194: Luke Jurevicius – Harnessing Doubt For A Stronger Believer

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Welcome to the good
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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is a class that

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was sent in by a recommendation
by Brother Luke gervase has,

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which was given at the Hebron
young people’s gathering in

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Adelaide last.
October.

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I believe there are few other
classes by other speakers, but

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brother Luke gave to on the
theme harnessing doubt for a

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stronger believer.
And it’s the second class that

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we’re listening to now will
provide the length of the first

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class as well as all the Heparin
classes in the description

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below.
So the second class did not

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appear to have its own title.
So I might unofficially call it.

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Do you know your father?
Brother Luke opens reflecting on

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his own, very touching
relationship with his father

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brother.
Vit, gervase has who we also

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have some classes coming down
the pipeline for in the coming

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weeks.
But whether Luke brings up how

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critical the relationship of
Jesus to his father, is to the

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entire message of the gospel and
how the faith and confidence

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that we share as fellows.
Lauren and heirs can be muddied

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or broken if we allow our doubts
about God to cause us to

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overlook or forget who he really
is.

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And that, that is that he is a
rewarder of those who diligently

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seek him.
I found it very touching class

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for the sobering, reminder of
how hard it may be.

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For some who have not had
positive relationships with

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their human.
Father growing up.

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To then be asked to imagine how
good of a father God intends to

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be when perhaps in their own
life.

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They might not have had that as
a healthy reference point.

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The role of a father being a
role model for his children is a

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game-changer.
I see the adverse effects of

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that on a daily basis.
Being a teacher in the public

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school system here in America.
And I compare that to the

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Mountain Moving display of love
that my own dad showed me, that

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was a critical role in Faith
growing up.

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So I really hope that you enjoy
this doll for reminder by

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Brother Luke of how important it
is.

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And the process of maintaining
our faith to cleat to keep a

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clear concept of who our father
is and why he wants to reward

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us.
As always, we hope to

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day for Luke.

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Gervase has harnessing doubt for
a stronger believer.

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Hey, sorry that was a very
casual beginning.

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I just noticed change.
Do I like change?

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No, I anyway I’ve been handed a
blue card, which says finish at

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1:15 sharp.
So I’ll get straight to it.

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I took the hint.
So I’ve been very fortunate, I

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think to be able to speak about
the theme of Doubt, which we’re

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talking about sort of this
morning at a number of other

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different meetings around
Australia and also into

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Victoria, which is also a part
of Australia.

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When you when you read back your
notes you realize it only at the

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worst moments of what you’ve
just written but one thing.

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That struck me.
When I was visiting different

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occasions is the fact that not
every single person not everyone

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has experienced.
What it’s like to have a decent

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loving caring, father.
Like a caring dad and you might

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ask the question.
Well, that’s it.

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That’s a bit of an odd way to
start your talk.

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Luke.
Where’s this coming from?

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That’s a good question because
you see Jesus has a lot of

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things doesn’t need to say about
dads and he uses Earthly dad’s

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Earthly fathers by way of a
comparison and by way of a

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contrast to A straight and a
firm a very, very wonderful fact

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or wonderful facts about our
heavenly father.

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You see Jesus in Matthew 7 says
this, he says in verse 9, what

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man?
Is there among you who, if his

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son shall ask him for bread,
will offer him a stone?

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Verse 10.
Or if the son shall ask him for

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a fish.
Will he offer him a snake?

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And so, let’s just just pause
there for, just, just, for a

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bit.
Jesus.

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He knew this, and you knew this
better than anyone that there

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are and there will be Earth.
Lead ads, Earthly fathers, who

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sadly and tragically offer
Stones instead of bread who give

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their kids metaphorical snakes
instead of And these types of

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parents exist in the world,
don’t they abusive dad’s?

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But Jesus is not making a
comparison here specifically to

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a reprehensible dad.
He’s talking about your everyday

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father, who emits the stresses
of Life, the stresses and

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strains of life.
And in the toil of the day,

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still is willing and still is
wanting to give their own

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children’s gifts, or presence as
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see, I’ve had various brothers
and sisters, a lot of them who

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are elderly actually who come up
to me in when giving these talks

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and said, Luke, I’ve had a
terrible dad and I’m like, wow.

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Okay, they’ve said I’ve had a
violent Dad.

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I’ve had an abusive Dad or I
never knew my dad because he was

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absolutely just wasn’t there or
he left us.

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When I was a little kid.
Like I’ve heard stories like

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this really heartbreaking and
and obviously my heart and I’m

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sure your hearts would melt for
anyone who has ever felt like

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they’ve been in a situation like
that with a parent.

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But Jesus goes on to say in
verse 11, it goes.

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So if you dads who are evil know
how to give good gifts to your

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children.
How much more will your father

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in heaven?
Give good things to those who

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ask him.
In Weymouth translation that

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uses a substitute for the word
evil, which might be more

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helpful that says if you then
imperfect imperfect as you are

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know how to give good gifts to
your children.

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How much more will your father
in Heaven?

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Good, give good things to those
who ask him.

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Well, you know what?
It’s actually a really good

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question that Jesus asked, isn’t
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It’s a good question.
I mean.

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How much more will God give Good
gifts to ask you ask.

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It’s a really good question.
I mean, how can we possibly

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quantify?
How much more I mean?

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What do you think?
What do you think?

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How much more do you think 10
times more 100 times more a

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thousand times more.
Can you actually quantify know?

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It must be infinitely more since
God is eternal.

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You see, this is what I find
hard to comprehend.

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And this is where it gets a bit
personal.

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See might get bit choked up.
You know, I might let’s see

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because I actually count myself
as extremely, extremely blessed.

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I’m extremely fortunate to have
a dad who seriously loves me and

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probably some of you have been
to Heritage.

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You probably know my dad, Uncle
Vito of it.

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And he’s a kind of dad that
would just drop everything to

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help me or us kids for whatever
we wanted anything at all.

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Any time of the day, wouldn’t
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Whether it was emotional
support, whether it was

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financial support, whether it
was spiritual support, physical.

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I know for a fact that Dad would
be there for any of us kids.

