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\nAaron finishing up the the
\nweekend study. <\/p>\n
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\nHis exhort is titled Resolving
\nthe Paradox. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, brothers and sisters, we
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\ntime together and I have to say
\non behalf of Rose and I and our <\/p>\n
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\ntwo little girls, just what a
\nspecial weekend this has been <\/p>\n
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\nfor us with a six month old.
\nWe don’t get out much. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s great to see you all.
\nAnd a few people have brought up<\/p>\n
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\nus relocating and I, I, I’d say
\nyou’ve almost convinced me. <\/p>\n
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\nHave you ever wondered what it
\nwould have been to have walked <\/p>\n
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\nwith Christ?
\nI’m sure in many ways we have <\/p>\n
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\nall asked ourselves that
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\nYou know, I personally think to
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\njust heard him to glimpse the
\nintricacies of his mind. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’m burden myself freely and
\nand know that that he could see <\/p>\n
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\nme for for who I am the disciple
\nJohn did walk with him and many <\/p>\n
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\nyears from those days and later
\nlife is looking to the world <\/p>\n
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\naround him that the impact those
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\nhad worked in the world.
\nHe writes his gospel, a <\/p>\n
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\ntestament to the Christ he knew
\nand and as he wrote well in his <\/p>\n
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\nmind’s eyebrow and sisters.
\nMaybe he thought back to the <\/p>\n
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\ndays of his youth, or he walked
\nwith his Lord on the shores of <\/p>\n
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\nGalilee and he would have heard
\nthose ministrations by the sea, <\/p>\n
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\nthe life changing effects it had
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\nIn thinking to his youth, maybe
\nhe thought moments where the <\/p>\n
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\nimpossible happened, that the
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\nlame leaves.
\nMaybe he thought to personal <\/p>\n
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\nthings, moments he shared with
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\nmoments of hardship, moments of
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\ngaze of Christ piercing his
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\nknow he was the disciple loved
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\nBut of all the things one could
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\nstart in describing that man of
\nwhom all the books in the world,<\/p>\n
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\nJohn says, could not contain the
\nthings he did, what is the one <\/p>\n
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\nthing he writes?
\nBron Sisters, how does he begin?<\/p>\n
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\nWhere does he start?
\nHe says in the beginning was the<\/p>\n
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\nWord.
\nIt was made flesh, it dwelt <\/p>\n
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\namong man, and we have seen his
\nglory as the glory of God, full <\/p>\n
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\nof grace and truth.
\nThis morning, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, we will consider this
\nman John New, a man of grace and<\/p>\n
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\ntruth and justice and mercy and
\ngoodness and severity, A man who<\/p>\n
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\nembodied the glory of God’s
\ncharacter and fullness. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll consider what these things
\nmeant to Christ, how he lived <\/p>\n
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\nthem, the salvation secured
\nbecause he lived them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we will end our thoughts and
\na vision of hope, confidence, <\/p>\n
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\npeace and assurance because our
\nGod is the relenting and <\/p>\n
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\nunrelenting God.
\nBut but we’ll start our thoughts<\/p>\n
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\nthis morning, but first
\nreflecting what John means when <\/p>\n
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\nhe says a man of grace and
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we don’t have to look far to
\nsee what he drives out here, <\/p>\n
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\nBrun sisters.
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\nYou see, he relates this phrase
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\nWe see this in verse 17.
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\nChrist, grace and truth.
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\nsisters, that almost reads as a
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\nif he’s saying Moses and the
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\nThey had none of these things
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\nChrist.
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\nfarther from truth.
\nHow many in the record of <\/p>\n
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\nScripture witnessed these
\nqualities of God? <\/p>\n
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\nSure, they might have been hard
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\nand said, as David did in second
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\nand truth be with you or sang of
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\nYou are a God of grace and
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
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\nAre all your ways our mercy and
\ntruth? <\/p>\n
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\nMany in our Bibles perceived
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\nMany hoped in the things
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\nSo what John isn’t saying here,
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\nwas absent of these and suddenly
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\nHe’s saying Christ is the
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\nglimpse, the sum of everything
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\nconnecting what Moses saw on
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\nreality.
\nAnd how many other writers speak<\/p>\n
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\nthe same brothers, sisters,
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\naway as God spoke by prophets.
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\nthe radiance of God’s glory. <\/p>\n
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\nglory of God in the face of
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\nLike John, they’re paralleling
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\nThe light Moses saw behind rock
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\nThey see in the life of Christ.
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\ndedicated dedicated to grace.
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\nthe dove that descends on him in
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\nmoment, brother and sisters.
