The opening exhortation by Bro. Matthew Blewett from the same Idyllwild Bible School was used in GCT Episode 308.<\/p>\n
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\nIdyllwild Bible School.
\nOur third period teacher is <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Matthew Blewett.
\nHis general topic is Heaven and <\/p>\n
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\nEarth.
\nToday’s topic is Patterns of <\/p>\n
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\nPurpose.
\nRight, good morning everyone. <\/p>\n
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\nI will try and be loud to keep
\nyou awake for this graveyard <\/p>\n
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\nsession.
\nI’m sure as the week goes on, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ll become more fortified and
\nbe able to stay awake for the <\/p>\n
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\nwhole session.
\nWe’re going to be doing a series<\/p>\n
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\ncalled Heaven and Earth.
\nAnd this first session is kind <\/p>\n
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\nof, I guess, a foundational one,
\none that I have to go through to<\/p>\n
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\ntry and establish a kind of
\nthinking that I think is very <\/p>\n
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\nhelpful for the rest of what
\nwe’re going to be talking about <\/p>\n
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\nduring the week.
\nSo we might not get into the <\/p>\n
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\nmeat and bones of heaven and
\nEarth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I’m going to already make an
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\nI think if I ask you to open
\nyour Bibles and turn to Genesis <\/p>\n
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\none verse one, which you can do,
\nmany of you would probably <\/p>\n
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\nthink, well, I don’t need to do
\nthat, Matt, Because if there’s <\/p>\n
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\none verse in the Bible, I would
\nbe prepared to come on the stage<\/p>\n
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\nand give you a full of our heart
\nrepetitions of it is Genesis one<\/p>\n
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\nverse one.
\nAnd sure enough, it is probably <\/p>\n
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\nthe most well known verse in all
\nof the Bible. <\/p>\n
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\nEven I think people that don’t
\nbelieve that the Bible is the <\/p>\n
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\nword of God would be able to
\nrepeat the first verse of the <\/p>\n
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\nBible.
\nIn the beginning, God created <\/p>\n
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\nthe heaven and the earth.
\nAnd I have some good news about <\/p>\n
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\nthis series given that it’s in
\nthe third session and I’ve got <\/p>\n
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\nsome bad news.
\nThe good news is at one level <\/p>\n
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\nthis is going to be the most
\nsimple Bible school series <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ve ever attended.
\nPerfect for a third session <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we’re only going to talk
\nabout one verse and essentially <\/p>\n
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\n3 words.
\nAnd so we could do it all now <\/p>\n
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\nand it’ll all be done.
\nThe bad news is, at the same <\/p>\n
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\ntime, it could be the most
\ncomplicated that you’re ever <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to deal with.
\nAnd we’re dealing with really <\/p>\n
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\nthis relationship actually
\nbetween simplicity and <\/p>\n
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\ncomplexity, between order and
\nchaos, how it plays out in our <\/p>\n
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\nlives and how it plays out in
\nthe Word of God and in things <\/p>\n
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\nthat are spiritual.
\nAnd I guess that’s what we’re <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be trying to to deal
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\nI’m going to be focusing on this
\nverse, Genesis one, verse one. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the beginning, God created
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\nme.
\nIt’s only been probably in the <\/p>\n
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\nlast five or six years that the
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\nof the Bible has changed
\ncompletely. <\/p>\n
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\nI guess for me and maybe for
\nsome of you in this room before <\/p>\n
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\nI had this change of, of view of
\nGenesis one verse one, the first<\/p>\n
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\nverse of the Bible was a very
\npowerful opening introduction to<\/p>\n
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\nthe Bible that made it very
\nclear that God existed before <\/p>\n
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\nall things and then was the one
\nwho created all things that we <\/p>\n
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\nsee around us in the real world.
\nA very powerful introduction. <\/p>\n
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\nI want to put it to you that not
\nonly is it a powerful <\/p>\n
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\nintroduction, it is the whole
\nstory. <\/p>\n
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\nIt contains within it the
\npurpose and the pattern of <\/p>\n
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\nreality.
\nAnd from this verse we have a <\/p>\n
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\nframework and a lens to
\nunderstand not only the rest of <\/p>\n
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\nScripture, but in fact the real
\nnatural world in which we live. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd those are some, I hope,
\nquite bold claims. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what I want to try and do
\nduring this series of talks is <\/p>\n
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\nthrough taking you through what
\nI mean by that, what I mean by <\/p>\n
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\nthe pattern of heaven and earth,
\nto be able to show you that <\/p>\n
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\nperhaps there is some truth to
\nthe claim that I’m making. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s not just because I
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\nclaim.
\nIt’s because I think if you <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis, one verse one, first of
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\nas a lens or a framework when
\nyou do further Bible reading or <\/p>\n
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\nBible study.
\nBecause it just provides you <\/p>\n
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\nwith an angle of looking at
\nthings that perhaps is a little <\/p>\n
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\nbit different to the way you may
\nhave done it in the past. <\/p>\n
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\nBut even more importantly, well,
\nas importantly, I should rather <\/p>\n
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\nsay it provides a framework for
\nus to view the world in which we<\/p>\n
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\nlive in, the world of our five
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\nworks with the spiritual world.
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\ntoday and also perhaps for our
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\nWhat do I mean by that?
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\nsee a greater perspective on
\nthis pattern of heaven and <\/p>\n
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\nearth, is I want to encourage
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\nAnd I’m sure there are many who
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\ndisciples, but I want to
\nencourage us towards activated <\/p>\n
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\ndiscipleship.
\nAnd you’ll see as we carry on in<\/p>\n
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\nwhat I mean by that. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we live in a world that is
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\nWell, you know what I mean.
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\ntoday sitting back and consuming
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\nunderstanding how important it <\/p>\n
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\ntime we encounter our God is he
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\nYou know, we often talk about
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\ncharacteristics in Exodus 34.
\nHe’s merciful, gracious, <\/p>\n
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\nlong-suffering, abundant and
\nloving kindness and truth. <\/p>\n
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\nBut before we even learn that
\nabout God, we learn that he is a<\/p>\n
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\nHe is making things. <\/p>\n
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\nfirst session by talking about
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\nI’ve made the statement that in
\nGenesis chapter one, verse one, <\/p>\n
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\nheaven and earth, we have what <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve called what I would would
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\nit is that actually reality is <\/p>\n
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\nHopefully you’ll you’ll see why <\/p>\n
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\nI’m using that terminology.
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\nAnd I think it’s very useful
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\nunderstanding of how the world
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\nAnd also from when we reading
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\nalso that we have with one
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\ntrying to oversimplify the
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\nit’s going to help us to
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\nan oversimplified world or
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\nover complexity and chaos that
\nwe cannot come to grips with. <\/p>\n
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\nThe truth is somewhere in
\nbetween. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let me try and make some more
\nsense out of that. <\/p>\n
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\nWe live in a very complicated
\nworld right now. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are so many things going
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\nattention.
\nThere are millions and millions <\/p>\n
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\nof data points that could be
\nfeeding into you. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd quite frankly, some of them
\nare feeding into you and they <\/p>\n
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\nhave nothing to do with me right
\nnow. <\/p>\n
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\nBut hopefully for most of you,
\nbecause I’m the loudest person <\/p>\n
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\nit is we begin to see patterns
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\nway that we navigate our way <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the world.
\nWe navigate our way through the <\/p>\n
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\nworld through identifying
\npatterns. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the amazing thing is this is
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\nexist.
