I'm want to share
in this last song,
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it was introduced last week
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and it simply says,
"Worthy is the Lamb."
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"Worthy is the Lamb."
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Thank you for the Cross.
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Thank you for the cross Lord
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Thank you for the price You paid
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See how beautiful.
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Bearing all my sin and shame
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In love You came
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And gave amazing grace
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Thank you for the love, Lord
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Thank you for the
nail-pierced hands
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Washed me in Your cleansing flow
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Now all I know
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Your forgiveness and embrace
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The Darling of Heaven crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Thank you for the cross, Lord
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Thank you for the price You paid
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Bearing all my sin and shame
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In love You came
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And gave amazing grace
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Thank you for the love, Lord
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Thank you for the
nail-pierced hands
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Washed me in Your cleansing flow
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Now all I know
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Your forgiveness and embrace
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The Darling of Heaven crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The Darling of Heaven crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Amen.
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I'm finding myself
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At a loss for words
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And the funny
thing is, it's okay
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The last thing I need
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Is to be heard
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But to hear
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What You would say
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Word of God, speak
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Would You pour down like rain
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Washing my eyes to see
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Your majesty
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To be still and know
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That You're in this place
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Please let me stay and rest
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In Your holiness
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Word of God, speak
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I'm finding myself
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In the midst of You
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Beyond the
music, beyond the noise
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All that I need
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Is to be with You
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And in the quiet
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hear Your voice
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Word of God, speak
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Would You pour down like rain
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Washing my eyes to see
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Your majesty
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To be still and know
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That You're in this place
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Please let me stay and rest
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In Your holiness
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Word of God, speak
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Would You pour down like rain
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Washing my eyes to see
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Your majesty
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To be still and know
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That You're in this place
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Please let me stay and rest
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In Your holiness
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I'm finding myself
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At a loss for words
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So word of God, speak
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Holy Father, what Michaela
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has just sung
that is our prayer,
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may the Word of God, Speak.
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Give us ears to hear...
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And a heart and a mind to heed
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for the glory of Christ Jesus,
we pray in his name, amen.
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What does it mean
to live biblically?
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That very question perplexed
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the agonistic editor-at-large
of Esquire Magazine,
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and so he
decided he would set out
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for 12 months
and live biblically.
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I'm gonna follow every
rule in the Old Testament.
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I went to his website,
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out of the 12 months
journey he's written a book,
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Simon and Schuster is
just releasing the book
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and there on the screen
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you'll see the
title of the book,
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"The Year of Living Biblically."
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So I'm at his website
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and he's
describing this project.
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Let me read it to you.
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"'The Year of Living
Biblically' is about my quest
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to live the
ultimate biblical life,
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to follow every
single rule in the Bible
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as literally as possible.
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I obey the famous
ones The Ten Commandments,
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'Love thy neighbor;
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Be fruitful and multiply.'
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But also the...
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But also the
hundreds of oft-ignored ones,
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do not wear
clothes of mixed fibers,
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do not shave your
beard, stone adulterers, why?
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Well, I grew up in
a very secular home.
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I'm officially
Jewish, but I'm Jewish
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in the same way the Olive Garden
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is an Italian Restaurant."
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I thought that was pretty good.
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Actually not too bad, huh.
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A. J. Jacobs is his name.
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"I'd always assume
religion would just wither away
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and we live in a
neo-enlightenment world.
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I was of course
spectacularly wrong.
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So was I missing
something essential
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to being a human or
was half the world deluded?
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I decided to dive in head first"
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and he does and
the book is the result.
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"The Year of Living Biblically."
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How to live biblically of course
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is a great
premise for this series
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that you and I are in
the thick off right now.
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The series called "The Chosen."
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And we come in to this
kind of the gut of this series
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with four
controversial questions
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that we're examining together.
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You raised the questions,
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in our spring pulpit series
I went over that this summer,
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I saw those and I said,
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we're gonna
have to address them.
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Questions about the
prophet of the chosen, done it.
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Questions about the diet
or alcohol of the chosen.
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Done it.
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Questions about the
dress of the chosen,
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gonna do it today.
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And questions finally about
the sexuality of the chosen,
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that will be next Sabbath.
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And only in second service,
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are we ending these four
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presentations with live Q and A.
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So you will have an
opportunity in a just a moment.
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I was surprised how many stepped
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to the mic last week.
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No planted questions, which
is, we ride into it if you wish.
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So how do we live biblically,
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especially in the
context of this story
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we're about to share.