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\nHe opens with these wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nfollows in statements of truth. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, I come to bring the
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\nBrother and sisters, what does <\/p>\n
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\nHe says you’ve heard it said you<\/p>\n
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\nwill not murder.
\nI say if anybody’s angry, you’ve<\/p>\n
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\nbecome liable.
\nThe judgement, you’ve heard it <\/p>\n
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\nsaid don’t commit adultery.
\nI say if you look, you commit <\/p>\n
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\nsin.
\nYou’ve heard it said love your <\/p>\n
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\nneighbor.
\nI say love your enemies and pray<\/p>\n
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\nfor those persecuting you.
\nIn these words, brung sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nwe are reminded that Christ’s
\ngrace never nullified truth far <\/p>\n
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\nbeyond it.
\nHe amplifies it, He takes it, <\/p>\n
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\nand he pushes it towards
\npractice. <\/p>\n
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\nExcuse me beyond practice
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\nhearts.
\nCome with me to Matthew 12. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s look deeper at what truth
\nmeans to Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see there’s two cases where
\nChrist, he’s challenged on his <\/p>\n
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\ndefinitions of truth and and
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\nsame way.
\nAnd in this specific case, the <\/p>\n
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\nPharisees come to him.
\nThey, they see him in the <\/p>\n
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\ndisciples eating in the fields
\non Sabbath. <\/p>\n
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\nThey, they challenge him for
\ndoing so in verse 2. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd how does Christ respond?
\nWe see him in verse 7. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you had known what this
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\nHosea is revealing insight into
\nwhat truth means to him, what <\/p>\n
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\nprophets, what it always meant <\/p>\n
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\nto God, and that’s that it must
\nalways be practiced in the <\/p>\n
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\nYou see what Christ is not <\/p>\n
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\nsaying to your brothers,
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\nnothing to me.
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\nYet you still come to Bethel and
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\nyou achieve A righteousness
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\nthe weight of the Lobron
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\ndid not stop Christ from saying
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\nWe can note that truth means
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\nsays, to Pilate, to bear witness
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\nSo we we must be unrelenting in
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\nBoth work together purposely.
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\nsinners grace He calls them to <\/p>\n
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\nWe see it in speaking to the
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\npossessed Christ as a man than
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\nA spectrum of characters
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\ndilute justice to be gracious
\nnor suppress grace to be true. <\/p>\n
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\nWe see it we’re through tears. <\/p>\n
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\nHe gives judgement to Jerusalem
\nlike his Father. <\/p>\n
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\nacts of hope and grace and
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\nrestoring Zacchaeus, building
\nPeter, pardoning this woman in <\/p>\n
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\nadultery, and his shrewdness
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\nand hearts of Pharisees.
\nHis grace softened hearts and <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:37,840 –> 00:22:41,360
\nhis truth challenged pride and a
\nlife lived this way. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:41,360 –> 00:22:49,600
\nBrothers, Sisters.
\nLeads only to one end, and John <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:49,600 –> 00:22:57,080
\nwitnessed it on the cross.
\nBecause in one powerful moment, <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:59,040 –> 00:23:03,640
\nin one singular instance, we
\nhave the sum of everything <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:03,760 –> 00:23:06,960
\ndiscussed this weekend.
\nIt is the clearest expression of<\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:06,960 –> 00:23:10,040
\nthe character of God that has
\never been revealed to man. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:10,040 –> 00:23:13,640
\nIt is the physical revelation of
\nwhat God tried to show Moses in <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:13,640 –> 00:23:15,640
\nhis name thousands of year
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:15,720 –> 00:23:18,280
\nBecause as John would have
\nlooked, and he sees this man <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:18,280 –> 00:23:24,080
\nbreaking his body for others, an
\nimage of God relenting so <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:24,080 –> 00:23:27,440
\npowerful it made him marvel in a
\nGod merciful and gracious, and <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:27,440 –> 00:23:29,640
\nabounding in love to the
\nthousandth, that that He could <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:29,640 –> 00:23:31,280
\ngive us His Son while we were
\nyet sinners. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:31,360 –> 00:23:35,120
\nWell, in his blood, brothers and
\nsisters, is the unrelenting God.<\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:38,080 –> 00:23:41,120
\nRomans 3 verse 25 says that
\nChrist, to whom God put forward <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:41,120 –> 00:23:44,640
\nas the propitiation by His
\nblood, did so that He might be <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:44,640 –> 00:23:49,680
\njust.
\nAnd the justifier of them who <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:49,680 –> 00:23:53,480
\nhave faith in this moment is the
\nultimate expression of the <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:53,480 –> 00:23:56,120
\ncharacter of God.
\nIt is the resolution to our <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:56,120 –> 00:24:00,920
\nparadox.
