Welcome to Anchors of Truth
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live from the 3
ABN Worship Center,
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the extravagant love
series with Ty Gibson.
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And we do welcome you right here
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to the Worship Center at 3ABN
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at Thompsonville, Illinois.
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And we are so happy
to begin this series,
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this is a new series to 3 ABN
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for the last couple of
years we've been enjoying
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very much the
kind of Cox series.
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Ands now this series
that will be taking place
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almost each month
is a series that is
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going to feature a
number of speakers.
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We'll be inviting
individuals to come
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and to speak on
subjects that they have
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on their heart to
share with you our
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television
audience. We know that you
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like this live
presentation because
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you let us know that you do.
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They are exactly what you see
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and you mean
anything might happen,
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there's no
script, we come to you and
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we allow the Holy
Spirit to lead us and guide us,
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and in the things
that takes place here.
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I would invite my
good friend John Lomacang
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to come out at this time.
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John pastors the church here,
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but he's also the
ambassador of goodwill
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for 3 ABN around the world.
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And we are happy
to have him back,
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he's back from Africa.
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That's right, that's right.
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And you have a
tremendous trip did you?
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Yes we did, built
about 40, 54 churches there,
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wow, with Maranatha,
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it was very, very productive,
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the God was praised to that.
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Well listen I
am going to ask you
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the lead us in
the word of prayer
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and then to sing for us
one of my favorite songs
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"There Is a Savior".
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Okay, let's bow our heads.
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Our gracious Father in heaven
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what an
opportunity it is to be able to
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stand where Jesus
can flow through a
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human instrument. Heavenly Lord
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tonight as we come before you
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and as we go before the people,
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we pray that there
will be an unbroken stream
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from earth to heaven,
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from heaven to
earth pouring into your
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man servant Ty
Gibson. Lord give him wisdom,
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he has put words on paper,
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but we pray you'll
give it life that Jesus
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may be magnified,
Jesus may be glorified
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and hearts will be
drawn to this loving savior.
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And so Lord we
invite you to tabernacle
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with us that all
that is done here
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tonight will draw
people closer to you
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in a saving relationship,
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we ask in the Jesus name amen.
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You know just
before you do sing John I,
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I want to say word about Ty;
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Ty Gibson is one of
the best known speakers
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that we have on 3 ABN.
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He's the co director and speaker
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for Light Bearers Ministry,
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they have spread the
gospel around the world
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through the printed page,
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and millions and
millions of pamphlets
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that they have
had printed in books
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and booklets that
have gone around the world,
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it's an amazing.
In addition to that
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Ty has been speaking in
places around the globe.
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And through 3 ABN tonight,
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he's able to reach
approximately potentially
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over 1.6 billion individuals.
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And we are praying
that million of those people
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will be watching and
listening as he speaks
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about God's extravagant love.
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And now John
"There Is a Savior".
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There is a Savior,
What joys expressed,
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His eyes on mercy,
and His word is rest,
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for each tomorrow for yesterday,
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there is a Savior
who lights our way.
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Are there burdens in your heart,
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Is the past a
memory that binds you,
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Is there a pain
that you've carried
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far too long, well strengthen
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your heart with His good news,
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there is a Savior
and He's forgiven you.
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There is a Savior,
What joys expressed,
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His eyes on mercy,
and His word is rest,
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for each tomorrow for yesterday,
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there is a Savior
who lights our way.
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There is a Savior,
What joys expressed,
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His eyes on mercy,
and His word is rest,
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for each tomorrow for yesterday,
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there is a Savior
who lights our way.
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there is a Savior
who lights our way.
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Thank you John what a blessing,
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it amazes me how much can be
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communicated in
song. It takes a preacher
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an hour to
communicate what can be brought
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for forth in
two or three minutes
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in a song
because in a song there's
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that beautiful
intersection between
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mind and heart.
You know what I am
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talking about don't you,
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well it just
reaches down into you
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and opens not only
your thinking process,
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but opens your emotions to God.
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And I just, I so appreciate
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music for that reason.
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Well this evening
where I am embarking
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on a five part series,
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I think you know that,
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and we've given
this series a title
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that I hope is
somewhat provocative for you.
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I hope it just draws
you in but I have to say
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that I know its
going to put some off.
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Some are going to
look at this title
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of this five part
series and say you know
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are we suppose
to be talking about
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the Three Angels
messages or maybe
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the book of Revelation,
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or shouldn't we be
launching into some
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final events series
or something like that.
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I want to tell you
that I believe with
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all my heart in the
power of the prophecies
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of Daniel in Revelation.
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I can't even do
justice to how deeply
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I feel about the relevance
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of these prophecies.
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But I want to
tell you something else
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that as we begin this ongoing
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Anchors of Truth series,
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there is an anchor
that reaches deeper
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than any other, and that is
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the love of God.
We're going to be
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exploring the
power of God's love
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in a way that I
hope will open and expand
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our understanding to
just what the Bible means
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when it uses this word.
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So, so let's begin
our five part series
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together this evening
by defining our terms.
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As I said our title
for the whole series
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is extravagant love.
Now the word extravagant
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think about it for a minute,
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it's a word that sometimes
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people don't know how
to wrap their minds around,
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in fact just
before beginning tonight
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somebody came to me and said
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now what's this series is about?
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What was is it extenuating love.
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No I said its
not extenuating love;
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they said is it, is
it, is it exceptional,
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is that the
word, I can't remember,
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is it exceptional love?
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I said that's getting close,
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is it extreme?
Well, yeah it is extreme
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but that's not
the word that I gave
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in the title the
word is extravagant.
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And if you think
about some synonyms
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for that words or
words that would be
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in the vocabulary proximity
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if you will of
the word extravagant.
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You would come with words like,
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like lavish, do
you like that word,
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or how about this one luxurious,
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ooh I like that word,
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how about this one?
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This is not a word that is
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commonly in use
today in our vocabulary,
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how about the word posh?
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You like that word
too I like that one a lot,
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and how about this?
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Extravagant
love is radical love,
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it is in fact
extreme or we could say this
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way it is over, what do we say,
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over the top, it's over the top,
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it supersedes our expectations,
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it's beyond what we
would normally comprehend.
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We don't on a daily
bases reside in mental
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and emotional
territory that they just quickly
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and easily
understands the magnitude
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of God's love. It is
truly enormous in its scope,
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as we are going to learn,
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it is universal in its embrace.
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It takes in
literarily every man,
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woman and child but
that love that is so posh
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and extreme and lavish,
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that love that is
radical beyond any humans
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ability to describe.
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That love is not only universal,
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it is also we are
going to be discovering it is
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empowering. In other
words once you drink it
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in to your mind and heart,
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once you give it access
to your thinking process,
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once you allow it to
make its impact on your deep
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interior as a human being,
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now what Paul
called in Ephesians 3,
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the inner man, the inner person,
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once you let
that love have access
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to the deep inner
person that you are,
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it will radically
transform your life
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and all your relationships.
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So, so this is
getting in the proximity,
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in the
neighborhood of what we mean
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when we employ
the word extravagant.
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But what about this word love?
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What about the word love?
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I want to tell you
right at the outset,
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the word love is problematic.
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It is a word that has a baggage;
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it has freight, its
carrying with it some
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connotations
that do not always set
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well or at least
clear in the human mind
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and heart. And
the reason for this
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is because the
word love has in our
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popular culture
nearly being slaughtered
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beyond recognition.
I mean the word is so
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loosely used, and so ill used
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that we scarcely know
what it means anymore?
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I'll just
demonstrate the problem for you,
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in the course
of just a few hours
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you might hear me
say I love surfing,
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and I do, you might hear me say
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twenty minutes
later, oh, I love tacos,
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and I do, and then
right on the heels of those
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two same that
you might hear me say
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and I love my wife Sue.
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But immediately your
feeling the dissonance
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that I am feeling,
I'm feeling like but
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wait a minute there
are ought to be some
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discernable margin
of difference between
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my wife and tacos. Right,
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are you feeling not?
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In fact if I were to
say in the same breath,
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in the same sentence,
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I love tacos and
baby I love you too,
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she might say please Ty,
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please could you
at least separate them
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in some fashion, okay.