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If we are so, any time and he
knows this too, that I would be

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there for him at anytime to if
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Type of relationship that we
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And so what’s difficult for me
to imagine is how any other

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father, could do better than my
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And yet, here in this passage.
Jesus is telling me this.

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And this is something that I’m
hoping that you’ll listen to

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really intently.
I’m paraphrasing this, but it’s

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kind of like this Luke.
Jesus says, to me, when I read

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this passage.
Yeah, I know about your father

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of it and and it’s commendable
on his part.

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But you see vit your Earthly,
father who you love.

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He’s evil.
His imperfect as weymouth’s, is

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it.
In fact, actually, I’m sorry to

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tell you this but your father
who you love is just a

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flickering shadow of your good
father who dwells in heaven and

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Luke.
I desperately want you to know

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this and for all those who are
listening hear this message

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right now.
I want them to know this too.

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That even the best human.
Father is just a flickering

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shadow of Our Father in heaven.
So Jesus speaks to me when I

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read these passages and he asked
me, Luke.

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Do you believe this?
Do you believe this to be

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possible?
What about you younger people

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here?
Like do you believe that?

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Do you have a good?
Father?

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Good, but good mum, good dad.
They’re just flickering Shadows

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of how good God is.
How much more?

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How much more will your father
in heaven?

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Give good things to those who
ask him.

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The answer has to be infinitely
more.

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It’s the same message in Psalm
103 verses 13 and 14, which says

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as a father shows compassion on
his children.

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So the Lord shows compassion to
those who fear to those, who

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Revere him.
Why?

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Because he knows our frame.
He knows that he knows it.

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He pities us and he has
compassion on us.

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He remembers that we are dust.
That’s why.

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He remembers that we dust see.
God knows our fragility, doesn’t

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he?
He knows how fragile we are.

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He knows our fragility.
He knows our failings.

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In fact, God knows all the ins
and outs about how we tick.

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Doesn’t he?
He made us after all, he knows

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us better than we know
ourselves.

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He knows what’s going on.
Inside my heart.

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He knows what’s going on inside
your heart.

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Arts, he knows what we think.
And so it’s clear in Scripture

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that God wants us to see him in
the same way that we see

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ourselves as parents to our own
children in perfect as we are.

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And so, Jesus, draws the
comparison and contrast to us

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Earthly parents.
I’m talking about myself as an

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Earthly parent, who actually
know how to share and show care

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and compassion, patience,
kindness and gentle, correct.

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And also to our kids who we feed
and clothe, and dedicate Our

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Lives to on a daily basis.
Except for this one, key fact

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that God’s good gifts and his
care for us is just way, way

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more than we can ever fully
comprehend, because he’s God and

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is not man.
And so one of the key ways that

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we can exercise our faith and
bring glory and bring joy to God

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is to just fully accept to fully
accept this.

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Great fact about God, and to
believe that our father in

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Heaven cares for us, far beyond
the care, and love that, the

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perfect greatest possible.
Human parent has ever walked the

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Earth.
This in itself.

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This simple fact gives us every
reason to dispel our doubts and

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confidently.
Hope in him.

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Now, I could probably just sit
down and just finish the talk

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there and you guys could play
sports to whoever you want to

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do, except.
I’m not quite at 1:15.

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So I’ll keep going it, just that
because you see Jesus.

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He’s got a lot more to say about
the reality.

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Of God as our true father,
especially when he was

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combating, the sort of hypocrisy
and the authority of the scribes

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and of the Pharisees.
And so he says in Matthew 23

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verse 8.
He says these words, he goes,

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you might have been curious
about this.

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He goes, you are not to be
called rabbi.

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For you have one teacher and
you’re all brothers.

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And then he says, in verse 9 of
Matthew 23 and call no man, your

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father on Earth for you, have
one father who is in heaven, and

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he says, neither be called
instructors or guides or

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Masters, or I’ve been to India
before and they call their

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guides gurus because you’ve got
only one instructor or Master

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the Christ and then he says
therefore the greatest among you

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shall be your servant and that’s
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And so Jesus was very very
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He was very concerned that the
teachers of the day that there

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was a culture where they were
using the title of father as a

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term of power and is a term of
authority, especially in regard

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to their religion and their
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But they needed to understand
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be as little children before God
their father in Heaven, but the

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problem was, is that they were
not seeing themselves as little

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children, though.
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father or Rabbi or master or
Guru, if you liked it as a power

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play.
So, Jesus says know your place.

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Verse 11.
He says the greatest among you

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shall be your servant.
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Don’t you think that maybe in
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You’re probably thinking.
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This seems to clash with what
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There are some Churches made
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Church is a good example.
They refer to their regular

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priests don’t they as father
bless me?

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Father for I have sinned.
So the term father is used in

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this particular context in in
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Pope is derived from the Greek
word purpose, meaning father or

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Papa.
And and so we see even today

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that this church practice of
calling just normal religious

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men.
Father is just a carry-on or a

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legacy of Ferris, a good
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Interesting.
Don’t you think?

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Call, no man, your father on
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Father who is in heaven and
Jesus understood it and he

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exalted God’s fatherly presence
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Didn’t he?
Especially in his hour of great

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distress and need.
And when was that?

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When was that key?
Our of great distress and need.

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Well, we remember when Jesus was
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don’t we remember that when he
pray to God?

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And what did he say in great,
anguish and Industry?

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Is he cried out to God in prayer
and he used the words, our bar

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father?
And you won’t Epi means does

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anyone know?
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It means daddy or Papa.
That’s what it means.

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And, and when Jesus was in
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distress in the garden, before
his crucifixion, he cried those

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words, Papa Daddy.
Our Bure.

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Father, Papa Daddy.
All things are possible for you

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to take this cup from me.
Please yet.

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Not as I will, but as you will,
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understand the intimacy by which
we too can actually cry to Our

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Father in Heaven, you know, the
relationship of a very little

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child to his.
Daddy is an extremely important

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one and I think our here we go.
Hey, I’m fine.

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Are you fine?
I’m fine.

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I think about my own kids when
they call me daddy, like Like,

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one day, God willing, you might
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And when you have that moment
where they call you Daddy,

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right?
It’s the most heartwarming and

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the most beautiful thing ever to
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The intimacy of that
relationship is like happy.

