Welcome to Anchors
of Truth, live from the
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3ABN worship
center, the Extravagant
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Love series with Ty Gibson.
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Good evening, when I
was young most of the texts
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that I learned, I
learned the King James Version
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of the Bible. One of
the most enduring and
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endearing text to me
was found in Book of Romans
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chapter 5; I think
it begins about verse 7.
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The Bible says
for scarcely, for the
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righteous man will one
die, perhaps for a good
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man one would dare
to die? And I always
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loved that text,
it's always been very dear
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to me as it talks
about the power of God's
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love, but I found
a different version
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I want to just read
for you. I gotta put
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on my specs. This is
the, the clear word version
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of that very same
text. The Bible says:
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A person would
hardly give his life for
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a self-righteous
man, but you might find
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someone willing to
give his life for a truly
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good man. But God
showed His love for us
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while we were still
sinners, His natural
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enemies, by giving
His Son to die for us.
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Our series is of course
called Extravagant Love,
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and I dare say
that that is an example
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of Extravagant Love.
I think the best kind
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of love is
demonstrated love, not
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theoretical love,
not love that is only
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spoken about or
even thought about or
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dreamed about, or sung about.
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The best love is love
that is put in action,
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and that's what we
have been talking about
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the last several
nights Extravagant Love,
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I really love that
that, that title. Tonight's
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sermon is called
Off The Charts, Love
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off the Charts, I
really like that idea. Our
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speaker is of course
our pastor, our friend,
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our Bible teacher
Ty Gibson, I was told
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to him just a
little bit ago. He has been
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given the ability
by God to make that
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which is profound,
very simple, very plain,
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very use of friendly
that is a gift of God
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to take some of the
profound things of the
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Bible and make them
very simple and very
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plain for those of
us who are not geniuses,
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we too can
understand the word of God.
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And God has given
him that gift, and so
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we expect that the Lord
will bless him abundantly
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as he speaks to
our hearts this night
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as he did on last
evening and the evening before.
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We are thankful that
it is not raining and
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pouring as it has
been doing before it is
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a cool, dry night
and God has bless that is
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nice and warming
here and we know that
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His Spirit will warm
our hearts. Our music
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ministry is coming
from Yvonne Lewis and
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she will be singing
His name, but before
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we call her forward
and then just in advance
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of the speaker I am
gonna ask you to bow
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your heads with me
in a word of prayer.
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Gracious Father,
we do thank you, we
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thank you for the
power of Your love and
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how it does indeed
draw us to the precious
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bleeding side of
Jesus. We thank you for
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extravagant,
extraordinary, special
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love. The kind of love
that is committed itself
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to us unworthy
children of thine. We thank
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you for the speaker
and I ask for him heaven's
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very best, so that
he maybe this night a
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conduit of Your love.
And that Your love might
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shine through him
to us as we understand
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more of Your will
for our lives as a loving
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Heavenly Father.
Bless the word this night,
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He who gives it,
those of us who receive it,
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may Christ be
glorified, we love You,
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we praise You
and we thank You for
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every good and
perfect gift, in Jesus
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name, amen. And
now Yvonne Lewis.
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There is a name
that is so precious,
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A name so wonderful to me.
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A name that's
worthy of all praises.
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Because of him, I am made free.
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And that name is
Jesus, oh, how I love him.
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The one who
gave his life for me.
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Because of love,
so unconditional,
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I will have life, eternally Oh.
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His name speaks peace,
to all my storm clouds,
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His name speaks
calm, to all my fears.
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And when I think
that no one loves me.
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His loving presence is so near.
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And His name is
Jesus, oh, how I love him.
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The one who
gave his life for me.
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Because of love,
so unconditional,
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I will have life, eternally.
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Oh! Praise that name!
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Praise that Holy name!
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Praise that name!
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Praise that name!
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Someday I will leave
this earthly dwelling,
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Through time and
space, we all will soar.
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And finally see
the face of Jesus.
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And praise that
name, forevermore!
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That name is
Jesus, oh how I love him!
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The one who
gave his life for me!
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Because of love so unconditional
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I will have life eternally
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Ohhh! Blessed is the name Jesus!
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Oh glorious is the name Jesus!
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Oh! Wonderful is the name Jesus
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Oh! Praise... That name.
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Amen.
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Thank you Yvonne,
wow! What a blessing huh?
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Amen. Just lifts
your heart. Well, I hope
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you had a fabulous
day, did you? Amen.
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I had an excellent
day, a lot of great
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thoughts developed
during my study time,
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and so I am eager
to get into our subject
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for this evening.
And I want to do that by
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beginning with a
certain experience that
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some of us have,
maybe all of us have this
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experience. Have you
ever seen something or
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someone that you
thought you knew really well,
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maybe for years and
years in a whole new light?
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As if you never knew
that thing or that person
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before, have you
ever had that experience?
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I don't know about
you but, but I just
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continually go
through this, this experience
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as I age, where
I am reacquainting
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myself with subject
matter that I thought I
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knew, have you had
that experience? Amen.
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And acquainting
myself with people that I
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thought I knew well.
And, and even geographical
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locations, I mean
this happens this, this
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psychological
phenomenon happens in
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all different kinds
of ways. For example, a
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few years back a
friend of mine landed
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in my backyard in
a helicopter, which
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was really cool if
you think about it to,
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to have a friend with a
helicopter is, is pretty
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nifty to begin with,
but the house was just
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shaking as he
landed and he motioned with
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his hand and my wife
and I we ran out into
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backyard, we jumped
in this helicopter and
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we went straight
up. Now, we had lived in
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this location for
many years I knew every
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inch of our own
property, which was 20 acres.
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I knew the roads
all around because I've
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driven back and forth
to the airports nearly
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every week to go
to meetings, I knew
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the roads, I knew
even the countryside
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because I had done a
lot of just wondering
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around and hike. I
thought I knew this
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area, but when we
lean up in the air in this
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helicopter and began
to get the aerial view,
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to really see this
place first of all, first
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of all I saw some
errors in the, the roofing
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job that I had done
myself that I didn't
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know were there on
the house, but I began
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to see our property
and our area in a way
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I had never seen
before and I said something
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to myself the
something like wow! So,
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so that's where I
lived. I had never seen it
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before from that
particular vantage point
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from that angle. So,
so we do see things that
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we thought we knew
in a whole new light
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sometimes. I
remember I was in a hotel and
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this documentary came
on, this was also a few
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years back and
believe it or not this was
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a documentary about
what lives in your eyebrows,
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it is a jungle in
there I kid you not. They
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magnified people's
eyebrows I don't know
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maybe a million
times they magnified what's
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going on in your
eyebrows and, and I was
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amazes I sat
there watching and saw
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creatures, that that
resembled dinosaurs and,
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and crawdads and
lizards, just very
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microscopic and
small though, but when they
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magnified you see,
they're just wondering
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around in your
eyebrows grazing, they
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live there and I had
this friend at Church,
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a buddy of my, one
of the greatest guys
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I have never known
and he is deceased now,
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but we used to go
get firewood together.
