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\nThe overall topic for the <\/p>\n
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\nweekend is the relenting and
\nunrelenting God. <\/p>\n
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\nThis class is entitled Living
\nthe Tension. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Aaron.
\nWell, good morning brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, good morning.
\nWell, yesterday we talked about <\/p>\n
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\na number of things as we dwelled
\non this character of God <\/p>\n
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\nrevealed to Moses and Sinai.
\nWe talked about the seemingly <\/p>\n
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\nparadoxical qualities of our
\nGod, how he reveals himself <\/p>\n
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\nthroughout Scripture.
\nWe talked about the importance <\/p>\n
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\nof how we perceive these
\nqualities of God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in our second and third
\nclasses, we alternately explored<\/p>\n
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\nthe God of grace, how his grace
\nmoves with mankind, what that <\/p>\n
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\ntells us about what grace means
\nto God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then we’ve of course dwelt
\non the God of justice. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the year Uzziah dies, Isaiah
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\nwhat he saw terrified him.
\nBecause in the words of Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\n6, we’re in seeing the Lord of
\nhosts, this image of God <\/p>\n
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\nenthroned in power over the
\nearth, in the seat of glory, <\/p>\n
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\nlifting him up over the
\nseraphim. <\/p>\n
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\nThese beasts which convey the
\nhost of God is angels and Saints<\/p>\n
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\nwho’ve executed His power in
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\nearth, and who in united voice
\nproclaim this cry Holy. <\/p>\n
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\nHoly is the Lord of hosts.
\nThe earth is full of his glory, <\/p>\n
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\nand the voice that spoke these
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\nthe earth.
\nWell, in seeing these things, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers, sisters, Elijah cried
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\nWoe is me, I am lost.
\nFor what man can stand in the <\/p>\n
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\npresence of God, of of unclean
\nlips, who dwells with unclean <\/p>\n
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\npeople, and stand before his
\ncharacter? <\/p>\n
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\nBut in the silence that follows
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\nforward pulling a coal from an
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\ntouches his lips.
\nAnd that same voice declares <\/p>\n
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\nYour guilt is taken away. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd how does Isaiah respond? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s in verse 8.
\nBron Sisters, He says, here I <\/p>\n
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\nto show your character in an <\/p>\n
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\nimagery of a man, Bron Sisters,
\nwho perceives the character of <\/p>\n
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\nGod, his righteous justice and
\nhis boundless grace, and it <\/p>\n
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\nmoves him to action.
\nWell, we are drawn to the <\/p>\n
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\nfundamental understanding that
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\nGodburn sisters, knowing these
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\nin this vision that our pattern
\nthroughout Scripture that is <\/p>\n
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\nalways a call to action in our
\nlives. <\/p>\n
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\nThis morning, brothers and
\nsisters, we will consider that <\/p>\n
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\ncalling.
\nConsider what it means to to <\/p>\n
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\nlive in the tension of this
\ncharacter, to to be those who <\/p>\n
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\nwho strive for his grace and
\nlive by his truth. <\/p>\n
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\nThis morning we’ll consider the
\ndifficulties in that calling <\/p>\n
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\nthat many throughout our
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\nstruggle, failed in the balance
\nof grace and truth. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, they, they could show
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\nlive by grace but but have
\nlittle value of truth. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll consider that some, some
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\nshadow of God’s character and
\nwill reflect what that looks <\/p>\n
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\nlike, how it manifests, what
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\necclesia, our personal lives.
\nBut ultimately we will bring our<\/p>\n
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\nsimple, sobering, fundamental <\/p>\n
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\nreflection from the sisters.
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\nYet yet, despite these things, <\/p>\n
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\ngive us a standard that can <\/p>\n
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\nbe ourselves to receive His <\/p>\n
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\nreflection and that’s that. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, that would be great. <\/p>\n
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\nAll throughout Scripture our God<\/p>\n
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\nWe We see this time and again in
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\nWe we see it in the account of
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\nWhat does it say?
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\nby the sisters, the words of
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\nWhat does it say?
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\nAnd if you feel that, Bron
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\nCome with me to Job Chapter 4.
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\nYou deserve worse than all the <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a terrible thing to say. <\/p>\n
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\nRun, sisters, this is a people
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\nThey could see a a God of truth,
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\nThey could defend him as a God
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\nBut in so doing, they crushed
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\nthan mercy. <\/p>\n
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\nThey did not speak right of me.
