{"id":1520,"date":"2026-08-23T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/414-martyn-lawrence-choose-life\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:57:26","slug":"414-martyn-lawrence-choose-life","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/414-martyn-lawrence-choose-life\/","title":{"rendered":"414: Martyn Lawrence – Choose Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is by Brother Martyn Lawrence, titled “Choose Life”, given at the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Christadelphian Bible School.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd now let’s talk more about
\nthis week’s talk. <\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to the good Chris
\nAdelphian Talks podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is brother Brian.
\nThis week’s talk is a one off <\/p>\n

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\nclass by brother Martin Lawrence
\nfrom the Cleckheaton UK <\/p>\n

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\necclesia.
\nAnd I’ll say it again, <\/p>\n

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\nCleckheaton, because I’m sure he
\nwould be thrilled that we <\/p>\n

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\nAmericans paid attention enough
\nto pronounce it correctly. <\/p>\n

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\nOr perhaps I’ve just reinforced
\nthe stereotype. <\/p>\n

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\nHis class was entitled Choose
\nLife, and it was the opening <\/p>\n

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\ntalk of last year’s Mid-Atlantic
\nShippensburg Bible School. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Martin frames the volume
\nof choices that we’re bombarded <\/p>\n

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\nwith each day as a threat to our
\nspiritual stamina, whether we <\/p>\n

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\nare aware of it or not.
\nChoices of what to purchase on <\/p>\n

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\nAmazon, what drink to buy today
\nfrom Starbucks, what bank to use<\/p>\n

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\nfor our portfolio.
\nAnd it makes a clear point that <\/p>\n

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\nwe have perhaps become numb to
\nthe simplicity of what God has <\/p>\n

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\nordained for us, the basis of
\nour free will. <\/p>\n

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\nOne choice, one God to follow
\nand obey, or not to choose his <\/p>\n

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\nlife.
\nIn our modern society, we become<\/p>\n

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\nsometimes paralyzed to making
\nmany critical decisions because <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re just already bogged down
\nby the overabundance of very <\/p>\n

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\ntrivial decisions that we’ve
\nalready had to make each day. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Martin didn’t say this,
\nbut as I was listening to it, it<\/p>\n

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\nreminded me of a very millennial
\nproblem of having 50 unread <\/p>\n

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\nemails on a Monday morning,
\ntaking all day. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd when you finally clear the
\nstack, you realize that the most<\/p>\n

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\nimportant urgent, time sensitive
\none was at the bottom, and that <\/p>\n

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\nwas the one you’re going to put
\noff until tomorrow. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Martin, make the
\nconnection to how God Himself is<\/p>\n

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\na choosing and a very particular
\nbeing. <\/p>\n

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\nDeciding for the Israelites what
\ntype of foods they could eat, <\/p>\n

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\nwhere they could worship, what
\nthey could offer, and all this <\/p>\n

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\nso that the only choice they
\nactually had to make was the <\/p>\n

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\nmost important one.
\nHopefully, it’s a choice that <\/p>\n

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\nyou’re making to choose what he
\nsaid was holy and right, to <\/p>\n

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\nchoose life over death.
\nSo as always, we hope that this <\/p>\n

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\nstrengthens your faith and
\nbrightens your day. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Martin Lawrence, choose
\nlife. <\/p>\n

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\nHow many exhortations, brothers
\nand sisters, have you heard this<\/p>\n

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\nweek?
\nHow many exhortations have you <\/p>\n

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\nheard this week?
\nI don’t mean can you remember <\/p>\n

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\nwhat the speaker said last
\nSunday. <\/p>\n

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\nI don’t mean did you listen to
\nanything as you made your way to<\/p>\n

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\nBible school yesterday.
\nI mean, how many other <\/p>\n

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\nexhortations have you heard this
\nweek? <\/p>\n

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\nMaybe you heard the Amazon
\nexhortation that the best choice<\/p>\n

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\nyou can make is to buy more
\nstuff. <\/p>\n

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\nOr maybe you heard the social
\nmedia exhortation that the best <\/p>\n

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\nchoice you can make for life is
\nto see it through a lens to to <\/p>\n

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\nself curate your own authentic
\nexperiences and share them with <\/p>\n

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\na bunch of people you’ve never
\nmet and who have never heard of <\/p>\n

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\nyou.
\nMaybe you heard the corporate <\/p>\n

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\nbranding exhortation.
\nThey said the best choice you <\/p>\n

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\ncan make for your future and
\nwhere you sell, where you keep <\/p>\n

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\nyour money and and who looks
\nafter your your Social Security <\/p>\n

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\nis to put it into a bank that
\nwill have your best interests at<\/p>\n

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\nheart.
\nOr maybe you heard the health <\/p>\n

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\nand well-being exhortation that
\nsaid that’s somewhere, somewhere<\/p>\n

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\nif you look hard enough, there
\nis a supplement or a fitness <\/p>\n

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\ninfluencer or, or a workout
\nregime that has your name on it <\/p>\n

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\nand only yours.
\nAnd, and just to fend off any <\/p>\n

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\npotential questions afterwards.
\nI’m not saying don’t work out. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m not saying don’t eat
\nhealthfully, and I’m not saying <\/p>\n

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\ndon’t put your money safely in a
\nbank. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m not saying those things.
\nBut these exhortations come at <\/p>\n

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\nus quietly because we don’t
\nthink that they’re exhortations.<\/p>\n

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\nBrother Steve’s going to give us
\nour memorial exhortation in a <\/p>\n

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\nlittle while.
\nIt’s on the program. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know what time it is, you
\nknow when you have to be here. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I presume you’re going to
\nsit respectfully and listen to <\/p>\n

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\nhim and take it all in.
\nI mean, I’ve not been here <\/p>\n

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\nbefore.
\nI don’t know how that if that’s <\/p>\n

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\nhow it works.
\nBut I’m presuming that, you know<\/p>\n

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\nroughly how a memorial
\nexhortation goes ahead. <\/p>\n

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\nThese other exhortation surprise
\nus because they sneak on up on <\/p>\n

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\nus without us knowing that
\nthey’re there. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I might sit there thinking,
\nwell, you know, I don’t get the <\/p>\n

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\ndoctrine of mortality from going
\nto the gym, do I? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I don’t understand the
\ndoctrine of grace from Disney, <\/p>\n

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\ndo I?
\nAnd yet just piece by piece, <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters, just step
\nby imperceptible step, all of <\/p>\n

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\nthose things that we mentioned
\nat the beginning are are shaping<\/p>\n

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\nour very outlook on our
\ndiscipleship. <\/p>\n

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\nWhether it’s the workout regime
\ntelling me that I don’t need to <\/p>\n

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\ngrow old gracefully no matter
\nwhat my son tells me. <\/p>\n

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\nOr whether it’s Disney telling
\nme to follow my dreams and be my<\/p>\n

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\nvery best, my own authentic
\nself, and not to let anybody <\/p>\n

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\nelse tell me how to chart my
\ncourse. <\/p>\n

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\nOr whether it’s Starbucks
\ntelling me that yes, I really do<\/p>\n

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\ndeserve the latest multi multi
\ncalorie mega 20 oz drink. <\/p>\n

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\nAll of these things are just
\nsubtly working on my <\/p>\n

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\nunderstanding of the world and
\nGod be praised that we are not <\/p>\n

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\nhelpless to respond to all of
\nthose. <\/p>\n

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\nGod be praised that in our
\ndiscipleship, we’re encouraged <\/p>\n

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\nto elevate not those other
\nissues, but those of Almighty <\/p>\n

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\nGod and of his Son and to drown
\nout the voices that we hear <\/p>\n

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\naround us.
\nCan you join me if you’re not <\/p>\n

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\nthere already in Deuteronomy?
\nWe’re going to start in chapter <\/p>\n

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\n29 and then make our way up to
\nthe verse that’s from which our <\/p>\n

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\nour entire week is is taken.
\nDeuteronomy 29 is is Israel, of <\/p>\n

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\ncourse, camped on the the shores
\nof the Jordan where where the <\/p>\n

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\nsame sorts of issues existed.
\nThey may not have couched them <\/p>\n

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\nin exactly the language that I
\njust did, but the same sorts of <\/p>\n

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\nissues existed.
\nNow you will know the book of <\/p>\n

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\nDeuteronomy and you will know
\nwhat’s going on, but just in <\/p>\n

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\ncase little bit fuzzy around the
\nedges with it. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were in the 40th year of
\nthe wilderness journey. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s the 11th month, so the
\nentire process of coming out of <\/p>\n

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\nEgypt is nearly at an end.
\nAnd Moses is giving this speech <\/p>\n

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\non his 120th birthday.
\nAnd with the exception of Joshua<\/p>\n

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\nand Caleb and the Levites,
\neverybody who is listening to <\/p>\n

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\nhim is 59 years or younger
\nbecause the entire first <\/p>\n

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\ngeneration that came out of
\nEgypt has gone. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’ve fallen like carcasses in
\nthe wilderness. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd this now is the second
\ngeneration to whom Moses is <\/p>\n

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\nspeaking who are going to go
\ninto the land and inherit it. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd this is Moses handover
\nspeech, if you like. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, we’ve heard an awful lot
\nabout handovers in recent months<\/p>\n