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And I have been
wanting to talk him
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about this situation
because he had what my
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wife calls a unibrow
you know what that is?
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And so, when I
sense that the time was
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right and I had just
seen this documentary
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after all and I
wanted to help my brother out
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I said, I said listen
brother, listen if you
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knew what's going
on in that bushy thing
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you would let your
wife plug it. And I can
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guarantee you she
wants too. And she
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will correct the
situation if you only
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knew what lives in
your eyebrows. For weeks
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after seeing that
documentary I found
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myself just, just
unconsciously just
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with a reflex just,
just, just wondering
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visualizing what's
going on in my eyebrows.
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And so, we can see
things from a whole new
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perspective, can't we?
But that's not the half
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of it, what about
people? My daughter Amber
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came into the
world 8 pounds, 10 ounces
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out of my wife's 5
foot, 200 pound body,
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this was a
monumental event and we
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raised her. I thought
I knew my little girl,
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her name is Amber and
then the day came when
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she got married,
and we were visiting,
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my wife Sue and I
were visiting their home
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and I was sitting in a
chair in the living room
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and my daughter
Amber, now a full grown adult
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woman and her new
husband were kind of
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preparing the meal and
flirting in the kitchen
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and I thought no, no
stop, stop, that's my
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daughter, get your
hands off her that's,
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that's what I was
going through in my mind,
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it was a very
difficult experience to let
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her go, to give her
away, to watch her become
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this full grown woman
and then you're in the
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kitchen and they
are, and all of the sudden
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she grows upon her
tiptoes and he is a tall
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guy upon her, and
she, she gives him a gentle
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kiss, and I thought
can't handle it. My wife
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Sue said she's
grown up, she is married,
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you, you need to
just get with the program.
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I saw my little girl
in a way I had never see
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her before. Now, the
full grown woman and next
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thing I knew pretty
soon she was a mommy
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and I saw her
holding her own son and I
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fell in love with her
all over again. I thought
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wow! She is
beautiful. My little girl is so
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beautiful. Now, as a
woman, as a wife, and
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as a mother, but
I've had this experience
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of seeing all over
again for the first time most
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of all with my
wife. Sue and I have been
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together since she
was 13 and I was 14
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we've been best
friends. I mean I really think
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I know this
chick, but you know what?
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Just before coming
here, just literally
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less than two
weeks ago I got an angle,
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a perspective on
her personality I had
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never seen before and
she was more beautiful
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then I had ever
known. Parts of her who she
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is just came to the
surface in the process
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of a day and
certain events and a
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conversation and
tears forming in her eyes.
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I knew her suddenly in
a way I had never known
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her before; certainly
you have that experience,
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right? A place, a
topic, a person that you
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thought you knew
and you suddenly see as
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it were for the
first time all over again.
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Have you had that
experience, anybody
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here? Well, tonight
I want to bring to you
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a topic that has to
be regarded as the most
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familiar topic in
Christianity. I want to
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bring to your
attention that which we go into
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psychological neutral
so easily but as soon as
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the topic is brought
up, we think oh! Yeah,
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yeah, yeah I think
I'll just take a little,
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a little Nano nap as
the preacher talks because
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I have heard this
before. May I, may I
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respectfully urge
you this evening to
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somehow psychologically
and emotionally go into
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a, a place, a
position where you assume that
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you have never encountered the
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Cross of Jesus
Christ before. This very
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familiar territory
we sing about it, the
00:18:17.50\00:18:21.56
preacher preaches
about it, but I want to,
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I want to share
with you that I think,
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I think that often
times we circumvent our
00:18:24.68\00:18:31.37
potential for
deeper inside because we
00:18:31.38\00:18:35.57
get locked in to
certain aspects of a topic
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and assume that
that's all there is. What
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I want to suggest
to you is that when it
00:18:45.90\00:18:47.71
come to the Cross of
Jesus Christ we often
00:18:47.72\00:18:50.12
times have so focused
on the physical dimension
00:18:50.13\00:18:54.36
of the sufferings
of Christ, the what
00:18:54.37\00:18:56.54
dimension everybody?
The physical dimension.
00:18:56.55\00:18:59.00
We've so focused on
the physical dimension
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that we have failed
to, to pear within the deep
00:19:01.93\00:19:07.24
interior of the
heart of Jesus as He hung
00:19:07.25\00:19:12.36
between heaven and
earth. I mean what was
00:19:12.37\00:19:15.10
going on inside of
Him, what was the thought
00:19:15.11\00:19:19.99
process, what was
the emotional process
00:19:20.00\00:19:23.32
that He was enduring.
Do you hear my question?
00:19:23.63\00:19:27.49
Certainly he was
physical abused; he was
00:19:28.73\00:19:31.49
tortured, wasn't He?
But I would like to you
00:19:31.50\00:19:37.40
to consider the
possibility that what
00:19:37.41\00:19:41.14
Jesus endured by
way of physical torture
00:19:41.15\00:19:44.93
was by comparison
almost nothing compared
00:19:46.74\00:19:53.06
to what He endured in
His heart and in His mind
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for you and me. So,
allow your mind to access
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the subject tonight as
if maybe you have never
00:20:05.08\00:20:08.86
considered it
before. Now, last evening we
00:20:08.87\00:20:14.27
conceptually prepared
ourselves for where we
00:20:14.77\00:20:18.38
are going tonight? We
laid some ground work,
00:20:18.39\00:20:20.88
we introduced some
concepts and some ideas
00:20:20.89\00:20:23.83
you remember, we
explored the incredible reality
00:20:23.84\00:20:29.47
of the incarnation
of Christ. Which is
00:20:30.52\00:20:34.19
preparatory as I
pointed out in the Apostle
00:20:34.20\00:20:37.79
Paul, preparatory to
the Cross. Jesus literally
00:20:37.80\00:20:42.91
engaged in a, shall
we call it a quantum
00:20:43.68\00:20:47.42
leap of transformation.
I mean He was God
00:20:47.43\00:20:53.19
and had always been
God. Philippians 2 said,
00:20:53.20\00:20:56.93
He was in very nature
God. So, this one that
00:20:56.94\00:21:03.09
we are talking
about this evening He had
00:21:03.10\00:21:05.20
always been God and
only God, forever and
00:21:05.21\00:21:09.32
ever for all
eternity past. This was his
00:21:09.33\00:21:13.16
familiar domain of
nature. Shear divinity
00:21:13.17\00:21:20.46
in all it's glory,
but then, then He, He
00:21:20.47\00:21:27.05
moved not just
geographically, not from
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heaven to earth
alone, He moved in nature,
00:21:30.53\00:21:35.51
He literally became
something He had never
00:21:36.75\00:21:41.01
been before, He
became human. The Creator
00:21:41.02\00:21:48.36
of all things
became a part of His very
00:21:48.37\00:21:54.38
creation. I mean He
is in Mary's womb, He
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comes forth from
the womb she begins
00:22:00.59\00:22:03.41
to raise the one
who created her. She
00:22:03.42\00:22:09.03
begins to teach
and to educate the
00:22:09.04\00:22:13.05
Creator of the
Universe, if we can
00:22:13.06\00:22:16.72
comprehend what that would mean?
