Class 2 from Bro. John Launchbury\u2019s series on \u201cThe Transformed Mind\u201d.<\/p>\n
Class 1 from this series was used for GCT Episode 054.<\/p>\n
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\nWestern Chris, delphian Bible
\nSchool of Manuka, the speaker <\/p>\n
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\nis, John launch party with the
\nsecond class in a series. <\/p>\n
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\nThe transformed mind, this
\naddress is entitled subject to <\/p>\n
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\nvanity and was recorded on July
\n26, 2011. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning.
\nSo theme is the transformed <\/p>\n
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\nmind.
\nYesterday, we talked about one <\/p>\n
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\nbarrier to transformation.
\nThe barrier is that of thinking <\/p>\n
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\nof our religion as an externally
\nimposed set of rules rather than<\/p>\n
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\ninternal transformation,
\ninternal real change. <\/p>\n
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\nToday, we’re going to be
\ndiscussing another barrier to <\/p>\n
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\ntransformation.
\nSo today is another dismantling <\/p>\n
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\nday when we’re taking things
\napart, And then the next few <\/p>\n
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\ndays are much more of
\nconstructing things in their <\/p>\n
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\nplace.
\nSubject to vanity is is our <\/p>\n
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\ntheme here.
\nBut I’d like to start heard it <\/p>\n
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\nfrom a slightly strange
\nperspective and think about for <\/p>\n
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\na moment, the kingdom of God,
\nthink about what we think about,<\/p>\n
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\nwhen we think about the kingdom
\nof God, and I’m sure I thoughts <\/p>\n
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\ngo immediately to things like
\nRevelation 21. <\/p>\n
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\nI saw a new Heaven and a new
\nEarth, and the all the beautiful<\/p>\n
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\nthings that are being described
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nNo more suffering, no more pain.
\nOr there’s the thrilling kind of<\/p>\n
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\nProphecy that we get in Daniel 7
\nwhere he sees one like a son of <\/p>\n
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\nman coming with the Clouds Of
\nHeaven. <\/p>\n
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\nHe approached the Ancient of
\nDays was led into his presence, <\/p>\n
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\nwas given Authority, glory and
\nSovereign power, all people <\/p>\n
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\nNations, and Men of every
\nlanguage worshipped him. <\/p>\n
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\nHis Dominion is an everlasting
\nDominion. <\/p>\n
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\nIt will not pass away.
\nHis kingdom is one that will <\/p>\n
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\nnever be destroyed.
\nAnd these are the kind of <\/p>\n
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\nthrilling exciting future things
\nthat we think about when we <\/p>\n
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\nthink about the kingdom of God,
\nand this is all true and it’s <\/p>\n
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\nall wonderful.
\nI don’t want us to lose it. <\/p>\n
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\nI’d like us to add to it
\nhowever, because I think we miss<\/p>\n
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\na great deal, if we only think
\nof the kingdom of God as <\/p>\n
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\nsomething in the future, The
\nkingdom of God. <\/p>\n
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\nVery clearly in scripture has a
\npast and a present Dimension <\/p>\n
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\nabout it to the Fulfillment.
\nOf all of these promises is <\/p>\n
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\nstill in the future, but there
\nis very much, a present part of <\/p>\n
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\nthe kingdom of God that we’re
\nable to participate in and I’d <\/p>\n
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\nlike us to go to a few verses so
\nthat we get the sense of that. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom from this set of verses,
\nlet’s start with Mark one. <\/p>\n
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\nMark chapter 1 and verse 15.
\nFor context, I’ll read for you <\/p>\n
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\nverse 14.
\nAfter John was put in prison, <\/p>\n
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\nJesus went into Galilee
\nproclaiming the good news of <\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nThe time has come. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said the kingdom of God is
\nnear repent and believe the good<\/p>\n
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\nnews.
\nNow, the word Nia has two <\/p>\n
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\npossible meanings.
\nSomething could be near in time,<\/p>\n
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\nor it could be near in space.
\nIt could be close to you. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I for years and years.
\nI thought when he said the <\/p>\n
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\nkingdom of God is near that he
\nwas in some sense of talking <\/p>\n
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\nabout the second coming, the
\nestablishment of the what we <\/p>\n
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\nthink of as the kingdom, the
\nFulfillment of the promises. <\/p>\n
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\nBut if I was calling the plumber
\nand he said, yeah, I’ll be there<\/p>\n
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\nvery soon, and it was 2,000
\nyears later before he arrived. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll probably be calling another
\nplumber. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think Jesus.
\nHere is saying I’m about to <\/p>\n
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\nestablish the Fulfillment of
\neverything that we have is the <\/p>\n
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\npromises including the second
\ncoming. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s talking about a different
\naspect of the kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is near its it’s so close.
\nYou could touch. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is the idea that he’s getting
\nat here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd again, even though I’m going
\nto be emphasizing this in this <\/p>\n
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\ntalk, please don’t take it that
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\nDiminishing the beautiful Vision
\nthat we have of the restoration <\/p>\n
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\nof creation.
\nThat is all true. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is the wonderful hope that
\nis laid out, not just for the <\/p>\n
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\ngroup sitting here, but for the
\nwhole of the creation that God <\/p>\n
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\nhas constructed that it Be
\nrenewed. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I am saying, don’t let us
\nlet the Brilliance of that <\/p>\n
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\nFuture Vision.
\nFog our willingness to see the <\/p>\n
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\npresent dimension of the kingdom
\nof God. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, we often think of the idea
\nof Kingdom as territory, the <\/p>\n
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\nUnited Kingdom, where I was born
\nis a land, it’s a territory, but<\/p>\n
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\nI think the idea of the the word
\nkingdom is not so much <\/p>\n
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\nkingship, it’s about rain, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nabout sovereignty, it’s about
\ndomain. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can, you can think of Jesus.
\nIs saying, the reign of God is <\/p>\n
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\nnear The Domain, of God is near
\nand you get to as it were step <\/p>\n
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\ninto it or step back out of it,
\nas to whether you step into the <\/p>\n
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\nreign of God.
\nLuke chapter 17, I think this is<\/p>\n
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\nJesus trying to say a similar
\nkind of thing. <\/p>\n
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\nLuke chapter, 17, and verse 20
\nThis is a classic one that <\/p>\n
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\ntime debating. <\/p>\n
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\ntrying to emphasize the Future <\/p>\n
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\nPart Of The Hope in.
\nDebating this we miss the think,<\/p>\n
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\nI think.
\nActually, the thing that Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nis trying to say verse 20 of
\nLuke 17 once having been asked <\/p>\n
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\nby the Pharisees, when the
\nkingdom of God would come Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nreplied.
\nSo the question is a wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nChristian offering question,
\nwhere we say to Jesus, When will<\/p>\n
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\nWhat has to happen? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat nation has to go up against
\nwhat other Nation? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s the timetable, when’s it <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to happen and we would
\nlove him to give the answer of. <\/p>\n
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\nhappens and then this happens <\/p>\n
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\nkingdom will be established. <\/p>\n
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\nwas the answer Jesus gave but <\/p>\n
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\nthat he gives. <\/p>\n
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\nneed to sort of stand back a <\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit from our question.
\nThe answer he gives to the very <\/p>\n
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\nquestion.
\nWe would love to ask is the <\/p>\n
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\nkingdom of God.
\nDoes not come with your careful <\/p>\n
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\nobservation.
\nNor will people say here it is, <\/p>\n
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\nor there it is.
\nBecause the kingdom of God, is <\/p>\n
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\npresent among you within you
\npeople debate, precisely what <\/p>\n
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\nword should be there, but I
\ndon’t want to get into the <\/p>\n
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\ndebate.
\nJesus is saying that there is a <\/p>\n
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\ndimension of the Kingdom that is
\nright here and now Again, he’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot trying to say that this is
\nall that the kingdom is about, <\/p>\n
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\nbut the reign of God is present.
