{"id":1127,"date":"2024-05-19T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/296-jim-styles-what-does-god-require-of-you\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:50:18","slug":"296-jim-styles-what-does-god-require-of-you","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/296-jim-styles-what-does-god-require-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"296: Jim Styles – What Does God Require of You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to Class 1 from the \u201cLiving as a Member of God\u2019s Family\u201d series Brother Jim Styles gave at the Rathmines, Australia Autumn Bible School in 2024 titled \u201cWhat Does God Require of You?\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Chris Elfion
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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
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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 post a new episode at the <\/p>\n

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\nstart of each week with the
\nshort intro beforehand to kind <\/p>\n

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\nof set the stage for the talk
\nyou’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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\nHi everyone.
\nThis is Jason Hensley and this <\/p>\n

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\nweek we are going to be
\nlistening to a talk that Brother<\/p>\n

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\nJim Styles just gave at
\nRathmines Bible School in <\/p>\n

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\nAustralia.
\nSo he gave this just a few weeks<\/p>\n

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\nago.
\nSo it’s very new material and <\/p>\n

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\nthis is the first class in the
\nseries. <\/p>\n

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\nThe entire series is called
\nLiving as a Member of God’s <\/p>\n

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\nFamily and His First Class is
\nspecifically entitled What Does <\/p>\n

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\nGod Require of You?
\nI Absolutely love this series, <\/p>\n

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\nso I hope that you are going to
\nget to listen to the entire <\/p>\n

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\nthing.
\nWhat I really like about it is <\/p>\n

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\nthat Brother Jim really brings
\nout and stresses who God is. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s really the whole idea
\nbehind this series. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd what he does is he he takes
\napart, deconstructs some of the <\/p>\n

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\nfalse ideas that maybe we had
\nabout God that we didn’t realize<\/p>\n

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\nwe had.
\nAnd these ideas, in creating a <\/p>\n

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\nwrong picture of God, affect us
\nbecause we then turn around and <\/p>\n

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\ntreat other people the way that
\nwe believe God treats us. <\/p>\n

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\nSo this series is huge.
\nListen to the whole thing once, <\/p>\n

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\nlisten to it twice, three times.
\nI think it’s the kind of thing <\/p>\n

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\nthat you want to listen to over
\nand over to really help fight <\/p>\n

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\nagainst some of those wrong
\nideas that maybe we’ve taken on <\/p>\n

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\nand and wrong perceptions of
\nGod. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so by getting this in and
\nrecognizing that God is a father<\/p>\n

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\nand therefore he loves us and
\nthat he gives us this guarantee <\/p>\n

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\nthat if we stick with him and
\nstay with his program, that he <\/p>\n

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\nhas a plan and that he’ll give
\nsalvation when we realize that <\/p>\n

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\nthere is such incredible
\ncomfort. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I hope that you enjoy this
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\nI hope you enjoy this first
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\nwhole series.
\nAnd I think that these talks are<\/p>\n

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\ngoing to do a lot for us in
\nhelping us develop our biblical <\/p>\n

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\nperception of God.
\nSo here’s Brother Jim Styles <\/p>\n

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\nliving as a member of God’s
\nfamily. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is class #1.
\nWhat does God require of you? <\/p>\n

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\nWhat I’d like to do is we’re
\nwe’re gonna have it more of a <\/p>\n

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\ndevotional study this week.
\nIt’s not really a Bible book <\/p>\n

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\nstudy, but hopefully it’ll be
\nvery practical for a lot of you <\/p>\n

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\nand everybody go home with some
\ngood lessons to try and apply in<\/p>\n

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\nour lives.
\nLittle challenging things here <\/p>\n

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\nand there, but I really believe
\nthe foundation of all our life <\/p>\n

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\nin Christ has taken me so many
\nyears to realize is that this <\/p>\n

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\nincredible love that God has for
\nus, I didn’t hear much of that <\/p>\n

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\ngrowing up in my generation.
\nPeople didn’t talk about the <\/p>\n

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\nlove of God.
\nIt just was like maybe too <\/p>\n

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\nevangelical to talk about that,
\nbut really that it should be the<\/p>\n

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\nnumber one principle in our BASF
\nthat is the basis for all the <\/p>\n

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\nthings that God has done.
\nHe loves his creation, He loves <\/p>\n

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\nus.
\nAnd all these things that he has<\/p>\n

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\ndone.
\nYou know, planning for 4000 <\/p>\n

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\nyears to send Jesus and put him
\nthrough what what he went <\/p>\n

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\nthrough.
\nAnd and all the the torture that<\/p>\n

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\nthey did to him so that God
\ncould win the victory over sin <\/p>\n

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\nand save us into His eternal
\nfamily. <\/p>\n

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\nDraw us away from sin.
\nAnd and convince us to join <\/p>\n

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\nChrist in a in a life that
\nthat’s like unbelievable love <\/p>\n

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\nthat God has for us.
\nAnd it’s really important that <\/p>\n

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\nall of us catch on to that.
\nBecause what I’ve discovered is <\/p>\n

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\nthat this is one of the most
\nmotivating things in our life. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause if you look back at your
\nown life I think most of you <\/p>\n

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\nhere will probably have to admit
\nthat your vision of God your <\/p>\n

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\nunderstanding of God the
\nrelationship that we have with <\/p>\n

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\nyour God really effects who you
\nbecome in a way of looking at <\/p>\n

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\nour second studies on Job and I
\nI can show you going through Job<\/p>\n

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\nthat Job had a relationship with
\nGod that I would say was more on<\/p>\n

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\nthe fear based side at least at
\nleast the three the friends <\/p>\n

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\npushed him to that he was always
\nafraid about. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know like God you’re
\nwatching over me every minute <\/p>\n

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\nand you’re gonna you’re gonna
\nshoot me with your arrows and he<\/p>\n

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\nit was he was he was on that
\nside of on the on the balance of<\/p>\n

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\nfear base always thinking God
\nwas watching out for all those <\/p>\n

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\nthings that he did wrong.
\nAnd if that’s the way you are <\/p>\n

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\nand that’s your relationship
\nwith God you you’re you’re <\/p>\n

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\nliving with this fear based
\nrelationship where you’re <\/p>\n

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\nthinking God is always watching
\nand the angels are watching what<\/p>\n

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\nyou do so that they can get you
\nin this life. <\/p>\n

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\nThen what happens is you feel
\njustified treating other people <\/p>\n

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\nlike that.
\nThat’s sad. <\/p>\n

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\nBut I look back in your life.
\nI I know I myself went through <\/p>\n

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\nthis.
\nYou feel like, well, I can. <\/p>\n

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\nI can look at other people.
\nI can see what they’re doing <\/p>\n

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\nwrong.
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\nI can.
\nI can bring consequences into <\/p>\n

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\ntheir life.
\nI can judge them. <\/p>\n

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\nI can, I can punish them for
\nwhat they’ve done. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s because we really do
\nbecome the God who we worship. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that’s why we have to get it
\nright. <\/p>\n

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\nWe we have to understand who is
\nour God. <\/p>\n

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\nHow does he really deal with us,
\nWhat what is he expecting from <\/p>\n

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\nus?
\nHow does he treat us and and all<\/p>\n

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\nof our sins and all of our
\nmistakes. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, as you’re going
\nthrough that job study in the <\/p>\n

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\nsecond period, you look at all
\nthe things that Job said and did<\/p>\n

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\nand he and he said some things
\nthat were wrong in the end. <\/p>\n

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\nBut God had unbelievable
\ncompassion towards Job. <\/p>\n

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\nAs we looked at in in James
\nChapter 5 yesterday, his <\/p>\n

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\ncompassion and his mercy was
\nunbelievable. <\/p>\n

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\nA lot of us would written tobe
\noff. <\/p>\n

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\nWe would have said, you said all
\nthose things and you you saw all<\/p>\n

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\nthis stuff, You know that now
\nyou’re going to pay for it. <\/p>\n

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\nNo, that isn’t what our God
\ndoes. <\/p>\n

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\nHe looks at them as learning
\nexperiences, things that we’re <\/p>\n

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\ngoing through in life, making
\nmistake, a mistake. <\/p>\n

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\nBut what do you want from those
\nthings so we can get closer and <\/p>\n

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\ncloser to him.
\nAnd it’s really the challenge <\/p>\n

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\nthis week.
\nSo I think for all of us is what<\/p>\n

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\nkind of God do you worship, You
\nknow what kind of relationship <\/p>\n

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\nyou have with your God.
\nAnd that’s something that all of<\/p>\n

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\nus have to get challenged on.
\nIf Jesus Christ walked through <\/p>\n

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\nthe door right now today, as
\nthat door opens up back there, <\/p>\n

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\nif he walked in there and you
\nsaw him, would you want to run <\/p>\n

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\nup and thank him or would you
\nwant to like sneak out the back <\/p>\n

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\ndoor?
\nAnd and it tells us a lot about <\/p>\n

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\nour relationship with God and
\nwith Jesus Christ, his Son and <\/p>\n

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\nwith the angels that are working
\nin our lives. <\/p>\n

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\nIf we have a fear based
\nrelationship, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, then we will transfer
\nthat to our children and we will<\/p>\n

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\nbring that out in our collegia.
\nAnd it’s not a very positive way<\/p>\n

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\nto live the truth that you you
\nwon’t find, you know, that’s <\/p>\n

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\nreally the aim of the goal of of
\nvital characters. <\/p>\n

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\nThey came to love their God.
\nThey came to have, you know a <\/p>\n

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\nfriendship with Jesus Christ.
\nAnd that’s what we want to look <\/p>\n

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\nat this week because our God
\nreally does love us. <\/p>\n

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\nHe loves us.
\nHe is full of compassion and he <\/p>\n

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\ntreats us that way as we’re
\ngoing to see, and so do his <\/p>\n

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\nfamily members with Jesus Christ
\nand the angels. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s how they treat us as
\nwell. <\/p>\n

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\nHe treats us as a father does
\nhis children, and this is part <\/p>\n

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\nof why he has put us in
\nfamilies. <\/p>\n