\nResolve not in compromise, not <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:00,920 –> 00:24:05,320
\nnot in conflict, not in
\nconcession, but by harmony in <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:05,320 –> 00:24:11,000
\nChrist in this moment.
\nRun, sisters, His ultimate act <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:11,000 –> 00:24:17,200
\nof justice meets His greatest
\nact of love in this moment. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:17,200 –> 00:24:21,040
\nJustice opens the door for grace
\nfor all who have faith in this <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:21,040 –> 00:24:22,800
\nmoment.
\nJustice allows this thief on the<\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:22,800 –> 00:24:26,400
\ncross to seize grace in his
\nfinal breaths and partake in its<\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:26,400 –> 00:24:30,800
\ninternal inheritance in mercy
\nand truth, reads Proverbs 16. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:35,800 –> 00:24:39,040
\nAtonement is provided for
\niniquity. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:39,400 –> 00:24:45,080
\nIn those words, brothers and
\nsisters, is the understanding <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:45,080 –> 00:24:47,440
\nthat has underpinned everything
\nthis weekend. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:47,440 –> 00:24:51,280
\nIn those words is the powerful,
\nsimple message that God is <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:51,280 –> 00:24:53,440
\nshouting to us from the pages of
\nScripture. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:53,440 –> 00:24:56,920
\nAnd that’s simply that both the
\nqualities of the character of <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:56,920 –> 00:25:03,760
\nGod are fully dedicated to our
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:03,840 –> 00:25:06,080
\nAnd because of this, brothers,
\nsisters, above all things, above<\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:06,080 –> 00:25:09,160
\nanything else we take away from
\nthis weekend, these are things <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:09,160 –> 00:25:14,040
\nwe hope in.
\nThese are qualities where in <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:14,040 –> 00:25:17,040
\nmoments of failure we hope in
\nmercy and truth. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:19,760 –> 00:25:22,160
\nThese are qualities when when
\nlife challenges you with the <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:22,160 –> 00:25:24,040
\ntaunt that are many faced
\nthroughout Scripture. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:24,040 –> 00:25:26,160
\nWhere now is your God, the taunt
\ngiven Christ? <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:26,160 –> 00:25:29,600
\nWhere is his God?
\nHe trusted him. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:29,600 –> 00:25:35,400
\nLet let him deliver when hard
\ndays come and life breaks you <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:35,400 –> 00:25:38,920
\ndown, brothers and sisters, and
\nyou can’t understand how you can<\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:38,920 –> 00:25:41,760
\npossibly stand up and keep
\nwalking in the example of <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:41,760 –> 00:25:43,320
\nChrist.
\nNo, brothers and sisters, when <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:43,320 –> 00:25:46,240
\nthat happens and and your only
\nhope is to look to the character<\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:46,240 –> 00:25:48,800
\nof of God, as many faithful
\nbefore have done. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:48,960 –> 00:25:56,280
\nKnow that you can look to him in
\nconfidence, confidence and <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:56,280 –> 00:25:58,360
\nunspeakable joy.
\nConfidence because this <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:58,360 –> 00:26:04,120
\ncharacter is pledged to you,
\npledge to the fulfillment of his<\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:04,120 –> 00:26:06,520
\npromise and he will never swear
\nfrom them. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:06,520 –> 00:26:08,960
\nAnd when we come to understand
\nthat, brothers, sisters, then <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:08,960 –> 00:26:14,600
\nthen we might start to speak
\nlike Paul, who would say, if we <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:14,600 –> 00:26:17,960
\nare faithless Timothy, he
\nremains faithful for he cannot <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:17,960 –> 00:26:19,960
\ndeny himself.
\nWhen we understand that, we, we,<\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:19,960 –> 00:26:24,600
\nwe come to think like Micah.
\nWho would hope in hopeless <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:24,600 –> 00:26:26,720
\ntimes, Yet he could still write
\nin certainty. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:26,840 –> 00:26:31,640
\nYou, Lord, will perform truth to
\nJacob and mercy to Abraham, <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:31,640 –> 00:26:34,560
\nbecause you swore to our fathers
\nfrom days of old. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:34,560 –> 00:26:41,440
\nBrothers and sisters, we look to
\nthat day when truth and mercy <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:41,440 –> 00:26:45,960
\nwill be performed in this earth
\nas waters cover the sea. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:45,960 –> 00:26:48,920
\nA day Amos saw, when when
\njustice rolls down like waters <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:48,920 –> 00:26:53,080
\nfrom the mountain.