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It’s like it’s so it’s like
honestly it’s like Yeah.

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And there isn’t a single thing
that we as parents wouldn’t do

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for our own children, even
though we’re imperfect, even

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though we’re evil you.
See now.

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Do you remember back in Matthew
chapter 18, this incident when

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the disciples were rebuking,
remember this when they were

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rebuking and there are Banning
parents from getting their kids

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and their babies blessed by
Jesus.

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You remember that dream of that
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Well, if you don’t that’s what
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They were mums.
Probably mostly and probably

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parents dads that were just
wanting their, their babies that

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they’re little kids their
children to be blessed by Jesus

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that they could just get there
and just put their child on the

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lap of Christ, then they would
get a blessing.

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And, and they, and what was
happening, is that the disciples

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here.
We’re just going.

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No, I’m sorry.
Not important.

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Give the Lord some space and,
and, and they were probably

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infected by the culture of the
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There are probably infected by
the culture of the Pharisees of

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the leaders, that would be
putting up walls and for

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preventing people from getting
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with God.
Through what they Just and so

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many, many moms in particular.
We might think we’re desperate

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to have their children blessed
by Jesus in a blessed may be so

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that they could be strong in
good health, maybe their

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children need some healing or
maybe a blessing that they might

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just grow to be wise or perhaps
just to give their child that

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precious moment to just remember
for the rest of that their lives

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that they were there.
They were Were there physically

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with the Lord that they would be
able to just remember that and

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that they were blessed by Jesus
Christ himself, but because of

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this cultural example of the
Pharisees that disciples had

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been influenced by it and there
are forbidding the children from

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the presence of Jesus as if to
say, no, no, no, Jesus got

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better things to do with his
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It was a type of attitude that
said that kids should just be

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seen but not heard and back
then, in society kids took

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probably the lowest position in
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Well, in marks record, Jesus
says that he was indignant

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towards his disciples when he
saw that was going on.

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Indignant means that he was much
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He was angry.
He was incensed.

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And you don’t often hear it
about gzi.

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Often hear that Jesus was
incensed or that he was

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indignant.
You only read it a few times in

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the Bible, but he was super
grieved by this.

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And so, in this case, it was
because the little children were

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being barred from his presence.
And I have to tell you, I find

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this extremely comforting, don’t
you?

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I think it’s really, really
comforting, and I think it plays

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into our confidence in in Jesus
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in our heavenly father.
I’ll tell you why.

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Because, because it’s so
comforting to to see Jesus as a

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protective parent as the
representative of his father in

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Heaven here on Earth,
representing all the things that

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his father stood for rising up
like this protective Big Brother

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Bear heaping.
Indignation, and anger on

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anyone.
Even his friends who would dare

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prevent little kids from being
in his presence for a blessing.

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It’s a beautiful thing.
Don’t you love it to see this

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kind of passion and protection
towards The little ones towards

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the young people towards you
that are here in the room.

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And in another place, Jesus
actually calls his child brings

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her child over.
I think about maybe my own

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child, Charlie maybe drags
Charlie over and puts her in

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there in the midst of all of his
disciples and he says truly I

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say unto you unless you turn and
become like children, you will

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never ever enter the kingdom of
heaven.

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And a few verses later.
It says see that you do not

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despise.
One of these little ones.

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For I tell you that they’re in
heaven, their Angels, always see

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the face of my father.
Who is in heaven.

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So what do you think?
Jesus thought about little kids

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about young people?
I think we have had the case

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made very clearly put before
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See just because you are young.
Do not ever make the mistake of

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thinking that you have no value
in the eyes of God, and his son,

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Jesus, you do.
You’ve seen the evidence of just

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presented it for you.
Jesus gave kids even babies and

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infants or infants, the time of
the day and in heaven.

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Jesus says that your angels see
and behold the face of God every

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day.
Pretty nice, huh?

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Pretty special as these are
pretty affirming things.

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But at the end of the day, Jesus
really only sees only one true

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father and even though we’ve got
natural mothers and fathers who

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we love, who we are told to also
respect and Obey.

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They really only is one who has
the right to possess that title

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of father and that was his
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And so Jesus wants us to also
respond to his father and our

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father, our heavenly father and
believe in him and believe him,

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like little kids who trust who
believe the words of their own

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parents with wide-eyed under
under with wide-eyed, wonder and

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or, you know, I’ve told my my
kids so many furphy stories.

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I can’t even begin to describe
how A, I’ve told and they just

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like, really and I’m like, mmm.
They believe, don’t they which

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is why we need to be more
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Hmm. you know, one of the
things, I feared, the most of

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all as a kid, and I don’t know,
you probably got all your old,

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probably got your own story
about things that you feared as

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a kid, but And this is serious.
The thing that I feared the most

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was dinner time.
Because I was terrified that my

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mum would put on the plate.
Baked peas, peas.

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Yes, those little green devils
and my mum went through a phase

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where she would buy only the
minted peas.

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Of course, my pet hates were
mint and peas.

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So just to even the idea of just
putting toothpaste on a pay, is

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just a horrendous.
It’s It’s I mean, who does that?

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Only a torturer would do such
things?

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But here’s the thing over time.
Not the mint, but the peas?

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Yes.
Over time.

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I developed this taste for pays.
I thought.

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No, this is impossible.
I would never ever would eat a

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pee, but I am telling you now.
I love pays like mashed pays

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cook pays piece at paying ham
soup.

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You name it.
It actually at one stage, I even

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wanted to name our first child
p.

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Juliet wasn’t impressed.
We went with Charlie instead.

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Anyway, why tell you such a deep
story like that, Psalm 34 Verse

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8, says taste and see that the
Lord is good blessed or happy is

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the one who takes refuge in him.
Happy is the one who hopes who

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seeks protection who takes
shelter under the shadow of his

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wings.
Psalm 34 Verse 8, beautiful

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taste and see that the Lord is
good, you know, all of Psalm 34

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is an incredible chapter worth
reading through, but this

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passage is a pillar passage.
It’s a pillar passage of hope

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that we can hold onto when life,
seems too hard.