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\nand years, an awful lot about
\ntransitions of power, he says <\/p>\n

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\nnervously.
\nWhether it’s the papacy and the <\/p>\n

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\nhandover from 1 Pope to another,
\nwhether it’s the notion of <\/p>\n

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\npeaceful transitions of power in
\nthe White House. <\/p>\n

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\nWhether even you go back a
\ncouple of years to the death of <\/p>\n

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\nQueen Elizabeth in the UK and
\nthe instantaneous constitutional<\/p>\n

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\nswitch to the to the next
\nmonarch as somebody came out on <\/p>\n

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\na balcony and he announced that
\nthe queen was dead and Long live<\/p>\n

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\nthe king.
\nAnd this is a different kind of <\/p>\n

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\nhandover.
\nAnd Moses is passing over, isn’t<\/p>\n

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\nhe, to this new generation who
\nwill, who will take over from <\/p>\n

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\nhim and go into the land after
\nhe dies? <\/p>\n

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\nMight like to think about other
\nhandover words, last words, if <\/p>\n

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\nyou like.
\nThat Scripture has the Lord’s <\/p>\n

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\nwords in John 17, where he where
\nhe gives his disciples to his <\/p>\n

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\nfather.
\nHe’s going to the cross. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s finished the work that his
\nfather’s given him to do, and he<\/p>\n

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\nplaces his disciples into the
\nhands of his father before he <\/p>\n

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\ngoes to the cross.
\nOr maybe you think about the <\/p>\n

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\nwords of Paul when he’s there on
\nthe beach at Myelitus and he <\/p>\n

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\nspeaks to the Ephesian elders
\nand, and tells them that he’s <\/p>\n

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\ngoing to Jerusalem and he’ll
\nnever see their face again. <\/p>\n

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\nI, I feel convinced that he’s
\nexpecting not to survive the <\/p>\n

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\njourney and he is, as it were,
\nhanding over the chance to them.<\/p>\n

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\nLots of threads actually that
\nconnect up those words of Paul <\/p>\n

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\nin Acts chapter 20 with this
\nsection of Deuteronomy. <\/p>\n

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\nBut we’re here in chapter 29,
\nand this is a, this is an <\/p>\n

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\nenhanced covenant, a new
\ncovenant, chapter 29 and verse <\/p>\n

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\none that the words of the
\ncovenant which the Lord <\/p>\n

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\ncommanded Moses to make with the
\nchildren of Israel in the land <\/p>\n

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\nhas happened over the last 39
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\nCome down to verse 10, chapter
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\nYou stand this day, all of you
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\ncaptains of your tribes, your
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\nmen of Israel, your little ones,
\nyour wives. <\/p>\n

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\nThey, they came, my brothers and
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\nlisten to Moses.
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\nto say that it was like a Bible
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\ndifferent parts of the camp to
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\nservice committee as well.
\nVerse 11, the Hewer of wood and <\/p>\n

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\nthe drawer of water.
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\nthe catering staff at the
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\nI don’t know how far I’m pushing
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\nVerse 12 that you should enter
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\nGod and into his oath, which the
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\nthis day that he may come
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\nto himself and maybe to your
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\nswore to your Father’s, to
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\nIt’s a covenant anchored in the
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\nIt’s not based on the law of
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\nWe’re we’re, we’re stretching
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\nto be established.
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\ngeneration going into the land,
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\nthis covenant and this oath, but
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\nus this day before the Lord our
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\nhere with us this day.
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\nactually is about how how the
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\nthe message, how future
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\npromises that God made to the
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\ntheir faith not so much in the
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\nAbrahamic promises which have
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\nJust keep a finger here or or
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\nIf you have an iPad, come over
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\ngo in and write at the
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\nIt’s a chapter all about the
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\njourney.
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\nthe beginning, but just cast an
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\nand it catches every moment of
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\nVerse one of Psalm 78 give ear O
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\nyour ears to the words of my
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\nI will open my mouth in a
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\nsayings of old which we have
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\nhave told us we will.
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\nWe will not hide them from their
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\nmark this expression, showing to
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\npraises of the Lord, and his
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\nwhich he’s done for.
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\nJacob appointed a law in Israel,
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\nthat they should make them known
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\nAnd here’s the phrase again,
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\nmight know them, even the
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\nwho should arise and declare
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\nmessage goes down through the
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\nas when you come to a Bible
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\nthere and learn and enjoy what’s
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\nScriptures, but that you make
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\nchildren and to your
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\nThat this isn’t just some moment
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\nis recorded and you go back and
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\nin time.
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\ngoes on down through the
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\nAnd as Moses stood there almost
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\nland and re established this
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\nGod’s people that he had been
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\nYes, it was for them, but by the
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\nwho would come after.
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\nin the last few hours when we’ve
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\nWe we don’t know how many Bible
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\nking is here again in the earth.
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\nwe come together for ourselves
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\nfellowship and to be with each
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\nAnd how marvellous those things
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\nBut we come to so that the
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\nshould declare them to their
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\ntheir hope in God and not forget
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\nThat that phrase is hooked right
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\ngeneration to come.
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\nsee if we can find it.
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\nDeuteronomy 29, brothers and
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\narticulating, hasn’t He in the
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\ncome upon the nation if things
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\npromised or has He has commanded
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\nWhere do we finish?
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\nWe were going to skip out the
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\nyou, man or woman or family or
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\nthis day from the Lord our God,
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\nother nations in case they
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\nA root that bears gall and
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\nAnd it shall come to pass when
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\ncurse, that he bless himself in
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\nhis corporate business statement
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\nand shall say, I have peace in
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\nI’ve added a few words there,
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\ntrying to get to.
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\nwalk after the imagination of my
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\nthirst.
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\nthen the anger of the Lord and
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\nthat man, and all the curses
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\nupon him, and the Lord shall
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\nheaven.
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\nchapter 28 and look at those
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\nthings do not go as He’s
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\nslavery, but nobody will buy
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\na reverse of the Exodus when
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\ndid through the Exodus because
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\nAnd here’s the expression that <\/p>\n

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\nwe took right out of Psalm 78.
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\nof your children that shall rise
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\nthat shall come from a far land
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\nplague upon the land.
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\nbringing before them a new oath
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\nthat God is making and say,
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\nhuman sinfulness once and for
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\nis gone and we don’t have to
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\ndrunk, or Abraham goes down into
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\nbathing on the roof, or or Peter
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\nout and weeps.
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\nare still broken, that things
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\nhas to be something bigger,
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\nsomething even more that will
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\nAnd perhaps that’s why in the
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\none who takes so much of the
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\nworship, but their very
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\nCome with me to Chapter 7 in
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\nthrough the book of Deuteronomy
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\nHe’s not only brought them from
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\nmighty hand and an outstretched
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\ngoing to shape their very
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\nto verse 6.
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\nLord your God.
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\nyou were more in number than any
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\nfewest of all people, but
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\nbecause He would keep the oath
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\nYou know, if we extend those
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\nit’s, I often feel it’s quite a
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\nexhortations that we listed out
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\ntelling us that we are bigger
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\n00:20:18,560 –> 00:20:20,440
\nAnd suddenly we come to this
\nverse and say, Hang on, Lord. <\/p>\n

326
\n00:20:20,440 –> 00:20:23,680
\nWhat if my secular exhortation
\nis telling me that I am better <\/p>\n

327
\n00:20:23,680 –> 00:20:28,640
\nthan this and we suddenly have
\nto sit here and go hang on a <\/p>\n

328
\n00:20:28,640 –> 00:20:34,280
\nminute.
\nMaybe God is the great one and <\/p>\n

329
\n00:20:34,280 –> 00:20:35,960
\nI’m the one who has to bow
\nbefore him. <\/p>\n

330
\n00:20:36,280 –> 00:20:40,320
\nHe is, to use the words of verse
\n9, the faithful God who keeps <\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:40,320 –> 00:20:43,880
\ncovenant and mercy with those
\nwho love him and mercy to 1000 <\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:43,880 –> 00:20:47,240
\ngenerations.
\nGod is the choosing God. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:47,520 –> 00:20:49,080
\nGod is the one who shapes their
\nworld. <\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:49,080 –> 00:20:53,080
\nJust come on to chapter 12,
\nbecause not only is he the God <\/p>\n

335
\n00:20:53,080 –> 00:20:55,960
\nwho chooses His people, but He’s
\nthe God who will choose where <\/p>\n

336
\n00:20:55,960 –> 00:20:59,640
\nthey worship.
\nDeuteronomy chapter 12 and come <\/p>\n

