From the highest of heights
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To the depths of the sea
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Amazing world.
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Creation's
revealing Your majesty
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From the colors of Fall
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To the fragrance of Spring
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Ev'ry 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.
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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
ev'ry lightning bolt
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Where it should go
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Or seen heavenly storehouses
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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 are amazing God
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You are amazing God
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Our God is an awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom, pow'r and love
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Our God is an awesome God
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Our God is an awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom, pow'r and love
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Our God is an awesome God
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Amen.
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Lord of all creation
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Of water, earth, and sky
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The heavens are Your tabernacle
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Glory to the Lord on high
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God of wonders beyond out galaxy
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You are holy, holy
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The universe
declares Your majesty
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You are holy, holy
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Sing together,
early in the morning.
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Early in the morning
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I will celebrate the light
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And as I stumble
through the darkness
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I will call Your name by night
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God of wonders beyond our galaxy
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You are holy, holy
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The universe
declares Your majesty
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You are holy, holy
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Hallelujah to the
Lord of heaven and earth
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Hallelujah to the
Lord of heaven and earth
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Hallelujah to the
Lord of heaven and earth
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Now everyone.
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God of wonders beyond out galaxy
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You are holy, holy
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The universe
declares Your majesty
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You are holy, holy
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God of wonders beyond out galaxy
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You are holy, holy
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The universe
declares Your majesty
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You are holy, holy
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Holy, holy, holy,
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Lord, God,
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Almighty
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Early in the morning
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Our song
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Shall rise to Thee
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Holy, holy
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Holy
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Merciful
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And mighty
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God in three Persons
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Blessed Trinity
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That stanza one more time.
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Holy, holy
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Holy
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Lord, God,
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Almighty
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Early in the morning
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Our song
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Shall rise to Thee
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Holy, holy
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Holy
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Merciful
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And mighty
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God in three Persons
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Blessed Trinity
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Oh, Father, if somehow
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we could make this
moment last and last.
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We know where we are.
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We are in a holy place, in
the presence of a Holy God.
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We have been worshipping You.
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We have not stopped.
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In Your mercy and grace
would You honor this worship
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by bringing to us a word,
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hush all the voices within us
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and somehow through
the majesty of this moment,
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let it be Your
voice that speaks to us.
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We want to hear,
and we wish to heed
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for the glory of our
Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
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Our Holy God
speaks these words to us.
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"For you our holy
people to the Lord your God.
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The Lord your God has chosen you
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to be a people for
himself a special treasure
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above all the peoples
on the face of this earth.
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The Lord did not said his
love on you nor choose you
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because you are in
number than any other people,
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for you are the
least of all peoples.
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But the Lord is chosen
you because the Lord loves you
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and because He
would keep the oath
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which He swore to
your fathers and mothers.
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The Lord is brought you
out with the mighty hand
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and redeemed you
from the house of bondage,
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from the hand of
Pharaoh King of Egypt.
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Let my people go,
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therefore know
that the Lord your God,
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He is God, the faithful
God, who keeps His covenant
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and mercy for a
thousand generations with those
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who love Him and
keep His commandments."
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When you think
about being chosen,
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there are probably
more than a few of us
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who remember
those long ago days...
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during recess...
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on that playground school yard.
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Teachers picked the
two biggest guys in class
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and asked them
to be the captains.
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Choose up two teams in a sport
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where winning
matters and the rest of us...
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we form obediently that line
in the playground and we wait.
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One by one the big captains gaze
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over that motley
line call a name.
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We nervously are
holding our breath
00:15:02.99\00:15:07.82
shifting our way from
one sneaker to the other
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and every time a
name is called amazingly
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that line gets thinner...
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and you're still in it.
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And in a
moment, a painful moment
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that too many of us remember,
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there is that panic thought.
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What if today I
don't get chosen?
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What if today I have
to stand on the sidelines
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and watch the
chosen play their games?
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For some of us
that is a painful memory
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'cause nobody
wants to not be chosen,
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not in a presidential election
00:16:01.67\00:16:03.69
not with the
invitation to a party,
00:16:03.72\00:16:06.10
nobody wants to get left out.
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So what are we gonna do?
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We run smack-dab into the
heart of this work chosen.
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How we're gonna handle this?
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Open your Bible with
me please, to the book
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that is our new theme
book for this brand new journey
00:16:21.76\00:16:26.23
that you and I embarked
upon last week together.
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Book of Deuteronomy,
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it's the fifth
book of the Bible,
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it's the towering
climax to the mighty Pentateuch
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in the Hebrew Bible,
the first five books.
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This is Deuteronomy in the Greek
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the name
actually means the duet,
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the two, the second law,
it's the repeating of the law.
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And the Hebrew the
actual name of this book
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is the first words
of the book itself,
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these are the
words that were written.
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I'm going to the
Book of Deuteronomy.
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This is a book that reminds you
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that actually
was orally presented
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before it was written.
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It's a farewell address.
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This is the last time He
will be with these people.
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I got to remind you,
00:17:20.96\00:17:22.04
those of you
that missed last week,
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can we just set the table again.
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The congregation is
under the age of 60,
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this vast horde
of liberated slaves,
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they are actually children
of the liberated slaves,
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under the age of 60.
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They have been wandering this
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burning wilderness for 40 years,
00:17:38.89\00:17:41.15
waiting for every mother
and father in that crowd to die
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and become a burial heap.
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And those burning essence
they've been waiting for 40--
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it's only three,
three of them older than 60,
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and only two of those three
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will cross over
into the promise land.
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You know why?
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I can't explain it to you,
it doesn't seem fair to me.
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But if you're a
leader listen to me,
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if you're a leader you are held
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to a higher
standard than anybody else.
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And just days ago,
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this far from the
promise land the leader failed
00:18:20.37\00:18:27.56
and the word is
you're not going, boy.
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You're gonna
die on that mountain
00:18:31.21\00:18:33.53
and then they'll crossover.
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I know it's not fair
but you accepted leadership.
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You accepted the
invitation to lead
00:18:40.79\00:18:43.98
and you be now held for
the rest of the leadership
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by a higher standard.
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That's just the
way it is with God.
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And so they are there longest
farewell address in history.
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This is a part of that address.
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I read the words to
you just a moment ago
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Deuteronomy
Chapter 7, open your Bible
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that the fifth book
Deuteronomy Chapter 7.
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If you didn't bring a Bible,
you got to follow with this,
00:19:06.24\00:19:09.87
grab the pew Bible in
the front of you please,
00:19:09.90\00:19:12.09
same translation I'll be reading
00:19:12.12\00:19:13.34
from the New King James version
00:19:13.37\00:19:14.54
Deuteronomy 7:6.
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Deuteronomy 7:6, Moses,
00:19:18.46\00:19:23.35
seven chapters into this
farewell address thundering.
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You know, people have wondered--
00:19:27.29\00:19:28.37
people have wondered
how could one man proclaim
00:19:28.40\00:19:33.51
this farewell
address to the thousand--
00:19:33.54\00:19:36.91
the tens of thousands.