00:22:16.73\00:22:19.18
Jesus endured; He
experienced what we
00:22:20.48\00:22:24.04
refer to last evening
as a dramatic fracture,
00:22:24.05\00:22:28.23
a severing, a
cutting off between Himself
00:22:28.72\00:22:36.29
and the other
members of the Triune God.
00:22:37.04\00:22:39.06
Father, Son and Holy
Spirit, these three who
00:22:39.07\00:22:41.71
are one, who had
always been together
00:22:41.72\00:22:45.02
in a beautiful ebb
and flow of other centered
00:22:45.03\00:22:48.82
self giving love,
they had only ever known
00:22:48.83\00:22:51.15
one another's
fellowship in the deepest
00:22:51.16\00:22:53.88
intimacy
imaginable and Jesus according
00:22:53.89\00:22:57.60
to Scripture. Jesus
condescended and stepped
00:22:57.61\00:23:03.66
out of that inner
circle of beautiful intimate
00:23:03.67\00:23:07.88
love. He endured
what we refer to as a
00:23:07.89\00:23:12.52
transmigration of
nature, He became something
00:23:12.53\00:23:18.18
He had never
been before, He became
00:23:18.19\00:23:22.53
a member of the
human race. Now, the
00:23:23.10\00:23:27.23
Apostle Paul begins
to work this subject,
00:23:27.24\00:23:31.03
He begins to
finesse it and, and to,
00:23:31.83\00:23:35.13
to bring to the
surface of this greatest
00:23:35.14\00:23:38.86
of all mysteries. He
begins to develop for
00:23:38.87\00:23:43.31
our
understanding just exactly what
00:23:43.32\00:23:45.59
was involved in
this amazing reality we
00:23:45.60\00:23:51.67
call the incarnation,
that is the enfleshment
00:23:51.68\00:23:54.76
of God. He begins to
bring it to the surface.
00:23:54.77\00:23:58.16
Look with me at
Hebrews chapter 2,
00:23:58.96\00:24:02.45
we refer to this
text last night, but we
00:24:02.46\00:24:04.52
didn't actually
read them look at Hebrews
00:24:04.53\00:24:06.22
chapter 2 and in
this sacred text the
00:24:06.23\00:24:12.44
Apostle Paul brings
to our awareness the
00:24:12.45\00:24:17.60
astounding relationship
between the Incarnation
00:24:17.61\00:24:20.58
and the Cross that
is the God logic for God
00:24:20.59\00:24:24.72
becoming human. God
has an agenda, He is
00:24:24.73\00:24:27.43
up to something, and
the first stage of God's
00:24:27.44\00:24:31.57
agenda, His saving
plan is to become human.
00:24:31.58\00:24:35.60
This is stage one.
So, in verse 9 of Hebrews
00:24:36.04\00:24:39.99
chapter 2 we
read these words. But
00:24:40.00\00:24:41.54
we see Jesus, who
was made a little lower
00:24:41.55\00:24:46.46
than the angels
for, notice the word for
00:24:46.77\00:24:50.30
the suffering of
death, crowned with glory
00:24:50.31\00:24:53.91
and honor, that he
by the grace of God,
00:24:53.92\00:24:56.14
might taste death
for everyone. Note
00:24:56.15\00:25:00.55
grammatically what
Paul is saying to us,
00:25:00.56\00:25:03.07
he is saying that
Jesus became human
00:25:03.08\00:25:06.42
for the suffering of
death. In order of that
00:25:08.33\00:25:12.65
He might experience
death as an authentic
00:25:12.66\00:25:17.94
experience, not as
a charade, not as a
00:25:17.95\00:25:20.25
projection, not
as an illusion He is
00:25:20.26\00:25:23.97
hoping we will
believe, but as a concrete
00:25:23.98\00:25:27.95
reality for God. He
became human in order
00:25:27.96\00:25:34.17
that He might experience
the full ramifications
00:25:34.18\00:25:38.87
of our death. Look
at verse 14 he repeats
00:25:38.88\00:25:43.06
himself, but he gets
even clearer. In as much
00:25:43.07\00:25:45.53
then as the
children have partaken
00:25:45.54\00:25:48.33
of flesh and
blood, He Himself likewise
00:25:48.34\00:25:50.80
took part of the
same, the same what
00:25:50.81\00:25:52.61
everybody? Flesh and
blood, what's the first
00:25:52.62\00:25:56.36
word after the
comma? That in order that so
00:25:56.37\00:26:00.44
that He through
death might, what?
00:26:00.45\00:26:05.04
Destroy him who had
the power of the death,
00:26:05.41\00:26:08.14
that is the devil.
So, here's this bridge in
00:26:08.15\00:26:11.16
Paul's understanding.
This, this, this bridge
00:26:11.17\00:26:13.40
between incarnation
and cross, the incarnation
00:26:13.41\00:26:18.03
creates the
necessary metaphysical
00:26:18.40\00:26:22.85
situation in which
the almighty creator
00:26:24.05\00:26:27.65
of the universe
who can in himself know
00:26:27.66\00:26:29.19
no death. This God
who cannot die moves out
00:26:29.20\00:26:35.90
of himself becomes
human in order that
00:26:35.91\00:26:41.55
he might submit
himself to the circumstances
00:26:41.56\00:26:47.44
that would make it
possible for him to
00:26:47.99\00:26:50.00
experientially,
authentically undergo an
00:26:50.01\00:26:53.53
experience that in
and of himself with a
00:26:53.54\00:26:56.39
completely retained
divinity that is not
00:26:56.40\00:27:01.04
grafted to humanity
could never ever authentically
00:27:01.05\00:27:05.16
experience and
you'll see what I mean more
00:27:05.17\00:27:06.95
as we continue. Now go
to Philippians chapter 2,
00:27:06.96\00:27:11.00
you're gonna have to
sit up a little straighter
00:27:13.01\00:27:14.36
and breathe a little
deeper, because we're
00:27:14.37\00:27:17.44
going to exercise
the frontal lobe this
00:27:17.45\00:27:19.63
evening. We are
going to be engaging
00:27:19.64\00:27:22.80
in a process of
Bible study that opens
00:27:23.10\00:27:27.89
and unveils to us
the deep things of God,
00:27:27.90\00:27:30.71
the deep interior
of the love of God,
00:27:31.41\00:27:33.74
the extravagant, extraordinary,
00:27:33.75\00:27:36.03
over the top, off
the charts love of God.
00:27:36.30\00:27:39.63
And you are gonna
want to make sure that
00:27:39.64\00:27:41.82
you prepare yourself
for the punch line by
00:27:41.83\00:27:45.05
grasping where we're
coming from as we arrive
00:27:45.06\00:27:50.31
at the punch line.
