Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 385.<\/p>\n
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\nI’d like to thank all of you for
\nyour hospitality to Sue and I <\/p>\n
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\nfor over the last week or so and
\nespecially here, all the good <\/p>\n
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\nfood that that kitchen staff has
\nprovided for us while we’ve been<\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nIt’s fun to get to know a lot of<\/p>\n
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\nyou and also the young people
\nthat are here in this area. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the first time Sue and I
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\nthe Canada.
\nUsually in Canada we may go up <\/p>\n
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\nto BC and maybe on the mainland,
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\nOntario in our younger years
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\nmost of our life and we, a lot
\nof our friends were Canadians. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, when I was teaching
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\nkids in my school thought I was
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\npoint in, in math or biology and
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\nyou Canadian?
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\nwe pick up from our Canadian
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\nWell, over the weekend, we’ve
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\nmorning at Sunday school, again
\nat God’s wonderful plan of <\/p>\n
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\nredemption.
\nAnd what a loving God that we <\/p>\n
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\nhave that he cared to redeem us.
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\nwhat we want to do this morning
\nis have a look at, well, if you <\/p>\n
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\nwere in God’s shoes, how would
\nyou teach the redemptive plan to<\/p>\n
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\npeople that didn’t have overhead
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\nand they didn’t have books that
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\nwhen you could write all this
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\nEverybody could just have a
\nlibrary at home and read it all.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd there were no magazines
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\nall that kind of stuff that we
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\nAnd we, we’re, so we’re so used
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\nWe can come to a class and we <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t even have to take notes
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\nhome.
\nWe can download the classes and <\/p>\n
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\nlisten to them again.
\nAnd we can even download <\/p>\n
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\nPowerPoints today from a lot of
\nthe websites today. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we really, we have it made
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\nSo from God’s perspective, how
\ndo you teach redemption when you<\/p>\n
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\nthose kind of things?
\nHow would you do it? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so God attempted to teach
\nredemption through ritual <\/p>\n
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\nprocedures that people would go
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\nWhen you go back and look at the
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\noften when we look at the law
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\non the law and we see how Paul
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\nlaw, no flesh will be justified.
\nAnd then you wonder, why did God<\/p>\n
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\ndo it in the first place?
\nWhy even bring about all this <\/p>\n
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\nritual behavior under the law?
\nSo when you go back to the very <\/p>\n
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\nbeginning in Genesis and you
\ndevelop what God attempted to <\/p>\n
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\ndo.
\nNow Adam and Eve had committed <\/p>\n
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\nsin and God had to decide what
\ndo you do at that point? <\/p>\n
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\nDo we do we destroy them?
\nThey could die at that point. <\/p>\n
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\nHe could have if he wanted to
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\nBut instead he attempts to
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\nHe tries to teach them how to
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\nHow do you find your way back to
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\nafter we’ve fallen from the
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\ninto?
\nAnd So what God tried to do then<\/p>\n
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\nis cover them with coats of
\nskin. <\/p>\n
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\nSo a lot of us realized that,
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\nsacrifice.
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\ngot Cain, we’ve got Abel.
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\nto pass that Cain brought an
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\nlings of his flock and they’re
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\nOh, that’s interesting because,
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\none that’s like got unequal legs
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\nyou realize, well, what was that
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\nAnd he bore our punishment on
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\nSo then you start figuring out,
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\nAnd so it’s fun to look at <\/p>\n
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\nthings like the hem that we just
\nsang hem one O 6. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you realize, well, when Jude
\nsaid that, that now to him who <\/p>\n
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\nis able to keep you from
\nfalling, well, in the Greek, the<\/p>\n
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\nwords that are used there, some
\nof the modern versions actually <\/p>\n
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\npick up on this really well.
\nAnd they realize that he was <\/p>\n
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\nbuilding on Old Testament animal
\nsacrifice words. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what he picks up.
\nAnd some of the versions <\/p>\n
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\nAnd This is why you wouldn’t <\/p>\n
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\npick an animal that had unequal
\nlegs like that, because they <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I didn’t want you picking <\/p>\n
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\nsomething that stumbled and to
\npresent you without blemish. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, that’s interesting.
\nThat’s right back to the <\/p>\n
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\nAnd So what God was doing with <\/p>\n
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\nthe animal sacrifices is saying,
\nlook at you pick out an animal <\/p>\n
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\nthat is perfect from the outward
\nappearance, and you take that <\/p>\n
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\nanimal and identify with that
\nanimal because the animal <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what it does, it <\/p>\n
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\nBehold, the Lamb of God who <\/p>\n
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\ntakes away the sin of the world.
\nJust run your mind through the <\/p>\n
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\nThis is what God was trying to <\/p>\n
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\nWe have an animal you’re going <\/p>\n
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\nThis animal is going to <\/p>\n
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\nWhat he wanted us to do was lay <\/p>\n
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\nour hands on that animal and
\nidentify with him and say I want<\/p>\n
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\na life like Messiah.
