Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 306.<\/p>\n
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\nJason Hensley from this Simi
\nHills Eclesia in California. <\/p>\n
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\nHis theme this week is the
\nGospel of Peace and this is his <\/p>\n
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\nfirst class and the subjects for
\nhis first class is Shades of <\/p>\n
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\nPeace.
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\nThere we go.
\nThanks for the David. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning, everyone.
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\nIt’s good to see you all.
\nI hope that you are having a <\/p>\n
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\ngoing well. <\/p>\n
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\nThe teens are great because I
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\nWe are going to be talking about
\nthe gospel of peace. <\/p>\n
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\nI gave a little bit of an
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\ntalking about that and.
\nThis is going to be an <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s like a blend of biblical
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\nSo we’ll see.
\nKind of what what you think <\/p>\n
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\nabout that In addition, I want
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\nbe interrupted so.
\nIf you feel. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, really moved at some
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\nand say, but what about this or
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\nThat’s great.
\nLike, you know, I, I teach <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle schoolers, They interrupt
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\nSo like that’s, that’s the kind
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\nSo you want to do that. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s good.
\nAnd I think it’s good for us to,<\/p>\n
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\nto talk through things.
\nSo I’m happy to happy to hear <\/p>\n
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\nany disagreements you might <\/p>\n
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\nhave, anything like that.
\nOK, this is where we’re going to<\/p>\n
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\ngo this week.
\nWe got five classes together. <\/p>\n
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\nThis first class we’re going to
\ntalk about shades of peace. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the types of peace and
\nwhy peace matters. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s really what we’ll be
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\ntomorrow.
\nWe’re going to look at <\/p>\n
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\ninterconnected peace.
\nSo the idea is that once we’ve <\/p>\n
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\nrelated to each other.
\nThey’re all interconnected and <\/p>\n
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\nyou can’t really have one
\nwithout the other. <\/p>\n
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\nFor our third class on
\nWednesday, we’re going to then <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think this is really
\ninteresting, This, this is a big<\/p>\n
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\npossibly being a difference
\nbetween the two. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’re going to spend some
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\nbiblically, what is unity
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\nAnd what is the difference?
\nWhy does that matter? <\/p>\n
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\nThen we will look at some of the
\ninstances on Thursday that we <\/p>\n
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\nmight see as unpeaceful.
\nSo I think sometimes we tend to <\/p>\n
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\nto look at cases in the Bible.
\nLike the destruction of the <\/p>\n
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\nCanaanites, that sort of thing.
\nAnd we say, well, look, see, <\/p>\n
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\nthere are clearly things that
\nare unpeaceful in the Bible. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so therefore we sometimes
\nuse them as an excuse. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, we say like, well,
\nsee, we are supposed to, we’re <\/p>\n
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\nsupposed to be like that.
\nI remember hearing before a <\/p>\n
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\nbrother saying, just like the
\nIsraelites went out and killed <\/p>\n
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\nall the Canaanites, We’re
\nsupposed to do that. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s just not enough bullets,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nlike that. <\/p>\n
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\nwhat that meant. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then to go back and say, so <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s going on there?
\nSo we’re going to try and re <\/p>\n
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\nThat our last class together <\/p>\n
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\nSo now that we see that peace
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\nWhat do you do about it, right?
\nHow? <\/p>\n
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\nHow do you bring that out?
\nOK, so that’ll that’ll be again,<\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the plan. <\/p>\n
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\nOur plan for today, we have 3.
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\nI so I’m always going to have <\/p>\n
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\nThen we’re going to see how the
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\nAbout it as we go, OK.
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\nI know that’s maybe a little <\/p>\n
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\nlike you have to answer them, <\/p>\n
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\nOK. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat would you say? <\/p>\n
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\nanswers, right? <\/p>\n
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\nMultifactorial.
\nWhat was that? <\/p>\n
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\nTo prove he had the spirit right
\nnow in fact that works. <\/p>\n
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\nYou might remember Nicodemus
\nJohn chapter three. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says we know you are a
\nteacher sent from God because no<\/p>\n
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\nUnless God is with him, right? <\/p>\n
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\nSo yes.
\nSo to prove that he has the <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit, Why else do you think
\nJesus healed? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s hard to make your receptive<\/p>\n
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\nOh yeah. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, that’s good, Steve.
\nTo prove he had the. <\/p>\n
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\nTo prove that he had the
\nauthority to forgive sins. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s mark two, right?
\nParalytic comes down through the<\/p>\n
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\nroof.
\nHe forgives sins. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah.
\nPhil, glorify God. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a big one.
\nRight? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he heals their sick Laurie
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\nYeah. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, I’m going to end it there
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\nthat is that you will notice <\/p>\n
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\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nWe know that the Lord had the
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\nHe heals the nobleman’s son. <\/p>\n
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\nHe could have done that, but he <\/p>\n
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\nIn Matthew 1358, we read that he<\/p>\n
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\nin that area because anyone <\/p>\n
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\nremember why?
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\nThat’s right.
\nSo he specifically links his <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s one thing. <\/p>\n
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\nwhere it gets really, really <\/p>\n
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\nintriguing, that’s two reallys.
\nIn John 5, you get the story of <\/p>\n
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\nRemember that? <\/p>\n
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\nNow, we know that there were a
\nlot of people there who wanted <\/p>\n
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\nWe know that because Bethesda <\/p>\n
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\nto be healed. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus specifically walks by all <\/p>\n
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\nHave you ever pictured that, <\/p>\n
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\nHe walks by all of these sick <\/p>\n
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\nspecific person, a person who <\/p>\n
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\nDo you want to be healed? <\/p>\n
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\nHave you ever thought about
\nthat? <\/p>\n
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\nHow long have the man been sick?
\n3838 years. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, Now what do you think?
\nWhat kind of reaction do you <\/p>\n
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\nsick for 38 years and you say,
\nhey, would you like to get <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, Right. <\/p>\n
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\nyou get healed. <\/p>\n
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\nthink that indicates I want to <\/p>\n
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\nBut you know, again, clearly the
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\nSo he knows what he’s doing. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s not just walking up to
\nsomebody and asking a dumb <\/p>\n
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\nLike he has something going on. <\/p>\n
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\nHe knows what the man is
\nthinking, right? <\/p>\n
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\nSo what I would suggest to you <\/p>\n
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\nis based on the fact that he
\nasked this question is it’s not <\/p>\n
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\nwant to be better? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause I don’t really know.
\nLike that’s not what he’s <\/p>\n
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\nsaying.
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\nlook, you’ve been here 38 years,
\nwhy have you not gotten in this <\/p>\n
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\npool yet, right?
\nLike what’s going on? <\/p>\n
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\nDo you actually want to be
\nbetter? <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s nobody to help me,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nHey, the man gives an excuse.
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\nI bring that up because when <\/p>\n
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\noh, here, here it is.
\nHe’s really nice and he wants to<\/p>\n
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\nfirst and certain things that <\/p>\n
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\nthat when you start looking <\/p>\n
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\ntwo other things. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s take a look.
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\nsays Jesus went throughout
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\nSo look at look for the things
\nthat He does before He heals. <\/p>\n
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\nteaching in their synagogues, <\/p>\n
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\ndisease and sickness among the
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\nThis is not just something that <\/p>\n
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\nfrom city to city preaching the <\/p>\n
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\nKingdom of God is at hand,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nThe Kingdom of God is at hand.
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\nthings that were true, right? <\/p>\n
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\nSo the question becomes, well, <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think we’re starting to <\/p>\n
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\nJust picture what this would be <\/p>\n
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\nyou, right? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen he says the dead will be <\/p>\n
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\nraised and he raises the dead,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nKingdom is at hand. <\/p>\n
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\ngets a little cliche when we <\/p>\n
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\nsay, oh, well, he was the
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not just.
\nIt’s not just that he was the <\/p>\n
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\nbut it’s that he was the Kingdom<\/p>\n
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\nbecause being with Jesus was
\nlike living in the Kingdom of <\/p>\n
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\nGod, right?
\nYou had the word made flesh with<\/p>\n
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\nEvery single thing that was said<\/p>\n
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\nwas perfect, right?
\nIf you got a cough and you were <\/p>\n
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\nlike, Oh no, I don’t think I can
\npreach today. <\/p>\n
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\nYou go to the Lord Jesus and you
\nsay, well, I was supposed to go <\/p>\n
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\npreach in that city and he’s
\nlike, oh, I got it right. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know, then you’re not
\ncoughing anymore. <\/p>\n
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\nLike it’s.
\nIt’s the kind of thing where you<\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t have to worry about that
\nkind of stuff, right? <\/p>\n
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\ngetting captured. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus says, oh, don’t worry, my
\nhour has not yet come, right? <\/p>\n
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\nOwe you a little faith.
\nYou think the boat’s going to <\/p>\n
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\nLike living with the Lord Jesus
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\nLiving in the Kingdom, right?
\nThat’s what it was like. <\/p>\n
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\nhe’s giving a taste of here’s <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I want you to see this. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you see it there in Matthew <\/p>\n
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\nyou, right?
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\nAll over the place, heal at
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\nsays, oh, well, never mind,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\ndo believe that the Kingdom is
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\nhas healed you.
\nMatthew 1528. <\/p>\n
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\nMark 1052, your faith has healed<\/p>\n
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\n00:17:21,400 –> 00:17:23,800
\nyou.
\nSo we see that he’s constantly <\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:23,800 –> 00:17:27,319
\nconnecting faith healing and
\nthis Kingdom idea. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:27,599 –> 00:17:28,720
\nSo he’s bringing it all
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:17:28,840 –> 00:17:31,040
\nNow, where it gets really
\ninteresting is when we actually <\/p>\n
342
\n00:17:31,040 –> 00:17:34,160
\nstart to look at the Greek, and
\nsome of you are in my Greek <\/p>\n
343
\n00:17:34,160 –> 00:17:34,880
\nclass.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:17:35,600 –> 00:17:38,280
\nSo there you go now, so you’ll
\nbe able to read that. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:17:38,280 –> 00:17:40,080
\nBut I put the English
\ntranslation on the right, so <\/p>\n
346
\n00:17:40,080 –> 00:17:41,320
\ndon’t worry.
\nIt’s OK. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:17:42,440 –> 00:17:46,320
\nI’ve underlined in this in these
\ntwo verses here the word healed <\/p>\n
348
\n00:17:46,880 –> 00:17:49,160
\nright.
\nSo this is the same word three <\/p>\n
349
\n00:17:49,160 –> 00:17:50,720
\ntimes.
\nIt’s it’s conjugated slightly <\/p>\n
350
\n00:17:50,720 –> 00:17:52,800
\ndifferently the different times,
\nbut it’s the same root word. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:17:53,640 –> 00:17:57,440
\nSo Matthew 9, verses 21 to 22,
\ntake a look at this word healed.<\/p>\n
352
\n00:17:57,800 –> 00:17:59,880
\nIt says she said to herself,
\nthis is the woman with the issue<\/p>\n
353
\n00:17:59,880 –> 00:18:02,400
\nof blood.
\nShe said to herself, if I only <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:02,400 –> 00:18:03,880
\ntouch his cloak, I will be
\nhealed. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:04,920 –> 00:18:06,800
\nJesus turned and saw her take
\nheart, daughter. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:06,800 –> 00:18:09,920
\nHe said, your faith has healed
\nyou and the woman was healed at <\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:09,920 –> 00:18:11,760
\nthat moment.
\nNow we read that and it makes <\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:11,760 –> 00:18:13,320
\nsense, right?
\nThe woman’s healed. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:13,640 –> 00:18:17,200
\nOK, got it.
\nHer faith has healed her and at <\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:17,200 –> 00:18:19,120
\nthat moment she’s made whole or
\nshe’s healed. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:18:19,840 –> 00:18:22,760
\nWell, what’s interesting about
\nit is in the Greek, it doesn’t <\/p>\n
362
\n00:18:22,760 –> 00:18:25,880
\nactually say healed.
\nIt’s your Greek word sozo. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:18:27,080 –> 00:18:30,360
\nWhich, yeah, you could say it
\ncould mean made whole, but it <\/p>\n
364
\n00:18:30,360 –> 00:18:35,040
\nliterally means saved.
\nAnd that’s a really interesting <\/p>\n
365
\n00:18:35,040 –> 00:18:41,040
\nspin on these healings.
\nNow, in fact, I put down there <\/p>\n
366
\n00:18:41,040 –> 00:18:44,720
\non the bottom of the screen.
\nSo mark 656, Mark 1052. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:18:45,360 –> 00:18:47,080
\nLuke 836.
\nLuke 850. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:18:47,080 –> 00:18:51,400
\nLuke 17. 19 Those are all
\nhealings where the people are, <\/p>\n
369
\n00:18:51,600 –> 00:18:56,200
\naccording to the Greek.
\nSaved when they’re healed. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:18:57,640 –> 00:19:00,480
\nNow I’m not trying to say some
\nkind of thing of like the Lord <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:00,480 –> 00:19:02,920
\nJesus came along and he gave
\nthem eternal salvation, right? <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:02,920 –> 00:19:06,440
\nI’m not not like teaching once
\nsaved, always saved anything <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:06,440 –> 00:19:08,280
\nalong those lines.
\nI’m just trying to explain. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:08,280 –> 00:19:11,240
\nHere’s here’s what the Greek
\nsays, and I think it’s important<\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:11,240 –> 00:19:14,840
\nfor us to notice.
\nThat the Greek says this because<\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:14,840 –> 00:19:18,280
\nwe’re supposed to see a
\nrelationship between the <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:18,280 –> 00:19:25,120
\nhealings here and salvation.