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\nthe natural world and in the
\nspiritual world, because there <\/p>\n
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\nwas a designer and a creator.
\nI often say to someone who <\/p>\n
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\nbelieves in a materialistic view
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\nWhy is it that we’re not in a <\/p>\n
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\nWhy is it that there is some <\/p>\n
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\nevidence, isn’t it, that there
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\nWhat do I do next?
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\nout into the world around you <\/p>\n
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\nand, and when you can see the
\npatterns of the world around <\/p>\n
340
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\nyou, you should be able to use
\nthose to link to the spiritual <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:49,880 –> 00:19:52,920
\ntruth patterns that are going to
\nteach you real significant <\/p>\n
342
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\nmeaning.
\nAnd of course, they weren’t able<\/p>\n
343
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\nto do that.
\nThey weren’t able to make that <\/p>\n
344
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\nlink that’s put in place in
\nGenesis chapter one. <\/p>\n
345
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\nAnd we want to try and do a lot
\nof that in this session. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:03,560 –> 00:20:09,040
\nNow, in actual fact, most of the
\npatterns that we encounter in <\/p>\n
347
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\nthe real world.
\nAnd I want to argue, actually, <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:12,040 –> 00:20:15,240
\nall the patterns that we find in
\nScripture are what we call <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:15,280 –> 00:20:18,960
\nfractal in nature.
\nSo I’m not sure how many of you <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:18,960 –> 00:20:22,200
\nhave ever come across the term
\nfractals, but I want to spend <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:22,360 –> 00:20:26,640
\nmaybe the last 20 minutes just
\ntalking to you about fractals. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:26,840 –> 00:20:28,320
\nAnd this is where the math comes
\nin. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:28,520 –> 00:20:30,960
\nSo, so far, if that was
\ncomplicated, that was the simple<\/p>\n
354
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\npart.
\nNow for the complicated part, <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:33,280 –> 00:20:37,880
\njust when you’re falling asleep.
\nAll right, So The thing is this.<\/p>\n
356
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\nWhy do we find things actually
\nbeing revealed in repeating <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:42,400 –> 00:20:44,560
\npatterns?
\nWell, again, Genesis provides <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:44,560 –> 00:20:47,280
\nthe answer.
\nThe way in which the world has <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:47,280 –> 00:20:51,520
\nactually, according to God be
\ncreated is through this idea of <\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:51,520 –> 00:20:56,920
\nforming and filling this idea of
\niteration, of repetition. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:57,240 –> 00:20:58,520
\nAnd that’s the beautiful
\nlanguage. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:58,520 –> 00:20:59,960
\nYou see when you’re reading
\nGenesis One. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:00,080 –> 00:21:02,560
\nIt’s kind of like you, you, you
\nsort of stumble over your words <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:02,560 –> 00:21:03,960
\nbecause it’s repeated over and
\nover again. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:03,960 –> 00:21:07,280
\nAnd you know, Genesis One’s got
\nso few words to describe the <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:07,280 –> 00:21:10,400
\ncreation of everything.
\nAnd yet over and over again it <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:10,400 –> 00:21:13,600
\nsays things like the Earth
\nbrought forth graph, the herb <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:13,600 –> 00:21:17,480
\nthat yields seed according to
\nits kind, the tree that yields <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:17,480 –> 00:21:20,800
\nfruit whose seed is in itself
\naccording to its kind. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:21,520 –> 00:21:25,280
\nThat emphasis is teaching us
\nthat the way in which the earth <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:25,280 –> 00:21:30,800
\nis revealing itself is this idea
\nof a seed that then produces <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:30,800 –> 00:21:35,640
\nfruit that repeats itself, that
\nreplicates itself, that iterates<\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:35,640 –> 00:21:38,200
\nitself.
\nAnd that’s really something <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:38,200 –> 00:21:42,080
\nimportant to observe, because
\nwhat we then learn to observe is<\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:42,080 –> 00:21:45,720
\nthat actually the patterns that
\nwe see in life are fractal. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:21:45,720 –> 00:21:50,120
\nThey are repeating but at
\ndifferent levels of scale and <\/p>\n
377
\n00:21:50,120 –> 00:21:52,720
\nthat’s what we actually mean
\nwhen we talk about a fractal. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:21:52,720 –> 00:21:56,640
\nSo that is what a fractal is.
\nI’m sure you have encountered <\/p>\n
379
\n00:21:56,640 –> 00:21:59,600
\nthem, even if you didn’t know
\nthat they were called fractals, <\/p>\n
380
\n00:21:59,920 –> 00:22:03,120
\nkaleidoscopes, like I’m sure
\nmany of you were given by your <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:03,120 –> 00:22:05,640
\nmum or your dad or your
\ngrandmother at some stage, but <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:05,800 –> 00:22:08,160
\nprobably they are on your
\ncomputer screensaver now. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:08,160 –> 00:22:12,640
\nIt is an example of a fractal.
\nA fractal describes a pattern <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:13,000 –> 00:22:17,080
\nthat has repeating self
\nsimilarity at different levels <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:17,080 –> 00:22:19,520
\nof Zoom.
\nAnd I feel like a university <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:19,520 –> 00:22:22,360
\nlecturer at this point in time
\ngiving you a formal definition <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:22,360 –> 00:22:23,800
\nlike that.
\nBut it’s going to get better <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:24,120 –> 00:22:26,640
\nbecause I just want you to
\nunderstand a little bit about <\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:26,640 –> 00:22:29,600
\nthis concept of practice.
\nBecause I think when we <\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:29,760 –> 00:22:33,040
\nobviously go through the rest of
\nthe series and we see the level <\/p>\n
391
\n00:22:33,040 –> 00:22:36,040
\nat which the heaven and earth
\npattern repeats itself <\/p>\n
392
\n00:22:36,040 –> 00:22:38,600
\nthroughout Scripture and
\nthroughout the reality of the <\/p>\n
393
\n00:22:38,600 –> 00:22:41,720
\nworld, we’re going to have to
\nunderstand this idea of <\/p>\n
394
\n00:22:41,720 –> 00:22:45,880
\nrepeating self similarity.
\nIt’s interesting that the phrase<\/p>\n
395
\n00:22:45,880 –> 00:22:49,680
\nself similarity is that when we
\nsee patterns in a fractal <\/p>\n
396
\n00:22:49,680 –> 00:22:53,000
\nrepeat, we’ve been talking about
\nthis idea of simplicity and <\/p>\n
397
\n00:22:53,000 –> 00:22:55,720
\ncomplexity.
\nIt’s isn’t that the repetition <\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:55,720 –> 00:23:00,000
\nis always exactly the same.
\nWe can pick up that it’s very <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:00,000 –> 00:23:04,280
\nsimilar, it’s self similar, but
\nalways there’s just a little bit<\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:04,280 –> 00:23:06,680
\nof a change.
\nThere’s just a little bit of <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:06,760 –> 00:23:09,440
\ncomplexity.
\nAnd if you think about it, <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:09,600 –> 00:23:13,720
\nthat’s where the beauty of the
\nnatural world and the spiritual <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:13,720 –> 00:23:16,600
\nworld lies.
\nIt’s never that we get it down <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:16,600 –> 00:23:19,040
\nand say, well, that’s something
\nwe can understand and it just <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:19,040 –> 00:23:22,880
\nrepeats over and over again.