\nHe’s going to be out blemished, <\/p>\n
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\nthe world at large, this animal <\/p>\n
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\n00:17:36,120 –> 00:17:39,680
\nsacrifice just became like a
\nPagan thing, and it became <\/p>\n
337
\n00:17:39,680 –> 00:17:42,600
\nreally abused.
\nAnd so God looks across the <\/p>\n
338
\n00:17:42,600 –> 00:17:45,960
\nworld and decides, all right,
\nthere’s hardly anybody at this <\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:45,960 –> 00:17:49,480
\npoint that’s worth saving.
\nAnd he looks over there and ur <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:49,480 –> 00:17:51,320
\nthe Chaldees and there’s
\nAbraham. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:17:51,760 –> 00:17:54,520
\nAnd he brings Abraham and he
\ntalks to him and her and says, <\/p>\n
342
\n00:17:54,520 –> 00:17:57,720
\nlook, I’ll take you from there
\nand bring you into the promised <\/p>\n
343
\n00:17:57,720 –> 00:17:59,000
\nland.
\nHe went up through heroin. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:17:59,000 –> 00:18:00,880
\nHis dad died.
\nHe comes into the land. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:01,240 –> 00:18:04,520
\nAnd Abraham, he knew he could
\nwork with him because Abraham <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:04,520 –> 00:18:09,000
\nwould believe God and God could
\nthen impute righteousness to <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:09,000 –> 00:18:11,040
\nAbraham.
\nAbraham didn’t have this <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:11,040 –> 00:18:13,680
\nphilosophy of thinking, well,
\nI’m righteous because I just <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:13,680 –> 00:18:16,440
\nkill an animal and I walk away.
\nAn animal took my place. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:16,440 –> 00:18:19,960
\nIt was my substitute.
\nOh no, He understood by faith <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:20,320 –> 00:18:23,760
\nthat God would impute
\nrighteousness to him when he was<\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:23,800 –> 00:18:27,640
\npracticing righteousness, that
\nthat was his basic framework of <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:27,640 –> 00:18:30,600
\nhis life.
\nSo then God takes this man who <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:30,600 –> 00:18:34,320
\nhe accounts righteous and he’s
\ntrying to like, how do you how <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:34,320 –> 00:18:37,120
\ndo you then illustrate to
\nAbraham’s family? <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:37,280 –> 00:18:41,160
\nWe don’t want to let them lapse
\ninto just a substitutionary view<\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:41,160 –> 00:18:45,160
\nof animal sacrifice.
\nHow do we teach them that this <\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:45,160 –> 00:18:48,840
\nis really something that is in
\nyou and in me. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:49,040 –> 00:18:51,440
\nThis is this is something that’s
\nin our bodies. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:51,440 –> 00:18:54,520
\nIt’s to this physical principle
\nthat we looked at yesterday <\/p>\n
361
\n00:18:54,880 –> 00:18:58,280
\nthat’s got a moral impact on our
\nlife of turning us away from <\/p>\n
362
\n00:18:58,280 –> 00:18:59,720
\nGod.
\nAnd we have to fight this. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:18:59,720 –> 00:19:01,520
\nWe have to practice
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:01,920 –> 00:19:04,920
\nHow do you get them to
\nunderstand that so that they <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:04,920 –> 00:19:08,040
\nwon’t end up thinking that the
\nanimal sacrifices are just <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:08,360 –> 00:19:10,480
\noutside?
\nThat’s, you know me, I deserve <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:10,480 –> 00:19:12,520
\nto die and that’s it.
\nWhat are we going to do? <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:12,520 –> 00:19:15,840
\nHow do we teach them?
\nThis is about a moral, A moral <\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:15,840 –> 00:19:18,440
\nthing in our life, about
\npracticing righteousness. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:18,800 –> 00:19:23,360
\nSo what he does with Abraham is
\nafter counting Abraham righteous<\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:23,640 –> 00:19:28,360
\nand taking his family and God
\npromising him that he would send<\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:28,360 –> 00:19:30,960
\nthe promises to Abraham and his
\nfamily and what he would give <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:30,960 –> 00:19:34,760
\nhim the land.
\nIn Genesis 17, he gives him <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:34,880 –> 00:19:38,000
\ncircumcision, the sign of the
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:38,680 –> 00:19:41,400
\nAnd now you can imagine the
\ndiscussion amongst the angels in<\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:41,400 –> 00:19:42,760
\nheaven.
\nHow are we going to get his <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:42,760 –> 00:19:46,320
\nfamily to realize this is
\nsomething that’s in them that <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:46,320 –> 00:19:48,080
\nthat has to actually be worked
\non? <\/p>\n
379
\n00:19:48,720 –> 00:19:51,760
\nSo what do you do?