\nNow if we choose to enter into <\/p>\n
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\nit and I think part of what he’s
\nsaying is that the future is <\/p>\n
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\nirrelevant.
\nThe Future Vision of the kingdom<\/p>\n
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\nis irrelevant, if it’s not a
\npresent reality to us today, if <\/p>\n
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\nwe don’t take the opportunity
\ntoday to step into the reign of <\/p>\n
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\nGod, and to live in the reign of
\nGod, Then why do we think that <\/p>\n
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\nin the future that we will be
\nliving in the reign of God? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a choice that we make today
\nto enter into his domain and we <\/p>\n
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\nmight, of course, be thinking,
\nwell, enter into the domain of <\/p>\n
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\nGod, that means doing all the
\nthings that God has said, <\/p>\n
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\nfollowing all the rules.
\nBut no, of course, we’ve <\/p>\n
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\ndismantled that yesterday.
\nIt has to be about entering the <\/p>\n
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\ndomain of God, has to be about
\naccepting the inner <\/p>\n
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\ntransformation that he calls
\nUpon Us calls for us to do. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I think in my in my
\nexperience, we tend to argue <\/p>\n
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\nthese words away here in Luke,
\nrather than saying, I’m just <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to kind of let these words
\nof Jesus stand with me for a <\/p>\n
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\nwhile.
\nAs something that almost has me <\/p>\n
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\nand asked the question that I
\nwould have liked to ask. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s telling me to think about
\nthe question of the coming of <\/p>\n
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\nthe kingdom of God, in a
\ndifferent way than I might have <\/p>\n
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\nthought about it before.
\nLook at Mark chapter 12. <\/p>\n
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\nMark chapter 12 and verse 34.
\nOne of the teachers of the law <\/p>\n
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\nhas asked Jesus which is the
\nmost important commandment and <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said hear o Israel the
\nLord Our God, the Lord is one, <\/p>\n
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\nlove the Lord, your God with all
\nyour heart, with all your soul, <\/p>\n
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\nwith all your mind and with all
\nyour strength and the second is <\/p>\n
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\nthis, love your neighbor as
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s no command greater than
\nthese. <\/p>\n
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\nThis, this man thinks about it.
\nIt’s beautiful here in verse 30 <\/p>\n
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\n32.
\nHe says, well said teacher, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re right.
\nYou’re right in saying that God <\/p>\n
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\nis one and there’s no other but
\nhim and to love him with all of <\/p>\n
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\nyour heart and your
\nunderstanding and your strength <\/p>\n
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\nand to love your neighbor as
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s got to be that’s got to
\nbe more important than all of <\/p>\n
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\nthese sacrifices in them.
\nAnd Jesus I think has a sense of<\/p>\n
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\nwonder as he looks at this, man.
\nRead in verse 34, Jesus saw that<\/p>\n
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\nhe had answered wisely and said
\nto him you are not far from the <\/p>\n
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\ndomain of God.
\nBeautiful. <\/p>\n
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\nYou are not far from the domain
\nof God, that that understanding <\/p>\n
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\nthat you have just grasped.
\nThat God is one and, and to find<\/p>\n
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\nthe way in which we can just
\ngive of ourselves to him and to <\/p>\n
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\neach other.
\nAnd Jesus says, you are so <\/p>\n
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\nclose.
\nSo close to the domain of God, <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s like with the Centurion.
\nAnd I Think Jesus is similarly, <\/p>\n
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\nhad this sense of wonder as this
\nman said you don’t need to come <\/p>\n
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\nunder my roof.
\nI’m not worthy to have you. <\/p>\n
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\nYou just say the word.
\nMy servant will be healed. <\/p>\n
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\nAngie’s.
\nI haven’t seen so much Faith. <\/p>\n
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\nEven in Israel.
\nJust I love the moments where <\/p>\n
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\nJesus is just caught with Wonder
\nat the people that he interacts <\/p>\n
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\nwith.
\nSo the question that we will be <\/p>\n
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\nchallenged with is what are the
\nbarriers we Face to living in <\/p>\n
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\nthe reign of God today.
\nWhat what are the things that <\/p>\n
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\nactually stop us taking the step
\nand just entering into the reign<\/p>\n
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\nThere’s an old fashioned word in
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\nThe word is Mammon. <\/p>\n
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\nMatthew 6:24. <\/p>\n
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\nMammon, but Mammon is more than
\njust money. <\/p>\n
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\nsure whether they should put, we
\nare all immensely Rich Solomon. <\/p>\n
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\ngood as the one you slept on <\/p>\n
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\nI didn’t realize That I live in <\/p>\n
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\na world that go Has A Feast for
\n365 days every year. <\/p>\n
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\nHow we eat is like their feast
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\nWe are so well provided we are
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\ncomparison with other parts of
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\nNow if you go in history, we are
\nincredibly Rich. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said it is so hard for a
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\nthrough the eye of a needle than
\nfor a rich man to step into the <\/p>\n
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\nBanquet where Jesus is already <\/p>\n
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\nsaying, I have prepared a
\nkingdom for you to step into, of<\/p>\n
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\nAgain let me in case I get taken<\/p>\n
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\nthe present Dimension, it’s
\nalready prepared for us to step <\/p>\n
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\ninto and we say, I bought me a
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\nI can’t come.
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\nThe Rich Young Man. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat should I do to inherit
\neternal life? <\/p>\n
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\nRichmond young man says, I’ve
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\nlooks at him like deep into his
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\nJust loves this young man.
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\nthe world and I can see it.
\nI can see it in your eyes and <\/p>\n
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\nyour heart.
\nTell you what you need, you need<\/p>\n
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\nto just sell everything that you
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\nThen you’ll be able to enter
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\nThat was what he needed.
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\nknow, he looks at each of us and
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\ndo.
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\nYou need to take your son. <\/p>\n
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\nlaugh, sir, you need to give him<\/p>\n
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\nTake your son. <\/p>\n
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\nTake him to Mariah.
\nWe all of course we all see the <\/p>\n
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\nBut this is the only way I’m
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\nHe was a rich man.
\nHe didn’t care about his riches.<\/p>\n
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\nBut he cared about his son more
\nthan anything. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a mark of the stunning
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\nThat he’s able to take his son.
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\nReligious standing is another
\nthing that prevents us from <\/p>\n
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\nentering into the kingdom of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nWe care too much about our
\nstanding within a particular <\/p>\n
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\nnothing new John chapter 9. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at it.
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\nThese are the parents of the man
\nwho has been who was born blind <\/p>\n
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\nand The Disciples.
\nOf course, had wondered who <\/p>\n
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\nsinned that.
\nThis man would be born, blind. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said no one sinned.
\nWas born blind so that the power<\/p>\n
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\nof God might be revealed in him.
\nThat man had nothing. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus gave him everything that
\nhe possibly had. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had no reason not to just
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\nJesus.
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\nI just know he told me to do
\nsomething and I did it and I can<\/p>\n
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\nsee But his parents.
\nVerse 22, sorry verse 20. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know he is our son.
\nThe parents answered and we know<\/p>\n
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\nhe was born blind but how he can
\nsee now or who opened his eyes. <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t know, ask him, he’s of
\nage, he will speak for himself. <\/p>\n
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\nHis parents said this because
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\nalready.