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Once upon a time
there was a chosen people
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called the
children who went through
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a moral meltdown and
through it found out,
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how much of naked is acceptable.
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Open your Bible with me please
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to the second book of the Bible,
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that would be
the Book of Exodus.
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If you didn't bring your Bible,
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you've got to
grab that pew Bible
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right in front
of you, pull it out.
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Exodus 32.
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If you're using the pew Bible,
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that would be page
61 in the pew Bible.
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It's the same
translation of as--
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When I'm reading out of here,
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which will be the
New King James Version.
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Once you read the story
you will never forget it.
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All right, Exodus 32: 1.
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Right at the top of Exodus 32:1.
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"Now when the people saw that
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Moses delayed coming
down from the mountain"
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Oh, I love to just shoot,
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chase a little
rabbit right there
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because it's, whenever we
think there's a delay going on,
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that we get in trouble.
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We change our
behavior, we adapt our lifestyle
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because there's a delay.
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They think
there's a delay, right?
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But we'll leave that one alone.
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"Now when the people saw
that Moses delayed coming down
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from the mountain, the people
gathered together to Aaron",
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that would be second-in-command.
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Kid brother Moses is at
the top of the mountain,
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Aaron, older
brother, they come to him
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and they say to him,
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"Come, make us gods
that shall go before us,
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as for this Moses,
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the man who brought us
up out of the land of Egypt,
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we do not know
what has become of him."
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Give me a break, guys.
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You know exactly
what's become of him.
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Don't you give me this
because you think about it.
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The very last people story,
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people story in Exodus is right
after the Ten Commandments.
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Watch this, keep
your finger right here
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'cause we're gonna come back.
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But just turn back to Exodus 20.
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Everybody knows the
Ten Commandments chapter,
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Exodus 20.
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Don't you tell me you don't know
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what happened to him.
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You watch this. Okay.
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Ten Commandments are given
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at the end of verse 17, the end.
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Now verse 18, Exodus 20:18,
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"Now all the people"
See everybody saw it.
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"All the people
witnessed the thunderings,
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and the lightning flashes,
the sound of the trumpet,
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and the mountain smoking
and when the people saw it,
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they trembled
and stood afar off."
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Verse 19. "Then
they said to Moses,
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'You speak with
us, and we will hear,
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but let not God speak
with us, lest we die.'
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And Moses said to the people,
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'Do not fear, for
God has come to test you,
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and that His fear
may be before you,
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so that you may not sin.'"
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So verse 21, "The
people stood afar off,
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but Moses drew
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near the thick
darkness where God was."
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They saw Moses
climb that mountain.
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Don't you tell me you don't know
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where he is,
he's on top with God,
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you know that, you know that.
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Okay.
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Go back to your
finger there at Exodus 32,
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we'll pick it up in verse 2.
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So the people come to
Aaron and Aaron, verse 2.
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"Aaron said to them,
'Break off the golden earrings
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which are in the
ears of your wives,
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your sons, and your daughters,
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and bring them to me.'"
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So verse 3, "All
the people broke off
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the golden earrings
which were in their ears,
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and brought them to Aaron."
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Where did they get the earrings?
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Last night, when
they are fleeing Egypt,
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those neighbors in
Egypt are so fed up.
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They are so worried that
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the entire nation
is gonna be destroyed,
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that they heap them,
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the Egyptian
neighbors heap their gold,
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their jewels and their jewelry
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on top of the children of Israel
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and said just get out of
here before we're all dead.
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God intended that. He
said I'm gonna use that.
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We'll melted down
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and I'll built a
sanctuary out of it.
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Okay? So that's what they got.
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And now notice verse 4.
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"And he, Aaron, received
the gold from their hand,
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and he fashioned it
with an engraving tool,
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and made a molded calf.
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Then they said,
'This is your god,
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O Israel, that brought
you out of the land of Egypt!'
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So when Aaron saw he
built an alter before it
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and Aaron made a proclamation
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and said, tomorrow is
the feast of the Lord.'"
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Poor Aaron, second-in-command.
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If only this
leader had held the line.
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If only this leader
had stood up for principle,
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if only he had
refused to compromise,
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the story would have
been vastly different.
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And how easy it
is for those of us
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who lead, to give the children
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what they want
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and not what they need.
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Early the next morning, verse 6.
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I mean these guys can not wait,
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they can not
wait and so verse 6.
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"They rose
early on the next day,
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they offered burnt offerings,
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and they
brought peace offerings,
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and the people sat
down to eat and drink,
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and rose up to play."
