{"id":1010,"date":"2023-09-11T02:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T02:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/260-darren-tappouras-the-power-of-his-presence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T03:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:28:27","slug":"260-darren-tappouras-the-power-of-his-presence","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/260-darren-tappouras-the-power-of-his-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"260: Darren Tappouras – The Power of His Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to a class from a series called \u201cThe Power of His Presence\u201d by Brother Darren Tappouras, this is the final class, which was also titled \u201cThe Power of His Presence\u201d.<\/p>\n

Here is the link<\/a> to the YouTube video of the class.<\/p>\n

We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

Send talk suggestions or comments to:\u00a0GoodChristadelphianTalks@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Chris Selfian
\ntalks. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m Levi.
\nAnd I’m Chris, and I’m Brian. <\/p>\n

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\nThank you for joining us this
\nweek. <\/p>\n

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\nOn this podcast, we select one
\ntalk a week to help us get the <\/p>\n

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\nBible in our Daily News feed.
\nWe posted an episode at the <\/p>\n

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\nstart of each week.
\nWith a short intro beforehand to<\/p>\n

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\nkind of set the stage for the
\ntalk you’re about to listen to. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd now let’s talk more about
\nthis week’s talk. <\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to the good Chris
\nAdelphian Talks podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is Brother Brian.
\nThis week’s talk is the last <\/p>\n

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\nclass in a series by brother
\nDarren Tapores that was given <\/p>\n

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\nearlier this spring at the
\nRiverward Ecclesia in Australia.<\/p>\n

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\nThe title of the series and the
\nclass itself is called The Power<\/p>\n

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\nof His Presence, and this was
\nrecommended to us multiple times<\/p>\n

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\nand I can see why.
\nThe four classes take a deep <\/p>\n

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\ndive into all the encompassing
\naspects of how the presence of <\/p>\n

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\nGod is described, experienced,
\nand how we are meant to benefit <\/p>\n

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\nfrom it now in our relationship.
\nBy faith. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Darren touches on the
\nimplications of the Lord’s Name,<\/p>\n

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\nHis Holy Spirit, and the depth
\nof what it means to be under the<\/p>\n

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\nNew Covenant through Christ.
\nNone of this is easy listening. <\/p>\n

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\nI found each class to be very
\nlayered. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’ll be things that you’ll
\ndefinitely want to view the <\/p>\n

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\nslides for, so we’ll link them
\nto the YouTube videos as well, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich I would highly recommend.
\nThis is 1 where I listen to each<\/p>\n

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\nclass four to five times each
\njust to get my head around what <\/p>\n

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\nhe was connecting.
\nI personally love Brother <\/p>\n

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\nDarren’s study and speaking
\nstyle, and I’m convinced that we<\/p>\n

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\nneed to get him over to a Bible
\nschool here in the States ASAP. <\/p>\n

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\nBut this was a series that I
\nthink could be summed up by the <\/p>\n

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\nthought provoking question.
\nCould we possibly be missing out<\/p>\n

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\non the reality that God is
\nactually much closer to us in <\/p>\n

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\neverything we do than we give
\nourselves credit for? <\/p>\n

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\nSo using the Acts 17 preaching
\nmodel from the Apostle Paul when<\/p>\n

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\nhe was connecting the dots about
\nwhat they assumed of the unknown<\/p>\n

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\nGod, he builds his focus from
\nthe very end. <\/p>\n

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\nVerse where Paul had written
\nthat they should seek God and <\/p>\n

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\nperhaps feel their way toward
\nhim and find him. <\/p>\n

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\nYet he’s actually not far from
\neach one of us, for we are his <\/p>\n

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\noffspring.
\nSo there’s a lot more that I’d <\/p>\n

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\nlike to chat about, but for the
\nsake of the intro, I’ll just let<\/p>\n

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\nyou listen for yourself.
\nAs always, we do hope that this <\/p>\n

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\nstrengthens your faith and
\nbrightens your day. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Darren Toporus, the
\npower of his presence. <\/p>\n

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\nGood evening, my dear brothers
\nand sisters in the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

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\nChrist, our dear young people.
\nIt’s lovely to be back with you <\/p>\n

47
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\nagain, to continue our thoughts
\non the presence of God. <\/p>\n

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\nTonight we want to change gears
\na little bit. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re going to probably be a
\nlittle bit more reflective on <\/p>\n

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\nsome of the things we’re going
\nto talk about and think about, <\/p>\n

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\nbut there’s a couple of loose
\nends I want to tie up first. <\/p>\n

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\nSo if we can have a couple of
\nminutes just to bring the <\/p>\n

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\nexpositional part of our studies
\nto a conclusion. <\/p>\n

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\nIf you want to turn with me to
\nHebrews Chapter 10, if that’s OK<\/p>\n

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\nand we’ll just make a few
\nclosing comments. <\/p>\n

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\nOn some of the and bring some of
\nthe threads that we’ve been <\/p>\n

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\nfollowing through together.
\nRemember how we began our <\/p>\n

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\nseries, looking at the concept
\nof the presence and trying to <\/p>\n

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\ndefine it as best we could.
\nAnd we thought the word <\/p>\n

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\ncloseness, the English word
\nclose. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s captured the idea of the
\npresence, of what presence <\/p>\n

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\nreally is.
\nAnd we thought about the fact <\/p>\n

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\nthat closeness has a number of
\ndimensions to it, so you can be.<\/p>\n

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\nPhysically close or spatially
\nclose to someone and you can <\/p>\n

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\nalso be relationally close to
\nsomeone. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd as we follow the presence of
\nGod through Scripture, we find <\/p>\n

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\nthose two dimensions coming
\ntogether in and they come <\/p>\n

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\ntogether in the temple concept
\nof God dwelling with his people.<\/p>\n

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\nSo the relational closeness of
\nGod is really. <\/p>\n

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\nEmphasize and comes into
\nexistence by something called <\/p>\n

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\nthe New covenant.
\nWe spent a fair bit of time <\/p>\n

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\nlooking at the New covenant, the
\nconcept of the New Covenant that<\/p>\n

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\nreally allows God in his
\nrighteousness and allows us to <\/p>\n

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\nhave this, this closeness, this
\npresence in our life. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so in chapter 10, the
\nreferences there in verse 16 to <\/p>\n

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\nthe New Covenant, we’ve talked
\nabout it already. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I don’t want to.
\nGo over all the elements of the <\/p>\n

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\nNew Covenant, but it’s really
\nspelled out clearly there in <\/p>\n

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\nverse 16.
\nThis is the covenant, the new <\/p>\n

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\ncovenant I will make with them
\nafter those days. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s talking about believers
\nnow, says the Lord. <\/p>\n

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\nI will put my laws in their
\nhearts and their minds, and I’ll<\/p>\n

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\nwrite them on their hearts and
\ntheir minds and their sins and <\/p>\n

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\niniquities.
\nI’ll remember no more. <\/p>\n

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\nSo this is the new covenant we
\nare under. <\/p>\n

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\nWe remember every Sunday, of
\ncourse, as we take. <\/p>\n

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\nThe wine, this is the blood of
\nthe new covenant, very powerful <\/p>\n

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\nsymbol that reminds us of the
\nway that we can have this <\/p>\n

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\nrelationship with God.
\nAnd also here in Hebrews 10, <\/p>\n

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\nwe’ve got the spatial closeness
\nto God that’s also emphasized. <\/p>\n

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\nSo if you drop down to verse 20,
\nwe’re told the the, the results <\/p>\n

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\nhere and what happens because of
\nthat relationship we have. <\/p>\n

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\nIt says, therefore, brether, we
\nhave boldness to enter into the <\/p>\n

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\nholiest.
\nInto the very presence of God, <\/p>\n

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\ndoes that idea of holiness
\ndepicts the holiness by a new <\/p>\n

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\nand living way?
\nAgain, it’s new just as the the <\/p>\n

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\ncovenant was new.
\nSo this access to the presence <\/p>\n

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\nof God is something new.
\nIt’s this new and alive or Zoey <\/p>\n

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\nway, this new and living way.
\nThrough that the Christ has <\/p>\n

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\nconsecrated it, says they’re in
\nthe AV. <\/p>\n

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\nIt really means inaugurated.
\nHe opened up and started it and <\/p>\n

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\nand inaugurated this whole new
\nand living way as depicted there<\/p>\n

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\nsymbolically as entering through
\nthe veil into the very presence <\/p>\n

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\nof God.
\nSo we are there with him in a <\/p>\n

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\nsense.
\nSo we’ve got these two <\/p>\n

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\ndimensions that are caught up
\nhere in the in the results of <\/p>\n

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\nwhat we have in Christ.
\nWe have this relationship <\/p>\n

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\nthrough the New Covenant.
\nWhich is just so beneficial SO1 <\/p>\n

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\nsided and I and I hope we got
\nthat that reality across in our <\/p>\n

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\nin our thoughts on it.
\nAnd also we are in the very <\/p>\n

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\npresence of God.
\nWe’re connected to God in a very<\/p>\n

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\nunique way very incredible way.
\nWe thought about believers under<\/p>\n

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\nthe old covenant.
\nDid they have access to the the <\/p>\n

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\nholiest?
\nDid they have access to the <\/p>\n

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\npresence of God?
\nDid they have access beyond the <\/p>\n

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\nveil?
\nWell, they didn’t, in fact. <\/p>\n

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\nThe presence of God was very
\nrestricted. <\/p>\n

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\nIf you remember, Psalm 15 says,
\nWho will ascend into my <\/p>\n

119
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\nmountain, into the into the
\nmountain of the Lord? <\/p>\n

120
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\nAnd who can stand in his holy
\nplace and remember who could, <\/p>\n

121
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\nWho could?
\nWhat were the conditions that <\/p>\n

122
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\nPsalm 15 says, Well, you had to
\nwalk uprightly, you had to. <\/p>\n

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\nAll your works were had to be
\nworks of righteousness. <\/p>\n

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\nYou had to speak truth.
\nYou had to be honest. <\/p>\n

125
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\nYou had to be someone who put
\nyourself out for others and <\/p>\n

126
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\ndidn’t misuse your power.
\nThere’s a whole lot of <\/p>\n

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\nconditions.
\nYou had to be righteous to <\/p>\n

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\nascend that hill.
\nAnyone want to read the <\/p>\n

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\nconditions there in Psalm 15 and
\nput their hand up and say they <\/p>\n

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\ncould have?
\nThey could have walked up the <\/p>\n

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\nhill into the presence of God?
\nI couldn’t. <\/p>\n

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\nI don’t think any of us could.
\nPsalm 24 says exactly the same <\/p>\n

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\nthings, Same thing.
\nWho can ascend the hill of the <\/p>\n

134
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\nLord?
\nWho can stand in his presence? <\/p>\n

135
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\nYou had to have clean hands.
\nYou had to have a pure heart. <\/p>\n

136
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\nThere had to be no vanity in
\nyou. <\/p>\n

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\nNo, you had to have a person of
\nabsolute truth without any hint <\/p>\n

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\nof a lie or or or or subterfuge
\nin your life. <\/p>\n

139
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\nWhen you Add all these
\ncharacteristics together of who <\/p>\n

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\ncould walk into the presence of
\nGod under the Old Covenant, no <\/p>\n

141
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\none could, of course.
\nAnd if you Add all those <\/p>\n

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\nconditions and all those
\nqualities together, you have <\/p>\n

143
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\nsomething which we may.
\nCall perfection. <\/p>\n

144
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\nSo to enter into the presence of
\nGod required perfection. <\/p>\n

145
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\nOnly one person in history has
\nbeen able to walk to that hill <\/p>\n

146
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\nand stand in the presence of God
\nin that way and meet those <\/p>\n

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\nconditions, of course, and
\nthat’s our Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

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\nBut as a result of that, Hebrew
\nsays he’s opened up this new and<\/p>\n

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\nliving way through the New
\ncovenant that all of us can live<\/p>\n

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\nin the presence of God, even
\nthough we’re not. <\/p>\n

151
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\nPerfect as described in that in
\nthose conditional Psalms. <\/p>\n

152
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\nNow what’s the result then of
\nthis ability for us to be able <\/p>\n

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\nto stand in the very presence of
\nGod, to have this amazing <\/p>\n

154
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\nrelationship with God as
\ndepicted by the New covenant and<\/p>\n

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\nthe New and living way?
\nWell, this nineteen starts with <\/p>\n

156
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\nthese words having therefore.
\nThis is where this is the this <\/p>\n

157
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\nis the final verse we want to
\nthink about brothers and sisters<\/p>\n

158
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\nhaving therefore.
\nSo these two strands have come <\/p>\n

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\ntogether, these two temple
\nstrands of God’s presence, His <\/p>\n

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\nrelational connection to His
\npeople, and the the spatial <\/p>\n

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\nconnection that He’s with his
\npeople through his spirit. <\/p>\n

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\nThese two things have come
\ntogether. <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:28,720 –> 00:10:31,200
\nWhat does it all mean?
\nWhat’s the take away? <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:32,160 –> 00:10:36,000
\nAnd the writer of Hebrews is now
\ngoing to tell us having <\/p>\n

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\ntherefore.
\nThat word therefore, in the <\/p>\n

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\nGreek it’s it’s this word on
\nwhich is one of these logic <\/p>\n

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\nwords like a a progressive word.
\nAnd therefore it’s it’s the <\/p>\n

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\nresult, it it’s now the the
\nobjects being met, having <\/p>\n

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\ntherefore what the right of
\nHebrew says, the number of <\/p>\n

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\n00:10:56,160 –> 00:11:01,160
\nthings we have a number of
\nthings because of the new <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:01,160 –> 00:11:04,720
\ncovenant, because of the new and
\nliving way, something we have in<\/p>\n

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\nChrist.
\nWe have something called <\/p>\n

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\nboldness.
\nJust think about that. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:11,090 –> 00:11:13,490
\nWhat does that mean?
\nBoldness. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:13,930 –> 00:11:16,570
\nIf you look up Strong’s
\nconcordance, the definitions <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:16,570 –> 00:11:19,410
\nthere are outspokenness.
\nYou can It’s something to be <\/p>\n

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\noutspoken, to be frank, to be
\nblunt, there’s something we have<\/p>\n

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\nwith God.
\nBecause of the new covenant <\/p>\n

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\nfather child relationship and
\nthe fact that God is in our life<\/p>\n

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\npresent with us, we can have
\nboldness. <\/p>\n

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\nI know some of the new
\ntranslations have confidence <\/p>\n

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\nthere, but I think I think the
\nthe King James has got the right<\/p>\n

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\nnuance.
\nThis word really is it has an <\/p>\n

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\nexternal element to it.
\nRather than confidence you can <\/p>\n

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\nbe confident.
\nIt’s just an internal composure.<\/p>\n

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\nBut boldness is something even
\nmore boisterous, more out there.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here it’s saying because of
\ntheir relationship with God, <\/p>\n

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\nbecause under the law the blood
\nof bulls and goats couldn’t make<\/p>\n

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\nyou perfect, but the blood of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:04,530 –> 00:12:08,210
\nCan make us perfect, can allow
\nus to walk up the holy hill of <\/p>\n

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\nthe Lord and stand in his most
\nholy place. <\/p>\n

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\nIt gives us something called
\nboldness, and I want us to think<\/p>\n

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\nabout that.
\nIt’s hard for me to define what <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:14,810 –> 00:12:17,690
\nthat means in all our individual
\nlives, but there’s something <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:17,690 –> 00:12:21,370
\nabout our connection to God that
\nwe have boldness, which is <\/p>\n

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\nsomething we may shrink away
\nfrom in a sense, because it’s <\/p>\n

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\nthe dead opposite of how we may
\nfeel sometimes. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s the opposite to how Adam
\nand Eve felt when they sinned <\/p>\n

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\nand they felt the shame and the
\nand the and the horrible <\/p>\n

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\nconscience effect that sin had.
\nAnd they hid themselves from the<\/p>\n

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\npresence, from the the presence
\nof God. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd and mankind lost that
\nconnection to God. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd now in Christ it’s been
\nrectified. <\/p>\n

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\nMan is now perfect, or those in
\nChrist are now made perfect. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re able to be in the
\npresence of God. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re able to have boldness.
\nAnd I try and think of a <\/p>\n

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\nrelationship that captures that
\nthe the child parent <\/p>\n

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\nrelationship I think is the best
\nway to try and think about <\/p>\n