\nBecause when the Lord Jesus was <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:25,120 –> 00:19:28,600
\nhealing, he was giving a picture
\nof the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:19:29,800 –> 00:19:32,640
\nSo this is all intertwined.
\nHe wanted people to be <\/p>\n
380
\n00:19:32,640 –> 00:19:35,120
\nexperiencing the Kingdom of God
\nwhen they were with him. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:19:35,320 –> 00:19:38,720
\nAnd so when he heals them, he
\nsays your faith has saved you <\/p>\n
382
\n00:19:39,880 –> 00:19:42,040
\nbecause he wants them to
\nconnect. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:19:42,840 –> 00:19:46,240
\nThis healing is not just, oh, I
\ncan walk again, but this is a <\/p>\n
384
\n00:19:46,240 –> 00:19:50,840
\nnew experience.
\nThis is something you could not <\/p>\n
385
\n00:19:50,960 –> 00:19:54,120
\nhave achieved on your own,
\nsomething totally different. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:19:56,800 –> 00:19:59,000
\nYou’ve been saved.
\nAnd there’s just a couple verses<\/p>\n
387
\n00:19:59,280 –> 00:20:01,560
\nthat give you an idea of, of how
\nthis word is used, right? <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:01,560 –> 00:20:04,240
\nIt means saved.
\nSo Luke 1910 for the Son of Man <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:04,240 –> 00:20:05,800
\ncame to seek and to save the
\nlost, right? <\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:06,320 –> 00:20:09,560
\nHe didn’t come to heal the lost.
\nHe came to seek and to save the <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:09,560 –> 00:20:12,120
\nlost.
\nSame thing John 316 to 17, <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:12,480 –> 00:20:14,680
\nright?
\nMost famous verse in the history<\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:14,680 –> 00:20:17,600
\nof time you have for God so
\nloved the world that he gave his<\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:17,600 –> 00:20:20,280
\none and only Son, that whoever
\nbelieves in him shall not perish<\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:20,280 –> 00:20:22,760
\nbut have eternal life.
\nFor God did not send his Son <\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:22,760 –> 00:20:26,160
\ninto the world to condemn the
\nworld, but to save the world <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:26,160 –> 00:20:27,800
\nthrough him.
\nAnd so you see that connection <\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:27,800 –> 00:20:31,800
\nwith saving and healing.
\nNow, in addition to that, then <\/p>\n
399
\n00:20:34,520 –> 00:20:40,120
\nthat’s why when the Lord Jesus
\nheals, He forgives sins. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:20:42,400 –> 00:20:43,560
\nHave you ever wondered about
\nthat? <\/p>\n
401
\n00:20:44,480 –> 00:20:47,560
\nLike it’s kind of a funny story
\nwhen the paralytic man is let <\/p>\n
402
\n00:20:47,560 –> 00:20:50,200
\ndown through the roof, right?
\nAnd he’s laying there and Can <\/p>\n
403
\n00:20:50,200 –> 00:20:51,960
\nyou imagine what he would have
\nbeen thinking? <\/p>\n
404
\n00:20:51,960 –> 00:20:53,480
\nHe would be so excited like
\nthere was a. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:20:53,480 –> 00:20:56,680
\nBig long line and finally here’s
\nsomebody who heals sickness and <\/p>\n
406
\n00:20:56,680 –> 00:20:58,240
\nhe’s laying there in front of
\nthe Lord Jesus. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:20:58,360 –> 00:21:00,600
\nHe found out a way, you know,
\nhis friends figured out bring <\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:00,600 –> 00:21:02,120
\nhim down through the roof and
\nall of this. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:02,360 –> 00:21:04,360
\nAnd so he’s laying there and
\nhe’s waiting to be healed. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:04,520 –> 00:21:06,560
\nAnd Jesus says your sins are
\nforgiven. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:06,680 –> 00:21:09,120
\nAnd the man would be like.
\nOh. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:12,240 –> 00:21:16,240
\nWell, that’s good.
\nYou know, I’m, I’m glad to not <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:16,240 –> 00:21:17,920
\nhave sins anymore.
\nThat’s that’s good. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:17,920 –> 00:21:23,560
\nBut could I also walk, you know,
\nlike that’s kind of what I was <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:23,560 –> 00:21:28,080
\nhoping for, right?
\nLike and yet the Lord Jesus does<\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:28,080 –> 00:21:31,440
\nit because I think he wants the
\nman to realize. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:31,680 –> 00:21:37,360
\nThis is.
\nAll connected, all of what he <\/p>\n
418
\n00:21:37,360 –> 00:21:40,520
\nwas doing is he’s showing a
\npicture of the Kingdom of God <\/p>\n
419
\n00:21:40,640 –> 00:21:43,520
\nand he wants them to realize
\nthis is bigger than walking, <\/p>\n
420
\n00:21:44,320 –> 00:21:46,120
\nright?
\nThis is bigger than being able <\/p>\n
421
\n00:21:46,120 –> 00:21:50,080
\nto see.
\nBecause what he is doing is he <\/p>\n
422
\n00:21:50,080 –> 00:21:52,720
\nwants to show, yes, there’s not
\ngoing to be these diseases, <\/p>\n
423
\n00:21:52,800 –> 00:21:54,440
\nthere’s not going to be
\nsickness, that kind of thing in <\/p>\n
424
\n00:21:54,440 –> 00:21:56,400
\nthe Kingdom of God.
\nBut the Kingdom of God is more <\/p>\n
425
\n00:21:56,400 –> 00:21:59,160
\nthan that.
\nIt’s about the sickness of sin <\/p>\n
426
\n00:21:59,160 –> 00:22:03,760
\ngoing away and you will be saved
\nfor real. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:05,240 –> 00:22:06,240
\nRight, this is what he’s
\nshowing. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:06,480 –> 00:22:09,400
\nAnd so he’s giving this picture
\nof here is the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:09,400 –> 00:22:12,760
\nCome and experience it with me.
\nYour sins are forgiven. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:13,360 –> 00:22:25,840
\nThat’s what it feels like now.
\nThis is why the Lord is <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:25,840 –> 00:22:31,560
\nconstantly expressing this idea
\nthat wherever he goes, it is the<\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:31,560 –> 00:22:35,760
\nKingdom of God.
\nSo when he’s accused of casting <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:35,760 –> 00:22:40,720
\nout demons by Beelzebub, he says
\nto them, he doesn’t say look <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:40,720 –> 00:22:42,360
\nlike Beelzebub is a false God,
\nright? <\/p>\n
435
\n00:22:42,360 –> 00:22:44,920
\nYou know that that probably
\nwould be a tactic that, you <\/p>\n
436
\n00:22:44,920 –> 00:22:47,520
\nknow, I might want to take you,
\nyou get out your Bible and <\/p>\n
437
\n00:22:47,520 –> 00:22:49,000
\nyou’re like, all right, you
\nknow, let me whack you with this<\/p>\n
438
\n00:22:49,000 –> 00:22:51,600
\nBible and show you, you know,
\nwhat you’re saying is totally <\/p>\n
439
\n00:22:51,600 –> 00:22:53,480
\nwrong.
\nBut that’s not what he does. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:22:53,720 –> 00:22:57,240
\nIt’s interesting.
\nHe goes and he says, no, you <\/p>\n
441
\n00:22:57,240 –> 00:22:58,760
\ndon’t understand the point of
\nwhat I’m doing. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:01,520 –> 00:23:04,600
\nThis has nothing to do with
\nBeelzebub or whatever. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:05,000 –> 00:23:09,440
\nHe says I’m bringing the Kingdom
\nlike that’s the point. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:09,720 –> 00:23:12,120
\nSo he says to them, this is his
\nbig, you know, crowning <\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:12,120 –> 00:23:14,920
\nconclusion here in this story.
\nHe says, But if I’m driving out <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:14,920 –> 00:23:17,880
\ndemons by the finger of God, the
\nKingdom of God has come to you. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:18,800 –> 00:23:20,920
\nRight.
\nYou’re, I mean, forget, forget <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:20,920 –> 00:23:23,480
\nlike Beelzebub, forget the
\ndemons, all of that kind of <\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:23,480 –> 00:23:25,560
\nthing, he says.
\nWhat really matters here is the <\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:25,560 –> 00:23:28,720
\nfact that you are in the
\npresence of the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:30,480 –> 00:23:32,200
\nOK.
\nSo we’ve established that. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:33,160 –> 00:23:38,800
\nNow you might be wondering.
\nWhat’s the relation of all of <\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:38,800 –> 00:23:41,560
\nthis to peace?
\nWhy are we talking about this? <\/p>\n
454
\n00:23:42,560 –> 00:23:46,080
\nWell, because there’s another
\nphrase that the Lord Jesus uses <\/p>\n
455
\n00:23:46,080 –> 00:23:50,400
\nwhen he heals.
\nMaybe you remember it, but it’s <\/p>\n
456
\n00:23:50,400 –> 00:23:53,480
\none of those phrases that I
\nthink we often just don’t notice<\/p>\n
457
\n00:23:53,960 –> 00:23:56,320
\nbecause He says a number of
\nthings when he heals people and <\/p>\n
458
\n00:23:56,320 –> 00:23:59,880
\nwe’re used to reading them.
\nBut look at this, he says in <\/p>\n
459
\n00:23:59,880 –> 00:24:01,960
\nMark 534.
\nThis is the parallel record of <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:01,960 –> 00:24:03,080
\nthe woman with the issue with
\nblood. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:03,520 –> 00:24:08,360
\nHe says to her daughter, your
\nfaith has healed you go in <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:09,400 –> 00:24:11,520
\npeace.
\nHave you ever noticed that? <\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:12,040 –> 00:24:16,360
\nGo in peace and be freed from
\nyour suffering. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:20,000 –> 00:24:25,080
\nNow, what I want to suggest to
\nyou is that the Lord is now <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:25,080 –> 00:24:29,440
\nassociating the Kingdom of God
\nwith peace. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:30,960 –> 00:24:33,600
\nNow you might say, well, that’s
\nobvious, right? <\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:33,600 –> 00:24:37,760
\nLike we, we expect there to be
\npeace, But I, I think this is a <\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:37,760 –> 00:24:40,320
\nlittle bit different kind of
\npeace, right? <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:40,320 –> 00:24:44,440
\nHe’s not, he’s not saying, oh,
\nand by the way, I’ll bring World<\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:44,440 –> 00:24:46,400
\nPeace or something like that,
\nright? <\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:46,400 –> 00:24:48,880
\nWe, we always, we’re constantly
\nassociating the Kingdom of God <\/p>\n
472
\n00:24:48,880 –> 00:24:51,200
\nwith the time when the swords
\nare beaten into plowshares. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:24:51,200 –> 00:24:52,440
\nAnd that’s good.
\nWe should do that, right? <\/p>\n
474
\n00:24:52,760 –> 00:24:54,360
\nSo I’m not saying that’s bad in
\nany kind of way. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:24:54,640 –> 00:24:56,600
\nWe should, but in addition to
\nthat. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:24:57,360 –> 00:24:59,920
\nWhat I want us to notice here is
\nthat the Lord Jesus is bringing <\/p>\n
477
\n00:24:59,920 –> 00:25:02,400
\nout a different shade of peace.
\nThis isn’t World Peace that he’s<\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:02,400 –> 00:25:04,600
\ntalking about.
\nHe’s talking about some kind of <\/p>\n
479
\n00:25:04,600 –> 00:25:08,760
\npeace that this woman was
\nexperiencing individually <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:08,920 –> 00:25:12,720
\nbecause at this point she was
\nfeeling something that she <\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:12,720 –> 00:25:19,960
\nhadn’t felt for 12 years, right?
\nAnd he says, go in peace. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:20,040 –> 00:25:23,280
\nI’m giving you this experience
\nof the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:23,400 –> 00:25:26,960
\nThis is what it will feel like.
\nHere is something that you could<\/p>\n
484
\n00:25:26,960 –> 00:25:30,720
\nnot do for yourself.
\nHere is something that you <\/p>\n
485
\n00:25:30,720 –> 00:25:36,280
\nhaven’t felt before, and now I’m
\ndoing that for you. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:36,920 –> 00:25:39,040
\nGo in peace.
\nExperience this. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:39,920 –> 00:25:41,440
\nSo is this.
\nExperience of peace. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:41,560 –> 00:25:43,880
\nNow you see the same thing.
\nThis isn’t necessarily healing, <\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:43,880 –> 00:25:45,520
\nbut I think it’s the same idea.
\nThis is the. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:45,520 –> 00:25:48,440
\nStory when the Lord is invited
\ninto Simon the Pharisees house, <\/p>\n
491
\n00:25:48,440 –> 00:25:50,760
\ndo you remember that?
\nIt’s like one of my favorites. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:25:51,360 –> 00:25:55,840
\nSo he he gets invited into Simon
\nthe Pharisees house and he sits <\/p>\n
493
\n00:25:55,840 –> 00:25:57,720
\ndown.
\nSimon doesn’t give him anything <\/p>\n
494
\n00:25:57,720 –> 00:26:00,120
\nto drink.
\nSimon doesn’t give him any water<\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:00,120 –> 00:26:01,560
\nfor his feet.
\nHe doesn’t anoint his head. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:26:02,280 –> 00:26:05,440
\nAnd the Lord is sitting there
\nand this woman who was a Sinner.<\/p>\n
497
\n00:26:05,440 –> 00:26:07,200
\nNow I think that was Mary.
\nYou can come and talk to me <\/p>\n
498
\n00:26:07,200 –> 00:26:09,800
\nlater about that if you want.
\nI also think it was a relative <\/p>\n
499
\n00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:10,920
\nof Simon.
