- You might not know this,
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but you might
just be the executor
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of someone's last
will and testament.
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This is a show
you're not gonna wanna miss.
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[mellow music]
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A lot of folks
don't really know this,
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but one of the services we
offer at the Voice of Prophecy
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is to help people get
their final affairs in order.
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And we like to do that, well,
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well in advance of the moment
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when it might
actually become, well, urgent.
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When that day
comes that your doctor
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finally gives you
some really bad news
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and you realize
you've run out of time
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just like everybody else,
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the last thing you wanna do
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is be forced into a position
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where you have to plan your
final wishes under pressure.
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Because then, it's an emergency,
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and you're not always
gonna do your best thinking
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in an emergency.
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So, what we tend to
do is encourage people
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to think about
this well in advance
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so you can sit down quietly
and really think things through.
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And I know it's not
a comfortable subject,
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but trust me,
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you're gonna have to
deal with it at some point.
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And of course, when you're
drawing up your estate plan,
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we do like it
when you think about
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the needs of this ministry.
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But listen, we'll
help you whether or not
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you feel like including us.
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Death is a part of life
for absolutely everybody.
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And if we're
gonna make the effort
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to help you live in
authentic human life,
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then we really want to help you
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with the final phase as well.
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So, as a result of this,
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the ministry has
become the executor
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for a lot of
estates over the decades,
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which makes it our
responsibility to make sure
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that your final
wishes become reality.
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It's a responsibility
we take very seriously,
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because there's something sacred
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about a person's final wishes,
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something that most of
us consider inviolable.
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Of course,
sometimes that can create
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a tiny bit of friction
with friends and family
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who aren't entirely
happy with what you decided.
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"What do you mean,
I only get a third?
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I took care of mom in the end,
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so I deserve more
than all my siblings!"
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You know, that kind of stuff.
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And so, sometimes,
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people will try to get
us to waffle on the will.
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But at the end of the day,
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there's no way
we're willing to do that,
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because our job
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is to stick to the
wishes of the deceased.
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It's their will,
it's their wishes.
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An executor who starts
to play loose with a will
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is doing something
really inappropriate.
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[soft music]
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Most of us recognize that
a final will and testament
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is a really solemn thing,
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something that
should not be altered, ever.
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It is, after all, your
final word to the world.
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It's the last thing you do.
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The possessions you
have the day you die
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are a huge part
of what you actually
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traded your time
for in this world.
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Of course, I'm
not such a materialist
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that I believe you are only
the sum of the things you own,
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because, well, that
would be incredibly shallow
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and tragically inadequate.
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In fact, you might
remember that on one occasion
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when somebody was
disputing his share
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of his father's estate,
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Jesus warned him,
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"Take care, and be on your
guard against covetousness,
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for one's life does not consist
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in the abundance
of his possessions."
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In other words,
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the definition of you is
greater than the stuff you own.
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But of course, that doesn't mean
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that the stuff you
leave behind isn't important.
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Most of us trade the majority
of our lives earning wages,
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and we use those wages
to buy the things we need.
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And that's a completely
honorable way to spend your
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life. I mean, the
alternative is to demand
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that somebody else works
to provide for your needs,
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and that is not
the right way to live.
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So, you trade your
labor for the things you need.
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And at one point in history,
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way back when,
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some economic genius came up
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with a universal
means of exchange,
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money.
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Now, I know the subject
of money on a religious show
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always seems a little shady.
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I'll be the first to admit
that a lot of modern preachers
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have actually made a
farce of the Christian faith
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in the way they talk about it.
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As a minister, I'm
usually deeply embarrassed
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by the prosperity preachers
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who prey on the weak,
the sick, and the poor
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by telling them that God will
make them incredibly wealthy
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or even heal them if they
only send in their meager funds.
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And of course,
that same preacher
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then suddenly
moves into a bigger house
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and the promised miracle
never seems to materialize.
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It's despicable.
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And I'm personally convinced
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that God will hold
these people accountable,
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and I wouldn't wanna be in
their shoes on judgment day.
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And I don't think
I need to name names,
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because most of you already know
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exactly which
preachers I'm talking about.
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So, yeah, terrible
people have given the faith
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a bit of a black eye when it
comes to the subject of money.
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Skeptics tend to
think of the church
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as a moneymaking scheme,
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and they're not entirely wrong.
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Given the
absolute garbage I've seen,
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I can understand why
somebody might think that.
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But is the subject of
money really a dirty subject?
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Well, absolutely not.
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In fact, as I
mentioned a moment ago,
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the invention of
money was kind of genius,
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because it solved
a lot of problems.