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It is party time, dude.
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And they did.
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The Hebrew word
for party right here,
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is not party,
actually the Hebrew word
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for rose up is--
00:20:37.62\00:20:43.25
It's the same
word Mrs. Potiphar uses
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when she's pressing sexual
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advancement
charges against Joseph.
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This boy came in here to -- me.
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It's the same
word in Genesis that
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describes the
Lord of the Philistines
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looking out of his window
00:20:56.87\00:20:57.91
and seeing Isaac
and Rebecca caressing.
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The King James says, they were--
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and he say, wait a minute.
00:21:03.37\00:21:04.44
He told me that was his sister.
00:21:04.47\00:21:06.24
You never do that to a sister.
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Same word, point
being, ladies and gentlemen,
00:21:09.30\00:21:12.91
this is no church social
00:21:12.94\00:21:14.51
they're having
early in the morning.
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This is sexual play.
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Where do they get it from, huh.
00:21:19.95\00:21:21.28
What do you
think they got it from?
00:21:21.31\00:21:22.34
They got it from Egypt.
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You probably already
figured this out, haven't you?
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The chosen have
always been tempted
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to make the fallen
culture around them,
00:21:29.93\00:21:32.87
their default
position in practice.
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And so the record reads,
"And they rose up to play."
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Meanwhile, back on
the top of the mountain,
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there is a heart broken God
00:21:46.14\00:21:49.21
and a devastated
crestfallen leader, our Moses.
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A voice speaks
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out of the shadowy
glory Moses, Moses.
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I can't believe it.
I just counted them.
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They have broken all
ten of my Ten Commandments.
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It's over Moses, I'm
telling you, it's over.
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So what I invite you
to do is just stand back
00:22:10.57\00:22:13.22
because I'm gonna
nuke them right now.
00:22:13.25\00:22:16.56
And then boy, it
will be you and me.
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I'll make a great
nation out of the two of us,
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what do you say?
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It's one of those
heart stopping scenes
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in all the
scripture and sacred history,
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when in response
Moses falls to his face
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and begins to intercede,
00:22:36.96\00:22:38.21
begins to pour
his heart out pleading
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for the
forgiveness of this people
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who just days earlier,
by the way, chapter 17,
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they are threatening to
stone their leader to death,
00:22:45.75\00:22:48.24
he is begging God,
you can't kill him,
00:22:48.27\00:22:50.07
you just can't destroy
them, please, I beg you.
00:22:50.10\00:22:54.66
It's the most
profound illustration
00:22:54.69\00:22:56.34
in human
experience, in all literature,
00:22:56.37\00:22:58.61
this is the most
profound reflection
00:22:58.64\00:23:03.83
of the intercessory ministry
of Christ in human form.
00:23:03.86\00:23:08.90
Now Jesus there
on that center cross,
00:23:08.93\00:23:14.31
prays to the Father.
00:23:14.34\00:23:15.45
Father forgive them,
00:23:15.48\00:23:18.08
they don't know
what they are doing.
00:23:18.11\00:23:20.48
Moses is Christ in this scene
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and then there's another
scene as you turn the page,
00:23:22.97\00:23:24.76
near the end of the chapter.
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And the heart of
God as Moses sobs
00:23:27.45\00:23:29.23
and pleads for Israel.
00:23:29.26\00:23:30.42
The heart of God
is strangely moved
00:23:30.45\00:23:32.58
and he'd had a
suspicion that divine love
00:23:32.61\00:23:35.44
was going to be reflected
through this human instrument.
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And so verse 14 reads,
00:23:40.46\00:23:41.89
"And the Lord
relented from the harm
00:23:41.92\00:23:44.58
which He said He
would do to His people."
00:23:44.61\00:23:46.16
He changed His mind. He
talk me out of it, Moses.
00:23:46.19\00:23:49.92
Now Moses turns around.
Oh, boy, trouble coming.
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In verse 15, "And Moses turned
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and went down from the mountain,
00:23:53.79\00:23:54.86
and they were two
tablets of the Testimony"
00:23:54.89\00:23:56.35
This is verse 15 "In his hand,
00:23:56.38\00:23:57.91
the tablets were
written on both sides,
00:23:57.94\00:23:59.06
on the one side
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and on the other
they were written."
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Verse 16, " Now the
tablets were the work of God,
00:24:01.23\00:24:03.87
and the writing
was the writing of God"
00:24:03.90\00:24:05.70
The handwriting of God engraved
00:24:05.73\00:24:07.18
on those two stoned tablets.