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\nHe could have raised children on
\nthis earth entirely different <\/p>\n

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\nways, but he he put us into a
\nsituation where as young people <\/p>\n

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\ngrow up, the men and the boys
\nand the girls, they find <\/p>\n

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\nrelationships with each other.
\nMany of them have children, or <\/p>\n

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\nthey have children they work
\nwith in the Ecclesia. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd you learn as a father how to
\ndeal with your children and <\/p>\n

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\nchildren with the parents.
\nAnd we we we start to understand<\/p>\n

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\nhow our God feels about us.
\nBut if mom and dad are always <\/p>\n

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\nlike looking at what we do wrong
\nand and we’re looking at our <\/p>\n

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\nkids and we’re like spanking
\nthem for every little thing they<\/p>\n

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\ndid wrong instead of explaining
\nto them why and hoping that I <\/p>\n

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\nhope you learn from this like
\nour God does and showing <\/p>\n

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\ncompassion and mercy.
\nHow are our kids ever going to <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand our God if if we if
\nwe bring them up with a fear <\/p>\n

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\nbased relationship.
\nAnd when the teens get to the <\/p>\n

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\npoint where they’re teenagers
\nnow and and they’re in that teen<\/p>\n

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\nclass, we’re still treating them
\nlike that, then in the end they <\/p>\n

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\nthink, well, if that’s where you
\nare, that’s the way God is and <\/p>\n

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\nthey and they walk away from the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is serious about how we
\nview our God. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a serious subject.
\nAnd I don’t really think we <\/p>\n

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\nspend enough time on it myself.
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\nHe was angry with the children
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\nHe said to a whole generation,
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\nbecause of unbelief.
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\nyears.
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\nwas a national thing.
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\npeople.
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\nthings of the Old Testament on
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\nis treating all of us the same
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\nWe we weren’t forced into this.
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\nWe weren’t circumcised at 8 days
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\nWe were baptized and we
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\nto God we want to have a death
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\nAnd if you go back and look at
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\nnation, you see, you see things
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\nand because he would keep the
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\nFather’s, he’s faithful to his
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\nAnd the Lord has brought you out
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\nyou from the House of bondage.
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\ntreat us.
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\nRealize that she She’s the God
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\nlive.
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\nBut she’s commanding you this
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\nYet the Lord set his heart and
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\nare this day circumcise,
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\nsojourners in the land of Egypt,
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\nmaking between how God treats
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\nexpects that that will translate
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\nthat you will be motivated other
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\nIt it’s just totally
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\nBut he said, look at you Jews.
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\nvery same things you know and
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\nDo you presume on the riches of
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\npatience, not knowing that God’s
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\nrepentance?
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\nI want to live like them.
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\nWhat does the Lord require of
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\nWhat is He after in US today?
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\nWhat are we going to learn from
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\nhome and apply in our life?
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\nSo some of the religions around,
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\nSome of them really pushed the
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\nthere doing good works, good
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\nAnd whoever does the most good
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\nAnd you’re the ones that have
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\nThat’s that’s a that’s a push
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\nThe the Jewish Pharisees, they
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\ngood before God and therefore
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\nNow this isn’t just Christian
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\nIt’s a common practice to think
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\nsure in the end that our good
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\nhere today especially if you’ve
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\nweighing up your life and
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\nsaying well how many good things
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\nHow many bad things did you do?
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\noutweigh the bad ones then all
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\nlives with this nature that’s so
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\nyou like He treats me.
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\nother, the children like that.
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\nparents like that and will treat
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\nthat And and look around in our
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\nIt’s so sad to watch in a
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\nmake very gracious decisions
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\nthey when they sin.
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\nchildren, they come down much
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\nAnd that’s not good.
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\nThat’s what the Bible calls
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\nPartiality.
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\nHe doesn’t show partiality.
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\neverybody and bringing the right
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\nWhen we sin, they’ll send those
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\nyou’re gonna see that although
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\nman, he’s learning as he goes
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\nHe’s maturing his spiritual
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\nSo by the end he says, wow, I’ve
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\nthe ear, but now my eye sees
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\nNow he had a relationship with
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\nGod was using suffering to bring
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\nIt was a total different way of
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\nWhatever model we create in life
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\nHe goes through life perfect,
\nnever making mistakes. <\/p>\n

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\nHow did God get him there?
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\nwalked away from God.
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\ntreating you like children, Paul
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\ngood, that you might share His
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\nconstantly bringing
\ncircumstances into our life to <\/p>\n

327
\n00:17:35,640 –> 00:17:40,120
\nhelp us learn to become better
\nchildren, to learn his eternal <\/p>\n

328
\n00:17:40,120 –> 00:17:43,280
\nway of life.
\nEternal life, as Jesus called <\/p>\n

329
\n00:17:43,280 –> 00:17:45,040
\nit, or as John calls it in his
\nletters. <\/p>\n

330
\n00:17:45,200 –> 00:17:47,840
\nHe talks about eternal life,
\neternal life. <\/p>\n

331
\n00:17:47,840 –> 00:17:50,920
\nIt’s not immortality.
\nThat’s a huge mistake to make. <\/p>\n

332
\n00:17:50,920 –> 00:17:54,000
\nIf you read eternal life and
\nfrom Jesus or from John when <\/p>\n

333
\n00:17:54,000 –> 00:17:56,880
\nwhen Jesus said this is eternal
\nlife, that they know you, the <\/p>\n

334
\n00:17:56,880 –> 00:18:00,920
\nonly true God and Jesus Christ
\nand you have son, that’s not <\/p>\n

335
\n00:18:00,920 –> 00:18:04,920
\nimmortality, That’s an eternal
\nway of life. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:18:05,520 –> 00:18:07,880
\nOr as John would say, you have
\neternal life. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:18:07,880 –> 00:18:12,280
\nNow abiding in you, you have it.
\nIt’s a way of life. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:18:12,600 –> 00:18:17,480
\nIt’s God’s eternal way of life.
\nIt’s his way of life, and he’s <\/p>\n

339
\n00:18:17,480 –> 00:18:20,480
\ntrying to train us to live like
\nhim. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:18:20,920 –> 00:18:23,880
\nAnd he found out the best
\nmotivation he could ever give <\/p>\n

341
\n00:18:24,080 –> 00:18:27,480
\nwas to send his son and put his
\nson through all those <\/p>\n

342
\n00:18:27,480 –> 00:18:31,240
\ncircumstances and show us that
\nno matter what happened when he <\/p>\n

343
\n00:18:31,240 –> 00:18:33,800
\nwas reviled, he didn’t revile in
\nreturn. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:18:34,000 –> 00:18:35,800
\nWhen he suffered, he didn’t
\nthreaten. <\/p>\n

345
\n00:18:36,160 –> 00:18:39,400
\nWhy?
\nBecause he trusted that the one <\/p>\n

346
\n00:18:39,400 –> 00:18:42,600
\nwho judges justly, you know,
\nthat’s what he did. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:18:42,880 –> 00:18:45,960
\nAnd by His stripes, we are
\nhealed. <\/p>\n

348
\n00:18:46,480 –> 00:18:49,520
\nWe’re healed because we’re
\nlearning from that to behave <\/p>\n

349
\n00:18:49,520 –> 00:18:52,120
\nlike Him.
\nThat’s the whole goal, man. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:18:52,120 –> 00:18:54,600
\nPeter summarizes it like that in
\nfirst Peter 2. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:18:54,920 –> 00:18:56,760
\nSo that’s what our God is doing
\nwith us. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:18:56,760 –> 00:18:58,560
\nThen He.
\nHe’s not really comparing all of<\/p>\n

353
\n00:18:58,560 –> 00:19:00,840
\nour sins with all our good deeds
\nand weighing them out. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:19:01,040 –> 00:19:03,520
\nThat’s more like a fair, safe, a
\nway of looking at life. <\/p>\n

355
\n00:19:03,720 –> 00:19:07,840
\nWhat he’s hoping is these sins
\nthat we commit are going to help<\/p>\n

356
\n00:19:07,840 –> 00:19:11,080
\nus learn to become better
\nmembers of his family. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:19:11,560 –> 00:19:13,520
\nAnd you see, He doesn’t look at
\nsin like we do. <\/p>\n

358
\n00:19:13,800 –> 00:19:16,400
\nSomebody sins in our community
\nand they do something wrong. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:19:16,400 –> 00:19:19,360
\nAnd a lot of us, we have these
\ntendencies to think, oh, right, <\/p>\n

360
\n00:19:19,480 –> 00:19:21,400
\nwhat are we going to bring?
\nWhat consequences are we going <\/p>\n

361
\n00:19:21,400 –> 00:19:24,560
\nto bring into their life?
\nAnd and we we look at this as <\/p>\n

362
\n00:19:24,560 –> 00:19:27,480
\nthough we’ve got to somehow do
\nthis to them and they’ve got to <\/p>\n

363
\n00:19:27,480 –> 00:19:29,240
\nbe punished.
\nBecause if you have a <\/p>\n

364
\n00:19:29,240 –> 00:19:31,480
\nrelationship with God where you
\nthink he’s where he wants to <\/p>\n

365
\n00:19:31,480 –> 00:19:34,600
\npunish you for your sins, you
\nfeel justified in doing that to <\/p>\n

366
\n00:19:34,600 –> 00:19:36,880
\nother people.
\nBut that isn’t what our God <\/p>\n

367
\n00:19:36,880 –> 00:19:38,560
\ndoes.
\nHe gives more grace. <\/p>\n

368
\n00:19:38,560 –> 00:19:42,400
\nJames says that’s what he does.
\nThat’s how he solves wars and <\/p>\n

369
\n00:19:42,400 –> 00:19:45,440
\nand ecclesial members.
\nAnd in chapter 4, James says, <\/p>\n

370
\n00:19:45,440 –> 00:19:49,160
\nwell what does God do?
\nHe gives more grace, same way. <\/p>\n

371
\n00:19:49,560 –> 00:19:53,800
\nSo we know it’s by grace that we
\nhave been saved and it’s not <\/p>\n

