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\nthe Collect Heaton UK Ecclesia.
\nThe theme for Brother Martin’s <\/p>\n
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\nclasses this week is Paradox of
\nLiberty. <\/p>\n
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\nToday’s class is entitled You
\nmay Freely eat, Brother Martin. <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters, 249 years
\nAnd about a week ago, Thomas <\/p>\n
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\nJefferson sent a letter to
\nBenjamin Franklin asking him to <\/p>\n
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\nedit your Declaration of
\nIndependence. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the letter basically said,
\nwe’ve reached the penultimate <\/p>\n
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\ndraft.
\nWe’re going to meet again <\/p>\n
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\ntomorrow.
\nIf you want to make any changes,<\/p>\n
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\nplease let us know at your
\nearliest convenience. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the draft as it stood, read
\nsomething like this. <\/p>\n
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\nWe hold these truths to be
\nyou’re finishing it in your <\/p>\n
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\nhead.
\nI can hear We hold these truths <\/p>\n
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\nto be sacred and undeniable,
\nthat all men are created equal, <\/p>\n
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\nthat they’re endowed by their
\ncreator with certain inalienable<\/p>\n
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\nrights, that among these are
\nlife, liberty, and the pursuit <\/p>\n
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\nof happiness.
\nAnd Franklin made very few <\/p>\n
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\nchanges.
\nBut one change he did make was <\/p>\n
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\ncataclysmic.
\nAnd you know what it was Because<\/p>\n
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\nit’s changed on the screen.
\nWe hold these truths not to be <\/p>\n
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\nsacred and undeniable, but to be
\nself-evident. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in making that change, there
\nemerged A remarkable parable for<\/p>\n
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\nthe post Christian world in
\nwhich you and I work out our <\/p>\n
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\ndiscipleship in trembling and in
\nfear. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause what Franklin was saying
\nwas, I don’t think these things <\/p>\n
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\nare theological issues.
\nI don’t think they’re sacred. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think you need God to
\ntell you about life and in <\/p>\n
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\nparticular liberty and
\neverything else. <\/p>\n
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\nInstead, we can begin to just
\nsimply work it out through the <\/p>\n
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\nprevailing culture of our day.
\nThese issues are just, am I <\/p>\n
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\nallowed to put it like this,
\ningredients in the American <\/p>\n
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\ndream, free to be changed and
\nworked through based on what’s <\/p>\n
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\nhappening at any one particular
\ntime. <\/p>\n
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\nSo much so brothers and sisters.
\nAnd this is the point for <\/p>\n
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\nstarting like this.
\nSo much so that when we think in<\/p>\n
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\nthe West of freedom, we tend to
\nthink about structural freedom. <\/p>\n
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\nWe tend to think about that and
\neverything that we talk about <\/p>\n
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\nwhen it comes to liberty is
\nframed around that particular <\/p>\n
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\nidea, your right to live or to
\nworship or to speak freely <\/p>\n
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\nwithout hindrance.
\nAnd, and in case it goes without<\/p>\n
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\nsaying it, are we not deeply
\nfortunate to live in a world <\/p>\n
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\nwhere where such things are
\ngenerally fortunate, generally <\/p>\n
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\nable to happen?
\nAn individual is free, so the <\/p>\n
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\nline goes, when the government
\nis out of the way. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the conversation that
\nruns beneath the surface, I <\/p>\n
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\nthink.
\nAnd we think less of gospel <\/p>\n
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\nfreedom, Christian freedom, my
\nfreedom to make certain choices <\/p>\n
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\nthat might limit me and lift up
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s one of the great things
\nof Scripture, so much so that <\/p>\n
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\nyou know about freedom, you know
\nabout being a servant to God, <\/p>\n
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\nyou know about being slaves.
\nAnd yet, because it’s such a big<\/p>\n
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\ntheme, it’s almost impossible to
\nwrap our arms around it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet that’s our task over the
\ncourse of the next 6 sessions. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I hope we’re going to have
\nsome fun doing it together, and <\/p>\n
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\nI hope we’ll get some great
\nbenefit from it. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does it mean, brothers and
\nsisters, to be free? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does it mean to be free?
\nFree, Free to do things, perhaps<\/p>\n
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\nfree to worship in the way you
\nwant. <\/p>\n
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\nFree to bear arms, free in the
\nUK now, to have blue passports <\/p>\n
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\ninstead of the old purple ones,
\nand to have wine in pint glass <\/p>\n
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\nmeasures, which was apparently a
\nbig part of the Brexit process a<\/p>\n
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\nfew years ago.
\nI’d never met anybody who wants <\/p>\n
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\nmeasure, but apparently it was <\/p>\n
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\nwhat the vote was all about.
\nFree to have a vaccine or not. <\/p>\n
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\nFree to wear a mask or not.
\nFree to choose your own future. <\/p>\n
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\nFree to choose your own gender
\nvery concept of bodily freedom <\/p>\n
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\nhas become something completely
\ndifferent now than it was 10 or <\/p>\n
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\n20 years ago.
\nSuggests to you that if you <\/p>\n
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\nlived in Jamaica or or West
\nAfrica or some of the southern <\/p>\n
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\nstates of the USA couple of 100
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\nvery different understanding of
\nliberty. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in fact, the Apostle Paul’s
\nwords, you are not your own, for<\/p>\n
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\nyou are bought at a price.
\nWell, they mean something wholly<\/p>\n
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\nreasonable and wholesome on the
\nlips of a disciple in 2025. <\/p>\n
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\nThey mean something really quite
\ndistasteful on the lips of a <\/p>\n
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\nchanging.
\nWhat we think about freedom <\/p>\n
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\nImportantly, what about freedom <\/p>\n
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\nNot just freedom to do certain <\/p>\n
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\nstuff, but what about freedom
\nfrom things you might think of? <\/p>\n
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\nFreedom from addiction, freedom
\nfrom guilt, freedom from fear. <\/p>\n
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\nSome of your Iranian brothers
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\nthe world hold on to that one
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\nFreedom from compulsive
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\nabusive relationship or a
\ntraumatic memory. <\/p>\n
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\nFreedom, I suppose, from an
\nautocratic government, Which was<\/p>\n
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\nwhere we started a few minutes
\nago. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I need to be careful what I
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\nLiberty is hard wired into our
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\nThat’s the point I’m trying to
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\nCompanies in the UK at least,
\nsign up to the Modern Slavery <\/p>\n
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\nAct Nations sign constitutional
\namendments on free speech. <\/p>\n
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\nYou might remember the Freedom
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\nThis was the Supreme Court in <\/p>\n
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\nAt the heart of liberty is the <\/p>\n
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\nmeaning, of the universe, of the
\nmystery of human life. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s now how we think in a
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\nmake you a pretty good case that
\nthat’s a direct air of the <\/p>\n
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\nchange that Franklin made in in
\nthe draft of the declaration, <\/p>\n
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\ngo along because we’re free to <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s countercultural to deny <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s countercultural to pick up <\/p>\n
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\nyour cross and follow Christ.
\nIt’s on trend to do what feels <\/p>\n
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\ngood and what feels right,
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\nthen checking the Internet to
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\nAnd I don’t know about you, but
\nI think that in the West, the <\/p>\n
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\nis so significant, not just
\nbecause of its of its location <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet the language of slavery <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so it behooves us just to
\ntry to understand a little more <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s the paradox, of course, <\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 116 and verse 16.