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It’s one of those quotes that
needs to be printed on a squishy

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plaque.
You see.

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And it’s really a call.
Isn’t it to sample God to

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sample?
God?

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It’s actually using words that
are associated with our lusts.

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And if you knew that see Eve saw
that the fruit was good and that

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it was good to The Taste and her
eyes were opened.

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But in this case, we are invited
to taste God and your eyes will

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be opened to his Supreme
compassion and goodness. you

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know, taste also means to
perceive to perceive to seek out

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and to discover to develop a
consciousness of and that’s

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really the core of our next
passage, which is John 17 verse

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3.
This is what John 17.

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Verse 3 says, says, now, this is
life eternal, that they know you

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the only true God and Jesus
Christ, whom you have sent

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pillar Passage.
See tasting to see, God is

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critical.
It is how we get to know God and

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his son to sample to seek out to
taste.

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See Jesus said something so
controversial that most of his

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disciples just up and left.
You know what that was, you

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know, he said that really caused
conniptions.

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He said, eat my flesh and drink,
my blood taste.

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Him is what he said, right?
Pretty gross sounding, isn’t it

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cannibalism?
That’s what that’s why they left

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him.
That’s what they thought that he

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was saying, but they didn’t
understand what he was talking

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about.
So, what was he talking about

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anyone?
What did he mean?

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How do we eat and drink Jesus?
It can be so awkward karna to

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call out amongst three hundred
people.

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So I don’t expect you to do
that.

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00:30:40,300 –> 00:30:45,800
Jesus said, didn’t he that my
words, my words.

440
00:30:46,000 –> 00:30:49,100
They are spirit and they are
life.

441
00:30:50,000 –> 00:30:54,700
Okay, so we consume his words,
don’t we?

442
00:30:55,100 –> 00:30:57,800
We want to find out everything
that there is to know about

443
00:30:57,800 –> 00:31:03,800
Jesus and consumer to eat it up.
His words are Spirit, they will

444
00:31:03,800 –> 00:31:09,600
transform you and they are live
life eternal and so in doing.

445
00:31:09,600 –> 00:31:15,400
So in feasting on his words, we
develop this conscious awareness

446
00:31:15,400 –> 00:31:18,600
of God.
And what else do we do?

447
00:31:19,000 –> 00:31:23,800
We also, by constantly tasting
of the words of Jesus.

448
00:31:23,800 –> 00:31:30,100
We develop a correct perception
of who God actually is a correct

449
00:31:30,100 –> 00:31:31,900
perception.
On who God is.

450
00:31:32,900 –> 00:31:35,100
But here’s the sort of alarming
thing.

451
00:31:36,900 –> 00:31:44,900
Our perception of God can be so
easily skewed and distorted by a

452
00:31:44,900 –> 00:31:52,700
lack of tasting.
And a lack of taste leads to a

453
00:31:52,700 –> 00:31:58,000
lack of familiarity to not
constantly eat peas, May

454
00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:01,600
regress.
And so, the danger here is that

455
00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:04,900
we can allow so many other
trains of thought, human

456
00:32:04,900 –> 00:32:09,800
thinking human ideas, to
completely and utterly distort.

457
00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:14,800
Our view of who God really is.
This is the threat of all ages,

458
00:32:15,100 –> 00:32:18,500
but I’m telling you, it’s
especially the threat right now.

459
00:32:19,400 –> 00:32:24,500
Now we just read, didn’t we?
The parable of the talents and

460
00:32:24,500 –> 00:32:28,400
here, it shows really
graphically how problematic it

461
00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:31,900
can be.
For us, if we have a completely

462
00:32:32,100 –> 00:32:35,800
skewed version of God in our
minds.

463
00:32:37,200 –> 00:32:41,600
And you see God doesn’t want us
to have a distorted view of who

464
00:32:41,600 –> 00:32:44,000
he is.
He wants to us to be inspired by

465
00:32:44,000 –> 00:32:48,000
truth about the truth of who he
is about his kindness and his

466
00:32:48,000 –> 00:32:51,300
goodness.
It’s actually his kindness and

467
00:32:51,300 –> 00:32:55,800
his forbearance and his patients
that causes us to change our

468
00:32:55,800 –> 00:32:57,400
ways.
That’s what Romans do verse four

469
00:32:57,400 –> 00:33:00,000
cents.
And so anyway, we come to the

470
00:33:00,000 –> 00:33:04,900
parable of the talents in
Matthew 25, verse 14 to 30.

471
00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:09,400
And we were, we probably know
this pretty well and we just had

472
00:33:09,400 –> 00:33:11,900
it read for us.
So we’ve got an idea what it’s

473
00:33:11,900 –> 00:33:14,100
about.
But basically, we remember that

474
00:33:14,100 –> 00:33:18,000
the Master of the House he was
off on a journey and he

475
00:33:18,000 –> 00:33:24,100
entrusted Three of his servants
with this measure of, of cash

476
00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:26,700
with this measure of money
talents as it says.

477
00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:29,500
And so what did this master
want?

478
00:33:29,500 –> 00:33:33,900
Well, he wanted them to do
something with the talents.

479
00:33:35,200 –> 00:33:36,600
He wanted something.
Didn’t he?

480
00:33:36,600 –> 00:33:42,300
He wanted an increase.
He wanted to see a return on his

481
00:33:42,300 –> 00:33:46,300
property that he gave to them.
So according to their individual

482
00:33:46,300 –> 00:33:48,200
abilities.
He allocated this measure of

483
00:33:48,200 –> 00:33:50,300
money.
So 21 he thought.

484
00:33:50,300 –> 00:33:53,600
Okay, he’s got the most ability.
I’m going to give this guy 5

485
00:33:53,600 –> 00:33:56,700
talents.
Then to another, I’ll give two

486
00:33:56,700 –> 00:33:58,300
talents according to his
ability.

487
00:33:58,500 –> 00:34:02,000
And then while this guy servant,
number three, I’ll give him one

488
00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:04,800
Talent according to his ability
as well.

489
00:34:06,200 –> 00:34:08,900
Now, any return on the
investment is fine.