337
\n00:20:59,640 –> 00:21:05,240
\nto verse 5.
\nYou shall come to the place <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:05,240 –> 00:21:11,120
\nwhich the Lord your God shall
\nchoose to put His name there out<\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:11,120 –> 00:21:13,680
\nof all your tribes, even to his
\nhabitation, and there you shall <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:13,680 –> 00:21:15,520
\ncome and offer your burnt
\nofferings, and eat before the <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:15,520 –> 00:21:19,520
\nLord, and rejoice before him.
\nSeven times in chapter 12, God <\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:19,520 –> 00:21:22,680
\nspeaks of the place that He
\nshall choose that you would come<\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:22,680 –> 00:21:26,040
\nand worship, bringing the people
\nto a central part that they <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:26,040 –> 00:21:27,680
\nmight come and worship before
\nHim. <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:28,040 –> 00:21:33,720
\nHe chooses them as a nation.
\nHe chooses the place that they <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:33,720 –> 00:21:36,760
\nwill worship.
\nIf you come on to chapter 17 and<\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:36,760 –> 00:21:43,600
\nverse 15, He’s going to choose
\nmore even than that, because <\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:43,600 –> 00:21:45,640
\nwhen they come into the land
\nwhich the Lord gives them to <\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:45,640 –> 00:21:48,920
\npossess and they want to set a
\nking over them. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:21:49,760 –> 00:21:57,720
\nVerse 15, whom the Lord your God
\nshall choose, chosen the nation,<\/p>\n

351
\n00:21:58,200 –> 00:22:01,680
\nchosen the place, chosen the
\nking. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:22:03,160 –> 00:22:11,600
\nChapter 18 and verse 5, when the
\nLevites are appointed, the Lord <\/p>\n

353
\n00:22:11,600 –> 00:22:17,240
\nyour God has chosen him out of
\nall of your tribes, chose the <\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:17,240 –> 00:22:23,080
\npeople, chose the place, chose
\nthe king, chose the priests, <\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:23,800 –> 00:22:27,600
\ngods shaping their very
\nexistence as he leads them <\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:27,600 –> 00:22:31,160
\ntowards their promised land.
\nIt’s a key theme throughout the <\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:31,160 –> 00:22:32,680
\nbook of Deuteronomy.
\nIn fact, for those of you that <\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:32,680 –> 00:22:37,040
\nlike counting these kind of
\nthings, I think it’s 30 times in<\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:37,040 –> 00:22:41,480
\nthe book of Deuteronomy that God
\nis the one who is choosing God <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:41,480 –> 00:22:44,520
\nis the one who is, who is
\nshaping their existence. <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:44,520 –> 00:22:48,320
\nHe’s in control of where they
\nlive, of how they worship, of <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:48,320 –> 00:22:52,120
\nwhat they do, of what they wear.
\nEven you might think of the <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:52,120 –> 00:22:55,240
\nwords from Job that that
\nmarvellous speech where Job <\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:56,000 –> 00:22:58,840
\ncomes, as it were, to his senses
\nat the end of all those <\/p>\n

365
\n00:22:58,840 –> 00:23:04,640
\nexperiences, and understands
\nmore about God than ever did he <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:04,640 –> 00:23:06,360
\ndid before.
\nHave you entered the springs of <\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:06,360 –> 00:23:09,080
\nthe sea?
\nHave you entered the storehouses<\/p>\n

368
\n00:23:09,080 –> 00:23:11,440
\nof the snow?
\nDid you give the horses <\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:11,440 –> 00:23:13,120
\nstrength?
\nDid you show the eagle how to <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:13,120 –> 00:23:17,560
\nmount up in his wings?
\nNo, but the God who chooses, <\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:19,280 –> 00:23:23,840
\nHe’s the one who did.
\nAnd we were in DCA couple of <\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:23,840 –> 00:23:25,160
\nyears.
\nA couple of days ago, we went to<\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:25,160 –> 00:23:27,760
\nthe Air and Space Museum.
\nThere’s that Apollo 8 exhibition<\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:27,760 –> 00:23:31,200
\nwith Jim Lovell putting his
\nthumb over the earth. <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:31,200 –> 00:23:33,800
\nYou will perhaps I was going to
\nsay, remember, those of you who <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:33,800 –> 00:23:36,120
\nwere around in December 1968
\nwill remember. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:36,680 –> 00:23:38,920
\nThe rest of you will have to
\nhave to go to the museum. <\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:38,920 –> 00:23:41,600
\nAnd he comes up over the horizon
\nand puts his thumb over the <\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:41,600 –> 00:23:47,640
\nearth and says, all that I ever
\nknew, every person I ever met, <\/p>\n

380
\n00:23:49,040 –> 00:23:53,120
\nevery experience I ever heard
\nSAT beneath my thumb. <\/p>\n

381
\n00:23:53,560 –> 00:23:55,040
\nThe earth on the other side of
\nit. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:23:55,040 –> 00:23:58,200
\nHe said, that’s how small we
\nwere. <\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:59,600 –> 00:24:02,280
\nGod is the choosing God.
\nGod is the creator God. <\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:02,280 –> 00:24:04,760
\nGod is the one who is shaping
\nour very existence. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:24:04,760 –> 00:24:07,560
\nThe earth is the Lords and the
\nfullness thereof. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:24:07,840 –> 00:24:11,480
\nAnd as he paints this picture
\nfor them about their future in <\/p>\n

387
\n00:24:11,480 –> 00:24:15,880
\nthe land and that of other
\ngenerations to come, it almost <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:15,880 –> 00:24:18,440
\nseems if you’re in Deuteronomy
\n29, that the battle is too <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:18,440 –> 00:24:24,400
\ndifficult, too hard, because,
\nwell, something will go wrong. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:24,400 –> 00:24:27,160
\nSomething won’t work.
\nThe the people themselves will <\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:27,160 –> 00:24:32,520
\nnot be able to keep faith.
\nAnd it’s only when we come into <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:32,520 –> 00:24:38,360
\nchapter 30 that it’s as if the
\nscales flip and God begins to <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:38,360 –> 00:24:42,640
\ntalk in more positive language
\nto tell us about what repentance<\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:42,640 –> 00:24:46,840
\nlooks like, what coming to the
\nthe Father actually sounds like.<\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:48,040 –> 00:24:50,560
\nLet’s come into Deuteronomy 30.
\nI’m conscious I’m jumping things<\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:50,560 –> 00:24:53,720
\njust to keep the well, to keep
\nthe time as much as anything <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:53,720 –> 00:24:56,200
\nelse, but just just to make sure
\nthat we keep the flow going. <\/p>\n

398
\n00:24:57,360 –> 00:25:00,800
\nLet’s go into to chapter 30 and
\nverse 1. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:25:01,560 –> 00:25:03,720
\nSo come to pass when all these
\nthings that come upon you, the <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:03,720 –> 00:25:05,800
\nblessings and the curse which
\nI’ve set before you, and you <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:05,800 –> 00:25:09,200
\nshall call them to mind among
\nall the nations where the Lord <\/p>\n

402
\n00:25:09,200 –> 00:25:14,320
\nhas driven you.
\nAnd you shall return to the Lord<\/p>\n

403
\n00:25:14,320 –> 00:25:18,000
\nyour God and obey his voice
\nwhich I command you this day, <\/p>\n

404
\n00:25:18,000 –> 00:25:21,280
\nyou and your children with all
\nyour heart and all your soul. <\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:21,280 –> 00:25:25,640
\nBut then the Lord your God will
\nturn your captivity and have <\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:25,640 –> 00:25:28,640
\ncompassion upon you.
\nIt’s, it’s Hosea language, isn’t<\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:28,640 –> 00:25:29,800
\nit?
\nHosea’s going to paint this <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:29,800 –> 00:25:32,760
\npicture of the of a nation who
\nwill return that the prodigal <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:32,760 –> 00:25:37,240
\nson is going to be, is going to
\nbe ripped through with this sort<\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:37,240 –> 00:25:41,680
\nof language of a, of a son who
\ngoes out on his own initiative <\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:41,680 –> 00:25:43,440
\nand lives the high life out in
\nanother land. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:25:43,440 –> 00:25:46,840
\nAnd only when he comes to
\nhimself, only when he realizes <\/p>\n

413
\n00:25:46,840 –> 00:25:51,640
\nthat a return from exile has to
\nbe done on his initiative, that <\/p>\n

414
\n00:25:51,640 –> 00:25:53,640
\nhe’s the one who has to take the
\nfirst steps back. <\/p>\n

415
\n00:25:53,640 –> 00:25:58,360
\nAnd then the father comes
\nrunning to him, does his life <\/p>\n

416
\n00:25:58,360 –> 00:26:01,040
\nbegin to make sense again When
\nhe realizes that in the father’s<\/p>\n

417
\n00:26:01,040 –> 00:26:03,480
\nhouse the bread of life is to be
\nfound. <\/p>\n

418
\n00:26:04,160 –> 00:26:08,040
\nThen the Lord turns their
\ncaptivity and has compassion on <\/p>\n

419
\n00:26:08,040 –> 00:26:12,760
\nthem and they will return, I
\nsuppose, twice over to the to <\/p>\n

420
\n00:26:12,760 –> 00:26:18,480
\nthe Lord and also to the land.
\nAnd we could paint a whole <\/p>\n

421
\n00:26:18,480 –> 00:26:20,800
\npicture about what this means in
\nthe life of the nation of <\/p>\n

422
\n00:26:20,800 –> 00:26:23,600
\nIsrael.
\nBut but just for us at the <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:23,600 –> 00:26:25,600
\nbeginning of our gathering
\ntogether this week, we’re going <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:25,600 –> 00:26:29,080
\nto think about how these how
\nthese verses apply more to us. <\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:29,680 –> 00:26:32,800
\nNot to suggest that it is an
\nimportant tool to to think about<\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:32,800 –> 00:26:36,120
\nthe Israel focus, but just to
\ncapture ourselves as we, as we <\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:36,120 –> 00:26:39,840
\nwalk through our Bible school
\ntogether, because it’s not easy,<\/p>\n