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But then to complicate
matters I love surfing,
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I love tacos, I love my wife,
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I love God and God loves me.
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Now suddenly I'm
really feeling like there
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needs to be some
kind of clear distinction
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because our popular
culture has for all intents
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and purposes drained
this word of its meaning.
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So that when we
hear the word love,
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in fact if you do
a seminar like this
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speaking of the extravagant love
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of God's love, you
have people come to you
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as they do to me
all the time and say
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ah that is such a
insipid sentimental
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weak subject, could
you deal with something
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powerful like the
Three Angel messages?
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And I say in my
mind and sometimes
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I loud to them, I say this idea
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that there is
something biblically
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more powerful than God's love
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is indicative that
you don't understand
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really what the
Bible means when it uses
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that word. Look at
our popular culture
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use of the word love,
a popular music magazine
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which I think I
brought to your attention
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on a former occasion
but it fits nicely here.
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A popular music
magazine with a large data base
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of song lyrics, popular
song lyrics all the songs
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that are being
played on the radio,
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and all the
songs that young people
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and older like are very familiar
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with our popular culture,
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they have all this
lyrics in their massive lyrics
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data base in their computer.
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And they were
curious this popular music
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magazine to discover what words,
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what ideas are the most
commonly occurring words
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and themes in popular music.
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And so they began to
do this data base search
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on all the song lyrics,
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going back to the
Beatles and before.
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And you know they discovered
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that the most
frequently used words
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were without
even a close second,
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the most frequently
used word in popular music
00:17:35.69\00:17:39.86
is the word love, that's right,
00:17:39.87\00:17:44.10
going all the way
back to early 1960
00:17:44.11\00:17:47.53
she loves me yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:17:47.54\00:17:52.71
and then going all the
way forward to our time
00:17:52.72\00:17:56.03
there's not a
single word that occurs
00:17:56.04\00:17:57.86
more times than the word love
00:17:57.87\00:17:59.91
in popular music.
But here's a thing
00:17:59.92\00:18:02.14
that is interesting,
they discovered that
00:18:02.15\00:18:05.04
while love is the
most frequently used
00:18:05.05\00:18:07.64
word in popular
music, the second most
00:18:07.65\00:18:09.92
frequently used word
in popular music is baby,
00:18:09.93\00:18:14.07
having nothing
whatsoever to do with
00:18:14.08\00:18:17.72
infancy by the way.
00:18:17.73\00:18:18.94
But more in the context of
00:18:18.95\00:18:21.63
I love you baby
because after all you are so
00:18:21.64\00:18:25.67
babe-able, you are so beautiful
00:18:25.68\00:18:28.09
and therefore I love you.
00:18:28.10\00:18:30.28
Do you know the
third most frequently
00:18:30.29\00:18:32.36
used word in popular music?
00:18:32.37\00:18:33.81
I already said it,
00:18:33.82\00:18:34.99
yeah as in baby I love you,
00:18:35.00\00:18:37.60
oh yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:18:37.61\00:18:40.62
lot say yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:18:40.63\00:18:41.86
in fact there is a
popular music group
00:18:41.87\00:18:45.78
today, and you
know what the name of
00:18:45.79\00:18:48.55
that group is? I mean,
00:18:48.56\00:18:50.05
I am familiar going way back;
00:18:50.06\00:18:52.08
I am familiar with Beatles
00:18:52.09\00:18:53.15
and the Rolling Stones
00:18:53.16\00:18:54.13
and Led Zeppelin but this band,
00:18:54.14\00:18:55.76
a popular band
presently in our world
00:18:55.77\00:18:58.47
is called the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs,
00:18:58.48\00:18:59.78
that's the name of the group.
00:18:59.79\00:19:02.54
So, so you are
getting the feeling,
00:19:02.55\00:19:04.33
you are getting the picture,
00:19:04.34\00:19:05.31
here's the basic
content of popular culture,
00:19:05.32\00:19:09.56
I love you baby, oh, yeah, yeah.
00:19:09.57\00:19:13.76
So if you take any
given CD off the shelf,
00:19:13.77\00:19:17.01
or just go on iTunes
and download whatever
00:19:17.02\00:19:20.05
songs are
available in album form,
00:19:20.06\00:19:22.23
they are total album,
00:19:22.24\00:19:23.21
you'll discover a pattern
00:19:23.22\00:19:24.52
and the pattern
goes something like this,
00:19:24.53\00:19:26.91
track one on the album,
00:19:26.92\00:19:28.24
baby I love you, oh yeah,
00:19:28.25\00:19:31.03
track two on the album,
00:19:31.04\00:19:33.32
baby I don't love you anymore
00:19:33.33\00:19:36.38
breaking up is
hard to do because
00:19:36.39\00:19:39.28
after all I'm
more babe-able babe
00:19:39.29\00:19:40.95
has just got my attention,
00:19:40.96\00:19:42.33
so I am going to move on
00:19:42.34\00:19:43.88
now but moving on is hard to do,
00:19:43.89\00:19:45.71
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:19:45.72\00:19:48.05
Track three
baby I love you again
00:19:48.06\00:19:51.81
but here's the thing
it's not the same babe
00:19:51.82\00:19:54.38
or baby as track one,
there's been a shifting
00:19:54.39\00:19:58.84
today that has taken a place
00:19:58.85\00:20:00.41
and this of course is
reflected in the actual
00:20:00.42\00:20:03.53
romantic lifestyles of those
00:20:03.54\00:20:06.08
who sing these songs,
if you haven't noticed.
00:20:06.09\00:20:10.03
Moving on from
one babe to the next,
00:20:10.04\00:20:13.17
now here's the
thing about this theme
00:20:13.18\00:20:16.53
in popular music
when the singer says
00:20:16.54\00:20:19.81
baby I love you o yeah
00:20:19.82\00:20:21.73
but that love is not
of sufficient constitution
00:20:21.74\00:20:26.82
to hold the
individual in faithfulness.
00:20:26.83\00:20:32.06
It's not love at
all because the fact is
00:20:32.07\00:20:37.51
when I love you baby
because of what you do
00:20:37.52\00:20:41.04
for me actually
who is that I love.
00:20:41.05\00:20:45.32
It's all about
me; you're dispensable
00:20:45.33\00:20:50.30
to my needs being met.
00:20:50.31\00:20:56.14
Like the lady
who said to me right
00:20:56.15\00:20:57.89
in front of her
husband in a marriage
00:20:57.90\00:21:00.42
counseling session, I mean
00:21:00.43\00:21:01.67
this lady nailed it
like nobody I've ever heard,
00:21:01.68\00:21:03.98
and I have done a lot
of marriage counseling.
00:21:03.99\00:21:05.80
She said looking
straight past him into my eyes,
00:21:05.81\00:21:10.41
my husband doesn't love me,
00:21:10.42\00:21:13.05
he uses me to love himself.
00:21:13.06\00:21:16.73
She got right to
the heart of the matter.
00:21:16.74\00:21:22.73
Right to the heart
not only a popular love
00:21:22.74\00:21:25.16
as it is conceived and portrayed
00:21:25.17\00:21:27.44
in popular media,
but right to the heart
00:21:27.45\00:21:29.46
of really what it is,
00:21:29.47\00:21:31.71
it's going on in
all of our hearts as
00:21:31.72\00:21:33.16
human beings in our
following condition.
00:21:33.17\00:21:35.22
We can't look out
there at that popular culture
00:21:35.23\00:21:38.40
and condemn it
for this conception,
00:21:38.41\00:21:42.70
this love and self serving
00:21:42.71\00:21:44.88
and self centered
conception of love.
00:21:44.89\00:21:46.57
It is simply the
corporate expression
00:21:46.58\00:21:50.45
of what's going on in
all of our fallen hearts
00:21:50.46\00:21:53.75
except for the
converting grace of Christ
00:21:53.76\00:21:57.48
get hold of us, and
teach us how to live
00:21:57.49\00:22:01.67
in a love that
supersedes self interest.
00:22:01.68\00:22:07.94
Just a day or two
ago a friend of mine
00:22:07.95\00:22:10.97
called my attention
to a song that is one of
00:22:10.98\00:22:15.39
if not the mot
popular song on the radio
00:22:15.40\00:22:17.12
right now in the
United States of America,
00:22:17.13\00:22:18.89
and in this song the
man is portrait as saying
00:22:18.90\00:22:23.13
and here is the
part of the lyric
00:22:23.14\00:22:24.19
"I wouldn't be a
real man if I could resist
00:22:24.20\00:22:29.57
a woman like you".