\nThat’s a different story. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:26:13,080 –> 00:26:17,560
\nShe comes in, she washes his
\nfeet right with her tears. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:26:18,240 –> 00:26:23,880
\nShe anoints his head and Simon
\nSays, if this man were a <\/p>\n
502
\n00:26:23,880 –> 00:26:30,880
\nprophet, he would know who and
\nwhat manner of woman this was, <\/p>\n
503
\n00:26:30,920 –> 00:26:39,360
\nfor she is a Sinner, right?
\nWell, this, this is just the <\/p>\n
504
\n00:26:39,360 –> 00:26:42,840
\nbest part of the story, right?
\nBecause Simon thinks it and he <\/p>\n
505
\n00:26:42,840 –> 00:26:44,960
\nsays, oh, he can’t be a prophet.
\nYou know, he’s thinking that in <\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:44,960 –> 00:26:47,200
\nhis head.
\nAnd the Lord Jesus says, well, <\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:49,920
\nactually, Simon, you know, let
\nme show you that I’m more than a<\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:49,920 –> 00:26:53,240
\nprophet because not only do I
\nknow who this woman is, but I <\/p>\n
509
\n00:26:53,240 –> 00:26:54,720
\nactually just read your
\nthoughts. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:26:55,720 –> 00:26:57,760
\nSo he turns to Simon and he
\nsays, Simon, I have a parable <\/p>\n
511
\n00:26:57,760 –> 00:26:59,880
\nfor you and.
\nHe tells the parable of the two <\/p>\n
512
\n00:26:59,880 –> 00:27:05,080
\ndebtors.
\nAnd so then he says, therefore I<\/p>\n
513
\n00:27:05,080 –> 00:27:08,880
\ntell you this is Luke 747 to 48.
\nTherefore I tell you her many <\/p>\n
514
\n00:27:08,880 –> 00:27:11,080
\nsins, right?
\nShe was the great debtor who had<\/p>\n
515
\n00:27:11,160 –> 00:27:12,480
\na number of sins that were
\nforgiven. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:27:12,680 –> 00:27:16,040
\nHer many sins have been
\nforgiven, as her great love has <\/p>\n
517
\n00:27:16,040 –> 00:27:19,480
\nshown, but whosoever has been
\nforgiven, little loves little. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:27:19,600 –> 00:27:22,000
\nThen Jesus said to her, your
\nsins are forgiven. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:27:22,440 –> 00:27:25,520
\nSo you will notice again,
\nthere’s this idea of healing and<\/p>\n
520
\n00:27:25,520 –> 00:27:27,520
\nnow we have forgiveness being
\nbrought out, right? <\/p>\n
521
\n00:27:27,520 –> 00:27:29,560
\nBecause this is a.
\nPicture of receiving that <\/p>\n
522
\n00:27:29,560 –> 00:27:32,440
\nforgiveness in the Kingdom of
\nGod and the Lord Jesus. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:32,440 –> 00:27:36,120
\nSays the same things as he
\nbrings as he culminates this <\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:36,240 –> 00:27:38,920
\nthis work with this woman.
\nHe says your faith has saved <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:38,920 –> 00:27:39,800
\nyou.
\nSame thing that he said to <\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:39,800 –> 00:27:43,320
\npeople when he healed them.
\nAnd then he ends it with go in <\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:43,680 –> 00:27:45,440
\npeace.
\nThere was this individual <\/p>\n
528
\n00:27:45,440 –> 00:27:49,040
\nexperience of peace that she was
\nhaving as the Lord Jesus forgave<\/p>\n
529
\n00:27:49,040 –> 00:27:54,920
\nher sins.
\nSo we often think about World <\/p>\n
530
\n00:27:54,920 –> 00:27:58,240
\nPeace, but this is something
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:27:59,880 –> 00:28:05,240
\nThis is a kind of association
\nbetween the Kingdom of God and <\/p>\n
532
\n00:28:05,240 –> 00:28:07,760
\npeace that I think we sometimes
\nmiss. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:28:08,680 –> 00:28:10,440
\nSo let’s just put that on pause
\nnow. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:28:11,960 –> 00:28:14,080
\nSo what we’ve.
\nSeen is that there’s this sense <\/p>\n
535
\n00:28:14,080 –> 00:28:15,960
\nof peace that’s connected to the
\nKingdom of God. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:28:16,240 –> 00:28:18,640
\nSometimes we might not often
\nnotice. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:28:19,480 –> 00:28:24,040
\nNow with that said, let’s talk a
\nlittle bit about the new <\/p>\n
538
\n00:28:24,040 –> 00:28:26,440
\ncreation.
\nSo we’re still building out the <\/p>\n
539
\n00:28:26,440 –> 00:28:33,360
\nKingdom and and peace.
\nOK, so take a look at John 11 up<\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:33,360 –> 00:28:35,360
\nthere, right.
\nThis is one of those verses that<\/p>\n
541
\n00:28:35,360 –> 00:28:37,320
\nsometimes we try to avoid when
\nwe’re talking to people. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:38,120 –> 00:28:40,440
\nAnd I I recognize, you know, I’m
\ngoing to say this. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:40,440 –> 00:28:42,840
\nI recognize that this is that
\nthere’s multiple interpretations<\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:42,840 –> 00:28:44,400
\nof how this works.
\nI’m going to present one to you <\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:44,400 –> 00:28:47,480
\nsee what you think about this.
\nSo John one one starts with our <\/p>\n
546
\n00:28:47,480 –> 00:28:49,760
\nwords in the beginning.
\nNow I have the Greek up there <\/p>\n
547
\n00:28:49,760 –> 00:28:50,840
\nfor you.
\nIt’s NRK. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:28:51,600 –> 00:28:55,000
\nAnd the reason this is
\nsignificant is because it’s <\/p>\n
549
\n00:28:55,000 –> 00:28:59,720
\nmissing the definite article.
\nSo it does not say the IT just <\/p>\n
550
\n00:28:59,720 –> 00:29:03,360
\nsays in a beginning.
\nNow that’s helpful for us, by <\/p>\n
551
\n00:29:03,360 –> 00:29:05,680
\nthe way, when we’re talking to
\nTrinitarians, right, Because we <\/p>\n
552
\n00:29:05,680 –> 00:29:08,920
\ncan say, oh, look, this doesn’t
\nnecessarily have to be the <\/p>\n
553
\n00:29:08,920 –> 00:29:11,200
\nGenesis beginning.
\nThe other reason that it’s <\/p>\n
554
\n00:29:11,200 –> 00:29:13,960
\ninteresting is because it’s
\nactually a quote of Genesis. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:29:14,960 –> 00:29:20,080
\nSo in Genesis 11, the Hebrew
\nreads Barashit, which also <\/p>\n
556
\n00:29:20,080 –> 00:29:21,280
\ndoesn’t have the definite
\narticle. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:29:21,880 –> 00:29:25,520
\nSo this really is in a beginning
\nas well. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:29:26,320 –> 00:29:28,320
\nThat’s very intriguing.
\nI’m not going to say anything <\/p>\n
559
\n00:29:28,320 –> 00:29:33,800
\nelse about that, but but you
\nsee, you can look at the two of <\/p>\n
560
\n00:29:33,800 –> 00:29:37,320
\nthose and what we can see is
\nthat John is quoting Genesis, <\/p>\n
561
\n00:29:37,440 –> 00:29:40,080
\nright?
\nAnd we can tell that because he <\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:40,080 –> 00:29:41,680
\nspecifically leaves out the
\ndefinite article. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:45,600
\nOK, Septuagint, by the way, in
\ncase you’re wondering, you know,<\/p>\n
564
\n00:29:45,600 –> 00:29:47,000
\nyou’re thinking, oh, that’s
\nGreek and Hebrew. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:29:47,080 –> 00:29:50,240
\nWell, the Septuagint says
\nanarchy says Septuagint, Genesis<\/p>\n
566
\n00:29:50,240 –> 00:29:51,760
\n11.
\nJohn is probably quoting that. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:29:52,360 –> 00:29:55,360
\nOK, well, the first thing then
\nthat gets created in the <\/p>\n
568
\n00:29:55,360 –> 00:29:58,120
\nphysical creation, right?
\nSo John, John is trying to get <\/p>\n
569
\n00:29:58,120 –> 00:30:02,040
\nus to think, I think about the
\nGenesis creation. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:30:02,040 –> 00:30:03,880
\nSo he quotes Genesis.
\nHe says think the Genesis <\/p>\n
571
\n00:30:03,880 –> 00:30:05,720
\ncreation.
\nSo you’re thinking about the <\/p>\n
572
\n00:30:05,720 –> 00:30:08,440
\nGenesis creation.
\nYou then get the same thing <\/p>\n
573
\n00:30:08,440 –> 00:30:10,080
\ncreated first.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:30:10,240 –> 00:30:13,520
\nFirst thing created in the
\nGenesis creation is separation <\/p>\n
575
\n00:30:13,520 –> 00:30:16,080
\nof light and darkness, right?
\nLet there be light, light and <\/p>\n
576
\n00:30:16,080 –> 00:30:19,560
\ndarkness and then separated.
\nWell, John 1 verses four and <\/p>\n
577
\n00:30:19,560 –> 00:30:22,800
\nfive.
\nThey say in him was life, that <\/p>\n
578
\n00:30:22,800 –> 00:30:24,680
\nlife was the light of all
\nmankind. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:30:24,840 –> 00:30:26,880
\nThe light shines in the
\ndarkness, and the darkness does <\/p>\n
580
\n00:30:26,880 –> 00:30:28,920
\nnot overcome it.
\nSame thing, right? <\/p>\n
581
\n00:30:29,240 –> 00:30:32,360
\nLight and then separation of
\nlight and darkness. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:30:33,000 –> 00:30:35,920
\nSo you have the same ideas.
\nSo you can see that in John 1\/4 <\/p>\n
583
\n00:30:35,920 –> 00:30:38,040
\nand five, and then Genesis 1
\nverses three and four. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:30:38,720 –> 00:30:41,280
\nOK, well here’s where this gets
\ninteresting. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:30:41,960 –> 00:30:46,920
\nJohn has been basing this
\nexposition so far on Genesis, <\/p>\n
586
\n00:30:47,200 –> 00:30:50,000
\nand then he diverges.
\nTake a look. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:30:51,080 –> 00:30:54,960
\nAll of a sudden so you have
\nlight, and then the next thing <\/p>\n
588
\n00:30:55,000 –> 00:30:59,400
\nthat shows up in John One is yet
\nto all who did receive him, to <\/p>\n
589
\n00:30:59,400 –> 00:31:02,480
\nthose who believed in His name,
\nHe gave the right to become <\/p>\n
590
\n00:31:02,480 –> 00:31:05,720
\nchildren of God.
\nChildren born not of natural <\/p>\n
591
\n00:31:05,720 –> 00:31:09,440
\ndescent, nor of human decision
\nor of a husband’s will, but born<\/p>\n
592
\n00:31:09,440 –> 00:31:12,360
\nof God.
\nSo now you have the creation of <\/p>\n
593
\n00:31:12,360 –> 00:31:19,000
\nhumanity right now.
\nDid you notice what John is <\/p>\n
594
\n00:31:19,000 –> 00:31:23,280
\nemphasizing here?
\nBy the way, it’s not what I <\/p>\n
595
\n00:31:23,280 –> 00:31:25,560
\nunderlined.
\nSo you don’t have any hints. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:31:28,280 –> 00:31:30,400
\nI feel like there’s something
\nthere that John could not say. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:34,840
\nMore times, he says, he gave
\nthem the right to become <\/p>\n
598
\n00:31:34,840 –> 00:31:37,200
\nchildren of God.
\nAnd by the way, they were <\/p>\n
599
\n00:31:37,200 –> 00:31:40,720
\nchildren born not of natural
\ndescent, nor of a human decision<\/p>\n
600
\n00:31:40,880 –> 00:31:43,800
\nor of a husband’s will, but born
\nof God, right? <\/p>\n
601
\n00:31:43,920 –> 00:31:46,440
\nJohn is.
\nTrying to say here, I want it to<\/p>\n
602
\n00:31:46,440 –> 00:31:51,600
\nbe extremely clear that this is
\nnot natural birth. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:31:52,840 –> 00:31:57,160
\nAnd he’s saying this is not the
\nsame thing as the Genesis <\/p>\n
604
\n00:31:57,160 –> 00:31:59,920
\ncreation, right?
\nIn Genesis, you have Adam and <\/p>\n
605
\n00:31:59,920 –> 00:32:02,320
\nEve, they have Cain, who then
\nhas more children, more <\/p>\n
606
\n00:32:02,320 –> 00:32:05,000
\nchildren, right?
\nAnd So what John is saying is <\/p>\n
607
\n00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:08,680
\nit’s not like that, right?
\nEveryone here, God is creating <\/p>\n
608
\n00:32:08,680 –> 00:32:10,240
\nchildren of God.
\nHe’s making a family. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:32:10,480 –> 00:32:12,320
\nAnd it’s not through a lineage
\nhere. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:32:12,320 –> 00:32:16,720
\nIt’s not through a natural
\nlineage, but it’s through all of<\/p>\n
611
\n00:32:16,720 –> 00:32:18,880
\nthose who receive the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:32:21,400 –> 00:32:23,440
\nIt’s different.
\nHe’s diverging, right? <\/p>\n
613
\n00:32:23,440 –> 00:32:24,920
\nHe has some of the same ideas,
\nright? <\/p>\n
614
\n00:32:25,120 –> 00:32:28,120
\nGod creating.
\nMankind being in his image, <\/p>\n
615
\n00:32:28,120 –> 00:32:30,200
\nthey’re the children of God,
\nlike a family resemblance kind <\/p>\n
616
\n00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:31,600
\nof idea, right?