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No PA, no outdoor
concert, electronics nothing
00:19:38.12\00:19:43.00
but a man standing on the rock.
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The scholars have come
to believe and in fact,
00:19:44.90\00:19:46.69
when it talks
about the believers
00:19:46.72\00:19:47.84
there were thousands
and leaders over a hundred
00:19:47.87\00:19:49.49
as it does in chapter
1 and leaders over 10,
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that those leaders
were spaced all the way
00:19:51.56\00:19:53.40
to the back of that
massive congregation
00:19:53.43\00:19:56.30
and when they heard
the preacher upfront
00:19:56.33\00:19:58.36
the next wave picked
it and said repeat it
00:19:58.39\00:20:00.77
and the next wave
and the next wave.
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You think some of the
sermons are long here.
00:20:03.02\00:20:04.76
Yeah, you all have
to sit through this.
00:20:04.79\00:20:09.73
So Moses crying out
the love of his life.
00:20:09.76\00:20:12.58
These are his
people. These are his kids.
00:20:12.61\00:20:15.30
Their parents that he
grew up with they are gone.
00:20:15.33\00:20:17.42
It's only the kids
left and their children
00:20:17.45\00:20:19.66
and some of them
even have children.
00:20:19.69\00:20:22.41
So Moses crying
out in the words for--
00:20:22.44\00:20:25.12
on behalf of God
verse 6 Deuteronomy 7:6
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"For you" a 120
year old voice thunders
00:20:27.92\00:20:32.55
"For you are a holy
people to the Lord your God."
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Just hit the pause
button right there,
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because Moses chooses a
very strategic word kadosh
00:20:40.67\00:20:46.12
and its root meaning
that Hebrew word means
00:20:46.15\00:20:47.90
to be physically separated,
00:20:47.93\00:20:49.76
is to pull something
apart from everything like it.
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It's the separated.
00:20:52.61\00:20:54.15
In fact, the
book-- the Pentateuch
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the first book of the
Bible begins with God declaring,
00:20:56.74\00:20:59.16
I'm going to now kadosh.
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Watch this God says,
00:21:00.84\00:21:01.89
you see this one, two,
three, four, five, six,
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I'm now going to kadosh.
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Let's put it on the
screen, I'm gonna kadosh.
00:21:06.95\00:21:10.04
I'm gonna pull, the seventh day.
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Physically pull it
apart, separated from the rest.
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Identical 24 hours
same number of minutes
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but this day
now has been kadosh.
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It is mine, not yours.
00:21:21.69\00:21:23.67
I give it to you
or I made it for you
00:21:23.70\00:21:26.19
but its mine.
00:21:26.22\00:21:27.25
Divine seal of approval of
it because God kadoshed it.
00:21:27.28\00:21:31.05
Some century later,
God came along and said
00:21:31.08\00:21:33.95
oh, by the way,
when you earn 10 pennies,
00:21:33.98\00:21:36.90
when you earn 10
pennies I'm gonna kadosh.
00:21:36.93\00:21:40.18
I'm gonna take one of those 10
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and I'm just
gonna slide it away.
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The one I slide away is
mine, it's called the tithe.
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It's not yours,
you can't spend it,
00:21:50.47\00:21:52.72
you can't bank it, you
can't save it, its mine.
00:21:52.75\00:21:57.01
If you want me to be
your chief financial officer,
00:21:57.04\00:21:59.83
you want me to direct
your financial affairs
00:21:59.86\00:22:02.52
and trust me boy, trust me girl,
00:22:02.55\00:22:04.49
He says, you need me.
00:22:04.52\00:22:06.78
That kadoshed
tithe you return to me
00:22:06.81\00:22:09.82
I'll take good care of
you, don't you worry about that.
00:22:09.85\00:22:12.20
The same word God uses now
00:22:12.23\00:22:13.91
when He speaks to this
community of liberated slaves.
00:22:13.94\00:22:16.42
He said you know
what I'm gonna do?
00:22:16.45\00:22:17.67
You are holy to me,
I'm gonna kadosh you.
00:22:17.70\00:22:20.61
I'm gonna separate you
from everybody else on earth
00:22:20.64\00:22:23.07
because you are mine.
00:22:23.10\00:22:24.21
You belong to me,
00:22:24.24\00:22:26.12
that's what He is
talking about here.
00:22:26.15\00:22:28.30
Verse 6 again "For
you are a holy people
00:22:28.33\00:22:31.23
to the Lord your
God, the Lord your God
00:22:31.26\00:22:33.49
has chosen you to be
a people for Himself,
00:22:33.52\00:22:35.79
a special treasure
above all the peoples
00:22:35.82\00:22:38.94
on the face of the earth."
00:22:38.97\00:22:41.26
I tell you what
ladies and gentlemen,
00:22:41.29\00:22:42.36
there is not really-- truly,
there is not a politically
00:22:42.39\00:22:45.55
correct way to say
what Moses just said.
00:22:45.58\00:22:48.09
All he can do is just
don't be around the bush
00:22:48.12\00:22:50.81
just blurred it out.
00:22:50.84\00:22:52.23
And that's what he does.
00:22:52.26\00:22:53.29
He's talking to
these grown up kids.
00:22:53.32\00:22:54.73
He says, listen
to me, listen to me,
00:22:54.76\00:22:57.55
you who grew up on
the desert sands you,
00:22:57.58\00:23:01.44
who are the children
of the liberated slaves,
00:23:01.47\00:23:03.09
I'm telling you
listen carefully to me.
00:23:03.12\00:23:05.81
God has looked at you
00:23:05.84\00:23:08.16
and He said I'm
gonna kadosh you.
00:23:08.19\00:23:10.69
I'm gonna make you
my special treasure.
00:23:10.72\00:23:12.43
I'm gonna make you
my special possession
00:23:12.46\00:23:14.24
and I'm gonna pull you apart
00:23:14.27\00:23:15.73
from every other
human being on this planet.
00:23:15.76\00:23:19.07
You children never forget,
00:23:19.10\00:23:23.99
you've been
kadoshed by God as it were.
00:23:24.02\00:23:29.50
You know, I got to tell you,
that in this day of equality
00:23:29.53\00:23:32.39
and egalitarian
fairness it really feels--
00:23:32.42\00:23:36.79
it really-- it
does not feel polite.
00:23:36.82\00:23:38.51
It does not feel proper.
00:23:38.54\00:23:39.72
It does not feel politically
correct to say it like that
00:23:39.75\00:23:43.56
but he said it like that.
00:23:43.59\00:23:48.75
So what are we
gonna do with this?
00:23:48.78\00:23:50.95
I mean we-- we might as
well be honest to admit,
00:23:50.98\00:23:53.53
certainly we can do this
00:23:53.56\00:23:55.44
having read this
book once upon a time,
00:23:55.47\00:23:57.69
surely we will admit
you cannot escape the fact
00:23:57.72\00:24:00.71
that there is a
selection process
00:24:00.74\00:24:03.19
somehow in scripture.
00:24:03.22\00:24:04.96
Let me--let me
just show you this.