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\nthe Christ would be put out of <\/p>\n
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\nGalatians chapter 2. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the conflict as to
\nwhether you eat as a Jew whether<\/p>\n
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\nyou eat with Gentiles in the New
\nCovenant. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 11 of General, Galatians
\n2, when Peter came to Antioch, I<\/p>\n
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\nopposed him to his face because
\nhe was clearly in the wrong <\/p>\n
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\nbefore certain men came from
\nJames, that is from the <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia, before certain men <\/p>\n
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\ncame from James, he used to eat
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\narrived, he began to draw back
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\nBecause he was afraid of those <\/p>\n
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\ngroup, the other Joy Jews. <\/p>\n
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\nJoined him in his hypocrisy, so
\nthat by their hypocrisy, even <\/p>\n
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\nLord, who has believed our <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand with their hearts, <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah said, this because he saw<\/p>\n
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\nverse 42 yet. <\/p>\n
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\namong the leaders believed in <\/p>\n
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\nBut because of the Pharisees, <\/p>\n
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\nfaith for fear. <\/p>\n
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\nThey would be put out of the
\nsynagogue for they loved praise <\/p>\n
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\nMore than praise from God. <\/p>\n
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\nAll of this is Mammon.
\nIt’s all Mammon, it’s not just <\/p>\n
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\nmoney, it’s social standing.
\nIt’s it’s the things that we <\/p>\n
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\nAfter the things that define us,<\/p>\n
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\ngive our sense of identity <\/p>\n
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\nalmost and those become more
\nimportant than allowing <\/p>\n
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\nthe domain of God. <\/p>\n
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\nhave in this world in this age, <\/p>\n
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\nsomething called the Protestant <\/p>\n
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\nwork ethic.
\nPeople heard of it Protestant <\/p>\n
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\nwork, ethic, hard work and
\nfrugality. <\/p>\n
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\nThose are the things that make
\nyou worthy before God. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what the Protestant work.
\nEthic says, And that’s why in <\/p>\n
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\nWe view a self-made, man, as a <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you often see that of people<\/p>\n
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\nit’s it’s great that they are <\/p>\n
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\nout poor and now they they’re <\/p>\n
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\nMillionaires and they did it all
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
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\nNobody ever does it all <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves but but that’s the
\nstory that gets told that’s the <\/p>\n
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\nnarrative in our society.
\nIt’s this Protestant work ethic <\/p>\n
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\nand and partly it comes from
\npassages. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere Paul says if a man does
\nnot work, neither shall he eat? <\/p>\n
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\nthe sort of hard work and yet
\nJesus Jesus, the one that we <\/p>\n
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\nNever had a job. <\/p>\n
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\nand a sense of entitlement, that<\/p>\n
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\nIf a man will not work, neither
\nshall he? <\/p>\n
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\nDo you think Jesus would mind if
\nthey wasn’t lunch or dinner or <\/p>\n
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\nor dinner or breakfast, the next<\/p>\n
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\ndisciples, you know, when they <\/p>\n
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\nsaid we don’t have any bread, he
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\nJesus has so much stepped into <\/p>\n
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\nlike, what’s the next meal are <\/p>\n
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\njust so irrelevant to him?
\nAnd yet, we inherit this drive <\/p>\n
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\nThe quote that I’d lost, no find<\/p>\n
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\nit again.
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\nexpression.
\nThey’re always seeking <\/p>\n
337
\n00:25:20,100 –> 00:25:22,800
\nsomething.
\nWhat, what are they seeking? <\/p>\n
338
\n00:25:23,300 –> 00:25:27,800
\nThe white always want something
\nthat always uneasy and Restless.<\/p>\n
339
\n00:25:28,200 –> 00:25:31,000
\nWe don’t know what they want.
\nWe don’t understand them. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:25:32,200 –> 00:25:42,100
\nWe think that they’re mad.
\nOur society has this drive like <\/p>\n
341
\n00:25:42,100 –> 00:25:43,400
\na disease.
\nIt’s rampant. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:25:43,400 –> 00:25:46,100
\nIt’s out of control and we share
\nit. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:25:46,700 –> 00:25:51,400
\nI know I do mean I’m not sort of
\nstanding here preaching that I <\/p>\n
344
\n00:25:51,400 –> 00:25:52,900
\ndon’t have this as a problem in
\nthere. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:25:52,900 –> 00:25:57,000
\nI’ve overcome it and so on that
\nmeans a lot of my effort is <\/p>\n
346
\n00:25:57,000 –> 00:26:01,300
\ngoing into serving Mammon.
\nAnd yet the one that I claim to <\/p>\n
347
\n00:26:01,300 –> 00:26:06,200
\ncall my master tells me, you
\ncan’t do that and serve God. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:09,100 –> 00:26:14,000
\nJesus is very explicit.
\nDon’t lay up, treasure for <\/p>\n
349
\n00:26:14,000 –> 00:26:20,500
\nyourself where moth and rust and
\nthieves, just take it away and <\/p>\n
350
\n00:26:20,500 –> 00:26:22,900
\nmake it worthless, make it
\nempty. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:26:23,600 –> 00:26:27,500
\nSee, Jesus has really very
\nclearly got the sense of how <\/p>\n
352
\n00:26:27,500 –> 00:26:31,600
\nempty, how worthless the things
\nof this world, and they the <\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:31,600 –> 00:26:35,000
\ngreat Endeavors that we engage
\nin as individuals. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:26:35,000 –> 00:26:38,700
\nAnd as a society, How empty they
\nare. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:26:38,700 –> 00:26:43,300
\nHow passing look at Ezekiel
\nchapter 7. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:53,800
\nEzekiel chapter 7.
\nThat’s 19. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:27:00,100 –> 00:27:04,300
\nThis is about the day of
\njudgment on the nation of <\/p>\n
358
\n00:27:04,300 –> 00:27:11,700
\nIsrael.
\nThey will throw their silver <\/p>\n
359
\n00:27:11,700 –> 00:27:17,300
\ninto the streets and their gold
\nwill be an unclean thing, their <\/p>\n
360
\n00:27:17,300 –> 00:27:20,900
\nsilver, and gold will not be
\nable to save them in the day of <\/p>\n
361
\n00:27:20,900 –> 00:27:23,700
\nthe Lord’s wrath.
\nThey will not satisfy their <\/p>\n
362
\n00:27:23,700 –> 00:27:26,800
\nhunger or fill their stomachs
\nwith it for. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:27:26,800 –> 00:27:29,100
\nIt is made them stumble into
\nsin. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:27:29,800 –> 00:27:33,600
\nThey were proud of their
\nbeautiful jewelry used it, to <\/p>\n
365
\n00:27:33,600 –> 00:27:36,600
\nmake their detestable idols and
\nvile images. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:27:37,100 –> 00:27:39,700
\nTherefore, I will turn these
\ninto an unclean thing. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:27:40,100 –> 00:27:44,300
\nFor them, silver and gold, can’t
\neat it. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:27:45,500 –> 00:27:49,300
\nWhen it becomes worthless, it’s
\ncompletely worthless. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:27:49,300 –> 00:27:53,800
\nThere is no value, no end, no
\npurpose to it. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:27:55,400 –> 00:28:00,400
\nNow Ecclesiastes is the book par
\nExcellence which describes this <\/p>\n
371
\n00:28:00,400 –> 00:28:06,100
\nthis meaninglessness of human
\nstriving of the of the path of <\/p>\n
372
\n00:28:06,100 –> 00:28:08,700
\nMammon.
\nIt just says it is empty. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:08,700 –> 00:28:12,700
\nIt is meaningless.
