From the campus
of Andrews University
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this is New Perceptions
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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From the highest of heights
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To the depths of the sea
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Creation's
revealing your majesty
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You sound beautiful this morning
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From the colors of fall
to the fragrance of spring
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Every creature unique
in the song that it sings
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All exclaiming
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Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the stars in the sky
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And you know them by name
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You are amazing, God!
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All powerful, untamable
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Awestruck we fall to our knees
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As we humbly proclaim
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You are amazing God!
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Who has told
every lightning bolt
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Where it should go
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Or seen heavenly
storehouses laden with snow
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Who imagined the sun
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And gives source to its light
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Yet conceals it to
bring us the coolness of night
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None can fathom
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Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the stars in the sky
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And you know them by name
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You are amazing God
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All powerful, untamable
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Awestruck we fall to our knees
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As we humbly proclaim
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You are amazing God
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Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the stars in the sky
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And you know them by name
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You are amazing God
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All powerful, untamable
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Awestruck we fall to our knees
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As we humbly proclaim
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You are amazing God!
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You are amazing God!
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You have an amazing God!
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A God who being in
the vary nature of God.
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Do not consider
Himself equal with God.
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Rather He made Himself
nothing and humbled Himself,
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Being obedient to death,
even the death of the cross.
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He would anything
to conquer your love
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And there is nothing
He would not do for you.
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He is unchangeable, untamable.
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Incomparable, unchangeable
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You see the depths of my heart
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And you love me the same
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You are amazing God!
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Let's sing that one more time.
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Incomparable, unchangeable
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You see the depths of my heart
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And you love me the same
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You are amazing God!
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You are amazing God!
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We are so amazed by you
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Let's sing together
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"You dance over me,
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While I am unaware
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You sing all around,
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But I never hear the sound
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Lord, I'm amazed by you,
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Lord, I'm amazed by you
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Lord, I'm amazed by you,
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How you love me
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You paint the morning sky
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With miracles in mind
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My hope will always stand
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For you hold me in your hand
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Lord, I'm amazed by you,
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Lord, I'm amazed by you
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Lord, I'm amazed by you,
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How you love me
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Lord, I'm amazed by you,
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Lord, I'm amazed by you
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Lord, I'm amazed by you,
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How you love me
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How wide,
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How deep,
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How great
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Is your love for me
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How wide,
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How deep,
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How great
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Is your love for me
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Lord, I'm amazed by you,
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How you love me
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I would like to invite you,
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to say with me one of
the most powerful verses,
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I think and it's John 3:16
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and I want to
invite you to say it
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like if it's
your very first time.
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Let's say it together.
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believes in Him
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should not perish but
have everlasting life."
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"How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the Chosen One
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Bring many sons to glory
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Behold, the Man upon a cross
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My sin upon His shoulders
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Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
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Call out among the scoffers
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It was my sin
that left Him there
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Until it was accomplished
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His dying breath
has brought me life
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I know that it is finished
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I will not boast in anything
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No gifts, no power, no wisdom
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But I will boast in Jesus Christ
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His death and resurrection
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Why should I
gain from His reward
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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Why should I
gain from His reward
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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The love of God is greater far
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Than any tongue or pen can tell
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It goes beyond the highest star
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And reaches to the lowest hell
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The guilty pair,
bowed down with care
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God gave His Son to win
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His erring child He reconciled
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And pardoned from his sin.
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Oh, love of God,
how rich and pure!
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How measureless and strong!
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song.
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When hoary time shall pass away,
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And earthly
thrones and kingdoms fall,
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When men who
here refuse to pray,
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On rocks and hills
and mountains call,
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God's love so
sure, shall still endure,
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All measureless and strong;
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Redeeming grace to Adam's race
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The saints' and angels' song.
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Could we with
ink the oceans fill,
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And where the
skies of parchment made,
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Were every stalk
on earth a quill,
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And every man a scribe by trade;
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To write the love of God above
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Would drain the ocean dry;
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Nor would the
scroll contain the whole,
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Though
stretched from sky to sky.
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Oh, love of God,
how rich and pure!
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How measureless and strong!
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It shall
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forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song.
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The saints' and angels'
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song.
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Thank you Bradley,
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powerful,
saints' and angels' song,
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The love of God.
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Dear Father,
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but Bradley just
sang the love of God, wow,
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if every ocean sink
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and every stock a quill
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and all of us
subscribe by trade.
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We could write
and write and write
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and write and write for ever
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and we would never capture
the immensity of your love.
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Now Father, given them your love
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how then should we live,
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what about our love,
teach us, teach us today,
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we pray in Jesus' name Amen.
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So I'm on my way
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from South Bend to
Chicago on a commuter flight
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and because of the arrangement
I got assigned the word is
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I got consigned to the last
seat in the commuter flight,
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it's the worst seat
trust me in the plane.
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I'm muttering my whole
way back down the aisle,
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I see however
there is a businessman,
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very well-dressed older
man sitting in the aisle seat,
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I have to crawl over
him to get to the window
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and as I'm crawling over him,
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I notice that he's
taken his ticket stub,
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you know that they let you keep
and he stuck it in his glasses
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so it's just
sticking up like this.
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Very interesting
so I crawled over him,
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I sit down and I, I want
to get a conversation going.
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So I tap him, I said listen,
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is that those of
us who sit on the back
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are we supposed
to be doing this.
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So he laughed and we fell
in a conversation turns out
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he's a management consultant
for some fortune 500 companies,
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I am a speaker flying
across the country to speak,
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he's a Jew, I'm a Christian.
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So what do you
speaking up, he asked,
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I said the eleventh commandment.
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He looked at me and he got
this in question his expression,
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he said the eleventh
commandment good grief,
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we have a hard
enough time with the ten,
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I don't know what
we do in the eleventh.
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Eleven, you guys are something.
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You know what?
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Maybe that Jewish
gentleman is right.
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What do we do with
the eleventh commandment?
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Another Jew also a
gentleman but much younger
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is facing his
last 24 hours on earth.
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When you're on death row,
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you pick your
words very carefully.
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No flim-flam and fluff.
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You're going to move to what
is the deepest in your heart,
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when you're counting
down every word counts
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and so Jesus looks
into the flickering orange
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that upper room torch.
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He looks into their
upturned faces and he speaks,
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we come to this
moment in our series,
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let's put the tile
slide on the screen please,
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this is our
second semester series
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the last days,
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the last seven
days of Jesus life.
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In the fourth gospel,
we've been in the fourth gospel,
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first semester
fourth gospel, this semester
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title this teaching of
course the eleventh commandment,
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you see the
website WWW.PMCHURCH.TV
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You're here
visiting, we're glad to have,
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you can get all of our podcasts
and video casts right there.
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Study guides are there as
well, today, no study guide,
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this is so clear, you don't
need a study guide trust me.
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Open your Bible with me to
the, to we're now in John 13,
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we were in John 12 the last
time you and I were together.
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Now it's John 13.
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The Gospel of John 13.
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I'm in the New
King James Version here.
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We'll cut to the chase,
get to the eleventh commandment
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right here, right now John 13:1.
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Now before the
Feast of the Passover,
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remember John is the only
gospel writer that indicates
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there are four
Passovers in Jesus' ministry.
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So we know the exact length,
it's three and a half years.
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He carefully chronicles
a passing of the Passovers,
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now before the
Feast of the Passover,
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when Jesus knew
that His hour had come
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that He should depart
from this world to the Father
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having loved his own
who were in the world.
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He loved them to the end.
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Now this is the book in
that begins the last 24 hours
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and we're gonna
be, we're gonna be
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slowly going
through those 24 hours.