Right now we're contemplating
00:27:50.32\00:27:53.40
the practical
ramifications of the
00:27:53.63\00:27:56.96
incarnation of God
in Christ. Chapter 2
00:27:56.97\00:28:01.32
of Philippians
notice verse 5 let this mind
00:28:01.33\00:28:03.68
be in you which was
also in Christ Jesus. So,
00:28:03.69\00:28:07.69
now what Paul is
about to do, is He is about
00:28:07.70\00:28:10.03
to actually
described to us the mind,
00:28:10.04\00:28:12.59
that was in Christ
Jesus. Let this mind
00:28:13.33\00:28:15.34
be in you which was
also in Christ Jesus and
00:28:15.35\00:28:18.03
here we go, I'm
about to describe it for
00:28:18.04\00:28:19.55
you Paul says.
This is the disposition,
00:28:19.56\00:28:21.93
the mind, the
Spirit, the character that we
00:28:21.94\00:28:24.61
witness in Christ
Jesus. Who, being in very
00:28:24.62\00:28:29.29
nature God, did not
consider his equality
00:28:29.30\00:28:35.63
with God something to
be grasped to held onto,
00:28:35.64\00:28:39.04
I am giving it you
from the New International
00:28:39.56\00:28:41.68
Version from memory
here, you're probably reading
00:28:41.69\00:28:43.67
the King James, New
King James. The New King
00:28:43.68\00:28:46.41
James Version says:
Who, being in very form
00:28:46.42\00:28:49.87
God, did not consider
it robbery to be equal
00:28:50.50\00:28:54.22
with God. What's
that mean robbery? That's
00:28:54.23\00:28:56.09
a little bit too,
too arcade, that's the
00:28:56.10\00:28:58.50
Queen's English
from 300 years ago,
00:28:58.51\00:29:00.58
there is no way we
are going to access that
00:29:00.59\00:29:03.08
just on the surface.
Look at me, He didn't
00:29:03.63\00:29:05.83
consider it robbery
to be equal with God.
00:29:05.84\00:29:08.01
It was His
inherent right, this wasn't
00:29:08.58\00:29:11.10
something that that
He, He took by fiat,
00:29:11.11\00:29:13.98
He didn't, He didn't
steal this identity, He
00:29:13.99\00:29:17.67
is in very nature
who? None other than
00:29:17.68\00:29:20.63
God, but He did not
consider this equality
00:29:20.87\00:29:25.35
with God
something to be held on,
00:29:25.36\00:29:28.55
to be grasped,
His disposition, His
00:29:28.56\00:29:32.13
attitude toward this
high state, this divine
00:29:32.14\00:29:35.80
state, His
attitude toward it is a
00:29:35.81\00:29:38.57
willingness to just
abdicate, to just lay
00:29:38.58\00:29:42.78
it aside. I mean,
can you imagine what it
00:29:42.79\00:29:45.32
would like to just
be you and be willing
00:29:45.33\00:29:49.61
to lay aside the
totality of your history and
00:29:49.62\00:29:54.02
identity and all
that you have and possess
00:29:54.03\00:29:57.07
and all that you
are by nature to become
00:29:57.08\00:30:02.19
lets say an ant,
or a possum or can
00:30:02.20\00:30:09.65
you imagine having
the disposition toward
00:30:09.66\00:30:12.80
your humanity that
says you know what?
00:30:12.81\00:30:14.71
If it is for the
best good of others that
00:30:14.95\00:30:17.38
would be willing to
literally lay aside my
00:30:17.39\00:30:19.24
human nature to
become a lower life form,
00:30:19.25\00:30:24.29
are you with me?
That's right. Okay,
00:30:25.68\00:30:27.45
the distance between
what it means to be human
00:30:27.46\00:30:30.77
and what it means to
be a possum is a shorter
00:30:30.78\00:30:34.63
distance then what
it means to be God and
00:30:34.64\00:30:37.76
to become human.
That's right. Okay, Jesus
00:30:37.77\00:30:41.26
who was in Himself
God took that quantum leap
00:30:41.27\00:30:46.47
out of eternity past
into time and space realities
00:30:46.48\00:30:52.42
where he literally
became a human being,
00:30:52.43\00:30:55.98
and He didn't feel
a jealous regard for
00:30:55.99\00:30:59.86
holding on to that
past status. He was like;
00:30:59.87\00:31:03.19
if that's what it
takes I will do it, why?
00:31:03.20\00:31:06.99
Because He has
you, He has me, He has
00:31:07.00\00:31:10.01
everybody that you
have ever known, and
00:31:10.02\00:31:11.51
everybody you have
ever locked eyes with,
00:31:11.52\00:31:13.42
everybody you
love, everybody you
00:31:13.43\00:31:15.53
haven't love, He has
everyone of us at the
00:31:15.54\00:31:19.10
center of His
heart. So, this is the one
00:31:19.11\00:31:23.26
who is equal with
God, New International
00:31:23.27\00:31:25.01
Version says: The
one who wasn't very
00:31:25.02\00:31:27.57
nature God made
Himself nothing. Made
00:31:27.58\00:31:30.94
Himself what
everybody? Nothing. Nothing
00:31:30.95\00:31:33.55
by comparison that
is. Now, then New American
00:31:33.56\00:31:39.01
Standard Bible
renders the Greek here
00:31:39.02\00:31:41.29
differently, but it
accesses an idea that
00:31:42.68\00:31:46.30
we need to, to take
in. It says: The one
00:31:46.31\00:31:49.46
who was equal
with God, New American
00:31:49.47\00:31:51.11
Standard Bible
emptied Himself, He did
00:31:51.12\00:31:53.93
what would
Himself? He emptied Himself.
00:31:53.94\00:31:56.12
So, so you get the
idea that in His divinity
00:31:56.13\00:31:59.97
as God there is
content, right? And he empties
00:31:59.98\00:32:07.35
that content. What
it means to be equal
00:32:07.36\00:32:12.28
with God, to be in
very nature with God?
00:32:12.29\00:32:14.02
What would it mean
to be God and to empty
00:32:14.03\00:32:17.53
the content of
that divinity? Well, the
00:32:17.54\00:32:21.03
Philips translation
does something remarkable
00:32:21.04\00:32:23.29
here with the Greek.
The Philips translation
00:32:23.30\00:32:26.09
says: He laid aside
His advantages as God.
00:32:26.10\00:32:32.39
His prerogatives, his
privileges, those things
00:32:33.19\00:32:38.34
that are shall we
say inherent to divinity.
00:32:38.35\00:32:42.90
There is, there is a
certain content to being
00:32:43.82\00:32:47.05
God, there are
certain attributes, there
00:32:47.06\00:32:50.64
are certain things
that are true of God and
00:32:50.65\00:32:52.31
not true of anybody
else in the universe,
00:32:52.32\00:32:54.16
you have to be
divine to have these things.