428
\n00:26:41,720 –> 00:26:46,800
\nbut it is within our grasp.
\nCome to verse 11 of Deuteronomy <\/p>\n

429
\n00:26:46,800 –> 00:26:50,040
\nchapter 30.
\nThese were the words that we <\/p>\n

430
\n00:26:50,040 –> 00:26:51,920
\nread together.
\nThis commandment which I command<\/p>\n

431
\n00:26:51,920 –> 00:26:53,600
\nyou this day, it’s not hidden
\nfrom you. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:26:55,560 –> 00:26:59,920
\nIt’s not far off.
\nIt’s not in heaven that you <\/p>\n

433
\n00:26:59,920 –> 00:27:02,600
\nshould say, who shall go up for
\nus to heaven and bring it to us <\/p>\n

434
\n00:27:02,600 –> 00:27:07,800
\nthat we may hear and do it.
\nIt’s not beyond the sea that you<\/p>\n

435
\n00:27:07,800 –> 00:27:10,200
\nshould say, Who shall go over
\nthe sea for us and bring it to <\/p>\n

436
\n00:27:10,200 –> 00:27:14,920
\nus, that we may hear and do it,
\nBut the word is very nigh unto <\/p>\n

437
\n00:27:14,920 –> 00:27:20,720
\nthee in thy mouth and in thy
\nheart, that thou mayest do it. <\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:20,760 –> 00:27:26,280
\nI suppose it explains why so
\nmany of the curses are framed <\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:26,280 –> 00:27:29,320
\naround the Exodus journey,
\nbecause God is saying, you have <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:29,320 –> 00:27:31,080
\nseen what I did to the
\nEgyptians. <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:31,520 –> 00:27:34,680
\nThese things are very near to
\nyou because the consequences for<\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:34,680 –> 00:27:37,920
\nsin are not a surprise.
\nYou know what God does to those <\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:37,920 –> 00:27:41,800
\nwho break covenant.
\nYou know the consequences of sin<\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:41,800 –> 00:27:43,760
\nand you know the impact that
\nthat will have on you as a <\/p>\n

445
\n00:27:43,760 –> 00:27:46,840
\npeople.
\nIt’s not hidden from you. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:27:47,400 –> 00:27:50,080
\nIt’s not far off.
\nPaul captures that in Romans, <\/p>\n

447
\n00:27:50,080 –> 00:27:52,080
\ndoesn’t he?
\nSince the creation of the world,<\/p>\n

448
\n00:27:52,080 –> 00:27:55,760
\nhis invisible attributes, his
\neternal purpose and divine <\/p>\n

449
\n00:27:55,760 –> 00:28:00,880
\nnature have been clearly seen.
\nWell, yes, they have. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:28:00,880 –> 00:28:05,120
\nBut how does how does
\nDeuteronomy 30 help us to <\/p>\n

451
\n00:28:05,120 –> 00:28:07,320
\nunderstand our faith?
\nWell, of course, that’s the <\/p>\n

452
\n00:28:07,320 –> 00:28:10,520
\nphrase that Paul picks up in
\nRomans chapter 10. <\/p>\n

453
\n00:28:10,520 –> 00:28:12,960
\nAnd I just asked you just to
\nhold those two verses open so we<\/p>\n

454
\n00:28:12,960 –> 00:28:16,480
\ncan look at them both together.
\nCome to Romans chapter 10. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:28:16,480 –> 00:28:19,080
\nAnd if you can see Deuteronomy
\n30 as well, it will be helpful. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:34,610 –> 00:28:37,130
\nAnd having asked you to do that,
\nI’m now just trying to work out <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:37,130 –> 00:28:38,370
\nhow I’m going to do.
\nI’m going to use a bottle of <\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:38,370 –> 00:28:39,730
\nwater and see if I can keep a
\nmarker. <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:40,490 –> 00:28:44,880
\nThere we are Romans chapter 10
\nand of course the focus in one <\/p>\n

460
\n00:28:44,880 –> 00:28:48,200
\nsense is Israel.
\nHere Romans 10 and verse 5, <\/p>\n

461
\n00:28:48,200 –> 00:28:50,640
\nMoses describes righteousness,
\nwhich is of the law that the man<\/p>\n

462
\n00:28:50,640 –> 00:28:55,280
\nwho does these things shall live
\nby them talking about salvation <\/p>\n

463
\n00:28:55,280 –> 00:28:57,760
\nthrough faith, of course, and
\nnot by law. <\/p>\n

464
\n00:28:57,760 –> 00:29:01,000
\nYou could spend an entire week
\nin this chapter and and not <\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:01,120 –> 00:29:04,320
\nreally scratch the surface, but
\nlet’s just see whether we can <\/p>\n

466
\n00:29:04,320 –> 00:29:08,840
\ncapture this quotation from
\nDeuteronomy chapter 30, verse 6 <\/p>\n

467
\n00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:10,800
\nof Romans 10.
\nBut the righteousness, which is <\/p>\n

468
\n00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:16,000
\nof faith speaks like this.
\nSay not in your heart who shall <\/p>\n

469
\n00:29:16,000 –> 00:29:19,680
\nascend into heaven, that is to
\nbring Christ down from above, or<\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:19,680 –> 00:29:22,560
\nwho shall ascend into the deep,
\nwhich is to bring Christ to gain<\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:22,560 –> 00:29:25,120
\nfrom the dead.
\nBut what does it say? <\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:25,440 –> 00:29:29,160
\nThe word is near to you, even in
\nyour mouth and in your heart. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:29:30,600 –> 00:29:32,440
\nThere’s a difference there.
\nI don’t know whether you’ve <\/p>\n

474
\n00:29:32,440 –> 00:29:33,920
\nclocked it.
\nYou may have written notes in <\/p>\n

475
\n00:29:33,920 –> 00:29:36,280
\nyour Bible alongside this, that
\nthe fact that Paul has under <\/p>\n

476
\n00:29:36,280 –> 00:29:40,880
\ninspiration just just very
\nsubtly shifted the language from<\/p>\n

477
\n00:29:41,360 –> 00:29:43,800
\nfrom Deuteronomy in the second
\npart of that quotation. <\/p>\n

478
\n00:29:44,600 –> 00:29:47,920
\nWhat does he say in Deuteronomy
\n30, verse 12? <\/p>\n

479
\n00:29:48,320 –> 00:29:51,920
\nIt’s not in heaven that you have
\nto go up and get it. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:29:52,240 –> 00:29:55,560
\nSo we have to hear it and do it.
\nAnd then he goes on to say that <\/p>\n

481
\n00:29:55,560 –> 00:30:00,040
\nit’s not, it’s up to 30, verse
\n13, beyond the sea. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:30:00,440 –> 00:30:02,360
\nWell, that’s not what Paul says
\nin Romans 10, is it? <\/p>\n

483
\n00:30:03,320 –> 00:30:09,800
\nHe says, verse seven, who shall
\ndescend into the deep, and it <\/p>\n

484
\n00:30:09,800 –> 00:30:11,560
\ndoesn’t look very different, but
\nit is different. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:30:11,560 –> 00:30:13,520
\nRather than going beyond the
\nsea, he’s talking about going <\/p>\n

486
\n00:30:13,520 –> 00:30:15,920
\ndown into the depths.
\nAnd he’s obviously framing this <\/p>\n

487
\n00:30:15,920 –> 00:30:17,880
\naround the Lord Jesus Christ
\nbecause he’s added that for us <\/p>\n

488
\n00:30:17,880 –> 00:30:20,120
\nalready.
\nPaul has taken us on a little <\/p>\n

489
\n00:30:20,120 –> 00:30:23,320
\ndiversion as we travel from
\nDeuteronomy to Romans, and he’s <\/p>\n

490
\n00:30:23,320 –> 00:30:28,320
\njust asked us just to stop off
\nsomewhere, asked us to stop off <\/p>\n

491
\n00:30:28,320 –> 00:30:33,800
\nin the prophecy of Jonah.
\nThe man who voluntarily went <\/p>\n

492
\n00:30:33,800 –> 00:30:38,560
\ninto exile voluntarily when
\ngiven that commandment to go to <\/p>\n

493
\n00:30:38,560 –> 00:30:42,720
\nthe Ninevites and preach, said
\nyou must be kidding, and went in<\/p>\n

494
\n00:30:42,720 –> 00:30:44,840
\nthe opposite direction and got
\non a boat. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:30:44,840 –> 00:30:47,920
\nAnd to use Deuteronomy language
\nwent beyond the sea. <\/p>\n

496
\n00:30:47,920 –> 00:30:50,440
\nOnly he didn’t get as far as
\nbeyond the sea because when he <\/p>\n

497
\n00:30:50,440 –> 00:30:54,840
\nwas now to use Roman’s language
\non the sea, they threw him <\/p>\n

498
\n00:30:54,840 –> 00:30:56,880
\noverboard and he went down to
\nthe depths and for three days <\/p>\n

