38:00.220
 And it all seems to

00:38:00.220 --> 00:38:01.400
 show these types of

00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:01.660
 things.

00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:02.900
 The power of my

00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:03.200
 mind.

00:38:03.300 --> 00:38:04.160
 The power of my

00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:04.480
 will.

00:38:04.620 --> 00:38:06.039
 The discipline of my

00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:06.539
 emotions.

00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:07.720
 The discipline of my

00:38:07.720 --> 00:38:08.539
 imaginations.

00:38:08.700 --> 00:38:09.580
 All of these things

00:38:09.580 --> 00:38:10.720
 that come from me.

00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:11.660
 From me.

00:38:11.820 --> 00:38:12.539
 From me.

00:38:12.660 --> 00:38:13.500
 And I can learn

00:38:13.500 --> 00:38:14.500
 techniques to how to

00:38:14.500 --> 00:38:15.539
 control my breathing.

00:38:15.660 --> 00:38:16.380
 To control my

00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:16.840
 feelings.

00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:17.680
 And control my

00:38:17.680 --> 00:38:18.120
 emotions.

00:38:18.300 --> 00:38:18.900
 And I can learn

00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:20.519
 exercises so that when

00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:21.179
 somebody says

00:38:21.179 --> 00:38:21.719
 something to me.

00:38:21.860 --> 00:38:23.719
 I can control how

00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:24.239
 I'm going to

00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:24.780
 respond.

00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:26.480
 And these can all

00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:27.900
 have religious guises

00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:29.780
 and religious forms.

00:38:29.940 --> 00:38:30.679
 But it's all about

00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:32.000
 my control of my

00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:32.360
 mind.

00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:33.739
 My control of my

00:38:33.739 --> 00:38:34.119
 mind.

00:38:34.259 --> 00:38:35.420
 My control of my

00:38:35.420 --> 00:38:35.719
 will.

00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:36.980
 My control of my

00:38:36.980 --> 00:38:37.280
 heart.

00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:38.900
 My control of my

00:38:38.900 --> 00:38:39.539
 emotions.

00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:42.780
 And then what does

00:38:42.780 --> 00:38:43.579
 the Bible say?

00:38:45.780 --> 00:38:46.800
 The end of verse

00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:47.340
 23.

00:38:47.820 --> 00:38:49.380
 They are of no

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:51.619
 value in stopping

00:38:51.619 --> 00:38:53.300
 the indulgence

00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:54.579
 of the flesh.

00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:58.500
 They are of no

00:38:58.500 --> 00:39:00.260
 value in stopping

00:39:00.260 --> 00:39:02.880
 the indulgence of

00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:03.880
 our sinful nature.

00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:08.500
 They don't stop my

00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:09.019
 pride.

00:39:10.260 --> 00:39:11.599
 They don't stop my

00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:12.000
 anger.

00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:14.160
 They don't stop my

00:39:14.160 --> 00:39:14.500
 envy.

00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:17.380
 They don't stop my

00:39:17.380 --> 00:39:18.059
 sloth.

00:39:18.059 --> 00:39:19.360
 or sloth.

00:39:20.299 --> 00:39:21.420
 Which is indifference

00:39:21.420 --> 00:39:22.159
 to things which

00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:23.719
 should be important.

00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:26.279
 They don't

00:39:26.279 --> 00:39:27.539
 necessarily stop my

00:39:27.539 --> 00:39:28.099
 gluttony.

00:39:28.799 --> 00:39:29.779
 Which doesn't mean

00:39:29.779 --> 00:39:30.460
 overeating.

00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:31.860
 Overeating is part of

00:39:31.860 --> 00:39:32.279
 gluttony.

00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:33.139
 The other part of

00:39:33.139 --> 00:39:33.960
 gluttony is just

00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:34.759
 actually being too

00:39:34.759 --> 00:39:35.579
 concerned and too

00:39:35.579 --> 00:39:36.659
 picky about food.

00:39:36.659 --> 00:39:36.719
 food.

00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:41.440
 In other words,

00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:43.719
 yeah, it doesn't

00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:44.500
 necessarily stop my

00:39:44.500 --> 00:39:44.859
 lust.

00:39:46.299 --> 00:39:46.960
 But it has the

00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:47.799
 appearance as if it

00:39:47.799 --> 00:39:48.559
 will do all of those

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:49.420
 types of things.

00:39:50.699 --> 00:39:51.500
 I mean, we just keep

00:39:51.500 --> 00:39:52.579
 being rocked by scandal

00:39:52.579 --> 00:39:53.779
 after scandal in the

00:39:53.779 --> 00:39:54.500
 Christian world.