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We're not going to hurry
through this day and time.
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Drop down now to verse 34,
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we have a red letter Bible
these words are bright red.
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Jesus speaking to eleven faces,
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one of them has
left never to return.
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He too will be dead
in less than 24 hours.
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Jesus speaking to the eleven
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"A new
commandment I give to you,
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that you love one another;
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as I have loved you, that
you also love one another.
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Verse 35, "By this all will know
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that you are My disciples,
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if you have love
for one another."
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What's on the heart of
a man who is about to die?
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I give you a new commandment
that you love one another.
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Less you are
tempted to conclude,
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love is some sort of
passing fancy of Jesus
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till he gets to
the big red meat stuff
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of his last will and testament.
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I need to remind you
that in the upper room
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portion of these
chapters of John.
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John 13 we'll
include 17 in that.
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Five times, five times
Jesus will speak these words,
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love one
another, love one another,
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love one
another, love one another,
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love one another,
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five times those
words spoken from his lips.
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In fact what you're gonna
notice if you ever read that
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13 to 17 in one
sitting you will notice
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the word love
appearing outside of those five.
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In fact I noticed that,
I said I'm going to circle
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every love word or derivative,
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loves or loved or loving.
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I went through, you
know, how many I found.
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33 times John
13 to 17, 33 times,
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31 of those times
on the lips of Jesus.
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Don't tell me that this
is some kind of an aside,
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a little, a
little passing tay to tay
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before he get
onto the heavy stuff.
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This is it, this is what
is on the mind of the master
00:22:38.06\00:22:42.48
before the master's death.
00:22:42.51\00:22:44.92
I give you a new commandment
00:22:44.95\00:22:47.96
that you love one another,
00:22:47.99\00:22:53.17
which of course is
hardly a new commandment.
00:22:53.20\00:22:55.86
I mean please,
millennia earlier God himself,
00:22:55.89\00:22:58.77
the pre
incarnate Christ by the way
00:22:58.80\00:23:00.54
who is in the upper
room today, tonight.
00:23:00.57\00:23:02.72
God himself thunders from
the rocky crag at Mount Sinai
00:23:02.75\00:23:05.57
and you remember
that and He said,
00:23:05.60\00:23:07.11
"Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself."
00:23:07.14\00:23:11.67
Leviticus 19:18.
00:23:11.70\00:23:13.40
It's not new commandment,
it's been around for millennia.
00:23:13.43\00:23:16.25
In fact Jesus Himself
has woven it into parables.
00:23:16.28\00:23:19.57
It has been embedded in life
incidents in Christ's ministry.
00:23:19.60\00:23:23.31
So how can Jesus call
this a new commandment?
00:23:23.34\00:23:25.33
I'll tell you why He
call it a new commandment,
00:23:25.36\00:23:26.99
you know that as well.
00:23:27.02\00:23:28.88
In less than 24 hours
His followers are going to
00:23:28.91\00:23:31.92
with their own eye's
witness a radical bloody
00:23:31.95\00:23:35.62
redefining of love
that they will never forget,
00:23:35.65\00:23:39.82
the human race will never
forget for the rest of time.
00:23:39.85\00:23:44.41
Love will be redefined
in the contest of Calvary.
00:23:44.44\00:23:47.98
President Ronald
Reagan, you ever heard of him.
00:23:48.01\00:23:50.55
I was talking to my
PowerPoint guy, Robin Hardy,
00:23:50.58\00:23:52.82
he's running the PowerPoint
for me up in the mezzanine.
00:23:52.85\00:23:56.57
I said, hey, Robin, you
know President Ronald Reagan.
00:23:56.60\00:23:58.86
Oh yeah.
00:23:58.89\00:23:59.92
Were you alive, were
you born, was he around?
00:23:59.95\00:24:02.49
No.
00:24:02.52\00:24:04.36
So he's way back.
00:24:04.39\00:24:06.19
The president
Ronald Reagan, quoted Jesus
00:24:06.22\00:24:09.82
from the upper
room you know that.
00:24:09.85\00:24:11.23
I shared the story last
night by the way with the --
00:24:11.26\00:24:13.44
as we're talking about Darwinism
because Darwin a scientist
00:24:13.47\00:24:17.12
cannot explain how,
how self-sacrificing
00:24:17.15\00:24:19.97
fits into their scheme.
00:24:20.00\00:24:21.53
What they want to
call a kinship selection
00:24:21.56\00:24:23.75
or the
preservation of maternal genes,
00:24:23.78\00:24:27.35
doesn't make sense.
00:24:27.38\00:24:29.22
They were looking at
self sacrificing love as well.
00:24:29.25\00:24:31.53
But Reagan quoted these
words and here's the answer.
00:24:31.56\00:24:34.80
I saw it on TV after
the fact, an Air Florida,
00:24:34.83\00:24:39.74
Air Florida flight
taking off from national airport
00:24:39.77\00:24:42.67
in the nation's capital
00:24:42.70\00:24:44.06
which
coincidentally is named today
00:24:44.09\00:24:45.96
Ronald Reagan
International Airport.
00:24:45.99\00:24:47.86
This Air Florida
flight had been deiced,
00:24:47.89\00:24:49.69
spent too long on the
tarmacs, some of you remember
00:24:49.72\00:24:52.50
who are a bit older
than college students?
00:24:52.53\00:24:55.80
You remember that that
plane attempted to take off,
00:24:55.83\00:24:59.05
but the ice had already
formed on the leading edges,
00:24:59.08\00:25:02.40
it lost its lift
came down over the bridge
00:25:02.43\00:25:05.47
over the Potomac in
the nation's capital
00:25:05.50\00:25:08.16
took off the side
on that bridge crashed,
00:25:08.19\00:25:10.75
I put on the screen
crashed into the Potomac
00:25:10.78\00:25:14.78
the fuselage broken half
00:25:14.81\00:25:16.71
disgorging its
surviving occupants.
00:25:16.74\00:25:19.80
That's a picture got it off
a Google, that's Air Florida.
00:25:19.83\00:25:22.85
And then they sent in
the rescue helicopters
00:25:22.88\00:25:24.74
put that next picture please,
00:25:24.77\00:25:26.25
rescue
helicopters come in and --
00:25:26.28\00:25:30.42
And they're
hovering over the news cans
00:25:30.45\00:25:32.10
and this is before 24
hour cable as much as today,
00:25:32.13\00:25:36.21
but they're going and
they're dropping a life ring.
00:25:36.24\00:25:38.80
They find a baldheaded
man, remember the story,
00:25:38.83\00:25:40.90
they find a baldheaded
man, they drop in the life ring
00:25:40.93\00:25:42.79
and say hold on and he
sees a flight attendant
00:25:42.82\00:25:46.81
he puts the, throws a
ring to her she grabs on,
00:25:46.84\00:25:49.33
they drag them to the
shore paramedics waited.
00:25:49.36\00:25:51.87
They come back for
the baldheaded man,
00:25:51.90\00:25:53.11
he gets the ring, he see
somebody else he throws it.
00:25:53.14\00:25:55.12
They come back for him again,
that happened again and again
00:25:55.15\00:25:56.99
when they finally came
back for him the last time,
00:25:57.02\00:25:58.92
he's gone slipped into
the frigid waters a death.
00:25:58.95\00:26:01.93
He's gone,
Ronald Reagan that night
00:26:01.96\00:26:04.90
stood before the
nation live television
00:26:04.93\00:26:07.01
and quoted Jesus in
intoning the sacrificial death
00:26:07.04\00:26:12.44
of this unknown at
the time, stranger.
00:26:12.47\00:26:15.42
Who was he?