Now at first listen that
00:22:29.58\00:22:36.79
feels flattering,
doesn't it? I mean be honest,
00:22:36.80\00:22:39.61
doesn't it? Just,
just and that's why
00:22:39.62\00:22:41.81
he is singing it.
He is expecting her
00:22:41.82\00:22:43.93
to just really feel
like she is something special
00:22:43.94\00:22:47.01
because after
all, he is a real man
00:22:47.02\00:22:49.41
and a real man couldn't
resist a woman like you.
00:22:49.42\00:22:52.14
But one that feels
flattering right at first,
00:22:52.15\00:22:57.66
there is not a
woman in the world
00:22:57.67\00:23:00.61
on second thought
would wanna spend her life
00:23:00.62\00:23:02.80
committed to a man
who can't resist loving
00:23:02.81\00:23:07.15
any woman that walks by that
00:23:07.16\00:23:09.34
he can't resist loving.
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.99
Are you getting
what I am saying,
00:23:12.00\00:23:13.60
the fact is our
popular culture has glamorized
00:23:13.61\00:23:19.86
and romanticized
selfishness as love.
00:23:19.87\00:23:23.19
Our popular
culture is basically said
00:23:23.20\00:23:26.63
I have no self
control because after all
00:23:26.64\00:23:30.38
I am living entirely for myself,
00:23:30.39\00:23:34.58
and so the word
love has been slaughtered
00:23:34.59\00:23:41.09
nearly beyond recognition
00:23:41.10\00:23:43.40
in our popular culture
00:23:43.41\00:23:46.63
but here's a thing.
When the Bible employs
00:23:46.64\00:23:50.22
the word love as in God is love,
00:23:50.23\00:23:53.43
and God loves you.
00:23:53.44\00:23:54.64
It's not using the
word in the same context
00:23:54.65\00:24:00.81
and with the same
definition of the word
00:24:00.82\00:24:03.67
as it is commonly
used in popular culture.
00:24:03.68\00:24:06.66
Let me just demonstrate for you,
00:24:06.67\00:24:08.78
how the word love
is defined biblically,
00:24:08.79\00:24:13.81
so that we can wrap
our minds around it,
00:24:13.82\00:24:15.82
and I want to do
this by introducing
00:24:15.83\00:24:17.61
to you a new word.
00:24:17.62\00:24:19.49
How many of you like new words,
00:24:19.50\00:24:21.01
you like
expanding your vocabulary;
00:24:21.02\00:24:22.37
you like new words
or is it just to much of
00:24:22.38\00:24:24.89
a hassle. You like
new words I am glad,
00:24:24.90\00:24:26.39
okay so you like new words.
00:24:26.40\00:24:27.67
I am gonna share
with you three new words,
00:24:27.68\00:24:29.57
these are my
three favorite new words
00:24:29.58\00:24:31.36
that I've learned within
about the last year okay.
00:24:31.37\00:24:34.06
Number one, my wife introduced
00:24:34.07\00:24:35.82
this word to me,
I had never heard
00:24:35.83\00:24:37.50
this word believe it
or not that's probably
00:24:37.51\00:24:38.95
because I had
not read Jane Austen
00:24:38.96\00:24:40.45
and the word is cooketish,
00:24:40.46\00:24:42.98
any body raise
your hand if you know
00:24:42.99\00:24:44.88
the word cooketish.
00:24:44.89\00:24:46.08
Some of you
actually know the word,
00:24:46.09\00:24:47.97
I am from L.A, we
don't use the word cooketish,
00:24:47.98\00:24:51.60
I grew up on the beach,
00:24:51.61\00:24:52.73
never heard the word cooketish,
00:24:52.74\00:24:54.96
I said Sue what
are you talking about,
00:24:54.97\00:24:56.53
what is this word cooketish?
00:24:56.54\00:24:57.64
She said that she
was cooketish with me.
00:24:57.65\00:24:59.85
I said it sounds
good, but I don't know
00:24:59.86\00:25:02.55
if it's good that
might be a bad thing
00:25:02.56\00:25:04.43
because I don't
know trying to run
00:25:04.44\00:25:05.97
on my computer
and Google that word
00:25:05.98\00:25:07.42
Sue or you just gonna
tell me what it means.
00:25:07.43\00:25:09.45
She said it means flirtatious,
00:25:09.46\00:25:13.27
I am just playing with you.
00:25:13.28\00:25:15.19
I am just flirting
with you which is a great,
00:25:15.20\00:25:17.92
great thing that we have
the privilege of enjoying
00:25:17.93\00:25:21.61
I said to J.D just this evening.
00:25:21.62\00:25:23.47
He walk in I said how
are you doing brother?
00:25:23.48\00:25:25.26
He said great, I said
how's your romantic life?
00:25:25.27\00:25:27.14
He was stunned, he
didn't expect that question,
00:25:27.15\00:25:30.48
but he immediately
said its going great,
00:25:30.49\00:25:33.73
and I was happy to hear that.
00:25:33.74\00:25:35.71
Cooketish that's
my recent new word
00:25:35.72\00:25:38.54
I thought wow
that is a new word from
00:25:38.55\00:25:40.70
but just move on from there.
00:25:40.71\00:25:43.22
Second word that
one of students taught
00:25:43.23\00:25:45.28
to me recently, love this word.
00:25:45.29\00:25:47.20
Here it is your second new word
00:25:47.21\00:25:49.94
tonight adorkable,
how many of you know
00:25:49.95\00:25:53.28
the word
adorkable, raise your hand
00:25:53.29\00:25:54.96
if you've heard
the word adorkable.
00:25:54.97\00:25:56.09
Yeah everybody under 20
knows the word adorkable,
00:25:56.10\00:25:59.59
no body beyond the
age of 20 has ever heard
00:25:59.60\00:26:02.53
the word adorkable,
I've never heard it,
00:26:02.54\00:26:04.15
I looked it up in the
dictionary, guess what?
00:26:04.16\00:26:05.95
It's not there, it is
in fact the amalgamation
00:26:05.96\00:26:10.26
of two words and
that is adorable and dork.
00:26:10.27\00:26:13.70
Do you know the
word adorkable means?
00:26:13.71\00:26:17.14
The word
adorkable means my friends;
00:26:17.15\00:26:20.06
it means that you
are adorable in a dorky
00:26:20.07\00:26:24.04
kind of way. So
it is a compliment,
00:26:24.05\00:26:27.49
it is a compliment
and one of my students
00:26:27.50\00:26:29.63
try to render it as a
compliment to somebody
00:26:29.64\00:26:33.57
in the class room.
00:26:33.58\00:26:34.55
I won't tell you it was me,
00:26:34.56\00:26:35.53
and I thought you
know adorkable really
00:26:35.54\00:26:38.22
that doesn't sound good,
00:26:38.23\00:26:39.71
that's not a good thing,
00:26:39.72\00:26:40.69
she said no it's a
good thing I like you,
00:26:40.70\00:26:42.34
you're my
teacher and I like you.
00:26:42.35\00:26:44.26
Adorkable that's
my second new word
00:26:44.27\00:26:46.49
for you tonight. Okay,
00:26:46.50\00:26:47.66
here's the third new word.
00:26:47.67\00:26:48.64
You like new words,
00:26:48.65\00:26:49.62
you want to
expand your vocabulary
00:26:49.63\00:26:50.85
here's number three.
00:26:50.86\00:26:51.83
This one is a Hebrew word,
00:26:51.84\00:26:55.35
it is barring none
the most significant word
00:26:55.36\00:26:58.93
employed in the Old
Testament scriptures.
00:26:58.94\00:27:01.42
It is without
question, without a close second
00:27:01.43\00:27:04.52
the most frequently
used word to describe
00:27:04.53\00:27:08.01
the identity of God
not even a close second
00:27:08.02\00:27:11.77
almost 300 times this
word is used to describe
00:27:11.78\00:27:14.60
the identity of God.
