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\nWell, actually it ends in the
\nexhortation tomorrow. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I I hope this week that, you
\nknow, I I like to throw out a <\/p>\n
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\nfew things for people to talk
\nabout and think about things <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve worked on over my lifetime.
\nAnd they’re just things that Sue<\/p>\n
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\nand I have decided we we think
\nwe’ve learned the hard way and <\/p>\n
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\nthis there are ideas for people
\nto discuss. <\/p>\n
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\nSo whether you agree with
\neverything or not, it’s it’s <\/p>\n
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\nalways good discussion to fine
\ntune our understanding of the <\/p>\n
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\ntruth.
\nIt’s not BASF material it’s it’s<\/p>\n
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\nmore just looking at the how
\nthis all works out. <\/p>\n
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\nI I felt bad yesterday though in
\nrushing through God’s election. <\/p>\n
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\nI just wanted to in the end just
\nfinish up a couple of things for<\/p>\n
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\n5 minutes maybe on God’s
\nelection because I didn’t give <\/p>\n
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\nyou the passages.
\nBesides Romans not have <\/p>\n
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\nconvinced me that that that’s
\nwhat Paul’s actually talking <\/p>\n
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\nabout.
\nI I think that the basic concept<\/p>\n
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\nthough, that I had to come to
\nmyself is that I had to get out <\/p>\n
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\nof this mindset of thinking it’s
\nabout me and my children and my <\/p>\n
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\nfamily and my ecclesia and
\nrealize no, no, it’s it’s not <\/p>\n
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\nmine.
\nIt’s God’s. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all God’s and he has the
\nright as Job is learning slowly <\/p>\n
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\nin our second class that you
\nknow, we can’t control <\/p>\n
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\nbehemoths, we can’t control
\nLeviathan. <\/p>\n
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\nSo how would we ever think we
\ncan pick out and pick and choose<\/p>\n
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\nwho who God invites to his
\nfamily? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s his choice, and so we pray
\nabout it a lot more. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you look at how this comes
\nup elsewhere in the scriptures. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Luke 10, you see what happens
\nwhen Jesus is talking about the <\/p>\n
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\nfact that he rejoiced in the
\nSpirit and thanks God that he <\/p>\n
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\nhad hidden these things from the
\nwise, hidden them from the wise <\/p>\n
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\nand prudent, and revealed them
\nto bathe Even so, Father for it.<\/p>\n
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\nSo it seemed good in your sight.
\nAnd as he says in verse 22, Luke<\/p>\n
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\n10, all things have been
\ndelivered to me by my Father, <\/p>\n
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\nand no one knows the Son except
\nthe Father and who the Father <\/p>\n
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\nand who the Father is.
\nHe’s got the Son and the one to <\/p>\n
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\nwhom the Son wills to reveal
\nHim. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, that’s not everybody
\ngetting an opportunity. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s not random chance.
\nIt’s like who the Son wills to <\/p>\n
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\nreveal him.
\nIt’s now Jesus’s choice as well.<\/p>\n
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\nThat’s one of the things Christ
\nhas been given the authority of <\/p>\n
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\nmaking those kind of decisions.
\nOr in John chapter 6, Jesus <\/p>\n
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\npointed out in verse 37 that all
\nthat the Father gives me will <\/p>\n
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\ncome to me.
\nAll that the Father gives me, <\/p>\n
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\nNot everybody, it’s those whom
\nthe Father gives him. <\/p>\n
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\nOr verse 44.
\nNo one can come to me unless the<\/p>\n
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\nFather who sent me draws him.
\nThis is God’s calling. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is him pulling out of this
\nworld, people that he’s drawing <\/p>\n
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\nto him, and I will raise him up
\nat the last day. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in verse 65 he said,
\ntherefore I’ve said to you that <\/p>\n
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\nno one can come to me unless it
\nhas been granted to him by my <\/p>\n
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\nfather.
\nThese are passages we sort of <\/p>\n
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\nread over them sometimes or
\nwhatever, or just sort of maybe <\/p>\n
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\njust don’t understand, or we
\nmake up some other excuse. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it’s all about the Father
\ngranting us to come to him. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s his invitation or in Acts
\nchapter 2 that issue where that <\/p>\n
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\nwhen Peter was out preaching to
\nthe Jews in Acts 2 and he said <\/p>\n
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\nto repent and be baptized.
\nBut in verse 39 he goes on for <\/p>\n
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\nthe promises to you and to your
\nchildren and to all who are afar<\/p>\n
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\nWe might think that well that’s <\/p>\n
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\neverybody right to all who are
\nafar off or the gospel has <\/p>\n
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\npreached all the world, but that
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\nmany as the Lord our God will
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\nSee, it keeps coming up in the
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\nthat’s that’s what you see.
\nOr in X chapter 16, when called <\/p>\n
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\nhears the word, it says that the
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\nthe things spoken by Paul.
\nHe opened her heart. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, that’s like Paul’s
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\nEphesians chapter one when he’s
\npraying for the the Ephesians of<\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia and prays that that the
\nGod of of the Lord Jesus Christ,<\/p>\n
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\nthe Father of glory, may give
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\nrevelation and the knowledge of
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\nThat God will give you this.
\nHe reveals it to them, having <\/p>\n
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\nwhat is the hope to which he has
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\nThis is God working in our lives
\nallowing us to understand. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not how much I study the
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\nsame time that God will open our
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\nI’m not going to get it myself.
\nJohn Thomas would have been the <\/p>\n
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\n1st to admit that he didn’t come
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\nHe had to do the studying, but <\/p>\n
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\nhe had to be praying that God
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\npeople of his day and age were
\nnot enlightened and give God the<\/p>\n
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\nglory in the end.
\nYou see, it’s not about all that<\/p>\n
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\nbrother and sister and young
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\nWe’ve got to do the legwork.
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\nThat was a great lesson of Paul,
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\nof his research with Gamalia and
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\nthe qualifications that he had,
\nit wasn’t until Christ blinded <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I I really think that’s why
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\nSo in the end, you know, you
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\npurpose.
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\nchildren.
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\nWe don’t just do the readings
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\nWe pray that God will do the <\/p>\n
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\nimpossible, like Jacob holding
\non to that Angel and he won’t <\/p>\n
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\nlet him go, which the Bible
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\nHe’s asking that Angel to do the
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\nEverything was falling apart. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we do everything we can to
\nteach them God’s ways, but we <\/p>\n
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\nrealize we have to come to a
\nrealization that it is God’s <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if they do choose God’s <\/p>\n
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\nfamily, if they’re baptized and
\nthey love the truth, we can <\/p>\n
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\nrejoice in it and thank God that
\nhe did it. <\/p>\n
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\nNot me, not me.
\nIt’s it’s all about God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you never give up because
\nyou you never know. <\/p>\n
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\nGod waits a long time to call
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\nSometimes they have to go
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\nlife, like the prodigal son, and
\nthen finally they come back. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so we pray and we pray and
\nwe keep praying. <\/p>\n
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\nWe keep the door open all the
\ntime waiting for that, and <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s what we’ll do for our
\nkids. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve also found in this subject
\nthat it brings peace to so many <\/p>\n
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\nof our brethren and especially
\nour sisters, who live with the <\/p>\n
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\nguilt in our community of
\nbrothers and sisters looking at <\/p>\n
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\nthem and saying, well, you
\nraised five children and two of <\/p>\n
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\nthem loved the truth and three
\nof them walked away, and that’s <\/p>\n
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\nbecause you’re just not a good
\nparent. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, you might say, well, I’d
\nnever say that, but you talk to <\/p>\n
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\npeople and you’ll find out that
\nis the perception that they have<\/p>\n
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\nof our community.
\nIf you raise five children and <\/p>\n
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\nall of yours come in, the truth,
\nyou can talk about all your <\/p>\n
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\nchildren and they’re baptized
\nand they’re all. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then they’re sitting there
\nthinking, well, you must think <\/p>\n
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\nI’m a bad parent.
\nAnd we don’t know whether God <\/p>\n
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\nhas called them or not.
\nEvery generation, he has to <\/p>\n
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\nremind us that it’s not us.
\nIt’s not what we will. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not how hard we work.
\nAnd he reminds us by having some<\/p>\n
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\nof those children not called,
\nsome of them are not called just<\/p>\n
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\nas they have been all through
\ntime. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you look, you look at this,
\nit really does bring peace to <\/p>\n
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\nthose people because Abraham
\nwould have had to like, somehow <\/p>\n
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\nreconcile for 14 years.
\nHe raised Ishmael. <\/p>\n
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\nHe circumcised Ishmael.
\nIt’s like watching a child <\/p>\n
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\nbaptized and and God says, and
\nyet, no, I’m, I’m going to work <\/p>\n
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\nwith Isaac.
\nThat would be really hard to <\/p>\n
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\ntake.
\nAnd then in the end, you got to <\/p>\n
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\nsend Ishmael away.
\nYou got to his own him. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s not even your son anymore.
\nBut that’s God’s election. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s his choice because Abraham,
\nhe can’t save Ishmael. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he would have realized that
\nIsaac loved Esau and he he <\/p>\n
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\nwanted him included.
\nHe loved him so bad, not just <\/p>\n
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\nfor his food, which he did like,
\nbut, you know, as a father, he <\/p>\n
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\nwould have loved that child and
\ntried everything he could. <\/p>\n
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\nOr look at David with his
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
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\nHis family’s a disaster, you
\nknow, such a godly man. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd and look at what happened
\nwith his kids that God has to <\/p>\n
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\nremind every generation, all of
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\none another.
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\nHe sits down with His disciples,<\/p>\n
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\nsame time hoping they could help<\/p>\n
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\nshould be the greatest.
\nThat’s what they’re worried <\/p>\n
335
\n00:17:24,800 –> 00:17:26,599
\nabout.
\nAll the disciples, all they <\/p>\n
336
\n00:17:26,599 –> 00:17:28,560
\ncould think about is, oh, you’re
\ntalking about the Kingdom, <\/p>\n
337
\n00:17:28,560 –> 00:17:29,920
\nright?
\nYou’re talking, I heard <\/p>\n
338
\n00:17:29,920 –> 00:17:32,240
\nsomething about the Kingdom in
\nthere, about all that suffering.<\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:32,240 –> 00:17:33,840
\nAnd then eventually there was
\ngoing to be. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:34,040 –> 00:17:35,560
\nYes.
\nWho’s going to be the greatest <\/p>\n
341
\n00:17:35,560 –> 00:17:38,280
\nin the Kingdom?