00:26:15.45\00:26:17.63
And he quoted these
words to Jesus John 15:13,
00:26:17.66\00:26:20.61
greater love, you can almost
say this out loud can't you?
00:26:20.64\00:26:24.00
Greater love
has no one than this
00:26:24.03\00:26:26.01
then that he lays down
his life for his friends.
00:26:26.04\00:26:30.54
Jesus just moments
after the eleventh commandment
00:26:30.57\00:26:33.35
will breathe those words.
00:26:33.38\00:26:35.61
I'm telling you
what there is no question
00:26:35.64\00:26:37.63
Calvary has rewritten
00:26:37.66\00:26:39.61
self sacrificing love
forever and ever, amen.
00:26:39.64\00:26:43.90
But did you notice
what Jesus says here.
00:26:43.93\00:26:48.04
Let's put that line
that Jesus has just spoken
00:26:48.07\00:26:50.15
because as I was brooding
on this passage this last week,
00:26:50.18\00:26:52.36
I suddenly
realized, wait a minute
00:26:52.39\00:26:54.28
put the line up
please Jesus says,
00:26:54.31\00:26:56.11
"Love one another
as I have loved you."
00:26:56.14\00:26:59.58
So I pull out my
Greek, so I want to check that
00:26:59.61\00:27:01.30
the tense here, eras
that means punctilio,
00:27:01.33\00:27:04.58
one point in the past.
00:27:04.61\00:27:06.88
Jesus, in other
words, Jesus is not saying
00:27:06.91\00:27:08.67
I want you to love one another
as I'm about to love you,
00:27:08.70\00:27:11.18
that's the way I've always read,
00:27:11.21\00:27:12.38
I'm about to love you
this way and you do the same.
00:27:12.41\00:27:14.79
No, he says as I
already did love you.
00:27:14.82\00:27:18.92
What are you talking about Lord,
00:27:18.95\00:27:20.17
what did you already do?
00:27:20.20\00:27:23.10
Chapter 13 what
did he already do?
00:27:23.13\00:27:27.06
Walks into that room
and Doctor Luke tells us
00:27:27.09\00:27:29.36
they are red hot, the 12
are red hot and angry debate
00:27:29.39\00:27:36.67
over who's going to be numero
uno in the kingdom of Christ
00:27:36.70\00:27:39.65
that he's
surely about to set up.
00:27:39.68\00:27:41.75
They are fighting cats and dogs.
00:27:41.78\00:27:45.84
And whoever and we know the
two that were assigned to find,
00:27:45.87\00:27:48.92
prepare this upper room.
00:27:48.95\00:27:50.42
You guys are the ones who will
need to provide for a servant
00:27:50.45\00:27:53.15
because you obviously
forgot to order a servant
00:27:53.18\00:27:55.48
and I'm not doing it and
nobody moves the basin in water,
00:27:55.51\00:28:00.34
the towel are
there, nobody moves.
00:28:00.37\00:28:05.07
Jesus strips down like a
slave, naked to his waist.
00:28:05.10\00:28:10.06
And watch what happens.
00:28:10.09\00:28:12.00
This is verse 4.
00:28:12.03\00:28:14.09
Look at this
Jesus rose from supper,
00:28:14.12\00:28:17.79
laid aside his garments,
00:28:17.82\00:28:20.49
took a towel and girded Himself.
00:28:20.52\00:28:23.95
After that, He poured water,
00:28:23.98\00:28:25.19
you can hear the water
splashing in a very silent room
00:28:25.22\00:28:28.67
in which you could
have heard a pin drop
00:28:28.70\00:28:30.57
nothing but splashing water now.
00:28:30.60\00:28:36.57
He poured water into a basin
00:28:36.60\00:28:38.02
and He began to
wash the disciple's feet,
00:28:38.05\00:28:40.96
and to wipe them with the towel
00:28:40.99\00:28:42.63
with which He was girded.
00:28:42.66\00:28:47.14
That's the love
that he's talking about.
00:28:47.17\00:28:50.05
As I just loved you.
00:28:50.08\00:28:51.87
What is it? Self
sacrificing love.
00:28:51.90\00:28:53.87
It's a love that
says, I'll be the slave,
00:28:53.90\00:28:56.04
you be the master.
00:28:56.07\00:28:57.73
I know my position
is higher than you,
00:28:57.76\00:28:59.14
but I'll be the slave, you
be the master, I serve you.
00:28:59.17\00:29:05.29
Love one another
just as I have loved you.
00:29:05.32\00:29:07.92
Let's read it, let's
read the eleventh commandment
00:29:07.95\00:29:09.39
again verse 34,
00:29:09.42\00:29:10.61
"A new
commandment I give to you,
00:29:10.64\00:29:13.97
that you love one another,
as I have just loved you,
00:29:14.00\00:29:18.74
that you also love one another."
00:29:18.77\00:29:20.37
By this verse 35,
00:29:20.40\00:29:21.84
"By this all will know
that you are My disciples,
00:29:21.87\00:29:24.63
if you have love
for one another."
00:29:24.66\00:29:27.25
I tell you what it is
unmistakable, unequivocal,
00:29:27.28\00:29:32.10
it is unconditional what
Christ has just declared,
00:29:32.13\00:29:35.00
not just to the
11 but to everybody
00:29:35.03\00:29:37.38
who would call him or
herself a follower of His.
00:29:37.41\00:29:40.84
By this all red and
yellow, black and white
00:29:40.87\00:29:44.72
by this all literate
and educated, rich and poor,
00:29:44.75\00:29:48.66
by this all first world,
second world, third world,
00:29:48.69\00:29:52.29
"By this the
whole world will know
00:29:52.32\00:29:54.13
you people are My people,
00:29:54.16\00:29:56.44
if you have love
for one another."
00:29:56.47\00:29:59.61
I mean you can't miss the point,
00:29:59.64\00:30:02.90
so the question that
bakes to be asked right now
00:30:02.93\00:30:05.79
is are we a loving
people in here--in here?
00:30:05.82\00:30:11.56
Not out there, I
don't care about out there
00:30:11.59\00:30:13.13
are we a loving people in here
00:30:13.16\00:30:14.97
or wherever it is
you're watching from right now.
00:30:15.00\00:30:17.06
Are we a loving people in here?
00:30:17.09\00:30:19.87
Or are we as Mark
Twain once cynically put it,
00:30:19.90\00:30:22.76
"Good in the worst
sense of the word?"
00:30:22.79\00:30:29.26
I mean you've known
people like that, haven't you?
00:30:29.29\00:30:31.71
Present company
accepted, of course.
00:30:31.74\00:30:33.82
People who are so
right in their truth,
00:30:33.85\00:30:36.11
who are so correct
in their orthodoxy,
00:30:36.14\00:30:38.69
who are so proper in
their observances and standards,
00:30:38.72\00:30:42.02
but they are as
mean as the brazens.
00:30:42.05\00:30:45.43
Don't ever do
business with them.
00:30:45.46\00:30:47.55
And pray to God they
never move in next door to you.
00:30:47.58\00:30:51.38
Please they're right and
proper and correct and awful,
00:30:51.41\00:30:58.91
good in the worst
sense of the word.
00:30:58.94\00:31:01.78
It's like this, this little,
this little, this jingle out,
00:31:01.81\00:31:04.62
somebody wrote this.
00:31:04.65\00:31:05.68
I'll find it.
00:31:11.98\00:31:14.67
Oh, that's to live
with the Saints above,
00:31:14.70\00:31:19.78
oh, that will be glory, to
live with the saints below,
00:31:19.81\00:31:25.17
well, that's another story.