00:32:54.78\00:32:57.07
And they fall into
three basic categories;
00:32:57.93\00:33:00.13
we refer to them as
the three Omnis, Omni
00:33:00.14\00:33:03.70
is Greek for all,
there is number one,
00:33:03.71\00:33:07.49
omnipotence, what
is potence? Its power,
00:33:07.85\00:33:11.91
so what does it
mean to be omnipotent?
00:33:12.42\00:33:14.39
All powerful, that's
why he is called the all,
00:33:15.43\00:33:17.77
what? The
Almighty. And then what's the
00:33:17.78\00:33:22.56
second Omni,
omniscience, what does it mean
00:33:22.57\00:33:26.80
to be omniscient,
not that you would know,
00:33:26.81\00:33:28.54
not that I would
know, it means to know
00:33:30.01\00:33:32.64
how many things, all
things, how often? All
00:33:32.65\00:33:36.70
the time,
simultaneously you just happen
00:33:36.71\00:33:39.18
to know everything.
God never, God never
00:33:39.19\00:33:43.57
has an Aha moment,
let's put it that way.
00:33:43.58\00:33:46.12
God never ever,
ever, says whoa! I
00:33:46.60\00:33:49.12
never thought of
that before ever, ever.
00:33:49.13\00:33:52.20
He knows
everything all the time,
00:33:53.10\00:33:54.99
this is
omniscience, nothing ever occurs
00:33:55.00\00:33:57.84
to Him. Okay, what's
the third great Omni?
00:33:57.85\00:34:01.79
What's the third
Omni? Omnipresence,
00:34:01.80\00:34:04.23
that means that he
is how many places,
00:34:05.20\00:34:07.18
everywhere all the
time, not in a pantheistic
00:34:07.19\00:34:10.03
sense, He is not
present in everything,
00:34:10.04\00:34:12.29
He is present to
everything. Okay, He
00:34:12.30\00:34:15.35
is present here right
now for example God is,
00:34:15.36\00:34:18.20
but He is also
present everywhere
00:34:18.82\00:34:21.93
else geographically
in the entire world and
00:34:21.94\00:34:25.47
in the entire
universe. Now, these are the
00:34:25.48\00:34:29.28
things that pertain
to the divine nature and
00:34:29.29\00:34:33.56
Paul is trying to
tell us something here,
00:34:33.57\00:34:35.85
he I saying listen
this one who in very nature
00:34:35.86\00:34:40.82
is God, emptied the
divine content, He laid
00:34:41.17\00:34:46.51
aside His
advantages and prerogatives
00:34:46.52\00:34:49.85
and abilities, you
see wait a minute Ty
00:34:49.86\00:34:52.19
this is, this is,
are you, are you pushing
00:34:52.20\00:34:54.42
the edges Ty? Are
you seriously? No way,
00:34:54.43\00:34:57.10
He didn't do that,
did He? Do you really
00:34:57.11\00:34:59.63
want psychologically
and emotionally to access
00:34:59.64\00:35:02.84
the magnitude of
this extraordinary,
00:35:02.85\00:35:05.39
extravagant love?
Do you really want to
00:35:05.40\00:35:07.10
see it, yes or no?
Okay, open your mind to what
00:35:07.11\00:35:10.02
Scripture saying
here? I will give you clear
00:35:10.03\00:35:12.70
biblical examples
of the fact that Jesus
00:35:12.71\00:35:14.81
did lay aside, but
say put into remission
00:35:14.82\00:35:18.87
the three Omnis.
According to Luke
00:35:20.15\00:35:24.42
chapter 2 the child,
that is God in human flesh,
00:35:24.43\00:35:28.09
grew in stature and
in wisdom. What does it
00:35:28.10\00:35:33.47
mean to grow in
wisdom, to grow in knowledge,
00:35:33.48\00:35:35.34
what does it mean?
It means you're learning
00:35:35.35\00:35:37.16
things you didn't
what? Know before, you read
00:35:37.17\00:35:39.88
the book Desire of
Ages you learn that Jesus
00:35:39.89\00:35:42.42
at 12 years of age
went to his first pass over
00:35:42.67\00:35:46.40
feast, he watched
the mysterious ceremony
00:35:46.41\00:35:50.92
unfold, there is the
Lamb, there's the knife,
00:35:50.93\00:35:54.16
there's the blood
flowing, there is the
00:35:54.17\00:35:56.70
fire, there is
the sacrifice, and he
00:35:56.71\00:36:00.13
watches and
ponders the whole thing and
00:36:00.14\00:36:02.81
we're told in Desire
of Ages that it dawned
00:36:02.82\00:36:04.85
on him for the
first time as it were that
00:36:04.86\00:36:09.87
that is me, that is symbolically
00:36:09.88\00:36:13.55
representing my
destiny and where I am going
00:36:13.56\00:36:15.84
and what I am here
for? Mary literally
00:36:15.85\00:36:19.40
had to teach him,
he, he had the one,
00:36:19.41\00:36:22.41
the one who inspired
the Bible had to memorize
00:36:22.42\00:36:26.44
it. Mary taught
Him Isaiah 53 and said,
00:36:26.45\00:36:31.71
Son I don't, I don't
really get it, but the
00:36:31.72\00:36:33.55
angel at your birth
explained that this has
00:36:33.56\00:36:36.07
something to do
with you, oh! We like
00:36:36.08\00:36:38.52
sheep have gone
astray, we have turned
00:36:38.53\00:36:40.21
everyone to his own
way and the Lord is laid
00:36:40.22\00:36:42.19
on him, son that's
you, the inequity of us all,
00:36:42.23\00:36:46.89
it is mommy? Yes, it
is, I don't know what
00:36:46.90\00:36:51.11
that means, but
you need to allow the
00:36:51.12\00:36:54.83
Holy Spirit to open
your mind to your mission
00:36:54.84\00:36:57.02
and who you are?
Jesus didn't come into this
00:36:57.39\00:37:00.21
world and just,
just at 5 years of age,
00:37:00.22\00:37:02.45
could just go kick
back under a sycamore
00:37:02.46\00:37:04.55
tree and reminisce
about what life was
00:37:04.56\00:37:06.27
like in heaven
before he came here with
00:37:06.28\00:37:08.94
the Father the
Holy Spirit and Gabriel
00:37:08.95\00:37:10.45
all the other,
oh! I remember when we
00:37:10.46\00:37:12.22
created Mars, no.
Jesus came into this world
00:37:12.23\00:37:17.65
then according to the
Testimony of Scripture
00:37:17.66\00:37:19.48
he grew in knowledge and wisdom,
00:37:19.49\00:37:22.68
he learned things.
He explicitly states
00:37:23.97\00:37:28.90
in the Gospel of
Mark and again it is
00:37:28.91\00:37:31.77
recorded in the
Gospel of Matthew that
00:37:31.78\00:37:34.94
Jesus told His
disciples no man knows,
00:37:34.95\00:37:39.97
no man what
everybody? Knows the day nor
00:37:40.42\00:37:44.26
the hour of the
coming of the Son of man
00:37:44.27\00:37:47.47
not even myself,
but the Father only.