The word that I want to
00:27:14.61\00:27:17.63
share with you right
now is the word hesed,
00:27:17.64\00:27:21.39
everybody say
hesed, hesed actually
00:27:21.40\00:27:24.82
that's not the
correct pronunciation,
00:27:24.83\00:27:26.17
you did it wrong.
The word has to have
00:27:26.18\00:27:28.80
that kind of that,
that guttural throat sound
00:27:28.81\00:27:33.26
that you hear in German,
00:27:33.27\00:27:34.92
that you also hear in Hebrew,
00:27:34.93\00:27:36.37
so it's hesed, hesed, hesed but
00:27:36.38\00:27:39.91
you will get a
sour throat if you use
00:27:39.92\00:27:41.72
the word like that so
I just say hesed, hesed,
00:27:41.73\00:27:45.38
H-E-S-E-D hesed barring
none the most significant
00:27:45.39\00:27:50.81
word in the Old
Testament scriptures
00:27:50.82\00:27:52.81
to describe the
character of God.
00:27:52.82\00:27:54.41
Let me give you a
sampling of its usage;
00:27:54.42\00:27:56.75
turn in your Bible quickly
00:27:56.76\00:27:57.81
to chapter 36 of
Psalm, Psalm 36, Psalm 36,
00:27:57.82\00:28:04.87
do I hear pages wrestling,
00:28:04.88\00:28:06.17
are you going to Psalm 36
00:28:06.18\00:28:07.44
or am I going there alone?
00:28:07.45\00:28:08.42
Check it out
with me here Psalm 36;
00:28:08.43\00:28:11.02
notice this
studying with verse 5.
00:28:11.03\00:28:13.21
If you take notes go ahead
00:28:13.22\00:28:15.04
and underline in your Bible
00:28:15.05\00:28:16.11
and write the word
hesed where it applies.
00:28:16.12\00:28:17.81
I'll share with
you because off course
00:28:17.82\00:28:19.45
we're reading in the English,
00:28:19.46\00:28:20.57
this isn't
Hebrew and so I am gonna
00:28:20.58\00:28:22.06
have to tell you where
the word hesed is used.
00:28:22.07\00:28:24.49
Notice the word hesed chapter 36
00:28:24.50\00:28:28.44
of the Psalms, verse 5.
00:28:28.45\00:28:31.48
Your mercy I'm in
the New King James
00:28:31.49\00:28:33.85
version by the
way. Your mercy oh Lord
00:28:33.86\00:28:35.99
is in the
heavens by which is meant
00:28:36.00\00:28:39.86
your mercy is as high as
00:28:39.87\00:28:42.84
or higher than the heavens.
00:28:42.85\00:28:45.39
Notice this he
says your faithfulness
00:28:45.40\00:28:49.75
reaches to the clouds.
00:28:49.76\00:28:53.12
Well the word mercy
here is the word hesed;
00:28:53.13\00:28:57.06
sometimes the translators render
00:28:57.07\00:29:00.25
it as your unfeeling love.
00:29:00.26\00:29:04.80
Some of you are
familiar with that translation
00:29:04.81\00:29:06.61
usually the new
Americans standard
00:29:06.62\00:29:08.58
Bible uses or
employs unfeeling love
00:29:08.59\00:29:11.99
to describe hesed.
Sometimes it is defined
00:29:12.00\00:29:15.92
as unchanging
love, what kind of love?
00:29:15.93\00:29:18.58
Unchanging, love
that doesn't change
00:29:18.59\00:29:20.96
is unalterable. No
external circumstances
00:29:20.97\00:29:24.92
can make it
increase or decrease,
00:29:24.93\00:29:27.88
are you with me so far.
00:29:27.89\00:29:29.06
So notice what word is used
00:29:29.07\00:29:32.33
in association
with hesed to define
00:29:32.34\00:29:35.42
its contents. Your
mercy that is your hesed
00:29:35.43\00:29:39.61
oh Lord is in the heavens,
00:29:39.62\00:29:43.66
your faithfulness
reaches to the clouds.
00:29:43.67\00:29:50.01
This is a style
of Hebrew writing
00:29:50.02\00:29:52.24
called a couplet,
00:29:52.25\00:29:53.60
it's a poetic style in which the
00:29:53.61\00:29:57.57
Prophet says
something in one way
00:29:57.58\00:29:59.61
and then turns
around and says precisely
00:29:59.62\00:30:01.25
the same thing but
with a different word.
00:30:01.26\00:30:03.11
He is saying your hesed,
00:30:03.12\00:30:05.58
your mercy is as
high as the heavens,
00:30:05.59\00:30:08.74
your what's the
synonym for hesed here?
00:30:08.75\00:30:11.34
Your faithfulness Lord,
00:30:11.35\00:30:14.13
just reaches to the clouds.
00:30:14.14\00:30:16.22
And then verse 6,
your righteousness
00:30:16.23\00:30:19.89
is like the great mountains,
00:30:19.90\00:30:23.19
and your judgments
are as the great deep.
00:30:23.20\00:30:27.73
Oh Lord you
preserve both man and beast.
00:30:27.74\00:30:31.25
Look at verse 7 now,
00:30:31.26\00:30:32.40
how precious that word
precious means valuable,
00:30:32.41\00:30:38.30
that's what it means,
00:30:38.31\00:30:40.25
how precious is
your loving kindness.
00:30:40.26\00:30:46.87
It's the same word that
is translated in verse 5
00:30:46.88\00:30:50.64
as hesed. He
translated as mercy,
00:30:50.65\00:30:53.95
now it's
translated as what everybody?
00:30:53.96\00:30:55.87
Loving kindness, which is what?
00:30:55.88\00:30:58.90
It's a kind of love;
00:30:58.91\00:31:00.97
it's a quality of
love that is kind,
00:31:00.98\00:31:04.40
it is condescending.
It renders an undeserving
00:31:04.41\00:31:09.87
kind of attachment
and focus, and devotion,
00:31:09.88\00:31:15.76
and then he says
amazingly he says
00:31:15.77\00:31:18.92
therefore the
children of men put their trust
00:31:18.93\00:31:23.92
under the shadow of your wings.
00:31:23.93\00:31:26.33
Please notice that
in the understanding
00:31:26.34\00:31:28.86
of the Psalm is
the hesed of God,
00:31:28.87\00:31:32.40
the unchanging,
unalterable love of God,
00:31:32.41\00:31:37.35
he evokes trust.
It calls forth from
00:31:37.36\00:31:42.77
the human experience,
a reliance on the Lord
00:31:42.78\00:31:46.45
that expects
him to be consistent
00:31:46.46\00:31:48.97
and unwavering in his
deeds and his character.
00:31:48.98\00:31:54.20
Amazing, this is the Hebrew idea
00:31:54.21\00:31:58.07
of the love of God,
is this is a lofty thing
00:31:58.08\00:32:00.82
or a low
simplistic sentimentalism.
00:32:00.83\00:32:04.21
Is this a cotton candy
sweet Hollywood kind of
00:32:04.22\00:32:07.83
I love you baby, is
that what this is describing?
00:32:07.84\00:32:10.91
No, this is a
strong powerful love
00:32:10.92\00:32:15.60
that is
characterized by what everybody?
00:32:15.61\00:32:17.56
Faithfulness,
and so probably the
00:32:17.57\00:32:22.94
best definition
of the word hesed
00:32:22.95\00:32:27.00
and there are many,
the best way to define
00:32:27.01\00:32:30.43
this word is with
two words and that is
00:32:30.44\00:32:35.69
faithful love, or
try this covenantal love:
00:32:35.70\00:32:40.59
Love that makes
promises and follow
00:32:40.60\00:32:44.40
through to keep
them at any cost to self.
00:32:44.41\00:32:50.00
You are not going
to hear about that,
00:32:50.01\00:32:52.24
not generally
in popular culture.
00:32:52.25\00:32:56.52
Love that
follows through to love
00:32:56.53\00:32:59.23
the other above
and before the self,
00:32:59.24\00:33:01.52
no matter what it cost myself.
00:33:01.53\00:33:05.39
Promise keeping love,
that's the love of God.
00:33:05.40\00:33:11.88
One scholar told me, he
said Ty this word hesed.
00:33:11.89\00:33:15.38
He said it is so
rich and multifaceted.