\nThey misperceived who I am, how <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’ve perhaps seen that in <\/p>\n
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\nour lives, Brun sisters.
\nPerhaps we’ve been these people.<\/p>\n
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\nI’ve been this this person.
\nWe’re in moments of correction. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, I I deliver truth in
\nways that was overbearing, that <\/p>\n
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\nlean to harshness, where where
\nmy delivery was was more rigid <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I justified it all behind <\/p>\n
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\nthe fact that, you know, it’s
\nfor their own their own good. <\/p>\n
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\nyou know, we we develop a a
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\nAnd unfortunately, Job’s <\/p>\n
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\nthat behavior. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, there are many in the
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\nWe see it in the history of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael of people who are
\nconstantly living on this <\/p>\n
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\nspectrum of God’s character, who
\nwho many times practice truth <\/p>\n
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\nwithout grace, who stone Stephen
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\ntook the life of Christ
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\nPilate.
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\nthe law of God.
\nThe lesson in this behaviour is <\/p>\n
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\na simple one, Brun sisters.
\nAnd that’s that when truth <\/p>\n
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\nstands alone, it wounds rather
\nthan heals. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a lesson that truth without
\ngrace will condemn rather than <\/p>\n
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\nrestores.
\nThe lesson of truth absent of <\/p>\n
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\ngrace, Brun sisters, are the
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\nverse 6.
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\ngives life.
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\nhere is forget truth and just
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\nhonored your sons more than me.
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\nIt is enablement that leads
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\nlicense to be malicious or or <\/p>\n
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\n00:23:01,520 –> 00:23:04,600
\nrough with one another.
\nMany faithful have suffered <\/p>\n
340
\n00:23:07,160 –> 00:23:08,680
\nbecause of those who practice
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:23:08,680 –> 00:23:13,640
\nThat is callous and cold, a
\nthing to be dropped in, you <\/p>\n
342
\n00:23:13,640 –> 00:23:15,400
\nknow, If others don’t listen,
\nwell, too bad. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:15,400 –> 00:23:16,880
\nI guess they didn’t care for God
\nas I do. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:19,440 –> 00:23:22,040
\nGuess they weren’t special in
\nthe eyes of God to be called as <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:22,040 –> 00:23:24,160
\nI was.
\nMany in the regular scripture <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:24,160 –> 00:23:29,600
\nstrained for the opposite,
\nstrained for ways to speak truth<\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:29,600 –> 00:23:32,160
\nthat would restore man’s heart.
\nWe think that we see that in the<\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:32,160 –> 00:23:33,800
\nlesson of this still small voice
\nof Elijah. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:33,800 –> 00:23:36,360
\nAgain, it wasn’t the whirlwind
\nand the fire that calls the <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:36,360 –> 00:23:38,360
\nheart of man.
\nIt’s the character of God that <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:38,360 –> 00:23:40,360
\nturns hearts.
\nThat’s the lesson of the the <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:40,360 –> 00:23:45,240
\nSpirit that descends on Christ
\nbrain sisters, as he’s baptized.<\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:45,280 –> 00:23:47,240
\nHow does it descend on him?
\nAs a dove? <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:47,400 –> 00:23:49,760
\nThat’s how Christ approached
\nman. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:49,800 –> 00:23:51,800
\nThat’s the lesson of Paul on
\nMars Hill. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:53,960 –> 00:23:56,640
\nThat’s the lesson of Paul the
\nThessalonians, who it says wean <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:56,640 –> 00:23:59,360
\nthem on the gospel as a mother
\nnursing her child. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:59,360 –> 00:24:01,720
\nThat’s the lesson of Priscilla
\nand Aquila, who corrected <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:01,720 –> 00:24:03,160
\nApollo’s.