\nThey’re some of the same <\/p>\n
617
\n00:32:31,600 –> 00:32:34,320
\nthoughts, but it’s different.
\nSo you have this divergent. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:32:34,480 –> 00:32:36,280
\nSo John starts with Genesis,
\nright? <\/p>\n
619
\n00:32:36,360 –> 00:32:40,120
\nAnd then he starts to break off
\nand he shows a new creation, <\/p>\n
620
\n00:32:40,520 –> 00:32:42,240
\nsomething different, which is
\nvery interesting. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:32:42,240 –> 00:32:45,560
\nI don’t know if you ever
\nnoticed, but in the Gospel of <\/p>\n
622
\n00:32:45,560 –> 00:32:48,360
\nJohn, you actually have the
\nfirst seven days as well of <\/p>\n
623
\n00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:52,360
\nJesus’s ministry, which is very
\ncool and it culminates in the <\/p>\n
624
\n00:32:52,360 –> 00:32:55,640
\nwedding of Cana.
\nSo I, I find that to be very <\/p>\n
625
\n00:32:55,640 –> 00:32:59,520
\nexciting.
\nOK, Now the reason that all of <\/p>\n
626
\n00:32:59,520 –> 00:33:00,840
\nthat is significant for us,
\nright? <\/p>\n
627
\n00:33:00,840 –> 00:33:01,760
\nAgain, we’re talking about
\npeace. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:33:02,440 –> 00:33:05,680
\nThe reason that’s significant
\nfor us is because when we come <\/p>\n
629
\n00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:07,840
\nto the end of the Gospel of
\nJohn, you have this record that <\/p>\n
630
\n00:33:08,000 –> 00:33:11,120
\nmaybe maybe you’ve read this
\nbefore and, and wondered about <\/p>\n
631
\n00:33:11,120 –> 00:33:13,800
\nit, or maybe you just kind of
\nread it and skipped over it. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:33:13,920 –> 00:33:16,000
\nBut it it’s one of those kind of
\nfunny like. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:20,200
\nStories Listen to this on the
\nevening of that first day of the<\/p>\n
634
\n00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:21,720
\nweek.
\nIt’s John 2019 to 22. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:33:22,320 –> 00:33:24,680
\nWhen the disciples were together
\nwith the doors locked for fear <\/p>\n
636
\n00:33:24,680 –> 00:33:27,320
\nof the Jewish leaders, Jesus
\ncame and stood among them and <\/p>\n
637
\n00:33:27,320 –> 00:33:30,040
\nsaid, peace be with you.
\nAfter he said this, he showed <\/p>\n
638
\n00:33:30,040 –> 00:33:33,040
\nthem his hands and his side.
\nThe disciples were overjoyed <\/p>\n
639
\n00:33:33,040 –> 00:33:35,920
\nwhen they saw the Lord again.
\nJesus said, peace be with you. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:33:36,520 –> 00:33:38,680
\nAs the Father has sent me, I’m
\nsending you. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:33:39,280 –> 00:33:41,200
\nSo you know, you read that part
\nand that, that all sounds really<\/p>\n
642
\n00:33:41,200 –> 00:33:42,680
\nnice, right?
\nHe’s with his disciples. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:33:42,680 –> 00:33:44,560
\nThat’s, that’s wonderful.
\nHe says, peace be with you. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:33:45,520 –> 00:33:49,200
\nThen have you ever noticed this
\nnext sentence? <\/p>\n
645
\n00:33:50,000 –> 00:33:52,720
\nAnd with that, he breathed on
\nthem and said, receive the Holy <\/p>\n
646
\n00:33:52,720 –> 00:33:55,760
\nSpirit.
\nNow it’s one of those things <\/p>\n
647
\n00:33:55,760 –> 00:34:00,400
\nthat you read that and you’re
\nlike, huh, Like especially post <\/p>\n
648
\n00:34:00,400 –> 00:34:03,400
\nCOVID, right?
\nYou read it and you’re like, oh,<\/p>\n
649
\n00:34:04,200 –> 00:34:07,280
\nlike, I don’t want people to
\nbreathe on me. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:34:07,440 –> 00:34:09,480
\nYou know, like that’s not very
\nnice. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:34:09,840 –> 00:34:13,440
\nLike, but but what’s going on
\nhere? <\/p>\n
652
\n00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:17,040
\nLike this makes complete sense
\nwhen we recognize John sets up <\/p>\n
653
\n00:34:17,040 –> 00:34:20,840
\nthe gospel so that you see the
\nLord Jesus as the beginning of a<\/p>\n
654
\n00:34:20,840 –> 00:34:23,480
\nnew creation.
\nAnd here he is the beginning of <\/p>\n
655
\n00:34:23,480 –> 00:34:25,800
\nthat creation, the first born
\nfrom the dead, right? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:34:26,560 –> 00:34:29,480
\nThe first born from the dead.
\nAnd he says, now I’m starting <\/p>\n
657
\n00:34:29,480 –> 00:34:32,239
\nthe new creation.
\nAnd it’s not just with people <\/p>\n
658
\n00:34:32,239 –> 00:34:35,560
\nthat he’s healing, but now we
\nsee it’s expanding. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:34:35,639 –> 00:34:40,080
\nTo everyone and it starts with
\nthe disciples and he does it by <\/p>\n
660
\n00:34:40,080 –> 00:34:45,480
\nbreathing in the breath of life,
\nwhich for the new creation was <\/p>\n
661
\n00:34:45,480 –> 00:34:48,480
\nthe Holy Spirit, right?
\nSo that’s, that’s what he’s <\/p>\n
662
\n00:34:48,480 –> 00:34:50,400
\ndoing.
\nThat’s why he is doing these <\/p>\n
663
\n00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:54,880
\nthings.
\nSo what we see then is that you <\/p>\n
664
\n00:34:54,880 –> 00:34:58,120
\nhave this new creation.
\nThe Lord Jesus is setting the <\/p>\n
665
\n00:34:58,120 –> 00:35:00,960
\nfoundation for his Kingdom.
\nNow don’t, don’t start to feel <\/p>\n
666
\n00:35:00,960 –> 00:35:02,520
\nall weird.
\nI’m not saying the Kingdom came <\/p>\n
667
\n00:35:02,760 –> 00:35:05,160
\nanything like that.
\nHe’s studying the foundation for<\/p>\n
668
\n00:35:05,160 –> 00:35:07,960
\nhis Kingdom as he begins this
\nnew creation, right? <\/p>\n
669
\n00:35:08,640 –> 00:35:13,040
\nIt’s it’s the beginning of it
\nall, and that new creation will <\/p>\n
670
\n00:35:13,040 –> 00:35:18,560
\nbe fully realized when everyone
\nelse is born from the grave and <\/p>\n
671
\n00:35:18,560 –> 00:35:23,280
\ngiven immortality.
\nSo this is how he starts now. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:35:23,280 –> 00:35:26,640
\nThis is significant for us.
\nBecause I think it’s crucial we <\/p>\n
673
\n00:35:26,640 –> 00:35:27,920
\ntalk about the new creation,
\nright? <\/p>\n
674
\n00:35:28,440 –> 00:35:30,960
\nBut have you ever thought that
\nthe new creation begins with the<\/p>\n
675
\n00:35:30,960 –> 00:35:37,960
\nwords peace be with you, right?
\nThe, the, the original creation <\/p>\n
676
\n00:35:37,960 –> 00:35:39,600
\nstarted with let there be light,
\nright? <\/p>\n
677
\n00:35:40,800 –> 00:35:44,360
\nThe Lord Jesus begins the new
\ncreation with peace. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:35:46,920 –> 00:35:48,960
\nI think that’s crucial.
\nYou know, we’re, we’re looking <\/p>\n
679
\n00:35:48,960 –> 00:35:51,880
\nat this idea that peace is
\nhighly connected to the <\/p>\n
680
\n00:35:51,880 –> 00:35:53,320
\nexperience of the Kingdom of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:35:54,240 –> 00:35:57,200
\nAnd the Lord Jesus shows us that
\nas he starts his new creation, <\/p>\n
682
\n00:35:57,280 –> 00:35:59,600
\nwhich eventually becomes the
\nKingdom of God. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:35:59,640 –> 00:36:02,600
\nAt his second coming.
\nAnd he starts it with the words <\/p>\n
684
\n00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:06,640
\npeace.
\nSo it shouldn’t. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:36:06,640 –> 00:36:10,040
\nSurprise us then that as we
\nstart to look at the New <\/p>\n
686
\n00:36:10,040 –> 00:36:12,920
\nTestament and we ask ourselves,
\nOK, So what then is the gospel? <\/p>\n
687
\n00:36:12,920 –> 00:36:16,360
\nWhat is it that the disciples
\npreached that we see peace <\/p>\n
688
\n00:36:16,520 –> 00:36:19,280
\nconsistently associated with the
\ngospel, right. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:36:19,480 –> 00:36:21,440
\nNow, if somebody were to ask you
\nwhat is the gospel, you’d <\/p>\n
690
\n00:36:21,440 –> 00:36:23,160
\nprobably take them to Acts 8
\nverse 12. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:36:23,960 –> 00:36:27,400
\nYeah, I and I don’t think
\nthere’s anything wrong with <\/p>\n
692
\n00:36:27,400 –> 00:36:28,960
\nthat, right?
\nIt’s a very good one sentence <\/p>\n
693
\n00:36:28,960 –> 00:36:32,240
\ndefinition.
\nSo the gospel is the gospel of <\/p>\n
694
\n00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:33,800
\nthe Kingdom of God in the name
\nof Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:36:34,160 –> 00:36:35,160
\nSo there you go.
\nSo that’s good. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:36:36,200 –> 00:36:38,840
\nWhat’s interesting is that when
\nwe go along and we take a look <\/p>\n
697
\n00:36:38,840 –> 00:36:40,760
\nand we see what did the
\ndisciples actually preach, <\/p>\n
698
\n00:36:40,760 –> 00:36:42,080
\nright?
\nLet’s expand our definition a <\/p>\n
699
\n00:36:42,080 –> 00:36:43,840
\nlittle bit.
\nWhen we look at what the <\/p>\n
700
\n00:36:43,840 –> 00:36:46,600
\ndisciples actually preach, you
\nwill notice that they are <\/p>\n
701
\n00:36:46,600 –> 00:36:51,240
\nconstantly referencing that
\nforgiveness that Jesus offered <\/p>\n
702
\n00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,480
\nas he healed people.
\nThey’re showing here’s the <\/p>\n
703
\n00:36:54,480 –> 00:36:56,240
\npeace, right?
\nHere’s that. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:36:56,240 –> 00:36:58,600
\nExperience of peace.
\nSo they are constantly saying <\/p>\n
705
\n00:36:58,600 –> 00:37:02,560
\nthat Acts 238, Acts 319, Acts 5
\nverses 30 to 31. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:37:03,280 –> 00:37:05,600
\nThey’re over and over
\nexpressing. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:37:05,920 –> 00:37:07,760
\nThat the gospel is connected to
\nforgiveness of sins. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:37:08,120 –> 00:37:14,080
\nActs 1043, Acts 1338 to 39, Acts
\n2618, forgiveness of sins. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:37:16,160 –> 00:37:24,520
\nAnd so peace is interwoven into
\nthe gospel. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:37:24,840 –> 00:37:26,160
\nThis is part of what the gospel
\nis. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:37:26,680 –> 00:37:30,920
\nSo if I were to ask you, what is
\nthe gospel called throughout the<\/p>\n
712
\n00:37:30,920 –> 00:37:32,280
\nBible?
\nRight. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:35,560
\nThere’s a handful of times that
\nit’s called the gospel of God, <\/p>\n
714
\n00:37:36,680 –> 00:37:38,680
\nhandful of times that it’s
\ncalled the gospel of Christ. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:41,240
\nPaul sometimes refers to it as
\nmy gospel. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:37:41,480 –> 00:37:43,880
\nI can, I can give you these, by
\nthe way, if you want them later.<\/p>\n
717
\n00:37:44,320 –> 00:37:45,760
\nPaul sometimes calls them my
\ngospel. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:37:46,520 –> 00:37:48,680
\nYou’ll also see the gospel of
\nglory, the gospel of grace, <\/p>\n
719
\n00:37:48,680 –> 00:37:50,600
\ngospel of your salvation, gospel
\nof the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:37:52,200 –> 00:37:55,480
\nAnd you know, I gave it away by
\nthis title, the title of the <\/p>\n
721
\n00:37:55,480 –> 00:37:59,440
\nseries and.
\nYou’ll also notice two times <\/p>\n
722
\n00:37:59,440 –> 00:38:00,720
\nit’s referred to as the Gospel
\nof Peace. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:38:00,800 –> 00:38:02,920
\nThere’s also the potential, by
\nthe way, that it’s referred to <\/p>\n
724
\n00:38:02,920 –> 00:38:04,480
\nas the Gospel of peace in Romans
\n10. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:38:04,880 –> 00:38:07,280
\nThere’s a manuscript difference
\nthere. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:38:07,280 –> 00:38:09,200
\nAnd so there’s a question, you
\nknow whether or not it should be<\/p>\n
727
\n00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:12,240
\nthere, but.
\nIt could be three, could be 3. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:38:13,440 –> 00:38:15,400
\nSo we have multiple times where
\nit’s referred to as the gospel <\/p>\n
729
\n00:38:15,400 –> 00:38:16,520
\nof peace.
\nAnd I think that’s really <\/p>\n
730
\n00:38:16,520 –> 00:38:20,280
\nhelpful because I don’t know if
\nthis was your experience, but I <\/p>\n
731
\n00:38:20,280 –> 00:38:22,680
\nnever thought of the gospel that
\nway, right? <\/p>\n
732
\n00:38:22,840 –> 00:38:25,800
\nLike when I went to go preach
\nthe gospel, I was ready to be <\/p>\n
733
\n00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:29,000
\nanything but peaceful.