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\nI am your servant, the son of <\/p>\n
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\nyour maidservant.
\nYou’ve loosed my bones. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve just dropped that verse on
\nyou. <\/p>\n
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\nYou didn’t know it was coming,
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\nto reflect upon it.
\nBut whatever we understand of <\/p>\n
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\nliberty, whatever the psalmist
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\njust being free, is it?
\nIt’s not just an unfettered <\/p>\n
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\nopportunity to do whatever I
\nlike with whoever I want, <\/p>\n
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\nhowever I want, because this
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\ndescended from servants, and
\nhe’s free from his bonds, and <\/p>\n
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\nyet he’s still a servant,
\napparently willingly. <\/p>\n
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\nIt almost explains our own age,
\nin which we have all of this <\/p>\n
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\nfreedom, all of these
\nopportunities, and yet all of <\/p>\n
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\nthese ways in which we are not
\nfree. <\/p>\n
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\nLike Franklin declaring all men
\nfree while stoning slaves. <\/p>\n
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\nLike a government saying love is
\nlove because it couldn’t impinge<\/p>\n
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\non anybody’s freedom of
\nexpression without realising <\/p>\n
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\nthat the gospel impinges on
\neverybody’s freedom of <\/p>\n
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\nexpression.
\nLike the British once a year on <\/p>\n
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\nthe last Night of the Proms
\nconcert in London, singing <\/p>\n
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\nBritain’s Never Never Shall Be
\nSlaves, which was written when <\/p>\n
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\nwe had an empire and we had
\nslaves. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was a paradox within the
\nvery where we talk about this <\/p>\n
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\nsort of stuff.
\nWestern society is at a cultural<\/p>\n
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\ncrisis point of what it means to
\nbe human. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s why this subject is so
\ndifficult to get our arms around<\/p>\n
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\nbecause the very notion of being
\nfree is almost requires us to <\/p>\n
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\nhave a different vocabulary to
\nmake sense of it when we talk to<\/p>\n
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\nother people.
\nAnd, and I suggest to you that <\/p>\n
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\npost, well, I suppose post
\nCOVID, the world is, is just <\/p>\n
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\ndiscovering that we are not
\nquite as omnipotent as the post <\/p>\n
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\nwar generation told us we were.
\nSo we need to begin to rework <\/p>\n
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\nthings from the ground up.
\nThis is where we’re going in our<\/p>\n
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\nsessions.
\nBrothers and sisters, that was a<\/p>\n
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\nvery long preamble, but I think
\nit was an important one. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got 6 sessions and we’re
\ngoing to work our way through <\/p>\n
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\nsession #1 is about principles.
\nWe’re going to think about what <\/p>\n
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\nsome key principles of liberty
\nare that emerge from the <\/p>\n
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\nbeginning of the Scriptures.
\nWe’re going to move through the <\/p>\n
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\nbook of Genesis and in
\nparticular into the great <\/p>\n
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\nliberate, the, I was going to
\nsay the great liberation <\/p>\n
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\nmovement, the escape from Egypt,
\nthe release from bondage. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does that look like in this
\nparticular frame of liberty? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, think about what liberty
\nmeans in action. <\/p>\n
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\nHow does God talk to his nation
\nwhen they come out of Egypt? <\/p>\n
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\nme to eat it. <\/p>\n
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\nresist the lines and boundaries
\nwe’ve inherited from people in <\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:24,960 –> 00:19:26,920
\nthe past.
\nBut Orthodoxy insists that <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:26,920 –> 00:19:29,600
\ncertain limitations are
\nnecessary for freedom. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:30,480 –> 00:19:32,880
\nIf we do away with lines and
\nlimits, if we think every wall <\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:32,880 –> 00:19:35,120
\nneeds a sledgehammer, if we
\ncrumple the blueprint and toss <\/p>\n
343
\n00:19:35,120 –> 00:19:40,360
\nit aside, we may feel free, but
\nwe’ll never build anything that <\/p>\n
344
\n00:19:40,360 –> 00:19:45,080
\nlasts.
\nOurs is an age where everybody <\/p>\n
345
\n00:19:45,080 –> 00:19:47,640
\nhas a megaphone and nobody has a
\nfilter. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:19:48,360 –> 00:19:51,000
\nAnd we never talk about the
\ngoodness of constraints or the <\/p>\n
347
\n00:19:51,000 –> 00:19:53,040
\ngoodness of limits or the
\ngoodness of being finite, <\/p>\n
348
\n00:19:53,040 –> 00:19:55,880
\nbecause everybody wants to live
\nlonger and do more things and <\/p>\n
349
\n00:19:55,880 –> 00:19:59,240
\ntravel further.
\nAnd God is just saying, well, <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:59,240 –> 00:20:03,320
\nall of those things are there
\nwithin these broad boundaries. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:03,920 –> 00:20:11,320
\nFreedom principle #3 unlimited
\nfreedom surprisingly limits our <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:11,320 –> 00:20:16,360
\noptions and increases our
\nisolation because the natural <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:16,360 –> 00:20:19,520
\nconsequence of unlimited freedom
\nis loneliness. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:20,920 –> 00:20:25,400
\nIf you are the center of your
\nuniverse, at some point, at some<\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:25,400 –> 00:20:27,120
\npoint you are going to have to
\nlet somebody down. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:29,120 –> 00:20:32,800
\nWhether that’s your spouse or
\nyour best friend or somebody at <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:32,800 –> 00:20:36,400
\ncollege, if you are the center
\nof your universe and everything <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:36,400 –> 00:20:38,960
\nrevolves around you and nothing
\nelse matters, at some point <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:38,960 –> 00:20:41,280
\nsomebody else is going to have
\nto go by the wayside. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:42,680 –> 00:20:44,520
\nTakes us back to our
\nconversations about marriages, <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:44,520 –> 00:20:46,880
\ndoesn’t it?
\nIf you want to follow your <\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:46,880 –> 00:20:50,960
\ndreams and do you, you will be
\nthe loneliest person on the <\/p>\n
363
\n00:20:50,960 –> 00:20:52,480
\nplanet.
\nAnd Adam and Eve are just about <\/p>\n
364
\n00:20:52,480 –> 00:20:54,160
\nto discover that.
\nGenesis chapter 3 again. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:20:54,440 –> 00:21:00,160
\nCome down with me to verse 17,
\nbecause freedom is now <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:01,000 –> 00:21:03,280
\nchannelled in a particular
\ndirection to Adam. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:03,280 –> 00:21:05,120
\nGod said, Because you’ve
\nhearkened to the voice of your <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:05,120 –> 00:21:07,680
\nwife, and eaten of the tree
\nwhich I commanded you, saying, <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:07,680 –> 00:21:10,520
\nYou shall not eat of it.
\nCursed is the ground for your <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:10,520 –> 00:21:12,160
\nsake.
\nIn sorrow you shall eat of it <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:12,200 –> 00:21:15,720
\nall the days of your life.