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It created a lot
of problems, too,
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but at the end of the day,
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it was a pretty good idea.
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I mean, let's
just think about it.
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Let's say that I raise chickens
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and my chickens
lay a lot of eggs.
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In fact, they lay
more eggs than I can use.
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So, here I am.
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I'm egg rich,
but I'm shelter poor.
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So, I approach some guy
who owns a sawmill, and I say,
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"Look, I'd like to
trade some of these eggs
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for some of your lumber."
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And because he doesn't have
enough food, he makes a deal.
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But what would
happen if the guy said,
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"I don't want your
eggs, I got lots to eat."
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Well, then, what
am I supposed to do?
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Well, maybe I go
looking for a seamstress
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and I offer to trade eggs
for clothes, and she agrees.
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Now, I don't need clothes,
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but the guy at the sawmill does,
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and now I have
something he wants,
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and we can cut a deal.
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Now, all of that
is very inconvenient,
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and some days I
might have to barter
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with 15 or 20 different people
to actually get what I want.
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The invention of
money solved that problem.
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Suddenly, we had a
universal medium of exchange,
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something that
everybody can use,
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and it eliminates the need
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for a whole bunch
of unnecessary effort.
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But of course, the big question,
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is money evil?
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A lot of people think so,
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but not according to the Bible.
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According to scripture,
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money is a brilliant tool
if you put it in the hands
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of decent and honest people.
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And I know what
some of you are thinking.
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"Doesn't the Bible say that
money is the root of all evil?"
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Well, no, it doesn't.
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Here's what it actually says
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in Paul's first
letter to Timothy,
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where he writes,
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"For the love of money is
a root of all kinds of evils.
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It is through this craving
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that some have
wandered away from the faith
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and pierced
themselves with many pangs."
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Now, history teaches us
that Paul was absolutely right.
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Loving money can
cause a world of hurt.
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And given the way that a
lot of religious hucksters
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have taken it upon themselves
to get rich off the gospel,
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perverting the teachings
of Christ for personal gain,
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well, Paul's passage
pretty much speaks for itself.
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And God alone knows how
many people have been hurt
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as these shysters operate.
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But now, I'm kind
of digressing a little
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from where we started.
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We were talking about
your last will and testament
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and the fact that most
people consider these things
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to be solemn and sacred.
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Most of us instinctively know
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you're not supposed to
mess with somebody's will.
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And after years of watching
some families go to war,
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I'm convinced that even some
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of the most
combative, self-centered people
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somehow realize
under all their vitriol
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that what they're doing by
contesting a will is wrong.
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A person's final wishes
are not a trivial matter.
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After all, what someone leaves
behind is a congealed life.
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Their
possessions, at least in part,
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is what they exchanged
their time on earth for.
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It's more than just stuff.
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It's a snapshot of
who that person was.
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For example, if it's a house,
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then you know
this person exchanged
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his or her life to build a home.
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It was important to them.
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If it's a library,
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which is about the only thing
I'm ever gonna leave behind,
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you know they prized learning.
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If it's money,
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it's another way to
keep their influence alive
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after they're gone.
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It becomes an extension,
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a way to do
something good one last time.
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Honestly, if you agree
to be somebody's executor,
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it's gonna be one of the
most solemn responsibilities
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you'll ever have.
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And wouldn't you know it?
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There's a sense in which you are
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already somebody's executor,
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and I'll be right back
after this to explain it.
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[mellow music]
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- Most of you are at
least a little bit familiar
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with some of the
words Jesus spoke
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the night
before his crucifixion,
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found in Luke 22.
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It says:
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And he took bread,
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and when he had given thanks,
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he broke it and
gave it to them, saying,
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"This is my body,
which is given for you.
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Do this in remembrance of me."
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And likewise, the cup
after they had eaten, saying,
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"This cup that is
poured out for you
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is the new
covenant in my blood."
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In the Bible,
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the idea of a covenant is
a really, really big deal.
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Over the years,
theologians have pointed
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to any number of covenants
that God made with humanity.
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There's a covenant with
Adam, a covenant with Noah,
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a covenant with
Abraham, and so on.
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But what we find here in
the story of the Last Supper
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is mention of the new covenant.
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And another word for
covenant is testament,
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as in the Old
and New Testaments.
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And what do we call it
when we write our final wishes
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and have witnesses
testify to its authenticity?
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It's our last
will and testament.
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So, it turns out Jesus
actually has one of those,
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and the church that he started
holds the role of executor.
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It is up to believers
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to execute
Christ's will in this world,
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the will that took effect
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at the very moment of his death.
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This is a
thought that will open up
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all kinds of possibilities
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and broaden your understanding
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of what it actually
means to be a believer.