372
\n00:19:53,800 –> 00:19:58,360
\nfrom ourselves, it’s the gift of
\nGod and not by works so that no <\/p>\n

373
\n00:19:58,360 –> 00:20:00,280
\none can boast.
\nThat’s the reason. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:20:00,560 –> 00:20:03,520
\nIt’s like nobody can boast.
\nAnd what God has done is he’s <\/p>\n

375
\n00:20:03,520 –> 00:20:06,440
\nbrought us into a family.
\nHe’s training us to be his <\/p>\n

376
\n00:20:06,440 –> 00:20:09,760
\nfamily members, training us to
\nbe ready for eternal life. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:20:09,840 –> 00:20:12,480
\nThat’s what he’s doing.
\nHave you ever thought about the <\/p>\n

378
\n00:20:12,480 –> 00:20:15,080
\nconcept about, like, if he was
\nweighing out good and bad things<\/p>\n

379
\n00:20:15,200 –> 00:20:17,000
\nand it was based in any way on
\nour works? <\/p>\n

380
\n00:20:17,160 –> 00:20:19,720
\nWell, what we could do rather
\nthan sisters and young people? <\/p>\n

381
\n00:20:19,720 –> 00:20:21,440
\nJust think about it.
\nYou know, it’s it’s almost like <\/p>\n

382
\n00:20:21,440 –> 00:20:24,280
\na job that you have if we treat
\nGod like our employer. <\/p>\n

383
\n00:20:24,440 –> 00:20:27,080
\nAnd and you, you go to work
\ntoday, you go to a teacher at <\/p>\n

384
\n00:20:27,080 –> 00:20:29,760
\nschool and you think, well, if I
\ndo a good job, if I really do <\/p>\n

385
\n00:20:29,760 –> 00:20:31,160
\nthis right, they’re going to
\ngive me more. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:20:31,160 –> 00:20:33,240
\nThey’re going to pay me more or
\nthey’re going to pay you more. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:20:33,840 –> 00:20:37,360
\nBut our God can’t afford to run
\neternal life like that. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:20:37,360 –> 00:20:39,520
\nImmortality.
\nThat is just how he works. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:20:39,720 –> 00:20:42,440
\nWhat he does is he says here you
\ncan have it. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:20:43,240 –> 00:20:45,680
\nIt’s a gift.
\nI’ll give you grace. <\/p>\n

391
\n00:20:45,920 –> 00:20:49,800
\nYou’ve been saved by grace.
\nAnd then he waits to see how we <\/p>\n

392
\n00:20:49,800 –> 00:20:51,920
\nwill respond to that.
\nWhat are you going to do with <\/p>\n

393
\n00:20:51,920 –> 00:20:53,920
\nthat?
\nYou just going to squander it? <\/p>\n

394
\n00:20:54,360 –> 00:20:56,280
\nYou’re going to just like, not
\ntreat it seriously? <\/p>\n

395
\n00:20:56,600 –> 00:21:01,320
\nOr is it going to change your
\nlife and how you treat other <\/p>\n

396
\n00:21:01,320 –> 00:21:05,040
\npeople That’s what he’s looking
\nfor and and you see why. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:21:05,080 –> 00:21:07,520
\nIf if it was all about like I’m
\ntrying to do works and I’m <\/p>\n

398
\n00:21:07,520 –> 00:21:09,880
\ntrying to earn my way through
\nand I’m piling up comparing my <\/p>\n

399
\n00:21:09,880 –> 00:21:13,000
\ngood and my bad when it came
\nbehind to the Judgement seat and<\/p>\n

400
\n00:21:13,000 –> 00:21:16,720
\nhe gives us immortality, what
\nmotivation is there anymore to <\/p>\n

401
\n00:21:16,720 –> 00:21:19,160
\ndo good things?
\nYou see that? <\/p>\n

402
\n00:21:19,160 –> 00:21:23,120
\nThat’s, that’s this whole issue
\nof that we have to love God’s <\/p>\n

403
\n00:21:23,120 –> 00:21:25,280
\nway of life.
\nWhen when Jack was going through<\/p>\n

404
\n00:21:25,280 –> 00:21:28,080
\nthat with Job, I mean, look at
\nwhat Job did, He kept holding on<\/p>\n

405
\n00:21:28,080 –> 00:21:31,560
\nto this idea and his integrity
\nof the righteousness of God. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:21:31,800 –> 00:21:36,040
\nGod’s way of life is right.
\nThat’s what God’s looking for, <\/p>\n

407
\n00:21:36,360 –> 00:21:38,760
\nnot people that are just doing
\nit for what they can get out of <\/p>\n

408
\n00:21:38,760 –> 00:21:41,000
\nit in this life.
\nBecause as soon as that’s over, <\/p>\n

409
\n00:21:41,000 –> 00:21:44,280
\nthere’s no motivation anymore.
\nHe wants people that will hold <\/p>\n

410
\n00:21:44,280 –> 00:21:47,720
\non to it even when they’re going
\nthrough rough times, even when <\/p>\n

411
\n00:21:47,720 –> 00:21:49,920
\nthey’re being challenged.
\nEven when things aren’t going <\/p>\n

412
\n00:21:49,920 –> 00:21:54,200
\nwell, you still commit to it.
\nThose are the people that endure<\/p>\n

413
\n00:21:54,200 –> 00:21:57,560
\nto the end for whom he can
\ngraciously hand out immortality <\/p>\n

414
\n00:21:57,840 –> 00:22:01,240
\nand say welcome to the family.
\nThat’s that’s the way our God <\/p>\n

415
\n00:22:01,240 –> 00:22:03,400
\nworks.
\nAnd it changes how we treat <\/p>\n

416
\n00:22:03,400 –> 00:22:06,160
\nother people.
\nSo we’re not here by accident <\/p>\n

417
\n00:22:06,160 –> 00:22:07,960
\ntoday.
\nYou know, it isn’t a case where <\/p>\n

418
\n00:22:07,960 –> 00:22:10,480
\nsomebody just happened to preach
\nto us that you were born into a <\/p>\n

419
\n00:22:10,480 –> 00:22:13,960
\nChristadelphian family or or
\nwhatever you are here because <\/p>\n

420
\n00:22:13,960 –> 00:22:18,200
\nGod wants you and his family.
\nHe loves you, John. <\/p>\n

421
\n00:22:18,360 –> 00:22:21,600
\nJesus says in John 15 that you
\nare my friends. <\/p>\n

422
\n00:22:21,640 –> 00:22:24,680
\nIf you do whatever I command,
\nyou no longer do, I call you <\/p>\n

423
\n00:22:24,680 –> 00:22:27,400
\nservants, for a servant does not
\nknow what his master’s doing. <\/p>\n

424
\n00:22:27,760 –> 00:22:31,320
\nBut I have called you friends or
\nall things that I’ve heard from <\/p>\n

425
\n00:22:31,320 –> 00:22:33,360
\nmy father I have made known to
\nyou. <\/p>\n

426
\n00:22:33,920 –> 00:22:37,240
\nYou did not choose me.
\nSee, sometimes we think, <\/p>\n

427
\n00:22:37,240 –> 00:22:39,520
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nWe did all our Bible study. <\/p>\n

428
\n00:22:39,520 –> 00:22:41,200
\nWe did all this work.
\nI learned the truth. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:22:41,400 –> 00:22:44,360
\nYou know, I did all this stuff
\nand I got baptized and you know,<\/p>\n

430
\n00:22:44,360 –> 00:22:47,200
\nI did it.
\nAnd then we continue that <\/p>\n

431
\n00:22:47,200 –> 00:22:49,640
\nprocess through our life.
\nThat isn’t how it works. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:22:50,440 –> 00:22:53,040
\nWe’re we’re only here because
\nGod chose us. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:22:53,400 –> 00:22:55,960
\nJesus chose you.
\nHe chose you. <\/p>\n

434
\n00:22:56,680 –> 00:22:59,680
\nThat’s what he did.
\nI I remember learning years ago <\/p>\n

435
\n00:22:59,680 –> 00:23:03,960
\nthat in our BAS stuff, right,
\nwe’ve got this clause that we <\/p>\n

436
\n00:23:03,960 –> 00:23:06,200
\nput in.
\nWe amended the BASF years ago <\/p>\n

437
\n00:23:06,400 –> 00:23:07,640
\nand we have this clause.
\nWhat is it? <\/p>\n

438
\n00:23:07,640 –> 00:23:10,120
\nClause 25, right?
\nOr whatever it is in your BAS. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:23:10,360 –> 00:23:12,560
\nOver over here, we got this one
\nabout The Who are the <\/p>\n

440
\n00:23:12,560 –> 00:23:15,400
\nresponsible people, right?
\nThe responsible. <\/p>\n

441
\n00:23:15,400 –> 00:23:17,720
\nWell, who are they and and what
\nwe would rattle off? <\/p>\n

442
\n00:23:17,720 –> 00:23:20,320
\nThe responsible people are those
\nthat know the revealed will of <\/p>\n

443
\n00:23:20,320 –> 00:23:22,280
\nGod, right?
\nYou did your studies, you know <\/p>\n

444
\n00:23:22,280 –> 00:23:24,680
\nall the answers you could pass
\nthe pass the baptismal <\/p>\n

445
\n00:23:24,680 –> 00:23:26,120
\ninterview.
\nYou know it. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:23:26,200 –> 00:23:29,680
\nYou’re the responsible people
\nand we forgot to read the rest. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:23:30,960 –> 00:23:37,520
\nWho knows how that ends?
\nDo we know RBASFI didn’t I got <\/p>\n

448
\n00:23:37,520 –> 00:23:41,600
\ntaught this by unamended brother
\nsisters in in North America. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:23:41,840 –> 00:23:43,520
\nThey said just read the rest of
\nthe clause. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:23:43,600 –> 00:23:46,120
\nWhat did they put in there?
\nIt says those who know the <\/p>\n

451
\n00:23:46,120 –> 00:23:50,560
\nreveals what of God and have
\nbeen called upon to submit to <\/p>\n