\nYou take a part of their body <\/p>\n
380
\n00:19:52,000 –> 00:19:57,280
\nthat is so connected with
\nimmorality and say, Abraham, if <\/p>\n
381
\n00:19:57,280 –> 00:19:59,680
\nyou and your family are going to
\nmake it and you’re going to be <\/p>\n
382
\n00:19:59,680 –> 00:20:03,600
\npart of my family, you have to
\nunderstand from the beginning, <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:03,600 –> 00:20:08,160
\nwhen a baby is born, 8 days into
\nit, there’s something in this <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:08,160 –> 00:20:10,520
\nbaby that’s already working
\nagainst me. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:11,120 –> 00:20:15,400
\nAnd So what I want you all to do
\nis commit as a family and as a <\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:15,400 –> 00:20:19,920
\ncommunity that you will work to
\ncut this off, that you will put <\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:19,920 –> 00:20:23,360
\nthis away, put to death what is
\nearthly in you, as our New <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:23,360 –> 00:20:27,120
\nTestament writers would say.
\nAnd they introduce circumcision <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:27,120 –> 00:20:30,960
\nto try to counter the problem
\nthat would be developing in the <\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:30,960 –> 00:20:33,400
\ncommunity of thinking, well,
\nthis is just like Pagan <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:33,400 –> 00:20:35,920
\nsacrifice.
\nAnd so now we’re going to have <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:35,920 –> 00:20:37,840
\nsomething.
\nIt’s in me, the problems <\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:37,840 –> 00:20:41,960
\nactually part of me from birth,
\nand I’m going to have to commit <\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:41,960 –> 00:20:43,880
\nto cutting this off.
\nIt would have been an <\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:43,880 –> 00:20:46,360
\ninteresting discussion because,
\nyou know, amongst the angels, <\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:46,360 –> 00:20:48,600
\nyou can imagine how they would
\nlook at that concept and <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:48,600 –> 00:20:52,600
\nrealize, well, not only can we
\nshow them that, but we can also <\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:52,600 –> 00:20:56,120
\nteach through circumcision that
\nwhat about all you girls? <\/p>\n
399
\n00:20:58,160 –> 00:21:01,720
\nYou can’t be circumcised.
\nSo what is that all about? <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:02,640 –> 00:21:07,960
\nSo we can illustrate the idea
\nthen that really none of the men<\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:07,960 –> 00:21:10,920
\nare really going to be fully
\ncircumcised. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:11,160 –> 00:21:15,720
\nThis is something, again, where
\nyou identify with Messiah just <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:15,720 –> 00:21:17,800
\nlike you do with the animal
\nsacrifice. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:18,040 –> 00:21:21,560
\nCircumcision was an
\nidentification with Christ. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:21,840 –> 00:21:25,680
\nThis is why Paul would say that
\nabout the true circumcision, <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:26,040 –> 00:21:28,720
\nthat only Christ was really
\ncircumcised. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:28,720 –> 00:21:32,280
\nHe’s the only one who really put
\nsin to death and who put it up <\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:32,280 –> 00:21:35,920
\nthere on the tree and killed it.
\nHe’s the only one who really cut<\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:35,920 –> 00:21:38,960
\noff the devil.
\nAnd So what the men were really <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:38,960 –> 00:21:41,880
\ndoing is acknowledging that look
\nat this is what we’re going to <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:41,880 –> 00:21:45,560
\ntry to do, practice
\nrighteousness, put sin to death,<\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:45,880 –> 00:21:47,960
\nbut we’re identifying with
\nMessiah. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:48,240 –> 00:21:53,200
\nAnd all of the girls were saved
\nin their husbands and the men <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:53,200 –> 00:21:56,080
\nthat they were connected with
\ntheir fathers and teaching the <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:56,080 –> 00:22:00,200
\ncommunity that really none of us
\nwere really righteous, that the <\/p>\n
416
\n00:22:00,200 –> 00:22:03,880
\nonly hope of anybody in this
\nfamily is that we are found in <\/p>\n
417
\n00:22:03,880 –> 00:22:08,160
\nMessiah, in him not having a
\nrighteousness of our own, but <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:08,160 –> 00:22:12,160
\none which is based on faith.
\nSo that was the attempt with <\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:12,160 –> 00:22:14,560
\ncircumcision.
\nBut inevitably, I mean, look at <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:14,560 –> 00:22:17,560
\nwhat happens with rituals.
\nThe Jews took circumcision and <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:17,560 –> 00:22:20,760
\nthey turned it in instead into
\nsomething where look at how good<\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:20,760 –> 00:22:22,120
\nwe are.
\nWe’re circumcised. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:22,120 –> 00:22:24,120
\nAnd what about all you Gentiles?
\nOh, you’re a bunch of <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:24,120 –> 00:22:26,680
\nBarbarians.