00:31:25.20\00:31:28.78
Good in the
worst sense of the word
00:31:28.81\00:31:29.96
like the little
English girl prayed oh, God,
00:31:29.99\00:31:32.46
make the bad people good
and the good people nice.
00:31:32.49\00:31:39.13
Are we a nice people?
00:31:39.16\00:31:41.02
I'm talking about Andrews
University, where you work?
00:31:41.05\00:31:43.46
Are we a nice people?
00:31:43.49\00:31:45.27
Is that what Berrien
Springs has concluded
00:31:45.30\00:31:46.76
it's really great
to have these people
00:31:46.79\00:31:48.34
they're something,
they are very nice.
00:31:48.37\00:31:51.28
Are we a nice people,
are we a loving people
00:31:51.31\00:31:53.75
or are we good in the
worst sense of the word?
00:31:53.78\00:31:57.81
Wow.
00:31:57.84\00:32:00.17
What kind of people are
we at Pioneer Memorial Church
00:32:00.20\00:32:03.15
and Andrews University,
wherever it is you're watching
00:32:03.18\00:32:06.46
from in live
streaming right now.
00:32:06.49\00:32:10.36
In this classic
love within limits,
00:32:10.39\00:32:12.61
the late Lewis
meets delightful ethicist,
00:32:12.64\00:32:16.65
had the privilege
of interviewing him
00:32:16.68\00:32:17.71
once on our evidence program.
00:32:17.74\00:32:20.27
Lewis means in his
book makes his observation,
00:32:20.30\00:32:23.06
I'll put the words
on the screen for you,
00:32:23.09\00:32:24.12
I want you to
take a look at this,
00:32:24.15\00:32:25.52
"God weeps when people
think they can love only him.
00:32:25.55\00:32:30.68
God is the first
to admit that he alone
00:32:30.71\00:32:32.87
is not enough for man or woman."
00:32:32.90\00:32:35.08
Keep reading,
"People need people
00:32:35.11\00:32:38.81
as surely as they need God.
00:32:38.84\00:32:41.01
Because God knows this and
here comes a line that I love,
00:32:41.04\00:32:43.16
"Because God knows this,
00:32:43.19\00:32:46.27
his redemptive love creates
a company of love-sharers."
00:32:46.30\00:32:51.45
Don't you like that?
00:32:51.48\00:32:52.60
A company of love-sharers,
that's where to be.
00:32:52.63\00:32:55.32
A company of love-sharers,
that's what Christ has called
00:32:55.35\00:32:57.91
the Third
Millennial Church to be,
00:32:57.94\00:32:59.59
a company of love sharers.
00:32:59.62\00:33:02.73
I love the way
Desire of Ages puts it,
00:33:02.76\00:33:04.21
put Desire of
Ages on the screen,
00:33:04.24\00:33:06.21
certainly concurring here
00:33:06.24\00:33:07.77
but you see the words
there, "Love to man and woman
00:33:07.80\00:33:11.15
is the earthward manifestation
of the love of God."
00:33:11.18\00:33:13.70
Bradley just sang about
the love of God, a moment ago.
00:33:13.73\00:33:16.13
This is the earthly
manifestation of it,
00:33:16.16\00:33:17.88
it's love to each other.
00:33:17.91\00:33:19.33
It was to impart this love
00:33:19.36\00:33:21.37
to make us
children of one family,
00:33:21.40\00:33:23.49
by the way how many families,
00:33:23.52\00:33:25.48
one, how many families?
00:33:25.51\00:33:27.40
One family, the whole human race
00:33:27.43\00:33:29.39
is the same family as yours.
00:33:29.42\00:33:31.46
You are not a member of
another family to make us
00:33:31.49\00:33:34.62
children of one
family, it was for this
00:33:34.65\00:33:36.51
"That the King of
glory became one with us.
00:33:36.54\00:33:38.75
And when his
parting words are fulfilled,
00:33:38.78\00:33:41.51
'Love one another,
as I have loved you'
00:33:41.54\00:33:44.01
when we love the
world as He has loved it,
00:33:44.04\00:33:46.49
then for us His
mission is accomplished.
00:33:46.52\00:33:50.18
We are fitted for heaven,"
hold it, hold it, hold it,
00:33:50.21\00:33:53.29
hold it, hold it,
okay, I just want to find out
00:33:53.32\00:33:54.97
how many here
want to go to heaven.
00:33:55.00\00:33:56.56
Put your hand up if
you want to go to heaven.
00:33:56.59\00:33:58.95
Hey, I just found out
00:33:58.98\00:34:00.54
how we get fitted
for going to heaven.
00:34:00.57\00:34:02.52
You want to be
ready when Jesus comes?
00:34:02.55\00:34:04.18
Here it is, love
one another by loving
00:34:04.21\00:34:08.44
we are fitted for heaven.
00:34:08.47\00:34:10.58
What's up with that?
00:34:10.61\00:34:14.44
We are fitted for heaven,
why are we fit for heaven?
00:34:14.47\00:34:17.19
"For we have
heaven in our hearts."
00:34:17.22\00:34:23.74
What Jesus say by this,
00:34:23.77\00:34:26.13
put it on the
screen, look at that,
00:34:26.16\00:34:27.49
"By this all the world will
know that you are My people,
00:34:27.52\00:34:32.48
if you have love
for one another."
00:34:32.51\00:34:36.24
So ladies and gentleman,
here's a--here's a question,
00:34:36.27\00:34:39.41
what would the
eleventh commandment
00:34:39.44\00:34:41.05
look like around here?
00:34:41.08\00:34:43.00
All right.
00:34:43.03\00:34:46.21
What I want to do in
these closing moments
00:34:46.24\00:34:48.38
and then I'll
end with the story.
00:34:48.41\00:34:49.83
What I want to do in
these closing moments
00:34:49.86\00:34:52.12
is reflect with
you as your pastor,
00:34:52.15\00:34:57.44
I've been around a few years,
00:34:57.47\00:34:59.81
had a chance to
watch, be part of life here.
00:34:59.84\00:35:04.11
I'm concerned about four areas
00:35:04.14\00:35:07.55
and I'm going to
reflect on these four.
00:35:07.58\00:35:09.51
Area number one, the
workplace, the workplace,
00:35:09.54\00:35:14.64
area number two, race relations,
00:35:14.67\00:35:18.77
area number
three, gender relations
00:35:18.80\00:35:21.35
and area number
four, cyberspace.
00:35:21.38\00:35:25.71
What would the eleventh
commandment mean for us?
00:35:25.74\00:35:29.34
What would it do?
00:35:29.37\00:35:31.48
How would it affect the way
00:35:31.51\00:35:32.64
we treat each
other in the workplace?
00:35:32.67\00:35:37.21
Now look, I
understand there are times
00:35:37.24\00:35:40.66
when we must come to
a parting of the ways
00:35:40.69\00:35:43.13
for whatever reason.
00:35:43.16\00:35:45.11
I've gone through those
times too, I understand that.
00:35:45.14\00:35:48.04
And by the way
I also understand,
00:35:48.07\00:35:49.91
now listen very carefully,
there are always two sides.
00:35:49.94\00:35:55.28
I've only been around the block
00:35:55.31\00:35:56.68
one or two
times in my short life
00:35:56.71\00:35:58.97
but I have learnt there are
always two sides to the story
00:35:59.00\00:36:03.77
and if you've
only heard one side
00:36:03.80\00:36:05.76
you need a little
voice inside of you saying,
00:36:05.79\00:36:07.72
but there's
another side to this.
00:36:07.75\00:36:10.60
All right, I understand that.