\nBut rather that every time <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:22,880 –> 00:23:26,120
\nthere’s just something new,
\nthere’s something surprising. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:26,120 –> 00:23:31,880
\nI think, I guess at the essence
\nof what we call beauty is that <\/p>\n
408
\n00:23:31,880 –> 00:23:35,120
\nelement of surprise.
\nLike we’ve never quite got it. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:23:35,560 –> 00:23:39,080
\nAnd yet there’s enough
\nfamiliarity that we can lock <\/p>\n
410
\n00:23:39,080 –> 00:23:40,600
\ninto.
\nAnd that’s what’s being <\/p>\n
411
\n00:23:40,600 –> 00:23:41,960
\nexpressed in this idea of
\nfractals. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:23:41,960 –> 00:23:44,560
\nIn fact, the concept of fractals
\nis very new. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:23:44,560 –> 00:23:47,480
\nSo if you didn’t know about it,
\nyou you’ve got every excuse. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:23:47,480 –> 00:23:49,320
\nIt probably wasn’t taught you
\nwhen you were at school, <\/p>\n
415
\n00:23:49,320 –> 00:23:53,640
\nalthough the word was coined in
\nthe 1970s by this very handsome <\/p>\n
416
\n00:23:53,640 –> 00:23:56,320
\nletter over here, Benoit
\nMandelbrah. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:23:56,600 –> 00:24:00,240
\nAnd he was a Polish French
\nmathematician. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:00,640 –> 00:24:03,120
\nAnd I’m going to give you the
\nvery quick lesson on this chap. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:03,840 –> 00:24:06,080
\nAnd why is it important?
\nWell, because I’m not going to <\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:06,080 –> 00:24:09,600
\ntry and explain to you all the
\ndetail of what he discovered, <\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:09,600 –> 00:24:14,200
\nbut he, he really was looking at
\nthe real world and realising <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:14,400 –> 00:24:16,920
\nthat the way in which
\nmathematicians and especially <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:17,120 –> 00:24:19,920
\ngeometry people that were
\nworking in Euclidean geometry <\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:20,080 –> 00:24:22,760
\nwere trying to measure the
\nnatural world wasn’t working. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:24:22,960 –> 00:24:25,440
\nThe natural world just appeared
\ntoo complicated. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:24:26,280 –> 00:24:30,640
\nAnd the particular conundrum
\nthat was facing the <\/p>\n
427
\n00:24:30,880 –> 00:24:33,840
\nmathematicians of the time was
\nreally what they called the <\/p>\n
428
\n00:24:33,840 –> 00:24:38,080
\ncoastline paradox, which was,
\nyou know, if you were to measure<\/p>\n
429
\n00:24:38,360 –> 00:24:42,040
\nthe coastline of the beautiful,
\nis that the British Isles or <\/p>\n
430
\n00:24:42,040 –> 00:24:43,720
\nGreat Britain?
\nWhich one do I call that? <\/p>\n
431
\n00:24:44,400 –> 00:24:46,000
\nGreat Britain?
\nThank you very much, Johnny. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:24:46,000 –> 00:24:50,240
\nSo if if we had to try and
\nmeasure the coastline of Great <\/p>\n
433
\n00:24:50,240 –> 00:24:53,360
\nBritain, you know, you know, how
\nlong is it? <\/p>\n
434
\n00:24:53,360 –> 00:24:55,160
\nIs there one answer to that
\nquestion? <\/p>\n
435
\n00:24:55,480 –> 00:24:58,760
\nWell, Simply put, what
\nMandelbrough was able to <\/p>\n
436
\n00:24:58,760 –> 00:25:02,280
\npostulate is what it depends on
\nthe size of your ruler. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:03,240 –> 00:25:07,400
\nBecause hey, if you’ve got a big
\nruler that’s, I guess 100 miles <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:07,400 –> 00:25:09,640
\nlong, well then you’re going to
\nget a certain length. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:25:09,640 –> 00:25:13,400
\nIt’s going to be an OK answer.
\nIt’s going to be 1 answer that <\/p>\n
440
\n00:25:13,400 –> 00:25:16,640
\nis pretty much correct.
\nThis is the size of the <\/p>\n
441
\n00:25:16,640 –> 00:25:20,840
\ncircumference of Great Britain.
\nBut what if I give you a ruler <\/p>\n
442
\n00:25:20,840 –> 00:25:24,520
\nthat is now one mile long?
\nYou can see from the outline of <\/p>\n
443
\n00:25:24,520 –> 00:25:27,440
\nthe coastline suddenly now
\nyou’re going to start going into<\/p>\n
444
\n00:25:27,440 –> 00:25:30,760
\nthe the nooks and crannies of
\nthat coastline and your <\/p>\n
445
\n00:25:30,760 –> 00:25:34,280
\nmeasurements going to be longer.
\nAnd what if I gave you a <\/p>\n
446
\n00:25:34,280 –> 00:25:35,920
\nmeasurement that was one inch
\nlong? <\/p>\n
447
\n00:25:36,200 –> 00:25:37,320
\nAnd what if I gave you a
\nmeasurement? <\/p>\n
448
\n00:25:37,360 –> 00:25:39,800
\nYou can see where this is going,
\nwhich is one thousandth of an 1 <\/p>\n
449
\n00:25:39,800 –> 00:25:42,600
\nmillionth of an inch.
\nIn fact, what mathematicians <\/p>\n
450
\n00:25:42,600 –> 00:25:44,800
\nwill tell you, and I won’t try
\nand prove it to you using a <\/p>\n
451
\n00:25:44,800 –> 00:25:47,880
\nformula, that the circumference
\nand the people living in Great <\/p>\n
452
\n00:25:47,880 –> 00:25:50,200
\nBritain are going to be so
\npleased to hear this of their <\/p>\n
453
\n00:25:50,200 –> 00:25:55,200
\nbeautiful island is infinite,
\nthe space is finite. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:25:55,200 –> 00:25:56,880
\nThat’s an interesting thing just
\nto think about for a while. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:25:57,600 –> 00:26:01,680
\nThe the area is finite, but the
\ncircumference is infinite. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:26:01,840 –> 00:26:05,160
\nThere’s this point at which the
\ninfinite and finite are joining <\/p>\n
457
\n00:26:05,160 –> 00:26:08,360
\nare meeting.
\nAnd So what Bennett was able to <\/p>\n
458
\n00:26:08,360 –> 00:26:12,560
\ndo is he said, I wonder if I
\ncould create a formula to try <\/p>\n
459
\n00:26:12,560 –> 00:26:17,120
\nand work out like, like, what
\ndoes this space look like where <\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:17,120 –> 00:26:19,360
\nthe finite and the infinite
\ntouch? <\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:19,880 –> 00:26:22,080
\nWhat does it look like?
\nHas it got a shape? <\/p>\n
462
\n00:26:22,680 –> 00:26:26,800
\nIs there a shape to to the
\nmeeting of the finite and the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:26:26,800 –> 00:26:28,520
\ninfinite?
\nAnd he got it right. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:26:28,920 –> 00:26:32,440
\nHe created this thing called the
\nMandelbrot set. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:26:33,240 –> 00:26:37,000
\nAnd you know, this thing could
\nonly really be drawn when we <\/p>\n
466
\n00:26:37,000 –> 00:26:40,560
\nactually had the computing power
\nto do the calculations of <\/p>\n
467
\n00:26:40,560 –> 00:26:43,080
\niteration.