00:24:04.99\00:24:06.02
I'm gonna run by some
of the greatest stories
00:24:06.05\00:24:07.43
of sacred history.
00:24:07.46\00:24:08.49
I'll run them by
you call him out.
00:24:08.52\00:24:10.02
Adam and Eve first
story on-- on earth.
00:24:10.05\00:24:12.21
Adam and Eve they have two boys
00:24:12.24\00:24:13.28
give me the names of
the two boys, two boys.
00:24:13.31\00:24:15.57
What are the two
boys names? Cain and Abel.
00:24:15.60\00:24:18.83
Doesn't it happen in that story,
00:24:18.86\00:24:20.85
one boy gets chosen by God
00:24:20.88\00:24:22.95
and the other boy gets rejected?
00:24:22.98\00:24:24.79
Is it that what happens?
00:24:24.82\00:24:27.00
Now, I don't know what's
that-- what's up with that?
00:24:27.03\00:24:28.54
I don't know and to
the antediluvian world,
00:24:28.57\00:24:31.90
that's the world
before the flood.
00:24:31.93\00:24:34.29
In the midst of
the antediluvian world
00:24:34.32\00:24:35.99
God finds a husband
and a father and a wife.
00:24:36.02\00:24:39.83
And they have three
boys, and the boys get married
00:24:39.86\00:24:41.95
so they have
three daughters-in-law.
00:24:41.98\00:24:43.85
Noah, isn't that amazing?
00:24:43.88\00:24:46.41
God pulls aside
eight human beings
00:24:46.44\00:24:49.99
and the rest let go.
00:24:50.02\00:24:54.89
Isn't that what happened?
I mean, what's up with that?
00:24:54.92\00:24:57.91
And then you go over to Iraq,
00:24:57.94\00:24:58.97
today's Iraq go to a
place called Ur of the Chaldees
00:24:59.00\00:25:01.36
and there is pagan family
00:25:01.39\00:25:02.55
and then in the midst of that
pagan family there is a kid.
00:25:02.58\00:25:05.67
Let me just tell you
something, even if your parents,
00:25:05.70\00:25:08.27
even if your
brothers and sisters
00:25:08.30\00:25:09.71
do not grow up in the way
you are heart is telling you,
00:25:09.74\00:25:12.35
you can grow up in a family
that has not accepted God,
00:25:12.38\00:25:15.77
you can grow up in a
family and you can become
00:25:15.80\00:25:18.28
a God believer in
the midst of a family
00:25:18.31\00:25:21.50
that says we have no
time for God in this home.
00:25:21.53\00:25:24.01
Because a boy
name Abraham grows up
00:25:24.04\00:25:26.74
and God pick him out of
the-- rejects the family says
00:25:26.77\00:25:29.53
I'll take that boy.
00:25:29.56\00:25:31.43
Isn't that the way it
happened, ladies and gentlemen?
00:25:31.46\00:25:33.90
There is obviously some kind
of selection process going on
00:25:33.93\00:25:36.31
because than
Abraham has children.
00:25:36.34\00:25:37.73
He gets a little
impatient and so he has--
00:25:37.76\00:25:39.66
he has a little baby boy
by his wife's handmaiden.
00:25:39.69\00:25:44.70
Years later his
wife finally has a baby.
00:25:44.73\00:25:46.73
So he has two
boys, Ishmael and Isaac.
00:25:46.76\00:25:48.93
How do you explain this?
00:25:48.96\00:25:50.18
One gets chosen and the other
chosen to a lesser destiny.
00:25:50.21\00:25:53.24
There is a separation.
00:25:53.27\00:25:54.52
What's happened in
here? Isaac grows up.
00:25:54.55\00:25:56.55
Isaac has two boys,
one name Esau and Jacob.
00:25:56.58\00:25:59.71
How do you explain this?
00:25:59.74\00:26:00.78
One of the boys is
chosen for a lesser destiny
00:26:00.81\00:26:03.49
and the younger is selected.
00:26:03.52\00:26:05.77
What's happening in here?
00:26:05.80\00:26:07.23
By the way Jacob grows up
and he doesn't have two boys,
00:26:07.26\00:26:09.30
he has 12 of them.
00:26:09.33\00:26:10.64
And one of them,
the next to the youngest
00:26:10.67\00:26:12.23
becomes the deliver
of the entire bunch.
00:26:12.26\00:26:15.21
And one day all
11 plus mom and dad
00:26:15.24\00:26:17.73
all bowed down to Joseph.
00:26:17.76\00:26:19.83
Joseph and his 11 brothers,
00:26:19.86\00:26:21.60
one gets chosen
and the others not.
00:26:21.63\00:26:24.99
What's going on here?
It's a story of sacred history.
00:26:25.02\00:26:27.68
It happens over and over again.
00:26:27.71\00:26:29.15
That little hand
full of Jacobs kids
00:26:29.18\00:26:31.77
moves down to a-- to Egypt,
00:26:31.80\00:26:34.05
pagan Egypt two centuries
later they becomes slaves
00:26:34.08\00:26:39.67
but Gods
rejects the pagan nation
00:26:39.70\00:26:41.61
and He takes this
little band of motley.
00:26:41.64\00:26:46.48
What's happening?
It's happens all the time.
00:26:46.51\00:26:50.37
They cross into
the promise land,
00:26:50.40\00:26:51.43
they finally form a kingdom.
00:26:51.46\00:26:53.04
They chose a king.
00:26:53.07\00:26:54.32
God un-chooses the king
and chooses the shepherd boy
00:26:54.35\00:26:57.29
instead, He got Saul and David.
00:26:57.32\00:26:58.62
How do you explain
it? God makes some--
00:26:58.65\00:27:00.20
There's some kind of
selection process going on.
00:27:00.23\00:27:02.11
And eventually when the
entire kingdom collapses,
00:27:02.14\00:27:04.65
it melts down and God
has to reject the majority.
00:27:04.68\00:27:07.64
He still has a minority
that He will call the raiment
00:27:07.67\00:27:10.44
and he says these
are My chosen now.
00:27:10.47\00:27:13.03
Somehow ladies and
gentlemen, it keeps happening.
00:27:13.06\00:27:16.09
You go after exile you
finally come back the--
00:27:16.12\00:27:18.75
the days of
glory are over forever
00:27:18.78\00:27:21.26
and then wouldn't you know it
00:27:21.29\00:27:22.39
that's when God
decides to show up in person
00:27:22.42\00:27:24.49
and in flesh they
called Him Emanuel,
00:27:24.52\00:27:26.79
Jesus of Nazareth.
00:27:26.82\00:27:28.00
And can you believe this,
00:27:28.03\00:27:29.07
the leadership of
His nation rejected Him
00:27:29.10\00:27:32.63
but the masses embraced Him.
00:27:32.66\00:27:35.35
And when Jesus arose on
that resurrection morning
00:27:35.38\00:27:40.65
they began to
emerge a new chosen.
00:27:40.68\00:27:42.41
Not based on DNA, not based
on geographical boundaries,
00:27:42.44\00:27:46.13
not based on any temple
in Jerusalem a new chosen.