\nThat was their focus, you know. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:17:38,280 –> 00:17:41,120
\nAnd he says to them that, well,
\nthat’s what the people of this <\/p>\n
343
\n00:17:41,120 –> 00:17:43,080
\nworld do.
\nBut it shouldn’t be like that <\/p>\n
344
\n00:17:43,080 –> 00:17:45,440
\naround you.
\nHe was the greatest among you. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:17:45,440 –> 00:17:49,000
\nLet him be as the younger he who
\ngoverns, as he who serves. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:17:49,320 –> 00:17:51,240
\nThat’s what he wanted them to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:17:51,240 –> 00:17:54,880
\nHe wanted them to learn from
\nthis, that they would serve one <\/p>\n
348
\n00:17:54,880 –> 00:17:58,440
\nanother.
\nLook at in Luke 22, he prays for<\/p>\n
349
\n00:17:58,440 –> 00:18:01,000
\nPeter.
\nHe gets very specific to one <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:01,000 –> 00:18:03,360
\nindividual.
\nAnd he tells Peter, I pray for <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:03,360 –> 00:18:05,080
\nyou that your faith should not
\nfail. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:05,360 –> 00:18:08,240
\nAnd when you have returned to
\nme, strengthen your brethren, <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:08,480 –> 00:18:11,240
\nwhich again, you know, you find
\nthat after the resurrection, he <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:11,240 –> 00:18:13,640
\nstill goes back to Peter.
\nFeed my sheep. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:14,320 –> 00:18:16,720
\nBut he warned them at that.
\nI’ll tell you that the Peter <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:16,720 –> 00:18:19,400
\nthat the rooster will not curl
\nthis day before you will deny me<\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:19,400 –> 00:18:22,120
\nthree times that you that you
\neven know me. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:22,480 –> 00:18:26,040
\nBut he tried to warn Peter about
\nthe challenges that were coming.<\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:26,440 –> 00:18:31,200
\nSee, this was Christ’s focus on
\nthe hardest day of his life. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:31,760 –> 00:18:34,040
\nHe’s focusing on how can I help
\nyou? <\/p>\n
361
\n00:18:34,520 –> 00:18:37,680
\nHow can I help you, Peter?
\nHow can I help all of you get <\/p>\n
362
\n00:18:37,680 –> 00:18:40,520
\nthrough this?
\nAnd then can’t you help me too. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:18:40,920 –> 00:18:44,120
\nAnd but they didn’t.
\nThey they just let him down, you<\/p>\n
364
\n00:18:44,120 –> 00:18:45,680
\nknow.
\nAnd that’s why when we’re <\/p>\n
365
\n00:18:45,760 –> 00:18:48,880
\ninvolved in families and a
\ncollegial life and we get <\/p>\n
366
\n00:18:48,880 –> 00:18:52,400
\ninvolved in situations, as a lot
\nof you will do, or even in young<\/p>\n
367
\n00:18:52,400 –> 00:18:55,320
\npeople in CYCS, you get involved
\nwith situations. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:18:55,680 –> 00:18:58,240
\nWhat we got to do is remember
\nlike, Christ, we’re there to <\/p>\n
369
\n00:18:58,240 –> 00:19:01,120
\nhelp people.
\nWe’re we’re not there for me and<\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:01,120 –> 00:19:02,840
\nand what I can get out of it so
\nmuch. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:02,840 –> 00:19:06,120
\nBut we want to help people and
\nimprove the situations. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:06,480 –> 00:19:09,880
\nDon’t just be a a couch potato
\ncriticizer sitting on the <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:09,880 –> 00:19:13,200
\nsidelines criticizing what’s
\ngoing on but unwilling to get <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:13,200 –> 00:19:16,200
\ninvolved and help.
\nThat’s Jesus, he he got <\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:16,200 –> 00:19:17,600
\ninvolved.
\nHe was helping. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:18,280 –> 00:19:22,160
\nSo in John 13 we find out that
\nwhen supper actually this is <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:22,160 –> 00:19:25,360
\nsupposed to be during supper,
\nnot as their King James as <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:25,360 –> 00:19:28,040
\nthey’re being ended.
\nAny of you that follow timelines<\/p>\n
379
\n00:19:28,040 –> 00:19:30,560
\non the Last Supper, you’ll find
\nout that really messes you up as<\/p>\n
380
\n00:19:30,560 –> 00:19:33,320
\nfiguring out where we are.
\nIt wasn’t being ended. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:19:33,320 –> 00:19:36,640
\nIt was during supper that the
\ndevil already having put it into<\/p>\n
382
\n00:19:36,640 –> 00:19:39,280
\nthe heart of Judas Iscariot,
\nSimon’s son, to betray him. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:19:39,520 –> 00:19:42,600
\nAnd Jesus, knowing that the
\nFather had given all things into<\/p>\n
384
\n00:19:42,600 –> 00:19:45,400
\nhis hand and that he had come
\nfrom God, It was going to God. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:19:45,640 –> 00:19:48,840
\nHe knows all of this.
\nHe sees in real everything <\/p>\n
386
\n00:19:48,840 –> 00:19:50,960
\nthat’s coming.
\nAnd what does he do? <\/p>\n
387
\n00:19:51,280 –> 00:19:55,400
\nHe gets down on the ground,
\ntakes, you know, something, a <\/p>\n
388
\n00:19:55,400 –> 00:19:59,200
\nbowl of water and in a basin.
\nAnd he begins to wash the <\/p>\n
389
\n00:19:59,200 –> 00:20:02,880
\ndisciples feet and to wipe them
\nwith the towel with which he was<\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:02,880 –> 00:20:07,120
\ngirded, because he understood
\nthat just tell them about you’ve<\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:07,120 –> 00:20:09,000
\ngot to be a you’ve got to serve
\none another. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:09,000 –> 00:20:12,800
\nTo tell them and talk with words
\nwas one thing, but to get down <\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:12,800 –> 00:20:15,960
\non the floor and wash their feet
\nat that point, that was a whole <\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:15,960 –> 00:20:19,080
\ndifferent story.
\nAnd and let’s face it, for for <\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:19,080 –> 00:20:21,600
\nall the brethren that, you know,
\nyou get up and give exhortations<\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:21,600 –> 00:20:24,640
\nin ecclesias or you get up on a
\na day like this and A and a <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:24,640 –> 00:20:27,160
\ngathering.
\nWe say all these things what, <\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:27,160 –> 00:20:30,760
\nwhat, what our children are
\nreally looking at is what do we <\/p>\n
399
\n00:20:30,760 –> 00:20:33,120
\ndo when we go home.
\nYou know, Dad, you said all <\/p>\n
400
\n00:20:33,120 –> 00:20:35,440
\nthose great things on the
\nplatform, but you know, now it’s<\/p>\n
401
\n00:20:35,440 –> 00:20:38,040
\ntime to wash the dishes.
\nYou know what? <\/p>\n
402
\n00:20:38,040 –> 00:20:39,400
\nWhat are you going to do?
\nYou’re going to just say, well, <\/p>\n
403
\n00:20:39,400 –> 00:20:42,800
\nthat’s somebody else’s job or,
\nyou know what, it’s time to <\/p>\n
404
\n00:20:42,800 –> 00:20:45,000
\nchange a diaper or or whatever
\nit is. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:20:45,520 –> 00:20:49,120
\nWe are there to serve brethren.
\nAnd this world would tell us <\/p>\n
406
\n00:20:49,120 –> 00:20:51,880
\nthat, oh, you know, you have to
\ndivide up the jobs. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:20:51,880 –> 00:20:54,120
\nAnd that’s men’s work and that’s
\nwomen’s work. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:20:54,360 –> 00:20:58,240
\nWe can help.
\nWe, we can all help and jump in,<\/p>\n
409
\n00:20:58,760 –> 00:21:01,520
\nyou know, take out the trash,
\nwhat, whatever it is. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:01,520 –> 00:21:05,440
\nNothing should be too low for us
\nto be willing to do. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:05,440 –> 00:21:09,840
\nGetting down and washing their
\nfeet, that’s about as low as we <\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:09,840 –> 00:21:12,920
\nwould think you could go.
\nAnd Jesus was willing to do <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:12,920 –> 00:21:14,640
\nthat.
\nAnd that’s the spirit we should <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:14,640 –> 00:21:17,240
\nhave of being willing to serve
\none another. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:17,560 –> 00:21:20,760
\nDon’t ever say I I can’t do that
\njob because that’s beneath me. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:20,760 –> 00:21:24,600
\nWe can all help out.
\nYou look in John 13 as you’re <\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:24,600 –> 00:21:27,320
\nstill going through this.
\nAfter he had finished washing <\/p>\n
418
\n00:21:27,320 –> 00:21:30,840
\ntheir feet and taking the
\ngarments, he sits down again and<\/p>\n
419
\n00:21:30,840 –> 00:21:33,320
\nhe says to them, Do you know
\nwhat I’ve done for you? <\/p>\n
420
\n00:21:33,400 –> 00:21:36,720
\nYou call me Teacher and Lord,
\nwhich is true? <\/p>\n
421
\n00:21:36,800 –> 00:21:39,080
\nOr you know well, you know
\nthat’s right, for I am. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:21:39,520 –> 00:21:42,920
\nAnd if I then your Lord and
\nTeacher have washed your feet, <\/p>\n
423
\n00:21:42,920 –> 00:21:45,520
\nyou also ought to wash one
\nanothers feet. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:21:46,360 –> 00:21:48,240
\nWe don’t literally do that
\ntoday. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:21:48,360 –> 00:21:50,320
\nYou know.
\nI don’t think you know you can <\/p>\n
426
\n00:21:50,320 –> 00:21:51,640
\ndo it.
\nI guess is a ritual. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:21:51,640 –> 00:21:53,560
\nI’ve seen people do that where
\nyou can practice. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:21:53,560 –> 00:21:56,320
\nI think one of our Cycs one
\ntimes did that and we just all <\/p>\n
429
\n00:21:56,320 –> 00:21:57,840
\npractice washing each other’s
\nfeet. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:21:58,200 –> 00:22:00,440
\nBut it was more like a ritual
\nprocedure you go through. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:00,440 –> 00:22:01,920
\nIt wasn’t some kind of daily
\nthing. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:02,280 –> 00:22:06,320
\nBut what he’s trying to get at
\nis the lowest jobs we should be <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:06,320 –> 00:22:08,720
\nwilling to help one another to
\nserve. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:08,960 –> 00:22:12,320
\nNever say I’m above all those
\nthings by giving you an example <\/p>\n
435
\n00:22:12,320 –> 00:22:14,360
\nthat you should do is I have
\ndone for you. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:22:14,920 –> 00:22:17,320
\nThat’s what he’s want.