00:36:10.63\00:36:12.79
But here he's my-- here's
what I'm wondering, got it.
00:36:12.82\00:36:16.13
Out loud with you,
could there be a way
00:36:16.16\00:36:19.51
to avoid some of the
rawest, can I make that word?
00:36:19.54\00:36:24.03
Some of the rawest wounds
that I encounter as a pastor.
00:36:24.06\00:36:29.56
The wounds, the
hurt and the pain
00:36:29.59\00:36:33.48
it comes with hiring and firing.
00:36:33.51\00:36:39.48
It hurts.
00:36:39.51\00:36:42.14
Now look, I wonder if it might
turn out differently for Dwight,
00:36:42.17\00:36:47.32
if I would keep
this question in mind.
00:36:47.35\00:36:50.72
Okay, Dwight, look, if
the tables were turned,
00:36:50.75\00:36:56.29
would you want to
be treated the same way
00:36:56.32\00:37:00.17
as you are treating her now?
00:37:00.20\00:37:03.07
The same way as you
are treating him now?
00:37:03.10\00:37:07.07
If it's turned, you are
the one who is being employed.
00:37:07.10\00:37:12.50
Would you still do it this way?
00:37:12.53\00:37:15.97
Rabbi Hillel
famous Rabbi died 20 years
00:37:19.92\00:37:24.10
before Jesus public ministry.
00:37:24.13\00:37:26.27
But very well known
in the time of Christ.
00:37:26.30\00:37:28.04
Rabbi Hillel one day
was accosted by a Gentile
00:37:28.07\00:37:31.69
who said, "Rabbi, I want you
00:37:31.72\00:37:35.41
please to give us
summary of all the law
00:37:35.44\00:37:40.96
while you're
standing on one foot."
00:37:40.99\00:37:43.43
In other words, keep it short.
00:37:43.46\00:37:46.17
Well, the Rabbis
believed in the plentitude,
00:37:46.20\00:37:49.53
they counted
them, in fact, 613 laws.
00:37:49.56\00:37:53.55
So summarize all of
that in one sentence,
00:37:53.58\00:37:55.27
that's really what I want.
00:37:55.30\00:37:56.77
And Rabbi Hillel
quietly reflected for one moment
00:37:56.80\00:38:00.82
and then spoke these words,
00:38:00.85\00:38:02.35
I'll put them on
the screen for you.
00:38:02.38\00:38:04.62
"What is hateful to you,
do not do to your neighbor.
00:38:04.65\00:38:09.86
That is the whole law,
the rest is commentary."
00:38:09.89\00:38:14.42
That's pretty good, isn't it?
00:38:14.45\00:38:16.43
Along comes another younger
Rabbi named, Rabbi Jesus.
00:38:16.46\00:38:20.45
And in a sermon on the mount
00:38:20.48\00:38:21.77
he takes that
negative expression,
00:38:21.80\00:38:23.88
turns it into a
positive and it has been
00:38:23.91\00:38:26.51
immortalized as the Golden Rule.
00:38:26.54\00:38:28.56
Here's Rabbi Jesus, "Whatever
you want others to do to you,
00:38:28.59\00:38:34.52
do also to them, for this
is the Law and the Prophets."
00:38:34.55\00:38:38.84
The whole law is
in the golden rule,
00:38:38.87\00:38:42.35
treat others the very same
way you want to be treated.
00:38:42.38\00:38:46.97
If you are a
landlord in this community,
00:38:47.00\00:38:50.41
treat your tenants the same way
00:38:50.44\00:38:55.85
you'd like to be
treated if you were renting.
00:38:55.88\00:38:59.34
If you're a business person,
00:38:59.37\00:39:01.91
we got a lot of
renters here, I see.
00:39:01.94\00:39:04.91
If you are a business
person in this community,
00:39:04.94\00:39:09.04
treat your customer the way
00:39:09.07\00:39:11.79
you would want to be
treated as a customer.
00:39:11.82\00:39:15.51
It would be sad if we kept
00:39:15.54\00:39:16.81
cutting each others
legs out from under us,
00:39:16.84\00:39:19.36
we'll all be
crippled in the end.
00:39:19.39\00:39:24.21
What did Jesus say?
00:39:24.24\00:39:26.13
"A new commandment I give to you
00:39:26.16\00:39:28.38
that you love one another."
00:39:28.41\00:39:30.33
By the way, the golden
rule helps you know how to love.
00:39:30.36\00:39:34.56
Because if I just tell
you, love, you say okay.
00:39:34.59\00:39:37.41
But if I say
treat others the way
00:39:37.44\00:39:39.96
you want them to treat you.
00:39:39.99\00:39:41.41
You certainly
know that no matter
00:39:41.44\00:39:42.82
whether you feel warm
fuzzes for this person or not,
00:39:42.85\00:39:45.19
you're gonna treat
her, you're gonna treat him
00:39:45.22\00:39:47.35
the very way you
would want to be treated
00:39:47.38\00:39:49.08
if the tables were turned.
00:39:49.11\00:39:50.38
That's the golden rule
00:39:50.41\00:39:51.46
and that's what
love is all about.
00:39:51.49\00:39:53.24
It's not warm fuzzes at all.
00:39:53.27\00:39:54.67
You make a commitment
to another human being.
00:39:54.70\00:39:59.34
"A new commandment I give you
00:39:59.37\00:40:00.40
that you love one
another as I just loved you,"
00:40:00.43\00:40:03.33
you become the serpent,
you strip down to your waist,
00:40:03.36\00:40:06.74
you wash the feet of
the one that you think
00:40:06.77\00:40:08.75
should be taking care of
you, as I have loved you.
00:40:08.78\00:40:13.73
You also love one another,
00:40:13.76\00:40:15.17
"By this all will know
that you are My disciples,
00:40:15.20\00:40:18.65
if you have love
for one another."
00:40:18.68\00:40:21.11
I suppose if the
eleventh commandment
00:40:21.14\00:40:25.11
were to be lived out among us,
00:40:25.14\00:40:27.63
it would significantly
impact race relations
00:40:27.66\00:40:31.98
on our campus,
in our congregation,
00:40:32.01\00:40:35.80
in our
community, in our country.
00:40:35.83\00:40:39.14
I already told you
that I had the privilege
00:40:39.17\00:40:40.52
of going down to GYC
over the New Year break.
00:40:40.55\00:40:44.46
On Sabbath
morning preached 7,500
00:40:44.49\00:40:46.49
Seventh-day Adventist young.
00:40:46.52\00:40:48.13
God had impressed me to
change the sermon overnight,
00:40:48.16\00:40:50.28
I was up most of the night
00:40:50.31\00:40:51.64
changing and I
preached on Acts 10 and 11.
00:40:51.67\00:40:54.37
I got to the end of the
sermon, we're talking about
00:40:54.40\00:40:55.87
the Holy Spirit
taking walls down
00:40:55.90\00:40:57.82
and I got to the end
of the sermon and I said,
00:40:57.85\00:40:59.37
"Hey, listen guys, I
didn't have any preparation
00:40:59.40\00:41:01.78
for doing text
messaging, so let's do this.
00:41:01.81\00:41:04.06
I'm going to ask you to call
it out loud, I will hear you
00:41:04.09\00:41:07.35
and I will repeat it
to the audience here.
00:41:07.38\00:41:10.31
What is--what walls
00:41:10.34\00:41:11.88
would the Holy
Spirit wish to take down
00:41:11.91\00:41:14.05
in order for revival and
reformation to take place?
00:41:14.08\00:41:16.31
Are there any walls
left up in our church?
00:41:16.34\00:41:18.31
All right.