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\nboldness a child has.
\nThere’s a level of boldness that<\/p>\n

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\na child has with their parent,
\neven if their parent is the <\/p>\n

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\npresident of the United States
\nor the king. <\/p>\n

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\nThe child has boldness in the
\npresence of that August person. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I know with my own father, I
\nknow, I know there’s a sense of.<\/p>\n

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\nI have a sense of boldness when
\nI talk to Dad because we <\/p>\n

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\nwhenever we get together, we
\ntalk about the Scripture. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s got a lot of crazy ideas
\nand I have boldness to go back <\/p>\n

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\nat him and say that’s rubbish.
\nSo there’s a sense of but we do <\/p>\n

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\nit in love.
\nOf course there’s a sense of <\/p>\n

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\nboldness to have my own father
\nbecause I know he loves me and I<\/p>\n

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\nknow regardless of our
\ninteractions, we’re the United <\/p>\n

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\ntogether in a way that can never
\nbe separated. <\/p>\n

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\nSo there’s a sense of boldness
\nthere. <\/p>\n

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\nHow we translate that to God is
\nsomething to think about, isn’t <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:50,270 –> 00:13:50,910
\nit?
\nBut. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s nothing.
\nI haven’t made this word up. <\/p>\n

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\nBrothers and sisters, this is
\ninspired words, inspired word <\/p>\n

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\nthat’s been given to us and it
\nmeans what it says. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s a very strong word.
\nWe’re also told, therefore, as a<\/p>\n

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\nresult of this relationship with
\nGod, we can draw near this this <\/p>\n

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\nword prashikomai, which is used
\nseven times in the book of <\/p>\n

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\nHebrews.
\nAnd I have an exhortation that <\/p>\n

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\njust runs through those seven
\ntimes, because that’s a really <\/p>\n

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\npowerful thing.
\nThe idea of drawing near to God <\/p>\n

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\nand it’s it’s the theme in
\nHebrews. <\/p>\n

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\nYou could say it’s something
\nabout the blood of Christ and <\/p>\n

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\nour relationship through the New
\ncovenant allows us to draw near.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen under the old covenant,
\nthey’ll often pushed away, <\/p>\n

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\nrightly so, in the sense that
\nthat God could not, could not <\/p>\n

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\ntolerate their wickedness, of
\ncourse and and and that that is.<\/p>\n

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\nThat was the appropriate thing.
\nBut something has changed. <\/p>\n

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\nUnder the new covenant allows
\neven sinners to draw near. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd there’s this other word too.
\nTherefore, as a result of our <\/p>\n

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\nrelationship, we can have
\nsomething called full assurance.<\/p>\n

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\nIn Greek, it’s this word
\nplerothoria plero, which means <\/p>\n

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\nfull.
\nIt’s a pretty common New <\/p>\n

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\nTestament word.
\nBut this other word, foria, it’s<\/p>\n

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\nit’s a.
\nIncredible word and building to <\/p>\n

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\nthe word is a metaphor.
\nThe idea of of fullness, the <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:24,010 –> 00:15:26,250
\nidea of weight is caught up in
\nthis word. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:26,610 –> 00:15:31,050
\nAnd the metaphor that is
\ndepicted in this word is a ship <\/p>\n

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\nthat has its sails absolutely
\nfull of wind. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s like it it’s caught in a
\nGale and it’s just been <\/p>\n

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\npropelled across the ocean and
\nnothing can stop it. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s just full pelt across the
\nocean, smashing through waves <\/p>\n

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\nand spray everywhere.
\nIt’s it’s unstoppable. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s full and it’s compelled and
\nmotivated and moved. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so because of this
\nrelationship, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, I I hope it’s not just
\nbeen all verses that we’ve <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:02,160 –> 00:16:04,920
\nlooked up and and just read and
\nthought about it. <\/p>\n

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\nTheoretically, there’s something
\npowerful that comes through from<\/p>\n

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\nall this.
\nWe have something called Full <\/p>\n

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\nAssurance Plerothoria.
\nEven connected to the word <\/p>\n

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\neuphoria, in a sense, there’s
\nsomething powerful and <\/p>\n

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\ncompelling about what we have in
\nChrist boldness with our <\/p>\n

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\nHeavenly Father.
\nThe ability to draw near and <\/p>\n

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\nthis full assurance in Christ.
\nIt’s it’s a it’s an emotional <\/p>\n

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\nfeast, isn’t it?
\nIt’s so powerful and and I hope <\/p>\n

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\nin a little way I’ve been able
\nto try and get some of that <\/p>\n

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\nacross and it’s not been based
\nupon. <\/p>\n

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\nGood feelings or nice ideas.
\nIt’s been it’s very much <\/p>\n

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\nanchored and and and cemented
\ndown by the inspired word of God<\/p>\n

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\nand the concepts that have been
\nrevealed to God by God, to us. <\/p>\n

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\nSo as I said that hopefully that
\nbrings together the the concept <\/p>\n

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\nof God’s presence from an
\nexpositional point of view. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd as I said, we wanted to
\nchange gears a little bit and be<\/p>\n

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\na bit more reflective and think
\nabout how this all works and and<\/p>\n

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\nwhat what.
\nWhat what we can take from it <\/p>\n

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\npersonally, we’ve been talking
\nabout presence as a <\/p>\n

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\nrelationship.
\nThere’s a relationship with God <\/p>\n

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\nand that’s at the very heart of
\nthe presence of God. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd when there’s any
\nrelationship, there’s there’s <\/p>\n

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\ntwo parties to a relationship,
\nisn’t there? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we want to think about both
\nparties in this relationship. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so in this particular
\nrelationship, there is God. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd there is his creation, There
\nis man. <\/p>\n

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\nWe want to talk about how those
\ntwo are connected, how they are <\/p>\n

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\nlinked together, because that’s
\nreally at the very heart of all <\/p>\n

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\nthis.
\nAnd maybe there’s a bit of bit <\/p>\n

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\nof time to recalibrate maybe our
\nthinking when it comes to God <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:55,020 –> 00:17:59,780
\nand man and and how God sees his
\ncreation and see if our thinking<\/p>\n

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\n00:17:59,780 –> 00:18:06,900
\nis is exactly biblical or not.
\nSometimes our perception, how we<\/p>\n

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\nsee things mentally and how we
\nthink about things can have a <\/p>\n

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\npractical outworking or a
\nbehavioral outworking in our <\/p>\n

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\nlife.
\nAnd so it’s good to challenge <\/p>\n

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\nsome of our perceptions and to
\nsee how biblically sound they <\/p>\n

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\nare in some ways, because our
\nbehavior follows some of those <\/p>\n

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\nmental perceptions we have.
\nHere’s an example, the one <\/p>\n

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\ntalent servant in the parable of
\nthe talents. <\/p>\n

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\nRemember the words he said when
\nhe’s confronted by the Lord. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd asked what he’s done with
\nthat talent in the Lord’s <\/p>\n

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\nabsence.
\nAnd he says, Lord, I knew you <\/p>\n

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\nand I knew that you I knew.
\nSo he’s not saying I thought I <\/p>\n

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\nknew or I had this impression or
\nI I had this idea that someone <\/p>\n

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\nhad.
\nI knew he was very confident. <\/p>\n

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\nI knew you to be a hard man,
\nreaping where you did not sew <\/p>\n

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\nand gathering where you where
\nyou did not cede, and look at <\/p>\n

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\nthe the practical result that
\nhad on him. <\/p>\n

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\nAs a result of his socalled
\nknowledge of the Lord, he says, <\/p>\n

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\nI was afraid and I went and hid
\nyour talent in the ground. <\/p>\n

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\nThere was a paralysis that came
\nabout because of this <\/p>\n

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\nmisconception of the Lord that
\nhe had. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so you can see this
\noverwhelming fear of his Lord <\/p>\n

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\nled to this inability to even
\nserve his Lord. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:24,080 –> 00:19:25,800
\nThere was something wrong in the
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n

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\nThere was a misconception coming
\nfrom coming from the human end. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we just want to think about
\nthis a little bit tonight and <\/p>\n

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\nsee if our calibration needs a
\nlittle bit of tuning there. <\/p>\n

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\nLet’s first think about man.
\nThat’s that’s us, of course, and<\/p>\n

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\nhow how God sees us and how God
\nviews us. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause in our language there
\ncan be sometimes a very negative<\/p>\n

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\nperception of humans and humans
\nare evil. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s no doubt about that.
\nAnd and there’s many verses in <\/p>\n

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\nthe Bible that talk about the
\nhuman heart. <\/p>\n

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\nBut we sometimes get this
\npicture that humans are just <\/p>\n

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\nthis wretched creature of the
\ndust. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s the term we use, and
\nthere’s an appropriate place to <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:09,550 –> 00:20:12,030
\nuse that language.
\nBut we’re going to see is that, <\/p>\n

328
\n00:20:12,070 –> 00:20:15,190
\nis that really the whole picture
\nis are humans just this <\/p>\n

329
\n00:20:15,190 –> 00:20:21,430
\ndepraved, wretched, horrible
\nthing that is so offensive to <\/p>\n

330
\n00:20:21,430 –> 00:20:22,790
\nGod?
\nIs that is that really what what<\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:22,790 –> 00:20:29,810
\na human is.
\nThere are places in the Bible <\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:29,810 –> 00:20:32,770
\nthat compare us to say,
\ngrasshoppers in God’s sight and <\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:32,770 –> 00:20:34,730
\nthat we’re we’re nothing in
\nGod’s sight. <\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:34,810 –> 00:20:38,610
\nGod’s so great above us and our
\nthoughts are not his thoughts <\/p>\n

335
\n00:20:38,610 –> 00:20:41,810
\nand they are appropriate
\ncomparisons because God is so <\/p>\n

336
\n00:20:41,810 –> 00:20:46,410
\ngreat and so holy.
\nBut sometimes you can extract <\/p>\n

337
\n00:20:46,410 –> 00:20:50,450
\nfrom that this this idea that
\nman is absolutely nothing man. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:20:50,450 –> 00:20:56,260
\nMan’s a disgusting, horrible
\nthing that that that has no no <\/p>\n

339
\n00:20:56,260 –> 00:20:59,700
\nway is is man connected to the
\npresence of God or is there any <\/p>\n

340
\n00:20:59,700 –> 00:21:02,940
\nconnection to God whatsoever.
\nBut let’s think about man for a <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:02,940 –> 00:21:06,660
\nmoment.
\nIn in the big picture, God of <\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:06,660 –> 00:21:11,780
\ncourse created man.
\nIn the creation record, of <\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:11,780 –> 00:21:15,900
\ncourse there’s this word good.
\nWhen God observes his creation <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:15,900 –> 00:21:18,380
\nas it progresses through the
\ndays and God sees something, he <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:18,380 –> 00:21:21,340
\nsays it was it was good and he
\nsaid and beholder it was was <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:21,340 –> 00:21:24,130
\ngood.
\nIt’s not until man is created <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:24,130 –> 00:21:27,770
\nthat God looks at the whole of
\ncreation and says it was very <\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:27,770 –> 00:21:30,850
\ngood.
\nThere was something about man <\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:30,850 –> 00:21:33,570
\nthat was the pinnacle of God’s
\ncreation. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:21:33,570 –> 00:21:35,690
\nIt was something that God was
\nworking towards. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:21:36,090 –> 00:21:40,290
\nAnd all the other platforms and
\nelements that were part of the <\/p>\n

352
\n00:21:40,290 –> 00:21:45,690
\ncreation were were coming
\ntogether to provide a place <\/p>\n

353
\n00:21:45,690 –> 00:21:50,100
\nwhere God could put this thing
\ncalled man, this this this <\/p>\n

354
\n00:21:50,100 –> 00:21:52,740
\ncreation that he calls man.
\nAnd there’s something very <\/p>\n

355
\n00:21:52,740 –> 00:21:56,780
\nspecial and unique about man.
\nAnd we’re told in Genesis 127. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:21:56,780 –> 00:21:59,980
\nThese of course are very well
\nknown, very well known words <\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:00,700 –> 00:22:04,780
\nthat man was made after the
\nimage of God and the image and <\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:04,780 –> 00:22:06,940
\nlikeness of God after his own
\nimage. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:07,460 –> 00:22:11,380
\nGod created man.
\nIt’s hard to really define the <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:11,380 –> 00:22:13,660
\nidea of image it’s got.
\nThere’s lots of different <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:13,660 –> 00:22:17,980
\ncommentators and experts talk
\nabout what it may mean and we <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:17,980 –> 00:22:20,740
\ntalk about the fact that we
\nmight reflect that we’ve got <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:20,820 –> 00:22:24,220
\nhuman consciousness is a unique
\nand unexplainable phenomenon <\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:24,220 –> 00:22:28,220
\nthat no one can really explain.
\nHow this software got into our <\/p>\n

365
\n00:22:28,660 –> 00:22:31,820
\nphysical being that that allows
\nus to have self-awareness and <\/p>\n

366
\n00:22:31,820 –> 00:22:35,260
\nand and maybe that is how we are
\nin the image of God. <\/p>\n

367
\n00:22:36,140 –> 00:22:39,980
\nThe capacities we have for for
\nrational thought and worship and<\/p>\n

368
\n00:22:39,980 –> 00:22:44,580
\nthinking, intelligence, the
\nability to make moral choices. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:22:44,580 –> 00:22:48,790
\nAll these things are no doubt
\npart and parcel of what it means<\/p>\n

370
\n00:22:48,790 –> 00:22:54,150
\nto be in the image of God.
\nBut ultimately the image of God <\/p>\n

371
\n00:22:54,990 –> 00:23:00,190
\nis a family thing.
\nUltimately, it’s saying we are <\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:01,350 –> 00:23:04,230
\nGod’s offspring.
\nWe are God’s children. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:04,750 –> 00:23:09,150
\nHumans are not an animal.
\nThey are not part of the animal <\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:09,150 –> 00:23:10,910
\nworld.
\nIn that sense, there’s something<\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:10,910 –> 00:23:12,230
\ndifferent.
\nAlthough there’s a lot of <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:12,230 –> 00:23:15,370
\nfeatures in common with the
\nanimals and we eat similar food <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:15,370 –> 00:23:19,370
\nto the animals and have similar
\nmorphological and and and <\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:20,130 –> 00:23:24,370
\nbiological processes, there’s
\nsomething different and unique <\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:24,370 –> 00:23:27,530
\nabout humans.
\nAnd here’s this quote in Genesis<\/p>\n

380
\n00:23:27,530 –> 00:23:30,850
\n5 three that I’m sure many of us
\nknow, but it shows with this <\/p>\n

381
\n00:23:30,850 –> 00:23:35,010
\nword, with this concept of
\nlikeness is used in connection <\/p>\n

382
\n00:23:35,010 –> 00:23:38,530
\nwith a with a human child.
\nSo Adam lives 130 years. <\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:38,850 –> 00:23:42,770
\nHe has a son in his own likeness
\nand after his own image and <\/p>\n

384
\n00:23:42,770 –> 00:23:47,370
\ncalls him Seth was cause Seth
\nwas a little Adam. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:23:47,770 –> 00:23:51,850
\nSeth came from Adam.
\nHe was in his image and likeness<\/p>\n

386
\n00:23:52,330 –> 00:23:57,050
\nand if we wind that back then
\nAdam is made in the image and <\/p>\n

387
\n00:23:57,050 –> 00:23:59,330
\nlikeness of God.
\nWe are God’s children. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:00,570 –> 00:24:03,690
\nThere’s something very
\nincredible about being a human. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:04,770 –> 00:24:08,930
\nThere’s something very amazing
\nabout it and sometimes we think <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:09,290 –> 00:24:11,730
\nin terms and and and rightly so.
\nYou know, what is? <\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:14,580 –> 00:24:17,980
\nWhat is man, as Sam 8 says.
\nWhat is what is man? <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:17,980 –> 00:24:21,780
\nThat God’s mindful of him, or
\nthe Son of man that God visits <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:21,780 –> 00:24:23,780
\nhim.
\nThat man seems like nothing, And<\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:24,780 –> 00:24:28,180
\nthat is right at one level.
\nThere is this gulf between us in<\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:28,540 –> 00:24:33,260
\nfrom a wisdom and power point of
\nview, but so is there a gulf <\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:33,260 –> 00:24:35,580
\nbetween a father and a little
\nnewborn child. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:36,220 –> 00:24:38,460
\nBut they’re still connected.
\nThere’s still a connection <\/p>\n