\nThat’s what he wanted to leave <\/p>\n
437
\n00:22:17,320 –> 00:22:20,840
\nfor us to see on the hardest
\nnight of his life. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:22:21,520 –> 00:22:24,720
\nAnd you, you look brothers and
\nsisters for some of us who think<\/p>\n
439
\n00:22:24,720 –> 00:22:28,040
\nwe go home and we think like our
\nlife is really challenging and <\/p>\n
440
\n00:22:28,040 –> 00:22:31,200
\nthere’s a tendency to get into
\ndepression and maybe we get <\/p>\n
441
\n00:22:31,200 –> 00:22:33,640
\ndiscouraged that things are
\nspiraling down. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:22:33,880 –> 00:22:36,360
\nHow did Jesus get through this
\nlife? <\/p>\n
443
\n00:22:36,680 –> 00:22:38,240
\nHow did he get through that
\nnight? <\/p>\n
444
\n00:22:39,000 –> 00:22:41,600
\nHe didn’t get it through by
\nthinking about all the things <\/p>\n
445
\n00:22:41,600 –> 00:22:44,400
\nthat he’s going to have to
\nsuffer and why this wasn’t fair <\/p>\n
446
\n00:22:44,400 –> 00:22:47,880
\nfor him and why everybody else’s
\nlife is better than mine. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:22:48,320 –> 00:22:53,320
\nHe got through the night by
\nserving his his, his disciples. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:22:53,760 –> 00:22:56,680
\nHe got involved.
\nHe showed them he was trying to <\/p>\n
449
\n00:22:56,680 –> 00:23:01,560
\nhelp other people, and that’s
\nwhat motivated him to keep going<\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:01,560 –> 00:23:05,000
\nforward.
\nIt was all about saving us and <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:05,000 –> 00:23:08,040
\nleaving us, an example that we
\ncould follow in his steps. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:08,560 –> 00:23:11,680
\nAnd it’s a great warning to all
\nof us that whatever is happening<\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:11,680 –> 00:23:15,840
\nin our lives, look to Jesus, how
\ndid he get through it? <\/p>\n
454
\n00:23:16,240 –> 00:23:20,200
\nNot by just thinking about all
\nhow bad things were for him. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:23:20,440 –> 00:23:23,320
\nHe got through it by
\nvolunteering for jobs in the <\/p>\n
456
\n00:23:23,320 –> 00:23:26,360
\nEcclesia, helping out every way
\nhe could with other people. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:23:26,560 –> 00:23:29,640
\nNever saying a job is is beneath
\nme and I can’t do that. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:23:29,920 –> 00:23:33,840
\nHe got involved and that’s what
\nkept him going. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:23:34,240 –> 00:23:36,720
\nAnd if it worked for him,
\nbrothers and sisters and young <\/p>\n
460
\n00:23:36,720 –> 00:23:40,720
\npeople, that will work for us.
\nIt is a huge motivator. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:23:41,200 –> 00:23:44,680
\nOr you look in John 13 where he
\ngives them a new commandment, he<\/p>\n
462
\n00:23:44,680 –> 00:23:48,240
\nsays a new command.
\nIt wasn’t really new, as John <\/p>\n
463
\n00:23:48,240 –> 00:23:50,960
\nsays later on in in his letters,
\nbut it was. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:23:51,000 –> 00:23:55,280
\nIt was new to them because they
\nweren’t used to seeing this idea<\/p>\n
465
\n00:23:55,280 –> 00:23:58,000
\nof like their leaders getting
\ndown and washing feet. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:23:58,240 –> 00:24:01,120
\nThat was new to them, even
\nthough it was really old, but a <\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:01,120 –> 00:24:03,360
\nnew commandment.
\nI give you that you love one <\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:03,360 –> 00:24:07,800
\nanother as I have loved you,
\nthat you should also love one <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:07,800 –> 00:24:11,600
\nanother.
\nAnd by this you know people will<\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:11,600 –> 00:24:14,000
\nknow.
\nAnd you will know that you are <\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:14,000 –> 00:24:16,600
\nmy disciples if you have love
\nfor one another. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:24:16,840 –> 00:24:19,760
\nSee, that’s the test that John
\nthen picked from the He. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:24:19,960 –> 00:24:23,440
\nHe took this to heart, and he
\nwrote it right into his letters <\/p>\n
474
\n00:24:23,440 –> 00:24:26,320
\nand his epistles later on.
\nAnd he said, there’s that test <\/p>\n
475
\n00:24:26,320 –> 00:24:28,320
\nfor love.
\nYou know, you can say, well, I, <\/p>\n
476
\n00:24:28,320 –> 00:24:30,920
\nI love everybody here.
\nI love all the people in my <\/p>\n
477
\n00:24:30,920 –> 00:24:33,360
\necclesia.
\nAre you willing to, though, <\/p>\n
478
\n00:24:33,360 –> 00:24:36,680
\nreally get down there and serve
\nfor them, help them out, get <\/p>\n
479
\n00:24:36,680 –> 00:24:39,920
\nthem through their troubles?
\nThat’s the test as to whether or<\/p>\n
480
\n00:24:39,920 –> 00:24:43,320
\nnot we really, you know, love
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:24:43,320 –> 00:24:47,760
\nDo we really love one another?
\nOr in John 14 when he goes on <\/p>\n
482
\n00:24:47,760 –> 00:24:50,840
\nand he says, in my father’s
\nhouse are many rooms, there’s a <\/p>\n
483
\n00:24:50,840 –> 00:24:52,720
\nlot of spaces in my father’s
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:24:52,720 –> 00:24:56,600
\nAnd if it were not so, I I would
\nhave told you, I’m going there <\/p>\n
485
\n00:24:56,600 –> 00:25:00,400
\nto prepare a place for you.
\nThat’s the focus. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:00,720 –> 00:25:03,840
\nHis focus wasn’t on all the bad
\nthings that were going to happen<\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:03,840 –> 00:25:05,480
\nto him.
\nHe’s going to be tortured and <\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:05,480 –> 00:25:09,320
\ncrucified and all this.
\nWhat he did is he focused on the<\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:09,360 –> 00:25:12,080
\nthe end result.
\nI’m going to my father’s house. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:12,080 –> 00:25:14,920
\nI’m on my way to the father, he
\nsaid in John 13. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:25:14,960 –> 00:25:18,000
\nThat’s where I’m going.
\nWell, and for us, we’re honored <\/p>\n
492
\n00:25:18,000 –> 00:25:21,680
\nwe did the Kingdom, and that
\nshould motivate us to get <\/p>\n
493
\n00:25:21,680 –> 00:25:23,520
\nthrough all the things of this
\nlife. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:25:23,520 –> 00:25:26,760
\nWhen we really do see what the
\nKingdom will be like, how <\/p>\n
495
\n00:25:26,760 –> 00:25:30,240
\nwonderful it will be to join the
\nangels in their work, it it <\/p>\n
496
\n00:25:30,240 –> 00:25:32,920
\nmotivates us.
\nWe’re going there, and he was <\/p>\n
497
\n00:25:32,920 –> 00:25:36,360
\ngoing there to prepare a place
\nfor us, a place so that he could<\/p>\n
498
\n00:25:36,360 –> 00:25:39,440
\nwork with us and send the com,
\nthe comforter back to work with <\/p>\n
499
\n00:25:39,440 –> 00:25:41,360
\nthese people.
\nThat’s what he’s doing. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:25:41,920 –> 00:25:45,000
\nAnd so Jesus, he does.
\nHe gets crucified, He gets <\/p>\n
501
\n00:25:45,000 –> 00:25:47,440
\nraised from the dead and he gets
\nsends to heaven. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:25:47,720 –> 00:25:51,400
\nAnd now he can work with these
\npeople and that’s what he was <\/p>\n
503
\n00:25:51,400 –> 00:25:54,960
\nlooking forward to working with
\nall of us, like we would hope to<\/p>\n
504
\n00:25:54,960 –> 00:25:56,560
\ndo in the Kingdom for the
\nmortals. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:25:56,760 –> 00:25:59,960
\nHe’s going to send them the the
\ncomforter so that it will help <\/p>\n
506
\n00:25:59,960 –> 00:26:03,120
\nthem get through those days.
\nAnd he told me if I, if I don’t <\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:03,120 –> 00:26:06,600
\ngo, but I don’t go through this,
\nI I won’t be able to help you. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:07,120 –> 00:26:10,160
\nAnd so I’ll send you the helper
\nlater on, as some of the <\/p>\n
509
\n00:26:10,160 –> 00:26:13,760
\nversions actually put that.
\nAnd so in John 14, he said, <\/p>\n
510
\n00:26:13,760 –> 00:26:17,880
\nlook, because I go to my father,
\nyou know, I can do greater works<\/p>\n
511
\n00:26:17,880 –> 00:26:19,960
\nthan all these things that
\nyou’ve seen so far. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:26:19,960 –> 00:26:23,720
\nAnd whatever you ask in my name
\nthat I will do that the Father <\/p>\n
513
\n00:26:23,720 –> 00:26:28,080
\nmay be glorified in the Son.
\nIf you ask anything in my name, <\/p>\n
514
\n00:26:28,240 –> 00:26:30,800
\nI will do it.
\nI will do it. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:26:31,480 –> 00:26:35,120
\nIsn’t that interesting when we
\ncarefully read that it’s it’s <\/p>\n
516
\n00:26:35,120 –> 00:26:39,800
\nit’s not that Jesus has to then
\nlisten and go ask God, is it OK <\/p>\n
517
\n00:26:39,800 –> 00:26:44,080
\nif I do this?
\nHe has the authority today to <\/p>\n
518
\n00:26:44,080 –> 00:26:47,360
\nmake that decision.
\nHe’s been given all authority in<\/p>\n
519
\n00:26:47,360 –> 00:26:50,560
\nheaven and earth, and he’s
\nworking with all of us today. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:26:50,560 –> 00:26:53,760
\nHe’s sending out his angels to
\nwork in our lives. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:26:54,080 –> 00:26:57,520
\nAnd if we ask anything in his
\nname, you know that’s for the <\/p>\n
522
\n00:26:57,520 –> 00:27:00,480
\ngood of the family, you know, He
\nsays he will do it. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:01,240 –> 00:27:05,440
\nAnd see, when you see that, you
\nknow, if you ask anything in my <\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:05,440 –> 00:27:09,040
\nname, I will do it.