\nWhat one of the things I like to<\/p>\n
374
\n00:28:12,700 –> 00:28:17,600
\ndo is take books of the Bible
\nand create a pricey so that you <\/p>\n
375
\n00:28:17,600 –> 00:28:20,800
\ncan read it just in a few
\nminutes and so could I have some<\/p>\n
376
\n00:28:20,800 –> 00:28:25,100
\nhelp handing out some copies of
\nthis maybe three or four people.<\/p>\n
377
\n00:28:27,000 –> 00:28:31,100
\nCan I give that and perhaps and
\nthat and split them each side <\/p>\n
378
\n00:28:31,200 –> 00:28:34,400
\nand maybe some teen teen could
\ncome down and get get some. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:28:35,500 –> 00:28:45,300
\nSo what we’re going to do is as
\nI say I’ve let’s let’s do this <\/p>\n
380
\n00:28:45,300 –> 00:28:47,100
\nas quickly as we can if
\npossible. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:28:47,100 –> 00:28:52,200
\nThanks what we’re going to do
\nthen is is collectively read <\/p>\n
382
\n00:28:52,200 –> 00:28:55,200
\nthrough this summarized version
\nof Ecclesiastes. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:28:56,000 –> 00:29:00,700
\nWhat I found was when I produced
\nthis precis I was shocked and <\/p>\n
384
\n00:29:00,700 –> 00:29:04,100
\nstunned at how Stark the
\nteaching. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:29:04,100 –> 00:29:10,400
\nIs it just hits you over the
\nhead about the emptiness of <\/p>\n
386
\n00:29:10,400 –> 00:29:14,300
\nhuman?
\nHave a and how worthless it is. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:29:15,900 –> 00:29:22,100
\nSo does everyone have a copy?
\nI think you guys up there are <\/p>\n
388
\n00:29:22,100 –> 00:29:26,200
\ngetting a copy in just a minute.
\nOkay, perfect. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:29:36,600 –> 00:29:39,300
\nSo this is Ecclesiastes in
\nbrief. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:29:43,100 –> 00:29:46,400
\nThis is what the teacher says,
\nit’s futile. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:29:48,000 –> 00:29:50,800
\nAll the effort in the world
\naccomplishes, nothing things. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:29:50,800 –> 00:29:53,800
\nStart they finish.
\nThey start again. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:29:54,700 –> 00:29:58,800
\nNothing really gets done.
\nAnd all will be forgotten by <\/p>\n
394
\n00:29:58,800 –> 00:30:02,600
\ngenerations, to come.
\nI tried to understand what goes <\/p>\n
395
\n00:30:02,600 –> 00:30:06,400
\non in the world.
\nMy what a burden. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:30:06,400 –> 00:30:09,600
\nGod has laid on mankind.
\nAll that effort. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:30:09,600 –> 00:30:14,100
\nAchieves nothing. even the
\npursuit of wisdom is like, <\/p>\n
398
\n00:30:14,100 –> 00:30:19,300
\nchasing after the wind I
\nwondered whether pleasure could <\/p>\n
399
\n00:30:19,300 –> 00:30:23,300
\nprovide satisfaction, I decided
\nto conduct great projects to <\/p>\n
400
\n00:30:23,300 –> 00:30:27,300
\namass, all kinds of wealth and
\nMajesty to myself and to indulge<\/p>\n
401
\n00:30:27,300 –> 00:30:32,100
\nin every conceivable pleasure.
\nBut then I step back and <\/p>\n
402
\n00:30:32,100 –> 00:30:35,800
\nrealized how empty it was.
\nNothing was gained. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:30:36,600 –> 00:30:39,500
\nEven wisdom, doesn’t.
\nLast wisdom is better than <\/p>\n
404
\n00:30:39,500 –> 00:30:42,600
\nFolly, but death makes fools of
\nus all. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:30:45,100 –> 00:30:48,600
\nI began to hate life because of
\nthe empty labor. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:30:48,600 –> 00:30:51,800
\nI toiled over what will happen
\nto the things I laboured for. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:30:51,800 –> 00:30:55,600
\nWhen I die, maybe squandered by
\na fool who comes after me. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:30:55,800 –> 00:30:59,300
\nHow useless what was
\naccomplished by all that anxious<\/p>\n
409
\n00:30:59,300 –> 00:31:05,200
\ntoil of sleepless nights?
\nThen I realize this is all from <\/p>\n
410
\n00:31:05,200 –> 00:31:09,000
\nGod.
\nThose who please him May gain <\/p>\n
411
\n00:31:09,000 –> 00:31:13,500
\ndaily satisfaction, those who
\ndon’t as simply storing up <\/p>\n
412
\n00:31:13,500 –> 00:31:17,000
\nwealth for others and futility
\nfor themselves. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:31:18,600 –> 00:31:22,300
\nThe activities of the world, all
\nhave their own time and place <\/p>\n
414
\n00:31:22,800 –> 00:31:26,100
\nand Beauty arises now and again
\nbut God has put a sense of <\/p>\n
415
\n00:31:26,100 –> 00:31:30,500
\nEternity in our hearts and then
\ncomes the awful realization <\/p>\n
416
\n00:31:31,100 –> 00:31:33,400
\nwhile God’s work indoors
\nforever. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:31:33,800 –> 00:31:40,100
\nOurs has no lasting effect.
\nI looked out at the world, I saw<\/p>\n
418
\n00:31:40,100 –> 00:31:44,100
\nwickedness instead of Justice.
\nI thought God would intervene, <\/p>\n
419
\n00:31:45,000 –> 00:31:47,900
\nbut then I realized he holds
\nback so that we can appreciate <\/p>\n
420
\n00:31:47,900 –> 00:31:52,200
\nhow much we’re like animals.
\nThe same breath the same fate <\/p>\n
421
\n00:31:52,800 –> 00:31:56,700
\ndust.
\nWe cannot rely on anything or <\/p>\n
422
\n00:31:56,700 –> 00:32:01,200
\nanyone in the world.
\nMoreover, when I saw all the <\/p>\n
423
\n00:32:01,200 –> 00:32:04,300
\noppression that was taking
\nplace, I reckoned the dead and <\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:04,300 –> 00:32:07,600
\nespecially the stillborn a
\nbetter off than the living. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:32:08,100 –> 00:32:11,900
\nAll this drive to achievement,
\nis being driven by meaningless <\/p>\n
426
\n00:32:11,900 –> 00:32:16,200
\nEnvy, why is there?
\nNo contentment instead, there is<\/p>\n
427
\n00:32:16,200 –> 00:32:22,400
\nwork building amassing and for
\nwhat At least it is said when <\/p>\n
428
\n00:32:22,400 –> 00:32:25,200
\nthere are two or three together,
\nthey can help and support each <\/p>\n
429
\n00:32:25,200 –> 00:32:29,600
\nother strength in numbers yet.
\nEven when I saw a wise man, come<\/p>\n
430
\n00:32:29,600 –> 00:32:34,200
\nto power by mass Acclaim the
\nNext Generation reviled him in <\/p>\n
431
\n00:32:34,200 –> 00:32:37,100
\nhis time.
\nChef utility. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:32:38,700 –> 00:32:44,600
\nWhen you go to the house of God,
\ngo to listen, rather than to <\/p>\n
433
\n00:32:44,600 –> 00:32:48,200
\nspeak.
\nHe is so much greater than you. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:51,200
\nBe careful what you promise
\nbefore and why provoke is <\/p>\n
435
\n00:32:51,200 –> 00:33:00,100
\ncondemnation. rather stand in,
\nor Don’t be surprised if you see<\/p>\n
436
\n00:33:00,100 –> 00:33:04,000
\nthe rights of the poor being
\nviolated striving after <\/p>\n
437
\n00:33:04,000 –> 00:33:08,000
\npossessions is an addiction and
\nno amount of money is enough. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:33:08,200 –> 00:33:11,700
\nYet wealth is a mixed blessing.
\nIt brings sleeplessness, it’s <\/p>\n
439
\n00:33:11,700 –> 00:33:18,000
\neasily lost and it’s worthless
\nin the nakedness of death simply<\/p>\n
440
\n00:33:18,000 –> 00:33:20,500
\nto be able to find satisfaction
\nin work. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:33:20,500 –> 00:33:23,300
\nAnd possessions is like a gift
\nfrom God. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:33:24,300 –> 00:33:27,200
\nAll too often.