398
\n00:24:38,460 –> 00:24:45,590
\nbetween the two of them.
\nI know it at my work. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:24:45,590 –> 00:24:47,470
\nI I work, my office is in the
\nwestern suburbs. <\/p>\n

400
\n00:24:47,470 –> 00:24:49,790
\nSo my my office is like the
\nUnited Nations. <\/p>\n

401
\n00:24:49,790 –> 00:24:52,910
\nWe’ve got every tongue and
\nkindred under heaven there, <\/p>\n

402
\n00:24:52,910 –> 00:24:54,590
\nwhich is lovely.
\nAnd we all talk about <\/p>\n

403
\n00:24:54,790 –> 00:24:56,870
\ninteresting things.
\nBut in my office I have a <\/p>\n

404
\n00:24:56,870 –> 00:24:58,790
\nPalestinian Christian, believe
\nit or not. <\/p>\n

405
\n00:24:58,790 –> 00:25:03,190
\nAnd he’s very pro Israel and
\nhe’s cousins in the Israeli army<\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:03,190 –> 00:25:04,630
\nand we have we have good
\nconversations. <\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:04,630 –> 00:25:08,430
\nBut he likes this is very, very
\nincredible. <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:08,430 –> 00:25:10,470
\nHe’s a Palestinian Christian who
\nloves listening to Jewish <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:10,470 –> 00:25:13,530
\nrabbis.
\nSo occasionally he’ll give me a <\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:14,290 –> 00:25:16,610
\na little YouTube clip or
\nsomething from a rabbi that he <\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:16,610 –> 00:25:19,250
\nlikes to listen to.
\nAnd he’s got a few favorites, <\/p>\n

412
\n00:25:19,570 –> 00:25:21,370
\nbut there’s one of them.
\nI was listening to it in the <\/p>\n

413
\n00:25:21,370 –> 00:25:26,610
\ncar, and it was a rabbi, and he
\nwas explaining what Judaism gave<\/p>\n

414
\n00:25:26,610 –> 00:25:28,610
\nthe world.
\nAnd he says a lot of people <\/p>\n

415
\n00:25:28,610 –> 00:25:32,730
\nthink Judaism gave the world
\nmonotheism, which is worshipping<\/p>\n

416
\n00:25:32,730 –> 00:25:35,330
\none God.
\nThat was the unique gift that <\/p>\n

417
\n00:25:35,330 –> 00:25:37,530
\nthat Judaism gave the world, He
\nsaid. <\/p>\n

418
\n00:25:37,530 –> 00:25:41,060
\nThat’s not really the case.
\nThat’s not really what the Jews <\/p>\n

419
\n00:25:41,060 –> 00:25:45,100
\ngave the world, he said.
\nWe what we really gave the world<\/p>\n

420
\n00:25:46,220 –> 00:25:51,420
\nwas the fact that there is a God
\nwho is relational, that has that<\/p>\n

421
\n00:25:51,420 –> 00:25:55,380
\nwants a relationship, that has
\npersonality and feelings and is <\/p>\n

422
\n00:25:55,500 –> 00:25:57,260
\nwants to be connected to his
\ncreation. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:25:57,260 –> 00:26:01,220
\nHe said that was the real gift
\nthat Judaism gave the world and <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:01,220 –> 00:26:04,780
\nof course changed the world.
\nAnd this is this start really <\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:04,780 –> 00:26:08,980
\nstarted started me thinking and
\nhe said this. <\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:09,060 –> 00:26:13,750
\nGod is presented to us in a way
\nand presents himself to us in a <\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:13,750 –> 00:26:18,510
\nway that he has feelings, he has
\nemotions, he gets jealous, he <\/p>\n

428
\n00:26:18,510 –> 00:26:20,750
\ngets angry, he gets he’s
\nsorrowful. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:26:21,070 –> 00:26:24,510
\nAll these different things God
\nis, God is connecting with his <\/p>\n

430
\n00:26:24,510 –> 00:26:29,270
\ncreation is that there’s a
\nthere’s similar emotional <\/p>\n

431
\n00:26:29,470 –> 00:26:32,070
\nfeelings that his creation
\nreflects and has. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:26:33,150 –> 00:26:39,960
\nAnd he says God also has needs.
\nNow this threw me, I have to say<\/p>\n

433
\n00:26:40,040 –> 00:26:42,040
\nthrough when he said God has
\nneeds. <\/p>\n

434
\n00:26:43,680 –> 00:26:46,440
\nWe think of God as self existing
\nof course and not needing <\/p>\n

435
\n00:26:46,440 –> 00:26:50,840
\nanything and and and that is of
\ncourse is right. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:26:50,840 –> 00:26:52,280
\nWe’ll expand on that in a
\nmoment. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:26:52,760 –> 00:26:56,080
\nBut it’s interesting to say that
\nif he is like his creation, that<\/p>\n

438
\n00:26:56,080 –> 00:26:58,960
\nhe has feelings and he has
\nemotions. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:01,060 –> 00:27:03,500
\nThe rabbi went on to say, why
\ndid he even create people? <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:03,500 –> 00:27:06,420
\nWas it just a science experiment
\nthat God was just saying, I’m <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:06,420 –> 00:27:08,860
\ngoing to make little puppets, so
\nI’m going to make a little Ant <\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:09,580 –> 00:27:12,460
\npill and I’m just going to see
\nhow these things work and I’m <\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:12,460 –> 00:27:16,540
\ngoing to look and say, no, God
\nwas making companions for <\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:16,540 –> 00:27:20,580
\nhimself.
\nGod has needs now. <\/p>\n

445
\n00:27:21,540 –> 00:27:24,700
\nYou may feel uncomfortable about
\nusing that language and if if <\/p>\n

446
\n00:27:24,700 –> 00:27:28,620
\nyou do, you can say it’s desires
\nor wants if you like, if that <\/p>\n

447
\n00:27:28,620 –> 00:27:31,550
\nmakes you feel better.
\nBut let’s let’s just flesh this <\/p>\n

448
\n00:27:31,550 –> 00:27:38,990
\nout for a minute.
\nGod created Adam in his own <\/p>\n

449
\n00:27:39,070 –> 00:27:42,950
\nimage and likeness.
\nThis is, this is in paradise. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:27:42,950 –> 00:27:44,510
\nThere’s no sin entered the
\nworld. <\/p>\n

451
\n00:27:45,030 –> 00:27:49,110
\nEverything’s as it should be.
\nAnd his Adam made in the image <\/p>\n

452
\n00:27:49,110 –> 00:27:51,110
\nand likeness, A reflection of
\nGod. <\/p>\n

453
\n00:27:51,350 –> 00:27:53,270
\nJohn Thomas says the image is
\nlike a mirror. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:27:54,230 –> 00:27:58,450
\nHis mirror is clean, very clean.
\nAt this point of creation is the<\/p>\n

455
\n00:27:58,450 –> 00:28:06,130
\nimage and likeness of God.
\nAnd on day one, Adam, day one, <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:07,050 –> 00:28:09,090
\nhe got some jobs to do.
\nHe’s naming animals. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:09,090 –> 00:28:13,130
\nHe’s done all this.
\nOn day one he gets lonely. <\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:16,210 –> 00:28:19,090
\nThink about that, Day one, he
\ngets lonely. <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:22,010 –> 00:28:25,480
\nDoes God to condemn him for
\nbeing lonely or to say you baby,<\/p>\n

460
\n00:28:25,520 –> 00:28:29,360
\ngrow up or, you know, get over
\nit, you’ve got more work to do? <\/p>\n

461
\n00:28:30,480 –> 00:28:33,680
\nGod actually says in his
\nresponse to his loneliness. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:28:33,680 –> 00:28:38,040
\nThere’s something intrinsic in
\nAdam, who’s reflecting in the <\/p>\n

463
\n00:28:38,040 –> 00:28:41,720
\nvery purest sense of the word,
\nreflecting the Creator as a son.<\/p>\n

464
\n00:28:43,040 –> 00:28:47,960
\nGod says it’s not good that you
\nshould be alone. <\/p>\n

465
\n00:28:48,440 –> 00:28:52,760
\nSo not only did God not condemn
\nthe loneliness, God said it’s <\/p>\n

466
\n00:28:52,880 –> 00:28:55,840
\nnot loneliness is not good, and
\neven though my creation is very <\/p>\n

467
\n00:28:55,840 –> 00:28:57,760
\ngood, there’s something not good
\nin it. <\/p>\n

468
\n00:28:58,360 –> 00:28:59,600
\nThere’s something that’s
\nmissing. <\/p>\n

469
\n00:28:59,600 –> 00:29:02,480
\nAnd so of course Evie’s made as
\na companion. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:03,400 –> 00:29:07,080
\nBut the very fact that Adam has
\nthis need for a connection, for <\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:07,080 –> 00:29:11,840
\na relationship reflecting his
\nvery own father, who created <\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:11,840 –> 00:29:14,640
\nhim, as I said before, sin and
\ndeath into the world. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:29:15,680 –> 00:29:18,160
\nSo I thought I might look at
\nthis a bit more deeper. <\/p>\n

474
\n00:29:18,160 –> 00:29:19,880
\nSo I went into Genesis to have a
\nlook at it. <\/p>\n

475
\n00:29:20,520 –> 00:29:26,830
\nWhile I was sorry, I forgot to
\ntalk about the the concept of <\/p>\n

476
\n00:29:26,830 –> 00:29:29,470
\nbeing in the image of God has
\nvery serious implications <\/p>\n

477
\n00:29:29,470 –> 00:29:31,310
\nthrough the whole of human
\nhistory. <\/p>\n

478
\n00:29:33,310 –> 00:29:37,990
\nGenesis 9, following the the
\nflood, you know, God steps into <\/p>\n

479
\n00:29:37,990 –> 00:29:40,470
\nthe flood because of the
\nviolence and because of murder. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:29:40,470 –> 00:29:43,950
\nAnd so in Genesis 9, there’s a
\nprohibition placed upon killing.<\/p>\n

481
\n00:29:43,950 –> 00:29:45,790
\nGod says you can kill all the
\nanimals and eat them. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:29:46,230 –> 00:29:48,550
\nDon’t kill humans.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n

483
\n00:29:49,320 –> 00:29:51,760
\nBecause they are made in the
\nimage of God. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:29:51,760 –> 00:29:55,320
\nThere’s something about humans.
\nAct 17, we’ve talked about this <\/p>\n

485
\n00:29:55,320 –> 00:29:57,720
\nalready.
\nPaul says we are his offspring. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:29:57,720 –> 00:30:00,240
\nHe’s not just talking about
\nbelievers in Christ, he’s <\/p>\n

487
\n00:30:00,240 –> 00:30:02,280
\ntalking about all humans.
\nWe are his offspring. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:30:02,280 –> 00:30:05,040
\nAnd there’s an interesting verse
\nin James 3 where James says <\/p>\n

489
\n00:30:05,800 –> 00:30:09,760
\ndon’t curse humans, don’t curse
\nmen who are made in the <\/p>\n

490
\n00:30:09,760 –> 00:30:12,040
\nsimilitude of the image and
\nlikeness of God. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:30:13,080 –> 00:30:14,880
\nHe’s not just talking about
\nbelievers there either. <\/p>\n

492
\n00:30:15,360 –> 00:30:17,380
\nSo there’s something about
\nhumans. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:30:17,380 –> 00:30:21,300
\nThere’s a level of dignity,
\nthere’s a level of protection <\/p>\n

494
\n00:30:21,300 –> 00:30:24,740
\nthey have under the eternal
\ndivine law because they are <\/p>\n

495
\n00:30:24,740 –> 00:30:27,380
\nGod’s children.
\nWe don’t, we can’t kill somebody<\/p>\n

496
\n00:30:28,740 –> 00:30:39,380
\nunder that.
\nLet’s just think about Genesis <\/p>\n

497
\n00:30:39,380 –> 00:30:42,700
\nand the creation record to try
\nand get a picture of how <\/p>\n

498
\n00:30:43,370 –> 00:30:46,570
\nimportant man was in this in in
\nthe creation of the world. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:30:46,570 –> 00:30:50,890
\nSo you’ve probably heard before
\nhow Genesis One and Genesis 2 <\/p>\n

500
\n00:30:50,890 –> 00:30:53,250
\nare significantly different in
\nthe language and the style of <\/p>\n

501
\n00:30:53,250 –> 00:30:55,530
\nlanguage that he that he’s used,
\neven the Hebrew words that he <\/p>\n

502
\n00:30:55,530 –> 00:30:57,530
\nused.
\nAnd some people have wrongly <\/p>\n

503
\n00:30:59,570 –> 00:31:00,850
\ncalled these two creation
\nrecords. <\/p>\n

504
\n00:31:00,850 –> 00:31:02,810
\nI don’t know if you ever heard
\npeople say there’s two creation <\/p>\n

505
\n00:31:02,810 –> 00:31:04,210
\nrecords.
\nThere’s not two creation <\/p>\n

506
\n00:31:04,210 –> 00:31:07,330
\nrecords.
\nGenesis 2 is an expansion or a <\/p>\n

507
\n00:31:07,330 –> 00:31:10,970
\ndrill down if you like into the
\ninto the 6th day in the creation<\/p>\n

508
\n00:31:10,970 –> 00:31:13,480
\nof man.
\nBut but it is interesting and it<\/p>\n

509
\n00:31:13,480 –> 00:31:17,000
\nis very true that there are
\nsignificant differences in <\/p>\n

510
\n00:31:17,000 –> 00:31:22,360
\nGenesis One and Genesis 2.
\nSo in Genesis one God is <\/p>\n

511
\n00:31:22,360 –> 00:31:28,040
\nreferred to by the title Elohim
\nand it’s it’s it’s it’s has an <\/p>\n

512
\n00:31:28,040 –> 00:31:29,720
\nimpersonal aspect to it isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

513
\n00:31:29,720 –> 00:31:34,240
\nElohim is is referring to the
\nale, the power of God. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:31:34,240 –> 00:31:36,520
\nSo it’s God’s power, God’s
\nenergy. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:31:36,680 –> 00:31:38,920
\nAnd that’s how God presents
\nhimself in those. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:31:39,120 –> 00:31:42,280
\nIn that very first chapter, and
\nas you read through that first <\/p>\n

517
\n00:31:42,280 –> 00:31:46,760
\nchapter, you have God in a sense
\nlike a distant king. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:31:47,280 –> 00:31:49,800
\nAnd he’s he’s calling out
\ncommands. <\/p>\n

519
\n00:31:49,800 –> 00:31:54,080
\nHe says let there be light and
\nthen bam, there’s light and let <\/p>\n

520
\n00:31:54,080 –> 00:31:58,160
\nthe dry ground separate from the
\nwater and the water’s rush back <\/p>\n

521
\n00:31:58,160 –> 00:32:00,760
\nAnd then the and the king is
\nmaking these these commands and <\/p>\n

522
\n00:32:00,760 –> 00:32:03,760
\nhis word brings about this
\nphysical reality as things <\/p>\n

523
\n00:32:03,760 –> 00:32:09,040
\nhappen from his commands.
\nWhen you get to chapter 2, it’s <\/p>\n

524
\n00:32:09,040 –> 00:32:13,660
\nvery, very different.
\nIn chapter 2, God is now called <\/p>\n

525
\n00:32:13,660 –> 00:32:17,860
\nYahweh, His personal name.
\nWe know someone’s name is a very<\/p>\n

526
\n00:32:18,140 –> 00:32:20,220
\nintimate thing, isn’t it?
\nWhen you hear your name mention <\/p>\n

527
\n00:32:20,220 –> 00:32:24,100
\nyou, you flinch or you you turn
\naround your name something close<\/p>\n

528
\n00:32:24,100 –> 00:32:27,020
\nto something important to you.
\nGod now presents his covenant <\/p>\n

529
\n00:32:27,020 –> 00:32:30,780
\nname when we get into Chapter 2.
\nNo longer. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:32:30,780 –> 00:32:35,820
\nHe’s got creating by, by
\ncommand, by just yelling <\/p>\n

531
\n00:32:35,820 –> 00:32:37,060
\ncommands.
\nLet there be light. <\/p>\n

532
\n00:32:37,060 –> 00:32:39,380
\nLet the earth bring forth this
\nand that. <\/p>\n