\nLike I, I was ready to say, <\/p>\n
734
\n00:38:29,000 –> 00:38:30,600
\nlike, you know, here’s my 50
\nverses. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:38:30,600 –> 00:38:33,120
\nOh, you only have 5.
\nLike, you know who won like sort<\/p>\n
736
\n00:38:33,120 –> 00:38:35,640
\nof thing like that was?
\nThat was my feeling about it. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:38:35,920 –> 00:38:41,040
\nAnd yet I was supposed to be
\npreaching the gospel of peace, <\/p>\n
738
\n00:38:41,200 –> 00:38:42,720
\nright?
\nLike this is it. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:38:42,760 –> 00:38:46,440
\nIt’s something that I think we,
\nwe don’t think about all that <\/p>\n
740
\n00:38:46,440 –> 00:38:48,080
\noften.
\nNow. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:38:48,240 –> 00:38:52,400
\nIt shouldn’t surprise us,
\nthough, because that is the <\/p>\n
742
\n00:38:52,400 –> 00:38:56,800
\nLord’s mission.
\nYou know, when Zechariah <\/p>\n
743
\n00:38:56,800 –> 00:39:00,880
\nprophecies about John the
\nBaptist’s role, he says that <\/p>\n
744
\n00:39:00,880 –> 00:39:03,880
\nJohn the Baptist Luke 179 would
\nshine on those living in <\/p>\n
745
\n00:39:03,880 –> 00:39:06,800
\ndarkness and in the shadow of
\ndeath to guide their feet into <\/p>\n
746
\n00:39:06,800 –> 00:39:10,320
\nthe path of peace.
\nSimeon says of the Lord Jesus, <\/p>\n
747
\n00:39:11,320 –> 00:39:12,880
\nglory to God in the highest
\nheaven. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:39:13,040 –> 00:39:14,720
\nSorry, that’s not Simeon, that’s
\nthe angels. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:39:15,200 –> 00:39:16,920
\nGlory to God in the highest
\nheaven and on earth. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:39:17,120 –> 00:39:18,880
\nPeace to those on whom his favor
\nrests. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:39:20,480 –> 00:39:23,440
\nNow this is an interesting in
\ncase you’ve ever wondered about <\/p>\n
752
\n00:39:23,440 –> 00:39:25,880
\nthis, here’s here’s a little bit
\nof Greek fun Greek trivia. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:39:26,560 –> 00:39:30,360
\nIf you’ve ever noticed, right?
\nDifferent versions say different<\/p>\n
754
\n00:39:30,360 –> 00:39:33,200
\nthings for this verse.
\nSo you’ll get glory to God in <\/p>\n
755
\n00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:35,400
\nthe highest heaven on earth,
\npeace to those on whom his favor<\/p>\n
756
\n00:39:35,400 –> 00:39:38,240
\nrest.
\nOther versions will say on earth<\/p>\n
757
\n00:39:38,320 –> 00:39:40,360
\npeace, goodwill towards men,
\nright? <\/p>\n
758
\n00:39:41,680 –> 00:39:44,000
\nWell, the question is actually
\none letter. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:39:44,320 –> 00:39:47,000
\nOne letter changes that whole
\nthing, which is sort of funny. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:39:48,080 –> 00:39:52,880
\nProbably this is likely the more
\naccurate one, in case you’re <\/p>\n
761
\n00:39:52,880 –> 00:39:55,680
\nwondering, because I mean
\nreally, like, do you really <\/p>\n
762
\n00:39:55,680 –> 00:39:58,400
\nthink the angels would proclaim,
\nyou know, goodwill towards <\/p>\n
763
\n00:39:58,400 –> 00:40:01,080
\neverybody, including the ones
\nwho would kill the Lord Jesus, <\/p>\n
764
\n00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:03,240
\nright?
\nIt’s not just goodwill to <\/p>\n
765
\n00:40:03,240 –> 00:40:07,800
\neveryone, but it’s goodwill
\nspecifically on those whom the <\/p>\n
766
\n00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:13,560
\nLord was sent to bring peace to,
\nOK. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:40:14,040 –> 00:40:16,280
\nAnd so we know the Lord Jesus
\nwas sent to bring peace. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:40:16,280 –> 00:40:17,680
\nI won’t go through those verses.
\nYou know them. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:40:19,800 –> 00:40:22,480
\nSo the question then becomes,
\nOK, if we’ve seen that peace is <\/p>\n
770
\n00:40:22,480 –> 00:40:26,120
\nso central to all of this, well,
\nwhat do we do with these verses,<\/p>\n
771
\n00:40:26,640 –> 00:40:28,400
\nright?
\nHow do how do we explain this? <\/p>\n
772
\n00:40:29,320 –> 00:40:32,880
\nIf it’s the gospel of peace, if
\nthe Lord Jesus was trying to <\/p>\n
773
\n00:40:32,880 –> 00:40:35,320
\nshow people this experience of
\nthe Kingdom and he gives them <\/p>\n
774
\n00:40:35,320 –> 00:40:38,640
\nindividual peace, then why does
\nhe say in Matthew 10, as he’s <\/p>\n
775
\n00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:41,000
\npreparing his disciples to go
\nout and preach, why does he say <\/p>\n
776
\n00:40:41,000 –> 00:40:43,280
\nto them, Do not suppose that I
\nhave come to bring peace to the <\/p>\n
777
\n00:40:43,280 –> 00:40:44,720
\nearth?
\nI did not come to bring peace, <\/p>\n
778
\n00:40:44,720 –> 00:40:47,520
\nbut a sword.
\nLuke 1251 Do you think I came to<\/p>\n
779
\n00:40:47,520 –> 00:40:49,840
\nbring peace on earth?
\nNo, I tell you, but division. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:40:50,120 –> 00:40:55,280
\nWhy does he say that?
\nWell, I’ll give you my thought. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:40:56,080 –> 00:40:58,480
\nAnd you can come and talk to me
\nlater about this or you know, <\/p>\n
782
\n00:40:58,480 –> 00:41:03,560
\nright now if you want.
\nBut my thought here is I think <\/p>\n
783
\n00:41:03,560 –> 00:41:07,200
\nwe see it really in Luke chapter
\n2 when we see peace on whom his <\/p>\n
784
\n00:41:07,200 –> 00:41:09,920
\nfavor rests at the Lord Jesus
\ndid bring peace. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:41:10,160 –> 00:41:11,480
\nAnd we see that in those other
\nverses. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:41:11,640 –> 00:41:15,840
\nPeace I give to you, right?
\nHe’s not contradicting himself. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:19,800
\nHe’s in different contexts.
\nAnd So what he’s saying here is <\/p>\n
788
\n00:41:19,880 –> 00:41:23,960
\nhe gives peace to his disciples.
\nHis disciples do have peace, he <\/p>\n
789
\n00:41:23,960 –> 00:41:26,320
\nsays.
\nBy this all will know that you <\/p>\n
790
\n00:41:26,320 –> 00:41:28,680
\nare my disciples if you have
\nlove for each other, right? <\/p>\n
791
\n00:41:28,680 –> 00:41:30,520
\nHe’s saying.
\nWhen you when you are peaceful, <\/p>\n
792
\n00:41:32,120 –> 00:41:34,840
\npeople will know.
\nThat you’re the ones right? <\/p>\n
793
\n00:41:35,560 –> 00:41:38,560
\nAnd so his point is my message
\nis going to bring division. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:41:38,840 –> 00:41:41,680
\nPeople aren’t going to like it.
\nThey’re going to divide from <\/p>\n
795
\n00:41:41,680 –> 00:41:46,640
\nyou.
\nBut I’ve given you peace amongst<\/p>\n
796
\n00:41:46,640 –> 00:41:49,480
\nyourselves, right?
\nThat’s that’s what the Lord <\/p>\n
797
\n00:41:49,480 –> 00:41:52,880
\nJesus is bringing.
\nHe brings us peace with each <\/p>\n
798
\n00:41:52,880 –> 00:41:59,840
\nother and other people might not
\nwant to have peace with us, but <\/p>\n
799
\n00:42:01,000 –> 00:42:06,360
\nwe are people of peace.
\nSo you’ll see. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:42:06,360 –> 00:42:08,520
\nThat as you continue reading in
\nthe passages, right? <\/p>\n
801
\n00:42:08,520 –> 00:42:10,320
\nHe goes on and he says, look,
\nhere’s what’s going to happen. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:42:10,720 –> 00:42:15,280
\nYou know, your your father might
\nnot want to talk to you anymore <\/p>\n
803
\n00:42:15,320 –> 00:42:19,560
\nbecause of this, or your mother
\nmight not want to associate with<\/p>\n
804
\n00:42:19,560 –> 00:42:22,080
\nyou anymore, but you are the
\npeople of peace. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:42:24,120 –> 00:42:27,080
\nOK, so with that said, let’s get
\nto our last section here in our <\/p>\n
806
\n00:42:27,080 –> 00:42:30,080
\nlast 15 minutes.
\nSo the question then becomes, <\/p>\n
807
\n00:42:30,080 –> 00:42:32,400
\nwell, before you talk about
\nanything, it’s always really <\/p>\n
808
\n00:42:32,400 –> 00:42:35,400
\nimportant to get a standardized
\ndefinition right. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:42:35,920 –> 00:42:38,120
\nSo we’ve seen that peace is
\nimportant, but there’s a lot of <\/p>\n
810
\n00:42:38,120 –> 00:42:41,480
\ndifferent aspects of peace.
\nSo let’s just try and define <\/p>\n
811
\n00:42:41,480 –> 00:42:45,040
\nthis a little bit.
\nWell, peace is the word Irene in<\/p>\n
812
\n00:42:45,040 –> 00:42:46,680
\nGreek.
\nSo if you’ve ever met somebody <\/p>\n
813
\n00:42:46,680 –> 00:42:48,640
\nnamed Irene.
\nThere you go. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:52,080
\nThat’s where Irene comes from,
\nGreek word for peace. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:42:52,080 –> 00:42:53,760
\nAnd that’s actually it’s what I
\nnamed my hamster. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:42:54,160 –> 00:42:57,680
\nSo now you all, now you all know
\nthat it. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:42:58,240 –> 00:43:00,200
\nYou know, it’s the kind of thing
\nthat you want to like, remember <\/p>\n
818
\n00:43:00,200 –> 00:43:02,400
\nwhen you’re working with a
\nhamster, I guess. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:43:02,880 –> 00:43:07,040
\nOK, so that’s Irene.
\nPeace, so tranquility, harmony. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:43:07,160 –> 00:43:08,400
\nThat’s.
\nThat’s really what it means. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:43:08,400 –> 00:43:11,200
\nIt’s a very simple word, right?
\nIt’s not like a, it’s not super <\/p>\n
822
\n00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:12,560
\ncomplex.
\nYou don’t have to go through the<\/p>\n
823
\n00:43:12,560 –> 00:43:15,480
\nroot word or anything like that.
\nIt just means getting along, <\/p>\n
824
\n00:43:15,680 –> 00:43:17,880
\nright?
\nIt’s being at peace. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:43:17,880 –> 00:43:21,480
\nSo it’s a pretty easy word to
\ndefine what’s interesting about <\/p>\n
826
\n00:43:21,480 –> 00:43:23,840
\nthis, and this was my experience
\nand maybe it will resonate with <\/p>\n
827
\n00:43:23,840 –> 00:43:26,520
\nyou.
\nWe’ve just associated it with <\/p>\n
828
\n00:43:26,520 –> 00:43:30,240
\nhealings and the gospel, which I
\nthink is connected to the idea <\/p>\n
829
\n00:43:30,240 –> 00:43:31,200
\nof peace with God.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:43:31,200 –> 00:43:32,840
\nThat was the experience that
\npeople were having. <\/p>\n
831
\n00:43:33,040 –> 00:43:36,000
\nWhen Jesus heals them and says
\ngo in peace, he’s saying, now <\/p>\n
832
\n00:43:36,280 –> 00:43:39,680
\nI’ve given you this opportunity
\nto again have peace with God. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:43:41,160 –> 00:43:44,960
\nSo we recognize, I think, as a
\ncommunity, the idea of peace <\/p>\n
834
\n00:43:44,960 –> 00:43:46,880
\nwith God.
\nSometimes we might describe it <\/p>\n
835
\n00:43:46,880 –> 00:43:50,360
\nas inner peace, right?
\nYou know, depending on who you <\/p>\n
836
\n00:43:50,360 –> 00:43:53,200
\ntalk to, maybe you’re into yoga
\nor something, whatever you <\/p>\n
837
\n00:43:53,200 –> 00:43:55,480
\nmight, you might talk about
\ninner peace or think about it <\/p>\n
838
\n00:43:55,480 –> 00:43:58,360
\nlike that.
\nYeah, sometimes we talk about <\/p>\n
839
\n00:43:58,360 –> 00:44:00,600
\nWorld Peace, right?
\nWe have that in, in a lot of our<\/p>\n
840
\n00:44:00,600 –> 00:44:03,320
\nbooks where we, we talk about
\nthe Kingdom coming, that there’s<\/p>\n
841
\n00:44:03,320 –> 00:44:07,080
\ngoing to be years of peace after
\ndestruction, right. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:44:08,320 –> 00:44:11,400
\nSo we have that in in a number
\nof our our community’s works, <\/p>\n
843
\n00:44:11,520 –> 00:44:15,560
\nour references.