499
\n00:30:56,880 –> 00:30:59,240
\nJonah was dead.
\nWhether he was really dead or <\/p>\n

500
\n00:30:59,240 –> 00:31:01,000
\nwhether it’s just picture
\nlanguage, you can decide for <\/p>\n

501
\n00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:03,160
\nyourself.
\nAnd of course, you know the <\/p>\n

502
\n00:31:03,160 –> 00:31:05,840
\nsignificance of that echo, the
\nway in which that’s picked up <\/p>\n

503
\n00:31:05,840 –> 00:31:07,440
\nfor us as a resurrection
\npicture. <\/p>\n

504
\n00:31:08,600 –> 00:31:10,840
\nAnd Paul has just taken us via
\nJonah and said, well, this was <\/p>\n

505
\n00:31:10,840 –> 00:31:14,040
\nthe man who went, who tried to
\ngo off beyond the sea and take <\/p>\n

506
\n00:31:14,040 –> 00:31:17,760
\nhimself into voluntary exile,
\nand instead went down into the <\/p>\n

507
\n00:31:17,760 –> 00:31:21,000
\ndepths and emerged as a picture
\nof what the work of the Lord <\/p>\n

508
\n00:31:21,000 –> 00:31:24,080
\nJesus Christ would be like.
\nIt’s not like the law, verse 5, <\/p>\n

509
\n00:31:24,080 –> 00:31:26,320
\nwhich you do.
\nThe man who does these things <\/p>\n

510
\n00:31:26,440 –> 00:31:29,120
\nshall live by them.
\nSalvation, Paul says, is near to<\/p>\n

511
\n00:31:29,160 –> 00:31:31,760
\nus because it’s been shown us in
\nthe person of the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

512
\n00:31:31,760 –> 00:31:34,760
\nChrist.
\nAnd so he continues his <\/p>\n

513
\n00:31:34,760 –> 00:31:39,440
\nquotation to tell us about the
\none who ascended to the heavens <\/p>\n

514
\n00:31:39,440 –> 00:31:41,920
\nto be with his Father, the one
\nwho went down into the grave <\/p>\n

515
\n00:31:42,320 –> 00:31:47,920
\nthree days, the one who, if you
\nlike, put himself. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:31:47,920 –> 00:31:49,440
\nCan I use this language?
\nI think we can. <\/p>\n

517
\n00:31:49,440 –> 00:31:57,560
\nInto voluntary exile for his
\npeople in order to come back and<\/p>\n

518
\n00:31:57,560 –> 00:32:00,920
\nlead them.
\nAnd who is now Romans 10 and <\/p>\n

519
\n00:32:00,920 –> 00:32:05,880
\nverse 8 near to us.
\nIn fact, just track the way in <\/p>\n

520
\n00:32:05,880 –> 00:32:07,760
\nwhich Paul is picking up these
\nwords. <\/p>\n

521
\n00:32:08,280 –> 00:32:12,840
\nIf you go into Deuteronomy 30
\nand verse 14, the word is very <\/p>\n

522
\n00:32:12,840 –> 00:32:16,840
\nnigh unto thee in thine mouth
\nand in thy heart. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:32:18,200 –> 00:32:20,520
\nThat’s what Paul says.
\nAnd then he adds it adds to it <\/p>\n

524
\n00:32:20,640 –> 00:32:22,040
\nfor us.
\nSo we understand what he means. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:32:22,040 –> 00:32:24,520
\nIt’s the Word of Faith which we
\npreach. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:32:24,760 –> 00:32:27,360
\nAnd if we’re in Deuteronomy,
\nwe’re just waiting for the bit <\/p>\n

527
\n00:32:27,360 –> 00:32:30,880
\nto land, which is the very end
\nof verse 14 that says that you <\/p>\n

528
\n00:32:30,880 –> 00:32:32,880
\nmay do it.
\nAnd we’re looking for it in <\/p>\n

529
\n00:32:32,880 –> 00:32:35,200
\nRomans chapter 10 and wondering
\nwhere that bit is. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:32:37,440 –> 00:32:41,280
\nAnd then we realise that what
\nPaul’s Paul’s doing through <\/p>\n

531
\n00:32:41,280 –> 00:32:46,680
\ninspiration is saying that the
\nbit that says where you do it is<\/p>\n

532
\n00:32:46,680 –> 00:32:52,440
\nverse 9 where he’s talking about
\nfaith, that if you confess with <\/p>\n

533
\n00:32:52,440 –> 00:32:54,760
\nyour mouth the Lord Jesus and
\nbelieve in your heart that God <\/p>\n

534
\n00:32:54,760 –> 00:32:56,920
\nraised him from the dead, then
\nyou shall be saved. <\/p>\n

535
\n00:32:56,920 –> 00:33:01,400
\nThis is the doing bit of
\nDeuteronomy 30, verse 14, <\/p>\n

536
\n00:33:02,880 –> 00:33:04,880
\nbecause with the heart man
\nbelieves to righteousness and <\/p>\n

537
\n00:33:04,880 –> 00:33:07,200
\nwith the mouth confession is
\nmade to salvation. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:33:07,400 –> 00:33:10,320
\nFor as the Scripture says,
\nwhoever believes on him shall <\/p>\n

539
\n00:33:10,320 –> 00:33:14,600
\nnot be ashamed through faith in
\nthe one who went into exile, <\/p>\n

540
\n00:33:14,720 –> 00:33:17,520
\nwent down into the depths and
\ncame out because it was not <\/p>\n

541
\n00:33:17,520 –> 00:33:21,600
\npossible, my brothers and
\nsisters, for the grave to hold <\/p>\n

542
\n00:33:21,600 –> 00:33:24,680
\nhim.
\nWell wasn’t reserved for <\/p>\n

543
\n00:33:24,680 –> 00:33:29,240
\nmythological fantastic beasts.
\nIt wasn’t reserved for for <\/p>\n

544
\n00:33:29,240 –> 00:33:31,000
\npeople who could do great
\nmiracles. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:33:31,920 –> 00:33:37,280
\nIt was God’s coming close to
\nevery Israelite coming close to <\/p>\n

546
\n00:33:37,280 –> 00:33:41,120
\nus in the person of His Son.
\nAnd you would not expect Paul in<\/p>\n

547
\n00:33:41,120 –> 00:33:45,520
\nRomans, when talking about faith
\nas opposed to works, to come <\/p>\n

548
\n00:33:45,520 –> 00:33:49,120
\nback into the law and to pull
\nlanguage out of the law of all <\/p>\n

549
\n00:33:49,120 –> 00:33:53,480
\nplaces to articulate what
\nrighteousness looked like <\/p>\n

550
\n00:33:53,480 –> 00:33:55,160
\nthrough faith.
\nAnd yet, of course, Deuteronomy <\/p>\n

551
\n00:33:55,160 –> 00:33:57,160
\nchapter 30 is full of this
\nissue. <\/p>\n

552
\n00:33:57,800 –> 00:34:00,520
\nJust come back to Deuteronomy 30
\nwith me and see how many times <\/p>\n

553
\n00:34:00,520 –> 00:34:04,440
\nhe talks about what your faith
\nis to be in your heart. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:34:07,520 –> 00:34:10,199
\nI think we touched upon it
\nbefore in verse 2 of chapter 30,<\/p>\n

555
\n00:34:10,199 –> 00:34:13,040
\nthe words that I command you,
\nyou and your children, with all <\/p>\n

556
\n00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:17,440
\nyour heart and all your soul.
\nIt’s in verse 6 of Deuteronomy <\/p>\n

557
\n00:34:17,440 –> 00:34:20,000
\n30.
\nThe Lord your will circumcise <\/p>\n

558
\n00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:23,360
\nyour heart and the heart of your
\nsea to love the Lord your God <\/p>\n

559
\n00:34:23,520 –> 00:34:26,199
\nwith all your heart and with all
\nyour soul. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:34:27,120 –> 00:34:29,520
\nAnd it’s in verse 10, isn’t it,
\nthat you will turn to the Lord <\/p>\n

561
\n00:34:29,520 –> 00:34:32,480
\nyour God with all your heart and
\nwith all your soul. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:34:32,639 –> 00:34:35,239
\nThe Lord wasn’t mechanical.
\nIt always contained faith and <\/p>\n

563
\n00:34:35,239 –> 00:34:38,080
\nlove.
\nIt’s Paul in Romans again, isn’t<\/p>\n

564
\n00:34:38,080 –> 00:34:40,679
\nit talks about the law as being
\ngood and right and true. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:34:40,679 –> 00:34:44,040
\nAnd of course it was because it
\ncame from the creator of all <\/p>\n

566
\n00:34:44,040 –> 00:34:52,600
\nlife and, and what Deuteronomy
\nseems to be commanding them and <\/p>\n

567
\n00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:56,000
\nthe generations to come.
\nAnd therefore, I think by <\/p>\n

568
\n00:34:56,000 –> 00:35:00,560
\nextension, you and I this
\nmorning to take that nation upon<\/p>\n

569
\n00:35:00,560 –> 00:35:04,680
\nourselves, to take the history
\nof God’s promises into our <\/p>\n