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First of all,
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it becomes very
important to know
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what the will actually says.
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What exactly did Jesus want?
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As an executor,
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you don't get to
operate by gut feeling
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or redefine the
work of the church.
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You're expected to know
what God actually wants.
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It's not enough to feel like
you're doing the right thing,
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because, well,
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we all know feelings
can be remarkably deceptive.
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I mean, I've heard
all kinds of people say,
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"I'm doing such and such
because the Spirit told me to."
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And sometimes, as I
listen to them, I've gotta say,
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"Well, maybe God
told you to do that,
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but maybe he didn't."
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None of us has been given
a license to go off-script.
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What matters most is
what this document says.
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If I was a betting man,
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and I'm not, I'm
not a betting man,
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but if I was,
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I'd wager that a
rather large percentage
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of the harm done by Christians
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is because they were
operating by personal instinct
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instead of sticking
to what the will says.
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And once you
throw aside the will,
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it's really all a
matter of instinct,
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and that's where
the trouble starts.
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I mean, imagine being
the executor of an estate,
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and the will says that Mike
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gets the old piano
in the living room.
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But personally,
you don't like Mike,
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so you decide Sarah
gets the piano instead
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because she
really, really wants it,
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and, well, you kinda like her.
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From that point forward,
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what reason
could you possibly give
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to deny
anybody's personal request?
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Good luck preventing a
civil war in that family.
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And sadly, the church sometimes
does something similar,
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picking and choosing
some favorite doctrines
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or favorite groups of people.
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Once you play loose with
the terms of the covenant,
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what chance would you have
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of revealing an
authentic Christ to the world?
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What you're really doing
is revealing yourself instead.
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"Oh, wait a minute, though.
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Isn't the church
supposed to be dynamic?
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Isn't it supposed to
change with the times
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and stay culturally relevant?"
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Well, yeah,
that's absolutely true.
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The founding documents
of the church were written
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during the peak of
power for the Roman Empire.
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And so, of course,
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our culture is
somewhat different now
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than it was 2,000 years ago.
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But not as different as
some people might think,
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because there's a lot more Rome
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hanging around in our
culture than you might think.
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And personally, as a side note,
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I think that might be the reason
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that when Western Rome splits
into the nations of Europe
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in the prophecy of Daniel 2,
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you get iron mixed
with clay in the feet,
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because there's
something left of iron Rome
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in the cultures that
emerge from that empire.
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But even then,
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culture changes from
generation to generation.
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What doesn't change is God.
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The Bible assures
us that he is the same
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yesterday, today, and forever.
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What the church needs to do
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is apply eternal principles
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to the culture
they're living in,
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and that's when
the hard work begins.
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It's one thing to say,
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"I guess this part of
the Bible is no longer true,"
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but it's a much
different thing to say,
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"How is this part
of the Bible true,
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given our
current circumstances?"
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Because the terms of
the covenant do not change.
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Now, do I have any
biblical proof for that?
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Well, yeah, I do.
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Take a look at Hebrews 9,
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where the author is explaining
how the ministry of Christ
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is the higher reality
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behind the rituals of
the Old Testament temple.
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The sacrifices that took
place under that old covenant
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were symbols pointing forward
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to the sacrifice of
Christ on behalf of all of us.
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The priests who worked in
the temple were shadows or types
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pointing forward to the
work of Christ in heaven.
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All of it was an object lesson
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in the work of
the coming Messiah
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who would ultimately
ratify the new covenant
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with his own life.
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So, now listen to
what the author says
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with regard to the
testament of Christ,
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his final will and
testament, if you like.
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This is Hebrews 9.
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It says, "Therefore he is
the mediator of a new covenant,
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so that those who
are called may receive
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the promised
eternal inheritance,
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since a death has
occurred that redeems them
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from the transgressions
committed under the first
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covenant." Now, here
comes the important part,
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at least for our study today.
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It says,
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"For where a will is involved,
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the death of the one who
made it must be established.
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For a will takes
effect only at death,
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since it is not in force
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as long as the one
who made it is alive."
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What the author's telling us
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is that the new covenant
was ratified, or took effect,
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at the moment of Christ's death.
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It's really a lot like
your will and testament,
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if you think about it.
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Up to the moment you die,
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it's just a
statement of your intentions.
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But when you die, it
becomes legally binding.
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It comes into full effect.
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And of course, once the
author of the covenant dies,
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you really can't
change it anymore.
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It's permanent.
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That's why the job of
executor is so very solemn.
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There's no going back.
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There are no
changes once the testator,
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or the author of
the will, actually dies.