\nThorns and thistles shall it <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:15,720 –> 00:21:18,320
\nbring forth to you, and you
\nshall eat the herb of the field,<\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:18,640 –> 00:21:21,760
\nand in the sweat of your face
\nyou shall eat bread until you <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:21,760 –> 00:21:24,800
\nreturn to the ground, for out of
\nit you were taken. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:25,320 –> 00:21:28,400
\nFor dust you are, and to dust
\nyou shall return. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:21:28,640 –> 00:21:30,720
\nFreedom is restricted because of
\nsin. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:21:30,720 –> 00:21:34,560
\nIt’s still wide, it’s just not
\nquite as wide as before, and it <\/p>\n
378
\n00:21:34,560 –> 00:21:36,800
\ninvolves work which it didn’t
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:21:37,320 –> 00:21:39,360
\nIn sorrow you’re going to eat
\nall the days of your life. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:21:39,360 –> 00:21:41,080
\nThorns and thistles will be with
\nyour food. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:21:41,080 –> 00:21:43,000
\nIn sweat you will eat until the
\nday that you die. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:21:44,080 –> 00:21:46,280
\nSets a theme which will again
\nland up in the parable of the <\/p>\n
383
\n00:21:46,280 –> 00:21:51,160
\nProdigal, that only when he
\nrealizes where the bread of life<\/p>\n
384
\n00:21:51,160 –> 00:21:54,880
\nis to be found and comes back to
\nhis father ready to make his <\/p>\n
385
\n00:21:54,880 –> 00:21:59,360
\nconfession of faith and say only
\nhere can I find life, does the <\/p>\n
386
\n00:21:59,360 –> 00:22:03,400
\nfather come out running to him.
\nThat’s why the father didn’t <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:03,400 –> 00:22:10,320
\nchase him off when the parable
\nstarts And he says, give me the <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:10,320 –> 00:22:11,800
\nportion of goods that falls to
\nme. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:11,800 –> 00:22:14,080
\nAnd he doesn’t say please.
\nAnd he doesn’t say Lord, father,<\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:14,080 –> 00:22:16,160
\nif it’s OK.
\nAnd he doesn’t say if the farm <\/p>\n
391
\n00:22:16,160 –> 00:22:18,840
\nis financially solvent.
\nHe says give it to me now. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:22:20,200 –> 00:22:26,080
\nAnd the father let’s him go
\nbecause the father represents <\/p>\n
393
\n00:22:26,080 –> 00:22:29,640
\nthe Lord who says if that’s the
\nfreedom you want, then you need <\/p>\n
394
\n00:22:29,640 –> 00:22:32,240
\nto go out and find how difficult
\nit is to live that particular <\/p>\n
395
\n00:22:32,240 –> 00:22:33,480
\nlife.
\nThere is. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:22:34,680 –> 00:22:36,040
\nThis is a random historical
\nfact. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:22:36,040 –> 00:22:38,560
\nWe’re not going to spend along
\nwith it, but the very first <\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:38,880 –> 00:22:42,400
\nwritten reference to freedom is
\nabout four and a half thousand <\/p>\n
399
\n00:22:42,400 –> 00:22:44,600
\nyears old.
\nAnd, and it’s a Sumerian word <\/p>\n
400
\n00:22:44,600 –> 00:22:46,200
\nand it literally means return to
\nmother. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:22:47,160 –> 00:22:49,440
\nThe word idea of manumission,
\nthe idea of coming back home, <\/p>\n
402
\n00:22:50,000 –> 00:22:52,800
\nthe idea of restoring somebody
\nto their original status. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:22:53,440 –> 00:22:57,520
\nFind that really intriguing, you
\nknow, because if that’s anywhere<\/p>\n
404
\n00:22:57,520 –> 00:23:00,960
\nclose to how Scripture is
\ntalking about it, then there is <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:00,960 –> 00:23:04,720
\nwithin this idea of freedom,
\nthis notion of restoration of <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:04,720 –> 00:23:08,200
\nbeing put back to where we were
\nbefore of the journey that <\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:08,200 –> 00:23:10,000
\nScripture takes us on of.
\nWell, we’ve come out from the <\/p>\n
408
\n00:23:10,000 –> 00:23:12,760
\ngarden now and everything that
\nthe Scripture is going to run <\/p>\n
409
\n00:23:12,760 –> 00:23:14,560
\nfrom here to the end of
\nRevelation is about how we get <\/p>\n
410
\n00:23:14,560 –> 00:23:18,040
\nback through the tree because
\nGod has made man upright and he <\/p>\n
411
\n00:23:18,040 –> 00:23:23,080
\nhas sought out many inventions.
\nReturn to mother is a rather <\/p>\n
412
\n00:23:23,080 –> 00:23:25,240
\nintriguing way of looking at how
\nthis works. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:23:25,240 –> 00:23:28,600
\nChapter 3 and verse 24, He drove
\nout the man and placed at the <\/p>\n
414
\n00:23:28,600 –> 00:23:31,280
\neast of the Garden of Eden
\nKerubim and a flaming sword <\/p>\n
415
\n00:23:31,280 –> 00:23:34,480
\nwhich turned every way to keep
\nthe way to the tree of life. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:23:35,160 –> 00:23:38,520
\nFreedom is flipped on its head
\nsuddenly here at the end of <\/p>\n
417
\n00:23:38,520 –> 00:23:40,680
\nGenesis chapter 3.
\nIt’s the same in the law, <\/p>\n
418
\n00:23:40,680 –> 00:23:44,640
\nactually.
\nPeople go outside the camp, <\/p>\n
419
\n00:23:45,720 –> 00:23:50,920
\ndon’t they?
\nFor discipline, for uncleanness <\/p>\n
420
\n00:23:51,560 –> 00:23:54,760
\nbecause of a particular sin.
\nAnd then there is a period of <\/p>\n
421
\n00:23:54,760 –> 00:23:57,240
\nwaiting and after that they come
\nback inside. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:23:59,080 –> 00:24:02,280
\nYou tell somebody who doesn’t
\nhave a, a biblical background, a<\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:02,280 –> 00:24:04,960
\nbiblical training about the idea
\nof Adam and Eve going out of the<\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:04,960 –> 00:24:06,240
\ngarden.
\nYou’d say, well, they’re free <\/p>\n
425
\n00:24:06,240 –> 00:24:08,720
\nnow.
\nThey don’t have these boundaries<\/p>\n
426
\n00:24:08,720 –> 00:24:10,520
\nwhere God is saying you can’t do
\nthis. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:24:11,560 –> 00:24:17,040
\nI mean, Genesis 3 and verse 24
\nis, is a tragedy, but the <\/p>\n
428
\n00:24:17,040 –> 00:24:19,440
\nworld’s going to look at it and
\nsay, well, you’re, I can do what<\/p>\n
429
\n00:24:19,440 –> 00:24:20,680
\nI want now.
\nThere are no boundaries. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:24:20,680 –> 00:24:24,760
\nI am free to deconstruct and do
\nwhatever I choose. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:24:25,680 –> 00:24:28,640
\nWhat the world calls unfettered
\nfreedom, God calls exile and <\/p>\n
432
\n00:24:28,640 –> 00:24:31,440
\ncaptivity.