\nA day Isaiah writes of when his <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:53,080 –> 00:26:56,400
\nLord in mercy established his
\nthrone and truth sits upon it, <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:56,400 –> 00:26:58,960
\njudging, seeking justice and
\nhastening righteousness. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:58,960 –> 00:27:01,360
\nA day David sings of in Psalm
\n89. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:01,360 –> 00:27:04,320
\nJustice and judgement or the
\nhabitations of your throne. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:04,480 –> 00:27:10,880
\nMercy and truth go before your
\nface. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:18,690 –> 00:27:26,000
\nLet’s end in picture of this
\nking of all the earth, who will <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:26,000 –> 00:27:29,800
\nsit on the throne of David, who
\nwill wipe away all false notions<\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:29,800 –> 00:27:33,440
\nof justice and an empty acts of
\ngrace, and reveal the glory of <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:33,440 –> 00:27:36,000
\nGod.
\nAs the waters cover the sea and <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:36,000 –> 00:27:39,280
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nJohn will see him one last time <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:39,280 –> 00:27:45,440
\nin his life, and he sees him in
\nRevelation 5. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:50,120 –> 00:27:58,440
\nI John heard an Angel speak.
\nWho is worthy to open the <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:58,440 –> 00:27:59,800
\nscroll?
\nWho is worthy to have <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:59,800 –> 00:28:03,320
\naccomplished the the restoration
\nof all things promised from the <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:03,320 –> 00:28:04,760
\nbeginning?
\nAnd in response to that <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:04,760 –> 00:28:08,040
\nquestion, brothers and sisters,
\nthere was silence. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:11,520 –> 00:28:16,120
\nFor in all the earth, in all the
\nrecords of this book, and in the<\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:16,120 –> 00:28:20,520
\nages of history, no one lived
\nthe character of God to <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:20,520 –> 00:28:22,280
\nperfection.
\nNo one was worthy. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:22,280 –> 00:28:24,360
\nAnd what does John do?
\nHe wept. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:31,240 –> 00:28:40,480
\nThen suddenly a voice spoke.
\nJohn, weep not, for the Lion of <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:40,480 –> 00:28:42,880
\nJudah has overcome.
\nAnd, and it says he looks <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:42,880 –> 00:28:45,000
\nsuddenly, you know, you can
\nimagine, his heart begins to <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:45,000 –> 00:28:46,720
\npump.
\nHe looks up to the one who <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:46,720 –> 00:28:48,920
\novercome, the Conqueror of all
\nthings. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:48,920 –> 00:28:50,680
\nHe looks above the Saints, all
\nthe faithful. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:50,720 –> 00:28:52,000
\nHe sees to the top of the
\nthrone. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:52,000 –> 00:28:54,640
\nHe sees the Lion of Judah.
\nAnd what does he see, brothers <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:54,640 –> 00:29:01,720
\nand sisters?
\nA lamb with its throat cut, a <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:01,720 –> 00:29:05,760
\nsymbol of justice and mercy.
\nIt is the life of his Lord, what<\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:05,760 –> 00:29:08,800
\nhe witnessed all those years
\nbefore, the one who lived unto <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:08,800 –> 00:29:11,360
\ndeath, the fullness of God’s
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:11,480 –> 00:29:20,610
\nWe close, brothers and sisters,
\nin the words of Psalm 85. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:20,810 –> 00:29:23,490
\nWill you draw out your anger
\nforever, Lord? <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:26,320 –> 00:29:28,480
\nWill you not restore us again?
\nBrunch, sisters. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:28,480 –> 00:29:31,840
\nThat is the cry of all the
\nfaithful who have ever lived to <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:31,840 –> 00:29:35,880
\nhave wrestled and failed in this
\ntension of God’s character all <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:35,880 –> 00:29:39,560
\nthe way from the days of Adam.
\nAnd this is the moment our Lord <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:39,560 –> 00:29:42,840
\nanswers.
\nMercy and truth meet together. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:45,120 –> 00:29:48,320
\nRighteousness and peace have
\nkissed in the form of my son. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:48,480 –> 00:29:51,480
\nYes, he says, I will deliver
\nwhat is good. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:51,640 –> 00:29:57,160
\nA lion will come to this world,
\nbrothers and sisters, to subject<\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:57,160 –> 00:30:00,040
\nall things, but like the
\nwhirlwind and the fire, it will <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:00,040 –> 00:30:02,160
\nbe guided by the small voice of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:05,280 –> 00:30:11,120
\nA lion will roar from Zion in
\ntruth to bring a law, to bring <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:11,120 –> 00:30:15,000
\nstructure to a structureless
\nworld, so that as a lamb tears <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:15,000 –> 00:30:20,720
\nwill be wiped from the eyes of
\nthe suffering, and death and <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:20,720 –> 00:30:27,800
\npain and sorrow will be no more.
\nSurely, says the Lord, I come <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:27,800 –> 00:30:28,280
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