\nWe also talk about the peaceful.<\/p>\n
844
\n00:44:15,560 –> 00:44:18,480
\nTime of like the the wolf with
\nthe lamb, right? <\/p>\n
845
\n00:44:20,320 –> 00:44:25,760
\nOK, so I think we talk about
\npeace a lot as a group, and I <\/p>\n
846
\n00:44:25,760 –> 00:44:28,160
\nthink that’s good.
\nSo these are just a few quotes <\/p>\n
847
\n00:44:28,160 –> 00:44:31,600
\nfrom various Christadelphian
\nworks to bring out how peace <\/p>\n
848
\n00:44:31,760 –> 00:44:35,080
\nshows up in our literature.
\nAnd so we have people coming to <\/p>\n
849
\n00:44:35,080 –> 00:44:38,200
\nthe Lord Jesus to be healed, and
\nthey leave with that inward <\/p>\n
850
\n00:44:38,200 –> 00:44:38,960
\npeace.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:44:38,960 –> 00:44:41,200
\nGo in peace.
\nYou have that from the life of <\/p>\n
852
\n00:44:41,200 –> 00:44:45,480
\nJesus Nazareth revisited.
\nYou have him talking about again<\/p>\n
853
\n00:44:45,480 –> 00:44:48,360
\nthe the peace that they get.
\nWhen they know the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
854
\n00:44:48,360 –> 00:44:51,200
\nChrist and he says being
\njustified by faith, we have <\/p>\n
855
\n00:44:51,200 –> 00:44:52,840
\npeace with God through our Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:44:52,840 –> 00:44:56,360
\nSo he’s showing how we have that
\nsort of inner peace, the peace <\/p>\n
857
\n00:44:56,360 –> 00:44:59,240
\nwith God.
\nSo we talk about that as a <\/p>\n
858
\n00:44:59,240 –> 00:45:01,680
\ncommunity.
\nNow, what was interesting for me<\/p>\n
859
\n00:45:01,720 –> 00:45:05,880
\nis I felt in my experience,
\nwhile we talk a lot about inner <\/p>\n
860
\n00:45:05,880 –> 00:45:07,440
\npeace, we talk about peace with
\nGod. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:45:11,720 –> 00:45:17,160
\nPeace with each other was
\nsomething that was not brought <\/p>\n
862
\n00:45:17,160 –> 00:45:20,480
\nout a lot to me.
\nMaybe it was the same for you, <\/p>\n
863
\n00:45:20,480 –> 00:45:22,240
\nmaybe it was different, I don’t
\nknow. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:45:23,160 –> 00:45:26,520
\nBut for me, peace with other
\npeople. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:45:27,240 –> 00:45:32,000
\nIt was kind of like, oh, well,
\nthose are like those people that<\/p>\n
866
\n00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:33,760
\nall get along.
\nThose are the weak people that <\/p>\n
867
\n00:45:33,760 –> 00:45:37,720
\naren’t contending, right?
\nLike, you know, the, the people <\/p>\n
868
\n00:45:37,720 –> 00:45:41,360
\nwho are really tough, who know
\ntheir Bibles, well, they’ll be <\/p>\n
869
\n00:45:41,360 –> 00:45:44,920
\nthe ones there fighting over,
\nyou know, what’s true and that <\/p>\n
870
\n00:45:44,920 –> 00:45:46,280
\nsort of thing.
\nThat, that was what I thought. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:45:47,400 –> 00:45:49,640
\nSo I was like ready to run
\npeople over. <\/p>\n
872
\n00:45:49,640 –> 00:45:52,120
\nAnd I probably ran over a lot of
\npeople, unfortunately. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:45:54,240 –> 00:45:57,080
\nSo I decided now I’m a, I’m a
\nhistorian, right? <\/p>\n
874
\n00:45:57,520 –> 00:46:02,240
\nSo I’m a historian by trade.
\nSo I tend to do certain things <\/p>\n
875
\n00:46:02,240 –> 00:46:04,240
\nwhen it comes to history that’s
\nmaybe slightly obsessive. <\/p>\n
876
\n00:46:05,120 –> 00:46:09,600
\nSo I have attempted to purchase
\nevery Christadelphian book that <\/p>\n
877
\n00:46:09,600 –> 00:46:12,840
\nexists.
\nI think I’m missing maybe like <\/p>\n
878
\n00:46:12,840 –> 00:46:18,040
\n10 or 12, but I don’t, I don’t
\nknow for sure, but I, I buy a <\/p>\n
879
\n00:46:18,040 –> 00:46:19,840
\nlot of books and I scan them
\nall. <\/p>\n
880
\n00:46:20,280 –> 00:46:24,680
\nOK, Now I, I take this, the
\nbooks, I cut off their spines, I<\/p>\n
881
\n00:46:24,680 –> 00:46:26,600
\nscan them.
\nSo I have 7000 books on my <\/p>\n
882
\n00:46:26,600 –> 00:46:30,560
\nlaptop.
\nNow, the reason I’m mentioning <\/p>\n
883
\n00:46:30,560 –> 00:46:32,600
\nthis, you might be wondering
\nlike, where is this going? <\/p>\n
884
\n00:46:32,600 –> 00:46:36,800
\nWell, I mentioned that because I
\ndecided to do a little bit of an<\/p>\n
885
\n00:46:36,800 –> 00:46:40,000
\nexperiment.
\nI wanted to know what do <\/p>\n
886
\n00:46:40,000 –> 00:46:43,600
\nChristadelphian works?
\nWhat have we historically <\/p>\n
887
\n00:46:43,760 –> 00:46:47,800
\npublished about Peace right now?
\nI didn’t look at the magazines, <\/p>\n
888
\n00:46:47,880 –> 00:46:50,280
\nalthough I have all those too,
\nbut I didn’t look at the <\/p>\n
889
\n00:46:50,280 –> 00:46:51,800
\nmagazines.
\nI wanted to specifically look <\/p>\n
890
\n00:46:51,800 –> 00:46:54,320
\nat, you know what, what are in
\nour books because the magazines <\/p>\n
891
\n00:46:54,320 –> 00:46:56,400
\nwould be too much.
\nBut it was really interesting to<\/p>\n
892
\n00:46:56,400 –> 00:46:58,040
\nme to just to take a look at
\nthis. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:46:58,040 –> 00:47:00,720
\nNow, before I say these things,
\nI want to give a disclaimer. <\/p>\n
894
\n00:47:01,640 –> 00:47:05,600
\nObviously, if I have 7000 books,
\nI like them, OK? <\/p>\n
895
\n00:47:05,640 –> 00:47:07,200
\nSo I think that’s important to
\nnotice. <\/p>\n
896
\n00:47:07,320 –> 00:47:10,000
\nLike Christadelphian books I
\nthink are wonderful. <\/p>\n
897
\n00:47:10,560 –> 00:47:13,120
\nI think if we don’t read them,
\nthat’s a huge mistake. <\/p>\n
898
\n00:47:13,960 –> 00:47:17,240
\nOK, so in no way am I trying to
\nmake fun of our literature or <\/p>\n
899
\n00:47:17,240 –> 00:47:19,920
\nanything like that, but I think
\nit’s really important for us to <\/p>\n
900
\n00:47:19,920 –> 00:47:24,520
\nknow where we come from, right?
\nLike if you don’t, then there <\/p>\n
901
\n00:47:24,520 –> 00:47:26,800
\nare certain things you just take
\nfor granted as this is normal <\/p>\n
902
\n00:47:26,800 –> 00:47:28,840
\nand maybe it’s not necessarily
\nbiblical. <\/p>\n
903
\n00:47:29,560 –> 00:47:31,440
\nSo I think it’s important for us
\nto look back at that. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:47:31,720 –> 00:47:33,680
\nSo with that said, right, that’s
\nmy disclaimer. <\/p>\n
905
\n00:47:33,920 –> 00:47:36,120
\nI love Christadelphian books.
\nI love the people that were <\/p>\n
906
\n00:47:36,120 –> 00:47:37,600
\nquoting, right?
\nI’ve learned a ton of things <\/p>\n
907
\n00:47:37,600 –> 00:47:39,400
\nfrom them.
\nSo please don’t take this in any<\/p>\n
908
\n00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:41,920
\nway like I’m saying that they’re
\nbad or. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:47:42,040 –> 00:47:44,920
\nAnything like that, but I
\nthought that this was really <\/p>\n
910
\n00:47:44,920 –> 00:47:48,720
\ninteresting.
\nSo in Romans 12 verse 18, you <\/p>\n
911
\n00:47:48,720 –> 00:47:50,560
\nhave this verse.
\nSo brother John Carter here <\/p>\n
912
\n00:47:50,560 –> 00:47:53,160
\nquotes it in the second-half of
\nwhat I have on the screen. <\/p>\n
913
\n00:47:53,480 –> 00:47:56,640
\nIt says if it be possible as
\nmuch as in you Liath be at peace<\/p>\n
914
\n00:47:56,640 –> 00:47:58,960
\nwith all men.
\nAnd so this is what the apostle <\/p>\n
915
\n00:47:58,960 –> 00:48:00,960
\nPaul says.
\nAnd in fact, he he talks about <\/p>\n
916
\n00:48:00,960 –> 00:48:02,800
\npeace twice there in Romans
\nchapter 12. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:48:04,080 –> 00:48:06,840
\nSo what I wanted to do is I
\nsaid, well, let me get my books <\/p>\n
918
\n00:48:06,840 –> 00:48:08,880
\nthat are on Romans, right,
\nChristopher, books on Romans and<\/p>\n
919
\n00:48:08,880 –> 00:48:11,160
\nlet’s take a look and see.
\nWhat do we write? <\/p>\n
920
\n00:48:11,560 –> 00:48:14,080
\nAbout these verses, right?
\nWhat do we say about them? <\/p>\n
921
\n00:48:14,240 –> 00:48:18,480
\nAnd what really intrigued me is
\nthat this is what the whole book<\/p>\n
922
\n00:48:18,480 –> 00:48:21,280
\nsays.
\nSo when it says live at peace <\/p>\n
923
\n00:48:21,280 –> 00:48:23,920
\nwith everybody, the entire book
\nsays this and half of it is <\/p>\n
924
\n00:48:23,920 –> 00:48:27,600
\nquoting the verse, right?
\nIt says peace depends on two <\/p>\n
925
\n00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:29,800
\nparties being agreeable.
\nThe Christian must be sure to do<\/p>\n
926
\n00:48:29,800 –> 00:48:34,800
\nhis part.
\nNow brother John Carter writes <\/p>\n
927
\n00:48:34,800 –> 00:48:38,640
\nthings that are very helpful.
\nI don’t feel like this is part <\/p>\n
928
\n00:48:38,640 –> 00:48:44,120
\nof that just because.
\nYeah, I mean, the first <\/p>\n
929
\n00:48:44,120 –> 00:48:46,360
\nsentence, that’s good, right?
\nIt depends on two parties being <\/p>\n
930
\n00:48:46,360 –> 00:48:49,120
\nagreeable, but the rest is
\nreally just a quote of the <\/p>\n
931
\n00:48:49,120 –> 00:48:52,000
\nverse.
\nAnd so I was really struck by <\/p>\n
932
\n00:48:52,200 –> 00:48:54,720
\nwow, like, you know, the next
\nverse he goes on to write like a<\/p>\n
933
\n00:48:54,720 –> 00:48:57,520
\nparagraph about this one gets
\nthat. <\/p>\n
934
\n00:48:58,760 –> 00:49:02,160
\nSo that was intriguing to me.
\nNow then I said, huh, like, I <\/p>\n
935
\n00:49:02,160 –> 00:49:03,640
\nwonder what we do about some of
\nthe other verses. <\/p>\n
936
\n00:49:03,640 –> 00:49:05,880
\nSo I started to look at Hebrews,
\nright. <\/p>\n
937
\n00:49:05,880 –> 00:49:07,800
\nAnd in Hebrews we have the same
\ncommandment to live at peace <\/p>\n
938
\n00:49:07,800 –> 00:49:11,880
\nwith all men.
\nSo it says here it were unwise. <\/p>\n
939
\n00:49:11,880 –> 00:49:14,040
\nThis is again John Carter in his
\nbook the letter to the Hebrews, <\/p>\n
940
\n00:49:14,040 –> 00:49:16,040
\nit were unwise to provoke
\npersecution. <\/p>\n
941
\n00:49:17,360 –> 00:49:19,440
\nThe aim should be to promote
\npeace, right? <\/p>\n
942
\n00:49:19,440 –> 00:49:22,160
\nSo he says that promote peace.
\nThat’s good, right? <\/p>\n
943
\n00:49:22,920 –> 00:49:25,360
\nBut peace can be purchased at
\ntoo great a price. <\/p>\n
944
\n00:49:25,520 –> 00:49:29,560
\nNow what really struck me was as
\nsoon as he says the peace is <\/p>\n
945
\n00:49:29,560 –> 00:49:34,840
\ngood, he hedges it right.
\nHe then quotes the verse follow <\/p>\n
946
\n00:49:34,840 –> 00:49:37,480
\nafter peace with all men and
\nholiness without which no man <\/p>\n
947
\n00:49:37,480 –> 00:49:39,240
\nshall see the Lord.
\nNow, there’s multiple ways to <\/p>\n
948
\n00:49:39,240 –> 00:49:41,320
\nread this.
\nYou could read it as though it’s<\/p>\n
949
\n00:49:41,320 –> 00:49:45,440
\nsaying follow peace, but you
\ncan’t have peace and holiness at<\/p>\n
950
\n00:49:45,440 –> 00:49:47,160
\nthe same time.
\nSo there’s like this, you know, <\/p>\n
951
\n00:49:47,160 –> 00:49:50,000
\ntension right between the two
\nand you have to try and figure <\/p>\n
952
\n00:49:50,000 –> 00:49:53,440
\nout how to have both.