\nIt’s caused me to reread this <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:09,040 –> 00:27:13,120
\nwhole idea and rethink the idea
\nof ending our prayers in Jesus. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:13,120 –> 00:27:17,200
\nName 3 words.
\nSee what he’s really talking <\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:17,200 –> 00:27:19,840
\nabout here.
\nIsn’t that we Tech 3 words onto <\/p>\n
528
\n00:27:19,840 –> 00:27:24,160
\nthe end of our prayers.
\nHe’s talking about asking that <\/p>\n
529
\n00:27:24,160 –> 00:27:28,120
\nwe are living in his name.
\nWe are in Him. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:27:28,680 –> 00:27:32,160
\nWe are part of the family.
\nWe have that eternal life <\/p>\n
531
\n00:27:32,160 –> 00:27:35,680
\nworking in US.
\nAnd if we’re doing that, we talk<\/p>\n
532
\n00:27:35,680 –> 00:27:38,680
\nto Him and we are literally in
\nHis name. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:27:39,280 –> 00:27:42,040
\nIt it’s it’s not just three
\nwords to tack on the end of a <\/p>\n
534
\n00:27:42,040 –> 00:27:45,800
\nprayer.
\nIt’s a meaningful way of life <\/p>\n
535
\n00:27:45,960 –> 00:27:50,200
\nthat He’s after, not just three
\nwords and not that it’s wrong. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:27:50,200 –> 00:27:53,600
\nAnd I say in Jesus name too.
\nAnd I end prayer sometimes, but <\/p>\n
537
\n00:27:53,600 –> 00:27:56,440
\nI I wouldn’t want people to just
\nthink that, oh that that’s it. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:27:56,440 –> 00:27:58,520
\nYou got to put the right words
\non the end of a prayer. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:27:58,760 –> 00:28:01,640
\nIt’s not about words, it’s about
\na way of life. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:02,000 –> 00:28:05,280
\nWhich is why you don’t find
\npeople in the New Testament when<\/p>\n
541
\n00:28:05,280 –> 00:28:07,800
\nthey offered prayers.
\nThey don’t end their prayers in <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:07,800 –> 00:28:10,680
\nJesus name.
\nThey they were living in the <\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:10,680 –> 00:28:13,000
\nname.
\nThey were in him and been found <\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:13,000 –> 00:28:16,000
\nin him.
\nAnd it was a way of life more so<\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:16,000 –> 00:28:18,760
\nthan it was just three words
\nthat we tack on. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:28:19,440 –> 00:28:22,880
\nSo in John 14, then he talks
\nabout going to the Father, and <\/p>\n
547
\n00:28:22,880 –> 00:28:25,360
\nwhatever you ask in my name
\nagain, I will do it. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:28:25,360 –> 00:28:27,880
\nAnd if you ask me anything in my
\nname, I will do it. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:28:27,880 –> 00:28:29,040
\nWhoops.
\nThat’s the one We looked at. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:28:29,040 –> 00:28:31,440
\nJohn 15.
\nLook at this one. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:28:31,440 –> 00:28:33,440
\nWe, I think we looked at this
\none earlier in the week about <\/p>\n
552
\n00:28:33,440 –> 00:28:35,840
\nbeing his friends.
\nAnd this is my commandment. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:28:35,840 –> 00:28:38,400
\nHe says that if you love one
\nanother as I have loved you, <\/p>\n
554
\n00:28:38,760 –> 00:28:40,440
\ngreater love has no one than
\nthis. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:28:40,440 –> 00:28:42,880
\nAnd one laid on his life for his
\nfriends and I. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:28:42,880 –> 00:28:45,200
\nYou are my friends.
\nIf you do whatever I command <\/p>\n
557
\n00:28:45,200 –> 00:28:48,320
\nyou, but no longer do, I call
\nyou servants. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:28:48,800 –> 00:28:51,120
\nFor a servant does not know what
\nhis master is doing. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:28:51,120 –> 00:28:54,760
\nBut I have called you friends
\nfor all things that I’ve heard <\/p>\n
560
\n00:28:54,760 –> 00:28:56,600
\nfrom my father.
\nI made no to you. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:28:57,280 –> 00:29:00,120
\nSee, that’s what friendship is
\nreally all about. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:00,640 –> 00:29:03,200
\nNow I know there’s there’s some
\npeople that are worried that if <\/p>\n
563
\n00:29:03,200 –> 00:29:07,840
\nwe called Jesus my master and my
\nfriend, as is in our hymn book, <\/p>\n
564
\n00:29:08,080 –> 00:29:11,040
\nyou know, if we do that, that
\nthat’s lowering the relationship<\/p>\n
565
\n00:29:11,040 –> 00:29:13,000
\ntoo low.
\nThat’s treating Jesus like our <\/p>\n
566
\n00:29:13,000 –> 00:29:15,040
\nfriend.
\nWe have some people who don’t <\/p>\n
567
\n00:29:15,040 –> 00:29:17,240
\neven like calling Jesus our
\nbrother. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:29:17,480 –> 00:29:20,080
\nJohn Thomas used to call him our
\nelder brother. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:29:20,080 –> 00:29:24,200
\nHe would use that term.
\nBut the Bible says that he calls<\/p>\n
570
\n00:29:24,200 –> 00:29:28,320
\nus his friends.
\nHe wants a relationship with <\/p>\n
571
\n00:29:28,320 –> 00:29:31,080
\nyou, like a friendship.
\nEven though we still at the same<\/p>\n
572
\n00:29:31,720 –> 00:29:35,800
\nstill respect him and understand
\nhe is our Lord and our master. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:29:36,360 –> 00:29:39,480
\nBut he’s he’s not like a slave
\nmaster who mistreats us. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:29:39,600 –> 00:29:43,440
\nHe’s a master who is our friend
\nand we can trust him and we know<\/p>\n
575
\n00:29:43,440 –> 00:29:45,560
\nhe loves us and he cares about
\nus. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:29:46,000 –> 00:29:49,000
\nAnd on our generation we were
\ngrowing up, we didn’t hear much <\/p>\n
577
\n00:29:49,000 –> 00:29:50,880
\nabout that.
\nPeople were so worried about <\/p>\n
578
\n00:29:51,000 –> 00:29:53,600
\nhaving a friendship and a
\nrelationship with Jesus, it <\/p>\n
579
\n00:29:53,600 –> 00:29:57,280
\nsounded too evangelical.
\nBut it’s biblical. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:29:57,280 –> 00:30:00,280
\nBrothers and sisters, we we
\ncan’t resist what the Bible <\/p>\n
581
\n00:30:00,280 –> 00:30:04,040
\nsays.
\nHe He wants us to be his friends<\/p>\n
582
\n00:30:04,600 –> 00:30:07,840
\nand he says in verse 16, look at
\nyou didn’t choose me. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:30:08,200 –> 00:30:11,400
\nI chose you.
\nThis is that election idea. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:30:11,400 –> 00:30:13,960
\nAnd then appointed you that you
\nshould go and bear fruit. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:30:14,320 –> 00:30:16,720
\nThat’s what.
\nThat’s the the Jesus Christ that<\/p>\n
586
\n00:30:16,720 –> 00:30:19,760
\nwe have.
\nSo he wants a relationship with <\/p>\n
587
\n00:30:19,760 –> 00:30:24,000
\nus, one of the great reasons God
\ngave his son. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:30:24,000 –> 00:30:27,280
\nIf you if you think about why
\nwas it necessary that God have a<\/p>\n
589
\n00:30:27,280 –> 00:30:30,080
\nson.
\nYes, he declared God right and <\/p>\n
590
\n00:30:30,080 –> 00:30:32,200
\neverything he declared his
\nfather was right. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:30:32,480 –> 00:30:34,680
\nHe what we call the
\nrighteousness of God. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:30:35,080 –> 00:30:38,760
\nBut the problem all along with
\npeople, with human people, is <\/p>\n
593
\n00:30:38,760 –> 00:30:42,000
\nGod is so powerful, as Job would
\nfind out. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:30:42,200 –> 00:30:46,680
\nAnd he’s so overwhelming, as Job
\nhad said, I’d be afraid to even <\/p>\n
595
\n00:30:46,680 –> 00:30:49,400
\ntalk to him.
\nBut if he ever did come to talk <\/p>\n
596
\n00:30:49,400 –> 00:30:51,280
\nto me, I would just like,
\ncringe. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:30:51,520 –> 00:30:55,480
\nHe’s God and and what happens
\nwhen he brings Israel to the <\/p>\n
598
\n00:30:55,480 –> 00:30:58,560
\nmountain and the mountain’s on
\nfire and it’s quaking? <\/p>\n
599
\n00:30:58,720 –> 00:31:02,160
\nThe people, they wanted to run
\naway, they were scared of God. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:31:02,560 –> 00:31:07,640
\nAnd So what he has done for us
\nis said, OK, I’ll send you my <\/p>\n
601
\n00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:10,280
\nson.
\nHe has your nature. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:31:10,680 –> 00:31:13,680
\nHe knows what you are like.
\nHe he’s not God. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:31:13,840 –> 00:31:18,360
\nHe’s one of you.
\nAnd now you can talk to him, you<\/p>\n
604
\n00:31:18,360 –> 00:31:22,560
\ncan learn about him, you can
\ncome to him, and he can be the <\/p>\n
605
\n00:31:22,560 –> 00:31:27,280
\ngreat high priest who will draw
\nyou into immortality with me. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:31:27,520 –> 00:31:31,640
\nThat’s how far God was willing
\nto go to save us, to take away <\/p>\n
607
\n00:31:31,640 –> 00:31:35,480
\nall the excuses that oh, I I
\ncan’t do this because just God <\/p>\n
608
\n00:31:35,480 –> 00:31:37,360
\nis too powerful.
\nAnd I can’t ask him that. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:31:37,360 –> 00:31:40,960
\nI can’t talk to him about that.
\nThere’s no excuses anymore <\/p>\n
610
\n00:31:40,960 –> 00:31:45,040
\nbecause he has sent his son.
\nHe has brought it down to our <\/p>\n
611
\n00:31:45,040 –> 00:31:49,760
\nlevel, our level.
\nAnd you see, it wasn’t because <\/p>\n
612
\n00:31:50,000 –> 00:31:55,280
\nwe needed somebody to, like, get
\nin between US and God so that he<\/p>\n
613
\n00:31:55,280 –> 00:31:57,960
\ncould, like, go to the Father.