\nAnd this beautiful diagram that <\/p>\n
468
\n00:26:43,080 –> 00:26:44,960
\nyou’re seeing on your screen
\nhere, which is the Mandelbrot <\/p>\n
469
\n00:26:44,960 –> 00:26:46,800
\nset, and I’ll explain to you
\nexactly what it’s trying to <\/p>\n
470
\n00:26:46,800 –> 00:26:51,080
\ndemonstrate in a moment, is
\nbeing developed by extremely <\/p>\n
471
\n00:26:51,080 –> 00:26:56,440
\npowerful computing power to
\nactually reveal a very simple <\/p>\n
472
\n00:26:56,440 –> 00:26:59,280
\nmathematical formula.
\nAnd I say it’s simple, but I’m <\/p>\n
473
\n00:26:59,280 –> 00:27:01,560
\nnot going to put it up there for
\nyou, but believe you me, take my<\/p>\n
474
\n00:27:01,560 –> 00:27:03,800
\nword for it.
\nIt’s a formula representing <\/p>\n
475
\n00:27:03,800 –> 00:27:06,680
\niteration.
\nAnd all that Mandelbrot wanted <\/p>\n
476
\n00:27:06,680 –> 00:27:10,280
\nto do was to drive that formula
\nthrough, to put it onto a, A, a,<\/p>\n
477
\n00:27:11,640 –> 00:27:16,440
\na, an axis of X&Y, and then draw
\nthe set of numbers that you put <\/p>\n
478
\n00:27:16,440 –> 00:27:19,360
\ninto the series.
\nAnd the formula that actually <\/p>\n
479
\n00:27:19,880 –> 00:27:23,120
\nalways remained finite, in other
\nwords, the answers were always <\/p>\n
480
\n00:27:23,120 –> 00:27:24,520
\nfinite.
\nIn other words, they never <\/p>\n
481
\n00:27:24,520 –> 00:27:29,120
\nexploded into Infinity.
\nAnd all the answers of numbers <\/p>\n
482
\n00:27:29,280 –> 00:27:31,760
\nthat remain finite are coded
\nblack. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:27:32,000 –> 00:27:36,880
\nThey are in the Mandelbrot set.
\nAnd all the numbers that explode<\/p>\n
484
\n00:27:36,880 –> 00:27:39,880
\nto Infinity, you know, like when
\nyou’re doing that 8 ^2 and then <\/p>\n
485
\n00:27:39,880 –> 00:27:42,000
\nyou square 16.
\nYeah, Is that right? <\/p>\n
486
\n00:27:42,160 –> 00:27:45,000
\nAnd then you square 6, you know,
\nit just goes mad quickly, that <\/p>\n
487
\n00:27:45,000 –> 00:27:47,080
\nkind of thing.
\nAll those numbers are outside of<\/p>\n
488
\n00:27:47,080 –> 00:27:50,360
\nthe set.
\nBut here’s the thing, when they <\/p>\n
489
\n00:27:50,360 –> 00:27:52,000
\nstarted doing this, and you
\nmight say, well what are all <\/p>\n
490
\n00:27:52,000 –> 00:27:53,920
\nthese lovely other colours over
\nhere? <\/p>\n
491
\n00:27:54,440 –> 00:27:57,080
\nAnd all they’ve done is they’ve
\nsaid, OK, all the numbers that <\/p>\n
492
\n00:27:57,080 –> 00:27:59,240
\nfit into the finite set will
\nmake black. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:27:59,880 –> 00:28:02,840
\nAll the numbers that are
\nescaping, some of them escape <\/p>\n
494
\n00:28:02,840 –> 00:28:04,360
\nvery quickly.
\nIn other words, after three <\/p>\n
495
\n00:28:04,360 –> 00:28:06,960
\niterations, it’s a number that
\nwe can’t even understand. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:28:06,960 –> 00:28:09,440
\nSome take a long time.
\nSo what we’ll do is we’ll colour<\/p>\n
497
\n00:28:09,440 –> 00:28:11,800
\nthem differently.
\nAnd in this particular example, <\/p>\n
498
\n00:28:11,800 –> 00:28:14,480
\nyou can change your colours.
\nIn this example, they’re moving <\/p>\n
499
\n00:28:14,480 –> 00:28:19,320
\nfrom colours like blue, the blue
\nspectrum of the rainbow all the <\/p>\n
500
\n00:28:19,320 –> 00:28:22,000
\nway to red.
\nAnd blue means it took a longer <\/p>\n
501
\n00:28:22,000 –> 00:28:24,640
\ntime to escape to Infinity all
\nthe way to red where it’s <\/p>\n
502
\n00:28:24,640 –> 00:28:27,320
\nescaped quickly.
\nAnd so they took those simple <\/p>\n
503
\n00:28:27,320 –> 00:28:29,960
\nrules, they give it to a
\ncomputer and they say let’s see <\/p>\n
504
\n00:28:29,960 –> 00:28:33,240
\nwhat happens.
\nAnd the mathematician’s jaws <\/p>\n
505
\n00:28:33,280 –> 00:28:37,080
\ndropped because what they
\ndiscovered is this is this <\/p>\n
506
\n00:28:37,080 –> 00:28:41,520
\nrepeating pattern of self
\nsimilarity that was repeating in<\/p>\n
507
\n00:28:41,520 –> 00:28:44,360
\nthis most beautiful pattern that
\nyou’re seeing in front of you. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:28:44,520 –> 00:28:48,000
\nIn fact, the words of Mandelbrot
\nwere this was a way to see <\/p>\n
509
\n00:28:48,160 –> 00:28:51,240
\nInfinity.
\nBotanist wonders spring from <\/p>\n
510
\n00:28:51,240 –> 00:28:55,040
\nsimple rules which are repeated
\nwithout end. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:28:56,280 –> 00:28:59,040
\nAnd in a way, what we have up
\nthere, whether you believe me or<\/p>\n
512
\n00:28:59,040 –> 00:29:02,960
\nnot, is a view into the mind of
\nour Creator, and it is the <\/p>\n
513
\n00:29:02,960 –> 00:29:08,040
\nnature and structure of all
\npatterns, a view of Infinity and<\/p>\n
514
\n00:29:08,280 –> 00:29:13,000
\nInfinity together, underlying
\norder with surprises. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:29:13,400 –> 00:29:16,920
\nRomans 120 says, for since the
\ncreation of the world, his <\/p>\n
516
\n00:29:16,920 –> 00:29:20,440
\ninvisible attributes are clearly
\nseeing, being understood by the <\/p>\n
517
\n00:29:20,440 –> 00:29:23,480
\nthings that are made, even his
\neternal power. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:29:23,760 –> 00:29:28,520
\nAnd Godhead, there’s a chap, Oh,
\nhere we go. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:29:28,640 –> 00:29:30,360
\nHere’s the Mandelbrot set.
\nNow what we’re going to do is <\/p>\n
520
\n00:29:30,360 –> 00:29:33,920
\nwe’re going into zoom zone.
\nI want you to watch that as it’s<\/p>\n
521
\n00:29:33,920 –> 00:29:36,640
\nhappening, you’re going to start
\nseeing self similar patterns <\/p>\n
522
\n00:29:36,640 –> 00:29:39,520
\nrepeating over and over again.