\nWe need to learn to look through<\/p>\n
433
\n00:24:31,440 –> 00:24:32,960
\nan entirely different set of
\nlenses. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:24:33,880 –> 00:24:38,520
\nPrinciple #4 freedom looks like
\ncaptivity and captivity looks <\/p>\n
435
\n00:24:38,520 –> 00:24:42,240
\nlike freedom.
\nThink about when Israel asked <\/p>\n
436
\n00:24:42,240 –> 00:24:46,680
\nfor a king.
\nRemember what Samuel warns them <\/p>\n
437
\n00:24:46,760 –> 00:24:50,360
\nof.
\nIf you have a king, he will take<\/p>\n
438
\n00:24:50,360 –> 00:24:52,920
\nyour men and women and he will
\nput them to his work. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:24:54,160 –> 00:24:57,680
\nThings that start out looking
\ngood will actually finish up <\/p>\n
440
\n00:24:57,680 –> 00:25:01,160
\nlooking bad.
\nAnd so whenever Scripture talks <\/p>\n
441
\n00:25:01,200 –> 00:25:03,800
\nabout freedom, in particular
\nwhenever Genesis talks about <\/p>\n
442
\n00:25:03,800 –> 00:25:07,040
\nfreedom, it’s going to be hung
\naround these particular ideas. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:25:09,360 –> 00:25:11,600
\nLiberty is about bringing us
\nback to how things were at the <\/p>\n
444
\n00:25:11,600 –> 00:25:14,760
\nbeginning.
\nGod is looking for us to find, <\/p>\n
445
\n00:25:16,440 –> 00:25:20,840
\nto find a restoration, a return
\nto what He’d offered his <\/p>\n
446
\n00:25:20,840 –> 00:25:25,000
\ncreation at the beginning
\nbecause in a very dark sense, <\/p>\n
447
\n00:25:25,000 –> 00:25:28,880
\ncreation is now in bondage and
\nis subject to futility. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:25:30,360 –> 00:25:31,760
\nTo borrow words of the apostle
\nPaul. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:25:31,760 –> 00:25:33,560
\nCome on to Chapter 9 with me,
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:25:34,200 –> 00:25:42,520
\nGenesis 9.
\nThis is the covenant with Noah. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:25:45,080 –> 00:25:47,440
\nLet’s just summarize the first
\nfew verses. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:25:47,440 –> 00:25:50,800
\nThis is after the flood. 9 and
\nverse 1. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:53,720
\nBe fruitful and multiply and
\nreplenish the earth. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:25:53,720 –> 00:25:58,320
\nSo we’ve got a little echo of
\nearlier on in Genesis verse 2, <\/p>\n
455
\n00:25:58,320 –> 00:26:02,160
\nNoah’s going to have dominion
\nand, and God is generous with <\/p>\n
456
\n00:26:02,160 –> 00:26:04,560
\nthis, isn’t he?
\nEvery beast of the air and of <\/p>\n
457
\n00:26:04,560 –> 00:26:06,760
\nthe earth and every fowl of the
\nair and all that moves on the <\/p>\n
458
\n00:26:06,760 –> 00:26:08,760
\nearth and all the fishes of the
\nsea into your hand, they’re <\/p>\n
459
\n00:26:08,760 –> 00:26:10,360
\ndelivered.
\nThis is God’s liberality. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:10,360 –> 00:26:12,720
\nAgain, this is God’s broad
\nfreedom. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:13,520 –> 00:26:15,680
\nEvery moving thing that lives is
\nmeat for you. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:26:15,680 –> 00:26:18,480
\nEven as the green herb.
\nI’ve given you all things. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:26:20,440 –> 00:26:24,560
\nIt’s not 1000 miles away from
\nhow we begun with God giving <\/p>\n
464
\n00:26:24,560 –> 00:26:28,080
\nthem so much, but now there is
\njust a a rider on it. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:26:29,800 –> 00:26:33,560
\nVerses 4-5 and six, it’s all
\nyours. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:26:34,320 –> 00:26:37,320
\nBut here are the limits.
\nFirst of all, you’ve got to kill<\/p>\n
467
\n00:26:37,320 –> 00:26:41,160
\nthe animal before eating it.
\nVerses 5 and 6. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:26:42,000 –> 00:26:45,760
\nFreedom to have dominion does
\nnot mean the freedom to end <\/p>\n
469
\n00:26:45,760 –> 00:26:50,240
\nhuman life at your blood, your
\nblood of your lives. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:26:50,240 –> 00:26:55,320
\nI will require.
\nSo it mirrors Genesis 1-2 and <\/p>\n
471
\n00:26:55,320 –> 00:27:00,720
\nthree, but it’s conditioned now
\nfor sin being in the world <\/p>\n
472
\n00:27:00,880 –> 00:27:03,320
\nbecause we’ve had the sacrifice
\nof Genesis 3 and we’ve had the <\/p>\n
473
\n00:27:03,320 –> 00:27:08,320
\nmurder of Genesis 4 and we’ve
\nhad the rise of sin that has has<\/p>\n
474
\n00:27:08,320 –> 00:27:10,120
\nculminated in God sending the
\nflood. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:27:10,120 –> 00:27:12,840
\nIt’s the same pattern as before.
\nCreation isn’t free. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:27:13,040 –> 00:27:18,360
\nIt’s free to do something.
\nIt’s not just unfettered access <\/p>\n
477
\n00:27:18,360 –> 00:27:20,280
\nto whatever you want.
\nGod is painting brothers and <\/p>\n
478
\n00:27:20,280 –> 00:27:24,240
\nsisters on a massive canvas.
\nThis is the redemption story <\/p>\n
479
\n00:27:24,240 –> 00:27:26,800
\nthat God creates and man is
\ndriven out and Eden is restored <\/p>\n
480
\n00:27:26,800 –> 00:27:29,320
\nthrough this way back through
\nthe sword that the Lord will <\/p>\n
481
\n00:27:29,320 –> 00:27:33,080
\ntake back to the tree of life to
\ngo back to where we were at the <\/p>\n
482
\n00:27:33,080 –> 00:27:36,040
\nbeginning.
\nCreation is in bondage now and <\/p>\n
483
\n00:27:36,480 –> 00:27:40,080
\nand God’s God’s open handedness
\nthat we saw in those earlier <\/p>\n
484
\n00:27:40,080 –> 00:27:43,520
\nchapters is just is just
\nreworked slightly. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:27:45,440 –> 00:27:50,880
\nFreedom requires boundaries.
\nIf you have children, you know <\/p>\n
486
\n00:27:50,880 –> 00:27:53,280
\nthat absolutely.