452
\n00:23:50,560 –> 00:23:52,440
\nit.
\nYou totally left out God’s <\/p>\n

453
\n00:23:52,440 –> 00:23:54,440
\ncalling.
\nYou didn’t realize it’s up to <\/p>\n

454
\n00:23:54,440 –> 00:23:55,680
\nGod to call you.
\nIt’s not. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:23:55,680 –> 00:23:58,480
\nYou don’t call your children.
\nYou don’t make your children <\/p>\n

456
\n00:23:58,480 –> 00:24:00,760
\nresponsible to the truth.
\nThat isn’t what we do as <\/p>\n

457
\n00:24:00,760 –> 00:24:04,000
\nparents.
\nWe pray that God will call them <\/p>\n

458
\n00:24:04,360 –> 00:24:07,560
\nand that we will then help in
\nthat process by teaching them <\/p>\n

459
\n00:24:07,560 –> 00:24:09,800
\nthe truth.
\nBut it’s not up to me. <\/p>\n

460
\n00:24:10,480 –> 00:24:13,040
\nIt’s not up to me.
\nMaybe I learned that the hard <\/p>\n

461
\n00:24:13,040 –> 00:24:16,200
\nway, having an autistic child,
\nthat no matter what we did, we <\/p>\n

462
\n00:24:16,200 –> 00:24:19,680
\nwe couldn’t force things.
\nIt’s totally up to God and his <\/p>\n

463
\n00:24:19,680 –> 00:24:22,040
\ncalling, and it all made sense
\nin the end. <\/p>\n

464
\n00:24:22,040 –> 00:24:24,440
\nIn in Romans 9, when Paul
\nactually deals with this, <\/p>\n

465
\n00:24:24,720 –> 00:24:27,080
\nthough, you, Paul Jesus said
\nthere that you did not choose <\/p>\n

466
\n00:24:27,080 –> 00:24:30,520
\nme, but I chose you and
\nappointed you that you should go<\/p>\n

467
\n00:24:30,520 –> 00:24:34,080
\nand bear fruit.
\nIt was up to Christ to do the <\/p>\n

468
\n00:24:34,200 –> 00:24:37,000
\ncalling or up to God and they
\nare the ones who call. <\/p>\n

469
\n00:24:37,760 –> 00:24:40,360
\nI I learned a lot by doing a
\nstudy of the angels years ago <\/p>\n

470
\n00:24:40,360 –> 00:24:43,320
\nand I was really impressed with
\nthe fact that I had been reading<\/p>\n

471
\n00:24:43,360 –> 00:24:46,080
\nangels the wrong way.
\nI knew all these Bible stories <\/p>\n

472
\n00:24:46,080 –> 00:24:48,960
\nand I know you do too.
\nYou know all about Abraham and <\/p>\n

473
\n00:24:48,960 –> 00:24:50,920
\nlot all this stuff.
\nWe we knew all the stories. <\/p>\n

474
\n00:24:51,120 –> 00:24:53,920
\nBut what I had never done is
\nread them from the perspective <\/p>\n

475
\n00:24:53,920 –> 00:24:56,640
\nof angels.
\nAnd I found that very helpful to<\/p>\n

476
\n00:24:56,720 –> 00:24:58,880
\nstart out in January when you’re
\ndoing the Bible readings. <\/p>\n

477
\n00:24:58,880 –> 00:25:01,600
\nAnd every time you run across a
\nstory where angels are involved,<\/p>\n

478
\n00:25:01,960 –> 00:25:04,400
\njust try to understand and think
\nabout what? <\/p>\n

479
\n00:25:04,560 –> 00:25:08,560
\nWhat are they thinking?
\nWhat are they going through? <\/p>\n

480
\n00:25:08,560 –> 00:25:10,720
\nBecause they’re already in God’s
\nfamily. <\/p>\n

481
\n00:25:11,200 –> 00:25:15,680
\nWatch how they treat people with
\nthese people and learn from them<\/p>\n

482
\n00:25:15,680 –> 00:25:18,840
\nabout how to treat one another.
\nI found that very useful. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:25:19,040 –> 00:25:21,000
\nSo look at the three men in
\nGenesis 18. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:25:21,000 –> 00:25:22,680
\nThe three angels, they they rose
\nfrom there. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:25:22,680 –> 00:25:25,440
\nThis is after talking to Abraham
\nand Sarah. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:25:25,440 –> 00:25:28,240
\nAnd what did they tell them?
\nThey told Abraham, here you are,<\/p>\n

487
\n00:25:28,240 –> 00:25:31,000
\nold man, You’re going to have a
\nson, Sarah, you’re old, but <\/p>\n

488
\n00:25:31,000 –> 00:25:32,720
\nyou’re going to have, you’re
\ngoing to have a child. <\/p>\n

489
\n00:25:33,120 –> 00:25:35,680
\nAnd they came to tell them that
\nnews personally. <\/p>\n

490
\n00:25:36,120 –> 00:25:39,760
\nAnd then the three angels, they
\nleft there from from Abraham, <\/p>\n

491
\n00:25:39,960 –> 00:25:42,440
\nthey started to walk away.
\nWhere were they going? <\/p>\n

492
\n00:25:43,160 –> 00:25:45,680
\nThey’re going to Sodom, Genesis
\n19, right? <\/p>\n

493
\n00:25:46,080 –> 00:25:48,200
\nAnd they have a conversation on
\nthe road. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:25:48,480 –> 00:25:52,600
\nAnd they look at one another and
\nthey say, wow, we’re going down <\/p>\n

495
\n00:25:52,600 –> 00:25:54,280
\nto Sodom.
\nWe’re probably going to destroy <\/p>\n

496
\n00:25:54,280 –> 00:25:56,080
\nit.
\nAbraham’s nephew went down <\/p>\n

497
\n00:25:56,080 –> 00:25:57,320
\nthere.
\nDo you think we should tell <\/p>\n

498
\n00:25:57,320 –> 00:26:01,000
\nAbraham what we’re going to do?
\nDo do you, do you read your <\/p>\n

499
\n00:26:01,000 –> 00:26:02,680
\nBible that way?
\nI mean, that’s what’s happening.<\/p>\n

500
\n00:26:02,680 –> 00:26:06,680
\nThey’re having a conversation.
\nThese angels were empowered to <\/p>\n

501
\n00:26:06,680 –> 00:26:09,880
\nmake a huge decision.
\nThey’re they’re having this <\/p>\n

502
\n00:26:09,880 –> 00:26:12,080
\nlook, the Lord said.
\nSo we get fooled by reading. <\/p>\n

503
\n00:26:12,080 –> 00:26:14,880
\nThe Lord said, Shall I hide from
\nAbraham what I am doing? <\/p>\n

504
\n00:26:15,280 –> 00:26:18,520
\nSee, the three that are having
\nthis discussion are three angels<\/p>\n

505
\n00:26:18,520 –> 00:26:21,000
\nwho Abraham refers to as the
\nLord or Yahweh. <\/p>\n

506
\n00:26:21,200 –> 00:26:23,800
\nAnd Lot in turn calls them
\nYahweh as well. <\/p>\n

507
\n00:26:24,160 –> 00:26:29,640
\nSo it’s these three angels that
\nare there, I’m doing since <\/p>\n

508
\n00:26:29,680 –> 00:26:32,480
\nAbraham shall surely become a
\ngreat and mighty nation, and for<\/p>\n

509
\n00:26:32,480 –> 00:26:35,560
\nall the nations of the earth are
\ngoing to be blessed in him, or I<\/p>\n

510
\n00:26:35,560 –> 00:26:38,760
\nhave known him.
\nNow isn’t that interesting, that<\/p>\n

511
\n00:26:38,760 –> 00:26:40,960
\nphrase I have known him.
\nDo you realize that the Hebrew <\/p>\n

512
\n00:26:40,960 –> 00:26:44,200
\nwords there that are used are
\nthe same words where Abraham <\/p>\n

513
\n00:26:44,200 –> 00:26:47,920
\nknew his wife and she conceived?
\nThat’s the same word. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:26:48,480 –> 00:26:51,080
\nAnd in the Hebrew I have known
\nhim. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:26:51,320 –> 00:26:54,640
\nThis is an intimate personal
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:26:55,240 –> 00:26:57,440
\nThe angel’s head with Abraham.
\nThey came to talk to him <\/p>\n

517
\n00:26:57,440 –> 00:26:58,880
\npersonally.
\nFriend. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:26:59,600 –> 00:27:02,400
\nI really believe this first time
\nAbraham was ever called the <\/p>\n

519
\n00:27:02,400 –> 00:27:04,400
\nfriend of God, it’s referred to
\nhim. <\/p>\n

520
\n00:27:04,400 –> 00:27:06,160
\nIt wasn’t there.
\nThere’s 40 righteous. <\/p>\n

521
\n00:27:06,160 –> 00:27:09,080
\nWhat are you going to do?
\nAngel talks with Abraham, says <\/p>\n

522
\n00:27:09,080 –> 00:27:13,400
\nOK, he’s talking with Abraham.
\nThat’s what this Angel did. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:27:14,840 –> 00:27:18,360
\nLook at that idea that God, in
\nthis case, or the angels that <\/p>\n

524
\n00:27:18,360 –> 00:27:21,000
\nwere there, they talked to
\nAbraham as their friend. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:27:21,200 –> 00:27:23,840
\nIt fits in with Jesus and John
\nthere where he said that, you <\/p>\n

526
\n00:27:23,840 –> 00:27:25,440
\nknow, I don’t call you servants
\nanymore. <\/p>\n

527
\n00:27:25,480 –> 00:27:28,640
\nYou’re my friends, you know.
\nI I know you. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:27:28,720 –> 00:27:31,720
\nI want you to understand.
\nWe want a relationship with you <\/p>\n

529
\n00:27:32,080 –> 00:27:34,280
\nwhere you will learn to live
\nlike me. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:27:34,280 –> 00:27:37,440
\nThat’s what he’s after.
\nSo look, in John 6, this was <\/p>\n