\nSo what’s going on here is we’re<\/p>\n
523
\n00:29:39,520 –> 00:29:41,320
\njust reducing the scale all the
\ntime. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:29:41,560 –> 00:29:43,800
\nImagine you’re on your computer,
\nyou’re zooming in, you’re <\/p>\n
525
\n00:29:43,800 –> 00:29:46,680
\nzooming in.
\nBut as you’re zooming in, not <\/p>\n
526
\n00:29:46,680 –> 00:29:50,040
\nonly is it always interesting
\nand always new and beautiful, <\/p>\n
527
\n00:29:50,040 –> 00:29:51,720
\nbut you’re recognising
\nsimilarity. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:29:51,720 –> 00:29:54,320
\nCan you see the self similarity?
\nThat’s the fractal <\/p>\n
529
\n00:29:54,520 –> 00:29:58,360
\ncharacteristic, self similarity,
\nbut at the same time, beauty of <\/p>\n
530
\n00:29:58,360 –> 00:29:59,560
\ndetail.
\nThere it is again. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:29:59,800 –> 00:30:03,360
\nYou’ve seen that bugger before,
\nand there’s the same fractal <\/p>\n
532
\n00:30:03,360 –> 00:30:06,640
\npattern coming out again and
\nover and over again. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:30:06,880 –> 00:30:10,120
\nWe are seeing the same
\nsimilarity, but slightly <\/p>\n
534
\n00:30:10,120 –> 00:30:11,880
\ndifferent.
\nWe’re moving into what we call <\/p>\n
535
\n00:30:11,880 –> 00:30:15,000
\nthe Valley of the Sea Horses.
\nThat’s the Valley of the Sea <\/p>\n
536
\n00:30:15,000 –> 00:30:16,840
\nhorses.
\nAnd you’ll notice emerging out <\/p>\n
537
\n00:30:16,840 –> 00:30:20,600
\nof that is the original
\nmacrocosm that you saw in the <\/p>\n
538
\n00:30:20,600 –> 00:30:24,800
\nvery beginning, and it starts to
\nemerge over and over again. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:30:26,040 –> 00:30:28,520
\nJohannes Kepler, who actually
\nwas born before we really <\/p>\n
540
\n00:30:28,520 –> 00:30:31,040
\nunderstood fractals, said
\nsomething that I always thought <\/p>\n
541
\n00:30:31,040 –> 00:30:33,480
\nis quite amazing.
\nIn mathematics, we have the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:30:33,480 –> 00:30:36,400
\nopportunity to think God’s
\nthoughts after Him. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:30:36,920 –> 00:30:39,160
\nSince we astronomers, our
\npriests, are the highest God in <\/p>\n
544
\n00:30:39,160 –> 00:30:43,080
\nregard to the book of nature, it
\nbefits us to be thoughtful not <\/p>\n
545
\n00:30:43,080 –> 00:30:46,560
\nof the glory of our minds, but
\nrather, above all else, of the <\/p>\n
546
\n00:30:46,560 –> 00:30:51,360
\nglory of God.
\nSo why do I think this is <\/p>\n
547
\n00:30:51,360 –> 00:30:53,480
\nimportant?
\nWell, I want to show you that <\/p>\n
548
\n00:30:53,480 –> 00:30:56,520
\nwhen you understand the concept
\nof this repeating pattern at <\/p>\n
549
\n00:30:56,520 –> 00:30:59,600
\ndifferent levels of zoom, you
\nwill now start seeing it <\/p>\n
550
\n00:30:59,680 –> 00:31:02,720
\neverywhere in the natural world.
\nWell, let me show you what I <\/p>\n
551
\n00:31:02,720 –> 00:31:05,880
\nmean by that.
\nSo you’ve seen a Fern. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:31:06,320 –> 00:31:09,080
\nA Fern is a fractal.
\nCan you see that the overall <\/p>\n
553
\n00:31:09,080 –> 00:31:13,440
\nleaf of the Fern has a shape
\nthat every one of the sub leaves<\/p>\n
554
\n00:31:13,520 –> 00:31:16,480
\nthat’s coming off that Fern has
\nthe same shape That every one of<\/p>\n
555
\n00:31:16,480 –> 00:31:19,520
\nthe sub sub leaves of that Fern
\nhas the same shape. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:31:19,760 –> 00:31:23,040
\nIn fact even if you look at the
\nveins on a sub sub leaf it has <\/p>\n
557
\n00:31:23,040 –> 00:31:26,000
\nthe same shape.
\nYou could go and pick an example<\/p>\n
558
\n00:31:26,240 –> 00:31:28,800
\nbut just miss out on those
\nstinging nickels by the Creek. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:31:29,040 –> 00:31:31,080
\nMake sure you’re also
\naccompanied by an adult over the<\/p>\n
560
\n00:31:31,080 –> 00:31:34,720
\nage of 18.
\nAnd we see this all over in <\/p>\n
561
\n00:31:34,720 –> 00:31:38,000
\nflora.
\nThis self similar repeating <\/p>\n
562
\n00:31:38,040 –> 00:31:40,800
\npatterns.
\nFlowers. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:31:41,200 –> 00:31:43,720
\nLook at the flowers, go around,
\npick up a flower. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:31:43,720 –> 00:31:48,440
\nSee the fractal in the sea.
\nGood old octopus. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:31:49,520 –> 00:31:51,320
\nAnd here’s the thing that really
\nstunned. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:31:51,400 –> 00:31:54,000
\nAnd This is why a guy like
\nBenoit Mandelbrough, who was <\/p>\n
567
\n00:31:54,000 –> 00:31:56,680
\ntrying to actually understand if
\nhe could come up with a fractal <\/p>\n
568
\n00:31:56,680 –> 00:32:01,200
\ngeometry to try and work out how
\nhe could take the complexity of <\/p>\n
569
\n00:32:01,200 –> 00:32:05,720
\na coastline and be able to, to,
\nto come up with useful formulas <\/p>\n
570
\n00:32:05,720 –> 00:32:08,160
\nso that we could, we could
\nunderstand it better. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:32:08,400 –> 00:32:11,960
\nOr, or is it just chaos?
\nAnd as a result of the work that<\/p>\n
572
\n00:32:11,960 –> 00:32:14,680
\nhe did, I should have said he’s
\nbeen able to come up with a new <\/p>\n
573
\n00:32:14,680 –> 00:32:16,560
\nform of geometry called fractal
\ngeometry. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:32:16,560 –> 00:32:20,480
\nAnd that geometry is responsible
\nfor so many changes that we take<\/p>\n
575
\n00:32:20,480 –> 00:32:22,200
\nfor granted.
\nIn fact, the fact that you have <\/p>\n
576
\n00:32:22,320 –> 00:32:25,440
\nmobile phones, those of you that
\nare using them right now, you <\/p>\n
577
\n00:32:25,440 –> 00:32:28,080
\nwouldn’t have them if it wasn’t
\nfor fractal geometry. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:32:28,600 –> 00:32:30,720
\nMost of our healthcare systems
\nhave been impacted. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:32:30,920 –> 00:32:34,320
\nBut here’s the thing, you know,
\nin some ways we can maybe begin <\/p>\n
580
\n00:32:34,320 –> 00:32:37,800
\nto understand that in organic
\nsystems, we would have <\/p>\n
581
\n00:32:37,800 –> 00:32:42,040
\nrepetition at different scales.
\nBut this same repetition happens<\/p>\n
582
\n00:32:42,040 –> 00:32:44,560
\nin natural landscapes.