533
\n00:32:40,150 –> 00:32:43,870
\nNow God’s down and and personal
\nin the creation record. <\/p>\n

534
\n00:32:44,110 –> 00:32:45,990
\nHe’s right.
\nHe’s down in the garden, as it <\/p>\n

535
\n00:32:45,990 –> 00:32:50,710
\nwere, not calling out things
\nfrom from an apparent distance. <\/p>\n

536
\n00:32:51,590 –> 00:32:53,870
\nHe makes man.
\nNow this is really where it gets<\/p>\n

537
\n00:32:53,870 –> 00:32:55,950
\ninteresting.
\nHe makes him, as it were, with <\/p>\n

538
\n00:32:55,950 –> 00:32:59,790
\nhis own hands.
\nHe forms him out of the clay, <\/p>\n

539
\n00:32:59,790 –> 00:33:03,470
\nout of the dust of the earth.
\nHe makes man. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:33:04,510 –> 00:33:07,390
\nHe hasn’t done that with the
\nanimals, with the mountains, <\/p>\n

541
\n00:33:07,390 –> 00:33:10,270
\nwith the dry land, with the fish
\nof the sea that they’ve just <\/p>\n

542
\n00:33:10,270 –> 00:33:12,550
\ncome into existence from his the
\npower of his word. <\/p>\n

543
\n00:33:13,110 –> 00:33:16,990
\nNow he’s forming man like a
\nPotter. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:33:16,990 –> 00:33:20,310
\nHe’s making man.
\nIt’s very personal, very <\/p>\n

545
\n00:33:20,310 –> 00:33:24,030
\nintimate.
\nAnd then he breathes into his <\/p>\n

546
\n00:33:24,030 –> 00:33:31,130
\nnostrils, the breath of life.
\nNow, how this all played out is,<\/p>\n

547
\n00:33:31,490 –> 00:33:36,290
\nis, is hard to know in reality,
\nbut it forgot to do that to an <\/p>\n

548
\n00:33:36,290 –> 00:33:39,570
\ninanimate body.
\nGot his, in a sense, getting <\/p>\n

549
\n00:33:39,570 –> 00:33:41,770
\ndown on his knees, isn’t he?
\nHe’s, he’s coming. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:33:41,770 –> 00:33:46,730
\nHe’s condescending down and he’s
\nfixing his lips around the <\/p>\n

551
\n00:33:46,730 –> 00:33:49,930
\nnostrils, which is again, a very
\nintimate and tend tender part of<\/p>\n

552
\n00:33:49,970 –> 00:33:52,250
\none’s body.
\nYou don’t touch people’s <\/p>\n

553
\n00:33:52,250 –> 00:33:55,250
\nnostrils at the hall, I imagine.
\nSo your nostrils are very, you <\/p>\n

554
\n00:33:55,250 –> 00:34:00,400
\nknow, intimate.
\nIt’s now connected to God’s <\/p>\n

555
\n00:34:00,440 –> 00:34:02,720
\nmouth, if you like.
\nHe breathes into his nostrils, <\/p>\n

556
\n00:34:02,720 –> 00:34:04,760
\nthe breath of life.
\nYou can see there’s a very much <\/p>\n

557
\n00:34:04,760 –> 00:34:08,840
\na different picture of creation
\nhere than just commands by <\/p>\n

558
\n00:34:08,840 –> 00:34:12,360
\ntheat.
\nAnd now God breathes that life <\/p>\n

559
\n00:34:12,360 –> 00:34:14,639
\ninto man.
\nGod then goes on to plant the <\/p>\n

560
\n00:34:14,639 –> 00:34:16,199
\ngarden.
\nHe puts man in the garden. <\/p>\n

561
\n00:34:16,199 –> 00:34:18,800
\nThe words like hey, you would
\nplace a puppy, if you like, in a<\/p>\n

562
\n00:34:19,400 –> 00:34:21,199
\nin a basket places man in the
\ngarden. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:34:21,440 –> 00:34:24,639
\nWe know in the story.
\nLater on in the narrative there <\/p>\n

564
\n00:34:24,639 –> 00:34:27,870
\nGod walks, as it were, in the
\ngarden with Adam and even <\/p>\n

565
\n00:34:27,870 –> 00:34:31,310
\nconverses with them.
\nSo we do have this, this <\/p>\n

566
\n00:34:31,310 –> 00:34:36,350
\nintimate connection between this
\nvery special part of his <\/p>\n

567
\n00:34:36,350 –> 00:34:39,909
\ncreation, which is which is man.
\nAnd this is, this is something <\/p>\n

568
\n00:34:39,949 –> 00:34:43,710
\nthat’s I think it’s quite
\nprofound when we when we think <\/p>\n

569
\n00:34:43,710 –> 00:34:48,949
\nabout it.
\nWhen I, I, I went to look at <\/p>\n

570
\n00:34:48,949 –> 00:34:51,429
\nthis for myself.
\nSo I I said I saw this rabbi <\/p>\n

571
\n00:34:51,429 –> 00:34:56,330
\ntalking about this concept and I
\nthought, wow, this is quite <\/p>\n

572
\n00:34:56,330 –> 00:35:00,650
\namazing.
\nBut you know is is there is <\/p>\n

573
\n00:35:00,650 –> 00:35:03,290
\nthere some other?
\nIs there evidence for it? <\/p>\n

574
\n00:35:03,290 –> 00:35:06,570
\nSo I went and looked at Genesis
\nOne and I I use esord because I <\/p>\n

575
\n00:35:07,130 –> 00:35:10,050
\ndon’t like change.
\nI can’t get out of my habits. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:35:10,050 –> 00:35:14,410
\nI love esord in any esord.
\nI have a Christadelphian <\/p>\n

577
\n00:35:14,410 –> 00:35:20,900
\ncommentary called the Agora,
\nwhich is fantastic little tool <\/p>\n

578
\n00:35:20,900 –> 00:35:22,780
\nif you don’t have it.
\nAnd it has a basically a <\/p>\n

579
\n00:35:22,780 –> 00:35:26,660
\ncommentary on every every verse
\nin the Bible written by brother <\/p>\n

580
\n00:35:26,660 –> 00:35:28,420
\nGeorge Booker from the United
\nStates. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:35:30,060 –> 00:35:33,100
\nWith this idea in my mind
\nalready, I went to Genesis, <\/p>\n

582
\n00:35:33,140 –> 00:35:36,660
\nlooked at Genesis one verse 26,
\netcetera, trying to look at this<\/p>\n

583
\n00:35:36,700 –> 00:35:40,340
\nidea and then I looked at, I
\nlooked at the Agora, looked at <\/p>\n

584
\n00:35:40,340 –> 00:35:43,060
\nthe concepts and I was, I was
\nsort of blown away. <\/p>\n

585
\n00:35:43,060 –> 00:35:46,540
\nIt’s one of those times when you
\nget some amazing confirmation on<\/p>\n

586
\n00:35:46,540 –> 00:35:48,100
\nsomething you’d never thought
\nabout before. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:35:48,890 –> 00:35:51,330
\nAnd in the commentary, this is
\nthe Christofian commentary on <\/p>\n

588
\n00:35:51,330 –> 00:35:55,170
\nthe On the Agora, Father George
\nasked his question. <\/p>\n

589
\n00:35:55,170 –> 00:35:58,810
\nHe says is it true also.
\nSo it was not good for man to be<\/p>\n

590
\n00:35:58,810 –> 00:36:00,610
\nalone.
\nHe says Is it true? <\/p>\n

591
\n00:36:00,930 –> 00:36:05,770
\nIs it also true that it was not
\ngood for God to be alone? <\/p>\n

592
\n00:36:06,330 –> 00:36:08,050
\nCan we read something back into
\nthis? <\/p>\n

593
\n00:36:08,730 –> 00:36:11,810
\nIf God reveals that it was not
\ngood for Adam to be alone, but <\/p>\n

594
\n00:36:11,810 –> 00:36:15,510
\nthat he needed a companion,
\nsurely it was patterned or <\/p>\n

595
\n00:36:15,510 –> 00:36:18,310
\nfigurative way of saying it’s
\nnot good for me to be alone. <\/p>\n

596
\n00:36:18,310 –> 00:36:22,030
\nI too must have a companion, he
\nsays. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:36:22,030 –> 00:36:25,470
\nLook at it another way.
\nIf our own observation, our own <\/p>\n

598
\n00:36:25,470 –> 00:36:29,230
\nexperience, shows us how
\nunsatisfactory life can be lived<\/p>\n

599
\n00:36:29,470 –> 00:36:32,590
\nentirely alone, with no regard
\nfor or fellowship with others, <\/p>\n

600
\n00:36:32,830 –> 00:36:36,230
\nand how much we need, we need
\ncompanionship, both personal and<\/p>\n

601
\n00:36:36,230 –> 00:36:37,950
\nspiritual, and sympathetic and
\nloving. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:36:38,350 –> 00:36:41,310
\nAnd if two we are made in the
\nimage and likeness of God, then <\/p>\n

603
\n00:36:41,310 –> 00:36:44,640
\nreason backward.
\nIt’s not good for God himself to<\/p>\n

604
\n00:36:44,640 –> 00:36:47,160
\nbe alone.
\nSo if God made us, and we <\/p>\n

605
\n00:36:47,160 –> 00:36:50,400
\nreflect him, and we feel the
\nneed for companionship and <\/p>\n

606
\n00:36:50,400 –> 00:36:53,560
\nfellowship, then wouldn’t that
\ntell us a little bit about God <\/p>\n

607
\n00:36:53,560 –> 00:36:55,800
\nhimself?
\nThen he makes this very <\/p>\n

608
\n00:36:55,800 –> 00:37:01,760
\ninteresting practical point on
\nthis same lesson he says on this<\/p>\n

609
\n00:37:01,760 –> 00:37:02,960
\nsame verse.
\nHe says. <\/p>\n

610
\n00:37:02,960 –> 00:37:05,800
\nI remember some years ago a
\nyoung sister of a Bible class <\/p>\n

611
\n00:37:06,400 –> 00:37:10,980
\nasking Why does God love me?
\nThe questions that he said. <\/p>\n

612
\n00:37:10,980 –> 00:37:13,620
\nThe question passed with
\nperfunctory discussion, and I at<\/p>\n

613
\n00:37:13,620 –> 00:37:16,420
\nfirst dismissed it from my mind
\nas no great consequence. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:37:17,100 –> 00:37:19,540
\nBut then the question came back
\nto me again later, and it <\/p>\n

615
\n00:37:19,540 –> 00:37:21,500
\nsuddenly seemed to be of
\nenormous import. <\/p>\n

616
\n00:37:21,500 –> 00:37:25,660
\nWhy does God love me?
\nNot just the fact that he does <\/p>\n

617
\n00:37:25,660 –> 00:37:30,860
\nlove, or that he is loved, but
\nhe needs someone, he says, but <\/p>\n

618
\n00:37:30,860 –> 00:37:34,220
\nthe rationale behind it.
\nI finally came to the conclusion<\/p>\n

619
\n00:37:34,220 –> 00:37:39,100
\nthat God loves me because he
\nneeds someone to love and he <\/p>\n

620
\n00:37:39,100 –> 00:37:42,060
\nneeds someone to love him, and
\nthat somehow even the <\/p>\n

621
\n00:37:42,060 –> 00:37:45,020
\nomnipotence of the universe
\nwould be incomplete without the <\/p>\n

622
\n00:37:45,020 –> 00:37:47,900
\nlove freely given of his
\ncreation. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:37:48,980 –> 00:37:51,900
\nAnd then he talks about how this
\nties him with free will and he <\/p>\n

624
\n00:37:51,900 –> 00:37:53,540
\nsays this is what God is looking
\nfor. <\/p>\n

625
\n00:37:53,540 –> 00:37:56,380
\nAnd This is why he had to create
\nbeans like Adam and Eve with the<\/p>\n

626
\n00:37:56,620 –> 00:38:00,500
\npotential to choose having free
\nwill and hence the potential to <\/p>\n

627
\n00:38:00,500 –> 00:38:04,460
\ndisappoint him greatly, but also
\nthe potential and what a <\/p>\n

628
\n00:38:04,460 –> 00:38:06,860
\npotential to actually please
\nhim. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:38:08,020 –> 00:38:11,940
\nI thought this really, this
\nreally changed some of my <\/p>\n

630
\n00:38:11,940 –> 00:38:16,060
\nthinking in this regard.
\nGod has this need. <\/p>\n

631
\n00:38:16,060 –> 00:38:17,500
\nThat’s the very reason it
\ncreated. <\/p>\n

632
\n00:38:17,500 –> 00:38:22,740
\nDidn’t just create as a project,
\nas an experiment, it created in <\/p>\n

633
\n00:38:22,740 –> 00:38:26,860
\nhis plan to have companionship
\nwith his creation. <\/p>\n

634
\n00:38:28,580 –> 00:38:34,180
\nAnd if when I say need we have
\nwhat we call existential needs, <\/p>\n

635
\n00:38:34,180 –> 00:38:36,020
\nthese are needs we could, we
\nwouldn’t be able to live <\/p>\n

636
\n00:38:36,020 –> 00:38:38,570
\nwithout.
\nSo we have need for food and <\/p>\n

637
\n00:38:38,570 –> 00:38:40,290
\nwater.
\nGod doesn’t have existential <\/p>\n

638
\n00:38:40,290 –> 00:38:44,410
\nneeds, but we also have needs
\nfor companionship like Adam and <\/p>\n

639
\n00:38:44,730 –> 00:38:47,050
\nand fellowship with each other
\nand interaction with people. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:38:47,210 –> 00:38:50,410
\nThese are needs that we could we
\ncould live without them, but the<\/p>\n

641
\n00:38:50,410 –> 00:38:53,490
\nquality of our life would be
\ndiminished with if we didn’t <\/p>\n

642
\n00:38:53,490 –> 00:38:57,090
\nhave them.
\nAlso, we think of needs. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:38:57,090 –> 00:39:01,690
\nNeeds reflect who we are.
\nOur very being, in a sense, our <\/p>\n

644
\n00:39:01,690 –> 00:39:05,530
\nvery inner person can be
\nreflected in a need. <\/p>\n

645
\n00:39:05,530 –> 00:39:08,780
\nWhat do I mean by that?
\nI’ll give you my wife, Susan. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:39:08,780 –> 00:39:10,180
\nMany of you, of course, know her
\nvery well. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:39:11,140 –> 00:39:13,300
\nSusan is one of these underdog
\npeople, right? <\/p>\n

648
\n00:39:13,300 –> 00:39:16,820
\nSo she always at the meeting,
\nshe thinks anyone’s ever been <\/p>\n

649
\n00:39:17,700 –> 00:39:20,900
\nsort of either hard done by or
\nhave been oppressed in any way, <\/p>\n

650
\n00:39:20,900 –> 00:39:24,580
\nor anyone’s having.
\nShe just has a need that she has<\/p>\n

651
\n00:39:24,580 –> 00:39:26,940
\nto get involved.
\nIt’s just drives me crazy. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:39:27,180 –> 00:39:28,820
\nSometimes I say just settle
\ndown, dear. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:39:28,820 –> 00:39:30,500
\nIt’s going to be all right.
\nIt’s not our business. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:39:30,500 –> 00:39:33,420
\nWe don’t need to get involved.
\nBut she has something built into<\/p>\n

655
\n00:39:33,420 –> 00:39:36,400
\nher that she just has to say
\nsomething. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:39:36,400 –> 00:39:39,360
\nShe has to do something.
\nShe feels something about the <\/p>\n

657
\n00:39:39,360 –> 00:39:42,480
\nsituation, and it’s just part of
\nher very essence, her very <\/p>\n

658
\n00:39:42,480 –> 00:39:45,200
\ncharacter.
\nIt’s it’s a need that I don’t <\/p>\n

659
\n00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:48,360
\nparticularly have.
\nI have high empathy but not the <\/p>\n

660
\n00:39:48,360 –> 00:39:53,640
\nneed to just jump in and try and
\nhelp people who I feel I’ve been<\/p>\n

661
\n00:39:55,000 –> 00:39:56,920
\nbadly treated or whatever the
\ncase might be. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:39:58,610 –> 00:40:01,490
\nAnother exam is my my own dad.
\nHe’s a he’s a classic and I’m <\/p>\n