531
\n00:27:37,440 –> 00:27:40,400
\nalso an interesting one about
\nGod’s calling, because the Jews <\/p>\n

532
\n00:27:40,400 –> 00:27:42,960
\ntherefore answered, Jesus
\nanswered the Jews here, and he <\/p>\n

533
\n00:27:42,960 –> 00:27:46,240
\nsaid to them, Don’t murmur among
\nyourselves, for no one can come <\/p>\n

534
\n00:27:46,240 –> 00:27:49,120
\nto me unless the Father who sent
\nme draws him. <\/p>\n

535
\n00:27:50,400 –> 00:27:52,680
\nSee, that’s a blanket statement.
\nIt’s not just here you’re going <\/p>\n

536
\n00:27:52,680 –> 00:27:54,480
\nto find.
\nThat’s all over in John’s Gospel<\/p>\n

537
\n00:27:54,480 –> 00:27:57,400
\nand elsewhere in the Bible.
\nSometimes as parents, we think <\/p>\n

538
\n00:27:57,400 –> 00:27:59,440
\nthat we just got to drill the
\nBible into our kids. <\/p>\n

539
\n00:27:59,440 –> 00:28:01,400
\nWe got a Bible Mark.
\nWe got a CYC. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:28:01,400 –> 00:28:03,880
\nWe got, we got to do all this
\nstuff about the Bible, do the <\/p>\n

541
\n00:28:03,880 –> 00:28:06,480
\nBible rings home.
\nAnd we got to be careful because<\/p>\n

542
\n00:28:06,480 –> 00:28:09,480
\nin the end we think that when
\nthey’re baptized, we look back <\/p>\n

543
\n00:28:09,480 –> 00:28:11,600
\nand say, oh, look at that, look
\nwhat I did. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:28:12,280 –> 00:28:14,920
\nAnd we look at somebody else in
\nthe truth whose child walks away<\/p>\n

545
\n00:28:15,240 –> 00:28:18,080
\nand we judge them and say, well,
\nyou didn’t do as good a job as I<\/p>\n

546
\n00:28:18,080 –> 00:28:20,920
\ndid.
\nThat’s not right. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:28:21,000 –> 00:28:24,160
\nBrothers and sisters, we we
\nshould be doing the Bible <\/p>\n

548
\n00:28:24,160 –> 00:28:26,080
\nreadings at home.
\nWe should be going to Cyc. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:28:26,120 –> 00:28:28,080
\nWe should have our kids here at
\nat these guys. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:28:28,480 –> 00:28:31,960
\nBut at the same time, we should
\nbe praying and pleading with God<\/p>\n

551
\n00:28:32,560 –> 00:28:36,040
\nthat he will call them.
\nIt’s up to him to call them into<\/p>\n

552
\n00:28:36,040 –> 00:28:38,680
\nhis family.
\nAnd he doesn’t always call <\/p>\n

553
\n00:28:38,680 –> 00:28:41,480
\neveryone.
\nAbraham had to deal with that <\/p>\n

554
\n00:28:41,480 –> 00:28:43,840
\nwith Ishmael.
\nHe said, oh, that Ishmael might <\/p>\n

555
\n00:28:43,840 –> 00:28:47,520
\nlive in your sight.
\nGod says no, it’s not going to <\/p>\n

556
\n00:28:47,520 –> 00:28:50,760
\ngo through Ishmael.
\nAnd later on, Isaac, you know, <\/p>\n

557
\n00:28:50,800 –> 00:28:53,360
\npleading with God about he loved
\nEsau. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:28:54,000 –> 00:28:56,640
\nAnd God says no, it’s going to
\ngo through Jacob. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:28:57,400 –> 00:29:00,160
\nAnd we sometimes fool ourselves
\ninto thinking that Jacob was a <\/p>\n

560
\n00:29:00,160 –> 00:29:03,400
\nbetter man than Esau.
\nWell, you know, read the account<\/p>\n

561
\n00:29:03,400 –> 00:29:05,440
\nof Jacob’s life.
\nHe’s a schemer. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:29:05,760 –> 00:29:08,800
\nHe he tried everything he could
\nto scheme his way through life. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:29:09,280 –> 00:29:11,920
\nAnd yet God trained him.
\nHe worked with him. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:29:12,120 –> 00:29:16,560
\nHe patiently worked with Jacob
\nbecause God was calling Jacob <\/p>\n

565
\n00:29:17,440 –> 00:29:19,200
\nand it’s a lesson we have to
\nlearn. <\/p>\n

566
\n00:29:19,320 –> 00:29:22,080
\nPaul deals with this in Romans 9
\nwhen he talks about God’s <\/p>\n

567
\n00:29:22,080 –> 00:29:24,760
\nelection.
\nAnd he says from the same lump <\/p>\n

568
\n00:29:25,000 –> 00:29:29,520
\nof clay he can make one vessel
\nto honor and another vessel to <\/p>\n

569
\n00:29:29,520 –> 00:29:32,120
\ndishonor.
\nNot different lumps of clay, not<\/p>\n

570
\n00:29:32,120 –> 00:29:36,040
\none good lump and one bad lump.
\nNo, from the same lump, same <\/p>\n

571
\n00:29:36,040 –> 00:29:37,120
\nlump.
\nHe can do that. <\/p>\n

572
\n00:29:37,680 –> 00:29:40,600
\nWhy John Baptist said of these
\nstones God can raise up children<\/p>\n

573
\n00:29:40,600 –> 00:29:41,920
\nto Abraham?
\nHe can. <\/p>\n

574
\n00:29:42,360 –> 00:29:44,840
\nThat’s what he can do it.
\nIt’s not that there’s better <\/p>\n

575
\n00:29:44,840 –> 00:29:46,480
\nstones.
\nAnd you know, that was a mistake<\/p>\n

576
\n00:29:46,480 –> 00:29:48,680
\nthe Jews made.
\nThey they thought, oh, we are <\/p>\n

577
\n00:29:48,680 –> 00:29:50,560
\nthe people.
\nWe have the promises, that we’re<\/p>\n

578
\n00:29:50,560 –> 00:29:53,240
\nbetter people than those nasty
\ndog Gentiles. <\/p>\n

579
\n00:29:54,120 –> 00:29:56,360
\nAnd God had to constantly remind
\nthem, no, you’re not better <\/p>\n

580
\n00:29:56,360 –> 00:29:58,360
\npeople.
\nYou’re you’re in a better <\/p>\n

581
\n00:29:58,360 –> 00:30:00,000
\nsituation.
\nBecause I love you. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:30:00,680 –> 00:30:02,120
\nI’ve.
\nI’ve given you these things. <\/p>\n

583
\n00:30:02,120 –> 00:30:03,760
\nI’ve given you all these
\nprivileges. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:30:04,400 –> 00:30:06,960
\nNow I’m expecting something from
\nyou. <\/p>\n

585
\n00:30:07,320 –> 00:30:10,520
\nAnd he got so disappointed in
\nthe nation where for all the <\/p>\n

586
\n00:30:10,720 –> 00:30:14,320
\nthings God had done for them,
\nthey had not responded. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:30:14,320 –> 00:30:17,280
\nAnd it was frustrating to God
\nand to the angels that we’re <\/p>\n

588
\n00:30:17,280 –> 00:30:20,000
\nworking with them.
\nSo we have to remember it’s all <\/p>\n

589
\n00:30:20,000 –> 00:30:22,600
\nabout God’s calling.
\nGod’s having a family. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:30:22,840 –> 00:30:26,400
\nHe wants to have a family.
\nHe’s I had with God because our <\/p>\n

591
\n00:30:26,400 –> 00:30:29,880
\nGod, he really is our coach now.
\nHave you ever played a sport <\/p>\n

592
\n00:30:29,880 –> 00:30:32,120
\nwhere you play for a coach where
\neverything you do wrong, he just<\/p>\n

593
\n00:30:32,120 –> 00:30:34,720
\nwants to like wack you on the
\nhead or he wants to like punish <\/p>\n

594
\n00:30:34,720 –> 00:30:36,320
\nyou?
\nGo ride, go run ton lap. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:30:36,720 –> 00:30:38,720
\nDo you really want to play for a
\ncoach like that? <\/p>\n

596
\n00:30:39,280 –> 00:30:41,720
\nI didn’t.
\nI didn’t find them very fun to <\/p>\n

597
\n00:30:41,720 –> 00:30:43,800
\nplay with.
\nThe game plan, It’s his game <\/p>\n

598
\n00:30:43,800 –> 00:30:46,680
\nplan.
\nIt’s God’s righteousness, his <\/p>\n

599
\n00:30:46,680 –> 00:30:49,920
\nright way of life.
\nIt’s all gonna be right because <\/p>\n

600
\n00:30:49,920 –> 00:30:53,960
\nthe the judge of all the earth
\nwill do right and he guarantees <\/p>\n

601
\n00:30:53,960 –> 00:30:56,760
\nsuccess.
\nWouldn’t that be great, to go <\/p>\n

602
\n00:30:56,760 –> 00:31:00,160
\ninto a A, a school, a class in
\nin school or somewhere in <\/p>\n

603
\n00:31:00,160 –> 00:31:02,640
\nbusiness and have somebody
\nteaching about this and <\/p>\n

604
\n00:31:02,640 –> 00:31:06,040
\nguaranteeing that if you
\ncooperate with the program, you <\/p>\n

605
\n00:31:06,040 –> 00:31:08,080
\nwill be successful?
\nYou’ll make it. <\/p>\n

606
\n00:31:08,520 –> 00:31:13,160
\nIt’s a guarantee you’ll make it.
\nIf by faith you trust him, <\/p>\n

607
\n00:31:13,680 –> 00:31:16,600
\nwhatever he brings into your
\nlife, whatever happens when we <\/p>\n

608
\n00:31:16,600 –> 00:31:20,320
\ngo home, whatever’s happening
\ntoday in your life and my family<\/p>\n

609
\n00:31:20,320 –> 00:31:23,080
\nlife, we got to trust him.
\nHe’s in control. <\/p>\n