00:27:46.16\00:27:49.69
The fact of the matter
is ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:49.72\00:27:51.46
if you want to take all
this scriptures seriously,
00:27:51.49\00:27:53.28
we are gonna confront that
there is a selection process.
00:27:53.31\00:27:56.20
Throughout sacred history there
has been a selection process.
00:27:56.23\00:27:59.83
In fact, that
point is so crucial
00:27:59.86\00:28:01.06
I wish you'd
right it down right now.
00:28:01.09\00:28:02.98
Would you take out
your study guide, please?
00:28:03.01\00:28:04.39
It should be in your
worship bulletin today.
00:28:04.42\00:28:06.47
Thank you ushers,
for getting on it now.
00:28:06.50\00:28:08.85
Hold those study guides up,
00:28:08.88\00:28:10.46
I want to make sure
everybody here gets one.
00:28:10.49\00:28:12.20
Those of you in the balcony,
00:28:12.23\00:28:13.52
all the way to the
back of the balcony
00:28:13.55\00:28:14.79
please just hold your hand up.
00:28:14.82\00:28:16.42
A stunning set of parallels
00:28:16.45\00:28:17.89
that we're gonna
examine this morning,
00:28:17.92\00:28:19.54
you must examine and ruminate
00:28:19.57\00:28:22.62
over these
parallels on your own.
00:28:22.65\00:28:24.00
Take it home, take it home.
00:28:24.03\00:28:25.66
Hold your hand up.
00:28:25.69\00:28:26.72
Everybody get one, I
want to say to those of you
00:28:26.75\00:28:29.47
who have joined us
right now on television.
00:28:29.50\00:28:31.14
We are so glad
that you are here.
00:28:31.17\00:28:32.82
I want to make sure you
get the same study guides
00:28:32.85\00:28:34.71
so let me put it on the
screen for you right now.
00:28:34.74\00:28:36.69
We put out website there it is
00:28:36.72\00:28:38.26
www.pmchruch.tv
that's our website.
00:28:38.29\00:28:43.62
You'll see the
series called "The Chosen."
00:28:43.65\00:28:46.16
It's the same logo
that you see on the screen
00:28:46.19\00:28:48.68
right now, we'll
have that red cue ball
00:28:48.71\00:28:50.65
in the midst of
all those white one.
00:28:50.68\00:28:52.76
You click on to The
Chosen, this is number two,
00:28:52.79\00:28:55.08
"Why We Are the Most
Unique People in Earth."
00:28:55.11\00:28:58.07
By the way, if you weren't here
00:28:58.10\00:28:59.78
watching television
or you hear this morning,
00:28:59.81\00:29:02.23
you weren't here last week
when the series was launch.
00:29:02.26\00:29:04.88
You have go to
please, please for you sake,
00:29:04.91\00:29:08.02
listen to why you are the
most unique person on earth.
00:29:08.05\00:29:11.86
You can download the
podcast at that web address,
00:29:11.89\00:29:14.65
you can get it.
00:29:14.68\00:29:15.72
Listen to it when
you are in leisure.
00:29:15.75\00:29:17.07
That set-- set's
up now for part two,
00:29:17.10\00:29:20.22
"Why We Are the Most
Unique People on Earth."
00:29:20.25\00:29:21.93
All right, everybody has
one? All right, good let's go.
00:29:21.96\00:29:26.17
Let's get our pens moving.
00:29:26.20\00:29:27.23
Let's fill it out
right there at the top
00:29:27.26\00:29:29.81
throughout sacred history.
00:29:29.84\00:29:31.33
There it is.
00:29:31.36\00:29:32.39
By the way, you're
always looking for the--
00:29:32.42\00:29:34.22
the yellow words
that are underlined.
00:29:34.25\00:29:35.40
That's the word you'll fill in.
00:29:35.43\00:29:37.03
Throughout sacred history
00:29:37.06\00:29:38.81
God has had a community of faith
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.55
that he has
identified as "the chosen."
00:29:40.58\00:29:44.49
Fill that in please, the chosen
throughout sacred history,
00:29:44.52\00:29:47.17
we just-- we just ran
through the story we now know.
00:29:47.20\00:29:49.96
we read this just a moment ago.
00:29:49.99\00:29:52.15
Keep your pen moving,
just fill in the words,
00:29:52.18\00:29:54.07
"The Lord your
God has chosen you
00:29:54.10\00:29:55.83
to be a people for Himself,
a special treasure above all."
00:29:55.86\00:30:02.17
You know preacher
didn't invent that word,
00:30:02.20\00:30:03.48
Moses didn't invent that word,
00:30:03.51\00:30:04.63
all is the
instruction above all people.
00:30:04.66\00:30:07.62
Is this some
little passing fancy Moses
00:30:10.83\00:30:12.69
has to get it out of the system
00:30:12.72\00:30:13.77
before the
farewell address can end,
00:30:13.80\00:30:15.24
are you kidding?
00:30:15.27\00:30:17.01
Scripture is
laced with this theme.
00:30:17.04\00:30:19.06
I want to give you
five other annotations
00:30:19.09\00:30:21.38
from Holy Scripture.
00:30:21.41\00:30:22.44
Keep your pen going now.
00:30:22.47\00:30:23.50
Let's get go back
to the Book of Exodus,
00:30:23.53\00:30:24.71
God speaking there at
the foot of Mount Sinai.
00:30:24.74\00:30:27.45
Exodus 19:5, God
says to the people,
00:30:27.48\00:30:30.66
these liberated slaves,
00:30:30.69\00:30:31.78
"You shall be a
special treasure to Me
00:30:31.81\00:30:33.97
above all the people."
00:30:34.00\00:30:36.95
God's been
saying this for a while.
00:30:36.98\00:30:38.87
Deuteronomy 14:2,
it's in your study guide
00:30:38.90\00:30:41.18
but we're gonna
put anything there
00:30:41.21\00:30:42.39
because it's the identical,
00:30:42.42\00:30:44.55
its a verbatim repetition
of chapter 7, verse 6.
00:30:44.58\00:30:47.28
So let's go on,
Deuteronomy 26:18,
00:30:47.31\00:30:50.89
Moses still
speaking the farewell address
00:30:50.92\00:30:52.81
beginning to wind down.
00:30:52.84\00:30:54.01
"Today the Lord has proclaimed
you to be His special people."
00:30:54.04\00:30:59.06
Chapter 7, special treasure,
00:30:59.09\00:31:00.65
now he calls
them special people.
00:31:00.68\00:31:03.10
Is this limited
only to Moses? No.
00:31:03.13\00:31:04.62
In fact, let's take the
last book of the Old Testament,
00:31:04.65\00:31:06.55
the Book of Malachi.
00:31:06.58\00:31:07.61
Watch this,
Malachi 3:17, fill it in.
00:31:07.64\00:31:10.25
God is speaking,
"'They shall be Mine,'
00:31:10.28\00:31:12.05
says the Lord of
hosts, 'on that day
00:31:12.08\00:31:14.25
that I make them My jewels.'"