\nNow sitting next to God and <\/p>\n
614
\n00:31:57,960 –> 00:32:00,640
\nsaying, well, I know what these
\npeople are. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:32:00,640 –> 00:32:02,960
\nI know what Jim’s like.
\nHe’s fighting with this. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:32:02,960 –> 00:32:05,560
\nHe’s got this human nature.
\nYou know, I had it too. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:32:05,560 –> 00:32:08,600
\nI know what he’s going through.
\nSo could you could you please <\/p>\n
618
\n00:32:08,600 –> 00:32:12,600
\nforgive him for my sake?
\nThat’s not really what it’s <\/p>\n
619
\n00:32:12,600 –> 00:32:14,400
\nabout.
\nThat’s what Christianity would <\/p>\n
620
\n00:32:14,400 –> 00:32:16,720
\nteach.
\nThat’s not what’s in the Bible <\/p>\n
621
\n00:32:16,720 –> 00:32:18,360
\nthough.
\nBrother and sisters, that isn’t <\/p>\n
622
\n00:32:18,360 –> 00:32:21,720
\nwhat’s happening.
\nJesus doesn’t even need to ask <\/p>\n
623
\n00:32:21,720 –> 00:32:24,400
\nhis father whether he can
\nforgive us or not. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:32:24,640 –> 00:32:28,040
\nHe has been given all authority
\nin heaven and earth. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:32:28,640 –> 00:32:31,360
\nWhat God realized is that we
\nhave a problem. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:33,840
\nI have the problem.
\nI’m a Sinner and I commit a <\/p>\n
627
\n00:32:33,840 –> 00:32:36,720
\nSinner.
\nI’m afraid to talk to God, so he<\/p>\n
628
\n00:32:36,720 –> 00:32:42,480
\nhas sent his son to convince me
\nto draw nigh now with A to the <\/p>\n
629
\n00:32:42,480 –> 00:32:45,120
\nthrone of grace.
\nWe Paul says we can approach <\/p>\n
630
\n00:32:45,120 –> 00:32:49,080
\nboldly with our high priest
\nbecause he understands our we. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:32:49,160 –> 00:32:54,160
\nWe realize He understands.
\nWe didn’t think God did, but <\/p>\n
632
\n00:32:54,160 –> 00:32:56,000
\nthink about it for a minute all
\nalong. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:32:56,000 –> 00:33:00,320
\nGod has always understood.
\nHe’s always known what it’s like<\/p>\n
634
\n00:33:00,320 –> 00:33:01,920
\nfor us to go through these
\nthings. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:33:02,280 –> 00:33:04,200
\nHe has loved us from the
\nbeginning. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:33:04,360 –> 00:33:08,080
\nHe did all of this to save us,
\nyou know, You know, if you think<\/p>\n
637
\n00:33:08,080 –> 00:33:10,000
\nabout it, like, who did this for
\nDavid? <\/p>\n
638
\n00:33:10,000 –> 00:33:13,400
\nWho did this for Abraham?
\nWho did all this, this pleading <\/p>\n
639
\n00:33:13,400 –> 00:33:14,880
\nwith God stuff?
\nThere was. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:33:14,880 –> 00:33:16,960
\nThere was.
\nJesus wasn’t around back then, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:33:17,280 –> 00:33:21,480
\nbut all these people had to come
\nto get a relationship with God <\/p>\n
642
\n00:33:21,480 –> 00:33:24,840
\nso that they would feel
\ncomfortable asking God for help <\/p>\n
643
\n00:33:25,080 –> 00:33:28,480
\nand coming to the throne of
\ngrace and realizing he would <\/p>\n
644
\n00:33:28,480 –> 00:33:31,200
\nextend mercy.
\nThat’s what he’s looking for, <\/p>\n
645
\n00:33:31,200 –> 00:33:34,320
\nthis loving, trusting
\nrelationship with us. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:33:34,720 –> 00:33:38,200
\nAnd so that’s what what Christ
\nwas trying to do in the end. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:33:38,400 –> 00:33:40,920
\nAnd he tried to tell them, look,
\nI’ve got to go away. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:33:40,920 –> 00:33:44,320
\nIf I go away right now, I’m, I’m
\nsorry, I’ve got to leave you. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:33:44,320 –> 00:33:48,600
\nBut if I go away, it’s to your
\nadvantage, he says in John 16 <\/p>\n
650
\n00:33:49,080 –> 00:33:51,080
\nand verse seven.
\nI’ll tell you the truth. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:33:51,080 –> 00:33:53,360
\nIt is to your advantage that I
\ngo away. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:33:53,360 –> 00:33:56,880
\nFor if I don’t go away, the
\nhelper will not come to you. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:33:57,200 –> 00:34:00,720
\nBut if I depart and I send them
\nto you, then he will come. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:34:00,920 –> 00:34:03,560
\nHe’ll convict the world of sin
\nand righteousness and of <\/p>\n
655
\n00:34:03,560 –> 00:34:07,160
\njudgement, and it’s all because
\nhe’s going to the Father. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:34:07,760 –> 00:34:09,719
\nSo you think about how this
\nplayed out. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:34:09,719 –> 00:34:12,719
\nThen with all this, he’s trying
\nto convince the disciples to <\/p>\n
658
\n00:34:12,719 –> 00:34:14,840
\nhelp him.
\nThey don’t catch on at all. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:34:15,159 –> 00:34:18,560
\nHe takes Peter, Andrew and and
\nPeter, James and John, and he <\/p>\n
660
\n00:34:18,560 –> 00:34:20,600
\ntakes them up there.
\nAnd he says, can you sit there <\/p>\n
661
\n00:34:20,600 –> 00:34:23,719
\nfor a minute and watch with me
\nwhile I I talk to my father and <\/p>\n
662
\n00:34:23,719 –> 00:34:26,760
\nhe’s praying to God for help.
\nAnd they let him down. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:34:26,760 –> 00:34:29,199
\nThey fall asleep.
\nThey fall asleep. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:34:29,639 –> 00:34:32,679
\nAnd so then you have the the
\nsituation where, well, they’re <\/p>\n
665
\n00:34:32,679 –> 00:34:35,000
\nnot going to help him.
\nWhat’s God going to do? <\/p>\n
666
\n00:34:35,400 –> 00:34:40,679
\nHe sends the helper.
\nHe sends the Angel to help Jesus<\/p>\n
667
\n00:34:40,679 –> 00:34:44,880
\nand to strengthen him, to to
\nintercede between this mind of <\/p>\n
668
\n00:34:44,880 –> 00:34:48,320
\nthe flesh that he had, this this
\nmind that we’ve the devil that’s<\/p>\n
669
\n00:34:48,320 –> 00:34:50,719
\nin us that says I don’t want to
\ngo through this, I don’t want to<\/p>\n
670
\n00:34:50,719 –> 00:34:52,280
\ngo through it.
\nIsn’t there some other way? <\/p>\n
671
\n00:34:52,679 –> 00:34:55,719
\nAnd the spiritual mind that’s
\nsaying I know I want to do your <\/p>\n
672
\n00:34:55,719 –> 00:34:59,320
\nwill, I want to do your will.
\nAnd he needs somebody to <\/p>\n
673
\n00:34:59,320 –> 00:35:03,000
\nstrengthen that spiritual mind
\nso that it rises up above the <\/p>\n
674
\n00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:06,480
\ndevil in him.
\nAnd the Angel plays that role. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:10,440
\nHe was the intercessor, as we
\nwould call it for Jesus. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:35:10,920 –> 00:35:13,560
\nOr like when you look at what’s
\nhappened in our world today, <\/p>\n
677
\n00:35:14,160 –> 00:35:17,680
\npeople have messed this all up.
\nThey they think that Jesus is <\/p>\n
678
\n00:35:17,680 –> 00:35:19,520
\nthe intercessor, pleading with
\nGod. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:35:19,520 –> 00:35:22,800
\nPlease forgive us because they
\nthink of the angry God. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:35:23,000 –> 00:35:26,440
\nAll that came from Christianity,
\nnot from our Bibles. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:35:26,960 –> 00:35:28,520
\nHe doesn’t have to plead with
\nGod. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:35:28,800 –> 00:35:31,440
\nGod loves you.
\nHe wants to forgive you. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:35:31,720 –> 00:35:34,240
\nHe just wants to get us on board
\nand he. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:37,840
\nAnd if we have excuses, he set
\nhis Son to take away all the <\/p>\n
685
\n00:35:37,840 –> 00:35:41,320
\nexcuses for us, drawing near to
\nthe throne of grace. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:35:41,960 –> 00:35:45,080
\nAnd so when we read about
\nintercession in the Bible with <\/p>\n
687
\n00:35:45,080 –> 00:35:49,800
\nwith Jesus, what it is, is it’s
\nJesus is interceding between the<\/p>\n
688
\n00:35:49,800 –> 00:35:53,120
\nmind of the flesh and the mind
\nof the Spirit, just like the <\/p>\n
689
\n00:35:53,120 –> 00:35:56,160
\nAngel did for him.
\nIt’s our problem. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:35:56,680 –> 00:35:59,200
\nAnd you see this, like, for
\nexample, when you’re reading <\/p>\n
691
\n00:35:59,200 –> 00:36:02,080
\nthrough Romans eight, you
\nprobably noticed that in Romans <\/p>\n
692
\n00:36:02,080 –> 00:36:04,520
\n8, the whole chapter at the
\nbeginning is about the mind of <\/p>\n
693
\n00:36:04,520 –> 00:36:06,160
\nthe flesh versus the mind of the
\nSpirit. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:36:06,280 –> 00:36:08,600
\nThey’re at war with one another.
\nThere’s this war going on, and <\/p>\n
695
\n00:36:08,840 –> 00:36:11,040
\nwe got to be working on doing
\nthat, the Spirit. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:36:11,280 –> 00:36:16,200
\nAnd then Paul says, well, Jesus
\nintercedes, and the King James <\/p>\n
697
\n00:36:16,200 –> 00:36:19,240
\nputs in there for us.
\nThey’re not in the Greek. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:36:19,240 –> 00:36:23,160
\nHe intercedes.
\nAnd who does he intercede with? <\/p>\n
699
\n00:36:23,880 –> 00:36:27,400
\nBecause, as John Carter said,
\nread the context. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:36:27,800 –> 00:36:31,520
\nThe context is this battle of
\nthe mind of the Spirit versus <\/p>\n
701
\n00:36:31,520 –> 00:36:33,880
\nthe mind of the flesh and what
\nChrist does. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:38,040
\nHe plays the role of the helper,
\nand he strengthens our spiritual<\/p>\n
703
\n00:36:38,040 –> 00:36:40,480
\nminds to overcome the mind of
\nthe flesh. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:36:40,720 –> 00:36:44,920
\nHe intercedes in in US between
\nthe mind of the Spirit and the <\/p>\n
705
\n00:36:44,920 –> 00:36:47,400
\nmind of the flesh.