490
00:34:09,800 –> 00:34:13,600
The master just wanted a return.
Incidentally, a talent is not

491
00:34:13,600 –> 00:34:15,100
actually a small amount of
money.

492
00:34:15,600 –> 00:34:20,500
A single Talent is actually
worth 20 years of a laborers,

493
00:34:20,500 –> 00:34:23,300
annual wage.
So we’re not talking about small

494
00:34:23,300 –> 00:34:24,699
bicky’s here.
We’re talking about a lot of

495
00:34:24,699 –> 00:34:26,800
money.
So even the person that had one

496
00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:29,900
Talent was holding something of
quite a lot of value.

497
00:34:30,500 –> 00:34:33,300
It wasn’t a small investment.
And so, as The Story Goes

498
00:34:33,300 –> 00:34:35,500
servants, one and two, What they
do.

499
00:34:35,500 –> 00:34:38,900
Well, they doubled their money
and the master.

500
00:34:39,400 –> 00:34:43,199
Well, he was overjoyed, well
done.

501
00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:45,300
Good.
And faithful servant.

502
00:34:45,300 –> 00:34:49,100
You have been Faithful over a
little is what he says, so I’m

503
00:34:49,100 –> 00:34:54,600
going to set you over much.
Enter into the joy of your

504
00:34:54,600 –> 00:34:56,500
master.
What an incredible saying.

505
00:34:56,500 –> 00:35:00,700
Brilliant, so far.
So good, but hold on.

506
00:35:01,900 –> 00:35:04,100
Hang on a minute.
What about this?

507
00:35:04,100 –> 00:35:06,800
Servant number three with the
with the one Talent?

508
00:35:06,900 –> 00:35:09,500
Well, what did he do with his
talent?

509
00:35:09,500 –> 00:35:14,400
Well, if we’re looking at that
section verse 24 of Matthew 25

510
00:35:14,400 –> 00:35:17,500
says this.
Well, he came forward saying

511
00:35:18,700 –> 00:35:25,500
Master, I knew you to be a hard
man, reaping where you did not

512
00:35:25,500 –> 00:35:28,800
sow and and Gathering where you
scattered no seed.

513
00:35:28,900 –> 00:35:33,100
So, I was afraid and I went and
hid your talent in the ground.

514
00:35:33,100 –> 00:35:34,900
Here you are.
He is.

515
00:35:34,900 –> 00:35:36,800
What’s yours?
That’s what he said.

516
00:35:37,500 –> 00:35:41,200
Bit more dramatize than normal.
So what did he do with his

517
00:35:41,200 –> 00:35:43,700
talent?
Well, he did nothing.

518
00:35:45,200 –> 00:35:46,600
Well, actually, he did do
something.

519
00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:51,100
He went to the effort, didn’t he
went to the effort of digging a

520
00:35:51,100 –> 00:35:54,200
hole and hiding it maybe to
protect it, who knows?

521
00:35:54,300 –> 00:35:57,500
Hiding it in the ground.
So why why did he do it?

522
00:35:57,700 –> 00:36:00,200
Why did he bury it in the
ground?

523
00:36:01,600 –> 00:36:06,000
He did it because he had
constructed a completely

524
00:36:06,000 –> 00:36:13,100
fictitious picture of what and
who he thought his master was

525
00:36:13,100 –> 00:36:15,300
like.
That’s why he did it.

526
00:36:16,100 –> 00:36:18,900
In his mind.
He had concluded that.

527
00:36:18,900 –> 00:36:24,600
His master was a hard man.
The word is austere, which

528
00:36:24,600 –> 00:36:28,400
actually means harsh.
It means violent unyielding.

529
00:36:28,500 –> 00:36:32,000
And stubborn.
That is who he thought his

530
00:36:32,000 –> 00:36:33,900
master was.
So he buried it.

531
00:36:34,300 –> 00:36:37,300
That’s why he did it.
In his mind.

532
00:36:37,300 –> 00:36:41,500
He told himself things like
you’re impossible to serve.

533
00:36:41,900 –> 00:36:45,200
I’ll never please you.
You demand things of me that are

534
00:36:45,200 –> 00:36:48,000
way too hard.
You are constantly dissatisfied

535
00:36:48,000 –> 00:36:51,500
of me and you are, and you are
constantly presenting things to

536
00:36:51,500 –> 00:36:56,200
me that are just not achievable
fear, fear, fear, paranoia.

537
00:36:59,100 –> 00:37:04,300
Is this is this what our
perception of God is like at

538
00:37:04,300 –> 00:37:09,200
times?
Is it is this what it’s like, Do

539
00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:11,500
we think that God is too hard
core?

540
00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:17,600
So, why bother?
Well, the servant with the one

541
00:37:17,600 –> 00:37:21,600
Talent did, that’s what he
thought and what was the result

542
00:37:21,600 –> 00:37:24,700
of his thinking.
Well, he was afraid, he was

543
00:37:24,700 –> 00:37:29,700
fearful his doubts about his
master’s, goodness about his

544
00:37:30,700 –> 00:37:35,000
master’s kindness.
His doubts about them were

545
00:37:35,000 –> 00:37:39,200
turned into convictions.
He had convicted or he convinced

546
00:37:39,200 –> 00:37:43,000
himself of these things and
that’s why he was inactive.

547
00:37:43,800 –> 00:37:47,700
And then he would actually later
use these To rationalize or

548
00:37:47,700 –> 00:37:51,200
justify his inactivity and is
laziness.

549
00:37:52,400 –> 00:37:58,000
He thought, what’s the point?
What is the point?

550
00:37:58,000 –> 00:38:00,200
The Masters not going to be
satisfied with my efforts?

551
00:38:00,200 –> 00:38:05,700
Anyway, I’m just the little guy.
I am the loser.

552
00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:09,900
I’m the one Talent guy.
Remember, look at me one Talent

553
00:38:09,900 –> 00:38:13,800
guy.
I’m not important to the master.

554
00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:16,400
He doesn’t care.
So, you know what?

555
00:38:16,700 –> 00:38:19,700
I’m not even going to try.
I’m just going to bury his

556
00:38:19,700 –> 00:38:21,000
talent.
I’ll keep it safe.