570
\n00:35:04,680 –> 00:35:10,880
\nhearts, to make it part of the
\nvery fabric of our being, to <\/p>\n

571
\n00:35:10,880 –> 00:35:13,080
\nreflect upon it when we wake in
\nthe morning and when we go to <\/p>\n

572
\n00:35:13,080 –> 00:35:17,400
\nbed at night.
\nGod is giving them life because <\/p>\n

573
\n00:35:17,400 –> 00:35:21,480
\nHe is life.
\nAnd that perhaps helps us to <\/p>\n

574
\n00:35:21,480 –> 00:35:24,720
\nunderstand this great
\ncommandment that comes a little <\/p>\n

575
\n00:35:24,720 –> 00:35:28,840
\nfurther down in chapter 30.
\nLet me bring you there if I can.<\/p>\n

576
\n00:35:31,200 –> 00:35:33,800
\nVerse.
\nWell, let’s go to verse 17 of <\/p>\n

577
\n00:35:33,800 –> 00:35:36,760
\nchapter 30.
\nIf you’re heart, there it is <\/p>\n

578
\n00:35:36,760 –> 00:35:41,880
\nagain turns away so that you
\nwill not hear, but should be <\/p>\n

579
\n00:35:41,880 –> 00:35:43,840
\ndrawn away and worship by the
\ngods and serve them. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:35:43,840 –> 00:35:46,280
\nI denounce to you this day you
\nwill surely perish. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:35:47,280 –> 00:35:49,520
\nYou will not prolong your days
\nupon the land where you go over <\/p>\n

582
\n00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:54,320
\nJordan to possess it.
\nI call heaven and earth to <\/p>\n

583
\n00:35:54,320 –> 00:35:59,600
\nrecord this day against you that
\nI’ve set before you life and <\/p>\n

584
\n00:35:59,600 –> 00:36:07,040
\ndeath, blessing and cursing.
\nTherefore choose life 30 times <\/p>\n

585
\n00:36:07,040 –> 00:36:08,840
\nin the book of Deuteronomy,
\nbrothers and sisters, God <\/p>\n

586
\n00:36:08,840 –> 00:36:10,520
\nchooses he chooses where they
\nlive. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:36:10,720 –> 00:36:13,640
\nHe chooses their his people, he
\nchooses their king, he chooses <\/p>\n

588
\n00:36:13,640 –> 00:36:17,120
\ntheir their priests.
\nOne place, one place only we are<\/p>\n

589
\n00:36:17,120 –> 00:36:21,960
\nasked to choose and it’s here.
\nChoose life that you and your <\/p>\n

590
\n00:36:21,960 –> 00:36:26,720
\nseed may live.
\nGod is the God of all power and <\/p>\n

591
\n00:36:26,720 –> 00:36:30,680
\nall creation, and he is making
\nthis command to us because it’s <\/p>\n

592
\n00:36:30,680 –> 00:36:32,360
\nan extension of his own
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n

593
\n00:36:32,720 –> 00:36:35,320
\nAnd you could look at it and go,
\nwell, you know, it’s, they’re <\/p>\n

594
\n00:36:35,320 –> 00:36:37,760
\nnot particularly equally
\nbalanced choices, Lord, are <\/p>\n

595
\n00:36:37,760 –> 00:36:39,720
\nthey?
\nI mean, it’s not like he might <\/p>\n

596
\n00:36:39,720 –> 00:36:44,120
\ncompare this with Mary and
\nMartha, where where Mary is sat <\/p>\n

597
\n00:36:44,120 –> 00:36:46,520
\nat the Lord’s feet and Martha is
\ncumbered about serving. <\/p>\n

598
\n00:36:46,520 –> 00:36:50,040
\nAnd of course, Martha has to be
\nchided and told that there is <\/p>\n

599
\n00:36:50,040 –> 00:36:52,520
\none thing that’s more important
\nto come close to the Lord and <\/p>\n

600
\n00:36:52,520 –> 00:36:55,600
\nlisten.
\nBut she wasn’t being told that <\/p>\n

601
\n00:36:55,600 –> 00:36:59,280
\nserving was wrong, just that her
\npriorities need a little bit of <\/p>\n

602
\n00:36:59,360 –> 00:37:02,400
\nof adjusting.
\nThis is not that case. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:37:03,360 –> 00:37:05,840
\nI have said before you, life and
\ndeath, blessing and cursing, <\/p>\n

604
\n00:37:05,840 –> 00:37:08,320
\ntherefore choose life.
\nIt’s pretty obvious, brothers <\/p>\n

605
\n00:37:08,320 –> 00:37:10,520
\nand sisters.
\nYou could survey 1000 people who<\/p>\n

606
\n00:37:10,520 –> 00:37:13,040
\nwere not here as as part of the
\ngathering and say, which would <\/p>\n

607
\n00:37:13,040 –> 00:37:14,280
\nyou like?
\nPick one. <\/p>\n

608
\n00:37:14,400 –> 00:37:16,160
\nYou can have life or you can
\nhave death. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:37:17,000 –> 00:37:19,800
\nAnd even in the murky world of
\nassisted dying laws, not many <\/p>\n

610
\n00:37:19,800 –> 00:37:23,480
\npeople are choosing top option
\n#2 you know, any doctor will <\/p>\n

611
\n00:37:23,480 –> 00:37:26,720
\ntell you that the patient who
\nwants to live is easier to treat<\/p>\n

612
\n00:37:26,720 –> 00:37:28,080
\nthan the patient who has given
\nup. <\/p>\n

613
\n00:37:29,640 –> 00:37:32,720
\nDoes not guarantee success, but
\nit certainly tilts the balance <\/p>\n

614
\n00:37:32,720 –> 00:37:35,600
\nin the right direction.
\nWe are choosing one choice. <\/p>\n

615
\n00:37:35,600 –> 00:37:39,680
\nWe are not used in this world of
\nof secular exhortations. <\/p>\n

616
\n00:37:39,680 –> 00:37:43,120
\nWe are not used to one choice.
\nHave you tried shopping for <\/p>\n

617
\n00:37:43,120 –> 00:37:46,640
\ntoothpaste?
\nI mean, I hope you have. <\/p>\n

618
\n00:37:46,640 –> 00:37:48,760
\nIf you’re sat near me, please
\ntell me you’ve been shopping for<\/p>\n

619
\n00:37:48,760 –> 00:37:50,120
\ntoothpaste.
\nBut have you tried it? <\/p>\n

620
\n00:37:50,120 –> 00:37:53,160
\nThere’s like 5 lanes of it.
\nOr mineral water. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:37:54,720 –> 00:38:00,360
\nOr sat in a hotel room and gone.
\nI’ve got 999 channels and I have<\/p>\n

622
\n00:38:00,680 –> 00:38:02,720
\nand you work your way through
\nand go, well, they were all <\/p>\n

623
\n00:38:02,720 –> 00:38:03,800
\nrubbish.
\nThere’s nothing there at all. <\/p>\n

624
\n00:38:03,800 –> 00:38:06,960
\nHow on earth can we create so
\nmuch rubbish to put onto ATV <\/p>\n

625
\n00:38:06,960 –> 00:38:09,440
\nscreen?
\nThat’s why there’s that’s why <\/p>\n

626
\n00:38:09,440 –> 00:38:12,280
\nthere’s so much money spent on
\nperfecting the online shopping <\/p>\n

627
\n00:38:12,280 –> 00:38:17,480
\nexperience because we live in
\nthis multi choice world where if<\/p>\n

628
\n00:38:17,480 –> 00:38:19,480
\nit takes more than two seconds
\nto achieve something, you’re <\/p>\n

629
\n00:38:19,480 –> 00:38:23,600
\ngoing to go somewhere else.
\nAnd the most money is spent by <\/p>\n

630
\n00:38:23,600 –> 00:38:26,680
\nthe biggest companies to make it
\nas easy as possible to buy the <\/p>\n

631
\n00:38:26,680 –> 00:38:29,560
\nstuff I need or to bank with the
\nbank that I choose or to pick <\/p>\n

632
\n00:38:29,560 –> 00:38:31,400
\nthe the gym equipment that I
\nneed to have. <\/p>\n

633
\n00:38:33,440 –> 00:38:36,080
\nAnd we get to the point where
\nlife is so frictionless that we <\/p>\n

634
\n00:38:36,080 –> 00:38:37,520
\ndon’t even need to talk to a
\nperson. <\/p>\n

635
\n00:38:37,680 –> 00:38:40,080
\nSo if I want coffee, I’ll order
\nit ahead of time and go in and, <\/p>\n

636
\n00:38:40,240 –> 00:38:42,560
\nand just take it off a table.
\nI don’t even need to talk to a <\/p>\n

637
\n00:38:42,560 –> 00:38:46,600
\nperson because why add more
\nfriction into my existence than <\/p>\n

638
\n00:38:46,600 –> 00:38:54,120
\nI need?
\nWhich is fine until we get to <\/p>\n

639
\n00:38:54,120 –> 00:38:58,440
\nrelationships.
\nBecause relationships need <\/p>\n

640
\n00:38:58,440 –> 00:39:02,320
\nfriction.
\nWhether it’s your relationship <\/p>\n

641
\n00:39:02,320 –> 00:39:05,160
\nwith your your husband or your
\nwife or your boyfriend or your <\/p>\n