\nAnd they turn into something <\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:26,680 –> 00:22:29,560
\nthat God never intended to where
\nthey thought they were the <\/p>\n
426
\n00:22:29,560 –> 00:22:32,640
\nspecial people.
\nSo then as the community had <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:32,640 –> 00:22:35,200
\ncome out of Egypt, they had
\nspent all those years in Egypt, <\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:35,200 –> 00:22:37,800
\nbut exposed to all of those
\nwicked practices of the <\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:37,800 –> 00:22:40,400
\nEgyptian.
\nGod brings his community out of <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:43,240
\nEgypt.
\nAnd they were circumcised before<\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:43,240 –> 00:22:45,600
\nthey could eat the Passover.
\nIt’s always fun to look at. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:45,600 –> 00:22:47,120
\nWhere do you think that would
\nhave happened? <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:47,760 –> 00:22:50,560
\nProbably during the three days
\nwhen there was darkness in the <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:50,560 –> 00:22:53,840
\nland, Because then Joshua takes
\nhim in the land later on, 40 <\/p>\n
435
\n00:22:53,840 –> 00:22:56,360
\nyears later.
\nAnd they were circumcised the <\/p>\n
436
\n00:22:56,360 –> 00:22:58,800
\nsecond time, so there had to be
\na first. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:22:59,240 –> 00:23:01,000
\nBut he brings them into the
\nland. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:01,000 –> 00:23:02,800
\nThen he’s bringing them up into
\nthe land at least. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:02,800 –> 00:23:04,280
\nAnd Moses is bringing the people
\nup. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:04,280 –> 00:23:05,760
\nAnd they’re on the other side of
\nthe Jordan. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:06,000 –> 00:23:10,000
\nAnd remember what happened right
\nat the end, A new generation, 40<\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:10,000 –> 00:23:13,120
\nyears has gone by.
\nThe old generation had died off.<\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:13,120 –> 00:23:15,800
\nThe new young people, the
\nyounger people had come along. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:16,040 –> 00:23:19,840
\nYou aren’t the ones who made the
\nmistake of refusing to go into <\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:19,840 –> 00:23:21,920
\nthe land.
\nAnd here they are coming up <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:21,920 –> 00:23:23,800
\nthrough, you know, down in the
\nSouth or Eden. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:23,800 –> 00:23:25,120
\nThey’re coming up along the
\nside. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:25,280 –> 00:23:27,800
\nThey’re down there and they’re
\ncomplaining just like their <\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:27,800 –> 00:23:31,080
\nparents did about, oh, why did
\nyou bring us out here to die in <\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:31,080 –> 00:23:35,640
\nthe wilderness?
\nAnd so in Numbers 21, God sent <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:36,040 –> 00:23:40,320
\nserpents and they bit them.
\nYou were bit. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:40,960 –> 00:23:44,360
\nNow we realize, oh, wow, this
\nisn’t just something that’s in <\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:44,360 –> 00:23:46,960
\nour flesh that has to be cut
\noff. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:23:47,320 –> 00:23:49,440
\nThis is a poison that’s killing
\nme. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:23:49,960 –> 00:23:53,480
\nAnd so now they’re trying to
\nlike further develop the concept<\/p>\n
456
\n00:23:53,480 –> 00:23:55,800
\nabout the fact that we have a
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:23:56,520 –> 00:23:59,720
\nWe’ve got this snake bite in US.
\nYou’ve got this venom that’s <\/p>\n
458
\n00:23:59,720 –> 00:24:02,800
\ngoing through your bloodstream.
\nAnd instead of bringing life <\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:02,800 –> 00:24:05,520
\nlike blood, this is now killing
\nus. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:05,680 –> 00:24:09,360
\nIt’s going to bring about death.
\nAnd So what does God tell Moses?<\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:09,360 –> 00:24:12,280
\nWell, they’ll make make a
\nserpent out of bronze. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:12,640 –> 00:24:16,120
\nNow, he could have said to him,
\ntake a dead snake and put it up <\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:16,120 –> 00:24:17,640
\non the pole.
\nHe didn’t do that. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:17,880 –> 00:24:21,960
\nHe said, make a bronze snake,
\none that looks like the snakes, <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:22,240 –> 00:24:24,320
\nbut this one doesn’t have the
\nvenom. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:24,680 –> 00:24:27,040
\nThis one has never given in to
\nsin. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:27,400 –> 00:24:30,480
\nAnd put that up on the pole.
\nAnd everybody that looks up at <\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:30,480 –> 00:24:34,040
\nthat and realizes that, wow,
\nI’ve got this poison in me. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:34,240 –> 00:24:38,240
\nBut if I look at that in faith,
\nand I really want to do that, I <\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:38,240 –> 00:24:41,960
\nwant this old man to die.
\nI want this snake bite to be <\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:41,960 –> 00:24:45,200
\ndead up there on the pole.