00:37:47.48\00:37:52.02
Who knows the day and
the hour of the second
00:37:52.03\00:37:54.74
coming according
to Jesus? The Father.
00:37:54.75\00:37:56.64
Does Jesus, when
He speaking to His
00:37:56.94\00:37:59.46
disciples at
least, does He know? No,
00:37:59.47\00:38:02.76
He explicitly says
there are things I don't,
00:38:02.77\00:38:05.63
what? Know that is
not omniscience, Jesus
00:38:05.64\00:38:10.22
has laid aside, He
has not ceased to be
00:38:10.23\00:38:13.42
divine, He is fully
100% God and His divinity
00:38:13.43\00:38:18.66
has now been fused
with or grafted into a
00:38:18.67\00:38:24.10
very real living
humanity. And that
00:38:24.11\00:38:27.00
humanity is during
His earthly experience
00:38:27.01\00:38:30.54
that humanity is superseding His
00:38:30.55\00:38:33.34
divinity. He is
allowed the divine abilities
00:38:33.35\00:38:37.26
and powers by
voluntary choice to go into
00:38:37.27\00:38:39.62
remission my friends. What about
00:38:39.63\00:38:41.34
omnipotence, so you
laid at aside? Absolutely,
00:38:41.35\00:38:44.11
John chapter 5, the
Lord Jesus Christ said,
00:38:44.12\00:38:47.24
I can of my own
self do nothing, that is
00:38:47.25\00:38:51.14
nothing an
omnipotence statement,
00:38:51.15\00:38:53.01
that is a human
being saying I am utterly
00:38:53.02\00:38:56.17
dependent upon the
Father for all these
00:38:56.18\00:38:58.24
miracles you see me
doing, I raise the dead
00:38:58.25\00:39:00.70
by the power of the
Father's omnipotence
00:39:00.71\00:39:03.33
channeling through
me. I heal the sick
00:39:03.34\00:39:06.82
by the Father's
power and that's why
00:39:06.83\00:39:09.24
by the way the
disciples could turn
00:39:09.25\00:39:11.00
around and do the
same things and they
00:39:11.01\00:39:12.79
weren't God.
Jesus modeled for them
00:39:12.80\00:39:15.62
and accessing of
divine power, when you come
00:39:16.26\00:39:20.99
to Acts chapter 2
when Peter is preaching
00:39:21.00\00:39:24.40
he says, we testify
to you this Jesus Christ
00:39:24.41\00:39:27.21
who did many signs
and wonders, which God
00:39:27.22\00:39:32.93
did through him?
It was the Father's
00:39:32.94\00:39:37.37
omnipotence acting
in the human personhood
00:39:37.38\00:39:42.14
of Jesus Christ that
we witness, are you with
00:39:42.15\00:39:44.37
me so far? And the
same as true and for
00:39:44.38\00:39:47.10
the sake of time
I won't go there,
00:39:47.11\00:39:48.36
the same as
true of omnipresence.
00:39:48.37\00:39:50.40
Jesus was local to
time space consideration
00:39:50.41\00:39:54.55
when He was in
this world. This is the
00:39:55.15\00:39:57.47
essence of what
Paul is telling us in his
00:39:57.48\00:40:00.53
treatment of the
incarnation in Hebrews
00:40:00.54\00:40:02.89
chapter 2 and
Philippians chapter 2.
00:40:02.90\00:40:05.63
So, he says that,
Jesus emptied himself
00:40:06.77\00:40:10.29
of this divine
content, why? He goes on
00:40:10.70\00:40:14.51
and He says in
chapter 2 Philippians still,
00:40:14.52\00:40:17.23
but made himself
nothing of no reputation,
00:40:18.89\00:40:22.04
taking the form of a
servant and coming in
00:40:22.05\00:40:25.40
the likeness of
man and being found in
00:40:25.41\00:40:28.65
appearance as a
man, He humbled Himself
00:40:28.66\00:40:31.24
and became
obedient unto death even
00:40:31.25\00:40:35.56
the death of the
Cross. Do you see Paul does
00:40:35.57\00:40:37.49
it again? Just
like he did in chapter 2
00:40:37.50\00:40:39.81
of Hebrews,
Paul says there is a,
00:40:39.82\00:40:42.52
a bridge of
understanding that we need to
00:40:42.53\00:40:44.76
have between the Incarnation and
00:40:44.77\00:40:46.12
the Cross. He became human,
00:40:46.13\00:40:48.00
He emptied Himself,
so that an authentic
00:40:48.13\00:40:51.37
self sacrific could be made,
00:40:52.53\00:40:54.44
so that we could
behold it and stand in all
00:40:54.70\00:40:57.16
and wonder at the love of God.
00:40:57.17\00:41:00.04
Because think
about it for a moment,
00:41:00.73\00:41:02.06
if Jesus had
retained omniscience and
00:41:03.31\00:41:08.79
omnipresence during
His time in this world.
00:41:08.80\00:41:12.39
Got that so far?
And then He having
00:41:13.51\00:41:17.34
omniscience and
omnipresence fully
00:41:17.98\00:41:20.88
operable went to
the Cross and cried
00:41:20.89\00:41:23.01
out my God, my God
why have you forsaken me?
00:41:23.02\00:41:25.17
What would it mean?
Approximately nothing,
00:41:25.24\00:41:28.00
I mean think about
it because in the moment
00:41:29.19\00:41:32.07
of the cry of
despair and the feeling of
00:41:32.17\00:41:35.07
separation and forsakenness He
00:41:35.08\00:41:38.13
would have simultaneously
00:41:38.14\00:41:39.59
have been
transcending the event,
00:41:39.60\00:41:42.10
He would have simultaneously
00:41:44.00\00:41:45.27
have been in
heaven with the Father
00:41:45.28\00:41:48.09
if He were in that
moment omnipresent,
00:41:48.33\00:41:50.62
He would have simultaneously
00:41:51.76\00:41:53.24
been on the other
side of the experience
00:41:53.25\00:41:55.46
if he had
omniscience, transcending the
00:41:56.00\00:41:58.28
event and
knowing exactly what the
00:41:58.29\00:41:59.97
outcome would be?
The sacrifice would
00:41:59.98\00:42:02.83
have been rendered
absolutely meaningless
00:42:02.84\00:42:08.05
if the incarnation
were not an authentic
00:42:08.22\00:42:11.74
condescension, but it was,
00:42:11.83\00:42:14.55
He literally did become human,
00:42:15.07\00:42:17.41
it was an
authentic condescension my
00:42:17.70\00:42:19.73
friends and He became human,
00:42:19.74\00:42:21.50
so that He could
experience the full
00:42:21.67\00:42:25.97
ramifications of
the sin problem that you
00:42:25.98\00:42:31.15
and I experience
and ultimately will
00:42:31.16\00:42:34.26
experience, but
His grace save us from
00:42:34.27\00:42:39.25
the ultimate
consequence. So, Jesus in our
00:42:39.26\00:42:44.03
humanity now finds
Himself at the final few
00:42:44.04\00:42:50.64
days of His experience
in our world as our Savior.