00:33:15.39\00:33:19.00
The scholars have
struggled to really wrap
00:33:19.01\00:33:23.00
their minds around the best way
00:33:23.01\00:33:24.86
in just a few words to describe
00:33:24.87\00:33:26.54
what it means
because in Hebrew thinking
00:33:26.55\00:33:28.85
this word hesed
really would require a
00:33:28.86\00:33:33.38
minimum of 26 English
words to really capture
00:33:33.39\00:33:39.85
its essence. Now
he didn't tell me
00:33:39.86\00:33:41.86
what 26 words he came
up with but I searched
00:33:41.87\00:33:45.47
the scriptures
and here is my 26.
00:33:45.48\00:33:47.76
The hesed of
God, the love of God
00:33:47.77\00:33:51.96
that is described
by the Old Testament
00:33:51.97\00:33:54.22
prophets my friends
includes faithfulness,
00:33:54.23\00:33:58.51
and mercy, and compassion,
00:33:58.52\00:34:01.49
and changelessness,
and determination,
00:34:01.50\00:34:05.50
and constancy, and reliability,
00:34:05.51\00:34:09.10
and commitment,
and dependability,
00:34:09.11\00:34:11.67
and predictability,
and trustworthiness,
00:34:11.68\00:34:16.46
and integrity, and patience
00:34:16.47\00:34:19.98
and hope and devotion,
00:34:19.99\00:34:22.40
passion and long
suffering which is to
00:34:22.41\00:34:28.65
suffer long, and justice,
00:34:28.66\00:34:32.11
and truthfulness, and goodness,
00:34:32.12\00:34:34.91
and kindness, and
grace, and loyalty,
00:34:34.92\00:34:40.80
and generosity, and
faith, that's my 26,
00:34:40.81\00:34:46.37
it's all there. Read
the Bible from Genesis
00:34:46.38\00:34:49.43
to Malachi, go
ahead and go into the
00:34:49.44\00:34:52.13
New Testament
where Jesus becomes
00:34:52.14\00:34:54.31
the living personification of
00:34:54.32\00:34:56.44
God's hesed, God's covenant
00:34:56.45\00:34:58.70
keeping love is
magnified, dramatized,
00:34:58.71\00:35:03.94
amplified in the
person of Jesus Christ
00:35:03.95\00:35:06.87
as a living
reality. All of it's there,
00:35:06.88\00:35:11.28
he is trustworthy and loyal,
00:35:11.29\00:35:14.89
and he is every
thing, let's put it this way,
00:35:14.90\00:35:18.18
that your heart
could possibly desire
00:35:18.19\00:35:22.24
and crave if
somebody were to said
00:35:22.25\00:35:25.24
you hey I want you
to write down a list of
00:35:25.25\00:35:27.84
what you would
like to experience
00:35:27.85\00:35:30.14
if you could imagine
the best conceivable God
00:35:30.15\00:35:36.22
that you could
possibly come up with.
00:35:36.23\00:35:38.12
You might come up
with a list like this
00:35:38.13\00:35:41.11
and you would find
that this kind of God
00:35:41.12\00:35:44.24
that is portrait in
scripture evokes trust.
00:35:44.25\00:35:47.98
This kind of God
arouses at the deepest level of
00:35:47.99\00:35:51.76
the human spirit and adoration
00:35:51.77\00:35:54.08
that is
voluntary, it's not forced.
00:35:54.09\00:35:57.13
You find yourself
literally falling in love
00:35:57.14\00:36:00.47
with this God and
then saying to yourself
00:36:00.48\00:36:04.64
I am un-queerest.
00:36:04.65\00:36:07.69
He is not threatening me,
00:36:07.70\00:36:09.63
he is just loving
me to be in degree of
00:36:09.64\00:36:13.97
personal self
sacrifice and his beauty
00:36:13.98\00:36:16.96
is so without
parallel that I find myself
00:36:16.97\00:36:19.90
reaching out voluntarily
spontaneously to him,
00:36:19.91\00:36:23.92
that is the hesed of God.
00:36:23.93\00:36:27.10
Let me give you
another example go over
00:36:27.11\00:36:28.86
in your Bible to Isaiah 55,
00:36:28.87\00:36:32.80
Isaiah 55 the word hesed.
00:36:32.81\00:36:35.34
There are so many I
had to be selective,
00:36:35.35\00:36:39.34
but I am just
gonna give you chapter 55
00:36:39.35\00:36:42.06
of Isaiah and verse 3,
00:36:42.07\00:36:44.70
and here the prophet
says incline your ear
00:36:44.71\00:36:52.69
and come to Me,
00:36:52.70\00:36:55.19
capital M this is God
appealing to you and I,
00:36:55.20\00:36:57.65
come to Me incline your ear,
00:36:57.66\00:36:59.87
listen up I am
gonna tell you something.
00:36:59.88\00:37:02.41
Hear what I have
to say and your soul
00:37:02.42\00:37:06.91
will live and I
will make an everlasting
00:37:06.92\00:37:13.14
covenant with you,
what kind of a covenant?
00:37:13.15\00:37:15.93
Everlasting covenant with you
00:37:15.94\00:37:18.83
my faithful love
promised to David,
00:37:18.84\00:37:25.10
that's the New
International rendering
00:37:25.11\00:37:27.77
of the text New King James,
00:37:27.78\00:37:29.88
The Sure Mercies of David
00:37:29.89\00:37:33.53
and the word hesed
is present in the word
00:37:33.54\00:37:36.33
again mercies. And
what God is saying here,
00:37:36.34\00:37:39.62
he is saying listen
I want to tell you that
00:37:39.63\00:37:43.03
if you will
listen, if you will take it
00:37:43.04\00:37:45.27
and really
comprehend my love for you,
00:37:45.28\00:37:48.48
you will realize
that my love is a covenant
00:37:48.49\00:37:53.59
keeping kind of
love. It is a kind of love
00:37:53.60\00:37:59.27
that promises
and follows through,
00:37:59.28\00:38:03.37
it is a strong
and powerful thing,
00:38:03.38\00:38:06.50
it's not a weak
insipid sentimentalism;
00:38:06.51\00:38:10.49
it is Me, loving you above
00:38:10.50\00:38:15.82
and before myself.
00:38:15.83\00:38:17.84
It is Me loving you
at any cost to myself.
00:38:17.85\00:38:23.17
That God says is how I love you.
00:38:23.18\00:38:26.49
The sure mercies of David,
00:38:26.50\00:38:30.49
the faithful love of
God promised to David,
00:38:30.50\00:38:36.61
so okay come with me
now to the definitive
00:38:36.62\00:38:41.34
Biblical statement.
The Zenith, if you will,
00:38:41.35\00:38:46.89
the apex of
divine self revelation,
00:38:46.90\00:38:49.67
this is God disclosing to you
00:38:49.68\00:38:52.41
and he peeling back the
layers of his character,
00:38:52.42\00:38:56.16
and allowing us to
have a vision and epiphany
00:38:56.17\00:39:00.20
if you will of
the deep inner sanctum
00:39:00.21\00:39:04.52
of the divine character.
00:39:04.53\00:39:06.66
Do you wanna know what's
going on in God's psyche,
00:39:06.67\00:39:09.44
you wanna know how God thinks,
00:39:09.45\00:39:12.20
how God feels. You wanna know
00:39:12.21\00:39:15.91
the
quintessential truth about God.
00:39:15.92\00:39:19.68
It is brought to
us by the Apostle John
00:39:19.69\00:39:22.28
and perhaps the
simplest three words
00:39:22.29\00:39:25.86
you will find in scripture that
00:39:25.87\00:39:28.37
simultaneously
double as the most profound
00:39:28.38\00:39:31.09
statement in scripture.
00:39:31.10\00:39:33.18
Paradoxically the simplest thing
00:39:33.19\00:39:35.68
you can ever comprehend
00:39:35.69\00:39:36.77
and the most profound thing
00:39:36.78\00:39:38.32
that you can ever comprehend.
00:39:38.33\00:39:39.49
First John chapter
4, tell me the verse.