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And again, you find this
principle taught in the Bible.
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Listen to what Paul says
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in his letter to
the church in Galatia.
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"To give a human
example, brothers," he writes:
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Even with a manmade covenant,
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no one annuls it or adds to
it once it has been ratified.
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Now, the promises were made
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to Abraham and to his offspring.
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It does not say,
"And to offsprings,"
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referring to many,
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but referring to one,
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"And to your
offspring," who is Christ.
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Now, there's an
awful lot of information
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packed in that little statement.
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And maybe one of these days,
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we should just
start working our way
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through the whole
Book of Galatians,
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because it's easily one
of the trickiest letters
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that Paul ever wrote.
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The metaphors he chose to use
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have caused a lot of
misunderstanding in some
00:16:10.70\00:16:13.97
circles. And I've seen
a bad reading of Galatians
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produce some, well,
really bad theology.
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But for now, let's
just focus on the way
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that Paul says that
God's will and testament
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are completely irrevocable.
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Once the testator dies,
you're not allowed to change it.
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And that should make
Christians very careful
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before they decide
that something in the Bible
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no longer applies
in the modern world.
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Cultures change, yes, they do,
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but the will of God does not.
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And that brings me right back
to the concept of covenants.
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But there's something
else that doesn't change,
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and that's the clock on
the wall here in the studio.
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So, hang tight.
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I'll be right back after this.
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- All right,
just before the break,
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I told you there
was a clock on the wall.
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And my crew called me a
liar when we went to break
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because it is not,
in fact, on the wall.
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It is standing on a
stand near the wall.
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All right, that aside,
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many years ago, I was
invited to visit this guy
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because he was struggling
to understand the Bible.
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He'd been asking me about
the role of the 10 Commandments
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in the life of the Christian.
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He'd been hearing from somebody
that the 10 Commandments
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no longer applied to believers
after the cross of Christ,
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and he found that
kind of confusing,
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because, after all,
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the 10 Commandments appear to be
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evergreen, universal principles.
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If committing
adultery or murdering was wrong
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before the death of Christ,
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surely, it's
still wrong afterwards!
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And that's true.
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If you've got an unchanging God,
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what he says is wrong is
always going to be wrong,
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because if you really
examine what the Bible teaches,
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you'll discover
that the moral principles
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espoused in those commandments
00:18:20.40\00:18:22.60
are really a description
of God's own character.
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When it tells you
that murder is wrong,
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what it's telling you
is that God values life.
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When it says that
stealing is a sin,
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it's a reminder
that God values things
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like honesty and
personal dignity.
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Those commandments are
a picture of God himself.
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But sometimes, we get confused,
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because some modern Christians
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have stopped
reading the entire Bible.
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Honestly, I think that's
one of the worst problems
00:18:49.42\00:18:51.86
that Christendom has today.
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We no longer read
the entire document.
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If you want a simple
explanation for why we have
00:18:56.36\00:18:59.50
thousands of denominations
in Christianity today
00:18:59.50\00:19:02.37
instead of the unified
church that Jesus talked about,
00:19:02.37\00:19:05.84
well, that would be it.
00:19:05.84\00:19:07.38
We've adopted a buffet method
to reading the scriptures.
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It's like we're only
reading the part of the will
00:19:10.61\00:19:12.35
that gives us dad's
enormous bank account,
00:19:12.35\00:19:14.92
but we skip over the
more uncomfortable parts,
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like the fact that
we've been made responsible
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for the welfare of our siblings.
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The passage my
friend was curious about
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came from the
Book of Colossians.
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I'll read this from
the old King James Version
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because that's where
some of the confusion
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actually comes from.
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Here's what it
says in Colossians 2:
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And you being, dead in your sins
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and the
uncircumcision of your flesh,
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hath he quickened
together with him,
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having forgiven
you all trespasses,
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blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances
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that was against us,
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which was contrary to us,
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and took it out of the way,
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nailing it to his cross.
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Now, over the
course of the 20th century,
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what some Christians did
was read that out of context.
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They brought a new
interpretation to it.
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What they did was proclaim
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that we now live under
grace instead of the law.
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And they said
that because of that,
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the 10 Commandment moral
law is now completely abolished.
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To this day, you'll
hear some people say,
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"The 10 Commandments
were nailed to the cross."
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But that's not even close
to what Paul's talking about.
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Go back and read it again.
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It never mentions the
10 Commandments at all.
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What some people have
done is take that phrase,
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"The handwriting of
ordinances that was against us,"
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and they've
insisted that's talking
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about the moral law of God.
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But that would
create a real problem
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with the teachings
of Christ, who said:
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Until heaven
and earth pass away,
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not an iota, not a
dot will pass from the law
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until all is accomplished.