\nAnd there’s an example from <\/p>\n
583
\n00:32:44,560 –> 00:32:48,480
\nBryce Canyon on the screen, and
\nit happens when you look at <\/p>\n
584
\n00:32:48,480 –> 00:32:53,680
\nriver systems and natural
\ncoastlines and when you look at <\/p>\n
585
\n00:32:53,680 –> 00:32:56,040
\na snowflake, you see the same
\nthing. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:32:56,240 –> 00:32:58,600
\nLarge patterns, smaller
\npatterns, smaller patterns, <\/p>\n
587
\n00:32:58,600 –> 00:33:01,480
\nsmaller patterns.
\nMicrocosm, microcosm. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:33:02,920 –> 00:33:05,960
\nLightning in the sky has a
\nfractal pattern. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:33:05,960 –> 00:33:11,280
\nNature.
\nCyclonic weather systems have a <\/p>\n
590
\n00:33:11,280 –> 00:33:15,040
\nfractal pattern nature all the
\nway up into the way in which we <\/p>\n
591
\n00:33:15,040 –> 00:33:19,280
\nview the galaxies and the stars
\nwith a repeating structured <\/p>\n
592
\n00:33:19,440 –> 00:33:22,360
\npattern of self similarity.
\nBut then it comes all the way <\/p>\n
593
\n00:33:22,360 –> 00:33:24,760
\nback.
\nHere’s here’s the thing to our <\/p>\n
594
\n00:33:24,760 –> 00:33:27,840
\nown bodies, and This is why it’s
\nhad such an impact in <\/p>\n
595
\n00:33:27,840 –> 00:33:30,480
\nhealthcare.
\nUnderstanding that most of the <\/p>\n
596
\n00:33:30,520 –> 00:33:34,640
\norgans in our body are designed
\naround a fractal pattern system.<\/p>\n
597
\n00:33:34,880 –> 00:33:37,480
\nOur lungs have a fractal pattern
\nnature. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:33:38,400 –> 00:33:41,320
\nOur blood vessels have a fractal
\npattern nature. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:33:41,920 –> 00:33:46,080
\nIn fact, all of our nervous
\nsystem has a fractal pattern <\/p>\n
600
\n00:33:46,080 –> 00:33:49,280
\nnature all the way to our
\nbrains. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:33:49,400 –> 00:33:51,960
\nAnd the neural network that I
\nwas talking about a bit earlier <\/p>\n
602
\n00:33:51,960 –> 00:33:56,400
\non has a fractal pattern nature.
\nAnd when you look at that <\/p>\n
603
\n00:33:56,400 –> 00:33:59,960
\npicture, you begin to understand
\nwhy this is so significant. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:33:59,960 –> 00:34:04,800
\nBecause on the one side we have
\na picture of the fractal pattern<\/p>\n
605
\n00:34:04,800 –> 00:34:09,880
\nnature of the brain cell, and on
\nthe other we have perhaps the <\/p>\n
606
\n00:34:09,880 –> 00:34:14,920
\nhighest version that we can see
\nof the whole galaxies being <\/p>\n
607
\n00:34:14,920 –> 00:34:18,800
\nspread out in our universe with
\na very, very similar fractal <\/p>\n
608
\n00:34:19,000 –> 00:34:22,320
\npattern nature.
\nSo we have this idea of <\/p>\n
609
\n00:34:22,320 –> 00:34:26,360
\nmacrocosms and microcosms
\nrepeating patterns of self <\/p>\n
610
\n00:34:26,360 –> 00:34:29,320
\nsimilarity right throughout
\nnature. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:34:30,400 –> 00:34:34,320
\nAnd I think when we bring this
\nall back to what we want to be <\/p>\n
612
\n00:34:34,320 –> 00:34:38,960
\nlooking at throughout the series
\nis a I’m going to be encouraging<\/p>\n
613
\n00:34:38,960 –> 00:34:42,840
\nyou to look closer at the world
\naround you and the way in which <\/p>\n
614
\n00:34:42,840 –> 00:34:44,719
\nthose patterns are revealed to
\nus. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:34:44,920 –> 00:34:47,920
\nAnd the lessons as a result that
\nthey teach us and the <\/p>\n
616
\n00:34:47,920 –> 00:34:50,520
\nexperiences and the way in which
\nthey connect us to the <\/p>\n
617
\n00:34:50,520 –> 00:34:53,639
\nspiritual.
\nBut at the same time, it is an <\/p>\n
618
\n00:34:53,639 –> 00:34:55,800
\nincredible way to approach the
\nScripture. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:34:55,800 –> 00:35:00,000
\nI think so often when we come to
\nthe word of God and we come with<\/p>\n
620
\n00:35:00,360 –> 00:35:04,920
\na pure linear approach or a flat
\nline approach, we can lose the <\/p>\n
621
\n00:35:05,400 –> 00:35:09,120
\nthe true power of what is on
\noffer when we open up the word <\/p>\n
622
\n00:35:09,120 –> 00:35:10,760
\nof God.
\nAnd so I just wanted to spend a <\/p>\n
623
\n00:35:10,760 –> 00:35:14,080
\nlittle time just emphasizing
\nthat to finish off with. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:35:14,840 –> 00:35:19,560
\nSo the Bible is in fact, I
\nbelieve a fractal, fractal <\/p>\n
625
\n00:35:19,560 –> 00:35:21,880
\npattern.
\nIt’s laid out in fractal <\/p>\n
626
\n00:35:21,880 –> 00:35:24,840
\npatterns.
\nAnd that is why often when some <\/p>\n
627
\n00:35:24,840 –> 00:35:27,320
\npeople first encounter the
\nBible, it can appear chaotic. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:35:27,440 –> 00:35:29,000
\nIt’s not written out like a
\ntextbook. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:35:29,160 –> 00:35:31,360
\nIt’s not written out with a
\nbunch of rules and principles <\/p>\n
630
\n00:35:31,360 –> 00:35:34,520
\nthat we can just mark off for
\nsomeone who first encounters the<\/p>\n
631
\n00:35:34,520 –> 00:35:36,920
\nBible before they can start
\nrecognising the patterns. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:35:37,080 –> 00:35:39,080
\nIt’s like the coastline of the
\nUK. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:35:39,520 –> 00:35:44,400
\nIt just looks chaotic.
\nBut as you begin to to recognise<\/p>\n
634
\n00:35:44,400 –> 00:35:47,440
\nthe patterns, you begin to see
\nthe order and the structure. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:35:47,520 –> 00:35:51,520
\nBut here’s the here’s the point.
\nDon’t let that make you become <\/p>\n
636
\n00:35:51,520 –> 00:35:54,240
\nlazy.
\nDon’t let that make you think <\/p>\n
637
\n00:35:54,240 –> 00:35:56,560
\nyou’ve discovered it.
\nAnd they’re not going to be <\/p>\n
638
\n00:35:56,560 –> 00:35:59,600
\nrepeating self similarities to
\nthe point of Infinity. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:35:59,720 –> 00:36:02,320
\nNo, that’s the beauty we all
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:36:02,320 –> 00:36:04,920
\nThere’s just endless levels of
\nmarvel. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:36:05,160 –> 00:36:09,880
\nAs we zoom in and we get higher
\nand higher resolution view, we <\/p>\n
642
\n00:36:09,880 –> 00:36:13,600
\nsee more and more there’s self
\nsimilarity, the things that we <\/p>\n
643
\n00:36:13,600 –> 00:36:16,680
\ncan link to, but there are new
\nthings that are revealed all the<\/p>\n
644
\n00:36:16,680 –> 00:36:18,760
\ntime.