00:31:14.28\00:31:16.00
Now I need to tell
you that word for jewels
00:31:16.03\00:31:18.08
is the identical Hebrew
word for special possession,
00:31:18.11\00:31:21.06
special treasure.
00:31:21.09\00:31:22.19
Only here it's
translated to jewels.
00:31:22.22\00:31:23.56
What are jewels?
00:31:23.59\00:31:25.03
That which I hold closely to
me because of their great value.
00:31:25.06\00:31:29.15
I'm gonna make you
My jewels God says.
00:31:29.18\00:31:32.13
Well, yeah, but this is
just an Old Testament idea,
00:31:32.16\00:31:34.93
banished in the
New, you're kidding?
00:31:34.96\00:31:37.05
You serious?
00:31:37.08\00:31:38.11
Look at this, 1 Peter 2:9,
00:31:38.14\00:31:40.19
speaking of the Christian
church now, watch this.
00:31:40.22\00:31:42.74
Fill it in, "But
you" these are pagans
00:31:42.77\00:31:46.69
that are
converted to Christianity
00:31:46.72\00:31:47.99
that Peter is writing to,
00:31:48.02\00:31:49.06
"But you are a chosen"
now the Greek word here
00:31:49.09\00:31:52.16
is eklektos, from ones
comes our word elected.
00:31:52.19\00:31:55.10
So God says, you are elected.
00:31:55.13\00:31:57.43
"You are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood,
00:31:57.46\00:32:00.11
a holy nation, His own special,"
00:32:00.14\00:32:02.61
Peter grabs that word
from the Old Testament says
00:32:02.64\00:32:04.65
it's still true,
"His own special people
00:32:04.68\00:32:07.20
who once were not a people
but now are the people of God."
00:32:07.23\00:32:11.98
Ladies and
gentlemen, keep your pen moving.
00:32:12.01\00:32:13.99
Whether the children of
Israel in the Old Testament
00:32:14.02\00:32:16.34
or the church of
Christ in the New Testament,
00:32:16.37\00:32:18.35
clearly God
throughout sacred history
00:32:18.38\00:32:20.68
has chosen for
Himself a people to whom
00:32:20.71\00:32:23.90
and through whom He
has revealed the glory
00:32:23.93\00:32:27.03
and truth of His character.
00:32:27.06\00:32:29.55
Case made, end of point.
00:32:29.58\00:32:32.84
So what's that have to do
00:32:32.87\00:32:33.91
the likes of
you and me, you say?
00:32:33.94\00:32:36.21
Look it, could
it be, could it be
00:32:36.24\00:32:38.76
that Deuteronomy
7:6 is talking about
00:32:38.79\00:32:41.19
the likes of us, could it be?
00:32:41.22\00:32:43.49
You say, what do
you mean, the us?
00:32:43.52\00:32:45.34
The us?
00:32:45.37\00:32:46.46
I want to answer
that in just a moment.
00:32:46.49\00:32:49.35
This summer during
my sabbatical study
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I came across a book written
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in the last century by a writer,
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most of you never
even heard of this writer,
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Taylor G. Bunch.
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Came across the
book, title of the book
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"Exodus in Type and Antitype."
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I tell you what
with a title like that
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who'd even pick up the book up?
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But I did.
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And in that book I came across
this intriguing observation.
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It's in your study
guide, you have to fill it in.
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Notice what Taylor
Bunch is concluding.
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See there in your study guide
I put it on the screen for you.
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"The Bible," he writes,
"is a book of parallel events
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and movements, of
types and their antitypes."
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Hey, timeout, come on preacher,
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what's this types
and antitypes stuff?
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Well, it just goes like this,
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did they sacrifice little lambs
in the Old Testament, did they?
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Yeah. Did they?
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Did the blood of
the lamb ever save them?
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No.
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What was the lamb
about? The lamb was a symbol.
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It was a symbol of a
much greater fulfillment,
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a greater
reality that would come.
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This is the type,
this is the antitype.
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The little lamb is the type,
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the lamb of God is the antitype.
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Antitype means a
grand fulfillment
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so what Taylor
Bunch is saying is hey,
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have you ever noticed the Bible
is a book of parallel events
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and movements of
types and antitypes?
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"This makes the
Bible an up-to-date Book
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from Genesis to Revelation
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to the very close
of human history."
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Now here comes the sentence
that caught me by surprise.
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"One of the greatest parallels
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is found in what
we call the Exodus
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and Advent movement of
ancient and modern Israel.
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These are the two
greatest religious movements
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in all history."
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Now that is a
profound claim to make.
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You understand what did he say?
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There are two parallel movements
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in the course of sacred history.
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Movement number one, the
literal children of Israel,
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Exodus out of Egypt and
moving to the Promised Land.
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Movement number two,
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the spiritual
children of Israel,
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Exodus out of this earth
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and move into
the heavenly canon.
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He said there are two movements,
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the greatest movements in
the history of this earth.
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And you and I are
gonna ask ourselves,
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oh, brother, I
mean is this true?
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I mean, two movements,
are they really parallel?
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So that if I can
understand the first movement,
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I might better live
out the last movement,
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is that true?
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You've got a study guide here,
I want to now fly them by you,
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fly them by 15
parallels, 15 parallels.
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You're gonna give
them have writer's cramp
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you get over it but
just keep that pen moving.
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Fifteen
parallels between these two
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greatest movements
in the history of earth.
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Consider these
parables, parallels rather.
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You got number one there,
its right in front of you,
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number one, fill it in please.
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Both movements were
called to "cross over"
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into the Promised Land.
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Promised Land.
Write that down please.
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Parallel number two,
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Both movements were
raised up in fulfillment
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of definite time prophecies.
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I put a few verses at the end,
one verse for each movement,
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you go home, you brood
over, you do the ruminating
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and do the studying afterwards.
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We don't have
time to look these out.
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Number two, both raised up
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in fulfillment of
definite time prophecies.
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That's a fascinating
one, you need to examine it.
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Number three, Both movements
were called to champion God
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as Redeemer and
Deliverer from human bondage.
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Yvonne Carlo who
sang his heart out for us
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"Let My People
Go," the punch line
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of that grand
spiritual was bondage,
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set my people, in every age
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set my people free
from this world's bondage.
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So both movements were called
to champion God is a Redeemer.
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Number four,
parallel number four,
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Both movements were to journey
under the blood of the Lamb
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as a symbol of
salvation by faith alone
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in the divine sacrifice.
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Parallel number five,
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both movements were
called out of sun worship.
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Exodus 12, God is clear
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I have passed
judgment on the gods of Egypt
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and one of those
gods is the god Ra,
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the god of the sun.
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He's judged the god of the sun.
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Both of movements were
called out of sun worship.
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Parallel number six,
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Both movements were
raised up to champion the Law,
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capital W-- that's
capital L rather Law.
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See that's why I
never got chosen,
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when it is spelling
bees, you just leave Dwight,
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just-- we don't
want him on our team.
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All right.
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Okay, number six,
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Both were raised up to
champion the Law of God.
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Number seven,
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Both were called to restore
worship of the Creator God
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through the preservation
of his seventh-day Sabbath.
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Write it down.