\nI want these serpents to be gone<\/p>\n
472
\n00:24:45,200 –> 00:24:47,960
\nand dead up there.
\nAnd you then look back and <\/p>\n
473
\n00:24:47,960 –> 00:24:50,880
\nmeditate on it and think about
\nwhat is he teaching us about <\/p>\n
474
\n00:24:50,880 –> 00:24:54,160
\nMessiah?
\nThose people Is is he says <\/p>\n
475
\n00:24:54,160 –> 00:24:58,040
\nthey’re in Numbers 21.
\nAnd anyone who looks up, anyone <\/p>\n
476
\n00:24:58,080 –> 00:25:02,280
\nin this community, this isn’t
\njust Jews, This is everyone who <\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:02,280 –> 00:25:05,120
\nlooks up is saved.
\nThis is like John when Jesus <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:05,120 –> 00:25:08,280
\nquotes this in John chapter 3
\nand he says to Nicodemus and he <\/p>\n
479
\n00:25:08,280 –> 00:25:10,320
\nbrings up this incident.
\nEver wonder like why does he <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:10,320 –> 00:25:13,480
\nbring this up about the the Son
\nof man being like the serpent in<\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:13,480 –> 00:25:15,880
\nthe wilderness?
\nHe’s trying to get Nicodemus to <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:15,880 –> 00:25:18,640
\nget out of his shell of thinking
\nonly Jews can be saved. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:18,880 –> 00:25:21,120
\nAnd he said, didn’t you read
\nthat carefully there in Numbers <\/p>\n
484
\n00:25:21,120 –> 00:25:23,040
\n21?
\nDidn’t you notice that it said <\/p>\n
485
\n00:25:23,400 –> 00:25:27,240
\neveryone, anyone, You don’t have
\nto be a Jew for this. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:27,440 –> 00:25:31,160
\nThis is offered to anyone who
\nlooks up in faith if they, if <\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:31,160 –> 00:25:33,720
\nthey will respond to faith in
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:34,040 –> 00:25:37,080
\nAnd so that’s what happened then
\nwith the serpent on the pole. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:37,080 –> 00:25:40,480
\nThe goal was that they would
\nlook up there and commit to join<\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:40,480 –> 00:25:44,160
\nMessiah and the death to sin.
\nAcknowledge that I’ve got the <\/p>\n
491
\n00:25:44,160 –> 00:25:46,920
\nproblem in me.
\nI’ve been bitten by this snake. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:25:47,080 –> 00:25:50,520
\nI’ve got this venom in me that’s
\nkilling me and I want to find a <\/p>\n
493
\n00:25:50,520 –> 00:25:52,880
\nway to get rid of it.
\nI want, I don’t want that life. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:25:53,200 –> 00:25:55,440
\nAnd God was trying to win people
\nover. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:25:56,000 –> 00:25:58,280
\nSo then in the New Testament,
\nyou know, there’s others you can<\/p>\n
496
\n00:25:58,280 –> 00:25:59,920
\nlook at.
\nBut in the New Testament, John <\/p>\n
497
\n00:25:59,920 –> 00:26:01,960
\nBaptist comes along and what
\ndoes he do? <\/p>\n
498
\n00:26:01,960 –> 00:26:06,600
\nHe preaches a baptism of
\nrepentance, which we know that <\/p>\n
499
\n00:26:06,600 –> 00:26:10,000
\nthe apostle Paul picks up on in
\nRomans chapter 6 and gives us a <\/p>\n
500
\n00:26:10,000 –> 00:26:13,240
\ngreat exposition of what baptism
\nis supposed to mean. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:26:13,640 –> 00:26:16,960
\nWhen we’re baptized into Jesus
\nChrist, this baptism of <\/p>\n
502
\n00:26:16,960 –> 00:26:22,200
\nrepentance, we go down into the
\nwater, we bury the old man in <\/p>\n
503
\n00:26:22,200 –> 00:26:25,560
\nthe water, and we tell
\neverybody, I’ve got a problem. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:26:26,000 –> 00:26:28,920
\nI’ve got this devil in me.
\nI’ve got this old man, and he <\/p>\n
505
\n00:26:28,920 –> 00:26:33,440
\nwants to do my will, not God’s.
\nAnd what I want to do is commit <\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:33,440 –> 00:26:37,480
\nto telling everybody the angels
\nin heaven, God and Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:37,760 –> 00:26:40,800
\nI’m going to join with Christ
\nthe way he was saved. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:40,800 –> 00:26:44,040
\nI want to be like him.