00:24:07.21\00:24:09.31
And as their making
00:24:09.34\00:24:10.41
their way down that shaky slope,
00:24:10.44\00:24:12.28
they can't see the valley yet,
00:24:12.31\00:24:13.60
but Joshua now hears the sound,
00:24:13.63\00:24:16.60
the sounds coming from
the base of Mount Sinai.
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And because he can't see,
in alarm, he exclaims to Moses.
00:24:21.76\00:24:24.43
He says, My Lord
00:24:24.46\00:24:25.87
there is war
going on in that camp.
00:24:25.90\00:24:28.13
And Moses said,
no, no, no, no, no.
00:24:28.16\00:24:31.56
This is verse 18,
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"It is not the noise
of the shout of victory,
00:24:32.66\00:24:35.11
nor the noise of
the cry of defeat,
00:24:35.14\00:24:36.82
But I hear the
sound of singing."
00:24:36.85\00:24:42.43
They're having worship
at the foot of the mountain
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and they are singing
at the top of their lungs.
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Anything wrong with singing
at the top of your lungs,
00:24:51.43\00:24:53.35
of course not, we
do it here, but watch.
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And so it was, verse 19,
00:24:57.87\00:24:59.07
that "As soon as
he came near the camp,
00:24:59.10\00:25:00.68
that he saw the
calf and the dancing."
00:25:00.71\00:25:03.54
They're not just singing,
they are dancing in the aisles,
00:25:03.57\00:25:08.09
and it is a ruckus, cacophony.
00:25:08.12\00:25:12.40
"And so Moses' anger became hot,
00:25:12.43\00:25:13.87
and he cast the
tablets out of his hands
00:25:13.90\00:25:15.21
and broke them at the
foot of the mountain."
00:25:15.24\00:25:16.33
And then the
next verse he comes up
00:25:16.36\00:25:17.44
to that golden calf
00:25:17.47\00:25:18.53
and obviously
verse 20 takes hours
00:25:18.56\00:25:21.32
because he has to
knock the calf down,
00:25:21.35\00:25:23.49
he has to melt the calf
and then grind up the dust.
00:25:23.52\00:25:27.12
He pours it into the stream that
00:25:27.15\00:25:28.49
flows from Mount Sinai
through the dessert floor
00:25:28.52\00:25:31.22
and then he commands the people,
00:25:31.25\00:25:32.43
now you drink this water
because I want to make a point.
00:25:32.46\00:25:35.01
You are now drinking your God.
00:25:35.04\00:25:36.34
You God is gold
flakes inside of you,
00:25:36.37\00:25:38.31
so you worship that.
00:25:38.34\00:25:41.16
And once they have
drunk that polluted water,
00:25:41.19\00:25:45.49
and here's a leadership moment,
00:25:45.52\00:25:46.64
if they are any
leaders here, this is it.
00:25:46.67\00:25:50.10
Moses comes to Aaron verse 21.
00:25:50.13\00:25:51.95
"And Moses said to Aaron,
00:25:51.98\00:25:53.22
'What did this
people do to you that
00:25:53.25\00:25:56.42
you have brought so
great a sin upon them?'"
00:25:56.45\00:26:00.04
They influenced you
and you have made them sin.
00:26:00.07\00:26:03.05
What's up?
00:26:03.08\00:26:04.15
And now watch this,
the very next verse.
00:26:04.18\00:26:05.47
A dramatic leadership contrasts
00:26:05.50\00:26:08.05
because just moments
ago, a top the mountain,
00:26:08.08\00:26:11.05
Moses is begging for his people,
00:26:11.08\00:26:15.76
but now Aaron, in a
moment of leadership cave-in,
00:26:15.79\00:26:20.53
he doesn't beg for the people,
00:26:20.56\00:26:21.66
he blames the people instead.
00:26:21.69\00:26:24.68
Can you believe it?
00:26:24.71\00:26:26.03
You're a leader
and it was their fault,
00:26:26.06\00:26:28.17
it is their, it was their idea.
00:26:28.20\00:26:33.07
Oh, my Lord, Aaron
says to his younger brother.
00:26:33.10\00:26:36.44
"Do not let the anger
of my Lord become hot."
00:26:36.47\00:26:38.33
I mean, you know the people.
00:26:38.36\00:26:39.40
They're set on evil.
00:26:39.43\00:26:40.74
What I did was, I
threw this gold into the fire
00:26:40.77\00:26:42.51
and you see at the end of
24, and this calf came out,
00:26:42.54\00:26:44.64
I don't know how it happened,
00:26:44.67\00:26:45.73
but it just, this calf came out.