\nBut how do they do it? <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:03,160 –> 00:24:07,200
\nBy gently taking him aside to
\nexplain him the ways of God. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:07,280 –> 00:24:13,440
\nWe have a responsibility to one
\nanother, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:13,920 –> 00:24:21,040
\nto speak the truth boldly but
\nnever cruelly to be as Paul who <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:21,040 –> 00:24:24,200
\nwould write in Romans 9 verse
\none I I say the truth in Christ,<\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:28,000 –> 00:24:33,400
\nbut I have great heaviness and
\ncontinual sorrow in my heart, <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:33,480 –> 00:24:36,720
\nand I wish myself a cursed and
\nplace of those I speak it to. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:36,840 –> 00:24:38,920
\nTo live the words of Galatians 6
\nverse 12. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:38,920 –> 00:24:41,360
\nIf anyone is caught in
\ntransgression, you are to re <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:41,360 –> 00:24:44,600
\nspiritually restore him in
\ngentleness. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:53,120 –> 00:24:55,400
\nWe can note these things are not
\na balance. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:57,120 –> 00:25:01,720
\nBrothers and sisters, you know,
\nsometimes when we talk about <\/p>\n
371
\n00:25:01,720 –> 00:25:04,480
\nthese qualities as we have this
\nweekend, we, we, we, we tend to <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:04,480 –> 00:25:08,200
\nsee them as this thing we have
\nto split 5050 as if 2 scales <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:08,200 –> 00:25:10,800
\nhave to have to come up.
\nEven that can’t be farther from <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:10,800 –> 00:25:15,480
\ntruth, from sisters.
\nWell, both equally parts of God.<\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:15,480 –> 00:25:17,880
\nOne by nature envelops the
\nother. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:17,880 –> 00:25:21,000
\nMercy by nature forgives the
\ndebt justice owes. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:22,880 –> 00:25:24,960
\nFor that reason James rightly
\nobserved in James 2. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:24,960 –> 00:25:27,280
\nMercy triumphs judgement for
\nthat reason. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:27,280 –> 00:25:29,200
\nBrun, sisters.
\nWhen this character is weighed <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:29,200 –> 00:25:35,400
\nin Exodus 34, it is mercy to the
\nthousandths and justice to the <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:35,400 –> 00:25:38,120
\nthird and fourth.
\nGod limits the reach of His <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:38,120 –> 00:25:40,840
\njudgement and multiplies the
\nreach of mercy. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:40,920 –> 00:25:47,000
\nThe same is required of us to be
\nfirm in our convictions, but in <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:47,000 –> 00:25:50,520
\nalways dedicate ourselves to the
\npreservation of others rather <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:50,520 –> 00:25:55,280
\nthan destruction to forgive. 70
\n* 7 in the example of our Lord. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:55,400 –> 00:26:08,680
\nBut above all, we can note that
\nlike God living this tension, it<\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:08,680 –> 00:26:15,200
\nis never one-size-fits-all.
\nIn every case, from Abigail to <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:15,200 –> 00:26:18,640
\nStephen to the lives of prophets
\nand so many others, it manifests<\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:18,640 –> 00:26:20,360
\ndifferently and takes many
\nforms. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:20,360 –> 00:26:26,080
\nOne sisters mirroring this
\ncharacter is adapting to the <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:26,080 –> 00:26:30,680
\nperson in front of us as God
\ndoes to us, is going to that <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:30,680 –> 00:26:33,760
\nbrother in error and weighing
\nthe response that will confront <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:33,760 –> 00:26:36,720
\nthem not just in rebuke, but to
\nrestore them to God. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:39,520 –> 00:26:41,760
\nIt’s about going to the young
\nperson in our meeting who are in<\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:41,760 –> 00:26:44,640
\na state of wrong and seeing them
\nas as especially vulnerable. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:44,640 –> 00:26:47,480
\nSo we don’t rub that in their
\nface, but we sit with them in <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:47,480 –> 00:26:50,640
\nmercy and through grace and
\nguide their hearts to truth. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:50,720 –> 00:26:55,320
\nIt’s reaching to the absent.
\nPerceiving there are things. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:55,320 –> 00:26:57,640
\nIn their lives that that we
\ndon’t know they suffer with so, <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:57,720 –> 00:27:00,240
\nso weighing carefully how we
\nmight reach them. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:00,320 –> 00:27:02,160
\nIt’s extending a hand to a
\nfriend. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:04,200 –> 00:27:07,040
\nSomeone who’s strayed and.
\nAnd having a hard conversation <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:07,040 –> 00:27:09,640
\nand it’s not comfortable, but we
\ndo it anyway, as Paul did to <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:09,640 –> 00:27:12,440
\nPeter, because you care for them
\nand you love them. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:12,440 –> 00:27:15,560
\nIt’s receiving a blow from a
\nbrother or sister, as Paul did. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:19,640 –> 00:27:23,080
\nYet still writing as he.
\nWrote to Corinth in love I write<\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:23,080 –> 00:27:27,200
\nto you.
\nAnd never shying from. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:27,200 –> 00:27:30,160
\nWorking through the issues and
\nbeing present. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:32,120 –> 00:27:33,240
\nIn the face of.