\nWhich is why later in Romans 8 <\/p>\n
706
\n00:36:47,400 –> 00:36:52,680
\nhe says he intercedes according
\nto the will of God. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:36:53,320 –> 00:36:57,800
\nHe’s not begging God to forgive
\nus, He’s trying to convince us <\/p>\n
708
\n00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:03,080
\nto overcome, to fight the devil
\nto beat it and and to God will <\/p>\n
709
\n00:37:03,080 –> 00:37:05,760
\nforgive us.
\nHe knows that and and you see <\/p>\n
710
\n00:37:05,760 –> 00:37:08,240
\nhow Romans 8 ends up.
\nIt’s all about the love of God <\/p>\n
711
\n00:37:08,240 –> 00:37:10,840
\nand the love of Christ and who’s
\ngoing to separate you from that?<\/p>\n
712
\n00:37:11,120 –> 00:37:14,560
\nLook at we have somebody who
\nsits next to the Father who will<\/p>\n
713
\n00:37:14,560 –> 00:37:17,600
\nsend the help.
\nHe will help us in overcoming <\/p>\n
714
\n00:37:17,600 –> 00:37:19,440
\nthis.
\nHe’ll help us in this battle. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:37:19,680 –> 00:37:22,040
\nThat’s why he needed to send
\nthem the helper. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:37:23,240 –> 00:37:26,480
\nWell, I just want to spend a
\nminute of of talking about one <\/p>\n
717
\n00:37:26,480 –> 00:37:28,160
\nof the issues that comes up in
\nhere. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:37:28,440 –> 00:37:32,320
\nWe we have to be careful as
\nwe’re we’re serving today and <\/p>\n
719
\n00:37:32,320 –> 00:37:34,120
\nwe’re working out in our
\ncollegial life. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:37:34,320 –> 00:37:37,200
\nOne of the issues that comes up
\nall the time is our hymns and <\/p>\n
721
\n00:37:37,200 –> 00:37:39,880
\nour music.
\nAnd I I just want to mention to <\/p>\n
722
\n00:37:39,880 –> 00:37:42,440
\nthe young and to the old that
\nwe’ve we’ve both got to be <\/p>\n
723
\n00:37:42,440 –> 00:37:44,520
\ncareful about how this plays out
\nwith us. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:37:45,120 –> 00:37:47,640
\nBut what’s happening in our
\ncommunity is that we’re all <\/p>\n
725
\n00:37:47,640 –> 00:37:51,200
\nbeing influenced whether we know
\nit or not by the influence of <\/p>\n
726
\n00:37:51,200 –> 00:37:54,480
\nthe Christian Church and by
\nhumanism coming into our group. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:37:54,800 –> 00:37:57,680
\nThey’re always out there like
\nthe the marketers are in in our <\/p>\n
728
\n00:37:57,680 –> 00:38:00,400
\nworld today.
\nAnd some of the ideas that that <\/p>\n
729
\n00:38:00,400 –> 00:38:04,600
\nthat they would like to throw at
\nus is this idea like Jesus is <\/p>\n
730
\n00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:07,920
\nsuffering your punishment.
\nThose of you that read the NIV, <\/p>\n
731
\n00:38:07,960 –> 00:38:12,520
\nyou probably have picked that up
\nin Isaiah 53 and it says that he<\/p>\n
732
\n00:38:12,520 –> 00:38:14,520
\nhe bore our punishment.
\nThey just put it right in the <\/p>\n
733
\n00:38:14,520 –> 00:38:17,760
\ntext because that’s what they
\nbelieve when they translate it. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:38:18,000 –> 00:38:22,160
\nOr this idea that Jesus needs to
\nbeg God to forgive us because <\/p>\n
735
\n00:38:22,160 –> 00:38:24,800
\nthey misunderstood our loving
\nGod. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:38:24,800 –> 00:38:27,920
\nThey didn’t realize he doesn’t
\nneed Jesus to beg. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:38:28,160 –> 00:38:32,440
\nHe wants to forgive us, and he’s
\nusing Jesus to help us get to <\/p>\n
738
\n00:38:32,440 –> 00:38:34,400
\nthat point that he can forgive
\nus. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:38:34,920 –> 00:38:37,480
\nThat’s what our God has done.
\nThat’s what he did all along. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:38:37,840 –> 00:38:40,920
\nSo you watch how this plays out
\nin some of these things we We <\/p>\n
741
\n00:38:40,920 –> 00:38:44,800
\nknow the Father loves us.
\nWe know He loves us more than <\/p>\n
742
\n00:38:44,840 –> 00:38:47,360
\nanyone has ever loved us more
\nthan Jesus. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:38:47,800 –> 00:38:50,120
\nThe churches wouldn’t do.
\nThey’d say that Jesus loves you <\/p>\n
744
\n00:38:50,120 –> 00:38:53,680
\nmore than God and the angry God
\ngets helped out by his son who <\/p>\n
745
\n00:38:53,920 –> 00:38:56,560
\nwho gave himself for us and
\nsuffered our punishment and all <\/p>\n
746
\n00:38:56,560 –> 00:38:58,720
\nthat.
\nWe don’t believe that brothers <\/p>\n
747
\n00:38:58,720 –> 00:39:01,080
\nand sisters and young people,
\nthat’s not what Chris Adelphian <\/p>\n
748
\n00:39:01,080 –> 00:39:03,120
\nstand for.
\nThese other religions. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:39:03,120 –> 00:39:05,920
\nThey built their whole idea
\nabout an angry God who’s just <\/p>\n
750
\n00:39:05,920 –> 00:39:08,440
\nsitting there waiting to get you
\nfor all of your sins. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:39:08,880 –> 00:39:12,000
\nThey think that Jesus now
\ndefends us before God. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:39:12,160 –> 00:39:14,080
\nHe pleads with God to forgive
\nus. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:39:14,240 –> 00:39:18,720
\nThat King James Eagan uses that
\nword, an advocate, an advocate. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:39:18,720 –> 00:39:21,080
\nIn First John Two, they think he
\nadvocates for us. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:39:21,360 –> 00:39:24,840
\nHe sort of talks God out of it,
\nbut it’s not biblical. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:39:24,960 –> 00:39:27,960
\nI mean, who did that for Adam
\nand for Noah and Abraham and <\/p>\n
757
\n00:39:27,960 –> 00:39:30,240
\nJoseph and Moses and David or
\nJob? <\/p>\n
758
\n00:39:30,720 –> 00:39:33,760
\nJob wanted somebody to do that,
\ndidn’t he? <\/p>\n
759
\n00:39:34,160 –> 00:39:37,560
\nHe wanted that days minute calls
\nit, or that mediator. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:39:37,720 –> 00:39:41,160
\nHe wanted him to get between him
\nand God and he wanted somebody <\/p>\n
761
\n00:39:41,160 –> 00:39:43,400
\nthat could bring him and God to
\nthe same level. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:39:43,520 –> 00:39:48,120
\nAnd we could now talk this out
\nand he was going to convince God<\/p>\n
763
\n00:39:48,120 –> 00:39:50,320
\nthat he was wrong.
\nShow him all the evidence. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:39:50,600 –> 00:39:53,880
\nThat’s what Job was looking for.
\nAnd in the end he realized I was<\/p>\n
765
\n00:39:53,960 –> 00:39:56,800
\nall wrong.
\nThat isn’t how it works at all. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:39:57,080 –> 00:39:59,640
\nGod’s God was way above all of
\nthat. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:40:00,160 –> 00:40:03,320
\nSo you’ve got to be careful in
\nall of our handbooks today that <\/p>\n
768
\n00:40:03,320 –> 00:40:06,920
\nthis stuff doesn’t creep into us
\njust so you can see how it does.<\/p>\n
769
\n00:40:06,920 –> 00:40:10,480
\nLook at PTL 184.
\nI know that my Redeemer lives. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:40:10,480 –> 00:40:14,080
\nSee, this is what people like
\nout of Job, that he can play <\/p>\n
771
\n00:40:14,080 –> 00:40:15,960
\nthat role of the pleader.
\nThat Joe. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:40:16,360 –> 00:40:20,160
\nJoe wanted this intermediator to
\ncome in this intercessor and <\/p>\n
773
\n00:40:20,160 –> 00:40:23,280
\nplead with Job’s case before God
\nin the court. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:40:23,880 –> 00:40:26,120
\nAnd in the end, he just said,
\nwow, I didn’t even know who you <\/p>\n
775
\n00:40:26,120 –> 00:40:27,920
\nwere, God.
\nI’d heard of you by the hearing <\/p>\n
776
\n00:40:27,920 –> 00:40:30,520
\nof the ears.
\nBut now I understand how it <\/p>\n
777
\n00:40:30,520 –> 00:40:32,680
\nworks.
\nWhen you see those things like <\/p>\n
778
\n00:40:32,680 –> 00:40:35,120
\nthat in in our hymns, we have to
\nbe careful. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:40:35,320 –> 00:40:39,640
\nThey’re not biblical concepts.
\nYou won’t find Jesus pleading <\/p>\n
780
\n00:40:39,640 –> 00:40:43,680
\nwith God to forgive us.
\nThey both want to forgive us. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:40:44,120 –> 00:40:48,320
\nThat’s Romans 8.
\nOr you look in PTL 43, you know <\/p>\n
782
\n00:40:48,400 –> 00:40:51,560
\nthat they put in this idea that
\nJesus was bruised for <\/p>\n
783
\n00:40:51,560 –> 00:40:55,320
\niniquities, sort of giving you a
\ntheir own, their own take on <\/p>\n
784
\n00:40:55,320 –> 00:41:00,720
\nIsaiah 53 to bring us peace.
\nHe was punished because they <\/p>\n
785
\n00:41:00,720 –> 00:41:03,680
\nwere using an NIV and they
\nthought that was the right <\/p>\n
786
\n00:41:03,680 –> 00:41:05,120
\nthing.
\nThat’s what they believed, that <\/p>\n
787
\n00:41:05,120 –> 00:41:08,480
\nthey thought Jesus was punished
\nto bring us peace and that he <\/p>\n
788
\n00:41:08,480 –> 00:41:10,280
\npaid for the guilt that was
\nmine. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:41:10,280 –> 00:41:12,880
\nThey they really believe that.