Parallel movements.
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Number eight,
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Both would passionately look
forward to the coming Messiah.
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Number nine, Both
movements were called
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to reject the
fallen, the fallen culture
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and debased religions
of the nations around them.
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Number ten,
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Both movements were led
by a divinely called prophet.
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Number eleven,
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Both movements were called
to adopt a lifestyle and diet
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that would reveal the
stunning health differences
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between them and
society at large.
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Number twelve,
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Both movements would
discover in the sanctuary system
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a defining revelation
of God's salvation history
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on earth and in heaven.
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Three more.
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Number thirteen,
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Both movements were to
champion the Word of God
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as the authoritative revelation
rather of divine truth.
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And by the way
Jesus in the wilderness,
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first temptation,
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Jesus in the wilderness
goes to our theme book
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and in the face of the tempter
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He says, "Man shall
not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
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That's straight of Deuteronomy.
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Both movements were
champion the Word of God.
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Number 14, Both
movements are called the chosen.
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Revelation 14:12 by the way,
you look at it the word saint,
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you'll see the words saints.
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It's the same word for kadosh,
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it means to be physically
separated, chosen, set apart.
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And finally number
15, Both movements were--
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oh, I want you to
get this one please.
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Number 15,
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Both movements were
capable of failing their mission
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and being replaced
by a community of faith
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more faithful and
obedient than they.
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Yep,
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there they are
ladies and gentlemen,
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one writer calls
the two movements
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religious movements
in the history of earth.
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And by the way
remarkably parallel aren't they?
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Remarkably parallel.
What's going on here?
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Write it down, could it
be that to better understand
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the divine calling
of the second movement,
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it is essential that we note
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the divine leading
in the first movement?
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Could it be?
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That Paul writes
is precisely the point
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I'm trying to make.
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Paul's making a point.
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Take a look at this, you
need to look at in your Bible.
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Last passage we'll
look at New Testaments
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1 Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 10,
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take a look at this.
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You thought Taylor
G. Bunch invented this
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and the preacher upfront
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is just kind of
grasping it straws wrong?
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Somebody long ago
said wait a minute,
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two movements
one at the beginning
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one at the end,
parallel movements--
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parallel movements.
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1 Corinthians 10
that will page 772
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in your pew Bible, 1
Corinthians Chapter 10.
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Let me find it myself
here, 1 Corinthians 10:1
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the apostle Paul
writing to the pagans,
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to the pagans in Corinth.
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They've become, the
pagans have become a Christian,
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followers of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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He's writing to pagans.
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He's not writing to Jews,
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He is writing to
pagans, all right.
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1 Corinthian 10:1
"Moreover, brothers and sisters,
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I do not want you to
be unaware that all our,"
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isn't that amazing?
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He is writing to a
group of converted pagans
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and they said-- he says they're
your fathers too, our fathers.
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Paul's a Jew. Our
fathers, yours and mine.
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There is some
kind of continuity here
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that apparently
never gets broken
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between the two movements.
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Watch this
"Moreover, brothers and sisters,
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I do not want you to be unaware
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that all our fathers
were under the cloud,
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all passed through the sea,"
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verse 2 " all were
baptized into Moses
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in the cloud and in the sea,"
00:41:27.22\00:41:28.50
verse 3 "all ate the
same spiritual food,"
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verse 4 "and all drank
the same spiritual drink.
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For they drank of
that spiritual Rock
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that followed them,
and that Rock was Christ."
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Verse 5 "But with most of
them God was not well pleased,
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for their bodies were
scattered in the wilderness.
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Now these things
became our examples,
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to the intent
that we should not lust
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after evil things
as they also lusted.
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And do not become idolaters
as were some of them were."
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Put the pause
button right there.
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Do you know why
we are in the series?
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Let me just tell you,
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didn't mention
this last week to you.
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Do you know why
we are in The Chosen?
00:42:00.23\00:42:01.50
Because you ask for it.
00:42:01.53\00:42:03.56
When we surveyed this
congregation last spring
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you filled out surveys.
00:42:05.65\00:42:06.81
Pastor, here's what
I want you to preach.
00:42:06.84\00:42:08.11
I know noted carefully which
ones were college students,
00:42:08.14\00:42:10.35
which ones were community,
which ones are faculty.
00:42:10.38\00:42:12.56
You filled out the
survey, we are in this series
00:42:12.59\00:42:15.64
because of questions you raised.
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In fact, I want to
tell you something,
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I didn't tell first
church this but I'll tell you.
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We are coming to four questions
that came up over and over
00:42:26.34\00:42:29.19
from students at
Andrews University.
00:42:29.22\00:42:32.02
Questions about alcohol,
00:42:32.05\00:42:36.71
sex, dress and the prophet.
00:42:36.74\00:42:43.44
And so starting in
October, four sermons in a row.
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Your questions and
only in second church
00:42:50.24\00:42:53.54
don't say a word to
those who are coming to first.
00:42:53.57\00:42:57.43
Only in second church
when the teaching is over,
00:42:57.46\00:43:01.49
I'm standing right here.
00:43:01.52\00:43:02.56
We are throwing open mike
and you can ask any question
00:43:02.59\00:43:05.63
you wish about the
subject we just covered.
00:43:05.66\00:43:10.16
Not give any speech you wish,
00:43:10.19\00:43:13.45
ask any question you wish
and we will wrestle together.
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Come now, let
us reason together.
00:43:17.54\00:43:20.50
Paul says the
very four questions
00:43:20.53\00:43:22.43
that you have hot on your hearts
00:43:22.46\00:43:24.31
as young adults
they're the story
00:43:24.34\00:43:26.53
of the wandering
in the wilderness,
00:43:26.56\00:43:28.04
that's why we've
gone to The Chosen.
00:43:28.07\00:43:29.96
You asked, we're there.
00:43:29.99\00:43:33.08
That's why Paul
says here in the verse 7
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hey, by the way "Do
not become idolaters
00:43:34.51\00:43:36.13
as were some of them did.
00:43:36.16\00:43:37.20
As it is written,
'The people sat down
00:43:37.23\00:43:38.61
to eat and drink,
and rose up to play.'"
00:43:38.64\00:43:41.24
Verse 8 "Nor let us
commit sexual immorality,
00:43:41.27\00:43:43.51
as some of them
did, and in one day
00:43:43.54\00:43:45.21
twenty-three thousand fell,"
well, we go to that story.
00:43:45.24\00:43:48.43
Verse 9 "nor
let us tempt Christ,
00:43:48.46\00:43:50.46
as some of them also tempted,
00:43:50.49\00:43:51.81
and were destroyed by serpents,"
00:43:51.84\00:43:53.62
serpents have mercy
verse 10," nor complain,
00:43:53.65\00:43:56.35
as some of them also complained,
00:43:56.38\00:43:57.60
and were
destroyed by the destroyer."
00:43:57.63\00:43:59.55
Here comes the
punch line now verse 11,"
00:43:59.58\00:44:01.76
Now all these things"
in the long ago passed
00:44:01.79\00:44:05.18
"happened to them as examples,
00:44:05.21\00:44:06.99
and they were
written for our admonition,
00:44:07.02\00:44:10.29
whose the us upon whom
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the ends of the ages have come."