610
\n00:31:23,320 –> 00:31:25,920
\nIt’s God’s family.
\nHe’s got his angels. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:31:25,920 –> 00:31:28,400
\nThey’re out there working.
\nJesus is over them now, and he’s<\/p>\n

612
\n00:31:28,400 –> 00:31:33,000
\ncontrolling all these things.
\nWe just have to trust and treat <\/p>\n

613
\n00:31:33,000 –> 00:31:36,560
\npeople the way he treats people.
\nWe don’t have to force an issue.<\/p>\n

614
\n00:31:36,560 –> 00:31:39,360
\nWe don’t have to say, well, the
\nends will justify the means. <\/p>\n

615
\n00:31:39,360 –> 00:31:41,240
\nSo I had to do it that way.
\nNo, we don’t. <\/p>\n

616
\n00:31:41,640 –> 00:31:44,360
\nGod’s in control and that’s what
\nhe’s after. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:31:44,640 –> 00:31:47,880
\nAnd he knows what we need.
\nHe knows it better than any of <\/p>\n

618
\n00:31:47,880 –> 00:31:49,440
\nus.
\nYou know, I’ve, I’ve watched <\/p>\n

619
\n00:31:49,440 –> 00:31:52,000
\nthis on arranging boards before
\nI’ve been on and and a young <\/p>\n

620
\n00:31:52,000 –> 00:31:54,800
\nperson will make mistake and
\npeople talk about, well, what <\/p>\n

621
\n00:31:54,800 –> 00:31:57,240
\nconsequence or punishment we
\nhave to bring in their life so <\/p>\n

622
\n00:31:57,240 –> 00:32:00,080
\nthat they will learn, you know,
\nthat this is wrong or something.<\/p>\n

623
\n00:32:00,080 –> 00:32:02,360
\nYou’ve got to set an example for
\nthe other young people and all <\/p>\n

624
\n00:32:02,360 –> 00:32:05,160
\nthese things.
\nBut brothers and sisters, you <\/p>\n

625
\n00:32:05,160 –> 00:32:08,200
\nknow, look at the life of David.
\nWhat did you learn from David <\/p>\n

626
\n00:32:08,200 –> 00:32:11,160
\nwith his mistake?
\nLike David was the king. <\/p>\n

627
\n00:32:11,440 –> 00:32:14,080
\nDavid committed adultery, David
\ncommitted murder. <\/p>\n

628
\n00:32:14,280 –> 00:32:17,800
\nAnd what did God do?
\nBy law, he should have been <\/p>\n

629
\n00:32:17,800 –> 00:32:23,280
\nstoned, should have been stoned.
\nBut God doesn’t treat him that <\/p>\n

630
\n00:32:23,280 –> 00:32:25,760
\nway.
\nI I think for a lot of times <\/p>\n

631
\n00:32:25,760 –> 00:32:30,160
\nwe’ve misread the law, but the
\nlaw told us what we deserve for <\/p>\n

632
\n00:32:30,160 –> 00:32:33,320
\nour sins.
\nBut did you realize that so many<\/p>\n

633
\n00:32:33,320 –> 00:32:37,800
\ntimes people who made terrible
\nmistakes didn’t receive what the<\/p>\n

634
\n00:32:37,800 –> 00:32:42,440
\nlaw said they should receive?
\nBecause the law accepted that <\/p>\n

635
\n00:32:42,440 –> 00:32:44,880
\npeople were living under you
\nwould learn after a while that <\/p>\n

636
\n00:32:44,880 –> 00:32:46,680
\nwow, I deserve this, I deserve
\nthat. <\/p>\n

637
\n00:32:46,920 –> 00:32:51,360
\nBut God, I’m pleading for mercy.
\nGod is merciful and he hoped <\/p>\n

638
\n00:32:51,360 –> 00:32:54,400
\nthat we would catch on that
\nthat’s what we should be doing <\/p>\n

639
\n00:32:54,400 –> 00:32:57,480
\nfor other people.
\nHave you ever noticed, like <\/p>\n

640
\n00:32:57,480 –> 00:32:58,680
\nreading through the New
\nTestament? <\/p>\n

641
\n00:32:59,120 –> 00:33:00,800
\nRemember when Mary became
\npregnant? <\/p>\n

642
\n00:33:01,120 –> 00:33:05,000
\nDo you notice how the Manti goes
\nout of his way to say that <\/p>\n

643
\n00:33:05,280 –> 00:33:11,160
\nJoseph, being a just man,
\ndecided to put her away <\/p>\n

644
\n00:33:11,160 –> 00:33:13,280
\nprivately?
\nWell, that’s not what the law <\/p>\n

645
\n00:33:13,280 –> 00:33:14,960
\nsaid.
\nOh no, you get pregnant like <\/p>\n

646
\n00:33:14,960 –> 00:33:16,120
\nthat.
\nYou should be stoned. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:33:16,480 –> 00:33:20,120
\nThey were engaged, should have
\nturned her into have her stoned.<\/p>\n

648
\n00:33:20,760 –> 00:33:27,000
\nBut the Bible trying to tell us
\nthat Joseph being a just man, <\/p>\n

649
\n00:33:27,800 –> 00:33:31,200
\ndidn’t bring on her the
\npunishment that the law said she<\/p>\n

650
\n00:33:31,200 –> 00:33:33,840
\ndeserved.
\nDon’t read the law like that. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:33:33,960 –> 00:33:36,800
\nIf we don’t have to apply those
\npunishments, we don’t have to. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:33:37,280 –> 00:33:39,520
\nWe can extend mercy like our
\nGod. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:33:39,880 –> 00:33:42,000
\nBut look, look at how that
\nplayed out with the woman caught<\/p>\n

654
\n00:33:42,000 –> 00:33:43,960
\nin adultery.
\nJesus knew she was caught in <\/p>\n

655
\n00:33:43,960 –> 00:33:46,520
\nadultery.
\nHe doesn’t push the law to say, <\/p>\n

656
\n00:33:46,520 –> 00:33:49,520
\nwell, he kept the law perfectly.
\nHe doesn’t push the issue to say<\/p>\n

657
\n00:33:49,520 –> 00:33:51,440
\nChip Stoner, she committed
\nadultery. <\/p>\n

658
\n00:33:51,520 –> 00:33:54,280
\nNope.
\nHe he he guilts the other guys <\/p>\n

659
\n00:33:54,280 –> 00:33:55,800
\ninto the point.
\nThey all walk away. <\/p>\n

660
\n00:33:56,600 –> 00:34:00,360
\nAnd then he tells her, go away
\nyourself, you know, But sin no <\/p>\n

661
\n00:34:00,360 –> 00:34:01,920
\nmore.
\nLearn something from this. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:34:01,920 –> 00:34:03,840
\nThat’s what he’s after.
\nLearn something. <\/p>\n

663
\n00:34:04,160 –> 00:34:07,200
\nYeah, I’ve learned to read the
\nBible an entirely different way <\/p>\n

664
\n00:34:07,480 –> 00:34:10,719
\nby by just being careful about
\nthese stories and trying to <\/p>\n

665
\n00:34:10,719 –> 00:34:12,320
\nfigure out what’s God trying to
\ntell us. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:34:12,760 –> 00:34:16,679
\nAnd it’s it’s just amazing to me
\nhow as a younger person, I was <\/p>\n

667
\n00:34:16,679 –> 00:34:19,679
\nmuch more judgmental, much more
\ninto thinking that we had to <\/p>\n

668
\n00:34:19,679 –> 00:34:22,960
\ncarry out all the consequences
\ninstead of leaving that in God’s<\/p>\n

669
\n00:34:22,960 –> 00:34:26,000
\nhands and letting him bring the
\nright consequences into <\/p>\n

670
\n00:34:26,000 –> 00:34:27,920
\nsomeone’s life, as he did with
\nDavid. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:34:27,920 –> 00:34:30,040
\nYou know, he, he brought the
\nright things into David’s life. <\/p>\n

672
\n00:34:30,400 –> 00:34:31,760
\nBut the angels take care of
\nthat. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:34:31,760 –> 00:34:34,320
\nThey do that.
\nAnd so nobody gets away with <\/p>\n

674
\n00:34:34,360 –> 00:34:36,960
\nanything in the life.
\nThese are all just mistakes that<\/p>\n

675
\n00:34:36,960 –> 00:34:39,159
\nwe make and we hopefully learn
\nfrom them. <\/p>\n

676
\n00:34:39,159 –> 00:34:41,400
\nAnd God reminds us through the
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n

677
\n00:34:41,880 –> 00:34:45,120
\nSo, Micah, you know this story.
\nAnd Micah 6 Micah talks about <\/p>\n

678
\n00:34:45,120 –> 00:34:47,000
\ncoming before the Lord.
\nYou know, what are you going to <\/p>\n

679
\n00:34:47,000 –> 00:34:48,239
\nbring?
\nWhat are you going to bow down <\/p>\n

680
\n00:34:48,239 –> 00:34:49,760
\nbefore the high God with him?
\nRight. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:34:49,760 –> 00:34:52,080
\nShall I come before him with
\nburnt offerings and calves? <\/p>\n

682
\n00:34:52,080 –> 00:34:54,040
\nA year old?
\nWill the Lord be pleased with <\/p>\n

683
\n00:34:54,040 –> 00:34:56,280
\n1000 Rams and 10,000 rivers of
\noil? <\/p>\n

684
\n00:34:56,520 –> 00:34:59,480
\nIs that what he really wants?
\nThe law said, you know, you <\/p>\n

685
\n00:34:59,480 –> 00:35:03,240
\nbring all these sacrifices.
\nDid God want sacrifices? <\/p>\n

686
\n00:35:03,920 –> 00:35:07,360
\nNo.
\nHe wanted us to learn from the <\/p>\n

687
\n00:35:07,360 –> 00:35:10,720
\nsacrifices, about the higher
\nprinciples of his life. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:35:11,120 –> 00:35:14,240
\nThat’s what he was really after,
\nyou know, He’s shown you, O man,<\/p>\n

689
\n00:35:14,240 –> 00:35:17,240
\nwhat is good and what what does
\nthe Lord require of you, but to <\/p>\n