\nThey think he paid for your <\/p>\n
790
\n00:41:12,880 –> 00:41:14,680
\nguilt.
\nIt was a transaction, and he <\/p>\n
791
\n00:41:14,680 –> 00:41:18,200
\npaid for all our sins.
\nBut it’s not biblical to teach <\/p>\n
792
\n00:41:18,200 –> 00:41:20,040
\nthat.
\nYou won’t find that in the real <\/p>\n
793
\n00:41:20,040 –> 00:41:23,760
\nHebrew text of Isaiah 53.
\nThat’s a transliteration of <\/p>\n
794
\n00:41:23,760 –> 00:41:26,200
\nsomebody’s idea.
\nAnd for those of you that think <\/p>\n
795
\n00:41:26,200 –> 00:41:29,720
\nthat it’s just in the PTL, you
\nknow, I think it’s good for all <\/p>\n
796
\n00:41:29,720 –> 00:41:32,960
\nof us, only ones, to realize if
\nyou’re a Green Book only person,<\/p>\n
797
\n00:41:33,280 –> 00:41:35,440
\nthat this stuff is in the Green
\nBook too. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:41:35,680 –> 00:41:39,960
\nWe we have to be careful that he
\ntalks about Christ pleading for <\/p>\n
799
\n00:41:39,960 –> 00:41:42,320
\nus.
\nHe hears our cry, and he lives <\/p>\n
800
\n00:41:42,320 –> 00:41:44,640
\nin glory now on high, pleading
\nfor us. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:41:45,160 –> 00:41:50,000
\nHe doesn’t plead for us.
\nHe pleads with us, He pleads <\/p>\n
802
\n00:41:50,000 –> 00:41:52,400
\nwith us.
\nHe He sends the helper to <\/p>\n
803
\n00:41:52,400 –> 00:41:56,040
\ninvolve in our life and he sends
\nhis angels out pleading with us <\/p>\n
804
\n00:41:56,040 –> 00:42:00,200
\nto overcome that that mind of
\nthe flesh and destroy that devil<\/p>\n
805
\n00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:02,680
\nand overcome it and make good
\nchoices for him. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:42:03,200 –> 00:42:07,560
\nOr you look in in in our green
\nbook in 238 they copied this out<\/p>\n
807
\n00:42:07,560 –> 00:42:10,200
\nof our you know your Bible.
\nThey write in first John 2. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:42:10,200 –> 00:42:13,760
\nSome of the bibles have that
\nJesus is our advocate. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:42:14,240 –> 00:42:17,280
\nOur advocate.
\nYou know and advocate you know <\/p>\n
810
\n00:42:17,280 –> 00:42:19,360
\nwhat that is today.
\nThat’s somebody who gets <\/p>\n
811
\n00:42:19,360 –> 00:42:22,640
\ninvolved between two parties and
\nthey advocate for you. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:42:22,640 –> 00:42:26,000
\nThey they they they take your
\ncause and they try to convince <\/p>\n
813
\n00:42:26,000 –> 00:42:29,120
\nthe other side that you were
\nactually right and you should <\/p>\n
814
\n00:42:29,120 –> 00:42:31,680
\nhave a compromise.
\nThat’s what advocates do. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:42:32,240 –> 00:42:34,480
\nThat’s not what our Lord Jesus
\nChrist does. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:42:34,480 –> 00:42:37,480
\nDo you know what the word in the
\nGreek is for? <\/p>\n
817
\n00:42:37,480 –> 00:42:41,520
\nAdvocate?
\nHave you ever done a study on <\/p>\n
818
\n00:42:41,520 –> 00:42:44,360
\n1st John Two?
\nThat word in the Greek is <\/p>\n
819
\n00:42:44,360 –> 00:42:49,120
\nParacletos.
\nIt’s the helper from John 15, <\/p>\n
820
\n00:42:49,120 –> 00:42:52,680
\nJohn 17.
\nHe is our helper. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:42:53,160 –> 00:42:57,560
\nHe’s not our advocate.
\nHe’s helping us to come to God, <\/p>\n
822
\n00:42:57,840 –> 00:43:00,640
\nnot trying to convince God to
\naccept us. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:43:01,160 –> 00:43:03,680
\nThat’s what he really is.
\nLook at the NIV. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:43:03,760 –> 00:43:06,240
\nLook what they do with this,
\njust so you’re aware of those of<\/p>\n
825
\n00:43:06,240 –> 00:43:09,280
\nyou that use an NIV.
\nThey say in First John Two that <\/p>\n
826
\n00:43:09,280 –> 00:43:13,360
\nif anybody does sin, we have one
\nwho speaks to the Father in our <\/p>\n
827
\n00:43:13,360 –> 00:43:15,800
\ndefence.
\nThat’s what an advocate is. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:43:16,160 –> 00:43:18,560
\nAnd they just put the words in
\nthere so you don’t misread it. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:43:18,560 –> 00:43:20,680
\nThey that’s really what an
\nadvocate does. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:43:21,000 –> 00:43:24,040
\nIt’s not biblical.
\nRather than sisters and young <\/p>\n
831
\n00:43:24,040 –> 00:43:27,960
\npeople, these are ideas that
\nhave crept in from the churches,<\/p>\n
832
\n00:43:28,360 –> 00:43:31,160
\nbut they’re not ideas that are
\nactually in our bibles. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:43:31,440 –> 00:43:33,040
\nAnd so you just check that out
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:43:33,080 –> 00:43:36,600
\nThose of you that have Bible
\nprograms out and the electronic <\/p>\n
835
\n00:43:36,600 –> 00:43:38,280
\npeople, you can check all this
\nstuff out. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:43:38,280 –> 00:43:41,600
\nIt’s actually the word paraclete
\nand it’s the only time used <\/p>\n
837
\n00:43:41,600 –> 00:43:44,680
\noutside of John.
\nIt’s in first John two look at <\/p>\n
838
\n00:43:44,680 –> 00:43:47,440
\nthe green Book 258.
\nThis is where it becomes really <\/p>\n
839
\n00:43:47,440 –> 00:43:51,400
\nclear that he died, but lives
\nalway and in the holy stands to <\/p>\n
840
\n00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:55,080
\nplead for Saints who pray and to
\nhold up feeling hands. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:43:55,640 –> 00:43:58,120
\nOur advocate, they’ve got both
\nof them in there now. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:43:58,120 –> 00:44:00,360
\nWe’ve got him pleading for us
\nand we have the advocate in <\/p>\n
843
\n00:44:00,360 –> 00:44:03,600
\nthere abides in heaven that
\nfearing Saints may be forgiven <\/p>\n
844
\n00:44:03,960 –> 00:44:06,760
\nand he ends up with who pleases
\nhouseholds cause in heaven. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:44:07,440 –> 00:44:10,640
\nI I hope you don’t have a
\nrelationship with God. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:44:11,120 –> 00:44:14,520
\nI I hope after this week you’re
\nnot looking at your God, the God<\/p>\n
847
\n00:44:14,520 –> 00:44:18,240
\nwho we love and who loves us.
\nAs somebody who needs to be <\/p>\n
848
\n00:44:18,240 –> 00:44:23,160
\ntalked out of forgiving you, I
\nhope that isn’t your <\/p>\n
849
\n00:44:23,160 –> 00:44:26,400
\nrelationship with God.
\nThat’s not, that’s not the God I<\/p>\n
850
\n00:44:26,400 –> 00:44:28,280
\nworship.
\nAnd like I told you at the <\/p>\n
851
\n00:44:28,280 –> 00:44:32,200
\nbeginning, if we don’t
\nunderstand the love of God, it <\/p>\n
852
\n00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:35,920
\naffects how we have a
\nrelationship with God and then <\/p>\n
853
\n00:44:35,920 –> 00:44:38,720
\nit justifies us mistreating
\nother people. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:44:39,160 –> 00:44:42,000
\nOur God isn’t like that.
\nHe doesn’t need somebody to <\/p>\n
855
\n00:44:42,000 –> 00:44:44,880
\nplead with him.
\nHe wants to forgive you. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:44:44,880 –> 00:44:48,760
\nHe loves you, and he was willing
\nto give your his own Son and put<\/p>\n
857
\n00:44:48,760 –> 00:44:53,640
\nhim through all of that so that
\nhe could get us to come to him <\/p>\n
858
\n00:44:53,880 –> 00:44:55,960
\nand draw near to the throne of
\ngrace. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:44:56,400 –> 00:44:58,960
\nThat’s the God who we worship,
\nbrethren and sisters. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:44:58,960 –> 00:45:00,600
\nWe don’t need someone who
\npleads. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:45:01,120 –> 00:45:03,560
\nAnd the intercession.
\nIf you look in Romans 8, if you <\/p>\n
862
\n00:45:03,560 –> 00:45:06,360
\never check that out, you’d see
\nit’s an italics, that idea that <\/p>\n
863
\n00:45:06,360 –> 00:45:08,560
\nhe intercedes for us with
\ngroanings. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:45:08,880 –> 00:45:11,440
\nSee, he’s referring back to the
\nGarden of Eden with the <\/p>\n
865
\n00:45:11,440 –> 00:45:13,920
\ngroanings.
\nHe uses that word in the Greek, <\/p>\n
866
\n00:45:13,920 –> 00:45:17,000
\nlike Jesus when he groaned in
\nhis spirit when he saw Lazarus <\/p>\n
867
\n00:45:17,200 –> 00:45:19,560
\nand what he was going through.
\nWhen he’s when he’s praying in <\/p>\n
868
\n00:45:19,560 –> 00:45:22,920
\nthe garden he’s trying to get,
\nHe’s fighting this battle of <\/p>\n
869
\n00:45:22,920 –> 00:45:25,160
\nflesh versus the spirit and
\nflesh versus the spirit. <\/p>\n
870
\n00:45:25,440 –> 00:45:30,560
\nAnd he intercedes with our minds
\nto strengthen us by all the <\/p>\n
871
\n00:45:30,560 –> 00:45:33,440
\nthings that the angels do in our
\nlives and the reading of his <\/p>\n
872
\n00:45:33,440 –> 00:45:36,080
\nword and going to the classes,
\nall those things. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:45:36,080 –> 00:45:40,880
\nHe’s trying to intercede with us
\naccording to the will of God. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:45:41,360 –> 00:45:44,400
\nI think they’re on the same page
\nfor the sisters. <\/p>\n
875
\n00:45:44,400 –> 00:45:46,400
\nIt’s not Christ pleading with
\nGod. <\/p>\n
876
\n00:45:46,640 –> 00:45:49,600
\nIt’s Jesus Christ trying to
\nbring us to God. <\/p>\n
877
\n00:45:49,880 –> 00:45:52,600
\nThat’s what he’s doing.