\nOr you could read this as saying<\/p>\n
953
\n00:49:53,640 –> 00:49:58,000
\npeace and holiness go together.
\nA way that you are holy is by <\/p>\n
954
\n00:49:58,000 –> 00:50:01,760
\nbeing peaceful.
\nSo what I found interesting is <\/p>\n
955
\n00:50:01,960 –> 00:50:06,000
\nhe takes the first approach.
\nHe says follow after peace, <\/p>\n
956
\n00:50:06,440 –> 00:50:07,720
\nright?
\nSo again, he encourages us to do<\/p>\n
957
\n00:50:07,720 –> 00:50:09,040
\nthat.
\nHe says, for it’s not something <\/p>\n
958
\n00:50:09,040 –> 00:50:10,800
\nto be easily grasped.
\nIt has to be pursued. <\/p>\n
959
\n00:50:10,800 –> 00:50:13,240
\nAs this psalmist said, seek
\npeace and pursue it. <\/p>\n
960
\n00:50:13,760 –> 00:50:17,160
\nBut this pursuit of peace is
\ngoverned by the larger trait of <\/p>\n
961
\n00:50:17,160 –> 00:50:19,520
\nholiness, which the next verse
\nis in force. <\/p>\n
962
\n00:50:20,440 –> 00:50:23,560
\nSo notice that he takes it and
\nhe says so yes, you need to have<\/p>\n
963
\n00:50:23,560 –> 00:50:27,720
\npeace.
\nBut be holy. 1st and then if <\/p>\n
964
\n00:50:27,720 –> 00:50:30,400
\nyou’ve figured out holiness,
\nthen have peace. <\/p>\n
965
\n00:50:31,880 –> 00:50:35,040
\nSo I thought, wow, that’s,
\nthat’s very interesting. <\/p>\n
966
\n00:50:35,040 –> 00:50:38,560
\nLike it’s interesting to see how
\nperhaps you know that that could<\/p>\n
967
\n00:50:38,560 –> 00:50:40,120
\nhave colored the way that we
\napproach things. <\/p>\n
968
\n00:50:40,120 –> 00:50:41,760
\nNow, just in case you’re
\nwondering, there’s the verse in <\/p>\n
969
\n00:50:41,760 –> 00:50:43,920
\nGreek, and I’ve underlined the
\nword up there, Kai. <\/p>\n
970
\n00:50:44,160 –> 00:50:47,600
\nWhich is just your word and but
\nthe reason I underlined it is <\/p>\n
971
\n00:50:47,600 –> 00:50:51,720
\nbecause he presents these two
\nthings add as adversative, <\/p>\n
972
\n00:50:52,080 –> 00:50:56,880
\nright, you have peace versus
\nholiness. <\/p>\n
973
\n00:50:57,680 –> 00:50:58,720
\nAnd I want to just.
\nPut to you. <\/p>\n
974
\n00:50:58,720 –> 00:51:02,920
\nThe Greek doesn’t say that.
\nSo there’s multiple words that <\/p>\n
975
\n00:51:02,920 –> 00:51:06,600
\nyou can use in Greek to say and
\nand there is an adversative and <\/p>\n
976
\n00:51:07,000 –> 00:51:09,960
\nit’s day, in case you’re
\nwondering, doesn’t that sound <\/p>\n
977
\n00:51:09,960 –> 00:51:12,080
\nadversative day or something
\nlike that? <\/p>\n
978
\n00:51:12,280 –> 00:51:15,600
\nSo chi is not that way.
\nChi is just saying, hey, we’re <\/p>\n
979
\n00:51:15,600 –> 00:51:17,800
\nlinking these things together.
\nSo here’s, you know, a fancy <\/p>\n
980
\n00:51:17,800 –> 00:51:20,080
\nbook called Discourse Grammar of
\nthe Greek New Testament. <\/p>\n
981
\n00:51:20,600 –> 00:51:22,480
\nAnd here’s what he says.
\nHe says Chi does not mark a <\/p>\n
982
\n00:51:22,480 –> 00:51:25,360
\ndistinction of semantic
\ncontinuity or discontinuity. <\/p>\n
983
\n00:51:27,120 –> 00:51:29,320
\nI think I should have said
\nsemantic continuity or <\/p>\n
984
\n00:51:29,320 –> 00:51:30,480
\ndiscontinuity.
\nThere we go. <\/p>\n
985
\n00:51:31,120 –> 00:51:33,720
\nIt connects 2 items of equal
\nstatus, constraining them to be <\/p>\n
986
\n00:51:33,720 –> 00:51:37,840
\nclosely related to one another.
\nSo the idea is, is that what <\/p>\n
987
\n00:51:37,840 –> 00:51:42,280
\nthis is telling us is that we
\npursue peace and holiness <\/p>\n
988
\n00:51:42,280 –> 00:51:45,960
\ntogether.
\nThese two ideas work together. <\/p>\n
989
\n00:51:45,960 –> 00:51:48,520
\nThey’re not adversative.
\nAnd so you’ll see that in newer <\/p>\n
990
\n00:51:48,520 –> 00:51:51,000
\ntranslations.
\nThat’s the idea that you have <\/p>\n
991
\n00:51:51,000 –> 00:51:51,800
\nbrought out.
\nStrive for. <\/p>\n
992
\n00:51:51,800 –> 00:51:54,280
\nPeace with everyone and for the
\nholiness without which no one <\/p>\n
993
\n00:51:54,280 –> 00:51:57,720
\nwill see the Lord right?
\nYou do this as one thing. <\/p>\n
994
\n00:52:00,080 –> 00:52:01,200
\nI found this one really
\ninteresting. <\/p>\n
995
\n00:52:01,200 –> 00:52:03,640
\nThis is by Frank Janaway.
\nNow he he had to do with the <\/p>\n
996
\n00:52:03,640 –> 00:52:05,400
\nBerean split.
\nSo you know, you might say he’s <\/p>\n
997
\n00:52:05,400 –> 00:52:08,840
\na little biased, but here’s
\nhere’s what he wrote. <\/p>\n
998
\n00:52:09,440 –> 00:52:12,600
\nThis is this is very intriguing.
\nI will tell you before we read <\/p>\n
999
\n00:52:12,600 –> 00:52:16,200
\nthis that what I underlined
\nthere peace with all men <\/p>\n
1000
\n00:52:17,080 –> 00:52:22,080
\nBiblical quote, right?
\nListen to how he uses it and you<\/p>\n
1001
\n00:52:22,280 –> 00:52:24,000
\nI don’t know, right?
\nI don’t know if he was using <\/p>\n
1002
\n00:52:24,000 –> 00:52:25,440
\nthis.
\nAs a quote. <\/p>\n
1003
\n00:52:25,520 –> 00:52:27,240
\nOr if it just, you know, if he
\njust wrote it. <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:52:27,240 –> 00:52:29,600
\nI don’t know if this was on
\npurpose or not, he says. <\/p>\n
1005
\n00:52:29,600 –> 00:52:32,360
\nNo, nearly half a century’s
\nexperience has taught us that <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:52:32,360 –> 00:52:35,640
\nthe corrupters who have done the
\nmost mischief have been the <\/p>\n
1007
\n00:52:35,640 –> 00:52:39,840
\nkind, broad minded, liberal
\nhearted leaders who invariably <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:52:39,960 –> 00:52:41,840
\nhave an eye to a seat on the
\nfence. <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:52:42,640 –> 00:52:46,080
\nLeaders not because they possess
\nthe qualities of leaders, but <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:52:46,080 –> 00:52:50,600
\nbecause their followers are
\nmade-up of non thinkers who <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:52:50,720 –> 00:52:54,080
\nloving to be at peace with all
\nmen, choose the easiest route <\/p>\n
1012
\n00:52:54,080 –> 00:52:56,760
\nthere too.
\nAnd therefore needing a leader, <\/p>\n
1013
\n00:52:56,840 –> 00:53:00,480
\nselect one after their own heart
\nand invariably have as their <\/p>\n
1014
\n00:53:00,480 –> 00:53:04,200
\nmotto, let sleeping dogs lie,
\nwhich is the reverse of the <\/p>\n
1015
\n00:53:04,200 –> 00:53:07,160
\nApostolic one of contender
\nearnestly for the faith. <\/p>\n
1016
\n00:53:09,400 –> 00:53:12,720
\nSo do you see what he did here?
\nHe’s talking about leaders that <\/p>\n
1017
\n00:53:12,720 –> 00:53:15,760
\nare coming up, and he says the
\nproblem with these leaders is <\/p>\n
1018
\n00:53:15,760 –> 00:53:20,680
\nthat they love to be at peace
\nwith all men instead of <\/p>\n
1019
\n00:53:20,680 –> 00:53:21,880
\ncontending.
\nEarnestly for the faith. <\/p>\n
1020
\n00:53:22,360 –> 00:53:25,000
\nSo again, you have this
\nadversative relationship that he<\/p>\n
1021
\n00:53:25,200 –> 00:53:27,360
\ncreates here.
\nHe says being at peace with <\/p>\n
1022
\n00:53:27,360 –> 00:53:30,400
\neveryone is not the same as
\ncontending earnestly for the <\/p>\n
1023
\n00:53:30,400 –> 00:53:32,360
\nfaith.
\nNow the problem with that is in <\/p>\n
1024
\n00:53:32,360 –> 00:53:36,120
\nfact, at peace with all men is
\nfrom Hebrews 1214, where we are <\/p>\n
1025
\n00:53:36,120 –> 00:53:42,720
\ntold follow peace with all men.
\nNow, the way that I thought for <\/p>\n
1026
\n00:53:42,720 –> 00:53:45,640
\na long time was like this,
\nright? <\/p>\n
1027
\n00:53:45,680 –> 00:53:48,080
\nI, I looked at people that were
\nat peace and I said, well, you <\/p>\n
1028
\n00:53:48,080 –> 00:53:49,800
\nknow, their issue is they just
\nwant to get along with <\/p>\n
1029
\n00:53:49,800 –> 00:53:51,560
\neverybody.
\nThey want to sing kumbaya, you <\/p>\n
1030
\n00:53:51,560 –> 00:53:54,080
\nknow, all that kind of thing.
\nLike they don’t really know what<\/p>\n
1031
\n00:53:54,080 –> 00:53:55,680
\nthe Bible says.
\nAnd that’s what he calls them. <\/p>\n
1032
\n00:53:55,680 –> 00:53:57,680
\nHe calls them non thinkers,
\nright? <\/p>\n
1033
\n00:53:58,480 –> 00:54:00,520
\nThey’re not contending, you
\nknow, they need to be out <\/p>\n
1034
\n00:54:00,520 –> 00:54:03,400
\nfighting.
\nBut the problem is, is that it’s<\/p>\n
1035
\n00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:06,640
\nthe same Bible that tells us to
\nbe at peace with all men and to <\/p>\n
1036
\n00:54:06,640 –> 00:54:10,240
\ncontendernessly for the faith.
\nIt’s not contradicting itself. <\/p>\n
1037
\n00:54:12,080 –> 00:54:16,080
\nWe can’t take one and ignore the
\nother or take one and say that <\/p>\n
1038
\n00:54:16,080 –> 00:54:18,400
\nthe other is wrong, right?
\nWe are supposed to do both. <\/p>\n
1039
\n00:54:18,880 –> 00:54:21,720
\nAnd so my suggestion is that
\ncontending for the faith does <\/p>\n
1040
\n00:54:21,720 –> 00:54:24,440
\nnot mean hitting people with
\nyour Bible, right? <\/p>\n
1041
\n00:54:24,600 –> 00:54:27,360
\nLike, we should know this stuff.
\nWe should be able to quote <\/p>\n
1042
\n00:54:27,360 –> 00:54:31,520
\nverses, but we don’t come up and
\nsay, what? <\/p>\n
1043
\n00:54:31,520 –> 00:54:33,520
\nYou didn’t know that.
\nThat’s so ridiculous. <\/p>\n
1044
\n00:54:33,720 –> 00:54:36,320
\nYou know, I remember saying to a
\npastor, oh, you’re a teacher in <\/p>\n
1045
\n00:54:36,320 –> 00:54:38,080
\nIsrael, and you don’t know these
\nthings, right? <\/p>\n
1046
\n00:54:38,080 –> 00:54:40,840
\nLike, I mean, come on, That was
\nrude, right? <\/p>\n
1047
\n00:54:41,360 –> 00:54:45,920
\nLike.
\nAnyway, I won’t, I won’t say <\/p>\n
1048
\n00:54:45,920 –> 00:54:48,800
\nanything more on that now, OK?
\nThis is this is how I’m. <\/p>\n
1049
\n00:54:48,800 –> 00:54:50,600
\nGoing to end.
\nI know I got 3 minutes left. <\/p>\n
1050
\n00:54:52,200 –> 00:54:53,560
\nAgain, I want to give a
\ndisclaimer. <\/p>\n
1051
\n00:54:54,280 –> 00:54:56,840
\nI think people should read Elvis
\nIsrael right? <\/p>\n
1052
\n00:54:56,840 –> 00:54:58,040
\nI think this is really
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
1053
\n00:54:59,880 –> 00:55:02,440
\nElvis Israel is an incredible
\nexposition of the Bible. <\/p>\n
1054
\n00:55:04,440 –> 00:55:08,600
\nHowever, I think there are
\ntakeaways from Alexander <\/p>\n
1055
\n00:55:08,600 –> 00:55:14,560
\nCampbell that influenced our
\ncommunity through some of the <\/p>\n
1056
\n00:55:14,560 –> 00:55:17,000
\nthings that ended up influencing
\nJohn Thomas. <\/p>\n
1057
\n00:55:18,080 –> 00:55:20,560
\nSo take a look at this and I
\njust have a couple more quotes <\/p>\n
1058
\n00:55:20,560 –> 00:55:23,280
\nthat I want to end with.