00:42:50.65\00:42:53.88
He is walking
with His disciples,
00:42:55.00\00:42:56.63
I'm in chapter 26 of
the Gospel of Matthew,
00:42:56.64\00:42:58.91
He is walking
with His disciples up a
00:42:59.16\00:43:02.61
dusty path into the
Garden of Gethsemane
00:43:02.62\00:43:06.59
we're told and you
can figure this out
00:43:07.13\00:43:09.56
if you understand the
calendars of the Hebrew
00:43:09.57\00:43:13.37
people and the
fact that Passover was
00:43:13.38\00:43:15.55
about to happen,
it was a full moon
00:43:15.56\00:43:17.01
they could see his
person and Jesus began
00:43:17.98\00:43:21.24
to stagger under the
weight of some kind of
00:43:21.25\00:43:23.45
unseen burden
according to Scripture.
00:43:23.67\00:43:27.37
Peter, James, and
John were taken deeper
00:43:28.92\00:43:30.92
into the heart of
the Garden wit him as he
00:43:31.08\00:43:33.04
told the other
disciples to remain in a certain
00:43:33.05\00:43:34.91
place and pray.
And as they walked
00:43:34.92\00:43:38.32
and he staggered
and stumbled unto no
00:43:38.33\00:43:41.39
apparent physical
trauma, nobody had laid a
00:43:41.40\00:43:45.38
hand on his
physical body as of yet,
00:43:45.39\00:43:47.04
Jesus is staggering
and the disciples wonder
00:43:49.20\00:43:53.18
and whisper among themselves,
00:43:53.83\00:43:55.00
what's wrong with the master,
00:43:55.01\00:43:56.03
why is he so
burdened? And Jesus breaks in to
00:43:56.04\00:44:00.76
their wondering He
says, He tells them the
00:44:00.77\00:44:03.11
mystery, the
secret of His agony.
00:44:03.12\00:44:07.03
He says my soul is
exceedingly sorrowful
00:44:08.64\00:44:13.35
even unto death.
My what everybody?
00:44:13.68\00:44:17.82
My soul, now you
know what the word soul
00:44:17.83\00:44:20.14
means in scripture,
don't you I don't need
00:44:20.15\00:44:22.66
to take the time to define that?
00:44:22.67\00:44:25.35
The word soul in
scripture means being
00:44:26.67\00:44:29.11
that means the
totality of personhood,
00:44:29.12\00:44:31.45
that means all that you are,
00:44:31.65\00:44:32.62
the physical dimension,
the emotional dimension,
00:44:32.63\00:44:35.06
the psychological dimension,
00:44:35.25\00:44:36.63
it's the whole
person, that's the word soul
00:44:37.00\00:44:39.97
in scripture. Here when we come
00:44:40.16\00:44:42.45
to the New
Testament it is homing in on a
00:44:42.46\00:44:45.48
certain dimension of
personhood, of being.
00:44:45.49\00:44:49.62
The word that is
chosen here for soul in Gospel
00:44:50.42\00:44:53.77
is the Greek word psyche;
00:44:53.78\00:44:55.63
it's what Greek word everybody?
00:44:56.43\00:44:57.64
Psyche from which
we get the English word
00:44:58.20\00:45:00.19
psyche that's right.
And it refers to what
00:45:01.23\00:45:05.08
dimension of human
experience, the mind,
00:45:05.09\00:45:07.92
the hearts, the
internal content.
00:45:07.93\00:45:11.15
Jesus says I want
you to know what I am
00:45:11.45\00:45:13.26
experiencing, my soul, my mind,
00:45:13.27\00:45:16.48
my hearts is exceedingly
sorrowful to the point
00:45:16.49\00:45:21.05
of death. There is
something of a lethal
00:45:21.32\00:45:25.73
nature going on inside of me.
00:45:25.99\00:45:29.05
In other words, Jesus has not
00:45:29.53\00:45:32.98
experience any
physical tortured yet,
00:45:32.99\00:45:34.92
yes or no? None,
not one drop of blood
00:45:34.93\00:45:37.86
has been drawn from
His flesh by brutality.
00:45:37.87\00:45:41.33
The crown of thorns
has not been pressed
00:45:41.61\00:45:43.33
on his brow. The nails have not
00:45:43.34\00:45:46.05
been driven through His hands.
00:45:46.06\00:45:47.42
And yet Jesus in the
quietude of a midnight
00:45:47.98\00:45:50.70
serene garden says I
am dying on the inside.
00:45:50.71\00:45:57.72
Something is going
on inside of me that
00:45:58.70\00:46:01.11
is taking my life
away, I am exceedingly
00:46:01.12\00:46:06.04
sorrowful to the point of death.
00:46:06.05\00:46:08.90
And then Jesus
unveils through a metaphor
00:46:09.04\00:46:13.56
what he's going
through? He falls to the ground
00:46:13.57\00:46:17.30
and He clutches at the earth,
00:46:18.01\00:46:20.03
ripping at it with
His fingers because
00:46:21.01\00:46:24.66
of the sense of
separation that he is
00:46:24.99\00:46:27.24
enduring between
Himself and the Father.
00:46:27.25\00:46:30.52
And as He is
there upon the ground
00:46:32.65\00:46:35.29
He prays a prayer,
if it be possible Father
00:46:36.03\00:46:40.74
let this, what's
the metaphor He uses?
00:46:41.00\00:46:43.05
Let this cup pass
from me nevertheless
00:46:43.40\00:46:45.78
not as I will, but
as your cup, what cup?
00:46:45.79\00:46:48.75
This cup is
mentioned other places in
00:46:49.37\00:46:50.64
the Bible, the one
you will be most familiar
00:46:50.65\00:46:52.70
with this in the
Third Angels Message
00:46:52.71\00:46:54.06
it is there called
the cup of the wine of the
00:46:54.07\00:46:57.68
wrath of God, which
is poured out without
00:46:57.69\00:47:00.21
mixture of mercy
that is into the cup of
00:47:00.53\00:47:03.56
His indignation. This
is the full ramifications
00:47:03.57\00:47:08.35
of justice,
undiluted righteousness and
00:47:08.36\00:47:14.33
holiness with no
buffer of mercy between.
00:47:14.34\00:47:18.10
This is Jesus telling
us that He holds in His
00:47:19.98\00:47:22.48
hand a cup of
infinite magnitude suffering
00:47:22.49\00:47:27.84
that no human being
has ever, ever, ever
00:47:29.17\00:47:31.60
experienced. And
He has this cup in
00:47:31.61\00:47:35.85
His hand and He
says nevertheless Father,
00:47:35.86\00:47:39.49
I don't want to drink this,
00:47:39.79\00:47:41.14
I don't want to endure this,
00:47:41.15\00:47:42.68
I feel myself
slipping away from You,
00:47:42.91\00:47:45.39
the separation is
intense. Nevertheless,
00:47:45.70\00:47:52.49
and in not nevertheless He sees
00:47:53.65\00:47:56.90
you and He sees
me. Nevertheless,
00:47:56.91\00:48:01.18
if this is what it
takes to save them,
00:48:01.90\00:48:06.63
even this I am
willing to endure?