\nWrongs. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:46,590 –> 00:27:48,150
\nBut ultimately, brothers and.
\nSisters. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:50,350 –> 00:27:53,670
\nWe end in the reflection.
\nThat in every example mentioned.<\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:55,350 –> 00:27:58,230
\nDespite our best intentions.
\nWe should fall short of these <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:58,230 –> 00:28:01,190
\nthings, don’t we all have sinned
\nand fallen short of the <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:01,190 –> 00:28:03,830
\ncharacter of God.
\nAll fall short of the the glory <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:03,830 –> 00:28:06,830
\nin Isaiah’s vision and and the
\ncharacter that Moses could <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:06,830 –> 00:28:08,350
\nperceive on the summits of
\nSinai. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:08,510 –> 00:28:10,550
\nAnd you know, more often than
\nnot, run Sisters. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:12,760 –> 00:28:15,040
\nNot only do we.
\nFail but, But if you’re like me,<\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:15,320 –> 00:28:19,960
\nyou fail like Jonah.
\nWho can understand that God? <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:19,960 –> 00:28:22,920
\nIs is both these things.
\nWe know he is just and merciful <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:22,920 –> 00:28:24,360
\nthat that he has grace and
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:24,360 –> 00:28:27,800
\nHe’s relenting and unrelenting.
\nBut we practice them on on my <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:27,800 –> 00:28:31,760
\nown terms.
\nYou know I I desire. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:31,840 –> 00:28:33,880
\nJustice and grace when I want
\nthem. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:35,920 –> 00:28:38,040
\nTimes I I want judgement.
\nMore than redemption. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:38,040 –> 00:28:40,720
\nSo I pretend it’s working with
\nmy mercy. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:40,720 –> 00:28:44,280
\nSo deceive myself to my to my
\nown intentions understanding <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:44,280 –> 00:28:50,040
\nthis.
\nDraws us to a few. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:50,040 –> 00:28:56,240
\nClosing thoughts the 1st.
\nAre the words of. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:56,240 –> 00:29:00,640
\nJeremiah the heart is deceitful
\nand desperately wicked. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:00,880 –> 00:29:03,400
\nLiving the tension, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:06,080 –> 00:29:08,000
\nRequires.
\nHonesty. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:12,800
\nHonesty to search.
\nOur hearts. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:14,760 –> 00:29:17,440
\nHonesty to ask ourselves.
\nThe hard questions, honesty to <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:17,440 –> 00:29:19,600
\nask.
\nAm I acting in self-interest or <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:19,600 –> 00:29:23,600
\nselflessness?
\nAm I protecting? <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:23,600 –> 00:29:27,040
\nMyself from from discomfort or
\nor am I reflecting the fullness <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:27,040 –> 00:29:28,640
\nof God?
\nIt’s having awareness to know if<\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:28,640 –> 00:29:31,800
\nI am one who leans to grace.
\nI scream for truth. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:34,960 –> 00:29:37,840
\nAnd if I am.
\nInclined to truth, I desperately<\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:38,040 –> 00:29:48,210
\nsearch for His grace the second.
\nIs there are limitations? <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:48,210 –> 00:29:49,770
\nIn what we do, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:52,650 –> 00:29:55,130
\nPaul in First Corinthians he.
\nHe writes directly to this. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:55,130 –> 00:29:57,890
\nHe says, therefore do not
\npronounce judgement before the <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:57,890 –> 00:30:01,400
\nLord.
\nFor he who comes will bring. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:01,400 –> 00:30:04,400
\nTo light what is hidden and
\ndisclose the purpose of the <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:04,400 –> 00:30:05,960
\nheart.
\nWhat Paul isn’t saying they’re <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:05,960 –> 00:30:08,240
\nbrothers and sisters is that you
\ncannot judge. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:10,920 –> 00:30:13,080
\nOr that you cannot?
\nCorrect a wrong or or that you <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:13,080 –> 00:30:14,840
\ncan’t call out injustice when
\nyou see it. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:14,840 –> 00:30:17,840
\nIn fact, how much of our Bible
\nbrothers and sisters advocates <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:17,840 –> 00:30:20,480
\nfor us to do that?
\nWhat he’s saying is there are <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:20,480 –> 00:30:27,040
\nlimitations in that calling.
\nSo often our world. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:27,040 –> 00:30:30,640
\nPulls us beyond that.