\nAnd I want to put this old man <\/p>\n
509
\n00:26:44,040 –> 00:26:47,560
\ndown there in the water and
\nleave him there, bury him under <\/p>\n
510
\n00:26:47,560 –> 00:26:52,480
\nthe water and walk out a new
\nperson, someone who lives like <\/p>\n
511
\n00:26:52,680 –> 00:26:55,480
\nJesus Christ, resurrected from
\nthe dead, who doesn’t even have <\/p>\n
512
\n00:26:55,480 –> 00:26:57,800
\nthat anymore.
\nIt isn’t just that we walk out <\/p>\n
513
\n00:26:57,800 –> 00:27:00,000
\nand live like Jesus before his
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:27:00,280 –> 00:27:04,320
\nPaul says we walk out in a new
\nlife patterned after the <\/p>\n
515
\n00:27:04,320 –> 00:27:07,280
\nresurrected Christ.
\nWell, we don’t have this devil <\/p>\n
516
\n00:27:07,320 –> 00:27:09,760
\nin us anymore.
\nThis is what we’re aiming for. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:27:09,760 –> 00:27:12,040
\nThis is how you practice
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:27:12,360 –> 00:27:13,880
\nAnd this is what it’s supposed
\nto do. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:27:14,120 –> 00:27:17,240
\nSo when we go through that in
\nbaptism, then it’s we’re we’re <\/p>\n
520
\n00:27:17,320 –> 00:27:19,840
\nchanging masters.
\nWe’re saying I’m no longer going<\/p>\n
521
\n00:27:19,840 –> 00:27:21,520
\nto serve self.
\nI’m not going to, I’m going to <\/p>\n
522
\n00:27:21,520 –> 00:27:23,680
\nserve sin.
\nAnd it’s fun how Paul does that.<\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:23,680 –> 00:27:26,000
\nHe he, he actually talks about
\nas being sin. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:26,280 –> 00:27:28,560
\nHe doesn’t even use the word
\ndevil or anything else that we <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:28,560 –> 00:27:31,960
\ncan misunderstand.
\nHe just says the master is sin. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:32,000 –> 00:27:34,520
\nAnd we leave that way of life
\ndown there. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:34,640 –> 00:27:38,240
\nAnd now we’ve transferred our
\nallegiance to God, and now we <\/p>\n
528
\n00:27:38,240 –> 00:27:42,160
\nare slaves of Jesus Christ, and
\nnow we practice righteousness. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:27:42,600 –> 00:27:45,240
\nAnd you can see in Christ’s
\nbaptism, no wonder God opened <\/p>\n
530
\n00:27:45,240 –> 00:27:48,440
\nthe heavens and said, this is my
\nbeloved son, listen to him. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:27:48,720 –> 00:27:52,360
\nBecause finally somebody was
\nwilling to really do it. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:27:53,000 –> 00:27:55,160
\nAnd then we come to the bread
\nand the wine, brothers and <\/p>\n
533
\n00:27:55,160 –> 00:27:56,600
\nsisters.
\nAnd you look at the bread and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:27:56,600 –> 00:28:00,080
\nthe wine, and you can see how
\nGod is now trying to take these <\/p>\n
535
\n00:28:00,080 –> 00:28:05,240
\nritual procedures and develop
\nthem for us because the natural <\/p>\n
536
\n00:28:05,240 –> 00:28:09,080
\ntendency for all of us is to
\nturn them into rituals. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:28:09,400 –> 00:28:12,760
\nThen we lose their meaning.
\nWe could do that so easily with <\/p>\n
538
\n00:28:12,760 –> 00:28:16,480
\nour own baptism even today.
\nWe could be baptized 30 years <\/p>\n
539
\n00:28:16,480 –> 00:28:19,360
\nago.
\nThey could be baptized 2 years <\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:19,360 –> 00:28:21,200
\nago.
\nAnd it can already happen that <\/p>\n
541
\n00:28:21,200 –> 00:28:23,920
\nwe just figured, well, I was
\nbaptized into Christ. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:24,160 –> 00:28:27,960
\nI now have changed my allegiance
\nand now I’m in God’s family. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:28,200 –> 00:28:31,280
\nAnd now, like Paul would say,
\ndoes that mean that now we can <\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:31,280 –> 00:28:34,480
\nsend that grace may abound?
\nIs this supposed to affect your <\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:34,480 –> 00:28:36,120
\nlife?
\nOr is it just a case of where <\/p>\n
546
\n00:28:36,120 –> 00:28:38,680
\nyou’ve been baptized into the
\nright church? <\/p>\n
547
\n00:28:39,000 –> 00:28:42,000
\nAnd now God will save me and he
\ncan’t save other people because <\/p>\n
548
\n00:28:42,000 –> 00:28:45,400
\nI joined the right church.
\nAnd that isn’t it at all. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:28:45,600 –> 00:28:49,320
\nHe’s trying to change how we
\nlive so that we live like <\/p>\n
550
\n00:28:49,440 –> 00:28:51,360
\nchildren.