\nHowever God grants a man wealth <\/p>\n
443
\n00:33:27,200 –> 00:33:31,000
\nand honor but not the ability to
\nenjoy them in a instead, a <\/p>\n
444
\n00:33:31,000 –> 00:33:33,100
\nstranger enjoys, the fruit of
\nhis work. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:33:33,300 –> 00:33:35,200
\nThis is the futility of the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:33:36,000 –> 00:33:39,700
\nIf a man cannot enjoy the fruit
\nof his labor, right to the end, <\/p>\n
447
\n00:33:39,700 –> 00:33:43,200
\nthen the stillborn child has
\nmore peace than he however, <\/p>\n
448
\n00:33:43,200 –> 00:33:47,000
\nRichie became A man striving has
\nno end. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:50,100
\nBut it achieves.
\nNo victory. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:33:51,700 –> 00:33:53,300
\nWhat will happen?
\nAfter he’s gone. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:33:56,200 –> 00:33:59,100
\nThe living must take to heart
\nthat they will die. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:33:59,800 –> 00:34:02,200
\nDeath is the destiny of
\neverything they have done. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:34:02,600 –> 00:34:06,200
\nSorrow is designed to drive this
\nmessage home and lead to wisdom.<\/p>\n
454
\n00:34:06,400 –> 00:34:10,100
\nAnd while wisdom and money can
\nboth provide shelter, wisdom can<\/p>\n
455
\n00:34:10,100 –> 00:34:16,000
\npreserve life, think about it.
\nGod has made the world crooked <\/p>\n
456
\n00:34:16,000 –> 00:34:20,000
\nwho can possibly straighten it,
\nThere are good times and there <\/p>\n
457
\n00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:24,000
\nare bad times.
\nAll from God, a righteous man <\/p>\n
458
\n00:34:24,000 –> 00:34:29,100
\ndies and a wicked man lives long
\nThe one who fears God will think<\/p>\n
459
\n00:34:29,100 –> 00:34:34,800
\nabout both aspects of life.
\nYet because I found life, so <\/p>\n
460
\n00:34:34,800 –> 00:34:37,100
\nhard to understand.
\nI tried to investigate wisdom <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:37,100 –> 00:34:39,500
\nitself to see how the world
\nworks. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:40,199 –> 00:34:42,900
\nI wanted to understand the
\nstupidity of wickedness in The <\/p>\n
463
\n00:34:42,908 –> 00:34:47,100
\nMadness of folly.
\nI saw how bitter a woman snare <\/p>\n
464
\n00:34:47,100 –> 00:34:50,400
\ncan be and how men pursue many
\nschemes. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:54,800
\nBut I discovered no deep truths,
\nexcept that wisdom, brightens a <\/p>\n
466
\n00:34:54,808 –> 00:34:57,000
\nman’s face.
\nA king will do just what he <\/p>\n
467
\n00:34:57,000 –> 00:34:59,300
\nwants.
\nNo one has the power to question<\/p>\n
468
\n00:34:59,300 –> 00:35:01,400
\nhim.
\nThere is no one who can predict <\/p>\n
469
\n00:35:01,400 –> 00:35:05,200
\nthe future prevent the day of
\nhis death or escape from the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:35:05,200 –> 00:35:08,600
\neffects of the wickedness.
\nHe practices I saw a ruler’s <\/p>\n
471
\n00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:12,600
\nlording, it over others and the
\nwicked receiving, praise all <\/p>\n
472
\n00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:16,300
\nbecause of a failure to bring
\njudgment in due time even though<\/p>\n
473
\n00:35:16,300 –> 00:35:19,900
\nthings ought to go better for
\nthose who fear God, I saw the <\/p>\n
474
\n00:35:19,900 –> 00:35:24,600
\nwicked and the righteous Each
\nother’s reward more futility. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:35:26,900 –> 00:35:33,100
\nSo, here’s what I recommend.
\nSimply enjoy your daily labor as<\/p>\n
476
\n00:35:33,100 –> 00:35:37,200
\nbest as you can.
\nI see what God has done. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:35:38,100 –> 00:35:41,700
\nHe has deliberately deprive the
\nworld of significance. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:35:42,900 –> 00:35:47,400
\nEach person is in God’s hand but
\nno one can know his own future <\/p>\n
479
\n00:35:47,400 –> 00:35:52,200
\nwhether good or bad.
\nThe tragedy that pervades the <\/p>\n
480
\n00:35:52,200 –> 00:35:55,500
\nworld is that everybody shares a
\ncommon Destiny. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:35:55,600 –> 00:35:59,400
\nThe hearts of men are full of
\nMadness while they live and then<\/p>\n
482
\n00:35:59,400 –> 00:36:03,600
\nthey joined the Dead.
\nThere’s nothing left, the living<\/p>\n
483
\n00:36:03,600 –> 00:36:08,600
\nhave hope, but the dead have
\nnothing, and they evaporate from<\/p>\n
484
\n00:36:08,600 –> 00:36:15,000
\nthe Affairs of the world.
\nWhile God favors your effort in <\/p>\n
485
\n00:36:15,000 –> 00:36:19,300
\nthe world, be glad and joyful
\nbecause there’s no labor to be <\/p>\n
486
\n00:36:19,300 –> 00:36:23,600
\ndone in the grave.
\nNo planning, no knowledge, no <\/p>\n
487
\n00:36:23,600 –> 00:36:28,700
\nwisdom.
\nI saw something else out in the <\/p>\n
488
\n00:36:28,700 –> 00:36:32,200
\nworld.
\nIt’s not always the brilliant <\/p>\n
489
\n00:36:32,200 –> 00:36:38,500
\nwho become rich, or the strong
\nwho win battles, the turmoil of <\/p>\n
490
\n00:36:38,500 –> 00:36:42,100
\nLife, twists, all that around
\nand evil times fall <\/p>\n
491
\n00:36:42,100 –> 00:36:44,900
\nunexpectedly.
\nConsider the wise peasant who <\/p>\n
492
\n00:36:44,900 –> 00:36:48,000
\nsaved the city but then was
\nforgotten his wisdom. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:36:48,000 –> 00:36:52,600
\nDespised wisdom is good, but it
\ncan be so easily overturned. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:36:52,600 –> 00:36:56,100
\nI’ve seen fools elevated to
\nrulership and their dullness <\/p>\n
495
\n00:36:56,100 –> 00:36:58,200
\npervades.
\nEverything, what a tragedy for <\/p>\n
496
\n00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:01,400
\nthat land.
\nSo, for evil times with <\/p>\n
497
\n00:37:01,400 –> 00:37:05,600
\ngenerosity, don’t hesitate
\nwaiting for the right moment for<\/p>\n
498
\n00:37:05,600 –> 00:37:09,200
\nyou cannot hope to predict the
\noutworking of this world that <\/p>\n
499
\n00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:15,700
\nGod has established Light is
\nsweet until darkness comes to <\/p>\n
500
\n00:37:15,700 –> 00:37:20,400
\nunderscore its emptiness.
\nBe happy while you can but know <\/p>\n
501
\n00:37:20,400 –> 00:37:24,700
\nthat God’s judgment will come.
\nAnd so remember your creator <\/p>\n
502
\n00:37:24,900 –> 00:37:27,900
\nwhile you’re young before the
\ndays of trouble come upon you <\/p>\n
503
\n00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:31,300
\nand the sun grows dim and
\nPleasures depart and mourners <\/p>\n
504
\n00:37:31,300 –> 00:37:34,700
\nTramp the streets.
\nRemember him before that final <\/p>\n
505
\n00:37:34,700 –> 00:37:37,800
\ntragedy when the dust has
\nreturned to the ground and the <\/p>\n
506
\n00:37:37,800 –> 00:37:42,500
\nbreath to God, who gave it?