00:39:39.50\00:39:42.12
Verse 8 repeated in verse 16,
00:39:42.13\00:39:46.51
what are the three
words that I am talking about
00:39:46.52\00:39:48.36
the most powerful
words that can be uttered
00:39:48.37\00:39:50.15
by human lips. God
is love, my friends,
00:39:50.16\00:39:54.97
God is love, this statement now
00:39:54.98\00:39:59.29
just flush it out with me here,
00:39:59.30\00:40:01.17
this statement
is without parallel
00:40:01.18\00:40:03.71
in scripture, and what
I mean by that is this.
00:40:03.72\00:40:06.72
This is the only,
listen carefully now,
00:40:06.73\00:40:10.47
this is the only
total identity statement
00:40:10.48\00:40:14.63
made about God in scripture.
00:40:14.64\00:40:15.88
There is no other
statement about God
00:40:15.89\00:40:19.54
in scripture that
describes the totality
00:40:19.55\00:40:23.06
of God's character and identity.
00:40:23.07\00:40:24.84
There are verses
that will tell you
00:40:24.85\00:40:26.90
for example that God is just,
00:40:26.91\00:40:29.50
but never that God
is justice, the noun.
00:40:29.51\00:40:32.34
There are verses
that will tell you
00:40:32.35\00:40:34.05
God is merciful but
never that God is mercy.
00:40:34.06\00:40:37.01
That God is holy
but never holiness;
00:40:37.02\00:40:40.99
this is the only
noun that describes
00:40:41.00\00:40:45.78
the content of God's
identity in scripture.
00:40:45.79\00:40:48.30
God is not
loving, that's true too
00:40:48.31\00:40:53.25
but God is this is the only noun
00:40:53.26\00:40:57.13
in scripture to
describe God's character,
00:40:57.14\00:40:59.98
God is love my friends.
00:40:59.99\00:41:03.29
You see well wait a minute,
00:41:03.30\00:41:04.27
God is other things too
only a few misunderstand
00:41:04.28\00:41:07.10
the biblical word,
only if you are locked
00:41:07.11\00:41:09.38
into our cultural
popular concept of love.
00:41:09.39\00:41:13.99
But the word love biblically,
00:41:14.00\00:41:15.92
the word love is an umbrella
00:41:15.93\00:41:19.20
that takes in everything else
00:41:19.21\00:41:21.11
that is true of God.
00:41:21.12\00:41:22.26
In other words God is
just because God is love,
00:41:22.27\00:41:27.03
in other words
justice is a dimension of love
00:41:27.04\00:41:30.21
not contrary to it.
Doing the right thing
00:41:30.22\00:41:35.53
is the loving thing to do;
00:41:35.54\00:41:37.70
God is merciful
because God is love.
00:41:37.71\00:41:40.56
God is holy because God is love.
00:41:40.57\00:41:42.75
God is gentle
because God is love.
00:41:42.76\00:41:44.61
God is patient
because God is love.
00:41:44.62\00:41:46.41
There isn't a single word,
00:41:46.42\00:41:48.05
a single verb or
adjective that you can
00:41:48.06\00:41:50.79
bring forth from
scripture to describe
00:41:50.80\00:41:53.87
God that is not an extension of
00:41:53.88\00:41:57.68
and expression of
enacting out of his love.
00:41:57.69\00:42:01.55
God is love and
there we have before us
00:42:01.56\00:42:05.93
in total, the truth about God.
00:42:05.94\00:42:09.80
It is the one
statement in scripture
00:42:09.81\00:42:11.92
that defines
every biblical doctrine
00:42:11.93\00:42:13.86
that we believe by the way,
00:42:13.87\00:42:14.87
and I wish I had
time to explain to you
00:42:14.88\00:42:16.72
what I mean by that.
00:42:16.73\00:42:17.70
But every biblical doctrine
00:42:17.71\00:42:19.72
that is truly true,
that is a true biblical
00:42:19.73\00:42:21.88
doctrine is
merely a explanation of,
00:42:21.89\00:42:25.12
an amplification
of, an exposition of
00:42:25.13\00:42:27.78
the love of God
in some dimension.
00:42:27.79\00:42:29.82
Every truth of scripture
00:42:29.83\00:42:32.03
is an extension
of the love of God.
00:42:32.04\00:42:37.89
This statement
God is love is without
00:42:37.90\00:42:41.98
any parallel in scripture,
00:42:41.99\00:42:44.47
but what does it mean again.
00:42:44.48\00:42:45.63
We've already seen what it means
00:42:45.64\00:42:47.00
in the Old Testament,
00:42:47.01\00:42:47.98
it means
covenantal faithfulness,
00:42:47.99\00:42:50.04
it means unchanging love,
00:42:50.05\00:42:53.41
it means faithful follow through
00:42:53.42\00:42:56.37
if you will, that
means making promises
00:42:56.38\00:42:59.15
and keeping them at
any cost to oneself.
00:42:59.16\00:43:02.71
Now what does that mean in the
00:43:02.72\00:43:04.25
New Testament? I'll
give you what I regard to be
00:43:04.26\00:43:07.66
the two most
simple straight forward
00:43:07.67\00:43:10.24
definitions of
Biblical love in the
00:43:10.25\00:43:12.82
New Testament. The first is in
00:43:12.83\00:43:14.44
1st Corinthians chapter 13,
00:43:14.45\00:43:16.85
we call that the what chapter?
00:43:16.86\00:43:18.31
The Love chapter,
we put that on plats
00:43:18.32\00:43:21.16
and hang them in our houses
00:43:21.17\00:43:22.48
and is just so beautiful.
00:43:22.49\00:43:23.77
It's sometimes read at weddings,
00:43:23.78\00:43:26.30
love is patient,
love is kind, etc, etc.
00:43:26.31\00:43:28.80
What a beautiful,
actually it's a song
00:43:28.81\00:43:31.67
that Paul wrote,
we think of Paul as
00:43:31.68\00:43:34.86
cerebral brainiac, but
he was also emotionally
00:43:34.87\00:43:39.23
in touch with the love of God.
00:43:39.24\00:43:40.68
Now check this out Paul
comes to the real points
00:43:40.69\00:43:45.51
of what he is
talking about here,
00:43:45.52\00:43:47.52
and he says love is not
in verse 5 self seeking.
00:43:47.53\00:43:52.32
That's New
International version,
00:43:52.33\00:43:53.86
King James
version says love is not
00:43:53.87\00:43:55.95
or seek if not it's own,
00:43:55.96\00:44:00.03
King James version.
00:44:00.04\00:44:01.46
In other words
love is not self seeking
00:44:01.47\00:44:05.05
that's a negative
grammatical formulation.
00:44:05.06\00:44:07.36
What if you would've turn that
00:44:07.37\00:44:08.34
around and make an
equally true statement,
00:44:08.35\00:44:10.11
but render it as a positive
00:44:10.12\00:44:11.95
grammatical declaration.
00:44:11.96\00:44:13.30
If love is not self
seeking, what is love?
00:44:13.31\00:44:17.52
If love is not self seeking
00:44:17.53\00:44:19.45
we might say love
is other centered,
00:44:19.46\00:44:23.04
if it's not self
centered what is it?
00:44:23.05\00:44:24.88
It's other
centered. It's not selfish,
00:44:24.89\00:44:28.80
it's not centered on self,
00:44:28.81\00:44:30.90
if we can even
imagine what this means.
00:44:30.91\00:44:33.70
The God of the
universe who occupies
00:44:33.71\00:44:35.91
the throne of
the universe is a God
00:44:35.92\00:44:38.15
who literally in
every single thought
00:44:38.16\00:44:40.74
and feeling and action.
00:44:40.75\00:44:42.74
Literally is
completely other centered
00:44:42.75\00:44:49.12
and self giving. He
never thinks a thought
00:44:49.13\00:44:53.22
or feels an emotion
that is not other centered.
00:44:53.23\00:44:59.02
Literally when
push comes to shove God
00:44:59.03\00:45:01.73
would rather die
forever than to live
00:45:01.74\00:45:05.43
without you. Personally
00:45:05.44\00:45:07.54
and you can just
put your name there.
00:45:07.55\00:45:08.97
God would rather cease to exist
00:45:08.98\00:45:12.28
then for you to be
banished and alienated
00:45:12.29\00:45:20.08
into an eternity without life
00:45:20.09\00:45:22.51
and without his love.