00:26:45.76\00:26:47.24
Please, Moses,
don't be mad at me.
00:26:47.27\00:26:50.16
Moses tell us in
Deuteronomy Chapter 9,
00:26:50.19\00:26:52.28
our theme book for this series.
00:26:52.31\00:26:53.86
Deuteronomy 9:20,
00:26:53.89\00:26:55.35
that God would
have destroyed Aaron
00:26:55.38\00:26:59.10
if Moses hadn't
interceded for him.
00:26:59.13\00:27:02.20
He begged for
Aaron's life, God says, okay.
00:27:02.23\00:27:05.38
You can have your brother.
00:27:05.41\00:27:09.85
And then Moses, what is this?
00:27:09.88\00:27:10.91
Verse 26, no, no, verse 25
00:27:10.94\00:27:12.41
"Now when Moses saw that
the people were unrestrained
00:27:12.44\00:27:15.07
for Aaron had
not restrained them,
00:27:15.10\00:27:16.58
to their shame
among their enemies."
00:27:16.61\00:27:18.14
By the way the Hebrew
for unrestrained here Parah.
00:27:18.17\00:27:21.76
It can be translated
unclosed or uncontrolled.
00:27:21.79\00:27:25.51
They were half naked.
00:27:25.54\00:27:27.27
They've gone into this wild orgy
00:27:27.30\00:27:29.47
to the shame of the
enemies that surround them.
00:27:29.50\00:27:33.66
Moses cried out in verse 26.
00:27:33.69\00:27:35.58
"He stood in the
entrance of the camp,
00:27:35.61\00:27:37.13
and he said, 'Whoever is on
the Lord's side come to me!'"
00:27:37.16\00:27:44.36
Because in this
battle between good and evil,
00:27:44.39\00:27:46.31
there is not third side,
there is no middle ground.
00:27:46.34\00:27:48.70
How long will you
limp between two opinions
00:27:48.73\00:27:50.60
if God is God you worship God
00:27:50.63\00:27:51.86
and Satan is Satan,
00:27:51.89\00:27:52.92
if Satan is God you worship him,
00:27:52.95\00:27:54.39
you can't limp back and forth.
00:27:54.42\00:27:56.70
You got to take a
stand at some point.
00:27:56.73\00:27:59.72
You have to and they do.
00:27:59.75\00:28:02.51
Early the next
morning, heartbroken,
00:28:02.54\00:28:06.04
Moses climbs back
up that shaley slope
00:28:06.07\00:28:10.95
to the smokey summit
where God is awaiting.
00:28:10.98\00:28:12.75
This is verse 31.
00:28:12.78\00:28:15.06
Then Moses returned
to the Lord and he said,
00:28:15.09\00:28:18.06
"Oh, these people have
committed a great sin,"
00:28:18.09\00:28:21.13
You were right.
00:28:21.16\00:28:22.26
They have made for
themselves a god of gold!
00:28:22.29\00:28:24.95
Yet now, if You
will forgive their sin,
00:28:24.98\00:28:29.68
and until we get to eternity
and we personally ask Moses,
00:28:29.71\00:28:33.10
how were you going
to finish that sentence?
00:28:33.13\00:28:35.24
We do not know
how that sentence ends
00:28:35.27\00:28:36.76
because the sentence is cut off.
00:28:36.79\00:28:38.64
If you will forgive their sins
00:28:38.67\00:28:39.89
then I will, then
they will, then you--
00:28:39.92\00:28:41.68
He doesn't say,
he's just cut off.
00:28:41.71\00:28:44.61
It isn't a
stretch of an imagination
00:28:44.64\00:28:48.87
to sense that
sob that just chokes
00:28:48.90\00:28:50.90
his sentence, in mid-sentence.
00:28:50.93\00:28:54.48
Yet now, if You
will forgive their sin"
00:28:54.51\00:28:56.60
stop, choke, but if not, I pray,
00:28:56.63\00:29:01.73
blot me out of their
book which You have written."
00:29:01.76\00:29:07.06
I don't understand
leadership like that, do you?
00:29:07.09\00:29:09.53
That you're willing
to substitute yourself
00:29:09.56\00:29:12.21
for the sake of your people?
00:29:12.24\00:29:15.23
Come on.
00:29:15.26\00:29:17.52
The author of the Bible
Commentary poignantly observes.