\nThere are many weighty and <\/p>\n
507
\n00:37:42,500 –> 00:37:47,400
\ntedious theories around, but
\nfocus on these wise words, fear,<\/p>\n
508
\n00:37:47,400 –> 00:37:53,000
\nGod and keep his Commandments.
\nThis is the essence of mankind <\/p>\n
509
\n00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:57,300
\nfor God will bring every thing
\nwe do into judgment. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:38:03,900 –> 00:38:08,500
\nThis says it way stronger than I
\nwould ever dare to say it. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:38:09,000 –> 00:38:12,800
\nI mean, I still read
\nEcclesiastes and I am just <\/p>\n
512
\n00:38:12,800 –> 00:38:16,400
\ndeeply shocked by it again and
\nagain and I think often as a <\/p>\n
513
\n00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:18,200
\ncommunity, we don’t know what to
\ndo with it. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:38:20,300 –> 00:38:24,300
\nBut what he’s really talking
\nabout is the futility of human <\/p>\n
515
\n00:38:24,300 –> 00:38:28,800
\nefforts of trying to build
\nthings, establish things, make <\/p>\n
516
\n00:38:28,800 –> 00:38:34,100
\nthings Grand of vision of the
\nbig outer purpose that we have <\/p>\n
517
\n00:38:34,100 –> 00:38:38,100
\nof setting up from my mighty
\ncareer of building, this great <\/p>\n
518
\n00:38:38,100 –> 00:38:43,900
\nchurch or whatever it is.
\nThe world is bound over to <\/p>\n
519
\n00:38:43,900 –> 00:38:46,700
\nfutility.
\nPaul says the same thing in his <\/p>\n
520
\n00:38:46,700 –> 00:38:53,000
\nmini Book of Ecclesiastes in
\nRomans chapter 8, Romans chapter<\/p>\n
521
\n00:38:53,000 –> 00:38:57,900
\n8.
\nThe context is present, <\/p>\n
522
\n00:38:57,900 –> 00:39:00,400
\nsufferings are not worth
\ncomparing with the glory, that <\/p>\n
523
\n00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:05,800
\nwill be revealed in US.
\nHe says in verse 19 of Romans 8,<\/p>\n
524
\n00:39:06,200 –> 00:39:10,100
\nthe creation waits in eager
\nexpectation, for the sons of God<\/p>\n
525
\n00:39:10,100 –> 00:39:14,100
\nto be revealed for the creation
\nwas subjected to King. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:39:14,100 –> 00:39:19,400
\nJames has vanity.
\nWas subjected to vanity and Ivy <\/p>\n
527
\n00:39:19,400 –> 00:39:23,800
\nhas frustration.
\nIt’s the same idea that Paul was<\/p>\n
528
\n00:39:23,800 –> 00:39:28,900
\ntalking about the creation was
\nsubjected to meaninglessness. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:39:30,000 –> 00:39:35,000
\nGod made this creation
\nmeaningless, not by its own <\/p>\n
530
\n00:39:35,000 –> 00:39:38,800
\nchoice, but by the will of the
\none who subjected it in. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:39:38,800 –> 00:39:42,300
\nHope that the creation itself
\nwill be liberated from its <\/p>\n
532
\n00:39:42,300 –> 00:39:46,600
\nbondage to Decay and brought
\ninto the Glorious freedom of the<\/p>\n
533
\n00:39:46,600 –> 00:39:51,600
\nchildren of God.
\nSo the meaninglessness that God <\/p>\n
534
\n00:39:51,600 –> 00:39:54,300
\nhas built into the world.
\nThe vanity, the chasing after <\/p>\n
535
\n00:39:54,300 –> 00:40:00,200
\nthe wind the fact that what we
\ntry and do here has no real <\/p>\n
536
\n00:40:00,200 –> 00:40:04,100
\neffect.
\nNo real impact is God’s choice. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:40:06,300 –> 00:40:11,600
\nHe has done it so that we will
\nnot find satisfaction in the <\/p>\n
538
\n00:40:11,600 –> 00:40:16,900
\nthings of this life.
\nHe has done it so that we will <\/p>\n
539
\n00:40:16,900 –> 00:40:22,200
\nbe driven to seek that
\nsatisfaction in the reign of God<\/p>\n
540
\n00:40:23,100 –> 00:40:27,500
\nto step away from Mammon and to
\ncommit ourselves to God. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:40:27,800 –> 00:40:31,300
\nThe world finds new ways all the
\ntime. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:40:31,300 –> 00:40:37,100
\nFinds new ways to shower us with
\nglitter and and and just things <\/p>\n
543
\n00:40:37,100 –> 00:40:41,300
\nthat catch our attention to say
\nthis is so much so much better. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:40:41,300 –> 00:40:44,000
\nAnd it may be glitter is
\nsuperficially. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:40:44,400 –> 00:40:48,100
\nMaybe wonderful ideas or
\nintricate things to follow. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:40:48,100 –> 00:40:52,500
\nAnd I mean, you know me, I’m a
\nscientist and I love exploring <\/p>\n
547
\n00:40:52,500 –> 00:40:56,000
\nideas and I’m a mathematician
\nand are the mathematics of <\/p>\n
548
\n00:40:56,000 –> 00:40:58,000
\ncryptography.
\nI’m deep into at the moment. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:40:58,000 –> 00:41:01,100
\nIt’s just Exquisite but it’s
\nmeaningless. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:41:03,100 –> 00:41:07,100
\nIt’s meaningless.
\nSomehow I have to be able to <\/p>\n
551
\n00:41:07,100 –> 00:41:11,800
\ntake that message.
\nDeeply on to myself, I have to <\/p>\n
552
\n00:41:11,800 –> 00:41:17,700
\nbe able to think about it in the
\ncontext of my daily work find <\/p>\n
553
\n00:41:17,700 –> 00:41:21,700
\nsatisfaction day by day.
\nIn the things that I do but not <\/p>\n
554
\n00:41:21,700 –> 00:41:26,700
\nhave any belief or expectation.
\nThat there is some Grand purpose<\/p>\n
555
\n00:41:27,100 –> 00:41:31,400
\nto the work that I do day by day
\nwhether it’s growing grain or <\/p>\n
556
\n00:41:31,400 –> 00:41:36,500
\nwriting software.
\nThe daily work find satisfaction<\/p>\n
557
\n00:41:36,500 –> 00:41:40,700
\nto the extent that you are able.
\nAnd similarly, I believe in the <\/p>\n
558
\n00:41:40,700 –> 00:41:47,600
\nocclusal world, our job is day
\nby day to engage in a cliche <\/p>\n
559
\n00:41:47,600 –> 00:41:51,900
\nlife and to find satisfaction
\nand not to worry about What’s <\/p>\n
560
\n00:41:51,900 –> 00:41:56,800
\ntomorrow, what’s the future?
\nHow do I establish this Ecclesia<\/p>\n
561
\n00:41:56,800 –> 00:42:01,000
\nin Portland so that for the next
\n50 years, it will be a huge lat.<\/p>\n
562
\n00:42:01,200 –> 00:42:03,800
\nI have no idea what God has in
\nmind for her. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:42:04,200 –> 00:42:08,800
\nAtlantic leisure.
\nI have my own Visions, my own <\/p>\n
564
\n00:42:08,800 –> 00:42:11,500
\nideas, but those are my Visions,
\nmy ideas. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:42:12,300 –> 00:42:14,800
\nAnd if I take the message of
\nEcclesiastes, in the mission <\/p>\n
566
\n00:42:14,800 –> 00:42:18,100
\nmessage of Romans, I have to
\nrecognize that God has actually <\/p>\n
567
\n00:42:18,100 –> 00:42:22,800
\nbuilt even into the occlusal
\nlife subject to vanity and <\/p>\n
568
\n00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:29,900
\nfrustration.