\nTo where we shouldn’t. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:30,640 –> 00:30:34,960
\nGo to to apply labels to judge.
\nA person’s motives. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:34,960 –> 00:30:37,960
\nTo to derive their character in
\nthe face of their wrongs. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:37,960 –> 00:30:40,800
\nThat is the role of Christ from
\nthe sisters who walks in our <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:40,800 –> 00:30:42,760
\nlampstands and judges the heart
\nof man. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:42,760 –> 00:30:45,920
\nOur role is confined in the
\nwords of Romans, that the <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:45,920 –> 00:30:53,600
\njudgement of God is according to
\ntruth, to enforce that judgement<\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:53,680 –> 00:30:55,720
\nfrom His word.
\nAnd brothers, sisters, let that <\/p>\n
462
\n00:30:55,720 –> 00:30:59,560
\nbe our standard.
\nTo judge as Christ. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:30:59,560 –> 00:31:02,440
\nCommanded not in appearance, but
\nin righteous judgment, and <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:02,440 –> 00:31:03,920
\nalways in the spirit of
\ncompassion. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:03,920 –> 00:31:06,600
\nAlways knowing, however innocent
\nwe might feel against somebody <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:06,600 –> 00:31:08,520
\nelse.
\nFrom sisters before God. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:13,120 –> 00:31:22,290
\nWe are all guilty, but above
\nall. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:24,880 –> 00:31:28,880
\nIn considering our shortcomings,
\nmarvelling as as Isaiah once <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:28,880 –> 00:31:32,520
\ndid, of of how far we might be
\nfalling from the glory of our <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:32,520 –> 00:31:39,000
\nGod will like Isaiah.
\nWe now rejoice. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:39,240 –> 00:31:44,360
\nIn an act of God’s grace.
\nRejoice in the giving. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:44,360 –> 00:31:48,040
\nOf his son.
\nWho lived this character? <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:48,160 –> 00:31:51,360
\nTo perfection, rejoice.
\nHe gave us a way to transform us<\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:51,480 –> 00:31:53,240
\nto what we cannot attain
\nourselves. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:53,240 –> 00:31:56,120
\nWe will close Bruin sisters on
\nan image of this process, the <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:56,120 –> 00:31:59,680
\nburning coal that Isaiah saw
\npulled from an altar of <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:59,680 –> 00:32:04,960
\nsacrifice.
\nTo take away the sins. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:04,960 –> 00:32:09,280
\nOf man, and we see him in 2nd
\nCorinthians 3, where once wrote <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:09,280 –> 00:32:13,400
\nPaul.
\nAll we with veiled. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:13,400 –> 00:32:19,400
\nFace beheld the character of God
\nfrom afar, like Moses and many. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:19,400 –> 00:32:21,520
\nThereafter who all?
\nThroughout, Scripture could only<\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:21,520 –> 00:32:24,480
\nglimpse these qualities as a
\nlight that shone behind rock, <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:24,480 –> 00:32:26,960
\nbut they they could strain to
\nsee it, but they failed in the <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:26,960 –> 00:32:30,600
\ntension.
\nHelpless to attain it because. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:30,600 –> 00:32:34,080
\nIt manifested behind a law whose
\nstandards they could never <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:34,080 –> 00:32:43,120
\nreach.
\nWell, in verse 18. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:43,120 –> 00:32:47,880
\nWe have our hope.
\nHope in the giving of his. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:47,880 –> 00:32:51,880
\nSon.
\nHope because he reflects. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:51,880 –> 00:32:55,400
\nThe glory of God’s character as
\na mirror to mankind. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:55,400 –> 00:32:56,520
\nHope.
\nBecause when one turns to <\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:56,520 –> 00:32:59,680
\nChrist, we are not only a model
\nof that image born sisters, we <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:59,680 –> 00:33:04,040
\nare transformed in it.
\nFrom 1\u00b0 of glory. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:04,040 –> 00:33:06,560
\nTo another for this, brothers
\nand sisters, is the man we’re <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:06,560 –> 00:33:09,800
\ngoing to consider, and our eggs
\nare to come, who lived this <\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:09,800 –> 00:33:14,320
\ntension to perfection.
\nA man who when we walk in. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:14,320 –> 00:33:17,320
\nHis ways frees us from the
\nfailures of flesh. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:20,280 –> 00:33:23,040
\nAnd refines us in.
\nThe completeness of God for this<\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:23,040 –> 00:33:28,280
\nalone, says Paul.
\nComes from the Lord.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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