00:45:22.52\00:45:23.90
God literally loves
you more than his own life,
00:45:23.91\00:45:27.48
His love is not self seeking.
00:45:27.49\00:45:29.80
And here's
another one 1st John 3:16.
00:45:29.81\00:45:32.08
We know John 3:16,
00:45:32.09\00:45:33.57
what about 1st John 3:16?
00:45:33.58\00:45:35.20
Here's a biblical definition
00:45:35.21\00:45:36.27
of what love is.
By this we know love,
00:45:36.28\00:45:42.16
so it's a definition
it's about to follow,
00:45:42.17\00:45:44.26
you want to know what love is,
00:45:44.27\00:45:45.50
John says by this
we know love because
00:45:45.51\00:45:49.55
he laid down his life for us.
00:45:49.56\00:45:54.70
Do you see that in this text,
00:45:54.71\00:45:56.56
John says that love
has a specific disposition
00:45:56.57\00:46:00.12
toward self, any specific
00:46:00.13\00:46:02.40
disposition
toward others, right?
00:46:02.41\00:46:04.68
There is the self and how does
00:46:04.69\00:46:08.11
love regards self?
Secondary to all others,
00:46:08.12\00:46:15.33
so that if
necessary and you know
00:46:15.34\00:46:18.44
and we will
discover in greater detail,
00:46:18.45\00:46:20.42
it has become
necessary literally
00:46:20.43\00:46:25.29
if necessary love
is known by the fact
00:46:25.30\00:46:29.93
that he takes
himself and the totality
00:46:29.94\00:46:32.99
of himself without reserve,
00:46:33.00\00:46:34.72
and he plunges over the precipus
00:46:34.73\00:46:38.11
into eternal nights.
00:46:38.12\00:46:40.80
Literally willing
to cease from existing,
00:46:40.81\00:46:45.46
so that you and I
could have eternal life.
00:46:45.47\00:46:49.36
He laid down his life for us
00:46:49.37\00:46:53.17
that's how you
know love my friends.
00:46:53.18\00:46:55.18
So when the
Bible says God is love
00:46:55.19\00:46:58.07
you should allow a
translation to quickly
00:46:58.08\00:47:00.90
occur in your
thinking like those
00:47:00.91\00:47:02.61
nifty translation
programs where you can
00:47:02.62\00:47:04.34
type in a word on the computer
00:47:04.35\00:47:06.16
and it tells you
what the Spanish,
00:47:06.17\00:47:07.40
or the German,
or the Italian is.
00:47:07.41\00:47:09.07
You need to have
a translation occur
00:47:09.08\00:47:11.21
don't allow
popular culture to define
00:47:11.22\00:47:14.11
for you this word.
Take the word back,
00:47:14.12\00:47:17.26
it's been hijacked by the devil,
00:47:17.27\00:47:18.93
and infused with all
kinds of ill meaning.
00:47:18.94\00:47:23.00
Take the word
back and when you read
00:47:23.01\00:47:25.32
in scripture God is love,
00:47:25.33\00:47:26.66
here a powerful, beautiful,
00:47:26.67\00:47:29.73
self giving kind
of concept in reality.
00:47:29.74\00:47:33.22
When you hear the
words God is love,
00:47:33.23\00:47:36.48
where it take your
breath away because
00:47:36.49\00:47:38.69
it is saying God is
conveniently faithful.
00:47:38.70\00:47:43.24
God is totally trustworthy,
00:47:43.25\00:47:47.13
God is completely other centered
00:47:47.14\00:47:50.31
in self giving in all his ways.
00:47:50.32\00:47:54.34
God literally values your life
00:47:54.35\00:47:57.06
more than his own.
00:47:57.07\00:47:58.59
That's what the Bible means,
00:47:58.60\00:47:59.60
when it says God is love.
00:47:59.61\00:48:00.68
And now when somebody comes
00:48:00.69\00:48:02.33
and says shouldn't we
be preaching something
00:48:02.34\00:48:04.55
something more
powerful than God is love,
00:48:04.56\00:48:06.49
I say do a reality check.
00:48:06.50\00:48:09.01
Allow the Bible to
define this truth for us
00:48:09.02\00:48:12.61
and you can't
imagine anything more
00:48:12.62\00:48:17.02
arresting and
powerful than the love of God.
00:48:17.03\00:48:20.87
And it is the
fabric, it is the interior
00:48:20.88\00:48:24.94
of the Third
Angel's message my friends,
00:48:24.95\00:48:27.06
and if we don't understand it,
00:48:27.07\00:48:29.04
we feel to understand the
00:48:29.05\00:48:31.77
Third Angel's message.
So now let's shift gears
00:48:31.78\00:48:35.71
in the moments that remain,
00:48:35.72\00:48:36.75
and I want to take you,
00:48:36.76\00:48:39.48
I want to portray for
you in this first time
00:48:39.49\00:48:42.51
together. I want
to share with you
00:48:42.52\00:48:44.72
the extravagant
love of God as he had
00:48:44.73\00:48:49.56
existed in eternity
past before creation.
00:48:49.57\00:48:55.13
In the Bible
according to Psalm chapter 19
00:48:55.14\00:48:58.24
verse 2, all of
reality may be comprehended
00:48:58.25\00:49:02.27
as being composed
of two basic parts,
00:49:02.28\00:49:04.83
eternity past
and eternity future.
00:49:04.84\00:49:09.04
If I had a board I
would draw a gently
00:49:09.05\00:49:11.52
arching line and
there I would have write
00:49:11.53\00:49:14.66
in the middle
another line crossing it,
00:49:14.67\00:49:16.75
and I would say eternity past,
00:49:16.76\00:49:19.35
eternity future from everlasting
00:49:19.36\00:49:24.93
to everlasting.
David says you are God.
00:49:25.23\00:49:28.96
What is this
everlasting to everlasting,
00:49:28.97\00:49:31.96
eternity past, eternity future?
00:49:31.97\00:49:36.00
God has existed forever.
00:49:36.01\00:49:39.16
The Bible says
that God existed in this
00:49:39.17\00:49:43.81
remote region of
reality called eternity past,
00:49:43.82\00:49:48.00
and Paul says in Titus chapter 1
00:49:48.01\00:49:50.38
and verse 2 that
this remote region
00:49:50.39\00:49:53.70
that we can scarcely comprehend.
00:49:53.71\00:49:54.92
He says it was
before there was time,
00:49:54.93\00:49:58.42
can you imagine a time before
00:49:58.43\00:50:00.03
there was time.
00:50:00.04\00:50:01.49
No we are time bound creatures.
00:50:01.50\00:50:04.31
We can't comprehend
a time without time,
00:50:04.32\00:50:07.13
we're linear, we're creatures
00:50:07.14\00:50:09.20
that understand the
succession of events
00:50:09.21\00:50:12.33
one upon another.
All we know is time,
00:50:12.34\00:50:15.16
but there was a
time according to Paul,
00:50:15.17\00:50:16.79
when there was no time.
00:50:16.80\00:50:18.98
There was just
this absolute being
00:50:18.99\00:50:22.62
and that absolute
being that never had
00:50:22.63\00:50:26.02
a beginning, and
will never have and end
00:50:26.03\00:50:28.76
is none other than
God. In Galatians chapter 1,
00:50:28.77\00:50:33.51
the Apostle Paul
says that He that is
00:50:33.52\00:50:36.99
Christ is before all things,
00:50:37.00\00:50:41.73
and in Him all
things consist or cohere
00:50:41.74\00:50:46.14
or hold together.
Are you with me so far?
00:50:46.15\00:50:48.73
There is this eternity past.
00:50:48.74\00:50:52.21
In chapter 7 of Daniel,
00:50:52.22\00:50:54.50
amazingly we're told that God
00:50:54.51\00:50:57.50
one of his
names, God is called the
00:50:57.51\00:50:59.22
ancient of days,
the what of days?
00:50:59.23\00:51:02.22
Ancient of days,
what's a synonym for that,
00:51:02.23\00:51:04.41
is God old? What do you think?
00:51:04.42\00:51:06.61
Is he elderly? Allow the word,
00:51:06.62\00:51:13.05
He is ancient,
but He is not old,
00:51:13.06\00:51:15.12
He is not, he may be
old that's understatement,
00:51:15.13\00:51:17.84
but He is also very young.