642
\n00:39:05,160 –> 00:39:11,280
\ngirlfriend, or with your kids or
\nyour grandchildren, or your <\/p>\n

643
\n00:39:11,280 –> 00:39:13,560
\nrelationship with Almighty God
\nand His Son. <\/p>\n

644
\n00:39:15,640 –> 00:39:20,200
\nYou and I know instinctively,
\neven if we’re not married, that <\/p>\n

645
\n00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:22,840
\na world without friction is a
\nworld without lasting <\/p>\n

646
\n00:39:22,840 –> 00:39:26,520
\nrelationships.
\nYou know instinctively that <\/p>\n

647
\n00:39:26,520 –> 00:39:29,560
\nmarriages need friction because
\nmarriages that work through <\/p>\n

648
\n00:39:29,560 –> 00:39:32,840
\ntrouble become stronger, and
\nmarriages that avoid that issue <\/p>\n

649
\n00:39:32,840 –> 00:39:35,000
\nbecome weaker and tend to fall
\napart. <\/p>\n

650
\n00:39:35,760 –> 00:39:41,720
\nThe law is about choices, every
\naspect of those complicated laws<\/p>\n

651
\n00:39:42,080 –> 00:39:46,320
\nin the book of Leviticus that
\nyou’ve read through and you’ve <\/p>\n

652
\n00:39:46,320 –> 00:39:47,600
\ngone.
\nWhy is the Lord bothered about <\/p>\n

653
\n00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:49,400
\nthe clothing that they wear?
\nWhat’s wrong with that <\/p>\n

654
\n00:39:49,400 –> 00:39:51,560
\nparticular animal?
\nAnd the way it’s hoof is cloven <\/p>\n

655
\n00:39:51,840 –> 00:39:54,480
\nand what the Lord was doing was,
\nis setting up an entire fabric <\/p>\n

656
\n00:39:54,480 –> 00:39:56,800
\nof existence that they could
\nmake choices. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:39:59,040 –> 00:40:02,040
\nWhen I when I choose what I’m
\ngoing to eat this day, am I <\/p>\n

658
\n00:40:02,040 –> 00:40:04,720
\ngoing to be holy like God or
\nunholy like the world? <\/p>\n

659
\n00:40:05,000 –> 00:40:08,560
\nWhen I get dressed and I put the
\na particular kind of fabric on <\/p>\n

660
\n00:40:08,560 –> 00:40:11,640
\nthat day, am I going to be holy
\nlike God or unholy like the <\/p>\n

661
\n00:40:11,640 –> 00:40:15,600
\nworld?
\nWhen I when I go through my <\/p>\n

662
\n00:40:15,600 –> 00:40:18,760
\nbodily hygiene processes, am I
\nholy like God or unholy like the<\/p>\n

663
\n00:40:18,760 –> 00:40:22,040
\nworld and every single aspect of
\ntheir life is structured and set<\/p>\n

664
\n00:40:22,040 –> 00:40:24,400
\nup in a particular way to make
\nthe right choice. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:40:26,080 –> 00:40:33,200
\nThat’s why the Lord has given
\nthem just one option to say in a<\/p>\n

666
\n00:40:33,200 –> 00:40:39,360
\nmulti channel, multi plurality
\nworld, you’ve just got 1, so <\/p>\n

667
\n00:40:39,360 –> 00:40:42,840
\nmake the right one.
\nCome with me to Proverbs Chapter<\/p>\n

668
\n00:40:42,840 –> 00:40:45,120
\n7.
\nProverbs 7. <\/p>\n

669
\n00:40:45,200 –> 00:40:51,240
\nI’m conscious of the clock, but
\nthere is a young man in Proverbs<\/p>\n

670
\n00:40:51,240 –> 00:40:54,520
\nChapter 7 who’s got a choice to
\nmake. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:41:05,120 –> 00:41:07,360
\nAnd as you come to Proverbs 7,
\nyou will notice that although <\/p>\n

672
\n00:41:07,360 –> 00:41:10,160
\nit’s not directly quoting
\nDeuteronomy and the verses that <\/p>\n

673
\n00:41:10,160 –> 00:41:13,120
\nwe’ve been in, it’s, it’s the
\nsame theme, the same language as<\/p>\n

674
\n00:41:13,120 –> 00:41:15,200
\nhere.
\nMy son, keep my words. <\/p>\n

675
\n00:41:15,440 –> 00:41:18,200
\nLay up my commandments with you.
\nKeep my commandments and live. <\/p>\n

676
\n00:41:18,520 –> 00:41:20,400
\nAnd my law is the apple of your
\neye. <\/p>\n

677
\n00:41:20,640 –> 00:41:22,880
\nBind them on your fingers.
\nWrite them on the tablets of <\/p>\n

678
\n00:41:22,880 –> 00:41:24,280
\nyour heart.
\nIt’s Deuteronomy language, isn’t<\/p>\n

679
\n00:41:24,280 –> 00:41:26,040
\nit?
\nVery stuff that we’ve been <\/p>\n

680
\n00:41:26,040 –> 00:41:30,520
\ntalking about, Say to wisdom.
\nYou’re my sister called <\/p>\n

681
\n00:41:30,520 –> 00:41:33,280
\nunderstanding your kinswoman,
\nthat they may keep you from the <\/p>\n

682
\n00:41:33,280 –> 00:41:36,680
\nstrange woman, and he’s going to
\npaint us a picture of a young <\/p>\n

683
\n00:41:36,680 –> 00:41:40,040
\nman that makes a bad choice
\nbecause it looked like a really <\/p>\n

684
\n00:41:40,040 –> 00:41:43,720
\ngood choice.
\nAnd let’s go to to verse 6. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:41:43,760 –> 00:41:48,280
\nAt the window of my house I
\nlooked through my casement and <\/p>\n

686
\n00:41:48,280 –> 00:41:52,200
\nbeheld among the simple ones I
\ndiscerned among the youths a <\/p>\n

687
\n00:41:52,200 –> 00:41:57,920
\nyoung man void of understanding,
\npassing through the street near <\/p>\n

688
\n00:41:57,920 –> 00:42:00,920
\nher corner.
\nHe went the way to her house in <\/p>\n

689
\n00:42:00,920 –> 00:42:04,480
\nthe twilight, in the evening, in
\nthe black and dark night, and <\/p>\n

690
\n00:42:04,480 –> 00:42:07,600
\nthey met a woman with the attire
\nof a harlot and subtle of <\/p>\n

691
\n00:42:07,600 –> 00:42:10,400
\nhearts.
\nShe caught in verse 13 and <\/p>\n

692
\n00:42:10,400 –> 00:42:13,400
\nkissed him and with an impudent
\nface said, I have peace <\/p>\n

693
\n00:42:13,400 –> 00:42:14,960
\nofferings.
\nI’ve paid my vows. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:42:15,480 –> 00:42:17,720
\nI came to meet you, to seek you.
\nI found you. <\/p>\n

695
\n00:42:17,720 –> 00:42:22,680
\nIt’s the whisper of of 21st
\ncentury life, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

696
\n00:42:22,680 –> 00:42:27,800
\nI came to find you.
\nYour search history is is yours <\/p>\n

697
\n00:42:27,800 –> 00:42:30,960
\nand yours alone.
\nYour choices are yours and yours<\/p>\n

698
\n00:42:30,960 –> 00:42:32,480
\nalone.
\nI came to find you. <\/p>\n

699
\n00:42:32,680 –> 00:42:36,080
\nThis world is created just for
\nyou to be your own perfect, <\/p>\n

700
\n00:42:36,080 –> 00:42:38,160
\nauthentic self.
\nI’ve decked my bed with <\/p>\n

701
\n00:42:38,160 –> 00:42:40,640
\ntapestries, carved works.
\nFinally in and of Egypt. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:42:40,760 –> 00:42:42,400
\nWe’ve got another Exodus echo
\nthere. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:42:42,760 –> 00:42:46,800
\nIt’s so seductive you could
\nalmost read it through and go. <\/p>\n

704
\n00:42:46,800 –> 00:42:49,880
\nWell, of course he’s fallen for
\nit because all of the way in <\/p>\n

705
\n00:42:49,880 –> 00:42:52,280
\nwhich that picture is painted
\nfor us makes it almost <\/p>\n

706
\n00:42:52,280 –> 00:42:54,720
\ninevitable that that’s the
\ndirection he’s going to go. <\/p>\n

707
\n00:42:57,360 –> 00:43:01,560
\nAnd the choice is wrong.
\nEven though she’s painted it up <\/p>\n

708
\n00:43:01,560 –> 00:43:06,120
\nfor him, she’s perfumed her bed
\nand calls him home because the <\/p>\n

709
\n00:43:06,120 –> 00:43:09,800
\nman of the house is not there.
\nAnd there he goes as a bird. <\/p>\n

710
\n00:43:09,840 –> 00:43:14,000
\nVerse 23 goes to the snare.
\nAnd just come to verse 24 <\/p>\n

711
\n00:43:15,720 –> 00:43:18,240
\nbecause it just sums up where
\nwe’ve been going in our session.<\/p>\n