663
\n00:40:01,930 –> 00:40:04,650
\nsick of talking about him but he
\njust turned 80 on Saturday so we<\/p>\n

664
\n00:40:04,650 –> 00:40:09,090
\njust had a little party for him
\nbut dad’s a that’s a fearless <\/p>\n

665
\n00:40:09,090 –> 00:40:13,450
\nsort of guy and and when he
\nworked for the state rail he <\/p>\n

666
\n00:40:13,450 –> 00:40:17,210
\nused to work in he worked
\nbetween Redfern and and and town<\/p>\n

667
\n00:40:17,210 –> 00:40:20,730
\nHall and that in the city area
\nthere on on on maintenance and <\/p>\n

668
\n00:40:20,730 –> 00:40:22,370
\nthings.
\nHe he told me, he told us once <\/p>\n

669
\n00:40:22,370 –> 00:40:24,930
\nhe came home and told us and it
\nwas no big deal but I was <\/p>\n

670
\n00:40:24,930 –> 00:40:26,130
\nimpressed.
\nHe said he came home. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:40:26,370 –> 00:40:30,390
\nIt was back in the 80s.
\nAnd there was a a gang of Asians<\/p>\n

672
\n00:40:30,390 –> 00:40:33,750
\nthat was like a triad and they
\nwere kicking some guy on the <\/p>\n

673
\n00:40:33,750 –> 00:40:35,430
\nplatform.
\nThis is like four or five in the<\/p>\n

674
\n00:40:35,430 –> 00:40:37,710
\nmorning when dad used to work
\nand they were just laying into <\/p>\n

675
\n00:40:37,710 –> 00:40:41,350
\nhim and kicking him and and dad
\nsaid, oh, it was horrific. <\/p>\n

676
\n00:40:41,350 –> 00:40:44,910
\nI was beaten into this guy and
\nDad walked over. <\/p>\n

677
\n00:40:44,910 –> 00:40:47,710
\nSo there’s commuters getting off
\ntrains and they’re just heading <\/p>\n

678
\n00:40:47,710 –> 00:40:50,470
\nup the stairs and no one wants
\nto get involved in anything like<\/p>\n

679
\n00:40:50,470 –> 00:40:53,070
\nthis.
\nBut Dad would have a Dad’s got a<\/p>\n

680
\n00:40:53,070 –> 00:40:54,790
\nneed.
\nHe couldn’t just let that go. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:40:54,790 –> 00:40:57,980
\nSo Dad walked over and he said
\ncome on fellas, he’s had enough.<\/p>\n

682
\n00:40:57,980 –> 00:40:59,540
\nHe’s had enough, Dad, come on,
\nmove on. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:40:59,540 –> 00:41:02,860
\nHe’s had and eventually the the
\nthe guy’s got a last kick in and<\/p>\n

684
\n00:41:02,860 –> 00:41:05,940
\nkept walking and to me that’s
\nlike Dad has this need. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:41:05,940 –> 00:41:07,900
\nHe could not.
\nI I would have just bowled it up<\/p>\n

686
\n00:41:07,900 –> 00:41:10,140
\nthe stairs and thought, well
\nthis is the police’s job. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:41:10,140 –> 00:41:13,060
\nIt’s not my job.
\nBut he had a need that he had to<\/p>\n

688
\n00:41:13,420 –> 00:41:16,460
\nget involved at that point so
\nthat when I talk about needs, <\/p>\n

689
\n00:41:16,460 –> 00:41:19,100
\nI’m not talking about needing to
\neat or drink or whatever the <\/p>\n

690
\n00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:20,980
\ncase.
\nIt’s something that comes from <\/p>\n

691
\n00:41:20,980 –> 00:41:24,340
\nour very essence from our very
\nbeing of who we are and we have <\/p>\n

692
\n00:41:24,340 –> 00:41:29,450
\nwe have those those needs.
\nNow God has a character and a <\/p>\n

693
\n00:41:29,450 –> 00:41:32,810
\npersonality and he has he’s he’s
\nrevealed that to us So what can <\/p>\n

694
\n00:41:32,810 –> 00:41:37,890
\nwe learn about that from him and
\nhe I think it’s captured nicely <\/p>\n

695
\n00:41:37,890 –> 00:41:43,010
\nin Psalm 94 that says does he
\nwho fashion the ear not hear. <\/p>\n

696
\n00:41:43,850 –> 00:41:48,090
\nDoes he who form the eye not see
\nAnd so based on that logic we <\/p>\n

697
\n00:41:48,090 –> 00:41:52,570
\ncould assume, does he who made
\nman us humans to long for <\/p>\n

698
\n00:41:52,570 –> 00:41:55,130
\ncompanionship and need
\ncompanionship and need <\/p>\n

699
\n00:41:55,730 –> 00:41:59,290
\nfellowship and interaction?
\nDoes he also have those similar <\/p>\n

700
\n00:41:59,290 –> 00:42:01,010
\nfeelings?
\nIt would it would logically <\/p>\n

701
\n00:42:01,010 –> 00:42:03,450
\nfollow I think if we follow that
\nthrough. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:42:04,850 –> 00:42:08,730
\nAnd as we said, God has revealed
\nhimself to us very clearly in <\/p>\n

703
\n00:42:08,730 –> 00:42:11,490
\nhis word, hasn’t he?
\nAnd probably the most, you know,<\/p>\n

704
\n00:42:11,690 –> 00:42:19,130
\nthey’re famous revelations of
\nGod of XSA, Exodus 34. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:42:19,530 –> 00:42:21,090
\nSo I’ve written numbers 14.
\nI’ve got that wrong. <\/p>\n

706
\n00:42:21,090 –> 00:42:26,010
\nI think I’ve seen numbers 14,
\nbut I think Xodus 34 captures it<\/p>\n

707
\n00:42:26,010 –> 00:42:28,770
\nvery well.
\nGod reveals himself as abundant.<\/p>\n

708
\n00:42:30,330 –> 00:42:33,450
\nYou know, sometimes we think
\nabout God being this balance. <\/p>\n

709
\n00:42:33,450 –> 00:42:37,610
\nWe go, oh, God’s balance is a
\nperfect balance of goodness and <\/p>\n

710
\n00:42:37,610 –> 00:42:39,850
\nseverity.
\nDo you really think balance is <\/p>\n

711
\n00:42:39,850 –> 00:42:43,090
\nthe way to think about that?
\nIt’s got balance between, I <\/p>\n

712
\n00:42:43,090 –> 00:42:45,650
\nmean, if you’re a parent, you
\nsay, well, I’m balanced. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:42:46,050 –> 00:42:49,090
\nI like to build my kids 50% of
\nthe time and be nicer than 50% <\/p>\n

714
\n00:42:49,090 –> 00:42:50,290
\nof the time because I like to be
\nbalanced. <\/p>\n

715
\n00:42:50,370 –> 00:42:53,090
\nThat’s not quite, that’s not
\nquite the concept, is it? <\/p>\n

716
\n00:42:53,410 –> 00:42:56,030
\nWe don’t.
\nWe will discipline our children.<\/p>\n

717
\n00:42:56,030 –> 00:42:58,350
\nWe could go, we’ll go there and
\nthey’ve got the emotional <\/p>\n

718
\n00:42:58,350 –> 00:42:59,950
\nintelligence to do that when
\nit’s needed. <\/p>\n

719
\n00:42:59,950 –> 00:43:03,110
\nBut that’s not that’s not what
\nwe’re that’s not not why we had <\/p>\n

720
\n00:43:03,110 –> 00:43:05,670
\nchildren.
\nThat’s not what we take joy and <\/p>\n

721
\n00:43:05,670 –> 00:43:07,830
\npleasure in, is that that’s not
\nwho we really are. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:43:07,830 –> 00:43:12,430
\nWe we know it’s necessary.
\nAnd I think the same applies to <\/p>\n

723
\n00:43:12,430 –> 00:43:14,590
\nGod.
\nWhen God reveals himself, he <\/p>\n

724
\n00:43:14,590 –> 00:43:17,710
\nsays I’m abundant in certain
\nqualities. <\/p>\n

725
\n00:43:18,390 –> 00:43:22,550
\nAnd these qualities, this idea
\nof abundance as we apply it to <\/p>\n

726
\n00:43:22,550 –> 00:43:26,770
\nGod, relate to these qualities
\nthat in the Hebrew are called <\/p>\n

727
\n00:43:27,090 –> 00:43:31,890
\nHessed and emit goodness and
\ntruth in the in the Authorized <\/p>\n

728
\n00:43:31,890 –> 00:43:36,290
\nversion, God says he’s abundant
\nin these qualities of goodness, <\/p>\n

729
\n00:43:36,370 –> 00:43:41,530
\nof hessed.
\nHessed is covenant love, as <\/p>\n

730
\n00:43:41,530 –> 00:43:46,290
\nwe’ll see in a second.
\nIt’s a love for your people, for<\/p>\n

731
\n00:43:46,290 –> 00:43:50,100
\nyours, just like a parent has
\nthis, he said. <\/p>\n

732
\n00:43:50,100 –> 00:43:52,420
\nFor their own children and their
\nown wife and their own family. <\/p>\n

733
\n00:43:52,700 –> 00:43:55,420
\nIt’s a connection love, it’s a
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n

734
\n00:43:55,420 –> 00:44:00,700
\nLove and emit is translated
\ntruth, but it’s not really <\/p>\n

735
\n00:44:00,700 –> 00:44:02,620
\npropositional truth as we think
\nabout it. <\/p>\n

736
\n00:44:02,620 –> 00:44:07,260
\nIt’s more being true, being
\nfaithful like a husband, being <\/p>\n

737
\n00:44:07,260 –> 00:44:09,820
\ntrue to their vows or things
\nlike that. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:44:09,820 –> 00:44:17,320
\nSo God’s it’s their relationship
\nwords emit and he said these are<\/p>\n

739
\n00:44:17,320 –> 00:44:19,560
\nrelationship words and
\nconnection words with people and<\/p>\n

740
\n00:44:19,560 –> 00:44:24,920
\nit’s God’s not saying I, I, I
\ndisplay he said And I display <\/p>\n

741
\n00:44:24,920 –> 00:44:29,040
\nhim at he says I am this is what
\nI this is what I am. <\/p>\n

742
\n00:44:29,040 –> 00:44:35,120
\nMy very being is is relationship
\nlove and goodness and or mercy. <\/p>\n

743
\n00:44:35,480 –> 00:44:39,360
\nHowever it’s translated and this
\nfaithfulness to my connection to<\/p>\n

744
\n00:44:39,360 –> 00:44:43,480
\nmy to my relationship and so
\nthere’s many verses that pick <\/p>\n

745
\n00:44:43,480 –> 00:44:47,770
\nthis up.
\nMicah seven, who is a God like <\/p>\n

746
\n00:44:47,770 –> 00:44:51,250
\nyou, pardoning iniquity and
\npassing over transgression <\/p>\n

747
\n00:44:51,250 –> 00:44:57,170
\nbecause he delights in mercy.
\nThat’s what God delights in <\/p>\n

748
\n00:44:57,170 –> 00:44:57,810
\nMercy.
\nSo. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:44:58,690 –> 00:45:00,810
\nSo it’s not like a 50% on bad
\n50%. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:45:00,810 –> 00:45:05,570
\nI do good God will bring
\njudgment in his righteousness <\/p>\n

751
\n00:45:05,810 –> 00:45:08,090
\nwhen it’s necessary, but he
\ndelights. <\/p>\n

752
\n00:45:08,090 –> 00:45:12,970
\nThat’s the the the weight of the
\nscale is on on mercy, on his <\/p>\n

753
\n00:45:12,970 –> 00:45:14,890
\nchest, set on his loving
\nkindness. <\/p>\n

754
\n00:45:14,890 –> 00:45:20,150
\nThat’s where God sits.
\nYou think about, like, you know,<\/p>\n

755
\n00:45:20,150 –> 00:45:24,830
\nif your kids ask you, dad, what
\nwas the what was the what <\/p>\n

756
\n00:45:24,830 –> 00:45:26,390
\nmemories do you have of me as a
\nkid? <\/p>\n

757
\n00:45:26,950 –> 00:45:31,470
\nAnd you think, Oh yeah, remember
\nthat time I builded you when you<\/p>\n

758
\n00:45:31,470 –> 00:45:33,470
\nwere like a naughty kid at
\nSunday school? <\/p>\n

759
\n00:45:33,550 –> 00:45:36,790
\nOr remember that time I I made
\nyou sit in the car when you were<\/p>\n

760
\n00:45:36,790 –> 00:45:38,830
\nbeing cheeky?
\nYou know, you don’t Remember <\/p>\n

761
\n00:45:38,830 –> 00:45:41,430
\nRemember those things, do you?
\nYou know I remember that time I <\/p>\n

762
\n00:45:41,430 –> 00:45:44,150
\ngrounded you for six weeks
\nbecause you broke the window at <\/p>\n

763
\n00:45:44,150 –> 00:45:46,490
\nhome or something.
\nThat’s not what you that’s not <\/p>\n

764
\n00:45:46,490 –> 00:45:49,890
\nwho you that’s not that’s not a
\nrelationship that yeah it was <\/p>\n

765
\n00:45:49,890 –> 00:45:52,450
\nessential at the time.
\nThose of you who know Johnny of <\/p>\n

766
\n00:45:52,450 –> 00:45:59,890
\nno, of course it was essential.
\nBut it it’s not I can’t even <\/p>\n

767
\n00:45:59,890 –> 00:46:02,050
\nremember doing that half the
\ntime because Susan mainly did <\/p>\n

768
\n00:46:02,050 –> 00:46:05,690
\nthat.
\nSo I just so that’s not what <\/p>\n

769
\n00:46:05,690 –> 00:46:09,530
\nwhat our relationship is made-up
\nof is it it’s it’s the the love <\/p>\n

770
\n00:46:09,530 –> 00:46:13,010
\nit’s the it’s the beautiful
\nmoments it’s the it’s the chess <\/p>\n

771
\n00:46:13,010 –> 00:46:15,650
\nhead.
\nThe chess head that he Jews he <\/p>\n

772
\n00:46:15,650 –> 00:46:18,450
\nsaid get it right from the
\nactual sound there. <\/p>\n

773
\n00:46:18,890 –> 00:46:20,890
\nGod says I have no pleasure in
\nthe death of the wicked. <\/p>\n

774
\n00:46:20,890 –> 00:46:22,930
\nYes that has to happen in God’s
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n

775
\n00:46:23,210 –> 00:46:26,370
\nThat’s that’s not who he is.
\nThat’s not what he is in a sense<\/p>\n

776
\n00:46:26,370 –> 00:46:30,610
\nthat it’s it’s it’s something
\nthat it has to happen but it’s <\/p>\n

777
\n00:46:30,610 –> 00:46:32,770
\nnot.
\nGod said I’d rather they turn <\/p>\n

778
\n00:46:32,770 –> 00:46:35,650
\nfrom their way and live.
\nThat’s really what what God <\/p>\n

779
\n00:46:35,650 –> 00:46:43,260
\nwould would like this idea of he
\nsaid translated off the loving <\/p>\n

780
\n00:46:43,260 –> 00:46:47,860
\nkindness in in the Old Testament
\nemit this idea of truth or <\/p>\n

781
\n00:46:47,860 –> 00:46:49,740
\nfaithfulness as strong as
\ndefines it. <\/p>\n

782
\n00:46:49,740 –> 00:46:52,340
\nThere are trustworthiness it’s a
\nrelationship where have been <\/p>\n

783
\n00:46:52,420 –> 00:46:55,980
\nfaithful to your commitments in
\na relationship that’s that’s <\/p>\n

784
\n00:46:55,980 –> 00:46:58,500
\nwhat God is.
\nHe’s a Hebrew expert. <\/p>\n

785
\n00:46:58,500 –> 00:47:00,060
\nI’m not going to run out of
\ntime. <\/p>\n

786
\n00:47:00,060 –> 00:47:03,900
\nSo we’re dwell on all these.
\nBut he’s connecting hessed. <\/p>\n

787
\n00:47:04,980 –> 00:47:09,300
\nYou know, God loves the world,
\nbut Hessed’s particularly <\/p>\n

788
\n00:47:10,670 –> 00:47:13,750
\nrelevant to his actual people
\nthat he’s in relationship with. <\/p>\n

789
\n00:47:13,750 –> 00:47:16,910
\nThat’s his that’s a God and his
\npeople word. <\/p>\n