\nThis is my historian portion <\/p>\n
1059
\n00:55:23,280 –> 00:55:25,080
\ncoming out.
\nBut I think it’s helpful to just<\/p>\n
1060
\n00:55:25,080 –> 00:55:26,560
\nagain, see kind of where we came
\nfrom. <\/p>\n
1061
\n00:55:27,320 –> 00:55:29,920
\nThese are the kind of things
\nthat I would say to people. <\/p>\n
1062
\n00:55:31,000 –> 00:55:32,640
\nBecause I thought they were
\nbiblical. <\/p>\n
1063
\n00:55:32,800 –> 00:55:35,680
\nType of things to say so it.
\nSays here the keys were promised<\/p>\n
1064
\n00:55:35,680 –> 00:55:38,480
\nto Peter and not to successors
\nof Peter if it were possible for<\/p>\n
1065
\n00:55:38,480 –> 00:55:40,880
\nhim to have them in such an
\noffice, which none but the most <\/p>\n
1066
\n00:55:40,880 –> 00:55:43,000
\nstupidly ignorant of the
\nscriptures would venture to <\/p>\n
1067
\n00:55:43,000 –> 00:55:44,960
\naffirm.
\nThe custody the keys by <\/p>\n
1068
\n00:55:44,960 –> 00:55:48,200
\nsuccessor of Peter is the most
\nfarcical assumption that ever <\/p>\n
1069
\n00:55:48,200 –> 00:55:49,840
\npoor crazy mortals were guilty
\nof. <\/p>\n
1070
\n00:55:50,800 –> 00:55:52,680
\nNow, you know, it’s kind of fun
\nto read them, right? <\/p>\n
1071
\n00:55:52,680 –> 00:55:54,480
\nBecause we’re like, yeah, those
\ndumb people, right? <\/p>\n
1072
\n00:55:54,600 –> 00:55:58,960
\nBut the problem is, is that this
\ncould very nicely be expressed, <\/p>\n
1073
\n00:55:59,440 –> 00:56:03,320
\nright?
\nYou could very nicely say you <\/p>\n
1074
\n00:56:03,320 –> 00:56:05,240
\ncould take out that whole
\nsection which none but the most <\/p>\n
1075
\n00:56:05,240 –> 00:56:06,960
\nstupidly ignorant of the
\nscripture would venture to <\/p>\n
1076
\n00:56:06,960 –> 00:56:09,200
\naffirm, right?
\nYou can assert the same purpose <\/p>\n
1077
\n00:56:09,400 –> 00:56:15,000
\nwithout having those things.
\nYou don’t have to say that now <\/p>\n
1078
\n00:56:15,800 –> 00:56:18,280
\nif you look at the.
\nChristadelphian’s version of <\/p>\n
1079
\n00:56:18,280 –> 00:56:20,480
\nElpis Israel, you will notice
\nthat they put a disclaimer in, <\/p>\n
1080
\n00:56:20,560 –> 00:56:22,680
\nright?
\nAnd what’s interesting is, is <\/p>\n
1081
\n00:56:22,680 –> 00:56:25,160
\nthat I, I took this for a long
\ntime and I said, oh, OK, so <\/p>\n
1082
\n00:56:25,160 –> 00:56:26,520
\nthat’s the deal.
\nYou know, everybody just talked <\/p>\n
1083
\n00:56:26,520 –> 00:56:28,000
\nthat way, right?
\nThat’s what they say, the <\/p>\n
1084
\n00:56:28,000 –> 00:56:30,280
\nforthrightness of the writer
\nseen in the vigor of his words. <\/p>\n
1085
\n00:56:30,280 –> 00:56:32,400
\nAnd modern readers must make
\nsome allowance for that because <\/p>\n
1086
\n00:56:32,400 –> 00:56:34,440
\nthat’s just how people talk.
\nThe problem is, is that that’s <\/p>\n
1087
\n00:56:34,440 –> 00:56:37,400
\njust not true, right?
\nPeople did not talk that way. <\/p>\n
1088
\n00:56:38,120 –> 00:56:40,480
\nSo I will just show you Horace
\nBushnell. <\/p>\n
1089
\n00:56:40,560 –> 00:56:44,120
\nHe was a major theologian at the
\nsame time, here’s what he’s <\/p>\n
1090
\n00:56:44,120 –> 00:56:45,440
\nwriting about people he
\ndisagrees with. <\/p>\n
1091
\n00:56:45,600 –> 00:56:49,280
\nHe does not say that they are
\nstupidly ignorant, right? <\/p>\n
1092
\n00:56:49,720 –> 00:56:53,000
\nLike he says, do not teach them
\nthat they can never pray or do <\/p>\n
1093
\n00:56:53,000 –> 00:56:55,360
\nanything acceptable to God.
\nTill after they converted or <\/p>\n
1094
\n00:56:55,360 –> 00:56:57,960
\nregenerated.
\nThis with many is a great point <\/p>\n
1095
\n00:56:57,960 –> 00:57:00,360
\nof orthodoxy and I would not
\nspeak of it with severity. <\/p>\n
1096
\n00:57:02,320 –> 00:57:04,880
\nThat’s the total opposite right?
\nBecause it is a very natural <\/p>\n
1097
\n00:57:04,880 –> 00:57:09,520
\nmistake.
\nThis is Charles Hodge. <\/p>\n
1098
\n00:57:10,720 –> 00:57:12,840
\nHe was AI believe he was
\npresident of one of the Ivy <\/p>\n
1099
\n00:57:12,840 –> 00:57:14,160
\nLeagues.
\nAgain, he was a major <\/p>\n
1100
\n00:57:14,160 –> 00:57:15,640
\ntheologian.
\nHe says the same kind of thing. <\/p>\n
1101
\n00:57:15,840 –> 00:57:20,000
\nThese big deal theologians did
\nnot write that way. <\/p>\n
1102
\n00:57:20,120 –> 00:57:25,920
\nYou know who did?
\nNot Robert Roberts. <\/p>\n
1103
\n00:57:26,600 –> 00:57:30,680
\nCome on.
\nOh, no, I didn’t put my <\/p>\n
1104
\n00:57:30,680 –> 00:57:33,840
\nAlexander Campbell quote in.
\nOh, no. <\/p>\n
1105
\n00:57:33,840 –> 00:57:35,960
\nOK.
\nWell, anyway, Alexander Campbell<\/p>\n
1106
\n00:57:35,960 –> 00:57:38,600
\nwrote that way and it’s really
\nfascinating if you, if you ever <\/p>\n
1107
\n00:57:38,600 –> 00:57:41,160
\ntake the chance and I, I
\nrecommend it because it’s just <\/p>\n
1108
\n00:57:41,160 –> 00:57:43,840
\nagain, interesting as far as
\nhistory is concerned, Alexander <\/p>\n
1109
\n00:57:43,840 –> 00:57:47,480
\nCampbell and John Thomas wrote
\nthis way to each other, right? <\/p>\n
1110
\n00:57:47,480 –> 00:57:49,600
\nThey would, they would say, I
\ncan’t believe you are so dumb to<\/p>\n
1111
\n00:57:49,600 –> 00:57:51,720
\nbe thinking this.
\nLike, you know, nobody who reads<\/p>\n
1112
\n00:57:51,720 –> 00:57:53,520
\ntheir Bible would ever believe
\nthese things that you believe. <\/p>\n
1113
\n00:57:53,760 –> 00:57:55,080
\nAnd they would.
\nThis is how they would write. <\/p>\n
1114
\n00:57:55,240 –> 00:57:57,920
\nAnd it’s just, it’s interesting
\nto to hear these kind of things <\/p>\n
1115
\n00:57:58,320 –> 00:57:59,440
\nand to realize.
\nThat they have. <\/p>\n
1116
\n00:57:59,560 –> 00:58:03,840
\nCome down into, I think how we
\ntalked today. <\/p>\n
1117
\n00:58:04,280 –> 00:58:06,680
\nThis is from a recent class.
\nI’m not going to tell you who it<\/p>\n
1118
\n00:58:06,680 –> 00:58:08,920
\nis, OK?
\nBecause that’s weird. <\/p>\n
1119
\n00:58:10,000 –> 00:58:12,880
\nBut these these kind of things
\nare still said right? <\/p>\n
1120
\n00:58:13,160 –> 00:58:15,200
\nHe tells Joshua, look, you
\nbetter take your shoes off for <\/p>\n
1121
\n00:58:15,200 –> 00:58:16,600
\nthe place where on thus stand as
\nis holy. <\/p>\n
1122
\n00:58:16,800 –> 00:58:18,920
\nAnd Joshua would know by that
\ncomment, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
1123
\n00:58:19,080 –> 00:58:21,800
\nhe’d have to be blind, deaf,
\ndumb and stupid not to know by <\/p>\n
1124
\n00:58:21,800 –> 00:58:24,440
\nthat comment who he was talking
\nto, because that statement is a <\/p>\n
1125
\n00:58:24,440 –> 00:58:27,640
\nmonumental statement.
\nHere’s another one. <\/p>\n
1126
\n00:58:27,760 –> 00:58:29,720
\nSo the host of the Midianites,
\nthese are two separate brothers,<\/p>\n
1127
\n00:58:30,400 –> 00:58:33,320
\nsays verse one we could read.
\nNow you’ve got to use the idea <\/p>\n
1128
\n00:58:33,320 –> 00:58:34,880
\nwe’re in the arena of a divine
\ntype. <\/p>\n
1129
\n00:58:34,880 –> 00:58:37,200
\nThere’s no argument about that.
\nYou’d be stupid to argue this is<\/p>\n
1130
\n00:58:37,200 –> 00:58:39,400
\nnot designed by God to be a type
\nof the judgment seat. <\/p>\n
1131
\n00:58:39,640 –> 00:58:42,120
\nNow, when we just throw these
\nthings out, when we talk like <\/p>\n
1132
\n00:58:42,120 –> 00:58:45,600
\nthis, right, we really, we make
\na big mistake. <\/p>\n
1133
\n00:58:46,160 –> 00:58:48,560
\nAnd I want us to emphasize that
\nbecause I’ve had people say this<\/p>\n
1134
\n00:58:48,560 –> 00:58:51,000
\nto me, you know, I’ve gone up to
\nsomebody to share an idea and <\/p>\n
1135
\n00:58:51,000 –> 00:58:53,960
\nthey’ve said only people who are
\nidiots would agree with you. <\/p>\n
1136
\n00:58:53,960 –> 00:58:55,920
\nAnd I’ve said, OK, well, that’s
\nfine. <\/p>\n
1137
\n00:58:55,920 –> 00:58:57,360
\nBut I got it from John Thomas,
\nright? <\/p>\n
1138
\n00:58:57,360 –> 00:58:59,760
\nLike and that made them really
\nmad. <\/p>\n
1139
\n00:59:00,040 –> 00:59:04,560
\nBut but like, it was one of
\nthose things of like, why do we <\/p>\n
1140
\n00:59:04,720 –> 00:59:05,760
\nsay that?
\nRight? <\/p>\n
1141
\n00:59:06,080 –> 00:59:09,120
\nThe Kingdom is about peace.
\nWe don’t need to say those <\/p>\n
1142
\n00:59:09,120 –> 00:59:12,360
\nthings.
\nWe can talk about, look, I think<\/p>\n
1143
\n00:59:12,360 –> 00:59:15,480
\nyou’re wrong and that’s fine.
\nAnd we can say here’s why I <\/p>\n
1144
\n00:59:15,480 –> 00:59:17,240
\nthink you’re wrong.
\nLet me show you this first and <\/p>\n
1145
\n00:59:17,240 –> 00:59:18,640
\nthis first and let’s chat about
\nit. <\/p>\n
1146
\n00:59:18,680 –> 00:59:21,280
\nAnd that’s good.
\nBut to to go around and say only<\/p>\n
1147
\n00:59:21,280 –> 00:59:23,920
\nthe stupidly ignorant and the
\ndumb, I think that’s just that’s<\/p>\n
1148
\n00:59:23,920 –> 00:59:25,480
\npart of that legacy that we
\nhave. <\/p>\n
1149
\n00:59:25,680 –> 00:59:30,240
\nThat’s probably a good idea to
\nstep back and say, Oh, you know,<\/p>\n
1150
\n00:59:30,680 –> 00:59:32,800
\nhe talks that way probably
\nbecause he was really excited, <\/p>\n
1151
\n00:59:33,200 –> 00:59:34,800
\nright?
\nLike he was discovering things <\/p>\n
1152
\n00:59:34,800 –> 00:59:36,520
\nthat nobody had seen for
\nhundreds of years. <\/p>\n
1153
\n00:59:37,680 –> 00:59:40,280
\nAnd so he felt like, come on,
\nlike, how could you not be <\/p>\n
1154
\n00:59:40,280 –> 00:59:44,920
\npumped by this?
\nBut let’s put that stuff aside, <\/p>\n
1155
\n00:59:45,560 –> 00:59:51,280
\nand let’s learn to embrace.
\nThe peace that the gospel of <\/p>\n
1156
\n00:59:51,280 –> 00:59:54,400
\npeace really is, and I think
\nwe’re going to see as we go on <\/p>\n
1157
\n00:59:55,840 –> 00:59:59,680
\nthat as we learn more about the
\ngospel, we recognize that it’s <\/p>\n
1158
\n00:59:59,680 –> 01:00:02,840
\nnot just something that God
\nwants, but peace amongst <\/p>\n
1159
\n01:00:02,840 –> 01:00:05,040
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