00:41:18.34\00:41:19.37
Go and the first person
to speak is a young woman
00:41:19.40\00:41:23.35
she's sitting about the fourth
00:41:23.38\00:41:24.48
or fifth row
right about over there
00:41:24.51\00:41:26.46
and I didn't even -- I
couldn't tell who it was,
00:41:26.49\00:41:28.22
I just heard that
young voice calling out.
00:41:28.25\00:41:31.01
When I said what
walls would the Holy Spirit
00:41:31.04\00:41:33.09
need to take down
and she cried out,
00:41:33.12\00:41:34.70
"The wall of racial division."
00:41:34.73\00:41:39.12
Just like that,
the first one to speak.
00:41:39.15\00:41:44.91
And a few moments later that
00:41:44.94\00:41:45.99
entire convocation
erupted in applause.
00:41:46.02\00:41:51.31
The young of the church know
00:41:51.34\00:41:53.66
we got a problem,
we have a problem.
00:41:53.69\00:41:57.81
I know what you're thinking,
00:42:03.37\00:42:04.73
well, okay, yeah I -- you know,
00:42:04.76\00:42:06.23
in fact, Dwight, I
actually agree with that,
00:42:06.26\00:42:07.50
that wall needs to come down,
00:42:07.53\00:42:08.97
they need to get the wall down,
00:42:09.00\00:42:11.41
they need to get the wall down.
00:42:11.44\00:42:13.45
I don't care which you are
00:42:13.48\00:42:16.25
in this--which side
of the wall you are on,
00:42:16.28\00:42:19.51
no, we-- In fact, as
God has always shown us
00:42:19.54\00:42:23.15
now I'm gonna step on your toes,
00:42:23.18\00:42:24.66
as God has always shown us,
00:42:24.69\00:42:28.36
the Trinity has
always shown us this.
00:42:28.39\00:42:30.34
It is always the
responsibility of the majority
00:42:30.37\00:42:35.84
to look out for an advocate
00:42:35.87\00:42:39.10
on behalf of the
needs of the minority.
00:42:39.13\00:42:42.69
I don't care where
you are in this equation,
00:42:42.72\00:42:44.58
it's always the
responsibility of the majority.
00:42:44.61\00:42:49.94
Well, I've learned just hanging
00:42:49.97\00:42:51.02
around this
world for a few years.
00:42:51.05\00:42:53.78
Is that fear is a huge factor
00:42:53.81\00:42:56.08
in much racial
misunderstanding today?
00:42:56.11\00:42:59.59
Fear, fear that
you'll take over.
00:42:59.62\00:43:03.44
Fear that I'll be marginalized,
we'll be marginalized.
00:43:07.53\00:43:14.26
Fear that we'll lose influence.
00:43:14.29\00:43:17.65
The golden rule, that
would be true racially,
00:43:25.19\00:43:27.78
by the way that would
also be true genderly,
00:43:27.81\00:43:29.80
can I make up a word,
that would be true genderly.
00:43:29.83\00:43:32.88
In a male majority
world, now listen, fellows,
00:43:32.91\00:43:36.74
in a male majority
world not majority by numbers,
00:43:36.77\00:43:39.95
no but majority by
positional influence
00:43:39.98\00:43:45.63
and you know what I mean.
00:43:45.66\00:43:47.46
In a male majority
world we cannot require women
00:43:47.49\00:43:52.47
to become their own advocates.
00:43:52.50\00:43:56.14
Nothing deflects
communal interest faster
00:43:56.17\00:43:59.61
than women having to serve
00:43:59.64\00:44:01.72
as their own advocates
particularly in the church.
00:44:01.75\00:44:09.31
Which means that it is
a responsibility of men
00:44:09.34\00:44:12.89
as Jesus himself
powerfully modeled an example,
00:44:12.92\00:44:17.17
it is just responsibility
of men to speak up
00:44:17.20\00:44:19.68
on behalf of their
sisters, their mothers,
00:44:19.71\00:44:25.00
their daughters,
their colleagues.
00:44:25.03\00:44:31.87
It is always the
responsibility of the majority
00:44:31.90\00:44:36.88
in God system to look
out for an advance in needs
00:44:36.91\00:44:41.18
and interests of the minority,
00:44:41.21\00:44:43.31
racially or genderly.
00:44:43.34\00:44:46.52
Jesus says, "A new
commandment I give to you,
00:44:46.55\00:44:48.79
that you love one
another, as I have loved you,
00:44:48.82\00:44:50.71
that you love also that
you also love one another.
00:44:50.74\00:44:52.96
By this the whole world
will know you are My people,
00:44:52.99\00:44:55.01
if you have love
for one another."
00:44:55.04\00:44:58.15
In eleventh
commandment community
00:44:58.18\00:44:59.67
like this
university and like the church
00:44:59.70\00:45:01.98
that founded this university
must become the incarnating
00:45:02.01\00:45:06.84
of the love of
Christ in this world.
00:45:06.87\00:45:10.81
One more concern,
eleventh commandment,
00:45:10.84\00:45:16.03
which I suppose would even
affect the way we write emails,
00:45:16.06\00:45:20.35
text messages
and post on facebook.
00:45:20.38\00:45:24.23
This same Jesus
in the upper room
00:45:27.11\00:45:29.53
is utterly clear in Matthew 18,
00:45:29.56\00:45:32.65
that if your
sister or your brother
00:45:32.68\00:45:35.93
has sinned against you,
you go to her, you go to him,
00:45:35.96\00:45:41.21
you do not post it on facebook,
00:45:41.24\00:45:43.30
you do not forward an email,
00:45:43.33\00:45:45.36
you do not upload it on YouTube,
00:45:45.39\00:45:47.93
you go to her, you go to him.
00:45:47.96\00:45:53.88
The anonymity, now listen
very carefully you high-techers.
00:45:53.91\00:45:58.90
The anonymity of cyberspace
provides a cloak for cowards
00:45:58.93\00:46:04.00
and demagogues
who wax eloquent only
00:46:07.78\00:46:12.73
when they can remain anonymous.
00:46:12.76\00:46:15.84
Suddenly someone says, "Hey,
00:46:15.87\00:46:16.90
who's saying
this, you know what,
00:46:16.93\00:46:17.96
the cat's got my
tongue, I can't speak,"
00:46:17.99\00:46:19.87
because you're
embarrassed to speak that's why.
00:46:19.90\00:46:21.86
And you should be,
00:46:25.53\00:46:27.74
what you just put
on that blog forum,
00:46:27.77\00:46:30.08
you ought to be embarrassed.
00:46:30.11\00:46:32.92
Cutesy little codename for you.
00:46:32.95\00:46:39.46
That's why I believe, pardon me,
00:46:39.49\00:46:42.82
that these blog forums
that so many websites offer.
00:46:42.85\00:46:47.04
And by the way I
never--I never write,
00:46:47.07\00:46:50.94
I never let anybody know
I'm there, I just go to watch.
00:46:50.97\00:46:56.82
That's most of us right there.
00:46:56.85\00:47:02.01
Maybe we ought to quit watching
and let it die a natural death.
00:47:02.04\00:47:06.84
I believe these
blogs-- these blog forums
00:47:06.87\00:47:11.32
that so many websites offer
and which you can emotionally
00:47:11.35\00:47:14.39
and intellectually
if not physically,
00:47:14.42\00:47:16.37
skin alive anybody you
happen to disagree with.
00:47:16.40\00:47:20.19
I believe there is somebody
called by the apocalypse,
00:47:20.22\00:47:23.33
the accuser of the brothers
and sisters who just salivates
00:47:23.36\00:47:28.52
when that anonymous
00:47:28.55\00:47:31.91
decapitation takes place.