\nIf you’ve ever driven a car at a<\/p>\n
487
\n00:27:53,280 –> 00:27:55,120
\nspeed limit, you know that
\nabsolutely. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:27:56,520 –> 00:27:59,920
\nWe like to be free, but also we
\nknow some way deep down there’s <\/p>\n
489
\n00:27:59,920 –> 00:28:01,880
\nsome values in having some kind
\nof boundaries. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:02,600 –> 00:28:06,680
\nNow, Genesis Chapter 9 is the
\nsecond iteration, second, <\/p>\n
491
\n00:28:06,680 –> 00:28:10,360
\nworking out of a narrative that
\nhas begun back in the beginning,<\/p>\n
492
\n00:28:10,360 –> 00:28:13,200
\nbecause you will notice in
\nChapter 9, there are some <\/p>\n
493
\n00:28:13,200 –> 00:28:15,440
\nconnections with those early
\nGenesis chapters. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:19,440
\nVerse 20, for example, there is
\na vineyard, just like at the <\/p>\n
495
\n00:28:19,440 –> 00:28:24,960
\nbeginning there was a garden and
\nNoah is going to take the fruit <\/p>\n
496
\n00:28:24,960 –> 00:28:27,560
\nof the vine just like Eve took
\nthe fruit of the tree. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:28:28,040 –> 00:28:29,280
\nAnd things are going to go
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:28:29,280 –> 00:28:33,360
\nAnd suddenly we’ve got mention
\nof nakedness in verse 22 and <\/p>\n
499
\n00:28:33,360 –> 00:28:38,160
\nthere is shame and a covering
\nand there are curses, verse 25, <\/p>\n
500
\n00:28:38,160 –> 00:28:42,520
\nand a blessing, verse 26, that
\nthe language is it’s a different<\/p>\n
501
\n00:28:42,520 –> 00:28:44,000
\nevent.
\nDon’t don’t misunderstand me, <\/p>\n
502
\n00:28:44,000 –> 00:28:46,480
\nbut they’re just little threads
\nthat come through from those <\/p>\n
503
\n00:28:46,480 –> 00:28:50,080
\nearly Genesis chapters.
\nAren’t there God’s Providence <\/p>\n
504
\n00:28:50,080 –> 00:28:53,400
\nand a garden and and fruit of a
\ntree and nakedness and curses. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:28:53,680 –> 00:28:57,040
\nThese these look like things
\nthat we’ve seen before. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:28:57,040 –> 00:29:01,600
\nIt’s a repeat in some ways of
\nGenesis chapters 2 and three. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:29:03,360 –> 00:29:06,600
\nAnd not only is this passage
\nlooking back, but it’s also <\/p>\n
508
\n00:29:06,600 –> 00:29:10,640
\nlooking forward to the exodus
\nthat will come when God leads <\/p>\n
509
\n00:29:10,640 –> 00:29:12,360
\nhis people from Egypt.
\nBecause when you think about the<\/p>\n
510
\n00:29:12,360 –> 00:29:17,160
\nfundamentals of the Noah
\naccount, the screen jumped ahead<\/p>\n
511
\n00:29:17,160 –> 00:29:18,840
\nof me, but it’s there.
\nYou can perhaps see it. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:29:18,840 –> 00:29:21,480
\nThere is there is a judgement on
\na wicked people. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:29:22,840 –> 00:29:25,040
\nThere are faithful family
\npassing through the water. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:29:26,480 –> 00:29:31,960
\nThey’re going to go from the
\nflood to a mountaintop and <\/p>\n
515
\n00:29:31,960 –> 00:29:33,920
\nthey’re on that mountain.
\nPeople and animals will be <\/p>\n
516
\n00:29:33,920 –> 00:29:36,520
\nbrought into covenant with God
\nat this mountain. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:29:36,520 –> 00:29:40,640
\nIt’s like Sinai.
\nThings that are happening in the<\/p>\n
518
\n00:29:40,640 –> 00:29:43,720
\nGenesis accounts are just
\nwhispering to us of things that <\/p>\n
519
\n00:29:43,720 –> 00:29:48,440
\nGod’s going to do later on a
\nbigger canvas, telling us about <\/p>\n
520
\n00:29:48,440 –> 00:29:51,400
\nthe things that God will do when
\nhe leads his people from Egypt, <\/p>\n
521
\n00:29:51,400 –> 00:29:55,200
\nwhen they are forged in the
\nfire, when they come out through<\/p>\n
522
\n00:29:55,200 –> 00:30:01,320
\nthe water, when they become his
\npeople, the Kingdom of priests <\/p>\n
523
\n00:30:01,320 –> 00:30:05,080
\nand the holy nation.
\nAnd we’re just getting whispers <\/p>\n
524
\n00:30:05,080 –> 00:30:06,600
\nof what freedom actually looks
\nlike. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:30:06,600 –> 00:30:10,960
\nNowhere is is living rather and
\nand his family are living a <\/p>\n
526
\n00:30:10,960 –> 00:30:17,320
\nrelease from captivity, a
\nrelease from slavery long before<\/p>\n
527
\n00:30:17,440 –> 00:30:21,400
\nthat event actually takes place.
\nAnd they are part of a single <\/p>\n
528
\n00:30:21,840 –> 00:30:24,640
\nthread that is running through
\nthese passages. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:30:25,040 –> 00:30:28,360
\nFreedom principle number,
\nwhatever number it is five. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:30:29,280 –> 00:30:34,520
\nI’m losing track already.
\nGod has a plan to reverse our <\/p>\n
531
\n00:30:34,520 –> 00:30:37,160
\ncaptivity.
\nThat’s the critical part of <\/p>\n
532
\n00:30:37,160 –> 00:30:39,400
\nthis.
\nNot just that we’re going to be <\/p>\n
533
\n00:30:39,400 –> 00:30:42,880
\nleft on our own, not just that
\nwe have to make it up as we go <\/p>\n
534
\n00:30:42,880 –> 00:30:47,440
\nalong, but that God has a plan
\nto return us back to where we <\/p>\n
535
\n00:30:47,440 –> 00:30:53,960
\nwere before Chapter 11.
\nAnd, and please take it in the <\/p>\n
536
\n00:30:53,960 –> 00:30:55,440
\nright way.
\nWhen I say the reason that we’re<\/p>\n
537
\n00:30:55,440 –> 00:30:57,880
\njust skipping over the surface
\nof these chapters is because <\/p>\n
538
\n00:30:57,880 –> 00:31:00,280
\nI’m, I’m assuming you know
\nwhat’s going on in them. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:31:01,160 –> 00:31:02,960
\nSo that’s why we’re just
\nbouncing off the surface a <\/p>\n
540
\n00:31:02,960 –> 00:31:04,680
\nlittle.
\nSo this is Chapter 11. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:31:04,680 –> 00:31:09,040
\nWell, if, if the events of Noah
\nlooked a little bit like a <\/p>\n
542
\n00:31:09,040 –> 00:31:14,160
\nreworking of, of the fall.
\nSo to Genesis 11 looks a little <\/p>\n
543
\n00:31:14,160 –> 00:31:17,080
\nbit like the reworking of the
\nfour, because Genesis 11, of <\/p>\n
544
\n00:31:17,080 –> 00:31:19,600
\ncourse, is the chapter about
\nthe, the, the tower of Babel. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:22,240
\nAnd you can look at this in lots
\nof different ways. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:31:22,240 –> 00:31:24,560
\nAnd people write about the tower
\nof Babel and, and say, whatever,<\/p>\n
547
\n00:31:24,840 –> 00:31:27,720
\nthere are things going on here.
\nIt’s, you know, it’s a tragic <\/p>\n
548
\n00:31:27,720 –> 00:31:30,120
\nscattering of people who had
\nbeen a community. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:31:30,480 –> 00:31:33,720
\nThat’s one way of looking at it,
\nthat that things had been good <\/p>\n
550
\n00:31:33,720 –> 00:31:37,080
\nand now they’re not.