00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:55.500
 And not only in the

00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:56.279
 Christian world, but you

00:39:56.279 --> 00:39:56.659
 can go into the

00:39:56.659 --> 00:39:57.379
 Buddhist world, the

00:39:57.379 --> 00:39:58.239
 Hindu world, you can

00:39:58.239 --> 00:39:58.920
 go into the secular

00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:01.199
 world, where people

00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:02.659
 who, I mean, Harvey

00:40:02.659 --> 00:40:05.799
 Weinstein, I mean, his

00:40:05.799 --> 00:40:06.920
 name's mud, but he

00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:07.679
 would eat with the

00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:08.319
 Clintons.

00:40:12.539 --> 00:40:13.359
 He would be a

00:40:13.359 --> 00:40:14.299
 favorite on CNN.

00:40:15.259 --> 00:40:16.940
 All the while, his

00:40:16.940 --> 00:40:18.259
 outward ability to

00:40:18.259 --> 00:40:19.179
 manage his appearance

00:40:19.179 --> 00:40:19.839
 and all of those

00:40:19.839 --> 00:40:21.000
 things, but inside he

00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:21.779
 was a cesspool.

00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:24.879
 It's a secular

00:40:24.879 --> 00:40:25.759
 problem, a spiritual

00:40:25.759 --> 00:40:26.639
 problem, a Christian

00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:27.159
 problem.

00:40:28.799 --> 00:40:29.779
 And yet there still

00:40:29.779 --> 00:40:30.699
 seems to be something

00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:31.619
 about it that it has

00:40:31.619 --> 00:40:32.619
 to be me growing

00:40:32.619 --> 00:40:34.940
 me, even though it's

00:40:34.940 --> 00:40:36.179
 not me that can save

00:40:36.179 --> 00:40:37.380
 me, only Christ can

00:40:37.380 --> 00:40:38.019
 save me.

00:40:39.539 --> 00:40:40.699
 And this is a Janus

00:40:40.699 --> 00:40:41.819
 text because on one

00:40:41.819 --> 00:40:42.819
 hand it's summarizing

00:40:42.819 --> 00:40:43.440
 the things that have

00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:44.460
 gone before in chapter

00:40:44.460 --> 00:40:45.400
 two, but it's also

00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:46.859
 now helping us to go

00:40:46.859 --> 00:40:48.559
 for a better way,

00:40:49.179 --> 00:40:50.099
 which is what chapter

00:40:50.099 --> 00:40:50.759
 three and the first

00:40:50.759 --> 00:40:51.599
 part of chapter four

00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:52.179
 is going to talk

00:40:52.179 --> 00:40:52.420
 about.

00:40:52.659 --> 00:40:53.579
 How is it that we

00:40:53.579 --> 00:40:54.599
 grow from the gospel?

00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:56.259
 How is it that we

00:40:56.259 --> 00:40:57.159
 grow from grace?

00:40:58.639 --> 00:40:59.739
 How is it that God

00:40:59.739 --> 00:41:00.440
 grows you?

00:41:01.500 --> 00:41:02.319
 What is it that we

00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:04.120
 have to do as God

00:41:04.120 --> 00:41:04.700
 grows you?

00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:06.860
 And God growing me

00:41:06.860 --> 00:41:07.400
 is going to also

00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:08.100
 mean I fail.

00:41:08.300 --> 00:41:09.160
 I screw up.

00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:10.500
 It's going to involve

00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:11.039
 humility.

00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:12.840
 God growing you is

00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:13.580
 going to be trying to

00:41:13.580 --> 00:41:15.680
 reorient your moral

00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:16.960
 compass so you can

00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:18.320
 take, yeah, it'd be

00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:19.180
 all right if I lost a

00:41:19.180 --> 00:41:20.180
 couple of pounds with

00:41:20.180 --> 00:41:20.800
 the right type of

00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:20.960
 thing.

00:41:21.019 --> 00:41:21.640
 That might be a good

00:41:21.640 --> 00:41:22.080
 type of thing.

00:41:22.120 --> 00:41:22.720
 It might be all right

00:41:22.720 --> 00:41:23.559
 for putting on a

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:24.220
 couple of pounds of

00:41:24.220 --> 00:41:25.019
 muscle or something like

00:41:25.019 --> 00:41:25.080
 that.

00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:26.019
 That's not a bad thing.

00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:27.480
 You know, it might be

00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:28.260
 good if I could have a

00:41:28.260 --> 00:41:28.880
 little bit of extra

00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:30.820
 money to be generous,

00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:31.840
 maybe to give to the

00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.180
 church or just to have

00:41:33.180 --> 00:41:33.900
 for a rainy day.

00:41:35.620 --> 00:41:36.559
 We need to have our

00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:37.900
 compass reset by

00:41:37.900 --> 00:41:39.680
 Christ, moral compass,

00:41:40.100 --> 00:41:40.800
 the moral way to

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:42.000
 understand our lives.