790
\n00:47:16,910 –> 00:47:18,710
\nI am your God and you’re my
\npeople. <\/p>\n

791
\n00:47:18,990 –> 00:47:23,390
\nAnd he said is God’s love word,
\nhis kindness word compassion in <\/p>\n

792
\n00:47:23,390 –> 00:47:26,950
\nthat relationship.
\nAnd the Hebrew experts say it’s <\/p>\n

793
\n00:47:26,950 –> 00:47:30,110
\na covenant word.
\nThat’s L it’s the What does this<\/p>\n

794
\n00:47:30,110 –> 00:47:32,030
\nwriter he say?
\nIt’s constitutes the essence of <\/p>\n

795
\n00:47:32,030 –> 00:47:33,910
\nthe covenant.
\nIt’s at the very base of the <\/p>\n

796
\n00:47:33,910 –> 00:47:37,190
\ncovenant.
\nLook at these famous words from <\/p>\n

797
\n00:47:37,190 –> 00:47:40,190
\nExodus 34.
\nThe Lord passes by and he <\/p>\n

798
\n00:47:40,190 –> 00:47:43,830
\nproclaims Yahweh Yahweh.
\nTwice. <\/p>\n

799
\n00:47:43,830 –> 00:47:45,550
\nHe says it.
\nThis is, this is if you want to <\/p>\n

800
\n00:47:45,550 –> 00:47:50,150
\nknow me and what I’m what I am,
\nThis is all that I am. <\/p>\n

801
\n00:47:50,390 –> 00:47:52,710
\nWhat is God?
\nWhat is he, essentially? <\/p>\n

802
\n00:47:52,710 –> 00:47:56,990
\nAnd he’s very core.
\nGod declares himself as <\/p>\n

803
\n00:47:56,990 –> 00:48:01,830
\nmerciful, gracious,
\nlong-suffering, abundant in He <\/p>\n

804
\n00:48:01,830 –> 00:48:05,190
\nsaid and emit.
\nThat’s what God is. <\/p>\n

805
\n00:48:05,550 –> 00:48:08,590
\nThat’s what he is.
\nWhat does he do though? <\/p>\n

806
\n00:48:09,110 –> 00:48:12,910
\nWhat does he act?
\nWell, he also He is he said, but<\/p>\n

807
\n00:48:12,910 –> 00:48:15,350
\nhe also does He said.
\nHe’s what does God do? <\/p>\n

808
\n00:48:15,550 –> 00:48:19,470
\nHe keeps, he said for thousands
\nfor giving iniquity and <\/p>\n

809
\n00:48:19,470 –> 00:48:25,510
\ntransgression of sins.
\nHe also does does things that <\/p>\n

810
\n00:48:25,510 –> 00:48:29,430
\nare negative in a sense where he
\nvisits iniquity on on people <\/p>\n

811
\n00:48:29,430 –> 00:48:31,190
\nthat are sinners.
\nThat’s what he does. <\/p>\n

812
\n00:48:31,270 –> 00:48:34,910
\nWhat he is his goodness and
\ntruth. <\/p>\n

813
\n00:48:34,910 –> 00:48:38,190
\nThat is what God is at his very
\npoor, his very essence. <\/p>\n

814
\n00:48:39,430 –> 00:48:43,230
\nAnd so the idea of the He said
\nGod’s God’s love connected to <\/p>\n

815
\n00:48:43,230 –> 00:48:47,070
\nhis faithfulness to his
\nrelationships is is is runs all <\/p>\n

816
\n00:48:47,070 –> 00:48:48,430
\nthrough scripture.
\nHis Exodus 20. <\/p>\n

817
\n00:48:48,430 –> 00:48:51,390
\nVerse six, another covenant
\npassage. <\/p>\n

818
\n00:48:51,710 –> 00:48:53,550
\nGod shows this covenant
\nfaithfulness. <\/p>\n

819
\n00:48:53,550 –> 00:48:56,710
\nHis he said as the century
\nJewish Bible translates it to <\/p>\n

820
\n00:48:56,750 –> 00:49:00,150
\n1000 generations of those who
\nkeep my commandments. <\/p>\n

821
\n00:49:00,150 –> 00:49:04,030
\nAnd this is this is who God is,
\nthis covenant faithfulness. <\/p>\n

822
\n00:49:05,870 –> 00:49:09,000
\nJeremy seven another covenant.
\nContext. <\/p>\n

823
\n00:49:09,000 –> 00:49:11,840
\nTherefore know that the Lord
\nyour God he is God, the faithful<\/p>\n

824
\n00:49:11,840 –> 00:49:16,160
\nGod who keeps covenant.
\nAnd he said so the the covenant <\/p>\n

825
\n00:49:16,160 –> 00:49:21,880
\nand the he said, linked together
\nfor 1000 generations as I 54 For<\/p>\n

826
\n00:49:21,880 –> 00:49:23,720
\nthe mountains shall depart, and
\nthe hill shall be removed. <\/p>\n

827
\n00:49:23,720 –> 00:49:28,000
\nBut my he said, shall not depart
\nfrom you, nor shall my covenant <\/p>\n

828
\n00:49:28,000 –> 00:49:30,920
\nof peace be removed.
\nConnection with covenant there. <\/p>\n

829
\n00:49:30,920 –> 00:49:34,040
\nAnd he said, praise Xiao Wei or
\nyou Gentiles, Lord him or you <\/p>\n

830
\n00:49:34,040 –> 00:49:37,120
\npeoples, for his he said, is
\ngreat towards us. <\/p>\n

831
\n00:49:37,480 –> 00:49:41,000
\nAnd He’s emit the emit of God.
\nHis faithfulness endures <\/p>\n

832
\n00:49:41,000 –> 00:49:44,120
\nforever.
\nPraise the Lord and it goes on <\/p>\n

833
\n00:49:44,120 –> 00:49:47,640
\nand on and on.
\nIf that is the case, brothers <\/p>\n

834
\n00:49:47,640 –> 00:49:52,520
\nand sisters, that God
\nessentially is a being of <\/p>\n

835
\n00:49:52,520 –> 00:49:57,000
\nrelation, A relational being, a
\nbeing who wants to connect to <\/p>\n

836
\n00:49:57,000 –> 00:49:59,240
\nothers.
\nAnd maybe he’s created us for <\/p>\n

837
\n00:49:59,240 –> 00:50:02,040
\nthat very purpose, to have a
\nrelationship with his people, <\/p>\n

838
\n00:50:02,040 –> 00:50:05,700
\nwith his creation.
\nIt explains why there are verses<\/p>\n

839
\n00:50:05,700 –> 00:50:09,100
\nin the Old Testament
\nparticularly that talks about us<\/p>\n

840
\n00:50:09,100 –> 00:50:12,060
\ngiving God pleasure.
\nNow, I want you to think about <\/p>\n

841
\n00:50:12,060 –> 00:50:14,020
\nthat.
\nIt’s easy to read and go, yeah, <\/p>\n

842
\n00:50:14,020 –> 00:50:16,500
\nwe give pleasure to God.
\nThink about this. <\/p>\n

843
\n00:50:16,620 –> 00:50:22,900
\nYou can give pleasure.
\nThat means you can change the <\/p>\n

844
\n00:50:22,900 –> 00:50:27,540
\nstate of the emotional state of
\nthe being that created this <\/p>\n

845
\n00:50:27,540 –> 00:50:31,140
\nuniverse.
\nYou can give pleasure to the <\/p>\n

846
\n00:50:31,660 –> 00:50:33,780
\narchitect and creator of this
\nuniverse. <\/p>\n

847
\n00:50:34,230 –> 00:50:38,110
\nI mean, that is phenomenal.
\nThat is almost hard to believe. <\/p>\n

848
\n00:50:38,110 –> 00:50:42,070
\nBut it’s true.
\nAgain, it it feeds back into the<\/p>\n

849
\n00:50:42,070 –> 00:50:43,670
\nevidence.
\nIsn’t it, that God is a <\/p>\n

850
\n00:50:43,670 –> 00:50:49,430
\nrelational being who delights,
\nwants, needs, whatever word you <\/p>\n

851
\n00:50:49,430 –> 00:50:53,270
\nwant to use there.
\nBut it’s a God of connection, a <\/p>\n

852
\n00:50:53,270 –> 00:50:55,870
\nGod of covenant.
\nHe doesn’t take delight as <\/p>\n

853
\n00:50:55,870 –> 00:50:58,350
\nsomeone for what he says in the
\nstrength of the horse, the <\/p>\n

854
\n00:50:58,350 –> 00:51:02,330
\ntechnology, the all those
\nthings. <\/p>\n

855
\n00:51:02,330 –> 00:51:05,610
\nHe takes no pleasure in the legs
\nof the success of humans in that<\/p>\n

856
\n00:51:05,890 –> 00:51:07,610
\nin in the sense of achievement
\nand success. <\/p>\n

857
\n00:51:08,690 –> 00:51:11,450
\nThe Lord takes pleasure in those
\nwho fear Him, those who <\/p>\n

858
\n00:51:12,130 –> 00:51:16,690
\nacknowledge his existence to
\nacknowledge him and count him as<\/p>\n

859
\n00:51:16,690 –> 00:51:19,650
\nthey got, and those who hope in
\nhis, he said. <\/p>\n

860
\n00:51:20,290 –> 00:51:24,210
\nThose who are linked to him in a
\nrelationship and his He said, <\/p>\n

861
\n00:51:24,530 –> 00:51:28,250
\nGod takes pleasure in that
\nsomeone. 49 The Lord takes <\/p>\n

862
\n00:51:28,250 –> 00:51:32,460
\npleasure in His people, His
\npeople. <\/p>\n

863
\n00:51:32,460 –> 00:51:36,460
\nPeople can give pleasure to the
\ncreator of this incredible <\/p>\n

864
\n00:51:36,460 –> 00:51:40,820
\nuniverse and that.
\nThat’s just mind blowing when <\/p>\n

865
\n00:51:40,820 –> 00:51:44,180
\nyou think about it.
\nBut it makes sense. <\/p>\n

866
\n00:51:45,380 –> 00:51:49,140
\nWe get pleasure from our
\nrelationships, from connections <\/p>\n

867
\n00:51:49,140 –> 00:51:53,580
\nto people.
\nWhy then would not God extract <\/p>\n

868
\n00:51:53,580 –> 00:51:55,620
\npleasure from His relationships
\nwith us? <\/p>\n

869
\n00:51:56,460 –> 00:52:02,020
\nAnd so we are his offspring.
\nAs Paul says in Act 17, God <\/p>\n

870
\n00:52:02,620 –> 00:52:04,580
\ntakes pleasure from our
\nconnection with us. <\/p>\n

871
\n00:52:05,620 –> 00:52:08,300
\nAnd here’s the flip side, and
\nthis is where it really is <\/p>\n

872
\n00:52:08,380 –> 00:52:12,060
\npowerful.
\nIt’s a win, win relationship, <\/p>\n

873
\n00:52:12,700 –> 00:52:16,260
\nvery rare in our world in the
\nsense only in, you know, <\/p>\n

874
\n00:52:16,260 –> 00:52:18,900
\nmarriage and in close family
\nconnections and close <\/p>\n

875
\n00:52:18,900 –> 00:52:22,060
\nfriendships you have a win win
\nsituation where the relationship<\/p>\n

876
\n00:52:23,540 –> 00:52:27,980
\nbenefits both parties.
\nIn an absolute sense, God gets <\/p>\n

877
\n00:52:27,980 –> 00:52:34,020
\npleasure from this relationship
\nand we get pleasure, we get joy <\/p>\n

878
\n00:52:34,940 –> 00:52:38,900
\nfrom that relationship.
\nAnd so the two, the two partners<\/p>\n

879
\n00:52:39,660 –> 00:52:43,780
\nhere, the two potential
\npartners, 2 relational partners,<\/p>\n

880
\n00:52:44,260 –> 00:52:47,660
\nget incredible benefit.
\nBoth sides, even the more <\/p>\n

881
\n00:52:47,660 –> 00:52:52,100
\npowerful side gets benefit from
\nthe connection from the kindred <\/p>\n

882
\n00:52:52,100 –> 00:52:54,260
\nspirits And I quickly flicked
\nwith out of time. <\/p>\n

883
\n00:52:54,260 –> 00:52:55,260
\nSo I flicked through these
\nverses. <\/p>\n

884
\n00:52:55,260 –> 00:53:00,110
\nBut so many verses talk about
\nthis presence of God and have an<\/p>\n

885
\n00:53:00,110 –> 00:53:03,470
\nemotional connection to it.
\nYou will show me the path of <\/p>\n

886
\n00:53:03,470 –> 00:53:06,830
\nlife in your presence is
\nfullness, of joy at your right <\/p>\n

887
\n00:53:06,830 –> 00:53:09,390
\nhand of pleasures.
\nFor evermore let us come before <\/p>\n

888
\n00:53:09,390 –> 00:53:13,030
\nHis presence with Thanksgiving,
\nwith a joyful noise, with Psalm.<\/p>\n

889
\n00:53:13,230 –> 00:53:15,230
\nSo the Lord with gladness coming
\nbefore his presence, with <\/p>\n

890
\n00:53:15,230 –> 00:53:18,550
\nsinging righteousness and
\njustice of the foundation of <\/p>\n

891
\n00:53:18,550 –> 00:53:21,790
\nyour throne, he said, And emit,
\ngo before your presence before <\/p>\n

892
\n00:53:21,790 –> 00:53:23,710
\nyour face.
\nBlessed of the people who know <\/p>\n

893
\n00:53:23,710 –> 00:53:27,200
\nthe joyful sound they walk, O
\nLord, in the lights of your <\/p>\n

894
\n00:53:27,200 –> 00:53:30,600
\ncountenance, of your presence in
\nyour name, they rejoice all the <\/p>\n

895
\n00:53:30,600 –> 00:53:32,280
\nday long.
\nLook at these rejoicing <\/p>\n

896
\n00:53:32,280 –> 00:53:36,720
\npresence, connections.
\nWill the Lord show us any good? <\/p>\n

897
\n00:53:36,720 –> 00:53:40,240
\nLift up the light of your
\ncountenance upon us your <\/p>\n

898
\n00:53:40,240 –> 00:53:42,360
\npresence.
\nYou’ll put gladness in our <\/p>\n

899
\n00:53:42,360 –> 00:53:46,040
\nhearts, and so forth.
\nAnd so, just to finish up, <\/p>\n

900
\n00:53:46,040 –> 00:53:50,720
\nbrothers and sisters, I want us
\nto think about the presence of <\/p>\n

901
\n00:53:50,720 –> 00:53:52,160
\nGod.
\nRemember in our first session we<\/p>\n

902
\n00:53:52,160 –> 00:53:54,990
\nsaid the the presence, the word
\nfor presence is word. <\/p>\n

903
\n00:53:54,990 –> 00:54:00,310
\nPen AM is also translated face
\nand used to describe the face of<\/p>\n

904
\n00:54:00,310 –> 00:54:02,750
\nGod or the face of a person.
\nSo there is something in the <\/p>\n

905
\n00:54:02,750 –> 00:54:06,910
\nHebrew concept of the face,
\nsomebody’s face and somebody’s <\/p>\n

906
\n00:54:06,910 –> 00:54:08,630
\npresence and we we sort of use
\nthat. <\/p>\n

907
\n00:54:08,630 –> 00:54:12,350
\nWe say get out of my face or
\nlet’s have some FaceTime and <\/p>\n

908
\n00:54:12,350 –> 00:54:15,030
\nlet’s get together face to face
\nand talk about this. <\/p>\n

909
\n00:54:15,030 –> 00:54:17,670
\nSo there is something special
\nabout being in someone’s <\/p>\n

910
\n00:54:17,670 –> 00:54:21,470
\npresence, in their in their very
\nface, even these little things <\/p>\n

911
\n00:54:21,470 –> 00:54:23,830
\nthat people have on their phone
\nmessages are called emojis. <\/p>\n

912
\n00:54:23,830 –> 00:54:30,670
\nThere’s an emotional, there’s
\nemotional emotion conveyed in <\/p>\n

913
\n00:54:30,670 –> 00:54:32,870
\nthese emojis, isn’t there?
\nIn these faces where they’re <\/p>\n

914
\n00:54:32,870 –> 00:54:34,590
\nsmiling, whether they’re sad,
\nwhether they’re happy. <\/p>\n