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Ladies and
Gentlemen, what you just read
00:44:16.92\00:44:18.76
is a mighty
apostle Paul declaring
00:44:18.79\00:44:20.41
there will be a
generation at the end of time
00:44:20.44\00:44:22.52
upon whom the
ends of the ages come.
00:44:22.55\00:44:24.53
That generation will need
to carefully study a long ago
00:44:24.56\00:44:28.39
wandering in the wilderness
00:44:28.42\00:44:29.94
for out of that
story of the first chosen
00:44:29.97\00:44:33.10
there will be truth
for the final chosen.
00:44:33.13\00:44:35.89
You'll learn the
lessons of a movement long ago
00:44:35.92\00:44:39.07
for a movement that will cross
over into the Promise Land.
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Isn't that amazing?
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This isn't Taylor Bunch,
this is the apostle Paul.
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One movement came out of Egypt
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and journeyed
toward the Promise Land
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the other upon whom
the ends of the ages
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have come, though that movement
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and the first
movement unbroken thread.
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You saw 15
parallels unbroken thread.
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A century ago
another inspired writer wrote
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to the children of
the second movements.
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When I came across these words
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I said oh, boy, I'm
reading Andrews University
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in these words, a
young adult generation.
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Look at this, it's right
there in your study guide
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"in many cases the children"
I'm thinking of the children.
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You are the
children of the moms and dads
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who are dying in
wilderness wandering.
00:45:30.83\00:45:32.53
You are the
children of the grandparents
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who are already dead and buried.
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You are the
children, I'm thinking of you,
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"In many cases
the children like you
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are drifting away
from the old landmarks."
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What's
happening? What's going on?
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"Here are principles that we are
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not to regard with indifference.
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Those who have seen the
truth and felt its importance,
00:45:54.85\00:45:57.12
and have had an
experience in the things of God,
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are to teach sound doctrine
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to their young,
to their children.
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They should make
them the young acquainted
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with the great
pillars of our faith,
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the reasons why we
are called" now hold on,
00:46:10.11\00:46:12.97
"why we are called, as
were the children of Israel,
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to be a peculiar
people, a holy nation,
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separate and
distinct from all other people
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on the face of the earth."
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Now that is a huge,
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huge claim and command.
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The two greatest movements,
religious movements in history.
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And let me just talk out heart
with you now before I sit down.
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It's my concern,
does this generation
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even know that it's chosen?
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Does it? Do you?
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Okay I'm talking to you, do you?
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Do you know?
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You who are the
children of us baby boomers,
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do you even know that assuredly,
00:47:01.23\00:47:06.21
has God raised up
that movement long ago,
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He has raised up
this movement today.
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Do you even know that?
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Does this generation know
that this community of faith
00:47:15.83\00:47:21.33
is not just another denomination
00:47:21.36\00:47:24.16
in a smoggiest
board of churches today?
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That this movement has been
personally ordained, decreed,
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and raised up by God
for such a time as this.
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Do you even know that?
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Do you even know it? You do not.
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You haven't been told
it in a long, long time.
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And that's why I'm concerned.
00:47:49.35\00:47:53.68
We got a generation,
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I don't know if you realize this
00:47:55.71\00:47:56.98
but we have a
generation just as surely
00:47:57.01\00:48:00.08
as you were personally chosen.
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Remember last
week, just as surely
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as you have a unique
destiny we have a generation
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that has a
unique, unique destiny.
00:48:06.52\00:48:11.12
Do you
understand that potentially,
00:48:11.15\00:48:13.85
potentially you
are the generation
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with the stunning
potential of being able
00:48:19.10\00:48:22.17
to lead this
movement to cross over
00:48:22.20\00:48:28.22
without seeing death?
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No death.
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Moses died, a
whole generations buried.
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But come on guys, someday
there will be a generation
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that will be alive
and it will not see death.
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It will cross the joy alive.
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Do you understand? You?
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Potentially you
or that generation?
00:48:51.66\00:48:56.02
Have you been told that?
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Have you been taught
00:49:01.93\00:49:04.65
that God has given
you the potential of being
00:49:04.68\00:49:06.27
the last
generation on this earth?
00:49:06.30\00:49:07.87
Do you understand that?
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Look, I have baby
boomer colleagues,
00:49:10.64\00:49:16.31
all right, I have
baby boomer colleagues
00:49:16.34\00:49:20.60
who get very nervous
whenever this portion
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of their forgotten
heritage is brought up.
00:49:24.87\00:49:30.46
You know why, and
I want to say this,
00:49:30.49\00:49:31.68
I want to-- I want you to know
that their motives, all right.
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You know why?
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Because they don't
want to offend anybody.
00:49:38.46\00:49:41.47
It's just the way
we baby boomers are,
00:49:41.50\00:49:42.90
we just want to
make everybody happy.
00:49:42.93\00:49:45.63
They don't want
to offend anybody
00:49:45.66\00:49:47.41
and so they have lived
their lives trying hard
00:49:47.44\00:49:51.12
to be accepted by the
wider Christian community
00:49:51.15\00:49:54.16
and the surrounding world.
00:49:54.19\00:49:56.13
We're just like
you, really we are.
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Can we be on your
team? Will you chose us?
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For some of
them, for some of them
00:50:08.26\00:50:10.93
to speak of an
Adventist identity,
00:50:10.96\00:50:14.69
and an Adventist institution
00:50:14.72\00:50:16.93
and an Adventist
movement is anathema.
00:50:16.96\00:50:19.55
You will never hear
them ever say Adventist.
00:50:19.58\00:50:24.92
Christian not Adventist.
00:50:27.79\00:50:34.07
So come on Dwight,
what's the difference?
00:50:34.10\00:50:35.50
Of course, of
course that its core soul
00:50:35.53\00:50:40.22
it's Christianity.
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But there is something more.
00:50:44.60\00:50:51.19
Whenever they
hear something like,
00:50:51.22\00:50:52.99
something kind of to
this coming from a pulpit
00:50:53.02\00:50:55.20
or this pulpit its
particular they get nervous
00:50:55.23\00:50:58.26
and start talking to each other.
00:50:58.29\00:51:03.61
After all who
wants to be the chosen
00:51:03.64\00:51:07.65
when all you
wish to be accepted?
00:51:07.68\00:51:13.39
One of the brightest
minds in America today
00:51:13.42\00:51:16.42
I don't agree with
him philosophically
00:51:16.45\00:51:20.81
but he made an
observation I found it,
00:51:20.84\00:51:23.37
I've written his
words on the bottom
00:51:23.40\00:51:25.46
of the page for Deuteronomy 7:6.
00:51:25.49\00:51:28.11
Richard John Neuhaus,
00:51:28.14\00:51:29.59
one of the
celebrated intellectuals
00:51:29.62\00:51:32.48
of this generation.
00:51:32.51\00:51:35.00
Richard John Neuhaus the
words are in your study guide,
00:51:35.03\00:51:37.69
"God's chosen
ones live out the drama
00:51:37.72\00:51:41.77
and destiny of God himself."