00:41:43.700 --> 00:41:44.840
 But the main thing is

00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:46.120
 the normal way that we

00:41:46.120 --> 00:41:46.780
 think about it in the

00:41:46.780 --> 00:41:47.700
 terms of the world, and

00:41:47.700 --> 00:41:48.900
 there's Christian

00:41:48.900 --> 00:41:50.019
 versions of all of it,

00:41:50.100 --> 00:41:51.740
 is listen again, they

00:41:51.740 --> 00:41:53.900
 are of no value in

00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:56.620
 stopping the indulgence of

00:41:56.619 --> 00:41:57.819
 the flesh.

00:41:59.359 --> 00:42:03.059
 We need Christ, the

00:42:03.059 --> 00:42:04.880
 hope of glory, and we

00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:06.619
 need to be drawn by

00:42:06.619 --> 00:42:08.480
 hope, the hope of glory,

00:42:08.839 --> 00:42:10.420
 and we need to be

00:42:10.420 --> 00:42:12.059
 assured of the hope of

00:42:12.059 --> 00:42:13.559
 glory, and we need each

00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:15.019
 other to do it, which is

00:42:15.019 --> 00:42:16.139
 why small groups are

00:42:16.139 --> 00:42:17.799
 important, spiritual

00:42:17.799 --> 00:42:19.400
 friendships, why

00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:21.579
 worshiping together is

00:42:21.579 --> 00:42:21.980
 important.

00:42:22.839 --> 00:42:23.619
 Let's bow our heads,

00:42:23.699 --> 00:42:24.920
 let's stand please, and

00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:25.639
 let's bow our heads in

00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:25.880
 prayer.

00:42:26.619 --> 00:42:36.699
 Father, we, um,

00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:41.659
 Father, I, I know how

00:42:41.659 --> 00:42:43.639
 powerful it is in my

00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:44.900
 own life that I can see

00:42:44.900 --> 00:42:46.219
 specks really well in

00:42:46.219 --> 00:42:47.599
 other people's eyes, all

00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:48.839
 the while having a huge

00:42:48.839 --> 00:42:50.739
 log stuck in my eye that

00:42:50.739 --> 00:42:51.639
 I don't even notice.

00:42:52.460 --> 00:42:54.000
 And I know how easy it

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:55.099
 is for me to see other

00:42:55.099 --> 00:42:56.599
 people bowing down to

00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:59.199
 regulations and self-control

00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:01.699
 and willpower and mind

00:43:01.699 --> 00:43:03.199
 power and emotional

00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:04.199
 power and all these

00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:05.159
 things, and I, I can,

00:43:05.420 --> 00:43:06.460
 Father, get really bent

00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:08.139
 out of shape and anger or

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:10.059
 envy over these things

00:43:10.059 --> 00:43:10.900
 without even realizing

00:43:10.900 --> 00:43:11.579
 that I'm doing it.

00:43:11.619 --> 00:43:12.619
 I, I'm just really better

00:43:12.619 --> 00:43:13.839
 at condemning others than

00:43:13.839 --> 00:43:15.259
 seeing my own sin.

00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:16.759
 Father, we thank you so

00:43:16.759 --> 00:43:17.679
 much for your word.

00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:19.679
 We ask, Father, that you

00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:20.819
 would make the gospel real

00:43:20.819 --> 00:43:23.139
 to our hearts, and that as

00:43:23.139 --> 00:43:24.420
 it is made more and more

00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:26.039
 real to us that when we

00:43:26.039 --> 00:43:27.279
 put our faith and trust in

00:43:27.279 --> 00:43:29.980
 Jesus, we are in him, and he

00:43:29.980 --> 00:43:31.000
 is in us.

00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:32.319
 All of the fullness of

00:43:32.319 --> 00:43:35.179
 deity now dwells in us, not

00:43:35.179 --> 00:43:36.940
 that we are divine, but that he

00:43:36.940 --> 00:43:38.179
 dwells in us.

00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:42.879
 And that every true moral

00:43:42.879 --> 00:43:44.319
 wrong and every human

00:43:44.319 --> 00:43:46.440
 regulation against us, those

00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:47.579
 are all nailed to the cross.

00:43:47.739 --> 00:43:49.480
 Father, make that real to us

00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:50.880
 grace, and that we are

00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:51.940
 so that we can repent of

00:43:51.940 --> 00:43:53.500
 our sins and learn those

00:43:53.500 --> 00:43:55.920
 postures that make us open

00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:58.840
 to grace, grace changing

00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:01.420
 and transforming us in every

00:44:01.420 --> 00:44:03.000
 aspect of who we are, that

00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:05.480
 all that is within us will one

00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:07.920
 day bless your holy name in a

00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:09.679
 way that is truly good for us,

00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:11.639
 that brings you glory, and is

00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:13.480
 truly good for those around us

00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:14.380
 and for our city.

00:44:14.659 --> 00:44:16.079
 And we ask all these things in

00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:17.380
 the name of Jesus, your Son,

00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:18.340
 and our Savior.

00:44:19.019 --> 00:44:19.360
 Amen.

00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:19.579
 Amen.