00:29:17.55\00:29:21.36
It is not easy to
estimate the measure of love
00:29:21.39\00:29:23.51
in such man is
Moses and by the way,
00:29:23.54\00:29:25.37
Paul did it in Romans Chapter 9,
00:29:25.40\00:29:26.78
he said, "If only I
could be a cursed lost forever,
00:29:26.81\00:29:30.28
so the God could save the Jews."
00:29:30.31\00:29:32.31
Both Moses and Paul.
00:29:32.34\00:29:33.38
It is not easy to
estimate the measure of love
00:29:33.41\00:29:34.92
in such men as Moses and Paul,
00:29:34.95\00:29:36.55
for limited powers of reason
00:29:36.58\00:29:38.28
do not comprehended anymore
00:29:38.31\00:29:40.51
than a little child
is able to comprehend
00:29:40.54\00:29:42.59
the courage of heroes,
00:29:42.62\00:29:44.13
have no understanding
of the courage of heroes.
00:29:44.16\00:29:46.74
I can not
comprehend that selfless love.
00:29:46.77\00:29:50.81
It is the profound reflection
of Christ the intercessory
00:29:50.84\00:29:56.54
for the human race.
00:29:56.57\00:30:01.00
Blot me out.
God we, waves aside.
00:30:01.03\00:30:03.61
Now come on, He said,
you know, the only people
00:30:03.64\00:30:05.38
I blot out are the people
of the sin, forget that idea.
00:30:05.41\00:30:07.63
He said, in fact, Moses,
and I've been thinking about it
00:30:07.66\00:30:08.88
you know what?
00:30:08.91\00:30:09.94
I'm gonna send
my angel with you.
00:30:09.97\00:30:11.04
I'm gonna send my angel,
00:30:11.07\00:30:12.19
you will go to the Promise Land,
00:30:12.22\00:30:13.28
but listen to me,
00:30:13.31\00:30:14.36
I am not gonna go with
you, do you understand?
00:30:14.39\00:30:15.78
I am not gonna
go with your people.
00:30:15.81\00:30:18.26
I'll send my
angel and you go instead
00:30:18.29\00:30:20.03
and when the people hear it
00:30:20.06\00:30:21.38
and now we're
coming to the punch line.
00:30:21.41\00:30:22.71
When the people hear it,
chapter 33, look at this.
00:30:22.74\00:30:25.56
"When they God's
decision, verse 4."
00:30:25.59\00:30:27.52
When the people
heard this bad news,
00:30:27.55\00:30:30.08
they mourned, and no
one put on his ornaments."
00:30:30.11\00:30:34.20
Verse 5, "For the
Lord had said to Moses,
00:30:34.23\00:30:36.05
'Say to the children of Israel,
00:30:36.08\00:30:37.37
"You are a stiff-necked people.
00:30:37.40\00:30:38.70
I could come up into
your midst in one moment
00:30:38.73\00:30:40.99
and consume you.
00:30:41.02\00:30:42.44
Now therefore,
take off your ornaments,
00:30:42.47\00:30:44.63
that I may know
what to do with you.'"
00:30:44.66\00:30:46.50
So verse 6.
00:30:46.53\00:30:48.99
"The children of
Israel stripped themselves
00:30:49.02\00:30:50.96
of their ornaments
by Mount Horeb" the end.
00:30:50.99\00:30:56.78
That's it.
00:30:56.81\00:30:59.61
Once upon a time,
there was a people
00:30:59.64\00:31:02.10
who were the
chosen and they suffered
00:31:02.13\00:31:04.40
through a
terrible moral meltdown,
00:31:04.43\00:31:07.69
but out of their crises,
00:31:07.72\00:31:09.40
they were taught
two critical lessons,
00:31:09.43\00:31:10.68
two vital lessons for the chosen
00:31:10.71\00:31:13.47
who live today to learn.
00:31:13.50\00:31:16.04
Not over, not a year
of living biblically,
00:31:16.07\00:31:18.10
but a lifetime of
living biblically.
00:31:18.13\00:31:20.22
I want you to jot
these two lessons down
00:31:20.25\00:31:22.10
and so would you reach into
your worship bulletin please
00:31:22.13\00:31:24.50
and pull out
today's study guide.
00:31:24.53\00:31:26.12
Take it out, two
lessons, jot them down.
00:31:26.15\00:31:29.32
Ushers, let's get study
guides please to any who need.
00:31:29.35\00:31:32.84
A study guide you came in,
00:31:32.87\00:31:33.90
a bunch of you with just
one bulletin hold you hand up,
00:31:33.93\00:31:35.65
our ushers in the
balcony, here at the front,
00:31:35.68\00:31:37.74
in the back,
let's move this quickly.