\nWe live like his children. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:28:51,720 –> 00:28:54,560
\nAnd so we come to the emblems
\nthis morning with the bread and <\/p>\n
552
\n00:28:54,560 –> 00:28:57,080
\nthe wine and you look at, well,
\nwhat is he doing now? <\/p>\n
553
\n00:28:57,080 –> 00:29:00,920
\nHe’s taken something where he
\nsays, look at this is a new kind<\/p>\n
554
\n00:29:00,920 –> 00:29:02,200
\nof life that you’re going to
\nlive. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:29:02,400 –> 00:29:05,880
\nYou can now have the advantages
\nthat we have in Christ Jesus, <\/p>\n
556
\n00:29:05,880 –> 00:29:08,080
\nthe freedoms for which he’s
\nbrought into our life. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:29:08,520 –> 00:29:12,800
\nBut when we take the bread and
\nwe drink the wine now, this <\/p>\n
558
\n00:29:12,800 –> 00:29:15,240
\nisn’t anything like external
\nanymore. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:29:15,240 –> 00:29:17,880
\nThis is something you cut off
\nlike circumcision and then just <\/p>\n
560
\n00:29:17,880 –> 00:29:20,160
\nthrow it away.
\nThis isn’t that kind of thing. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:29:20,160 –> 00:29:22,680
\nIt’s not even like a serpent on
\nthe pole up there and the venoms<\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:22,680 –> 00:29:25,160
\nout there.
\nNow he says, I want you to take <\/p>\n
563
\n00:29:25,160 –> 00:29:29,200
\nChrist’s life, the bread and the
\nwine, they represent Messiah, <\/p>\n
564
\n00:29:29,320 –> 00:29:33,360
\nthe life that he lived.
\nHe gave his day, his life every <\/p>\n
565
\n00:29:33,360 –> 00:29:36,080
\nday and doing God’s will, not
\nhis own. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:29:36,480 –> 00:29:39,520
\nAnd in his, in the wine, the
\nblood, this life that was cut <\/p>\n
567
\n00:29:39,520 –> 00:29:43,760
\noff because every day he was
\ngiving his life and service to <\/p>\n
568
\n00:29:43,760 –> 00:29:47,160
\nus and to his Father.
\nAnd now God says what would be <\/p>\n
569
\n00:29:47,160 –> 00:29:51,840
\nreally good is if you take this
\ninto your body physically, it <\/p>\n
570
\n00:29:51,840 –> 00:29:54,560
\nbecomes a part of us.
\nThe molecules that are in the <\/p>\n
571
\n00:29:54,560 –> 00:29:57,040
\nbread and the wine, they
\nactually become part of your <\/p>\n
572
\n00:29:57,040 –> 00:29:59,320
\nbody.
\nAnd he’s hoping that that life <\/p>\n
573
\n00:29:59,400 –> 00:30:03,720
\nof Jesus Christ of practicing
\nrighteousness will come into our<\/p>\n
574
\n00:30:03,720 –> 00:30:07,600
\nminds, into our spiritual minds
\nas he tries to develop us in the<\/p>\n
575
\n00:30:07,600 –> 00:30:10,320
\nmind of the Spirit.
\nAnd This is why you’d find New <\/p>\n
576
\n00:30:10,320 –> 00:30:13,680
\nTestament writers talking that
\nway about this example that <\/p>\n
577
\n00:30:13,680 –> 00:30:16,240
\nChrist has set for us and why
\nthe bread and the wine means <\/p>\n
578
\n00:30:16,240 –> 00:30:17,680
\nthat.
\nThat’s why Paul in First <\/p>\n
579
\n00:30:17,680 –> 00:30:20,720
\nCorinthians 11 would get so
\nupset that people that came <\/p>\n
580
\n00:30:20,720 –> 00:30:23,920
\ntogether and just used it as a
\nparty time to have a meal. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:30:24,160 –> 00:30:26,200
\nAnd some ate and some didn’t
\nhave any food. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:30:26,200 –> 00:30:29,000
\nSome people got drunk and
\ntotally misunderstood the idea. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:30:29,000 –> 00:30:33,360
\nAnd he says, let a man examine
\nhimself and so let him eat of <\/p>\n
584
\n00:30:33,360 –> 00:30:35,440
\nthe bread and and take of the
\nwine. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:30:35,720 –> 00:30:39,240
\nBecause this is supposed to be a
\nserious thing where we <\/p>\n
586
\n00:30:39,240 –> 00:30:42,800
\nacknowledge that we’ve made
\nmistakes, that we are appealing <\/p>\n
587
\n00:30:42,800 –> 00:30:46,640
\nto God for forgiveness of sins
\nbased on his righteousness and <\/p>\n
588
\n00:30:46,640 –> 00:30:49,040
\nour commitment, that we made it
\nbaptism. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:30:49,280 –> 00:30:52,200
\nSo we make it baptism, a
\ncovenant with God. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:30:52,400 –> 00:30:56,240
\nAnd then week by week we
\nremember the covenant, the <\/p>\n
591
\n00:30:56,240 –> 00:30:58,120
\ncovenant, the promise that we
\nmade. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:01,440
\nAnd what God is looking for is
\nfaithfulness. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:31:01,800 –> 00:31:05,320
\nHe highly values faithfulness
\nall the way through. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:31:05,320 –> 00:31:08,800
\nThe Jews failed in faithfulness.