\nAnd I have to find a way day by <\/p>\n
569
\n00:42:29,900 –> 00:42:35,200
\nday to to live with what God has
\nprovided. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:42:36,100 –> 00:42:39,700
\nAnd it’s not like I’m making
\nthis up, Jesus in Matthew <\/p>\n
571
\n00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:44,900
\nchapter 6, these are words again
\nthat we stress about, we don’t <\/p>\n
572
\n00:42:44,900 –> 00:42:48,300
\nknow what to do with them
\nbecause we are so invested in <\/p>\n
573
\n00:42:48,300 –> 00:42:51,700
\nthe world that that I think is
\nthat is the core of our problem.<\/p>\n
574
\n00:42:51,900 –> 00:42:54,800
\nAnd when I say the world, I
\ndon’t just mean the outside <\/p>\n
575
\n00:42:54,800 –> 00:42:56,700
\nworld.
\nI mean, the affair. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:42:56,900 –> 00:43:00,900
\nAs of this life, whether they
\nare religious Affairs in terms <\/p>\n
577
\n00:43:00,900 –> 00:43:04,100
\nof the structures of our
\nreligion or whether their <\/p>\n
578
\n00:43:04,100 –> 00:43:07,500
\nbusiness Affairs or family
\nAffairs, or social Affairs or <\/p>\n
579
\n00:43:07,500 –> 00:43:11,100
\nwhatever, we’re so invested in
\nthem that we don’t actually know<\/p>\n
580
\n00:43:11,100 –> 00:43:15,900
\nhow to step out of them.
\nAnd just enter into the domain <\/p>\n
581
\n00:43:15,900 –> 00:43:23,100
\nof God.
\nVerse 33 seek first God’s domain<\/p>\n
582
\n00:43:24,000 –> 00:43:27,500
\nand his righteousness.
\nAnd all these things will be <\/p>\n
583
\n00:43:27,500 –> 00:43:30,900
\ngiven to you as well.
\nTherefore don’t worry about <\/p>\n
584
\n00:43:30,900 –> 00:43:37,700
\ntomorrow.
\nI call myself a disciple of <\/p>\n
585
\n00:43:37,700 –> 00:43:42,600
\nJesus.
\nBut I don’t follow him. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:43:44,700 –> 00:43:49,100
\nI heard a story once of one of
\nthe European explorers who went <\/p>\n
587
\n00:43:49,400 –> 00:43:52,900
\nwent East and in the early days,
\nwhen the East was sort of being <\/p>\n
588
\n00:43:52,900 –> 00:43:57,700
\nopened up to the Europeans and
\ncame across, I think it was <\/p>\n
589
\n00:43:57,700 –> 00:44:01,400
\nprobably a Buddhist teacher and
\nhe was amazed at all of these <\/p>\n
590
\n00:44:01,400 –> 00:44:05,400
\nfollowers all wearing the robes,
\nor whatever, and talking to the <\/p>\n
591
\n00:44:05,400 –> 00:44:10,300
\nBuddhist teacher, and he said to
\nhim, wow, how many disciples do <\/p>\n
592
\n00:44:10,308 –> 00:44:13,500
\nyou have?
\nman, quietly looked over the <\/p>\n
593
\n00:44:13,500 –> 00:44:17,000
\ncrowd and said, I think about
\nfive. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:44:22,200 –> 00:44:26,500
\nAnd I wonder to what extent
\nJesus in his love and his <\/p>\n
595
\n00:44:26,500 –> 00:44:34,800
\ncompassion looks over us.
\nAnd says, yeah, this person <\/p>\n
596
\n00:44:35,500 –> 00:44:39,500
\never, really has taken my
\nteaching on board and this <\/p>\n
597
\n00:44:39,500 –> 00:44:45,000
\nperson and maybe one other Did
\nyou know what I mean? <\/p>\n
598
\n00:44:45,300 –> 00:44:47,500
\nAnd I’m not saying this to guilt
\nus. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:44:48,800 –> 00:44:51,900
\nThis is Jesus diagnosing, our
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:44:52,200 –> 00:44:59,200
\nThis is Jesus.
\nIdentifying the the like the the<\/p>\n
601
\n00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:03,600
\ndelusion that we’re under.
\nWe’re under this delusion that <\/p>\n
602
\n00:45:03,600 –> 00:45:06,900
\nthe world is important and the
\nthings we do in this life are <\/p>\n
603
\n00:45:06,900 –> 00:45:08,800
\nimportant.
\nIn terms of the structures that <\/p>\n
604
\n00:45:08,800 –> 00:45:11,500
\nwe build in the things that we
\naccomplished and what’s going to<\/p>\n
605
\n00:45:11,508 –> 00:45:14,000
\nhappen tomorrow and the day
\nafter, and the day after that, <\/p>\n
606
\n00:45:16,100 –> 00:45:22,300
\nAnd Jesus says, no.
\nDon’t don’t think of it that way<\/p>\n
607
\n00:45:22,300 –> 00:45:27,300
\nat all.
\nNow, that’s not to say that it <\/p>\n
608
\n00:45:27,300 –> 00:45:33,700
\nis inappropriate ever to have an
\nouter purpose or a plan, like a <\/p>\n
609
\n00:45:33,707 –> 00:45:36,900
\nlot of effort went into making
\nthis Bible School happen and it <\/p>\n
610
\n00:45:36,900 –> 00:45:39,600
\nwas a lot of thinking ahead to
\nmake it happen. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:45:39,900 –> 00:45:43,100
\nWe could call that sort of an
\nouter purpose of the things that<\/p>\n
612
\n00:45:43,100 –> 00:45:46,800
\nwe do where we look ahead and we
\nsay I have a vision of something<\/p>\n
613
\n00:45:46,800 –> 00:45:50,800
\nthat I’d like to do.
\nAt the same time, we have an <\/p>\n
614
\n00:45:50,800 –> 00:45:53,900
\ninner purpose of the
\ntransformation that God is <\/p>\n
615
\n00:45:53,900 –> 00:45:59,900
\ncarrying about in a stay by day.
\nThat’s the training as it were. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:46:01,300 –> 00:46:06,200
\nNow whether the outer purpose
\nsucceeds or fails is actually <\/p>\n
617
\n00:46:06,200 –> 00:46:09,400
\nirrelevant as far as God is
\nconcerned. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:46:09,700 –> 00:46:13,400
\nMean, I’m delighted Jim and Jane
\nthat your outer purpose in <\/p>\n
619
\n00:46:13,600 –> 00:46:18,300
\ncreating the school happened.
\nBut if God had stepped in or <\/p>\n
620
\n00:46:18,300 –> 00:46:21,900
\ncircumstance or time it stepped
\nin and the school didn’t happen,<\/p>\n
621
\n00:46:22,400 –> 00:46:26,000
\nit wouldn’t affect our
\ntransformation, our Salvation, <\/p>\n
622
\n00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:30,200
\nour change wouldn’t affect it
\none wit and yet we would stress <\/p>\n
623
\n00:46:30,200 –> 00:46:33,900
\nabout it so much because we had
\nlet people down and we’re <\/p>\n
624
\n00:46:33,900 –> 00:46:38,100
\ndisappointed people.
\nAnd as opposed to Jesus saying, <\/p>\n
625
\n00:46:39,000 –> 00:46:44,100
\nDon’t worry about tomorrow. and
\nby all means, I think, I think <\/p>\n
626
\n00:46:44,100 –> 00:46:46,900
\nit would agree by all means have
\nan idea of what you would quite <\/p>\n
627
\n00:46:46,900 –> 00:46:50,900
\nlike to accomplish, but don’t
\nset your heart on it, don’t make<\/p>\n
628
\n00:46:50,900 –> 00:46:57,300
\nthat the meaning in your life
\nbecause it will pass You may <\/p>\n
629
\n00:46:57,500 –> 00:47:00,600
\ngain the world.