00:31:37.77\00:31:39.79
Gentlemen, thank
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00:31:39.82\00:31:40.99
who are watching on television,
00:31:41.02\00:31:42.11
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00:31:42.14\00:31:44.23
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00:31:44.26\00:31:45.36
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00:31:45.39\00:31:51.39
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Go to that website.
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00:31:55.42\00:31:57.62
"How Much of
Naked Is Acceptable?"
00:31:57.65\00:31:59.96
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click that little
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you will have the identical
study guide as we have it.
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I like you to jot these
two lessons down please.
00:32:08.21\00:32:11.71
Everybody have one?
00:32:11.74\00:32:12.80
All right, keep your hand up,
00:32:12.83\00:32:13.97
ushers are slowly
making their way to the back,
00:32:14.00\00:32:16.62
they will get to you,
but I'm gonna keep moving.
00:32:16.65\00:32:18.00
Lesson number one,
write it down please.
00:32:18.03\00:32:20.63
"A revival of morality
leads to a revival of modesty."
00:32:20.66\00:32:26.40
Did you get that?
00:32:26.43\00:32:27.46
"A revival of morality
leads to a revival of modesty."
00:32:27.49\00:32:31.70
So how much of
naked is acceptable?
00:32:31.73\00:32:34.70
Come on, it's a
story that we've just read,
00:32:34.73\00:32:37.00
portrays, you
can't talk about modesty
00:32:37.03\00:32:38.95
without talking about sexuality,
00:32:38.98\00:32:40.34
so write this down.
00:32:40.37\00:32:41.40
When the children of
Israel became unclothed,
00:32:41.43\00:32:44.87
they became uncontrolled.
00:32:44.90\00:32:46.53
It's the same
word in the Hebrew,
00:32:46.56\00:32:47.91
unclothed and uncontrolled.
00:32:47.94\00:32:49.44
Keep your pen moving.
00:32:49.47\00:32:50.52
Because modesty
is a protective wall
00:32:50.55\00:32:53.36
for sexuality.
00:32:53.39\00:32:55.78
The two are divinely
intended to go hand in hand.
00:32:55.81\00:33:00.90
A friend of mine loan
me this book this week.
00:33:00.93\00:33:04.20
I would never
have bought this book
00:33:04.23\00:33:06.00
in a hundred years
00:33:06.03\00:33:07.92
and I have not read
it all the way through.
00:33:07.95\00:33:11.68
I will show you
the cover of the book.
00:33:11.71\00:33:13.34
It's called, "Sexy Girls."
00:33:13.37\00:33:18.72
How hot is too hot? All right.
00:33:18.75\00:33:24.61
Don't get too close.
00:33:24.64\00:33:28.39
How hot is too hot?
00:33:28.42\00:33:29.46
It's written by Hayley DiMarco.
00:33:29.49\00:33:33.11
Since there's no
way, there is no way
00:33:33.14\00:33:35.60
that I would be able to say
any of this without blushing.
00:33:35.63\00:33:39.47
I'm gonna let a woman say it,
00:33:39.50\00:33:40.69
'cause she already wrote it.
00:33:40.72\00:33:42.41
Let me just tell you
what the book is about.
00:33:42.44\00:33:44.18
You get it from the,
00:33:44.21\00:33:46.60
you know the little page
write behind the title page.
00:33:46.63\00:33:48.70
They are quoting an
anonymous youth pastor
00:33:48.73\00:33:50.82
and I can see
why it's anonymous.
00:33:50.85\00:33:51.93
Confessions of a youth pastor,
00:33:51.96\00:33:53.53
one line, this is a
whole page, one line.
00:33:53.56\00:33:55.16
"It's hard to
speak to your hearts
00:33:55.19\00:33:57.80
when all I see is your parts."
00:33:57.83\00:34:03.04
You got the point of the book?
00:34:03.07\00:34:04.89
Yeah, let me just
read something to you.
00:34:04.92\00:34:10.77
I had to really edit
this in first church.
00:34:10.80\00:34:15.72
I don't want any health crisis.
00:34:17.64\00:34:21.18
All right.
00:34:21.21\00:34:22.75
So, so I'm looking at this book.
00:34:22.78\00:34:25.49
Here's a little headline.
00:34:25.52\00:34:26.63
Listen, ladies and gentlemen,
00:34:26.66\00:34:28.96
by the way, guys, listen up.