00:47:31.94\00:47:36.86
Don't you give me this,
oh, it's all in the interest
00:47:36.89\00:47:39.08
of open conversation
and dialogue, rubbish.
00:47:39.11\00:47:43.14
There are some things that never
ought to see the light of day.
00:47:43.17\00:47:47.20
It's not a sign
of open mindedness,
00:47:47.23\00:47:48.76
it's the side of cowardice.
00:47:48.79\00:47:52.34
You want to have a
discussion, go to him,
00:47:52.37\00:47:55.41
you want to have a
discussion, go to her.
00:47:55.44\00:47:57.68
Don't go to the
world, go to the offender
00:47:57.71\00:48:00.57
that's Jesus point,
that's how you love.
00:48:00.60\00:48:03.10
That's how I'd
want to be treated,
00:48:03.13\00:48:04.21
you got something against me?
00:48:04.24\00:48:05.27
I wish you'd
come straight to me,
00:48:05.30\00:48:06.95
don't post it somewhere,
00:48:06.98\00:48:08.16
don't make a YouTube
about it, just come to me.
00:48:08.19\00:48:10.41
I need to hear from you,
maybe we can work this out.
00:48:10.44\00:48:15.67
Don't you think
that's what Jesus wanted,
00:48:15.70\00:48:17.94
I mean here's
Jesus in the upper room
00:48:17.97\00:48:19.67
less than 24 hours
guys, less than 24 hours
00:48:19.70\00:48:22.10
and he's dead,
he's gone, finish.
00:48:22.13\00:48:25.56
Don't you think the
golden rule in Jesus had was boy
00:48:25.59\00:48:27.89
I'd sure love it if
somebody in my closest,
00:48:27.92\00:48:31.06
my closest companions,
00:48:31.09\00:48:32.99
somebody here would
strip down to the waist,
00:48:33.02\00:48:35.66
become a slave just
once in their blue moon lives
00:48:35.69\00:48:39.62
and wash my
feet and tell me that
00:48:39.65\00:48:41.27
I'm important to them.
00:48:41.30\00:48:42.95
So what does he do?
00:48:42.98\00:48:44.01
He does what he wishes
somebody would do to him,
00:48:44.04\00:48:46.91
nobody would do it, so
it's okay, I'll be the slave.
00:48:46.94\00:48:50.41
I'm the king of this universe,
00:48:50.44\00:48:52.48
let me be the slave
too and He washes the feet.
00:48:52.51\00:48:56.52
Unbelievable. Wow.
00:48:56.55\00:49:00.99
And by the way not only
washes the feet of the man
00:49:01.02\00:49:03.15
who was about to destroy him.
00:49:03.18\00:49:05.24
Sometimes you know who
you destroyer is going to be,
00:49:05.27\00:49:07.74
you hang in the same office,
you know who you destroyer is.
00:49:07.77\00:49:11.41
He washes the
feet of His destroyer
00:49:11.44\00:49:13.92
and then turns to the feet
of one of his closest companions
00:49:13.95\00:49:17.09
who under the pressure
of public intense scrutiny
00:49:17.12\00:49:21.17
will--will deny
that he even knows him.
00:49:21.20\00:49:25.25
You can be sitting in a circle
00:49:25.28\00:49:26.64
and they start
taking on a church leader
00:49:26.67\00:49:30.54
and they start
ripping that leader to pieces
00:49:30.57\00:49:33.58
and you're a friend
of -- and a acquaintance
00:49:33.61\00:49:36.44
rather friendly
acquaintance of that leader
00:49:36.47\00:49:38.44
and what do you
do, you sit as if,
00:49:38.47\00:49:40.45
your tongue does not function,
00:49:40.48\00:49:42.05
you say not a word
and by your presence
00:49:42.08\00:49:44.41
you deny that individual
00:49:44.44\00:49:47.35
who's being excoriated
without giving a chance
00:49:47.38\00:49:50.84
to even respond
a single sentence.
00:49:50.87\00:49:55.97
You and I know better
than Peter, no better,
00:49:56.00\00:49:59.92
Jesus washes the feet
of the one who deny Him.
00:49:59.95\00:50:05.58
And then yeah, what is
more for Peter and Judas
00:50:05.61\00:50:09.99
and you and me
and his executioners,
00:50:10.02\00:50:12.95
Jesus prays a prayer
00:50:12.98\00:50:14.31
the next day
that goes like this,
00:50:14.34\00:50:17.18
"Father, forgive Peter and Judas
00:50:17.21\00:50:21.25
and Dwight and these Romans.
00:50:21.28\00:50:24.76
They don't know
what they are doing,
00:50:24.79\00:50:26.75
they don't know
what they're doing."
00:50:26.78\00:50:31.12
Wow.
00:50:31.15\00:50:33.16
Read it one more time,
00:50:33.19\00:50:34.37
"A new
commandment I give to you,
00:50:34.40\00:50:37.68
that you love one
another, as I have loved you
00:50:37.71\00:50:40.11
that you also love one another.
00:50:40.14\00:50:41.91
By this all will know
that you are My disciples,
00:50:41.94\00:50:46.36
if you have love
for one another."
00:50:46.39\00:50:50.93
Will it work?
Does it really work?
00:50:50.96\00:50:52.74
Let me end with the
story I promised you.
00:50:52.77\00:50:53.92
Here it goes.
00:50:53.95\00:50:54.98
A few years ago a
friend of mine gave me the book
00:50:55.01\00:50:57.28
entitled, Letters
to an American Lady,
00:50:57.31\00:50:59.46
it's a collection of
letters written by CS Lewis
00:50:59.49\00:51:02.17
to an anonymous
woman in Illinois.
00:51:02.20\00:51:05.33
CS Lewis arguably the greatest
00:51:05.36\00:51:07.21
Christian apologist
of the 20th century.
00:51:07.24\00:51:10.48
So this woman initially,
apparently sent a letter
00:51:10.51\00:51:15.56
to Doctor Lewis
and he wrote back
00:51:15.59\00:51:20.52
and that began a 13
year correspondence,
00:51:20.55\00:51:23.43
they never met face to face.
00:51:23.46\00:51:26.28
It was just across the
pond as the bricks we put it,
00:51:26.31\00:51:29.33
letters back and forth.
00:51:29.36\00:51:30.93
When the woman died
00:51:30.96\00:51:32.99
Lewis obviously
preceded in death,
00:51:33.02\00:51:34.53
when the woman died her estate
gave the letters to a publisher.
00:51:34.56\00:51:38.51
Now we don't have the
woman's letters to Lewis,
00:51:38.54\00:51:40.64
they're gone.
00:51:40.67\00:51:41.70
But the letters of
Lewis to this woman
00:51:41.73\00:51:43.87
went to the publisher
and so we have the book,
00:51:43.90\00:51:45.57
Letters to an American Lady.
00:51:45.60\00:51:47.31
Imagine my surprises as
I'm reading these letters
00:51:47.34\00:51:49.77
and I discover that the woman
00:51:49.80\00:51:51.97
in one letter
apparently has asked CS Lewis
00:51:52.00\00:51:54.55
what he knows about
Seventh-day Adventist?
00:51:54.58\00:51:57.84
You got my attention now.
00:51:57.87\00:52:00.53
I have his reply and
it's so short in any case
00:52:00.56\00:52:03.58
he doesn't know much at all.
00:52:03.61\00:52:05.28
Her next letter,
her subsequent letter
00:52:05.31\00:52:06.94
back to him
describes an experience
00:52:06.97\00:52:09.59
she had with a real live
00:52:09.62\00:52:11.54
Seventh-day
Adventist in Illinois,
00:52:11.57\00:52:15.13
could have been Michigan.