00:51:41.80\00:51:44.56
Now listen to this, "It is
a fearful thing to be chosen.
00:51:44.59\00:51:49.90
It is as though
God enters history
00:51:49.93\00:51:52.60
through his chosen ones."
00:51:52.63\00:51:57.87
He's right, it is a
fearful thing to be chosen.
00:51:57.90\00:52:03.83
Two great
movements through which
00:52:03.86\00:52:06.53
God has entered
history through His chosen ones
00:52:06.56\00:52:09.67
but do our children
even know it anymore?
00:52:09.70\00:52:15.80
Do we?
00:52:15.83\00:52:17.12
On the eve if His death
00:52:23.10\00:52:24.48
Jesus looked into the
upturn faces of His closest
00:52:24.51\00:52:27.95
and dearest friends on earth,
00:52:27.98\00:52:30.03
and Jesus spoke
the words of John 15:16
00:52:30.06\00:52:32.73
Jesus says you know
what "You did not choose me,"
00:52:32.76\00:52:37.53
you didn't choose
me, "but I chose you."
00:52:37.56\00:52:44.01
That of course is the
truth about the chosen.
00:52:44.04\00:52:46.62
You choose the
one who chooses you.
00:52:46.65\00:52:51.58
Go back to that
playground one more movement,
00:52:51.61\00:52:54.58
that-- glorious moment
when one of the captains called
00:52:54.61\00:52:59.96
your name and your heart leaped.
00:52:59.99\00:53:03.12
I'll not be left on
the sidelines today.
00:53:03.15\00:53:05.68
He chose you but you
ain't running up to him,
00:53:05.71\00:53:08.06
you were so
excited to be on the team.
00:53:08.09\00:53:10.91
That you said I chose this team.
00:53:10.94\00:53:12.46
Captain, I chose
you to be my leader.
00:53:12.49\00:53:15.58
That's just the way it works.
00:53:15.61\00:53:17.55
When you've been chosen
00:53:17.58\00:53:19.66
you choose the
one who chooses you.
00:53:19.69\00:53:24.79
God, give us a generation poised
00:53:24.82\00:53:28.73
on the brink of
the Promise Land.
00:53:28.76\00:53:32.06
God, raise up for
us please a generation
00:53:32.09\00:53:38.20
that knows that in Christ
00:53:38.23\00:53:42.10
this last movement can truly be
00:53:42.13\00:53:47.61
a movement of destiny,
unequivocal in your choice,
00:53:47.64\00:53:51.68
unequivocal in our
choice of the Lord Jesus.
00:53:51.71\00:53:55.91
God, give us
that generation today.
00:53:55.94\00:54:02.46
Let's pray.
00:54:02.49\00:54:04.73
Oh, God, oh, Father,
00:54:04.76\00:54:08.43
what we're gonna do
with this it's inescapable.
00:54:11.96\00:54:15.34
Shall we throw our
elbows out of joint
00:54:20.94\00:54:23.17
padding ourselves on the back?
00:54:23.20\00:54:26.38
What a tragic mistake
the first movement did
00:54:26.41\00:54:29.95
and doing just that.
00:54:29.98\00:54:31.67
We cannot, we dare not.
00:54:31.70\00:54:35.08
But Holy Father,
if You've been waiting
00:54:35.11\00:54:39.86
for this generation
and I believe You have.
00:54:39.89\00:54:45.66
If You've been
calling these young
00:54:45.69\00:54:47.81
and I know You are,
oh, God, beginning today
00:54:47.84\00:54:52.16
sow the seeds of
that unique destiny
00:54:52.19\00:54:57.21
deep within his mind,
deep within her hearts,
00:54:57.24\00:55:04.14
and may she, may he, may we,
00:55:04.17\00:55:09.53
in the humility of
the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:55:09.56\00:55:13.40
stand for You in this hour
00:55:13.43\00:55:20.32
for the sake of Your
character and Your kingdom
00:55:20.35\00:55:26.47
we pray in Christ name, Amen.
00:55:26.50\00:55:32.00
Before you go I wanted
to take one more moment
00:55:32.03\00:55:34.39
and let you know how glad I am
you shared this hour of worship
00:55:34.42\00:55:37.36
and Bible teaching with us.
00:55:37.39\00:55:38.88
This is the
Pioneer Memorial Church
00:55:38.91\00:55:40.61
and we're on the
campus of Andrew's University
00:55:40.64\00:55:42.49
and the series is The Chosen.
00:55:42.52\00:55:44.86
This is a series
that has been growing
00:55:44.89\00:55:47.36
and it's burned on my heart
and over the last few weeks
00:55:47.39\00:55:51.26
before this new season began.
00:55:51.29\00:55:53.14
And some
concentrated prayer time
00:55:53.17\00:55:55.28
I believe the Spirit of
God lead me do this series,
00:55:55.31\00:55:57.69
out of the Book of
Deuteronomy for this generation
00:55:57.72\00:56:00.64
within our community of faith
00:56:00.67\00:56:02.03
and outside this
community of faith.
00:56:02.06\00:56:04.11
I believe both, both
communities need to hear
00:56:04.14\00:56:08.70
the compelling
Bible truth captured
00:56:08.73\00:56:12.15
in this series
called The Chosen.
00:56:12.18\00:56:13.24
So thank you, for joining me
00:56:13.27\00:56:15.14
and all of us as we
continue our journey
00:56:15.17\00:56:17.45
deeper and deeper into
the heart of this theme.
00:56:17.48\00:56:20.29
Living as you and I do and I'm--
00:56:20.32\00:56:22.69
I know I'm
preaching to the choir now,
00:56:22.72\00:56:24.90
living as we do on
the edge of a civilization
00:56:24.93\00:56:27.97
that is surviving through
constant upheaval and change.
00:56:28.00\00:56:32.13
I am so grateful
and I know you are
00:56:32.16\00:56:34.34
for the bedrock
hope we have in Jesus.
00:56:34.37\00:56:37.82
I'm thankful that
you and I have been given
00:56:37.85\00:56:40.16
the privilege by God to partner,
00:56:40.19\00:56:42.29
to reach this generation
00:56:42.32\00:56:43.37
the world over through
the satellite telecast.
00:56:43.40\00:56:45.51
I don't know how
it works, I just know
00:56:45.54\00:56:47.19
that those
satellites drop the signals
00:56:47.22\00:56:49.83
and those
footprints all over the planet
00:56:49.86\00:56:51.87
are helping
disseminate this divine call
00:56:51.90\00:56:55.36
to become a part of The Chosen,
00:56:55.39\00:56:56.92
God's last generation on earth.
00:56:56.95\00:56:58.64
So please, here's
what I want you to know,
00:56:58.67\00:57:00.66
I thank God for
you in a generous way
00:57:00.69\00:57:03.37
you have partnered
with us in the past
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and making New
Perceptions possible globally.
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I believe for
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00:57:12.78\00:57:14.87
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And be assured, I'm looking
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right here again
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our fascinating
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God bless you.
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