\nThere’s there’s some crazy <\/p>\n
551
\n00:31:37,080 –> 00:31:39,280
\ntheory going around that this is
\nwhat this is proof that God <\/p>\n
552
\n00:31:39,280 –> 00:31:42,000
\ndoesn’t like technology.
\nI don’t think that’s what’s <\/p>\n
553
\n00:31:42,000 –> 00:31:44,200
\ngoing on in Genesis 11, but
\nthere’s a theory out there that <\/p>\n
554
\n00:31:44,200 –> 00:31:46,360
\nsays that that’s the case.
\nBut something is amiss, isn’t <\/p>\n
555
\n00:31:46,360 –> 00:31:48,200
\nit?
\nIn this narrative, Chapter 11 <\/p>\n
556
\n00:31:48,200 –> 00:31:50,960
\nand verse 1, the whole earth was
\nof one language and of one <\/p>\n
557
\n00:31:50,960 –> 00:31:53,040
\nspeech.
\nWell, actually that’s true in <\/p>\n
558
\n00:31:53,040 –> 00:31:54,920
\nChapter 11.
\nIt’s not true if you go back to <\/p>\n
559
\n00:31:54,920 –> 00:31:57,440
\nchapter 10, because there are
\nlanguages everywhere. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:31:57,640 –> 00:32:00,600
\nIn chapter 10, verse 5, for
\nexample, the Isles of the <\/p>\n
561
\n00:32:00,600 –> 00:32:03,720
\nGentiles were divided, everyone
\nafter his tongue, after their <\/p>\n
562
\n00:32:03,720 –> 00:32:07,920
\nfamilies in their nations.
\nSo that idea that that there is <\/p>\n
563
\n00:32:07,920 –> 00:32:11,720
\njust one language in the earth
\nis, is, is true of this place. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:32:12,800 –> 00:32:15,960
\nI don’t think it’s true of of
\nall of creation at this time. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:32:15,960 –> 00:32:18,920
\nI think it’s true of what’s
\nhappening in this particular <\/p>\n
566
\n00:32:18,920 –> 00:32:21,800
\nlocation.
\nAnd Genesis 11 is positioned as <\/p>\n
567
\n00:32:21,800 –> 00:32:25,080
\na rebellion against the Lord.
\nGod has called them to be <\/p>\n
568
\n00:32:25,080 –> 00:32:27,720
\nfruitful and multiply and fill
\nthe earth and subdue it. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:32:27,720 –> 00:32:31,400
\nAnd it’s the filling of the
\nearth which is being resisted <\/p>\n
570
\n00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:33,320
\nhere.
\nThey’re trying to stay in one <\/p>\n
571
\n00:32:33,320 –> 00:32:37,120
\nplace and not be be be scattered
\nand not be moved further away. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:32:37,760 –> 00:32:42,000
\nAnd so the first thing that they
\ndo, well, I was going to say the<\/p>\n
573
\n00:32:42,000 –> 00:32:45,480
\nfirst thing that they do is
\nbuild a tower to stay in one <\/p>\n
574
\n00:32:45,480 –> 00:32:48,080
\nplace.
\nActually, it’s not first thing <\/p>\n
575
\n00:32:48,080 –> 00:32:54,040
\nthat they do is to fire bricks
\nand your Bible antenna will go <\/p>\n
576
\n00:32:54,040 –> 00:32:58,960
\nup straight away because people
\nwho make bricks tend to speak of<\/p>\n
577
\n00:32:58,960 –> 00:33:01,000
\nus to us, the things that will
\nhappen later on. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:33:01,280 –> 00:33:03,360
\nIt actually tells us the key
\nproblem with Bible, the key <\/p>\n
579
\n00:33:03,360 –> 00:33:06,680
\nmotivation for what’s going on.
\nYou know, is it the is it that <\/p>\n
580
\n00:33:06,680 –> 00:33:08,840
\nthey’re trying to build it high?
\nOr is it that it’s the very <\/p>\n
581
\n00:33:08,840 –> 00:33:11,520
\nnotion of trying to do something
\nthat God has asked them not to <\/p>\n
582
\n00:33:11,520 –> 00:33:13,800
\ndo, which is lying underneath
\nthis. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:33:13,960 –> 00:33:16,960
\nAnd I think it’s the second one.
\nAnd I think this idea of the <\/p>\n
584
\n00:33:16,960 –> 00:33:20,920
\nbricks tells us why verse three,
\nthey said to one another, go to <\/p>\n
585
\n00:33:21,080 –> 00:33:23,480
\nlet us make brick and burn them
\nthroughly. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:33:23,600 –> 00:33:26,120
\nThere is one other place where
\nthat expression pops up. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:33:26,280 –> 00:33:29,600
\nYou probably know it.
\nIt’s Exodus chapter 1 where <\/p>\n
588
\n00:33:29,600 –> 00:33:32,480
\nwhere he where Pharaoh says,
\ncome on, let’s go and do the <\/p>\n
589
\n00:33:32,480 –> 00:33:36,720
\nsame thing.
\nWhat’s happening in Genesis 11 <\/p>\n
590
\n00:33:36,720 –> 00:33:40,800
\nis again, just anticipating the
\nrelease from bondage, or at <\/p>\n
591
\n00:33:40,800 –> 00:33:44,080
\nleast the circumstances that
\nprompt the release from bondage.<\/p>\n
592
\n00:33:45,920 –> 00:33:51,280
\nBrickmaking is is slave labour.
\nIt’s something that’s going to <\/p>\n
593
\n00:33:51,280 –> 00:33:54,040
\nget returned to when we get into
\nthe book of Exodus and they’re <\/p>\n
594
\n00:33:54,040 –> 00:33:57,880
\ngoing to secure their legacy by
\nbuilding it up to heaven. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:33:57,880 –> 00:34:00,880
\nNow, just, you know, for the
\navoidance of all doubt, brothers<\/p>\n
596
\n00:34:00,880 –> 00:34:04,960
\nand sisters, this is not about
\nsaving everybody who’s around <\/p>\n
597
\n00:34:04,960 –> 00:34:06,280
\nthem.
\nYou know, you think the slaves <\/p>\n
598
\n00:34:06,280 –> 00:34:08,679
\nwho are making the bricks are
\ngoing to get into the tower if a<\/p>\n
599
\n00:34:08,679 –> 00:34:12,480
\nsecond flood comes, Not in a
\nmillion years. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:34:14,199 –> 00:34:16,199
\nThis is not a way of making sure
\neverybody is safe. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:34:16,199 –> 00:34:19,280
\nThis is a way of making sure
\nthat those in power are safe and<\/p>\n
602
\n00:34:19,280 –> 00:34:20,960
\nthose who are doing the work are
\nnot. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:34:22,520 –> 00:34:24,679
\nAnd there are other connections
\nthere and you can see them if <\/p>\n
604
\n00:34:24,679 –> 00:34:29,920
\nyou can see the screen with what
\nwill happen later in the Exodus <\/p>\n
605
\n00:34:29,920 –> 00:34:31,679
\nfrom Egypt.
\nThey’re going to build a city <\/p>\n
606
\n00:34:31,679 –> 00:34:35,199
\nthat reaches up to heaven, which
\nis an an echo or which is echoed<\/p>\n
607
\n00:34:35,480 –> 00:34:39,960
\nin Deuteronomy Chapter 9.