557
00:38:21,000 –> 00:38:24,700
And then when I give it back to
him, you know, I wipe the dust

558
00:38:25,100 –> 00:38:28,500
and I’ll give it back to him if
he ever comes back.

559
00:38:31,100 –> 00:38:34,900
But then the master returns
doesn’t he and he’s caught by

560
00:38:34,900 –> 00:38:37,900
surprise and what’s more?
He’s called up to greet the

561
00:38:37,900 –> 00:38:39,300
master.
And here’s the thing.

562
00:38:39,700 –> 00:38:43,200
He’s just seen he shocked.
He’s just seen this.

563
00:38:43,200 –> 00:38:48,500
Joyful response.
Of his master towards these to

564
00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:50,600
Faithful Servants who did
something.

565
00:38:51,300 –> 00:38:53,700
And he’s just so confused, his
like home, a man.

566
00:38:53,700 –> 00:38:58,100
This is mind-blowing.
I’m shocked because he sees the

567
00:38:58,100 –> 00:39:01,300
kindness.
He sees the generosity and the

568
00:39:01,300 –> 00:39:06,400
joy in his Master’s face that he
had never ever seen before.

569
00:39:06,700 –> 00:39:12,000
It’s an inspiration to behold.
He also sees the Joy on his two

570
00:39:12,000 –> 00:39:15,000
fellow servants, who celebrate
together.

571
00:39:15,800 –> 00:39:17,400
And he is the master.
Say to them.

572
00:39:17,400 –> 00:39:19,400
You’ve been Faithful over a few
things.

573
00:39:19,400 –> 00:39:22,100
So I’m going to put you in
charge of many things, and the

574
00:39:22,100 –> 00:39:28,600
servant is just shocked again.
Wow, I did not say that coming.

575
00:39:30,600 –> 00:39:35,500
But all of a sudden there’s this
horrible, horrible, realization

576
00:39:35,800 –> 00:39:40,900
that creeps all over his body
because he’s just realized that

577
00:39:40,900 –> 00:39:45,200
his master is not the man that
he thought he was.

578
00:39:46,500 –> 00:39:50,500
Not even close.
And now it’s his turn and he can

579
00:39:50,508 –> 00:39:52,300
imagine him.
If This Were Real, he’d be a

580
00:39:52,308 –> 00:39:55,500
blithering mess.
Just a blithering mess in this.

581
00:39:55,500 –> 00:39:58,200
Parable, and as the master turns
to him.

582
00:39:58,200 –> 00:40:02,800
He’s thinking of all the things
that he could have done in

583
00:40:02,800 –> 00:40:06,700
retrospect to make some return
on that.

584
00:40:06,700 –> 00:40:09,100
Talent matter could have done
this.

585
00:40:09,100 –> 00:40:14,600
I Coulda Woulda Shoulda And so
all the servant can do is just

586
00:40:14,800 –> 00:40:21,100
tell him kind of apart truth.
You guys are my I thought you

587
00:40:21,100 –> 00:40:23,800
are harsh.
I thought you were impossible to

588
00:40:23,800 –> 00:40:26,400
please.
I thought you demanded the

589
00:40:26,400 –> 00:40:29,000
unachievable from me.
I thought you didn’t care.

590
00:40:29,100 –> 00:40:31,300
I was scared of you.
So I did nothing.

591
00:40:31,300 –> 00:40:32,600
Oh, oh, hang on.
Wait.

592
00:40:32,700 –> 00:40:34,600
I have your talent.
I kept it safe for you.

593
00:40:34,900 –> 00:40:36,600
I wasn’t going to keep it.
I buried it.

594
00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:38,600
Here you go.
Oh, just let me wipe off the

595
00:40:38,600 –> 00:40:40,300
dirt.
That’s the least I can do.

596
00:40:41,900 –> 00:40:46,600
But the master looks at this
faithless servant with

597
00:40:46,600 –> 00:40:49,700
immeasurable sadness and
disappointment.

598
00:40:49,700 –> 00:40:54,100
And, and says, who do you think
I am?

599
00:40:56,300 –> 00:41:00,300
If you knew, I was all the
things that you thought I was

600
00:41:00,400 –> 00:41:04,400
harsh violent hard, then why
didn’t you just take my talent

601
00:41:04,400 –> 00:41:07,600
to the bank and just get a
little trickle of Interest?

602
00:41:09,700 –> 00:41:13,300
I don’t know what bank you bank
with but I bank with the

603
00:41:13,300 –> 00:41:17,900
Commonwealth Bank, okay.
And I’ve got an everyday saver

604
00:41:17,900 –> 00:41:23,200
account where I get an interest
rate, massive of 0.33 percent

605
00:41:23,200 –> 00:41:25,000
per annum.
Now.

606
00:41:25,000 –> 00:41:28,900
I’m no mathematician, but I did
the calculations took me some

607
00:41:28,900 –> 00:41:30,800
time.
But if I had a thousand dollars

608
00:41:30,800 –> 00:41:34,500
in the bank at the end of the
year, I would get a grand total

609
00:41:34,500 –> 00:41:37,900
of three dollars and thirty
cents set, right?

610
00:41:37,900 –> 00:41:41,100
Yeah.
It’s a pretty miserly amount,

611
00:41:41,100 –> 00:41:44,200
isn’t it?
But Jesus is saying in this

612
00:41:44,200 –> 00:41:47,500
Parable I would have In
satisfied with that.

613
00:41:48,900 –> 00:41:50,700
I would have been satisfied with
that.

614
00:41:50,700 –> 00:41:55,300
If you done something just small
showing some business acumen.

615
00:41:56,400 –> 00:41:57,900
I would have been satisfied with
that.

616
00:41:57,900 –> 00:41:59,700
That’s what Jesus says in this
Parable.

617
00:41:59,700 –> 00:42:03,400
Doesn’t he?
And then we cause to think about

618
00:42:03,400 –> 00:42:06,700
this, if you weren’t busy with
my talent.

619
00:42:08,300 –> 00:42:15,100
Then what were you doing?
And so he says, I’m sorry, but I

620
00:42:15,100 –> 00:42:18,400
cannot accept your excuses.
You never knew me.