\nHe’s not trying to change his <\/p>\n
878
\n00:45:52,600 –> 00:45:54,160
\nfather.
\nWell, I challenge you. <\/p>\n
879
\n00:45:54,160 –> 00:45:56,760
\nAnd I read through John Carter’s
\nbook, those of you that haven’t <\/p>\n
880
\n00:45:56,760 –> 00:45:59,720
\never looked at Romans 8, that’s
\nhe just, he just appealed to the<\/p>\n
881
\n00:45:59,720 –> 00:46:02,880
\nfact.
\nContext, context, context. <\/p>\n
882
\n00:46:03,120 –> 00:46:07,000
\nRead the context of it.
\nDon’t just take a verse out of a<\/p>\n
883
\n00:46:07,000 –> 00:46:10,840
\ncontext and say that Jesus
\nintercedes for us and then apply<\/p>\n
884
\n00:46:10,840 –> 00:46:13,720
\nsome meaning to it that you want
\nto that you probably learn from <\/p>\n
885
\n00:46:13,960 –> 00:46:17,160
\nfrom Christianity.
\nRead the context. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:46:17,160 –> 00:46:21,080
\nIt’s the war of the spirit, the
\nthe, the old man versus the new <\/p>\n
887
\n00:46:21,080 –> 00:46:24,720
\nman, and that’s what he brings
\nout in Romans chapter 8. <\/p>\n
888
\n00:46:25,320 –> 00:46:28,400
\nIf you look at in the Green Book
\nin 262, there it is again. <\/p>\n
889
\n00:46:28,400 –> 00:46:31,560
\nHe pleads for us above.
\nAnd the reason I’m bringing them<\/p>\n
890
\n00:46:31,560 –> 00:46:35,520
\nall up is because if we’re not
\ncareful, we let these hymns <\/p>\n
891
\n00:46:35,520 –> 00:46:39,000
\ninfluence us to where we buy
\ninto the Christian view of the <\/p>\n
892
\n00:46:39,000 –> 00:46:42,160
\natonement.
\nAnd we do have to be careful <\/p>\n
893
\n00:46:42,440 –> 00:46:45,560
\nthat that’s not really what we
\nwant, the older ones and the <\/p>\n
894
\n00:46:45,560 –> 00:46:47,160
\nyounger.
\nWe don’t want our hymns to <\/p>\n
895
\n00:46:47,160 –> 00:46:50,080
\nmislead us.
\nAnd so we have to be careful. <\/p>\n
896
\n00:46:50,280 –> 00:46:51,760
\nWe don’t throw out the hymn
\nbooks. <\/p>\n
897
\n00:46:52,160 –> 00:46:56,400
\nWhat we do is we pick hymns that
\npreach truth in both of the hymn<\/p>\n
898
\n00:46:56,400 –> 00:46:58,400
\nbooks or in all of the hymn
\nbooks that we use. <\/p>\n
899
\n00:46:58,680 –> 00:47:01,080
\nThey all have good hymns.
\nMost of them are good. <\/p>\n
900
\n00:47:01,240 –> 00:47:03,760
\nBut there also are some, some,
\nsome of the hymns that could be <\/p>\n
901
\n00:47:03,760 –> 00:47:07,240
\nvery misleading.
\nPTL 177, the one about the <\/p>\n
902
\n00:47:07,240 –> 00:47:10,840
\nfather turning away because he
\ncan’t look at the sun up on the <\/p>\n
903
\n00:47:10,840 –> 00:47:13,800
\ncross.
\nAnd it’s it’s just not true. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:47:14,080 –> 00:47:18,240
\nIt gives us the impression that
\nthis is this angry God punishing<\/p>\n
905
\n00:47:18,240 –> 00:47:20,200
\nthe sun.
\nThis is what the Christian <\/p>\n
906
\n00:47:20,200 –> 00:47:23,120
\nchurches teach.
\nBut we know in Romans chapter <\/p>\n
907
\n00:47:23,120 –> 00:47:26,440
\neight Brothers and Sisters, as
\nas as he pleads, as he goes <\/p>\n
908
\n00:47:26,440 –> 00:47:28,880
\nthrough that whole issue of
\nintercession and mentions it <\/p>\n
909
\n00:47:28,880 –> 00:47:31,720
\ntwice.
\nHe ends that chapter and he and <\/p>\n
910
\n00:47:31,720 –> 00:47:35,640
\nhe deals with the fact that in
\nall things God is working for <\/p>\n
911
\n00:47:35,640 –> 00:47:39,920
\nthe good of those who love him,
\nwho have been called according <\/p>\n
912
\n00:47:39,920 –> 00:47:43,120
\nto his purpose.
\nThat’s the premise that we it’s <\/p>\n
913
\n00:47:43,120 –> 00:47:47,160
\nthe foundation that God is
\nworking for good because he <\/p>\n
914
\n00:47:47,160 –> 00:47:50,880
\nloves us, and if we love Him,
\nHe’s loving us. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:47:51,280 –> 00:47:54,640
\nSo what should we say then in
\nverse 31 in response to all of <\/p>\n
916
\n00:47:54,640 –> 00:47:57,160
\nthis?
\nIf God is for us, who can be <\/p>\n
917
\n00:47:57,160 –> 00:47:59,640
\nagainst us?
\nThere’s nobody that can be <\/p>\n
918
\n00:47:59,640 –> 00:48:02,360
\nagainst us.
\nHe who did not spare his own Son<\/p>\n
919
\n00:48:02,360 –> 00:48:07,040
\nbut gave him up for us all, how
\nwill he not also along with him,<\/p>\n
920
\n00:48:07,040 –> 00:48:11,520
\ngraciously give us all things?
\nDo you believe that that’s the <\/p>\n
921
\n00:48:11,520 –> 00:48:14,600
\nGod that we worship?
\nWe want to become like Him and <\/p>\n
922
\n00:48:14,600 –> 00:48:17,160
\nunderstand He wants to give us
\nthe Kingdom. <\/p>\n
923
\n00:48:17,600 –> 00:48:19,880
\nThat’s what he wants.
\nAnd who will bring any charge <\/p>\n
924
\n00:48:19,880 –> 00:48:22,280
\nagainst those whom God has
\nchosen. <\/p>\n
925
\n00:48:22,880 –> 00:48:27,160
\nNow nobody’s going to do that.
\nGod chose us so that he could <\/p>\n
926
\n00:48:27,160 –> 00:48:29,600
\nsave us and and add us to his
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
927
\n00:48:29,800 –> 00:48:33,760
\nIt is God who justifies.
\nHe’ll justify us, Paul said. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:48:33,760 –> 00:48:36,720
\nHe promises And who is he who
\ncondemns? <\/p>\n
929
\n00:48:36,720 –> 00:48:38,880
\nWho’s going to condemn you at at
\nthe judgement? <\/p>\n
930
\n00:48:38,880 –> 00:48:42,520
\nSee, Jesus Christ is, is he
\ngoing to come and condemn you <\/p>\n
931
\n00:48:42,960 –> 00:48:46,080
\nwho died more than that, who was
\nraised to life. <\/p>\n
932
\n00:48:46,080 –> 00:48:50,480
\nHe’s at the right hand of God
\nand is also interceding for us <\/p>\n
933
\n00:48:50,680 –> 00:48:54,120
\nand our war against sin.
\nYou you know, that’s what he <\/p>\n
934
\n00:48:54,120 –> 00:48:55,600
\nsays.
\nHe’s our helper now. <\/p>\n
935
\n00:48:55,760 –> 00:49:00,000
\nHe’s helping us to to destroy
\nthe old man and and fight this <\/p>\n
936
\n00:49:00,000 –> 00:49:03,240
\nand put it to death.
\nBoth of them are totally <\/p>\n
937
\n00:49:03,240 –> 00:49:07,440
\ninvested in saving you.
\nThey want you there so bad. <\/p>\n
938
\n00:49:07,720 –> 00:49:10,240
\nAnd the only one that can get in
\nthe way of that is you. <\/p>\n
939
\n00:49:10,720 –> 00:49:13,800
\nWe are the only ones.
\nThey will justify us. <\/p>\n
940
\n00:49:13,960 –> 00:49:17,200
\nThey will save us.
\nThey will plead with us to fight<\/p>\n
941
\n00:49:17,200 –> 00:49:19,280
\nthe war.
\nWho’s going to separate us from <\/p>\n
942
\n00:49:19,280 –> 00:49:21,880
\nthe love of Christ?
\nHe says nobody’s going to be <\/p>\n
943
\n00:49:21,880 –> 00:49:24,880
\nable to separate you from the
\nlove of God, which is in Christ <\/p>\n
944
\n00:49:24,880 –> 00:49:27,480
\nJesus.
\nAnd I’ll leave you with that for<\/p>\n
945
\n00:49:27,480 –> 00:49:29,600
\ntoday.
\nBut you know, I hope during this<\/p>\n
946
\n00:49:29,600 –> 00:49:33,760
\nweek we could hopefully sort of
\nre evaluate maybe our our our <\/p>\n
947
\n00:49:33,760 –> 00:49:36,440
\nunderstanding and our
\nrelationship with our God. <\/p>\n
948
\n00:49:36,840 –> 00:49:40,480
\nIt’s really important that we
\nget it right that we see him as <\/p>\n
949
\n00:49:40,480 –> 00:49:44,200
\nthe loving Father who’s doing
\neverything he possibly can to <\/p>\n
950
\n00:49:44,200 –> 00:49:47,240
\nsave us.
\nAnd I am sure, as Paul said of <\/p>\n
951
\n00:49:47,240 –> 00:49:51,440
\nthis, that he who began a good
\nwork in you will bring it to <\/p>\n
952
\n00:49:51,440 –> 00:49:54,160
\ncompletion at the day of Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
953
\n00:49:54,840 –> 00:49:57,720
\nSo thanks very much for your
\nattention this week. <\/p>\n
954
\n00:49:57,840 –> 00:49:59,400
\nIt’s been really great being
\nhere. <\/p>\n
955
\n00:50:00,200 –> 00:50:03,080
\nIt’s really nice to have met a
\nlot of you for the first time <\/p>\n
956
\n00:50:03,360 –> 00:50:06,320
\nand he’s got a great place here
\nand you got a whole bunch of <\/p>\n
957
\n00:50:06,320 –> 00:50:07,520
\ngreat young people over there.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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