\nThey are spoken of in verse 6 by<\/p>\n
608
\n00:34:39,960 –> 00:34:45,600
\nthe Lord as being one people and
\none language, which is a phrase <\/p>\n
609
\n00:34:45,600 –> 00:34:48,280
\nthat only ever pops up once in
\nGenesis in in another place. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:34:48,280 –> 00:34:50,400
\nAnd it’s to do with sexual
\nassault, which is not a great <\/p>\n
611
\n00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:53,920
\ncomparison.
\nWhat what Babel is, is, is being<\/p>\n
612
\n00:34:53,920 –> 00:35:00,560
\nshown as is a city in, in light
\nof other awful places, Shechem <\/p>\n
613
\n00:35:00,560 –> 00:35:03,560
\nand and Egypt, and that the
\ncities of Canaan. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:35:05,240 –> 00:35:07,160
\nWhat’s going on in Babel is not
\ngood news. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:35:07,160 –> 00:35:11,800
\nIt’s narrating the birth of
\nempire where I get to control <\/p>\n
616
\n00:35:11,800 –> 00:35:15,920
\nsomebody else by making the work
\nfor me and exploiting them. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:35:17,040 –> 00:35:19,840
\nAnd I think it explains that the
\ntransition between Genesis <\/p>\n
618
\n00:35:19,840 –> 00:35:22,480
\nchapter 10 and Genesis Chapter
\n11 as well. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:35:23,680 –> 00:35:27,200
\nIt’s not a golden age of
\nunderstanding where there is one<\/p>\n
620
\n00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:31,440
\nlanguage and everything is a
\nutopia and it only goes wrong <\/p>\n
621
\n00:35:31,440 –> 00:35:34,640
\nfrom here.
\nWe know that that’s not the case<\/p>\n
622
\n00:35:34,640 –> 00:35:36,400
\nbecause we’ve seen it go wrong
\ntwice already. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:35:37,920 –> 00:35:41,800
\nWe’re actually regressing from
\nGod’s command to fill the earth <\/p>\n
624
\n00:35:41,800 –> 00:35:44,920
\nand subdue it and go out and
\nexplore what’s there to <\/p>\n
625
\n00:35:44,920 –> 00:35:48,880
\nsomething enforced.
\nYou will speak only like this. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:35:48,880 –> 00:35:51,960
\nWhen the English colonized
\nisland they banned the use of <\/p>\n
627
\n00:35:51,960 –> 00:35:54,960
\nthe Irish languages.
\nIt was designed that only <\/p>\n
628
\n00:35:55,480 –> 00:35:59,280
\nEnglish was spoken when slaves
\ncame across on the Middle <\/p>\n
629
\n00:35:59,280 –> 00:36:02,960
\npassage W African languages were
\nbanned to avoid rebellion, so <\/p>\n
630
\n00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:08,240
\nthat only English was spoken
\nwhen Franco’s Spain was at it’s <\/p>\n
631
\n00:36:08,240 –> 00:36:10,520
\nheight.
\nCatalan and Basque languages <\/p>\n
632
\n00:36:10,520 –> 00:36:14,160
\nwere banned to avoid rebellion.
\nIt’s the same principle as <\/p>\n
633
\n00:36:14,160 –> 00:36:17,800
\nempires all across history.
\nWe stop people talking in other <\/p>\n
634
\n00:36:17,800 –> 00:36:19,760
\nlanguages because we don’t know
\nwhat they’re saying and we can’t<\/p>\n
635
\n00:36:19,760 –> 00:36:22,720
\ncontrol them.
\nAnd that’s what’s going on in <\/p>\n
636
\n00:36:22,720 –> 00:36:25,240
\nGenesis Chapter 11.
\nFreedom has turned in upon <\/p>\n
637
\n00:36:25,240 –> 00:36:30,200
\nitself.
\nGod has has commanded Noah to <\/p>\n
638
\n00:36:30,200 –> 00:36:33,680
\nhave dominion over a post Eden,
\npost flood world. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:36:33,920 –> 00:36:36,880
\nAnd one of the ways that that
\nwas going to be worked out was <\/p>\n
640
\n00:36:36,880 –> 00:36:38,560
\nthat people would spread across
\nthe world. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:36:38,760 –> 00:36:41,160
\nThey would speak in different
\nlanguages and they would glorify<\/p>\n
642
\n00:36:41,160 –> 00:36:42,600
\nGod in the way that it was going
\nto happen. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:36:44,880 –> 00:36:51,560
\nAnd it’s a story of how we can
\nmiss apply freedom at the <\/p>\n
644
\n00:36:51,560 –> 00:36:56,280
\nexpense of other people,
\nparticularly, I suppose, at the <\/p>\n
645
\n00:36:56,440 –> 00:37:01,400
\nin the pursuit of power.
\nI suppose it’s a comment on on <\/p>\n
646
\n00:37:01,400 –> 00:37:04,320
\nwhat happens when you undervalue
\nother people when you don’t see <\/p>\n
647
\n00:37:04,320 –> 00:37:05,920
\nthem as made being made in the
\nimage of God. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:37:05,920 –> 00:37:09,520
\nPeter talks about this idea.
\nYou might remember, in fact, <\/p>\n
649
\n00:37:09,520 –> 00:37:10,840
\nmaybe just come over if we’ve
\ngot time. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:37:10,840 –> 00:37:12,520
\nYes, we have first Peter chapter
\n2. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:37:12,720 –> 00:37:15,960
\nIt’s only a single verse, but
\nit’s good to good to look at it <\/p>\n
652
\n00:37:19,640 –> 00:37:25,920
\none Peter chapter 2 and I want
\nto bring you to verse 16, but <\/p>\n
653
\n00:37:25,920 –> 00:37:28,200
\nlet’s get the context from verse
\n15 as well. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:37:31,000 –> 00:37:33,320
\nSo is the will of God that in
\nwell doing you may put to <\/p>\n
655
\n00:37:33,320 –> 00:37:38,440
\nsilence the ignorance of foolish
\nmen as free and not using your <\/p>\n
656
\n00:37:38,440 –> 00:37:42,320
\nliberty for a cloak of
\nmaliciousness, but as the <\/p>\n
657
\n00:37:42,320 –> 00:37:46,640
\nservants of gods, don’t use your
\nfreedom to cover up evil. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:37:47,920 –> 00:37:53,000
\nSo freedom can lead to evil.
\nJust in case we thought that <\/p>\n
659
\n00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:55,000
\nthat wasn’t the case.
\nI think we figured it out now. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:37:55,000 –> 00:37:57,920
\nBut just in case we weren’t
\nsure, freedom can lead to evil <\/p>\n
661
\n00:37:58,640 –> 00:38:02,200
\nand liberty is good because
\nGod’s already cast his creation <\/p>\n
662
\n00:38:02,200 –> 00:38:04,600
\nin that particular way.