712
\n00:43:19,520 –> 00:43:25,480
\nListen to me now, therefore, O
\nye children, and attend to the <\/p>\n

713
\n00:43:25,480 –> 00:43:30,640
\nwords of my mouth.
\nLet not Deuteronomy chapter 30, <\/p>\n

714
\n00:43:31,160 –> 00:43:35,800
\nlet not your heart decline to
\nher ways or go astray in her <\/p>\n

715
\n00:43:35,800 –> 00:43:39,600
\npaths, for she’s cast down.
\nMany wounded, strong men have <\/p>\n

716
\n00:43:39,600 –> 00:43:43,320
\nbeen slain.
\nHer house is the way to hell. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:43:44,840 –> 00:43:47,400
\nIt’s so easy to make the wrong
\nchoice, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

718
\n00:43:47,400 –> 00:43:51,080
\neven though God is really only
\nlaying before US1 obvious 1. <\/p>\n

719
\n00:43:52,240 –> 00:43:54,040
\nI don’t know what you brought
\nhere with you this week. <\/p>\n

720
\n00:43:55,560 –> 00:43:59,960
\nI don’t know what kind of issues
\nyou’ve had in your in your <\/p>\n

721
\n00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:05,160
\nfaith, in your families, in your
\neclizes that you carried with <\/p>\n

722
\n00:44:05,160 –> 00:44:08,880
\nyou here and that just still sit
\non your shoulders as you’ve been<\/p>\n

723
\n00:44:08,880 –> 00:44:10,080
\nlooking forward to the Bible
\nschool. <\/p>\n

724
\n00:44:10,080 –> 00:44:15,800
\nBut may it be as we, as we share
\nthis week together, that we <\/p>\n

725
\n00:44:15,800 –> 00:44:19,360
\nstrengthen our faith, strengthen
\nour fellowship, strengthen our <\/p>\n

726
\n00:44:19,360 –> 00:44:23,920
\nresolve to fight against
\ntemptation and realise that in <\/p>\n

727
\n00:44:23,920 –> 00:44:28,880
\nthis this world that is always
\ncompeting for our attention and <\/p>\n

728
\n00:44:28,880 –> 00:44:33,040
\nalways demanding that we have
\nsomething more, that we make the<\/p>\n

729
\n00:44:33,040 –> 00:44:38,160
\nright choice.
\nI have a theory and I have a lot<\/p>\n

730
\n00:44:38,160 –> 00:44:40,200
\nof theories and come and tell me
\nthat I’m wrong later. <\/p>\n

731
\n00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:43,800
\nBut I have a theory that our,
\nour community is in the third <\/p>\n

732
\n00:44:43,800 –> 00:44:49,760
\nstage of its existence.
\nSo when, when it began 160, <\/p>\n

733
\n00:44:49,760 –> 00:44:53,400
\nseventy years ago, it was all
\nabout debating truth. <\/p>\n

734
\n00:44:55,120 –> 00:45:00,800
\nWe, we discussed about the
\nimmortality of the soul and what<\/p>\n

735
\n00:45:00,800 –> 00:45:04,920
\nhappened when you died and the
\nissues about the Trinity and the<\/p>\n

736
\n00:45:04,920 –> 00:45:07,720
\nKingdom and, and, and all of the
\nthings that you and I would term<\/p>\n

737
\n00:45:07,720 –> 00:45:11,640
\nfirst principles.
\nAnd we took the message out <\/p>\n

738
\n00:45:11,640 –> 00:45:12,960
\nthere and people said you’re
\nwrong. <\/p>\n

739
\n00:45:15,280 –> 00:45:17,720
\nAnd then as time moved on, we
\nmoved into a second stage. <\/p>\n

740
\n00:45:18,640 –> 00:45:20,960
\nI think this was the 1960s and
\n70s. <\/p>\n

741
\n00:45:20,960 –> 00:45:22,880
\nBut again, you can tell me
\nwhether that kind of guess is <\/p>\n

742
\n00:45:22,880 –> 00:45:26,800
\nright, where it became less
\nabout specific doctrines, not <\/p>\n

743
\n00:45:26,800 –> 00:45:28,960
\nthat they were not important,
\nthey always have been, but but <\/p>\n

744
\n00:45:29,400 –> 00:45:33,520
\nthe focus shifted and it was
\nless about individual right and <\/p>\n

745
\n00:45:33,520 –> 00:45:37,480
\nwrong and more about whether
\nanybody cared at all that <\/p>\n

746
\n00:45:37,480 –> 00:45:43,440
\nreligion wasn’t so important
\nanymore because social issues <\/p>\n

747
\n00:45:43,440 –> 00:45:45,960
\nshifted amongst us, below our
\nfeet almost. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:45:46,160 –> 00:45:48,000
\nAnd we looked around and said
\npeople don’t care about the <\/p>\n

749
\n00:45:48,000 –> 00:45:49,720
\nimmortality of the soul and the
\nTrinity and the devil. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:45:49,880 –> 00:45:51,880
\nThey care about, you know, just
\nhaving a good life and getting <\/p>\n

751
\n00:45:51,880 –> 00:45:56,120
\non with things.
\nAnd so we moved from being told <\/p>\n

752
\n00:45:56,120 –> 00:45:59,960
\nyou’re wrong to being told who
\ncares. <\/p>\n

753
\n00:46:02,120 –> 00:46:07,720
\nAnd now I think we’re in a third
\nstage where to hold any kind of <\/p>\n

754
\n00:46:07,720 –> 00:46:13,080
\ndefinitive faith, anything that
\nyou and I might term as truth <\/p>\n

755
\n00:46:15,200 –> 00:46:18,080
\nand defend it against something
\nelse that therefore must be <\/p>\n

756
\n00:46:18,080 –> 00:46:21,760
\nerror.
\nIt’s not just an issue of you’re<\/p>\n

757
\n00:46:21,760 –> 00:46:25,640
\nright and I’m wrong.
\nIt isn’t an issue of who cares, <\/p>\n

758
\n00:46:25,640 –> 00:46:30,400
\ndo what you want.
\nIt’s an issue of you are <\/p>\n

759
\n00:46:30,400 –> 00:46:34,120
\nactively dangerous to hold to
\nthose things. <\/p>\n

760
\n00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:38,560
\nWho are you to say that that
\nperson can’t be with that other <\/p>\n

761
\n00:46:38,560 –> 00:46:41,240
\nperson?
\nWho are you to say that that <\/p>\n

762
\n00:46:41,240 –> 00:46:44,040
\nperson doesn’t feel the way they
\nsay they feel? <\/p>\n

763
\n00:46:45,080 –> 00:46:48,280
\nWho are you to say that I’m not
\nallowed to do what I want to do?<\/p>\n

764
\n00:46:49,520 –> 00:46:51,200
\nAnd we’ve moved to a third
\nstage. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:46:51,200 –> 00:46:54,840
\nWe’ve gone from you’re wrong to
\nwho cares to you’re dangerous <\/p>\n

766
\n00:46:55,800 –> 00:46:59,880
\nand making the right choice.
\nWell, I’m not going to say it’s <\/p>\n

767
\n00:46:59,880 –> 00:47:02,680
\nharder now than it’s ever been
\nbecause Deuteronomy 2930 say it <\/p>\n

768
\n00:47:02,680 –> 00:47:06,160
\nwas pretty hard then.
\nBut suddenly the truth needs to <\/p>\n

769
\n00:47:06,160 –> 00:47:09,320
\nbe articulated in a way that
\ndeals with those issues too. <\/p>\n

770
\n00:47:10,440 –> 00:47:13,440
\nAnd it’s the great challenge
\nthat we face in in this day and <\/p>\n

771
\n00:47:13,440 –> 00:47:17,120
\nage to be able to say the right
\nthings, to stand for truth <\/p>\n

772
\n00:47:17,160 –> 00:47:20,520
\nagainst everything else, and to
\nmake the right choice. <\/p>\n

773
\n00:47:21,000 –> 00:47:23,560
\nSo may it be, my brothers and
\nsisters, as we thrill together <\/p>\n

774
\n00:47:23,560 –> 00:47:27,440
\nin our week, as we enjoy our
\nfellowship, as we sing and read <\/p>\n

775
\n00:47:27,440 –> 00:47:30,720
\nand pray and meditate together,
\nthat we do come closer to the <\/p>\n

776
\n00:47:30,720 –> 00:47:33,920
\nKing, close to the great
\npromises that God has laid down <\/p>\n

777
\n00:47:33,920 –> 00:47:38,760
\nto the fathers, and resolve, no
\nmatter what comes before us, to <\/p>\n

778
\n00:47:38,760 –> 00:47:55,010
\nchoose life.
\nThank you for. <\/p>\n

779
\n00:47:55,010 –> 00:47:57,130
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\nChristadelphian Talks podcast, <\/p>\n

780
\n00:47:57,970 –> 00:48:00,410
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781
\n00:48:00,410 –> 00:48:02,770
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\n00:48:02,770 –> 00:48:04,530
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784
\n00:48:09,250 –> 00:48:10,850
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785
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786
\n00:48:13,290 –> 00:48:15,730
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\n00:48:15,730 –> 00:48:19,840
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\n00:48:46,400 –> 00:48:49,240
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