621
00:42:19,100 –> 00:42:23,400
And that’s the point, isn’t it?
You never ever knew me.

622
00:42:24,300 –> 00:42:29,700
You never knew me and towards
this, man, Jesus, you some very

623
00:42:29,700 –> 00:42:33,600
in phatak and sobering language
doesn’t, he says this take that

624
00:42:33,600 –> 00:42:39,700
Talent from him, give it to him
who has ten talents for to

625
00:42:39,700 –> 00:42:44,300
everyone who has more.
Will be given and he will have

626
00:42:44,300 –> 00:42:47,600
an abundance.
But from the one who has not,

627
00:42:48,200 –> 00:42:50,900
even what he has will be taken
away.

628
00:42:52,000 –> 00:43:01,900
So everybody who is God to you.
Who is he to me, is God, the

629
00:43:01,900 –> 00:43:07,100
harsh figure that this servant
is shown To Us by.

630
00:43:07,100 –> 00:43:12,700
Jesus is got a harsh figure.
Is he too, is he exactly as As

631
00:43:13,500 –> 00:43:18,800
described by the one Talent man.
Or alternatively is God just a

632
00:43:18,800 –> 00:43:23,800
passive being that neither
invests, nor cares for us.

633
00:43:24,600 –> 00:43:28,500
Are we just like an experiment
of sorts that that that God

634
00:43:28,500 –> 00:43:33,800
allows to exist until the to the
world leaders decide to blow us

635
00:43:33,800 –> 00:43:38,000
up into smithereens.
Or is the God.

636
00:43:38,000 –> 00:43:42,900
We worshipped based on the
goodness and Truth as expressed

637
00:43:42,900 –> 00:43:48,400
in his word, you know, when it
comes to God, that really is

638
00:43:48,400 –> 00:43:54,100
just one distinct impossibility.
According to God, that will

639
00:43:54,100 –> 00:43:59,900
separate us from an eternity
with him and his son and you

640
00:43:59,900 –> 00:44:04,200
know what that is, and it’s
imperative that we understand.

641
00:44:04,500 –> 00:44:06,600
This fact.
T’ about God.

642
00:44:07,600 –> 00:44:13,200
It’s Hebrews 11 verse 6.
Let me read it for you says, but

643
00:44:13,200 –> 00:44:21,500
without faith, it’s impossible.
To please God, because anyone

644
00:44:21,500 –> 00:44:26,400
who approaches him must believe
that he exists and that he

645
00:44:26,400 –> 00:44:30,200
rewards those who earnestly or
diligently seek him.

646
00:44:31,300 –> 00:44:34,900
Well, we saw from the parable of
the talents that the one Talent

647
00:44:34,900 –> 00:44:39,500
servant did not believe that his
master was a joyful rewarded,

648
00:44:39,500 –> 00:44:42,700
did he?
He didn’t he wasn’t propelled by

649
00:44:42,700 –> 00:44:47,300
the joyfulness and the joyful
rewarding component of his

650
00:44:47,300 –> 00:44:50,100
master.
In fact, in his mind.

651
00:44:50,100 –> 00:44:53,300
He developed this view of the
master that said it’s impossible

652
00:44:53,300 –> 00:44:56,500
to please you.
No matter what I do.

653
00:44:56,500 –> 00:44:58,800
You are angry with me all the
time.

654
00:44:58,808 –> 00:45:01,600
You are harsh only by the skin
of my Teeth.

655
00:45:01,600 –> 00:45:05,800
Will I scrape into the kingdom
of God, but the master said to

656
00:45:05,800 –> 00:45:09,200
the faithless servant, why
didn’t you just take my money to

657
00:45:09,200 –> 00:45:14,900
the bank?
$3.30, at least then, when I

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returned, you could have
provided me with this $3.30.

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00:45:20,500 –> 00:45:25,800
But your view was so skewed, it
was so wrong and so full of

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ignorance actually and fear and
doubt that you did nothing.

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00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:36,600
But just a trickle of Interest
would have filled me with joy

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00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:39,400
and you would be there with the
other two servants.

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00:45:43,600 –> 00:45:47,200
You know, Jesus says these
beautiful words to us all worth

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putting on a squishy plug.
He says fear not fear.

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00:45:53,500 –> 00:46:01,200
Not do not be afraid Little
Flock for your father is pleased

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00:46:01,300 –> 00:46:04,400
to give you the kingdom, you
see?

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00:46:06,200 –> 00:46:09,000
God is glad to give us the
kingdom.

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00:46:09,400 –> 00:46:14,000
I mean he is a true father
better than any human dad,

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better than any human mother.
He is, well, content is what

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00:46:18,800 –> 00:46:20,500
that means.
He’s pleased, he is well,

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00:46:20,500 –> 00:46:24,600
content to give us the kingdom.
He prefers to give us the

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kingdom to all other options.
God takes Delight in giving us

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00:46:29,500 –> 00:46:33,400
the kingdom, but there is one
thing that he cannot take

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00:46:33,400 –> 00:46:37,400
Delight in and it’s imperative.
A matter of life and death that

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we understand and believe it
that it’s impossible to please

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00:46:41,600 –> 00:46:46,900
God, if we allow our irrational
doubts to defeat our faith in

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00:46:46,900 –> 00:46:51,900
him.
Hebrews 11 verse 6 says, without

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00:46:51,900 –> 00:46:55,600
faith.
It is impossible to please him.

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00:46:56,100 –> 00:47:00,000
For whoever would draw near to,
God must believe that he exists

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00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:04,000
number one, and that he rewards
those who seek him.

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00:47:04,400 –> 00:47:06,300
You know what?
It doesn’t say without faith,

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00:47:06,500 –> 00:47:11,100
It’s Tricky.
It doesn’t say without faith.

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00:47:11,100 –> 00:47:14,100
It’s real difficult to please.
God.

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00:47:14,100 –> 00:47:19,000
No, it says without faith.
It’s impossible to please God.

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00:47:19,500 –> 00:47:21,400
And so, we’re going to ask
ourselves some important

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00:47:21,400 –> 00:47:24,800
questions.
Who wants to please God, you

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00:47:24,800 –> 00:47:27,300
don’t have to put up your hand.
I am, I can do it.