\nBut there is something about <\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:09,160
\nbeing in that place that can
\nlead us astray, which is why the<\/p>\n
664
\n00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:12,680
\nend of verse 16 says you’re
\nfree. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:38:14,080 –> 00:38:16,680
\nBut living as free men and women
\nrequires service. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:38:20,200 –> 00:38:23,040
\nAnd I just bring before you the
\nexample of the man who comes <\/p>\n
667
\n00:38:23,240 –> 00:38:29,280
\nafter the building of the Tower
\nof Babel, a man whose entire <\/p>\n
668
\n00:38:29,640 –> 00:38:35,040
\nlife was to run counter to the
\nprinciples that lay behind <\/p>\n
669
\n00:38:35,040 –> 00:38:37,000
\nbuilding that tower.
\nJust come back to Genesis. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:38:37,000 –> 00:38:39,000
\nI should have asked you to to
\nkeep a finger. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:38:39,000 –> 00:38:40,720
\nBut it’s not tricky to find, is
\nit? <\/p>\n
672
\n00:38:43,160 –> 00:38:47,760
\nGenesis Chapter 11 and chapter
\n12, Abraham’s call against the <\/p>\n
673
\n00:38:47,760 –> 00:38:51,880
\nbackdrop of the failure to build
\nthis tower and the promises that<\/p>\n
674
\n00:38:51,880 –> 00:38:55,880
\nGod is going to make to Abraham.
\nAbraham, as he’s called at the <\/p>\n
675
\n00:38:55,920 –> 00:38:59,760
\nbeginning, is everything the
\nbuilders of the tower wanted to <\/p>\n
676
\n00:38:59,760 –> 00:39:04,360
\nget for themselves.
\nAbraham’s going to give up his <\/p>\n
677
\n00:39:04,360 –> 00:39:05,800
\nfreedom.
\nIt’s the wrong slide. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:39:05,800 –> 00:39:08,040
\nThere we are.
\nHe’s going to voluntarily give <\/p>\n
679
\n00:39:08,040 –> 00:39:11,800
\nhimself up.
\nJust remind yourself about what <\/p>\n
680
\n00:39:11,800 –> 00:39:16,200
\nhappens in his, well, in the
\nbroad span of his life, he’s <\/p>\n
681
\n00:39:16,200 –> 00:39:18,840
\ngoing to leave his father’s
\nhouse and move away. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:39:18,920 –> 00:39:23,400
\nThe very opposite of the Babel
\nidea of let’s stay here and make<\/p>\n
683
\n00:39:23,400 –> 00:39:27,160
\nsure that we are OK.
\nSo chapter 12. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:39:27,920 –> 00:39:31,120
\nLeave your home, your country,
\nand your father’s house. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:39:32,600 –> 00:39:35,840
\nTurn your back on your past.
\nGive up everything that anchors <\/p>\n
686
\n00:39:35,840 –> 00:39:41,240
\nyou and makes you who you are.
\nGenesis chapter 20. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:39:41,280 –> 00:39:45,800
\nGenesis chapter 17, the covenant
\nof circumcision, that the way in<\/p>\n
688
\n00:39:45,800 –> 00:39:50,960
\nwhich you you show through this
\nthoroughly unpleasant process <\/p>\n
689
\n00:39:52,920 –> 00:39:54,840
\nthat you are not in control of
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:39:56,000 –> 00:39:59,520
\nThis vote of no confidence in
\nthe flesh, where the way in <\/p>\n
691
\n00:39:59,520 –> 00:40:02,120
\nwhich God was to show that the
\nson of promise was to be born <\/p>\n
692
\n00:40:02,120 –> 00:40:04,480
\nwas not through anything that
\nAbraham could do. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:40:06,480 –> 00:40:10,240
\nSo he gives up his past in
\nchapter 12 when he comes out of <\/p>\n
694
\n00:40:10,240 –> 00:40:14,000
\nher of the Colbies.
\nHe physically gives up his <\/p>\n
695
\n00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:19,240
\npresent in chapter 17 and then
\non Moriah, where there is little<\/p>\n
696
\n00:40:19,240 –> 00:40:24,160
\necho of Chapter 12.
\nLeave your home and your country<\/p>\n
697
\n00:40:24,160 –> 00:40:27,040
\nand your father’s house.
\nTake your son, your only son, <\/p>\n
698
\n00:40:27,040 –> 00:40:30,040
\nIsaac, whom you love.
\nThese threefold repetitions just<\/p>\n
699
\n00:40:30,040 –> 00:40:35,160
\nto tie up the passages.
\nHe’s going to go to Moriah and <\/p>\n
700
\n00:40:35,160 –> 00:40:39,000
\nwe’ll offer his son.
\nAnd the whole test of of gods <\/p>\n
701
\n00:40:39,120 –> 00:40:42,320
\nand Abraham and Isaac on the
\nmountain is for him to realize <\/p>\n
702
\n00:40:42,320 –> 00:40:48,600
\nwhose son Isaac really is.
\nAnd so he will give up his past <\/p>\n
703
\n00:40:48,880 –> 00:40:52,040
\nand he will give up his present.
\nAnd in picture language on <\/p>\n
704
\n00:40:52,040 –> 00:40:54,120
\nMoriah, he will give up his
\nfuture as well. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:40:54,560 –> 00:40:58,440
\nThat’s how God is going to
\nreverse our captivity, by us <\/p>\n
706
\n00:40:58,560 –> 00:41:04,080
\ndoing as Abraham did, by
\nrealizing that we can do nothing<\/p>\n
707
\n00:41:04,080 –> 00:41:09,920
\nof ourselves, but we can only
\nplace our discipleship, our <\/p>\n
708
\n00:41:10,120 –> 00:41:14,320
\nfuture, our hopes, our children,
\nour ecclesias in the hands of <\/p>\n
709
\n00:41:14,320 –> 00:41:19,000
\nAlmighty God.
\nAnd so the story of Abraham and <\/p>\n
710
\n00:41:19,000 –> 00:41:23,240
\nof the people that follow from
\nhim in goodness and truth and in<\/p>\n
711
\n00:41:23,240 –> 00:41:30,920
\nfaith is that the place that we
\nfind our our identity trying to <\/p>\n
712
\n00:41:30,920 –> 00:41:33,400
\nuse as many loaded terms as
\npossible in the first session. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:41:33,400 –> 00:41:35,120
\nSo you get used to them coming
\ndown the track. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:41:36,040 –> 00:41:38,520
\nA place that we make our
\nlegacies completely different <\/p>\n
715
\n00:41:38,520 –> 00:41:43,440
\nfrom the Babel project,
\ncompletely different from a view<\/p>\n
716
\n00:41:43,440 –> 00:41:45,760
\nthat says, well, it’s your
\nfault, Lord, you put the <\/p>\n
717
\n00:41:45,760 –> 00:41:49,920
\nboundaries in the wrong place.
\nWhat will happen with Abraham, <\/p>\n
718
\n00:41:49,920 –> 00:41:51,560
\nIsaac and Jacob?
\nWhat will happen with Moses, <\/p>\n
719
\n00:41:51,560 –> 00:41:54,920
\nWhat will happen, at least in
\nprinciple, with the nation of <\/p>\n
720
\n00:41:54,920 –> 00:41:58,120
\nIsrael is that people who choose
\nto leave their place and be <\/p>\n
721
\n00:41:58,120 –> 00:42:00,640
\nscattered can have faith in
\nAlmighty God. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:42:01,440 –> 00:42:04,920
\nThat, brothers and sisters, is
\nhow true liberty can be seen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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