\nAnd so this is a great way to <\/p>\n
645
\n00:36:18,760 –> 00:36:22,080
\nthink about approaching our
\nBible reading our Bible study. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:36:22,080 –> 00:36:26,040
\nAnd the point is that actually
\nthe, the, the whole way in which<\/p>\n
647
\n00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:29,480
\nspecifically the Hebrew
\nscriptures are established is <\/p>\n
648
\n00:36:29,480 –> 00:36:31,760
\nactually using a pattern
\napproach. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:36:31,760 –> 00:36:34,400
\nAnd I, I know that some of you
\nhave come across some of these <\/p>\n
650
\n00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:39,200
\nideas that the literary style,
\nin fact of the Hebrew Bible is <\/p>\n
651
\n00:36:39,200 –> 00:36:41,360
\nvery much grounded in pattern
\nrecognition. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:36:41,560 –> 00:36:43,640
\nSo you would have come across
\nsome of you chiasms. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:36:43,640 –> 00:36:44,960
\nI haven’t got time to go into
\nthe detail. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:36:45,240 –> 00:36:47,040
\nYou could ask me if you want to
\nknow more details. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:36:47,040 –> 00:36:50,760
\nBut the way in which many texts
\nare actually set up is in a <\/p>\n
656
\n00:36:50,760 –> 00:36:54,240
\nrepeating pattern style.
\nAcrostic psalms and acrostic <\/p>\n
657
\n00:36:54,760 –> 00:36:57,440
\nchapters are using a pattern
\nstructure. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:36:58,520 –> 00:37:01,680
\nThere’s a lot of vocal pattern
\nin the Hebrew language, <\/p>\n
659
\n00:37:01,800 –> 00:37:05,200
\nincredible amount of use.
\nWe lose this in the English of <\/p>\n
660
\n00:37:05,200 –> 00:37:09,520
\nassonance and alliteration,
\nwhich is a a acoustic pattern <\/p>\n
661
\n00:37:09,720 –> 00:37:14,160
\nwhich is built into the Hebrew
\ntext, and of course thematic <\/p>\n
662
\n00:37:14,160 –> 00:37:16,680
\npattern.
\nSo when we look at themes in the<\/p>\n
663
\n00:37:16,680 –> 00:37:20,280
\nBible, we’re expecting to find
\nthose themes repeat, but at <\/p>\n
664
\n00:37:20,280 –> 00:37:23,720
\ndifferent layers and levels.
\nAnd this is often when we fall <\/p>\n
665
\n00:37:23,720 –> 00:37:28,480
\nover each other because we we
\nfind a link of a theme and then <\/p>\n
666
\n00:37:28,480 –> 00:37:30,560
\nsomebody else seems to have
\nfound something that looks <\/p>\n
667
\n00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:32,800
\ndifferent.
\nBut really all it is is <\/p>\n
668
\n00:37:32,800 –> 00:37:36,040
\nsomething at a different level
\nor scale that’s self similar. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:37:36,640 –> 00:37:39,880
\nAnd really that’s the fractal
\nnature of scripture revealing <\/p>\n
670
\n00:37:39,880 –> 00:37:41,920
\nitself.
\nI want to use an example so so <\/p>\n
671
\n00:37:41,920 –> 00:37:44,680
\nthat I can try and bring this
\ntogether to make some sense. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:37:44,680 –> 00:37:47,400
\nSo let’s have a look at this.
\nIf you’ve got your Bibles open, <\/p>\n
673
\n00:37:47,520 –> 00:37:49,160
\nlet’s go to Isaiah 9, verse
\nseven. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:37:50,440 –> 00:37:57,320
\nIsaiah Chapter 9 verse 7 and it
\nsays in Isaiah 9 verse seven, <\/p>\n
675
\n00:37:57,320 –> 00:38:00,160
\none of these passages that you
\nknow, if you if you think long <\/p>\n
676
\n00:38:00,160 –> 00:38:02,320
\nand hard about it, it kind of
\nlike messes with your mind <\/p>\n
677
\n00:38:02,320 –> 00:38:06,440
\nbecause it says this talking
\nabout the future Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n
678
\n00:38:06,760 –> 00:38:11,560
\nIsaiah 97 says of the increase
\nof his government and peace, <\/p>\n
679
\n00:38:11,880 –> 00:38:16,360
\nthere will be no end.
\nUpon the throne of David and <\/p>\n
680
\n00:38:16,360 –> 00:38:19,560
\nover his Kingdom, to order it
\nand establish it with judgement <\/p>\n
681
\n00:38:19,560 –> 00:38:22,120
\nand justice.
\nFrom that time forward, even <\/p>\n
682
\n00:38:22,120 –> 00:38:25,440
\nforever, the zeal of the Lord of
\nhosts will perform this. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:38:25,960 –> 00:38:28,240
\nSo we know that passage well.
\nBut did you see what that <\/p>\n
684
\n00:38:28,240 –> 00:38:31,640
\npassage says?
\nIt has this picture of endless <\/p>\n
685
\n00:38:31,680 –> 00:38:33,760
\niteration.
\nThat’s what’s going on there. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:38:34,120 –> 00:38:36,760
\nOf the increase of his
\ngovernment and peace, there will<\/p>\n
687
\n00:38:36,760 –> 00:38:38,600
\nbe no end.
\nIt’s like that, Mandelbrot said.<\/p>\n
688
\n00:38:38,720 –> 00:38:40,640
\nBecause by the way, I could have
\nleft to go in for two hours, <\/p>\n
689
\n00:38:40,640 –> 00:38:43,800
\njust zoom just keeps going and
\ndeeper and deeper. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:46,880
\nThere will be no end.
\nAnd this is this idea that we, <\/p>\n
691
\n00:38:47,080 –> 00:38:49,960
\nwe often just can’t get to grips
\nwith this idea of Infinity. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:38:50,120 –> 00:38:53,960
\nSo the Kingdom is here, but it’s
\njust growing and growing and <\/p>\n
693
\n00:38:53,960 –> 00:38:56,000
\ngrowing and becoming bigger and
\nbigger and bigger. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:38:56,680 –> 00:39:01,040
\nAnd that’s the eternity aspect
\nof the Kingdom in Isaiah 9 verse<\/p>\n
695
\n00:39:01,040 –> 00:39:04,480
\n7.
\nBut really that’s a macrocosm <\/p>\n
696
\n00:39:04,480 –> 00:39:07,800
\ngrowing scale of the fractal
\nthat is the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:39:08,760 –> 00:39:10,200
\nSo what’s the essence of the
\npattern? <\/p>\n
698
\n00:39:10,760 –> 00:39:13,760
\nWhat’s like the what’s the basic
\nstructure of the pattern of the <\/p>\n
699
\n00:39:13,760 –> 00:39:17,440
\nKingdom that we’re seeing
\nincreasing in size here in <\/p>\n
700
\n00:39:17,440 –> 00:39:19,520
\nIsaiah 9 verse seven?
\nWell, I want to put it to you <\/p>\n
701
\n00:39:19,520 –> 00:39:22,800
\nthat Jesus actually shares with
\nus the essence of the pattern in<\/p>\n
702
\n00:39:22,800 –> 00:39:25,200
\nthe Lord’s Prayer.