915
\n00:54:34,590 –> 00:54:39,910
\nSo the face communicates a lot
\nof a lot of emotion. <\/p>\n

916
\n00:54:43,590 –> 00:54:46,430
\nThere’s a lot of psalms and a
\nlot of references in the Old <\/p>\n

917
\n00:54:46,430 –> 00:54:50,440
\nTestament about seeking God’s
\nface, about wanting to be in his<\/p>\n

918
\n00:54:50,440 –> 00:54:52,640
\nface.
\nIf you like, in God’s presence, <\/p>\n

919
\n00:54:54,400 –> 00:54:56,640
\nhe’s Psalm 69.
\nDon’t hide your face from your <\/p>\n

920
\n00:54:56,640 –> 00:54:58,400
\nservant.
\nPsalm 27. <\/p>\n

921
\n00:54:58,400 –> 00:55:02,280
\nWhen when you said seek my face,
\nmy heart said to you your face, <\/p>\n

922
\n00:55:02,280 –> 00:55:05,560
\nLord, I will seek.
\nDo not hide your face from me as<\/p>\n

923
\n00:55:05,560 –> 00:55:07,720
\nthis.
\nIt reminds us of Act seven, <\/p>\n

924
\n00:55:07,720 –> 00:55:08,800
\nwhich we talked about earlier
\non. <\/p>\n

925
\n00:55:08,800 –> 00:55:12,880
\nIsn’t it that God says I created
\nyou so that you can feel for me <\/p>\n

926
\n00:55:12,880 –> 00:55:16,160
\nand seek for me and touch me?
\nGod wants that. <\/p>\n

927
\n00:55:16,500 –> 00:55:19,180
\nGod wants that connection with
\nhis people, and it just runs all<\/p>\n

928
\n00:55:19,180 –> 00:55:21,540
\nthe way through the Bible.
\nBlessed are the people who know <\/p>\n

929
\n00:55:21,540 –> 00:55:24,220
\nthe joyful sound that walk in a
\nlot of your countenance, <\/p>\n

930
\n00:55:24,220 –> 00:55:27,780
\netcetera.
\nSo I might just finish up here <\/p>\n

931
\n00:55:27,780 –> 00:55:30,900
\nwith a just a few minutes
\nthinking about this beautiful <\/p>\n

932
\n00:55:30,900 –> 00:55:33,260
\npart of the scripture that
\nNathan read for us tonight. <\/p>\n

933
\n00:55:33,260 –> 00:55:37,860
\nTowards the end of #6, there’s
\nthis beautiful set of stanzas, <\/p>\n

934
\n00:55:37,860 –> 00:55:42,380
\nif you like this, this, this
\npriestly benedictional blessing <\/p>\n

935
\n00:55:42,380 –> 00:55:46,660
\nthat was given to the people,
\nblessing them and bringing God’s<\/p>\n

936
\n00:55:46,660 –> 00:55:49,220
\npresence into their life.
\nLet’s just let’s think about <\/p>\n

937
\n00:55:49,220 –> 00:55:53,060
\nthis and just in the whole
\ncontext of God’s presence. <\/p>\n

938
\n00:55:53,060 –> 00:55:57,900
\nRemember Hebrews 10, The
\nboldness we can have in God’s <\/p>\n

939
\n00:55:57,900 –> 00:56:01,940
\npresence, the pleriphoria, the
\nfull assurance of God’s <\/p>\n

940
\n00:56:01,940 –> 00:56:06,580
\npresence, the ability to draw
\nneed to God. <\/p>\n

941
\n00:56:06,580 –> 00:56:10,380
\nAnd here it is in a I think
\nlived out in a very and <\/p>\n

942
\n00:56:10,380 –> 00:56:13,340
\nexpressed in a very practical
\nand beautiful in a very <\/p>\n

943
\n00:56:13,340 –> 00:56:19,230
\nemotional way.
\nWhat can we say about this <\/p>\n

944
\n00:56:19,350 –> 00:56:21,150
\nsection of scripture?
\nWell, let’s make a few <\/p>\n

945
\n00:56:21,150 –> 00:56:25,310
\nobservations.
\nOne, you’ll notice how each of <\/p>\n

946
\n00:56:25,310 –> 00:56:27,910
\nthe stanzas begins with the name
\nof God. <\/p>\n

947
\n00:56:27,910 –> 00:56:31,470
\nYahweh.
\nYahweh, Bless you, Yahweh. <\/p>\n

948
\n00:56:31,470 –> 00:56:33,350
\nMake his face.
\nYahweh, lift up his counter. <\/p>\n

949
\n00:56:33,350 –> 00:56:35,710
\nSo it’s very personal, isn’t it?
\nIt’s that it’s God’s. <\/p>\n

950
\n00:56:36,030 –> 00:56:40,310
\nGod’s placing his own name here.
\nAnd you normally tell your name <\/p>\n

951
\n00:56:40,310 –> 00:56:42,030
\nto people that you want a
\nrelationship with, don’t you? <\/p>\n

952
\n00:56:42,030 –> 00:56:44,670
\nYou say my name’s Darren or
\nwhatever, and you’re now <\/p>\n

953
\n00:56:44,750 –> 00:56:48,510
\nstarting this connection.
\nIf it’s someone you know, you’re<\/p>\n

954
\n00:56:48,510 –> 00:56:51,070
\nnot going to see someone selling
\nyou a ticket or the sandwich. <\/p>\n

955
\n00:56:51,070 –> 00:56:53,430
\nYou don’t tell them your name
\nnecessarily because there’s no, <\/p>\n

956
\n00:56:53,430 –> 00:56:54,830
\nyou’re not going to have a
\nrelationship with them. <\/p>\n

957
\n00:56:54,830 –> 00:56:57,110
\nSo God, he’s saying, I want to
\nhave a relationship. <\/p>\n

958
\n00:56:57,110 –> 00:56:59,110
\nI’m giving you my name so we can
\ntalk together. <\/p>\n

959
\n00:57:00,230 –> 00:57:03,270
\nAnd so it’s anchored in who
\nYahweh actually is. <\/p>\n

960
\n00:57:03,270 –> 00:57:05,230
\nIt’s anchored in his very
\nperson. <\/p>\n

961
\n00:57:06,470 –> 00:57:09,630
\nNotice some, and particularly
\nthose those of you who have the <\/p>\n

962
\n00:57:09,630 –> 00:57:12,350
\nKing James Bible, of course,
\nwill see that the blessing <\/p>\n

963
\n00:57:12,350 –> 00:57:14,430
\nrelates to thee.
\nThe Lord bless thee, which is <\/p>\n

964
\n00:57:14,430 –> 00:57:16,310
\nthe singular in the the Old
\nEnglish. <\/p>\n

965
\n00:57:17,110 –> 00:57:20,390
\nAnd and this is, this is a
\nsingular concept which is, which<\/p>\n

966
\n00:57:20,390 –> 00:57:23,830
\nis very fascinating, isn’t it?
\nSometimes we we shy away from <\/p>\n

967
\n00:57:23,950 –> 00:57:27,150
\ntalking about ourselves in the
\ncontext of God’s blessing and we<\/p>\n

968
\n00:57:27,150 –> 00:57:28,670
\ndon’t.
\nWe’d like to sort of make it a <\/p>\n

969
\n00:57:28,670 –> 00:57:33,470
\nmore collective phrase, but hear
\nthe blessings, individual <\/p>\n

970
\n00:57:33,670 –> 00:57:38,360
\npersonal.
\nYahweh bless you Darren, you <\/p>\n

971
\n00:57:38,360 –> 00:57:40,760
\nknow this is me.
\nYaweh make his face shine upon <\/p>\n

972
\n00:57:40,760 –> 00:57:43,760
\nyou and be gracious to you.
\nYaweh lift up his countenance <\/p>\n

973
\n00:57:43,760 –> 00:57:47,120
\nupon you and give you peace.
\nIt’s it’s a personal blessing <\/p>\n

974
\n00:57:47,120 –> 00:57:51,720
\nfrom Yahweh personally to you
\npersonally. <\/p>\n

975
\n00:57:54,120 –> 00:57:57,960
\nNotice the repetition there of
\nthe of the of the presence of <\/p>\n

976
\n00:57:57,960 –> 00:57:59,760
\nGod.
\nSo it’s translated in This is, I<\/p>\n

977
\n00:57:59,760 –> 00:58:02,560
\nthink, new King James.
\nHere it’s translator’s face <\/p>\n

978
\n00:58:03,120 –> 00:58:06,370
\nmeans it’s 10:00 AM, it’s
\npresence, and in the third <\/p>\n

979
\n00:58:06,370 –> 00:58:07,450
\nstands.
\nThere it’s translated <\/p>\n

980
\n00:58:07,450 –> 00:58:10,050
\ncountenance.
\nIn that translation, others have<\/p>\n

981
\n00:58:10,050 –> 00:58:12,850
\nface again, but it’s presence,
\nit’s pen AM. <\/p>\n

982
\n00:58:13,650 –> 00:58:16,490
\nIt’s God’s presence that
\npermeates this little blessing. <\/p>\n

983
\n00:58:16,490 –> 00:58:19,650
\nIt’s about God blessing you with
\nhim. <\/p>\n

984
\n00:58:20,330 –> 00:58:25,330
\nHe is the blessing in a sense.
\nNotice that part of the <\/p>\n

985
\n00:58:25,330 –> 00:58:27,130
\nblessing.
\nThe second stands there is God <\/p>\n

986
\n00:58:27,250 –> 00:58:29,530
\nbeing gracious to you.
\nThis is a beautiful word. <\/p>\n

987
\n00:58:30,490 –> 00:58:33,180
\nThe word gracious.
\nIf you look up strongest <\/p>\n

988
\n00:58:33,180 –> 00:58:37,460
\nconcordance it means to bend
\ndown or stoop in kindness to an <\/p>\n

989
\n00:58:37,460 –> 00:58:39,780
\ninferior.
\nIt’s like a little child has <\/p>\n

990
\n00:58:40,300 –> 00:58:43,140
\nfallen off their scooter or the
\nskateboard and they’re on the <\/p>\n

991
\n00:58:43,140 –> 00:58:47,060
\nground and they’ve cut their leg
\nand you as the adult kneel down,<\/p>\n

992
\n00:58:47,060 –> 00:58:51,460
\nyou stoop down to beside of any
\nand that stooping brings comfort<\/p>\n

993
\n00:58:51,460 –> 00:58:55,860
\ninto their into their presence.
\nYour presence gives comfort to <\/p>\n

994
\n00:58:55,860 –> 00:58:57,460
\ntheir presence and there’s a
\nconnection there. <\/p>\n

995
\n00:58:57,460 –> 00:59:01,250
\nAnd they they feel thankful and
\nand reassure that you’re there. <\/p>\n

996
\n00:59:01,290 –> 00:59:03,410
\nAnd so God has stooped down into
\nour life. <\/p>\n

997
\n00:59:03,850 –> 00:59:07,410
\nOf course, the greater in this
\nrelationship by, you know, a <\/p>\n

998
\n00:59:07,410 –> 00:59:11,410
\nbillion, trillion and million
\ntimes it’s not even a you can’t <\/p>\n

999
\n00:59:11,410 –> 00:59:16,730
\neven define that, but it’s still
\na real relationship and he <\/p>\n

1000
\n00:59:16,730 –> 00:59:19,770
\nStoops down to connect with the
\nthe lesser party in this <\/p>\n

1001
\n00:59:19,770 –> 00:59:22,730
\nrelationship and notice where it
\nleaves us. <\/p>\n

1002
\n00:59:24,010 –> 00:59:30,590
\nYahweh lift up his presence upon
\nyou and give you Shalom, give <\/p>\n

1003
\n00:59:30,590 –> 00:59:35,870
\nyou peace and this word, Shalom
\nis such a comprehensive and and <\/p>\n

1004
\n00:59:36,990 –> 00:59:38,550
\nholistic word.
\nIt’s so beautiful. <\/p>\n

1005
\n00:59:38,550 –> 00:59:42,830
\nIt’s not just the absence of
\nfighting or or just a quiet <\/p>\n

1006
\n00:59:42,830 –> 00:59:45,910
\ntime.
\nThis Shalom has it at its very <\/p>\n

1007
\n00:59:45,910 –> 00:59:50,630
\ncore, the idea of even welfare
\nand and healing and tranquility <\/p>\n

1008
\n00:59:50,630 –> 00:59:53,790
\nand contentment and peace in the
\ntrue sense. <\/p>\n

1009
\n00:59:53,790 –> 00:59:57,870
\nSo there’s a There’s an
\nemotional power that comes from <\/p>\n

1010
\n00:59:57,870 –> 01:00:00,270
\nbeing in the presence of God.
\nThis is the core of the <\/p>\n

1011
\n01:00:00,270 –> 01:00:02,190
\nblessing.
\nThe blessing isn’t just an <\/p>\n

1012
\n01:00:02,190 –> 01:00:06,070
\nintellectual, academic thing.
\nThere’s a power that comes from <\/p>\n

1013
\n01:00:06,070 –> 01:00:08,030
\nbeing in the very presence of
\nGod. <\/p>\n

1014
\n01:00:11,310 –> 01:00:13,950
\nJust want us to finish up by
\nfocusing on this phrase. <\/p>\n

1015
\n01:00:13,950 –> 01:00:18,870
\nShine Yahweh.
\nBless you and keep you Yahweh. <\/p>\n

1016
\n01:00:18,870 –> 01:00:21,110
\nMake his face, his presence
\nshine. <\/p>\n

1017
\n01:00:22,240 –> 01:00:24,680
\nIt’s an interesting idea in the
\nHebrew. <\/p>\n

1018
\n01:00:24,680 –> 01:00:27,920
\nIn the Hebrew here, the word
\nshine means to light up, to be <\/p>\n

1019
\n01:00:27,920 –> 01:00:30,440
\nlit up, if you look at the
\nlexicon. <\/p>\n

1020
\n01:00:30,440 –> 01:00:35,640
\nSo in some way, God shining on
\nyou, His presence, it’s shining <\/p>\n

1021
\n01:00:36,000 –> 01:00:40,480
\nmay not be physically
\ndiscernible to our optical <\/p>\n

1022
\n01:00:40,480 –> 01:00:43,640
\nreceptors, but there’s God is
\nshining His presence upon us. <\/p>\n

1023
\n01:00:44,120 –> 01:00:47,720
\nAnd of course, building to this
\nword, shine is an idiom. <\/p>\n

1024
\n01:00:50,000 –> 01:00:55,720
\nGod isn’t literally shining in
\nthat sense, but He’s shining <\/p>\n

1025
\n01:00:55,720 –> 01:00:57,360
\nsomething.
\nThere’s something coming from <\/p>\n

1026
\n01:00:57,360 –> 01:01:03,680
\nGod into our into our presence
\nand the idiom and how it’s using<\/p>\n

1027
\n01:01:04,360 –> 01:01:05,880
\nHebrew and other parts of the
\nBible. <\/p>\n

1028
\n01:01:05,880 –> 01:01:09,440
\nThe idiom here of shine is the
\nidea of smiling. <\/p>\n

1029
\n01:01:10,440 –> 01:01:15,480
\nGod is smiling upon you.
\nHis face is smiling. <\/p>\n

1030
\n01:01:16,130 –> 01:01:19,650
\nAnd we we use this idiom even in
\nour own life today, we talk <\/p>\n

1031
\n01:01:19,650 –> 01:01:21,450
\nabout someone having a beaming
\nsmile. <\/p>\n

1032
\n01:01:22,250 –> 01:01:25,210
\nWell, there’s not really light
\nbeaming from someone’s face, but<\/p>\n

1033
\n01:01:25,490 –> 01:01:28,330
\nwe we use that idiom.
\nSomeone has a glowing smile. <\/p>\n

1034
\n01:01:28,650 –> 01:01:31,090
\nSomeone has a radiant smile.
\nThat’s the same idea that some <\/p>\n

1035
\n01:01:31,090 –> 01:01:33,810
\nradiate something radiating from
\nthe face. <\/p>\n

1036
\n01:01:34,170 –> 01:01:36,690
\nHer smile lights up the room.
\nYou know, you’ve got a little <\/p>\n

1037
\n01:01:36,930 –> 01:01:40,810
\ngorgeous little granddaughter
\nand her smile just lights up the<\/p>\n