\nAnd he constantly gives us <\/p>\n
595
\n00:31:08,840 –> 00:31:12,640
\nopportunities in our families
\nwith a husband and a wife to <\/p>\n
596
\n00:31:12,640 –> 00:31:17,200
\npractice faithfulness because
\nthis is the relationship we’ve <\/p>\n
597
\n00:31:17,200 –> 00:31:20,160
\nbeen called to and we committed
\nto it at baptism. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:31:20,360 –> 00:31:23,600
\nAnd now this morning, we have an
\nopportunity to remember that we <\/p>\n
599
\n00:31:23,600 –> 00:31:27,840
\npromise to be faithful to our
\nGod, to do His will and not our <\/p>\n
600
\n00:31:27,840 –> 00:31:29,320
\nown.
\nAnd that’s what he’s brought us <\/p>\n
601
\n00:31:29,320 –> 00:31:32,600
\nto this morning.
\nSo Christ has laid down his life<\/p>\n
602
\n00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:37,000
\nfor us, as he says in, in, in
\nJohn, in second, John 3 and 16, <\/p>\n
603
\n00:31:37,000 –> 00:31:41,560
\nwith the intention that we will
\nnow lay down our lives for our <\/p>\n
604
\n00:31:41,560 –> 00:31:43,240
\nbrothers and sisters and our
\nfamilies. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:31:43,720 –> 00:31:46,040
\nSo as we take the emblems this
\nmorning, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
606
\n00:31:46,040 –> 00:31:49,680
\nlet’s remember the promise that
\nwe made at baptism, the promise <\/p>\n
607
\n00:31:49,680 –> 00:31:53,320
\nthat we made the covenant that
\nwe would join with Christ and a <\/p>\n
608
\n00:31:53,320 –> 00:31:58,040
\ndeath like his and fight sin and
\ncome out of the water saved by <\/p>\n
609
\n00:31:58,040 –> 00:32:01,280
\nhis life because we’re committed
\nto live like him, the <\/p>\n
610
\n00:32:01,280 –> 00:32:04,440
\nresurrected Christ.
\nAnd let’s examine ourselves and <\/p>\n
611
\n00:32:04,440 –> 00:32:06,840
\nacknowledge the fact that
\nthere’s no way we could ever <\/p>\n
612
\n00:32:06,840 –> 00:32:10,560
\ndeserve the grace that has been
\ngiven to us and the privilege <\/p>\n
613
\n00:32:10,560 –> 00:32:12,520
\nthat we have of being in Christ
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:32:12,880 –> 00:32:17,640
\nOut of 7 billion people on this
\nplanet, look at how few God is <\/p>\n
615
\n00:32:17,640 –> 00:32:20,080
\nsaving right now.
\nI think things will change when <\/p>\n
616
\n00:32:20,080 –> 00:32:22,360
\nChrist comes back, but right now
\nvery few. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:32:22,360 –> 00:32:25,200
\nAnd we have the privilege of
\nbeing a part of that community. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:32:25,600 –> 00:32:28,600
\nThank God for his wonderful plan
\nof redemption this morning. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:32:28,600 –> 00:32:31,920
\nThe love that he has for us as
\na, as a loving father, that he <\/p>\n
620
\n00:32:31,920 –> 00:32:35,320
\nreally does love us and he wants
\nus to be part of his family. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:32:35,760 –> 00:32:38,360
\nAnd I think it’s appropriate to
\nthank Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:32:38,640 –> 00:32:42,200
\nThank Jesus Christ for what He
\ndid for us, for what He went <\/p>\n
623
\n00:32:42,200 –> 00:32:46,880
\nthrough for us, and certainly he
\nneeded salvation himself, but <\/p>\n
624
\n00:32:46,880 –> 00:32:50,160
\nhis motive of going through it
\nall was for us. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:32:50,520 –> 00:32:52,760
\nHe loves his family, his brother
\nand sister. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:32:52,760 –> 00:32:56,960
\nHe can’t wait to have the family
\nborn in a day when he returns. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:32:57,280 –> 00:33:01,120
\nAnd May God grant us the mercy
\nthis morning and the courage to <\/p>\n
628
\n00:33:01,120 –> 00:33:06,960
\ncontinue our journey to life and
\nhis family, not just now today, <\/p>\n
629
\n00:33:07,120 –> 00:33:09,480
\nbut life and his family forever.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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