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Therefore, whoever relaxes
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one of the least
of these commandments
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and teaches
others to do the same
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will be called least
in the kingdom of heaven.
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Of course, you'll notice that
he didn't point to the cross
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as some kind of decisive moment
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when the moral law
would suddenly go away,
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because that never happened.
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So, how do we understand
what it says in Colossians 2?
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Well, there's a key concept
in the original Greek language
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that you can see in
some modern translations,
00:21:09.46\00:21:12.47
and it's the word
that's translated handwriting.
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The Greek word is cheirographon,
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which was an
ancient bill of debt.
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If you were a
prisoner, for example,
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there would be a
document by your prison cell
00:21:21.94\00:21:23.91
spelling out
your debt to society,
00:21:23.91\00:21:25.68
like, "Mike has three
years in jail for stealing."
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That's the judgment
against you, the cheirographon.
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And that's precisely what
Jesus nailed to the cross,
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your bill of debt.
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He took what you owed,
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your debt to the universe,
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and nailed it to his cross.
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He took your sentence on himself
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and paid the penalty for you.
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Now, let's read
that passage again
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in a more recent translation.
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I think you'll see
what it's actually saying:
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And you who were
dead in your trespasses
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and the
uncircumcision of your flesh,
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God made alive
together with him,
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having forgiven us
all our trespasses,
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by canceling the record of debt
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that stood against us
with its legal demands.
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This he set aside,
nailing it to the cross.
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If a cop gives you a
warning instead of a ticket,
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that would be a pardon
you didn't actually deserve.
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But the fact that the
cop let you skate on speeding
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does not mean that the speed
limit no longer applies to you.
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In fact, it's
exactly the opposite.
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The act of forgiveness
should make you more likely
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to obey the law
from that point forward.
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God just doesn't change,
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and neither do
his moral standards.
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To suggest otherwise
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is to change the will
and testament of Christ,
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who never, ever taught
that the moral law is abolished.
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The man I was visiting had
been told that the grace of God
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releases us from the obligation
to live by God's moral code,
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because
everything's been forgiven.
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But that's not
really what grace is,
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not even close.
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And that kind of thinking
has made some Christians,
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well, let's just say it's
hard to see the difference
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between those people
and the rest of the world,
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because they appear to cheat
and steal like everybody else,
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and sometimes worse.
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That's not grace.
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That's foolishness.
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I'll be right back after this.
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something that serves as
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for the human race,
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a moral code that
is higher than us.
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The Greek
philosophers might have called
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that something
out there the logos,
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a universal principle that
binds the universe together.
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You'll find that word
still conveniently located
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in a lot of the terms we use
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to describe the
rational pursuit of ideas.
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We talk about
things like biology,
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which is the
systematic study of life,
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or theology, which is
the systematic study of God.
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Those words are a
tribute to the Greeks
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who spoke of the logos.
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Logos appears in those words.
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And wouldn't you
know it, it's fascinating.
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The Apostle John
also uses that word
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in the opening words
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of his remarkable
account of the life of Christ,
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which begins like this.
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God.
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All things were
made through him,
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and without him was not
anything made that was made."
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Now, most of us know that
as John is using that language,
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he's actually
talking about the Son of God.
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And he reveals in
those opening verses
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that Christ is the
one who, first of all,
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created the world we live in,
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and secondly,
continues to keep it together.
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Jesus turns out to be
the universal principle,
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the one to whom everything
else owes its existence.
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He's also the one who
met Moses at the burning bush
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and etched out a copy
of his moral requirements
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in tables of stone.
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So, the moral law,
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quite contrary to the teachings
of some modern Christians,
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is not in opposition to Christ.
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We have it because of Christ.
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Jesus Christ,
the Bible tells us,
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is the same yesterday
and today and forever.
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That's why you will never
find a statement from Christ
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abrogating the
moral standards of God.
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You will never find a
Bible verse where Jesus,
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"You know that 10
Commandment moral law?
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Done, that's gone.
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Don't even think about it."
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If that was even possible,
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wouldn't it have been
easier to just change the law
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than die for us?
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But the law can't be changed
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because it's actually a
portrait of who Christ is.
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The gospel is not the
story of changing standards.
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It's the story
of changing hearts.
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It's the story of forgiveness.
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It's the story of restoration.
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It's the story of a God who
doesn't change, changing us.
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And that is the will
and testament of Christ,
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to let the world know
that he's made it possible
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to come back home
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without ever having to
compromise who he actually is.
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Now, you have the
responsibility to go out there
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I'm Shawn Boonstra,
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