00:51:17.85\00:51:21.36
In fact if God
appeared to us and said hey,
00:51:21.37\00:51:23.25
hey guess my age,
just by the appearance,
00:51:23.26\00:51:26.69
we say I don't know 26.
00:51:26.70\00:51:28.18
No God's teeth are not in a jar
00:51:28.19\00:51:31.72
by the bed, God
is eternally young,
00:51:31.73\00:51:38.33
the law of entropy
has no power over Him.
00:51:38.34\00:51:41.94
Nothing is falling
apart, nothing is bulging out,
00:51:41.95\00:51:45.33
God is eternally young,
00:51:45.34\00:51:49.86
He is the ancient of days,
00:51:49.87\00:51:51.35
He has always
existed in eternal youth,
00:51:51.36\00:51:53.83
but what was God
doing for all the eternity
00:51:53.84\00:51:56.84
before creation my friends.
00:51:56.85\00:51:58.39
The Bible tells us
we don't need to guess,
00:51:58.40\00:52:00.49
this God who always existed
00:52:00.50\00:52:02.98
in all eternity past,
00:52:02.99\00:52:04.35
the Bible says of this God
00:52:04.36\00:52:05.87
that he was engaged
in an other centered
00:52:05.88\00:52:11.28
self giving love that
never had a beginning,
00:52:11.29\00:52:16.40
and it always existed Father,
00:52:16.41\00:52:19.26
Son and Holy
Spirit, each one living
00:52:19.27\00:52:24.26
for the others with
no self consciousness,
00:52:24.27\00:52:28.83
with no desire to get,
00:52:28.84\00:52:30.91
with no demands,
with no manipulation,
00:52:30.92\00:52:34.56
with no
coercion, no force, just,
00:52:34.57\00:52:39.07
just absolute other centeredness
00:52:39.08\00:52:43.32
for all the eternity past.
00:52:43.33\00:52:45.53
This is what Jesus told us
00:52:45.54\00:52:48.18
when in His
prayer we over heard Him
00:52:48.19\00:52:51.16
speaking to the Father.
00:52:51.17\00:52:52.35
In John chapter 17 and verse 24,
00:52:52.36\00:52:56.13
one of my favorite
this is like one of the
00:52:56.14\00:52:57.61
mountain top scripture for me
00:52:57.62\00:52:59.13
where we're hearing
Jesus in this intimate
00:52:59.14\00:53:01.69
conversation with the Father,
00:53:01.70\00:53:02.95
and he says Father I want them
00:53:02.96\00:53:07.74
to behold the
glory that I had with you
00:53:07.75\00:53:12.50
before the world was,
I want them to tap into,
00:53:12.51\00:53:14.98
I want them to
comprehend it Father.
00:53:14.99\00:53:16.41
And then he defines
what it is, this glory,
00:53:16.42\00:53:18.35
this radiance, this
beauty, this out going
00:53:18.36\00:53:23.40
beautiful radiant
thing whatever it is,
00:53:23.41\00:53:27.58
He defines it for
us. He says Father
00:53:27.59\00:53:30.81
I want them to
access this because
00:53:30.82\00:53:34.24
Father you loved me
before the foundation
00:53:34.25\00:53:39.20
of the world. There my friends
00:53:39.21\00:53:41.40
is the infinite
before, that's eternity past.
00:53:41.41\00:53:45.78
If you reach back as
far as the human mind
00:53:45.79\00:53:49.14
can imagine or
reach back you discover
00:53:49.15\00:53:51.98
that God not only is love,
00:53:51.99\00:53:55.68
but always has been love.
00:53:55.69\00:53:58.00
God has always
existed in this beautiful
00:53:58.01\00:54:01.55
ebb and flow of
social self-givingness
00:54:01.56\00:54:07.90
if you will. God is a unit,
00:54:07.91\00:54:10.92
God is a communitarian being,
00:54:10.93\00:54:14.20
God is literally a
neighborhood if you will,
00:54:14.21\00:54:17.07
God is a social
unit, God is a friendship,
00:54:17.08\00:54:20.98
and reality at its foundation,
00:54:20.99\00:54:24.13
at its core where we come from,
00:54:24.14\00:54:28.30
what Isaiah calls
them matrix of reality,
00:54:28.31\00:54:31.26
the womb of reality,
00:54:31.27\00:54:33.11
the point from
where every thing came?
00:54:33.12\00:54:35.71
Do you know what it is?
00:54:35.72\00:54:36.83
It is a
perfectly self giving love,
00:54:36.84\00:54:42.26
the Father living for the son
00:54:42.27\00:54:45.50
and the Holy
Spirit in total delight
00:54:45.51\00:54:47.84
and pleasure that we
can scarcely even imagine.
00:54:47.85\00:54:51.21
We get little glimpses of it
00:54:51.22\00:54:52.99
and the Son
living for the Spirit
00:54:53.00\00:54:55.33
and the Father,
and the Holy Spirit
00:54:55.34\00:54:57.90
living for the
Father and the Son.
00:54:57.91\00:55:00.43
We taste it occasionally,
00:55:00.44\00:55:02.50
don't we? In
little moments in our
00:55:02.51\00:55:04.82
matrimonial bless. J.D
00:55:04.83\00:55:08.91
when you feel
absolutely affirmed
00:55:08.92\00:55:12.25
and loved by
Shelley in those moments
00:55:12.26\00:55:17.14
of total
affirmation and acceptance,
00:55:17.15\00:55:21.98
it is as if the tip
of your tongue is tasting
00:55:21.99\00:55:27.75
what God is like,
what eternity is all about
00:55:27.76\00:55:32.52
that's the truth
about God my friends.
00:55:32.53\00:55:38.42
God is love in the
most beautiful sense
00:55:38.43\00:55:42.62
imaginable; in the
most powerful sense
00:55:42.63\00:55:44.45
imaginable, He will
never alter his course,
00:55:44.46\00:55:47.62
He is the same yesterday,
00:55:47.63\00:55:49.73
today and forever,
00:55:49.74\00:55:50.71
that's the
constancy dimension of God,
00:55:50.72\00:55:53.35
hesed his love, God
is the same yesterday,
00:55:53.36\00:55:58.88
today and forever and James says
00:55:58.89\00:56:00.71
that with Him
there is no variableness
00:56:00.72\00:56:03.00
not even a shadow of turning.
00:56:03.01\00:56:07.20
You see a shadow
shift on the pavements
00:56:07.21\00:56:10.60
under the
movements of your body.
00:56:10.61\00:56:12.35
God's love it never
shows, it never changes.
00:56:12.36\00:56:17.94
There's nothing you
can do to make Him love you
00:56:17.95\00:56:20.33
more than He
already does because
00:56:20.34\00:56:22.04
He already loves you
00:56:22.05\00:56:23.20
with the totality of His love.
00:56:23.21\00:56:24.63
There's nothing you
could do to make Him
00:56:24.64\00:56:27.13
love you less because
God's love is not like
00:56:27.14\00:56:30.40
the dimmer switch
in your dining room,
00:56:30.41\00:56:32.88
it doesn't move up or down,
00:56:32.89\00:56:35.23
it's not like the
throttle on your car
00:56:35.24\00:56:37.42
where it goes faster and slower.
00:56:37.43\00:56:39.42
God's love is a
full throttle pedal
00:56:39.43\00:56:43.12
to the metal non
stop reality that knows
00:56:43.13\00:56:48.21
no boundaries,
and will never ever,
00:56:48.22\00:56:51.40
ever cease from
holding you as the
00:56:51.41\00:56:55.57
apple of His eye.
00:56:55.58\00:56:57.77
Father in
heaven you're beautiful
00:56:57.78\00:57:00.85
beyond description,
we can scarcely take
00:57:00.86\00:57:04.14
in who you are.
We love you because
00:57:04.15\00:57:11.23
of your great love for us,
00:57:11.24\00:57:13.67
may we never sees to be amazed
00:57:13.68\00:57:19.67
at your great love for us,
00:57:19.68\00:57:22.88
and may we drink
it in and allow it
00:57:22.89\00:57:26.97
to register in our
hearts as the most powerful.
00:57:26.98\00:57:32.00