00:52:15.16\00:52:18.24
And Lewis after reading that
description writes back to her
00:52:18.27\00:52:23.00
and I want you to see
how CS Lewis responds,
00:52:23.03\00:52:27.43
"What you say about the VII,"
00:52:27.46\00:52:30.45
I like that Roman
numeral Seventh-day Adventist.
00:52:30.48\00:52:33.33
You know, you're not
Adventist just on a seventh day,
00:52:33.36\00:52:35.20
you're all seven
days you're an Adventist.
00:52:35.23\00:52:37.63
"What you say about
the Seventh-day Adventist
00:52:37.66\00:52:41.26
interest me extremely.
00:52:41.29\00:52:43.39
If they have so much charity,
00:52:43.42\00:52:46.85
if they have so much love
00:52:46.88\00:52:48.80
there must be something
very right about them."
00:52:48.83\00:52:54.17
That Jesus says,
it's how it works,
00:52:57.32\00:52:59.78
one of the
brightest minds in Christendom
00:52:59.81\00:53:02.04
in the 20th century says, "Hey,
00:53:02.07\00:53:04.33
that's it, I find
that story amazing
00:53:04.36\00:53:07.61
if those people
have that kind of love,
00:53:07.64\00:53:10.30
there must be something
very right about them."
00:53:10.33\00:53:13.83
Wow. I guess Jesus was right.
00:53:16.32\00:53:20.02
By this the
whole world will know
00:53:20.05\00:53:23.06
that you are My people.
00:53:23.09\00:53:24.57
By this everybody will know
00:53:24.60\00:53:25.91
there's something
very right about you.
00:53:25.94\00:53:28.22
By the way you love one another.
00:53:28.25\00:53:33.95
I want to be that
kind of human being
00:53:33.98\00:53:37.57
who loves everyone, don't you?
00:53:37.60\00:53:43.72
I do.
00:53:43.75\00:53:44.78
I want to be that
kind of human being.
00:53:44.81\00:53:46.55
And so I'm going to ask you.
00:53:46.58\00:53:50.17
Is it your desire
to love as Jesus loved?
00:53:50.20\00:53:54.26
To live by the golden
rule, to treat others the way
00:53:54.29\00:53:58.14
you would wish to be treated?
00:53:58.17\00:54:00.57
Would you like to live that way?
00:54:00.60\00:54:02.60
How about just telling
God, the people in your pew,
00:54:02.63\00:54:07.44
I want to live that way
00:54:07.47\00:54:08.69
by the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:54:08.72\00:54:10.49
Dwight, I'll stand with you
00:54:10.52\00:54:12.01
and by standing I'm
going to say to all this campus
00:54:12.04\00:54:15.48
and to the world, I wish to live
00:54:15.51\00:54:20.20
by the self-sacrificing
love of Christ Jesus.
00:54:20.23\00:54:23.75
If you want to live that way
00:54:23.78\00:54:25.32
would you mind just
standing to your feet.
00:54:25.35\00:54:28.23
Oh, God.
00:54:44.87\00:54:48.26
Jesus couldn't
have been clearer.
00:54:48.29\00:54:50.44
We get the point, we
don't need a study guide,
00:54:50.47\00:54:53.76
we got the point.
00:54:53.79\00:54:55.26
Lord Jesus,
Holy Spirit try--God,
00:54:55.29\00:55:00.57
please there's
nothing great about us,
00:55:00.60\00:55:03.83
we understand that but we stand
00:55:03.86\00:55:06.02
because we want the
story to turn out the same way.
00:55:06.05\00:55:13.87
If he has that much charity,
00:55:13.90\00:55:17.14
if she has that much love,
00:55:17.17\00:55:19.70
there must be
something very right
00:55:19.73\00:55:22.93
about that nice person.
00:55:22.96\00:55:26.52
We want to be those
people on this campus
00:55:26.55\00:55:29.01
and this
congregation in this world.
00:55:29.04\00:55:31.61
Dear God,
please, the golden rule
00:55:31.64\00:55:36.35
let us love like the Lord Jesus
00:55:36.38\00:55:40.52
and may the world
through us be drawn to Him.
00:55:40.55\00:55:45.71
Now may the Lord
bless you and keep you.
00:55:50.56\00:55:54.01
May He make His
face shine upon you.
00:55:54.04\00:55:58.01
May the Lord lift up
His countenance upon you
00:55:58.04\00:56:01.72
and give you peace both
now and forever more, amen.
00:56:01.75\00:56:08.41
I'd like to take a moment here
00:56:24.68\00:56:25.73
at end of the
service to tell you about
00:56:25.76\00:56:27.11
one of the most
important groups of people
00:56:27.14\00:56:29.24
that make this
ministry possible.
00:56:29.27\00:56:32.04
They're team of people,
00:56:32.07\00:56:33.60
they are not afraid to get down
into the thick of life itself,
00:56:33.63\00:56:37.34
which is why
you're going to find them,
00:56:37.37\00:56:38.42
you will find them
moving forward on their knees.
00:56:38.45\00:56:41.83
They are our prayer partners.
00:56:41.86\00:56:43.52
A group of men and
women and young adults,
00:56:43.55\00:56:46.65
who believe that this
humble television ministry
00:56:46.68\00:56:49.57
has been raised up by
God for such a time as this.
00:56:49.60\00:56:52.04
And so they pray earnestly
that God will use the preacher,
00:56:52.07\00:56:55.39
that God will use me, the
God would use the countless
00:56:55.42\00:56:57.47
other volunteers to
spread the everlasting gospel
00:56:57.50\00:57:01.16
and the word of God in ways
00:57:01.19\00:57:02.34
we could never
have imagined before.
00:57:02.37\00:57:04.37
They're the ones who are praying
00:57:04.40\00:57:05.99
that God is going to
open up the hearts of people,
00:57:06.02\00:57:09.14
open up the hearts of viewers
00:57:09.17\00:57:10.80
around the
world for the message,
00:57:10.83\00:57:12.83
the critical message for
this end time generation.
00:57:12.86\00:57:16.88
And what I'd
like to do is ask you,
00:57:16.91\00:57:19.05
would you be willing to
be a prayer partner with us?
00:57:19.08\00:57:21.78
A prayer partner
with new perceptions,
00:57:21.81\00:57:23.41
you don't have to
call a toll-free number,
00:57:23.44\00:57:25.12
you don't have to
go online to register.
00:57:25.15\00:57:27.29
All I need to know is that
you'd be willing to lift this
00:57:27.32\00:57:31.47
little ministry up,
day after day after day.
00:57:31.50\00:57:35.64
Pray that somehow through radio
and television and the web,
00:57:35.67\00:57:39.56
God will open up new
doors new, new regions on earth
00:57:39.59\00:57:44.11
where the everlasting
gospel can be proclaimed.
00:57:44.14\00:57:46.61
There's no
question the power of prayer
00:57:46.64\00:57:49.13
has potential to take
this ministry to places
00:57:49.16\00:57:51.49
we could never
have imagined before.
00:57:51.52\00:57:54.36
So that's it, would
you please be willing
00:57:54.39\00:57:57.34
to partner with me in prayer?
00:57:57.37\00:57:59.02
The times are
urgent, the need is critical
00:57:59.05\00:58:02.74
and I hope you'll say yes.
00:58:02.77\00:58:04.55
Till we're together, next time
may the prayer answering God
00:58:04.58\00:58:08.85
accompany you
every step of the way.
00:58:08.88\00:58:11.44