\nBut lose your soul. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:47:04,800 –> 00:47:09,600
\nIt’s like exercising.
\nI might get so caught up and I’m<\/p>\n
631
\n00:47:09,600 –> 00:47:11,400
\ntraining for the Olympics.
\nI’m not training for the <\/p>\n
632
\n00:47:11,408 –> 00:47:15,800
\nOlympics but hypothetically
\nLet’s be real here. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:47:18,200 –> 00:47:21,600
\nI’m training for the Olympics,
\nyou know, but I don’t want to <\/p>\n
634
\n00:47:21,600 –> 00:47:24,800
\ntrain in this blue room.
\nI really want a red room to <\/p>\n
635
\n00:47:24,800 –> 00:47:29,100
\ntrain in.
\nI mean, that’s the level in some<\/p>\n
636
\n00:47:29,100 –> 00:47:32,800
\nsense that we are.
\nWhen we are being transformed, <\/p>\n
637
\n00:47:32,900 –> 00:47:37,300
\nwe have the opportunity today to
\nstep into the domain of God and <\/p>\n
638
\n00:47:37,300 –> 00:47:41,800
\nto experience the peace that
\npasses all understanding <\/p>\n
639
\n00:47:42,100 –> 00:47:47,000
\noverwhelming us.
\nAnd yet we worry about whether <\/p>\n
640
\n00:47:47,000 –> 00:47:50,800
\nwe happen to be in a blue room
\nor a Red Room, whether our <\/p>\n
641
\n00:47:50,800 –> 00:47:56,100
\ntreadmill is this kind of that
\nkind and our trainer says that’s<\/p>\n
642
\n00:47:56,100 –> 00:48:00,400
\nthat’s not what it’s about.
\nwhether I have this kind of <\/p>\n
643
\n00:48:00,400 –> 00:48:06,500
\ncareer or that kind of career,
\nthe time is short. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:48:07,800 –> 00:48:10,400
\nWe live each day as if it’s our
\nlast at least. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:48:10,400 –> 00:48:15,200
\nThat’s what we tell ourselves.
\nAnd yet, we don’t we are so much<\/p>\n
646
\n00:48:15,200 –> 00:48:21,000
\ninvested in our imagined future
\nthat we actually forget to live <\/p>\n
647
\n00:48:21,000 –> 00:48:27,600
\ntoday as today.
\nI think there’s an interesting <\/p>\n
648
\n00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:33,300
\nthing that happened when Harold
\nCamping and the the thing <\/p>\n
649
\n00:48:33,300 –> 00:48:34,700
\nwhatever it’s called didn’t
\nhappen. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:48:37,300 –> 00:48:40,500
\nWhat’s the word begins with our
\nthe, the rapture? <\/p>\n
651
\n00:48:43,000 –> 00:48:45,900
\nThere’s this big deal about all
\nof his followers sort of selling<\/p>\n
652
\n00:48:45,900 –> 00:48:49,500
\nor leg goods and giving it up
\nand going up on a mountain and <\/p>\n
653
\n00:48:49,500 –> 00:48:52,700
\nso on.
\nAnd something was disquieting <\/p>\n
654
\n00:48:52,700 –> 00:48:55,700
\nabout to me about this because
\nin one sense, of course, they’re<\/p>\n
655
\n00:48:55,700 –> 00:48:59,200
\ndoing what Jesus exhorts other
\npeople to do, you know, sell <\/p>\n
656
\n00:48:59,200 –> 00:49:02,600
\neverything give it out.
\nBut, but here’s what was <\/p>\n
657
\n00:49:02,600 –> 00:49:05,800
\ndisquieting about it.
\nThere was a sense in which they <\/p>\n
658
\n00:49:05,800 –> 00:49:10,300
\nwere switching their investment
\nfrom in the world to Jesus <\/p>\n
659
\n00:49:10,300 –> 00:49:12,700
\ncoming back and then Jesus
\ndidn’t come back. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:49:12,800 –> 00:49:15,500
\nNow, they were lost as it were.
\nDid you see it? <\/p>\n
661
\n00:49:16,000 –> 00:49:20,800
\nWhat Jesus, I think is actually
\nencouraging us to do is in some <\/p>\n
662
\n00:49:20,800 –> 00:49:23,200
\nsense, get rid of our investment
\nin the world. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:49:23,200 –> 00:49:26,700
\nAnd again, I’m not talking about
\nmoney, I mean money, maybe part <\/p>\n
664
\n00:49:26,700 –> 00:49:31,100
\nof it for some of you and it may
\nnot for others, social standing <\/p>\n
665
\n00:49:31,200 –> 00:49:33,800
\nreligious standing, all of these
\nkinds of things. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:49:33,900 –> 00:49:36,800
\nWhat Jesus says is, let’s get
\nrid of your investment in the <\/p>\n
667
\n00:49:36,800 –> 00:49:39,400
\nworld and live in the domain of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:49:40,500 –> 00:49:42,600
\nThen it doesn’t matter.
\nWhether Jesus comes back <\/p>\n
669
\n00:49:42,600 –> 00:49:47,600
\ntomorrow or next year, or in
\nanother 2,000 years, because <\/p>\n
670
\n00:49:47,600 –> 00:49:50,100
\ntoday, you are living and
\nwalking. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:49:50,100 –> 00:49:55,100
\nIn the domain of God, you’re
\nactually fulfilling some of the <\/p>\n
672
\n00:49:55,100 –> 00:49:59,200
\nthings that he is calling us to
\nday by day. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:50:01,000 –> 00:50:05,600
\nLike to finish just with
\nPhilippians chapter 4. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:50:21,400 –> 00:50:28,400
\nVerse 12, this is Paul.
\nI know what it is to be in need <\/p>\n
675
\n00:50:30,600 –> 00:50:33,600
\nand I know what it is to have.
\nPlenty. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:50:36,100 –> 00:50:39,300
\nI have learned the secret of
\nbeing content. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:50:40,300 –> 00:50:44,100
\nI’ve learned the secret of being
\ncontent in any and every <\/p>\n
678
\n00:50:44,100 –> 00:50:49,400
\nsituation, whether well fed or
\nhungry, whether living in plenty<\/p>\n
679
\n00:50:50,300 –> 00:50:55,200
\nor in want.
\nThat’s, that’s very powerful. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:50:55,400 –> 00:50:58,900
\nI have learned the secret of
\nbeing content. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:50:59,300 –> 00:51:03,900
\nThe excitation here is to not be
\ncaught up in outer purpose. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:51:03,900 –> 00:51:08,000
\nAs if that had any meaning or
\nvalue, don’t be caught up in <\/p>\n
683
\n00:51:08,000 –> 00:51:13,100
\nstriving and seeking and I’m not
\nsaying this as a commandment or <\/p>\n
684
\n00:51:13,100 –> 00:51:16,400
\na legal regulation or anything
\nlike that. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:51:16,800 –> 00:51:20,900
\nIt’s an excitation, it’s like a
\ndiagnosis of the challenge we <\/p>\n
686
\n00:51:20,900 –> 00:51:26,600
\nface and to be Call to it.
\nPaul says I have learned the <\/p>\n
687
\n00:51:26,600 –> 00:51:30,600
\nsecret of being content.
\nAnd are you there? <\/p>\n
688
\n00:51:32,000 –> 00:51:35,400
\nI’m not.
\nI’m not there. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:51:37,900 –> 00:51:42,200
\nBut as I’ve been doing these
\nstudies, they’ve opened my eyes <\/p>\n
690
\n00:51:42,200 –> 00:51:44,900
\nto it much more and through
\nGod’s grace. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:51:46,100 –> 00:51:47,100
\nHe will take me there.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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