00:48:07.56\00:48:10.02
Jesus then arises
from this suffering in the
00:48:11.49\00:48:17.22
garden and He has taken
to the Cross of Calvary.
00:48:17.23\00:48:23.14
The physical suffering
is intense it's brutal,
00:48:24.27\00:48:26.84
it's hard to
contemplate and that Jesus never
00:48:29.28\00:48:33.63
utters a
complaint about what's done
00:48:33.64\00:48:36.66
to His body. Never,
never people, people,
00:48:36.67\00:48:39.06
why are you torching
me? But He does cry out
00:48:39.07\00:48:42.52
from the depths of
His divine human soul,
00:48:42.53\00:48:45.54
my God, my God where are You?
00:48:46.32\00:48:50.28
Why have You forsaken me?
00:48:52.07\00:48:53.38
The sense of abandonment,
00:48:55.03\00:48:56.39
this chasm of separation,
00:48:57.30\00:48:58.78
this most awful
and horrific of all
00:49:00.44\00:49:04.34
experiences imaginable, my God,
00:49:04.35\00:49:08.77
my God where are
You? Jesus in His heart
00:49:08.78\00:49:12.95
and in His mind
turned with me to Psalm 88
00:49:12.96\00:49:16.72
as I prep you for
it, Jesus in His heart
00:49:17.54\00:49:19.98
and in His mind is
undergoing an experience
00:49:19.99\00:49:24.09
that has a certain, a
certain content to it,
00:49:24.10\00:49:27.67
it has, it has a
specific kind of color
00:49:29.04\00:49:35.57
and contour to it,
Jesus is going through
00:49:35.58\00:49:38.50
something. What
is He going through
00:49:38.51\00:49:41.11
my friends? Psalm 88 is a
00:49:41.12\00:49:44.04
messianic
prophecy, it's what kind of
00:49:44.59\00:49:46.86
prophecy everybody?
Messianic that means
00:49:46.87\00:49:49.30
it's
foretelling who the Messiah.
00:49:49.31\00:49:51.92
It is a prophecy
that foretells what
00:49:52.81\00:49:55.76
Jesus goes
through psychologically
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and emotionally on the Cross.
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This chapter in
Psalms, Psalm 88 draws
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the veil aside, so that we can,
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we can look into
the mental and emotional
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process of Jesus
as He hangs between
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heaven and
earth. There in the New
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Testament all we hear
is, let this cup pass from
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me and my God, my God
why have You forsaken me?
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But here is what's going on?
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I am in Psalm 88
verse 2, he says:
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My soul is full of
troubles and My life
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draws near to
grave. I am counted with
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those who go down into the pit;
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I am as a man
who has no strength.
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Adrift among the
dead, like the slain who lie
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in the grave? This
is astounding whom You
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remember no more.
Father, I feel like I am
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sinking into a pit
of death from which You
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will never remember me again,
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from which You will
never call me forth in
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resurrection life.
This is second death
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language. This is a
death in which there
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is no more
remembrance of the individual
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and God's mind.
Look at verse 6 amazing.
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You have laid me in, which pit.
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The lowest pit in darkness,
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in the depths. Your
wrath is heavy upon me,
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what is this
darkness? You have laid me in
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the lowest pit in darkness,
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is this turn the
lights out blow the candles
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out kind of, sun
down kind of darkness.
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No, no, no this is
mental and emotional darkness.
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This is, this is
the darkness of what it
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feels like to be
guilty, and filled with shame
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and dread of sin.
This is what it feels
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like to know your
sin with perfect acuity
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and feel no buffer
of mercy in between.
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No sense of
forgiveness, no compassion,
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all you see in
your heart and your mind
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is just justice and holiness and
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righteousness and
its eternal distinction
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from sin. It's
infinite and it feels it to
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the depths of
His being, verse 8.
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This is the
climax. You have put mine
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acquaintance far from me,
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watch this, you have
made me an abomination
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to them: I am shut
up, and I cannot get out.
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That's King
James, New King James,
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I am shut up, and I
can't what everybody,
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get out. New
International Version
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says something to
the effect I am confined
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in oblivion and cannot escape.
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What does it
mean? When he says I am,
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I am shut up, shut up where,
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what's the context?
In this pit of darkness,
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in this utter
and complete sense of
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separation from
God, my God, my God
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why have You forsaken me?
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I am shut up in
that separation from God
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and all the
collective hold of human
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transgression and
sin is owned by me
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as if I were the guilty pardon,
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every sin ever
committed. I bare all of that,
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the whole load and
it has separated me
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from My Father and
I am shut up in this
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deep dark psychological place,
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and I feel like I
will never ever get out.
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What is this
language? If you are dead and
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you can't get out of death,
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what are we referring to here?
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Resurrection and so
we come down to verse
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10 and He muses as
He hangs on the Cross.
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Will your work, excuse me.
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Will You work
wonders for the dead?
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Shall the dead, what everybody?
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Arise to praise
You? What about verse 11?
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Shall Your loving
kindness be declared
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in the grave? Or
Your faithfulness in
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the place of, what? Destruction,
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second death language again.
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Shall Your wonders
be known in the dark?
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And Your
righteousness in the land of
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forgetfulness?
God, are you going to
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forget me for
eternity? I am sinking into a
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death from which
it appears there is no
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resurrection,
will you ever call me
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forth from the grave? Jesus,
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my friends came in
to our world took our
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humanity upon
Himself and submitted to all
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its inherent
limitations. And then He went to
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the Cross and He
entered into the deep
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dark physiological
place of guilt and shame
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and sin, so that
He felt to the depths
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of His being what
it means to be cut off
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and severed and
sundered from God,
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he felt it. And that
any point in the process,
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scripture tells us, He tells us,
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He could have
called 12 legions of angels
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to deliver Himself,
but the Bible says that
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He loved them and that is us.
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Chapter 13 verse 1
of the Gospel of John,
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He love them to then end,
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to the end of
Himself my friends,
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to the utter and
complete end of Himself.
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Jesus literally faced
the prospect of eternal
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damnation, never to
see the light of day
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again and He
voluntarily for shear love,
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extravagant love
for you and me was
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willing to die
forever, so that you and I
00:56:33.77\00:56:37.12
could have eternal
life. We witness at the Cross
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God's value
system, and astoundingly
00:56:41.05\00:56:44.80
He literally
values all others above
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and before Himself.
And in the beautiful
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way that
convinces us that we are in
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the best of all
imaginable universes,
00:56:56.12\00:56:59.95
governed by a God of
infinite other centered
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love and we can
forever trust explicitly
00:57:03.67\00:57:08.13
and never be disappointed.
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God loves you tonight
with an extraordinary,
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extravagant love
and the Cross proves it.
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Father in heaven,
we love You because
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You have first loved
us. I pray that we love
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You tonight in a
new way with new vision.
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