690
\n00:35:17,240 –> 00:35:22,480
\ndo justly to love mercy and to
\nwalk humbly with your God. <\/p>\n

691
\n00:35:23,440 –> 00:35:26,080
\nThat’s what we should be
\nlearning on Sunday mornings when<\/p>\n

692
\n00:35:26,080 –> 00:35:29,880
\nwe take and bread and the wine.
\nDoesn’t that remind us how we <\/p>\n

693
\n00:35:29,880 –> 00:35:30,400
\nare?
\nWe are. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:35:30,400 –> 00:35:34,000
\nWe are responsible.
\nWe committed it baptism to join <\/p>\n

695
\n00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:37,320
\nChrist in a death like his and
\ncome out of the waters walking <\/p>\n

696
\n00:35:37,320 –> 00:35:39,960
\nin a new way of life patterned
\nafter his resurrection. <\/p>\n

697
\n00:35:40,440 –> 00:35:43,840
\nSo we promised.
\nAnd every Sunday morning we take<\/p>\n

698
\n00:35:43,840 –> 00:35:45,880
\nbread and wine.
\nWe can be reminded that we’re <\/p>\n

699
\n00:35:45,880 –> 00:35:49,840
\nGod is allowing us to take those
\nemblems to remind us that this <\/p>\n

700
\n00:35:49,840 –> 00:35:52,880
\nis the promise we made.
\nAnd yet look at all the failures<\/p>\n

701
\n00:35:52,880 –> 00:35:56,080
\nwe’ve done during the week.
\nAnd we all plead for mercy. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:35:56,760 –> 00:36:00,560
\nWe do oh, what are you going to
\ndo the next time somebody else <\/p>\n

703
\n00:36:00,560 –> 00:36:03,160
\nmakes a mistake and they’re
\npleading with you for mercy? <\/p>\n

704
\n00:36:04,040 –> 00:36:06,960
\nAnd we have to learn from this,
\nBrothers and sisters, this is <\/p>\n

705
\n00:36:06,960 –> 00:36:11,160
\nour God and we be we.
\nWe become people that are <\/p>\n

706
\n00:36:11,160 –> 00:36:13,040
\nconnected with the God when we
\nworship. <\/p>\n

707
\n00:36:13,120 –> 00:36:15,640
\nHow do you understand how God
\ntook care of these things? <\/p>\n

708
\n00:36:16,000 –> 00:36:19,640
\nHe he didn’t want sacrifices.
\nHe wanted you to learn from the <\/p>\n

709
\n00:36:19,640 –> 00:36:22,280
\nsacrifices to identify with
\nMessiah. <\/p>\n

710
\n00:36:22,520 –> 00:36:24,840
\nLay your hands on that animal,
\nmy son. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:36:25,000 –> 00:36:27,120
\nThis animal is perfect without
\nblemish. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:36:27,400 –> 00:36:29,280
\nThat’s the goal and the
\nobjective. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:36:29,280 –> 00:36:32,160
\nTo be like God, to be obedient
\nto God. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:36:32,320 –> 00:36:34,920
\nAnd yes, it’s gonna require
\nsuffering, but you are gonna <\/p>\n

715
\n00:36:34,920 –> 00:36:37,360
\nkill that animal.
\nYou kill the animal, not the <\/p>\n

716
\n00:36:37,360 –> 00:36:40,080
\npriest.
\nYou commit to die with Christ, <\/p>\n

717
\n00:36:40,080 –> 00:36:43,960
\nto sin, as Paul calls it in
\nRomans 6, and then rise to a new<\/p>\n

718
\n00:36:43,960 –> 00:36:46,560
\nway of life, and you put that
\nanimal on the altar. <\/p>\n

719
\n00:36:46,560 –> 00:36:49,480
\nIn the end, at all the trials of
\nthis life that we go through the<\/p>\n

720
\n00:36:49,480 –> 00:36:53,200
\nsufferings, they burn that
\nanimal and you ascend to God as <\/p>\n

721
\n00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:55,840
\na pleasing odor.
\nSee, a lot of times I’ve watched<\/p>\n

722
\n00:36:55,840 –> 00:36:58,080
\nmy brother and argue about
\nanimal sacrifices and what they <\/p>\n

723
\n00:36:58,080 –> 00:37:00,520
\nmean, and all they ever get to
\nis the point when they kill the <\/p>\n

724
\n00:37:00,520 –> 00:37:01,960
\nanimal.
\nAnd it’s all about sinners <\/p>\n

725
\n00:37:01,960 –> 00:37:03,960
\ndeserve to die, sinners deserve
\nto die. <\/p>\n

726
\n00:37:04,240 –> 00:37:07,080
\nAnd do you deserve a violent
\ndeath or do you deserve, deserve<\/p>\n

727
\n00:37:07,080 –> 00:37:09,800
\na regular death?
\nAnd it was never about that. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:37:10,520 –> 00:37:12,800
\nThe animal sacrifices were to
\nPaul. <\/p>\n

729
\n00:37:13,200 –> 00:37:15,440
\nThe great thing about studying
\nRomans for all of you, <\/p>\n

730
\n00:37:15,440 –> 00:37:18,440
\nespecially the young ones that
\nare here, study Romans someday <\/p>\n

731
\n00:37:18,440 –> 00:37:20,840
\nand notice how Paul gives a
\nwhole exposition of the <\/p>\n

732
\n00:37:20,840 –> 00:37:27,440
\natonement in Romans 1 to 11 and
\nnever mentions sacrifice because<\/p>\n

733
\n00:37:27,440 –> 00:37:31,240
\nhe tells you what it means with
\nYou can’t argue with Paul. <\/p>\n

734
\n00:37:31,360 –> 00:37:33,400
\nHe doesn’t use words like
\nsacrifice. <\/p>\n

735
\n00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:36,720
\nHe doesn’t talk about devil and
\nsin and all those things. <\/p>\n

736
\n00:37:37,000 –> 00:37:39,240
\nWell, he talks about sin but all
\nbeing slaves to sin. <\/p>\n

737
\n00:37:39,400 –> 00:37:42,320
\nBut he doesn’t use those
\ncatchwords that we use and we <\/p>\n

738
\n00:37:42,320 –> 00:37:45,480
\nunderstand a certain way.
\nHe explains it in words that <\/p>\n

739
\n00:37:45,480 –> 00:37:48,760
\neverybody will understand and he
\nsays, look, what you do in <\/p>\n

740
\n00:37:48,760 –> 00:37:51,480
\nbaptism is you commit to die
\nwith Christ, to sin. <\/p>\n

741
\n00:37:51,760 –> 00:37:54,800
\nThat’s what this was all about.
\nAnd and he instead of talking <\/p>\n

742
\n00:37:54,800 –> 00:37:58,320
\nabout animal sacrifices, he
\ntries to tell us what they were <\/p>\n

743
\n00:37:58,320 –> 00:38:02,160
\nsupposed to do to teach us to
\nlive justly and love mercy and <\/p>\n

744
\n00:38:02,160 –> 00:38:06,240
\nwalk humbly with our God.
\nSo the key thing is that God’s <\/p>\n

745
\n00:38:06,240 –> 00:38:08,720
\nin control, not us.
\nWe’re not in control of our <\/p>\n

746
\n00:38:08,720 –> 00:38:11,560
\nfamilies, our children, our
\nparents, our collegians. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:38:11,560 –> 00:38:14,800
\nNothing.
\nIt’s all gods, all gods. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:38:15,080 –> 00:38:18,400
\nAnd all we’re doing is trying to
\nhelp those people in that <\/p>\n

749
\n00:38:18,400 –> 00:38:20,840
\nfamily, to make it to God’s
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:38:21,080 –> 00:38:23,040
\nAnd and look at how does God
\nhelp us? <\/p>\n

751
\n00:38:23,040 –> 00:38:25,400
\nWell, let’s help other people
\nthat same way. <\/p>\n

752
\n00:38:26,000 –> 00:38:28,360
\nLook at how Jeremiah, when he
\ntalks about what God really <\/p>\n

753
\n00:38:28,360 –> 00:38:31,400
\nwanted in Jeremiah 7, he
\nmentions the fact that look at <\/p>\n

754
\n00:38:31,400 –> 00:38:33,760
\nwhen I brought you children of
\nIsrael out of Egypt, when I <\/p>\n

755
\n00:38:33,800 –> 00:38:35,840
\nbrought you out of Egypt and
\nbrought you up there to Mount <\/p>\n

756
\n00:38:35,840 –> 00:38:39,400
\nSinai, what did I tell you?
\nDid I tell you offer a bunch of <\/p>\n

757
\n00:38:39,400 –> 00:38:42,240
\nsacrifices?
\nNo, he said. <\/p>\n

758
\n00:38:42,320 –> 00:38:47,000
\nWhat I asked you to do was obey
\nmy voice and I will be your God <\/p>\n

759
\n00:38:47,000 –> 00:38:49,480
\nand you shall be my people and
\nwalk in all the ways that I’ve <\/p>\n

760
\n00:38:49,480 –> 00:38:51,880
\ncommanded you that it, and be
\nwell with you. <\/p>\n

761
\n00:38:52,280 –> 00:38:54,280
\nThat’s what he was after.
\nObedience. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:38:54,640 –> 00:38:59,440
\nNot obedience to law.
\nNot sacrifices and rituals, but <\/p>\n

763
\n00:38:59,440 –> 00:39:03,080
\nobedience to God’s principles,
\nHis way of life, of doing <\/p>\n

764
\n00:39:03,120 –> 00:39:07,800
\njustice and loving mercy and
\nwalking humbly before our God. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:39:07,840 –> 00:39:11,200
\nThat’s what he was really after.
\nBut faith is the key rather than<\/p>\n

766
\n00:39:11,240 –> 00:39:12,680
\nit says.
\nIf we talk a lot about faith, <\/p>\n

767
\n00:39:13,080 –> 00:39:16,520
\nbut faith really helps us in the
\nsense that it’s a belief. <\/p>\n