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00:47:27,400 –> 00:47:30,100
Okay.
We have one we all do, right.

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00:47:30,100 –> 00:47:35,000
We all want to please God.
We all want to bring Delight to

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00:47:35,000 –> 00:47:36,500
Our Father in Heaven.
Don’t we?

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00:47:36,500 –> 00:47:38,000
We all do.
Of course we do.

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00:47:38,400 –> 00:47:41,600
Question 2.
Do you believe in God that he

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00:47:41,600 –> 00:47:43,600
exists?
Yes, of course.

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00:47:45,000 –> 00:47:47,300
Question 3.
Do we believe that God rewards

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00:47:47,300 –> 00:47:51,000
those who earnestly seek him?
Yes, of course, right.

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00:47:51,900 –> 00:47:55,400
But the real question is this
number four.

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00:47:55,500 –> 00:47:59,800
Do you believe that God will
reward you for earnestly seeking

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00:47:59,800 –> 00:48:02,300
him.
That’s the real question.

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00:48:03,800 –> 00:48:06,900
And that is the question that we
struggle with, isn’t it?

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00:48:07,900 –> 00:48:11,300
Because our struggle is no.
Some it’s not so much believing

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00:48:11,300 –> 00:48:14,500
in his existence.
Although it is for some butt.

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00:48:14,700 –> 00:48:18,900
But it’s not so much that nor is
it the struggle to believe that

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00:48:18,900 –> 00:48:23,400
God will reward others.
Our struggle is believing that

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00:48:23,400 –> 00:48:26,900
God is pleased and Overjoyed to
reward me.

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00:48:26,900 –> 00:48:32,800
And you personally, that’s a
struggle and this is what God

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00:48:32,800 –> 00:48:36,700
has to contend with.
Isn’t it each day dealing with

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00:48:36,700 –> 00:48:39,700
our weaknesses for which he
knows all too well.

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00:48:40,700 –> 00:48:46,200
And our doubts and our unbelief
because you see our spirit is

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00:48:46,200 –> 00:48:50,500
willing to go all the way with
God, but our flesh is so weak,

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00:48:50,800 –> 00:48:53,400
isn’t it?
And so, in our hearts, we cry

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00:48:53,400 –> 00:48:57,100
out to God.
Lord, I believe, please help my

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00:48:57,100 –> 00:49:01,800
unbelief do something, please.
God to just keep my doubts at

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00:49:01,800 –> 00:49:03,000
bay.
That’s a fine.

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00:49:03,000 –> 00:49:05,800
Predator-prey, don’t you think?
That’s okay.

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00:49:08,500 –> 00:49:10,900
Sometimes we almost have an
innate resistance.

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00:49:10,900 –> 00:49:15,200
Don’t we, we have this innate
resistance to presume God’s

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00:49:15,200 –> 00:49:18,800
rewards on ourselves.
We don’t like to presume God’s

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00:49:18,800 –> 00:49:23,600
rewards on ourselves, do we?
But God wants us to see him just

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00:49:23,600 –> 00:49:27,800
like our own capable fathers and
mothers.

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00:49:29,700 –> 00:49:34,000
Even though they actually are
far less capable than Almighty

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00:49:34,000 –> 00:49:36,600
Father in heaven.
So, it’s irrational.

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00:49:36,700 –> 00:49:41,100
Therefore Case Closed to think
that it is not God’s good

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00:49:41,100 –> 00:49:45,700
pleasure to give us the kingdom
of God, as our true father.

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00:49:46,900 –> 00:49:49,900
You know, sometimes we steer
away from, from what we might

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00:49:49,900 –> 00:49:53,500
call a churchy expression like I
have been saved.

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00:49:54,800 –> 00:49:59,000
We dismissed them as churchy or
presumptuous.

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00:49:59,900 –> 00:50:03,200
But here in this verse God is
saying that you cannot you

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00:50:03,200 –> 00:50:08,000
cannot please me unless you have
faith and believe.

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00:50:09,500 –> 00:50:12,700
Unless you have faith and
believe in my reward.

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00:50:13,700 –> 00:50:18,000
So that as my mum said, is not
such a good saying, but put that

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00:50:18,000 –> 00:50:22,800
in your pipe and smoke it.
Okay, I might be corrected after

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00:50:22,800 –> 00:50:26,200
this talk for actually saying
that, but there seems to be some

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00:50:26,200 –> 00:50:28,300
smiles from the hosts.
We’re all fine.

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00:50:28,300 –> 00:50:29,500
Clear.
We’re in the clear.

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00:50:31,200 –> 00:50:36,000
It was a bubble pipe.
It wasn’t anything anyway.

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00:50:38,700 –> 00:50:44,200
So back on track.
So God is actually saying isn’t

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00:50:44,200 –> 00:50:47,200
he?
You must believe in me.

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00:50:48,200 –> 00:50:52,500
And in order to encourage you or
want you to understand that I

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00:50:52,500 –> 00:50:56,200
love to reward.
It’s my joy to reward you.

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00:50:56,200 –> 00:51:00,500
So seek me, so crave me and I’m
going to show you things that no

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00:51:00,500 –> 00:51:04,400
mortal eye has ever seen, or is
ever heard.

742
00:51:04,600 –> 00:51:06,600
All the things that I have
planned for.

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00:51:06,600 –> 00:51:11,900
You says God.
Love me and my son and find out.

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00:51:13,100 –> 00:51:16,900
Says God.
Now, I’ve been given the

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00:51:16,900 –> 00:51:19,200
timeout.
So I’ve got a I’ve got to stop

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00:51:19,200 –> 00:51:21,700
here.
So I’ll finish on this think

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00:51:21,700 –> 00:51:24,800
about it.
It is far better.

748
00:51:24,800 –> 00:51:30,400
Isn’t it far lesser risk to
believe in God’s love for you

749
00:51:30,400 –> 00:51:36,100
than it is to doubt it?
Because the worst thing that

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00:51:36,100 –> 00:51:39,700
will happen to you for believing
its eternal life.

751
00:51:40,800 –> 00:51:42,300
All right.
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00:51:58,200 –> 00:52:00,500
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