\nHe says in the Lord’s Prayer, we<\/p>\n
703
\n00:39:25,200 –> 00:39:31,520
\npray your Kingdom come, your
\nwill be done on earth as it is <\/p>\n
704
\n00:39:31,520 –> 00:39:34,880
\nin heaven.
\nSo the essence of the pattern of<\/p>\n
705
\n00:39:35,000 –> 00:39:40,280
\nKingdom is the sovereignty of
\nGod, God’s will, which is in <\/p>\n
706
\n00:39:40,280 –> 00:39:43,760
\nheaven on earth.
\nSo wherever we have the <\/p>\n
707
\n00:39:43,760 –> 00:39:48,480
\nsovereignty of God’s will
\nmanifested in earth, and we’ll <\/p>\n
708
\n00:39:48,480 –> 00:39:52,280
\ntalk a bit more about what earth
\ncan actually represent, we have <\/p>\n
709
\n00:39:52,400 –> 00:39:57,080
\nthe pattern of the Kingdom.
\nSo that’s why we see the <\/p>\n
710
\n00:39:57,080 –> 00:40:00,520
\nfollowing demonstrated as a
\nfractal in Daniel. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:40:00,520 –> 00:40:02,760
\nSo if you will come with me now
\nto Daniel. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:40:03,560 –> 00:40:05,440
\nChapter 2 We know this passage
\nvery well. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:40:05,440 –> 00:40:09,080
\nDaniel’s dream, Nebuchadnezzar’s
\ndream, Daniel’s interpretation <\/p>\n
714
\n00:40:09,280 –> 00:40:12,920
\nof Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, and I
\ndon’t know if you’ve noticed it,<\/p>\n
715
\n00:40:13,560 –> 00:40:17,240
\nhe’s describing the coming
\nKingdom, but he uses a <\/p>\n
716
\n00:40:17,240 –> 00:40:21,560
\nmicrocosm, macrocosm, kind of
\nincreasing scale way of <\/p>\n
717
\n00:40:21,560 –> 00:40:25,080
\ndescribing it.
\nSo we have in Daniel 2 verse 34,<\/p>\n
718
\n00:40:25,760 –> 00:40:30,720
\nyou watch while a stone was cut
\nwithout hands, which struck the <\/p>\n
719
\n00:40:30,720 –> 00:40:35,840
\nimage on its feet of iron and
\nclay and broke them in pieces. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:40:36,240 –> 00:40:40,920
\nSo we have, as it were, I put it
\nto you, a Kingdom, a stone cut <\/p>\n
721
\n00:40:40,920 –> 00:40:44,640
\nwithout hands.
\nJesus Christ, a man in whom the <\/p>\n
722
\n00:40:44,640 –> 00:40:50,120
\nsovereignty of heaven dwelt in
\nhim who was the first revelation<\/p>\n
723
\n00:40:50,120 –> 00:40:53,160
\ntruly of the Kingdom of God is
\nthe stone. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:40:53,840 –> 00:40:57,440
\nAnd that stone comes to the, the
\nimage of Nebuchadnezzar, the <\/p>\n
725
\n00:40:57,440 –> 00:40:59,480
\nkingdoms of men, as Daniel
\ndescribes this. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:40:59,680 –> 00:41:01,280
\nAnd it begins like that.
\nBoom. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:41:02,040 –> 00:41:04,600
\nNow what’s going to happen is
\nit’s going to iterate. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:41:04,600 –> 00:41:07,320
\nIt’s going to increase in scale
\nand size. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:41:07,480 –> 00:41:10,360
\nAnd so we have the way it’s
\ndescribed. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:41:10,840 –> 00:41:13,960
\nLook at verse 35.
\nThen the iron and the clay and <\/p>\n
731
\n00:41:13,960 –> 00:41:15,880
\nthe bronze and the silver and
\nthe gold were crushed together <\/p>\n
732
\n00:41:15,880 –> 00:41:18,440
\nand became like chaff from the
\nsumming summer threshing floor. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:41:18,640 –> 00:41:21,120
\nThe wind carried them away so
\nthat no trace of them was found.<\/p>\n
734
\n00:41:21,440 –> 00:41:24,640
\nAnd the stone that struck the
\nimage became a great mountain. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:41:25,360 –> 00:41:29,200
\nSo now that Kingdom that was a
\nstone, think of Azayanan, of the<\/p>\n
736
\n00:41:29,200 –> 00:41:31,520
\nincrease of his government has
\nnow become a mountain. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:41:32,080 –> 00:41:35,160
\nLike it’s Israel.
\nIt’s like now a Kingdom the size<\/p>\n
738
\n00:41:35,160 –> 00:41:37,640
\nof a mountain.
\nOh, OK, cool. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:41:37,640 –> 00:41:40,600
\nSo that is that that that
\nKingdom now is at a bigger <\/p>\n
740
\n00:41:40,600 –> 00:41:42,560
\nlevel, which is the level of a
\nmountain. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:41:42,960 –> 00:41:46,200
\nAnd then it says and the great
\nmountain then fold the whole <\/p>\n
742
\n00:41:46,200 –> 00:41:48,360
\nearth.
\nSo it says with as if the <\/p>\n
743
\n00:41:48,360 –> 00:41:51,880
\nmountain now has become a range
\nof mountains that’s following <\/p>\n
744
\n00:41:51,880 –> 00:41:55,120
\nthe earth.
\nAnd so we get in this microcosm,<\/p>\n
745
\n00:41:55,320 –> 00:41:59,480
\nmacrocosm, super macrocosm, it’s
\na fractal repeating itself. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:42:00,280 –> 00:42:04,960
\nAnd just in case you’re not
\nseeing it all now, when we come <\/p>\n
747
\n00:42:04,960 –> 00:42:08,160
\nback to that passage that for so
\nlong I think many of us have <\/p>\n
748
\n00:42:08,160 –> 00:42:12,080
\ntried to explain in the wrong
\nway when Jesus turned to them <\/p>\n
749
\n00:42:12,080 –> 00:42:14,800
\nand said, and the Kingdom of God
\nis within you. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:42:15,760 –> 00:42:21,400
\nAbsolutely, all the way to the
\nmacrocosm of one day, God’s <\/p>\n
751
\n00:42:21,400 –> 00:42:25,080
\nsovereignty fulling all the
\nearth as we have been promised, <\/p>\n
752
\n00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:30,520
\nall the way to the opportunity
\nfor right now, the sovereignty <\/p>\n
753
\n00:42:30,520 –> 00:42:36,240
\nof God, the will of heaven to
\nfull your heart and your life. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:41,520
\nAnd Jesus says the Kingdom of
\nGod is within you like a stone, <\/p>\n
755
\n00:42:41,800 –> 00:42:46,560
\nlike a seed, it will self
\nreplicate, it will become self <\/p>\n
756
\n00:42:46,560 –> 00:42:50,680
\nsimilar and grow and grow until
\nit fills the whole earth. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:42:51,080 –> 00:42:53,200
\nAnd that’s just one example of
\nmany. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:42:53,480 –> 00:42:56,840
\nBut the one fractal foundation
\nwe will be talking a lot about <\/p>\n
759
\n00:42:57,040 –> 00:42:59,960
\nand be illustrating over and
\nover again, is that which is <\/p>\n
760
\n00:42:59,960 –> 00:43:03,080
\ncaptured in the phrase heaven
\nand earth, which we will focus <\/p>\n
761
\n00:43:03,080 –> 00:43:04,440
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