1038
\n01:01:40,810 –> 01:01:43,730
\nroom or lights up the place.
\nWe use that idiom ourselves. <\/p>\n

1039
\n01:01:43,730 –> 01:01:47,570
\nSo it’s it’s some.
\nIt’s quite understandable in <\/p>\n

1040
\n01:01:47,570 –> 01:01:50,850
\nthat sense.
\nThere’s something amazing about <\/p>\n

1041
\n01:01:50,850 –> 01:01:52,730
\na smile.
\nWhen you think about it, the <\/p>\n

1042
\n01:01:52,730 –> 01:01:57,370
\nsmile is a dynamic phenomenon
\nthat is hard to describe because<\/p>\n

1043
\n01:01:57,610 –> 01:02:00,210
\nwhat actually is it?
\nWhat is a smile? <\/p>\n

1044
\n01:02:00,210 –> 01:02:04,490
\nIt’s just muscles.
\nIt’s just my face now and my <\/p>\n

1045
\n01:02:04,490 –> 01:02:05,570
\nface now.
\nMy face. <\/p>\n

1046
\n01:02:05,930 –> 01:02:07,810
\nIt’s just the movement of some
\nmuscles. <\/p>\n

1047
\n01:02:08,090 –> 01:02:11,090
\nThat’s all that’s happening.
\nMuscles moving the eyes don’t <\/p>\n

1048
\n01:02:11,090 –> 01:02:13,970
\nreally shine anymore.
\nThey seem to, but something <\/p>\n

1049
\n01:02:13,970 –> 01:02:19,900
\nmagical happens in your eyes.
\nBut it’s just muscle movement. <\/p>\n

1050
\n01:02:20,020 –> 01:02:21,460
\nIt’s a it’s a little miracle,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n

1051
\n01:02:21,460 –> 01:02:23,900
\nA smile’s, a little miracle,
\nLittle reflection of God. <\/p>\n

1052
\n01:02:24,860 –> 01:02:29,020
\nBut think about what the smile
\ndoes it it draws people to you. <\/p>\n

1053
\n01:02:29,020 –> 01:02:32,580
\nWhen someone smiles and you’re
\nin a crowd and they smile, <\/p>\n

1054
\n01:02:33,020 –> 01:02:35,100
\nthere’s an attraction, there’s
\nyou’re drawn to that person. <\/p>\n

1055
\n01:02:35,100 –> 01:02:37,420
\nThere’s something lovely about a
\nsmile. <\/p>\n

1056
\n01:02:38,060 –> 01:02:40,540
\nIt’s also contagious.
\nWhen someone smiles at you, you,<\/p>\n

1057
\n01:02:41,060 –> 01:02:43,980
\nyou, you smile back.
\nUsually it makes you smile. <\/p>\n

1058
\n01:02:43,980 –> 01:02:48,040
\nEven if you’re not feeling the
\nbest you, you smile and you know<\/p>\n

1059
\n01:02:48,040 –> 01:02:51,280
\nour capitalist world knows that.
\nAnd they train the McDonald’s <\/p>\n

1060
\n01:02:51,280 –> 01:02:54,560
\ngirls to smile at you.
\nI’m happy for other reasons, but<\/p>\n

1061
\n01:02:54,560 –> 01:02:56,960
\nbut also the smiles nice, the
\nsmiles nice as well. <\/p>\n

1062
\n01:02:58,520 –> 01:03:00,720
\nSmile is a gift as well.
\nWhen you smile at someone, <\/p>\n

1063
\n01:03:00,720 –> 01:03:02,880
\nyou’re giving.
\nIt’s a giving, it’s a beautiful <\/p>\n

1064
\n01:03:02,880 –> 01:03:05,080
\nthing and you’re giving
\nsomething to somebody. <\/p>\n

1065
\n01:03:06,000 –> 01:03:11,200
\nAnd it’s also transformative.
\nA smile transforms the <\/p>\n

1066
\n01:03:11,200 –> 01:03:16,440
\natmosphere, the situation.
\nIt can make a tense situation, <\/p>\n

1067
\n01:03:16,440 –> 01:03:19,880
\nawkward situation better.
\nA smile transforms and changes <\/p>\n

1068
\n01:03:19,880 –> 01:03:23,600
\nthe your state of mind and those
\nwith you as well. <\/p>\n

1069
\n01:03:24,640 –> 01:03:29,840
\nIt lifts your emotions.
\nIt can give you a dopamine hit <\/p>\n

1070
\n01:03:30,120 –> 01:03:34,120
\nand raise your spirit.
\nIt can spark off endorphins in <\/p>\n

1071
\n01:03:34,120 –> 01:03:36,680
\nyour in your brain.
\nA smile is a very powerful thing<\/p>\n

1072
\n01:03:36,920 –> 01:03:39,240
\nand yet it’s just muscles in
\nyour face that are that are that<\/p>\n

1073
\n01:03:39,240 –> 01:03:42,440
\nare moving and a positive smile
\ncan surge through your body. <\/p>\n

1074
\n01:03:44,030 –> 01:03:46,670
\nSome of the some of the dynamic
\nBible translations have picked <\/p>\n

1075
\n01:03:46,670 –> 01:03:49,590
\nup the idiom and translated it
\nnot not being literally they’re <\/p>\n

1076
\n01:03:49,590 –> 01:03:51,830
\npicking up the the idiom behind
\nthe word. <\/p>\n

1077
\n01:03:51,830 –> 01:03:54,550
\nSo the the New Living
\ntranslations got made the Lord <\/p>\n

1078
\n01:03:54,550 –> 01:03:57,310
\nsmile on you.
\nThe NIRV says made the Lord <\/p>\n

1079
\n01:03:57,310 –> 01:04:00,790
\nsmile on you.
\nGood word Bible, the Lord smile <\/p>\n

1080
\n01:04:00,790 –> 01:04:02,190
\non you.
\nThe message has got got smile on<\/p>\n

1081
\n01:04:02,190 –> 01:04:03,310
\nyou as well and they’re not
\nwrong. <\/p>\n

1082
\n01:04:03,430 –> 01:04:05,950
\nThey’re not technically
\ntranslating the word, but <\/p>\n

1083
\n01:04:05,950 –> 01:04:09,030
\nthey’re not wrong in the the
\nsense of the idiom is smile. <\/p>\n

1084
\n01:04:09,030 –> 01:04:14,020
\nSo what do we what do we, what
\ndo we got here? <\/p>\n

1085
\n01:04:14,020 –> 01:04:15,260
\nWhat?
\nWhat have we been told? <\/p>\n

1086
\n01:04:16,380 –> 01:04:19,780
\nThe blessing of the blessing,
\nthe priestly blessing that we <\/p>\n

1087
\n01:04:19,780 –> 01:04:22,660
\nhave.
\nParticularly now under the new <\/p>\n

1088
\n01:04:22,660 –> 01:04:26,940
\ncovenant, this blessing ramps up
\nbig time, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n

1089
\n01:04:26,940 –> 01:04:31,420
\nOur high priest is so superior
\nthan the priest giving these <\/p>\n

1090
\n01:04:31,420 –> 01:04:35,820
\nblessings.
\nUnder the Old Covenant, the <\/p>\n

1091
\n01:04:35,820 –> 01:04:38,260
\nblessing says Yahweh be with
\nyou. <\/p>\n

1092
\n01:04:39,350 –> 01:04:41,670
\nAnd we’ve seen through our study
\nthat he actually is with us, <\/p>\n

1093
\n01:04:41,670 –> 01:04:42,670
\nisn’t he?
\nHe’s with us. <\/p>\n

1094
\n01:04:43,230 –> 01:04:47,430
\nI think we laid out the evidence
\nfor that reasonably strongly. <\/p>\n

1095
\n01:04:47,830 –> 01:04:50,150
\nHe’s with us regardless of the
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n

1096
\n01:04:50,270 –> 01:04:52,110
\nYahweh is with us.
\nThe Lord be with us. <\/p>\n

1097
\n01:04:52,910 –> 01:04:56,510
\nHe’s gracious unto us in the way
\nHe’s forgiven us our sins, <\/p>\n

1098
\n01:04:56,510 –> 01:04:58,750
\ndeemed us righteous, all those
\nthings that we’ve talked about. <\/p>\n

1099
\n01:04:59,270 –> 01:05:04,590
\nHe’s blessed us, brothers and
\nsisters, with his presence in a <\/p>\n

1100
\n01:05:04,590 –> 01:05:08,500
\nrelational sense through the New
\nCovenant, but also in the sense <\/p>\n

1101
\n01:05:08,500 –> 01:05:13,020
\nthat He’s spatially with us in
\nour life and that should, if we <\/p>\n

1102
\n01:05:13,020 –> 01:05:17,020
\nthink about the reality of that
\nand make that real, brings <\/p>\n

1103
\n01:05:17,540 –> 01:05:21,540
\npeace, brings Shalom, I can’t
\nput it any better than number <\/p>\n

1104
\n01:05:21,540 –> 01:05:24,380
\nsix.
\nIt’s Shalom that comes from the <\/p>\n

1105
\n01:05:24,380 –> 01:05:27,460
\npresence of God in its absolute
\nsense. <\/p>\n

1106
\n01:05:29,060 –> 01:05:33,290
\nSo there’s a connection to the
\nsmile of God and his face <\/p>\n

1107
\n01:05:33,290 –> 01:05:35,850
\nshining in salvation.
\nHaven’t got time to flesh all <\/p>\n

1108
\n01:05:35,850 –> 01:05:37,530
\nthese out now, but I just want
\nto take us to the end of the <\/p>\n

1109
\n01:05:37,530 –> 01:05:40,370
\nstory, which of course is
\nRevelation 22. <\/p>\n

1110
\n01:05:41,770 –> 01:05:47,290
\nAnd there’s some interesting
\nlittle verses in chapter 22 and <\/p>\n

1111
\n01:05:47,290 –> 01:05:51,340
\none of them is here in verses
\nverse four that says, and we <\/p>\n

1112
\n01:05:51,340 –> 01:05:53,700
\ndon’t quite know.
\nThis of course is still the <\/p>\n

1113
\n01:05:53,700 –> 01:05:56,420
\napocalypse.
\nSo the literal nature of how <\/p>\n

1114
\n01:05:56,420 –> 01:05:59,940
\nthis all works itself out is is
\ngoing to remains to be seen in <\/p>\n

1115
\n01:05:59,940 –> 01:06:03,100
\nits ultimate sense.
\nBut you can see what the <\/p>\n

1116
\n01:06:03,140 –> 01:06:06,220
\ninspiration is telling us.
\nIf we link it back to the Old <\/p>\n

1117
\n01:06:06,220 –> 01:06:08,500
\nTestament and to the blessings
\nof God under the on the old <\/p>\n

1118
\n01:06:08,500 –> 01:06:11,220
\ncovenant, we’ve got some
\nincredible things to look <\/p>\n

1119
\n01:06:11,220 –> 01:06:14,580
\nforward to.
\nRevelation 22 says those who are<\/p>\n

1120
\n01:06:14,580 –> 01:06:20,380
\nin this new heaven, new earth,
\nshall see his face, his <\/p>\n

1121
\n01:06:20,380 –> 01:06:23,700
\npresence, it was lost back in
\nEden. <\/p>\n

1122
\n01:06:25,540 –> 01:06:28,300
\nGod knew it was going to be lost
\nin the full knowledge of God, <\/p>\n

1123
\n01:06:28,300 –> 01:06:33,820
\nthat he knew that already.
\nIt wasn’t a plan that went awry <\/p>\n

1124
\n01:06:33,820 –> 01:06:37,740
\nin that sense, as we sometimes
\nmay sort of portray it. <\/p>\n

1125
\n01:06:38,460 –> 01:06:44,940
\nGod knew Jesus Christ was going
\nto come, but the narrative tells<\/p>\n

1126
\n01:06:44,940 –> 01:06:48,460
\nus what happens because of sin
\nand what the results were. <\/p>\n

1127
\n01:06:48,460 –> 01:06:52,580
\nAnd we we’re told that we God’s
\npresence was lost and adamantly <\/p>\n

1128
\n01:06:52,580 –> 01:06:54,020
\nhid themselves from the presence
\nof the Lord. <\/p>\n

1129
\n01:06:55,700 –> 01:06:59,180
\nWe’ve been restored under the
\nnew creation that has happened <\/p>\n

1130
\n01:06:59,180 –> 01:07:01,740
\nnow in our life.
\nThe new creation came into <\/p>\n

1131
\n01:07:01,740 –> 01:07:03,260
\neffect when Jesus was
\nresurrected. <\/p>\n

1132
\n01:07:03,580 –> 01:07:05,740
\nHe’s the first born of the new
\ncreation. <\/p>\n

1133
\n01:07:05,940 –> 01:07:07,620
\nWe are part of this new
\ncreation. <\/p>\n

1134
\n01:07:08,300 –> 01:07:11,970
\nThe connection to God’s been
\nrepaired, We have boldness to <\/p>\n

1135
\n01:07:11,970 –> 01:07:14,330
\ncome into His presence, into His
\nface. <\/p>\n

1136
\n01:07:15,210 –> 01:07:18,850
\nBut of course the completion of
\nthat, the fulfillment of that is<\/p>\n

1137
\n01:07:18,850 –> 01:07:20,490
\nnot till we get to the very end
\nof the Bible. <\/p>\n

1138
\n01:07:20,490 –> 01:07:23,890
\nThey shall see His face, His
\nname shall be on their forehead <\/p>\n

1139
\n01:07:24,010 –> 01:07:26,250
\nheads.
\nAnd it’s expressed in such a way<\/p>\n

1140
\n01:07:26,250 –> 01:07:30,090
\nthat because of God’s face
\nthere’ll be no night there. <\/p>\n

1141
\n01:07:30,850 –> 01:07:34,210
\nThere’ll be no lamp or light or
\neven the sun. <\/p>\n

1142
\n01:07:35,520 –> 01:07:37,800
\nAs I said, how this practically
\nworks out, we don’t know. <\/p>\n

1143
\n01:07:37,800 –> 01:07:39,840
\nBut think of the the concept
\nhere. <\/p>\n

1144
\n01:07:39,840 –> 01:07:42,840
\nThe Lord shining his face and
\ngiving us Shalom. <\/p>\n

1145
\n01:07:43,680 –> 01:07:45,720
\nHe is the ultimate expression of
\nShalom. <\/p>\n

1146
\n01:07:46,440 –> 01:07:51,240
\nGod’s face will be our light.
\nHe will shine his smile, as it <\/p>\n

1147
\n01:07:51,240 –> 01:07:54,520
\nwere, into our into our hearts
\nand into our lives. <\/p>\n

1148
\n01:07:55,240 –> 01:07:58,440
\nAnd So what we experience now of
\nthe presence of God and the <\/p>\n

1149
\n01:07:58,440 –> 01:08:03,320
\nsmile of God in our lives is
\nreally a flickering reality. <\/p>\n

1150
\n01:08:03,320 –> 01:08:06,780
\nIt’s true and it’s a reality,
\nbut it’s a flickering reality of<\/p>\n

1151
\n01:08:07,340 –> 01:08:12,660
\nin comparison to what awaits us
\nall when God is All in all. <\/p>\n

1152
\n01:08:13,460 –> 01:08:15,980
\nSo let’s finish on the verse We
\nstarted with brothers and <\/p>\n

1153
\n01:08:15,980 –> 01:08:19,779
\nsisters just to again reanchor
\nourselves in the reality of this<\/p>\n

1154
\n01:08:20,779 –> 01:08:22,340
\nPaul’s preaching.
\nAct 17. <\/p>\n

1155
\n01:08:22,340 –> 01:08:25,779
\nHe’s talking to Pagan
\nphilosophers in the Pagan city <\/p>\n

1156
\n01:08:25,779 –> 01:08:27,979
\nof Athens and what does he tell
\nthem? <\/p>\n

1157
\n01:08:27,979 –> 01:08:29,899
\nHe says God made the world and
\neverything in it. <\/p>\n

1158
\n01:08:30,700 –> 01:08:33,300
\nHe gave breath and life to all
\nmankind and set the bounds of <\/p>\n

1159
\n01:08:33,300 –> 01:08:38,649
\ntheir habitation for a reason.
\nThat you want to know what his <\/p>\n

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1161
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1162
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1165
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1166
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