768
\n00:39:16,520 –> 00:39:20,520
\nIt’s that that that substance of
\nthings hoped for where we really<\/p>\n

769
\n00:39:20,520 –> 00:39:22,400
\ndo believe.
\nAnd we have that assurance that <\/p>\n

770
\n00:39:22,400 –> 00:39:26,320
\nGod is in control, that in
\neverything God is working for <\/p>\n

771
\n00:39:26,320 –> 00:39:29,520
\ngood in everything.
\nNo matter what happens today, <\/p>\n

772
\n00:39:29,760 –> 00:39:32,800
\nyou you can stand back for a
\nmoment and say, I know God is <\/p>\n

773
\n00:39:32,800 –> 00:39:35,360
\nworking for good.
\nThat’s what faith does. <\/p>\n

774
\n00:39:35,680 –> 00:39:39,000
\nIt becomes real that you start
\nto realize what what I wonder <\/p>\n

775
\n00:39:39,000 –> 00:39:41,440
\nwhy the angels did that by
\ngetting you start and <\/p>\n

776
\n00:39:41,440 –> 00:39:45,120
\nquestioning about God working in
\nour life instead of reacting in <\/p>\n

777
\n00:39:45,120 –> 00:39:47,520
\nways we get angry.
\nOr we just treat it like, well, <\/p>\n

778
\n00:39:47,520 –> 00:39:50,000
\nGod’s not involved in that or
\nwhatever He is involved. <\/p>\n

779
\n00:39:50,360 –> 00:39:53,720
\nHe’s very involved in our lives,
\ntrying to train us and guide us <\/p>\n

780
\n00:39:53,720 –> 00:39:56,440
\ninto his family.
\nBut the peace that we have to <\/p>\n

781
\n00:39:56,440 –> 00:39:59,400
\nprovide is faith.
\nTrust God, believe that he’s <\/p>\n

782
\n00:39:59,400 –> 00:40:02,200
\nreally working in our lives and
\nfaith will change our lives. <\/p>\n

783
\n00:40:02,600 –> 00:40:05,960
\nA faith in God’s love for us and
\nhis ability to change our lives <\/p>\n

784
\n00:40:05,960 –> 00:40:07,720
\nto save us, that’s what we’re
\nlooking for. <\/p>\n

785
\n00:40:07,880 –> 00:40:11,000
\nOr faith that God’s in control,
\nHe’ll guide our lives so that <\/p>\n

786
\n00:40:11,000 –> 00:40:14,080
\nwill develop into his children.
\nIt’s a faith that trusts God <\/p>\n

787
\n00:40:14,080 –> 00:40:18,040
\ncompletely, no matter what
\nhappens, no matter what happens.<\/p>\n

788
\n00:40:18,560 –> 00:40:22,240
\nAnd I see that having raised six
\nkids, no matter what happens <\/p>\n

789
\n00:40:22,240 –> 00:40:26,040
\nwith your children, you have to
\nstand back and realize God is in<\/p>\n

790
\n00:40:26,040 –> 00:40:29,720
\ntotal control.
\nHe’s totally in it for our good,<\/p>\n

791
\n00:40:29,840 –> 00:40:32,480
\nas Paul says, so that we can
\nshare His Holiness. <\/p>\n

792
\n00:40:32,920 –> 00:40:37,160
\nAnd what it does is it motivates
\nus then to be obedient to God, <\/p>\n

793
\n00:40:37,160 –> 00:40:40,240
\nto follow in the steps of Jesus.
\nNot because we want to show God <\/p>\n

794
\n00:40:40,240 –> 00:40:43,120
\nhow good we are, but because we
\nlove his way of life. <\/p>\n

795
\n00:40:43,640 –> 00:40:46,080
\nWe love it and we want it for
\nourselves. <\/p>\n

796
\n00:40:46,520 –> 00:40:49,480
\nNot to show God that we deserve
\nit, that we deserve eternity <\/p>\n

797
\n00:40:49,480 –> 00:40:50,920
\nlife.
\nIt’s just this is the kind of <\/p>\n

798
\n00:40:50,920 –> 00:40:52,840
\nlife we want.
\nWe want to be like Jesus, we <\/p>\n

799
\n00:40:52,840 –> 00:40:55,760
\nwant to be like God.
\nAnd faith is that key. <\/p>\n

800
\n00:40:56,080 –> 00:40:58,040
\nGo look at how Paul word’s AT
\nand Hebrews 11. <\/p>\n

801
\n00:40:58,040 –> 00:41:02,320
\nThat faith is being sure of what
\nwe hope for and certain of what <\/p>\n

802
\n00:41:02,320 –> 00:41:04,840
\nwe do not see.
\nAnd this is what the ancients <\/p>\n

803
\n00:41:04,840 –> 00:41:08,840
\nwere commended for, that their
\nfaith motivated them to make <\/p>\n

804
\n00:41:08,840 –> 00:41:11,400
\ndecisions for God.
\nAnd without faith we know it’s <\/p>\n

805
\n00:41:11,400 –> 00:41:13,960
\nimpossible to please God.
\nImpossible. <\/p>\n

806
\n00:41:14,360 –> 00:41:16,520
\nI love the way the NIV words
\nHebrews 11. <\/p>\n

807
\n00:41:16,520 –> 00:41:19,320
\nOh, as you’re going through it
\nbecause instead of saying that <\/p>\n

808
\n00:41:19,320 –> 00:41:23,240
\nthese all died in in faith it
\nit’s it says instead that all <\/p>\n

809
\n00:41:23,240 –> 00:41:28,960
\nthese people were still living
\nby faith when they died. <\/p>\n

810
\n00:41:29,640 –> 00:41:32,240
\nNow those of you that have
\nstudied Hebrews 1011 and 12 will<\/p>\n

811
\n00:41:32,280 –> 00:41:35,640
\nwill know that within the
\ncontext of 12 and and and 10 <\/p>\n

812
\n00:41:35,640 –> 00:41:38,480
\nthat it’s bounded by the fact
\nthat for endurance Paul says <\/p>\n

813
\n00:41:38,480 –> 00:41:40,800
\nyou’ve got to endure.
\nIt’s all about endurance to the <\/p>\n

814
\n00:41:40,800 –> 00:41:42,880
\nend.
\nAnd he lists all these people <\/p>\n

815
\n00:41:42,880 –> 00:41:45,880
\nand Hebrews 11 that endured to
\nthe end, and they still had <\/p>\n

816
\n00:41:45,880 –> 00:41:48,600
\ntheir faith when they died.
\nAnd that’s what God’s after. <\/p>\n

817
\n00:41:48,640 –> 00:41:51,840
\nAnd all of us, we’ve got to
\nmaintain that faith and have it <\/p>\n

818
\n00:41:51,840 –> 00:41:55,920
\nstill there when we die as well.
\nSo that’s what God is after. <\/p>\n

819
\n00:41:56,400 –> 00:41:58,480
\nAnd he promises to save us and
\nhis family. <\/p>\n

820
\n00:41:58,760 –> 00:42:00,960
\nThat’s a promise.
\nIt’s not like, well, maybe he <\/p>\n

821
\n00:42:00,960 –> 00:42:04,600
\nwill or he could if he wants to.
\nHe has promised that if you <\/p>\n

822
\n00:42:04,600 –> 00:42:08,600
\nfollow the game plan, it will
\ntake you to the end of you will <\/p>\n

823
\n00:42:08,600 –> 00:42:11,240
\nbe given eternal life.
\nThat’s what he will do. <\/p>\n

824
\n00:42:11,720 –> 00:42:14,240
\nAnd to become part of God’s
\nfamily forever, we’ve got to <\/p>\n

825
\n00:42:14,240 –> 00:42:16,320
\nlearn to live like his family
\nmembers. <\/p>\n

826
\n00:42:16,400 –> 00:42:17,760
\nWe’ve got to be like those
\nangels. <\/p>\n

827
\n00:42:18,080 –> 00:42:20,000
\nThey’re already there.
\nThey’re in the family. <\/p>\n

828
\n00:42:20,360 –> 00:42:23,400
\nThey they don’t bring out
\nreviling accusations of people. <\/p>\n

829
\n00:42:23,400 –> 00:42:26,240
\nThey don’t distrust people.
\nThey don’t treat Abraham or they<\/p>\n

830
\n00:42:26,240 –> 00:42:28,800
\nhide things from each other.
\nThey go to Abraham and say, <\/p>\n

831
\n00:42:28,800 –> 00:42:30,800
\nlook, you’re our friend, our
\nintimate friend. <\/p>\n

832
\n00:42:30,800 –> 00:42:33,360
\nWe want to tell you what we’re
\ndoing, but we’re not going to do<\/p>\n

833
\n00:42:33,360 –> 00:42:35,800
\nthis behind your back.
\nThat’s what they do. <\/p>\n

834
\n00:42:35,800 –> 00:42:38,480
\nOr when when they brought Lot
\nout of Sodom, those two angels <\/p>\n

835
\n00:42:38,480 –> 00:42:41,800
\nthat grabbed Lot and his wife by
\nthe hand and they walked them <\/p>\n

836
\n00:42:41,840 –> 00:42:46,480
\nout, the Lord being merciful to
\nhim, That’s how God’s family <\/p>\n

837
\n00:42:46,480 –> 00:42:49,320
\nmembers behave, brothers and
\nsisters, and he’s left it there <\/p>\n

838
\n00:42:49,320 –> 00:42:53,120
\nin the Bible for us to read.
\nBut we can read the Bible for 50<\/p>\n

839
\n00:42:53,120 –> 00:42:56,560
\nyears and never notice that the
\nangels are revealed in the <\/p>\n

840
\n00:42:56,560 –> 00:43:00,400
\nScriptures that teach us about
\nhow God’s family members behave.<\/p>\n

841
\n00:43:01,120 –> 00:43:03,520
\nSo I’ll leave it with that and
\nthanks very much. <\/p>\n

842
\n00:43:03,520 –> 00:43:20,040
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296: Jim Styles – What Does God Require of You?<\/a><\/blockquote>