00:34:28.99\00:34:31.99
"Remembering the
under in underwear,"
00:34:32.02\00:34:36.53
that's a thought.
00:34:36.56\00:34:38.27
Okay, here it goes.
00:34:38.30\00:34:39.39
"Ever think it's a
cute and sexy little trick
00:34:39.42\00:34:42.45
to lift the top
of your underwear
00:34:42.48\00:34:43.83
ever so slightly
above your waistband?
00:34:43.86\00:34:48.33
Or what if your
undies just happened to show
00:34:48.36\00:34:49.61
when you sit down.
00:34:49.64\00:34:50.72
That isn't so bad, is it?
00:34:50.75\00:34:51.78
I mean, come on
it's not sexual, is it?
00:34:51.81\00:34:53.91
Hey, look at it from
the guys perspective.
00:34:53.94\00:34:56.75
When you show
off your underwear,
00:34:56.78\00:34:57.97
the first thing a
guy thinks about is,
00:34:58.00\00:34:59.22
what's you look like
with just your undies on
00:34:59.25\00:35:01.09
and the second
thing he thinks is,
00:35:01.12\00:35:02.47
that if you're so
willing to show him part
00:35:02.50\00:35:03.90
or your underwear than you're
00:35:03.93\00:35:04.96
probably willing to
show all of your underwear.
00:35:04.99\00:35:06.94
In his mind, you
immediately become, well, sexual
00:35:06.97\00:35:10.22
and he will
treat you accordingly,
00:35:10.25\00:35:11.73
which means, he
will show you attention
00:35:11.76\00:35:13.49
but it is purely sexual.
00:35:13.52\00:35:15.83
That's not to
mention, all the guys
00:35:15.86\00:35:17.46
that you don't
even know are using you
00:35:17.49\00:35:19.27
as their own personal peep show.
00:35:19.30\00:35:24.37
Basing your image
on your relationships
00:35:24.40\00:35:25.85
on pure sexuality is
a recipe for disaster.
00:35:25.88\00:35:29.02
Guys, don't take
sexual girls seriously,
00:35:29.05\00:35:30.63
they just don't.
00:35:30.66\00:35:31.79
They think about using
them until their next conquest.
00:35:31.82\00:35:33.72
They are so clouded
by your body parts that
00:35:33.75\00:35:35.77
they won't see you
for the amazing girl
00:35:35.80\00:35:37.72
that you are, so be careful
00:35:37.75\00:35:39.07
when you play
around with an image that
00:35:39.10\00:35:40.50
is free enough to
expose all your delicates,
00:35:40.53\00:35:43.67
besides, you
probably didn't buy them
00:35:43.70\00:35:45.83
at Victoria's public knowledge."
00:35:45.86\00:35:49.61
Have you ever
heard of that store,
00:35:49.64\00:35:50.68
Victoria's public knowledge,
because there's no secret.
00:35:50.71\00:35:55.35
You finally got it.
00:35:55.38\00:36:00.38
It's not wise
to use your freedom
00:36:00.41\00:36:02.11
or shall I say flaunt
your freedom in front of guys.
00:36:02.14\00:36:04.35
"It might seem
like a cheap thrill,
00:36:04.38\00:36:05.62
but in the
spiritual scheme of things,
00:36:05.65\00:36:07.47
it's a trip down a messy road
00:36:07.50\00:36:08.69
that can lead a
spiritual, physical,
00:36:08.72\00:36:10.48
and emotional destruction."
00:36:10.51\00:36:13.60
Come on.
00:36:13.63\00:36:15.26
By the way, guys,
00:36:15.29\00:36:18.28
they're the only
ones showing underwear.
00:36:18.31\00:36:21.14
Some of your guys
your crotch is so low,
00:36:21.17\00:36:22.71
it's dragging on the sidewalk
00:36:22.74\00:36:24.22
and you can see
everything up your back.
00:36:24.25\00:36:27.71
What's up with that?
00:36:27.74\00:36:30.36
You probably
think it's attractive.
00:36:30.39\00:36:33.11
See me afterwards.
00:36:33.14\00:36:37.18
Okay, here's just
one more, I got to go.
00:36:37.21\00:36:39.43
"The eyes have it.
00:36:39.46\00:36:40.53
Trust me when I say, that
guys are visual creatures.
00:36:40.56\00:36:43.41
They are turned
on by what they see."
00:36:43.44\00:36:46.18
See here, I heard one yes.
00:36:46.21\00:36:48.85
The rest of the guys are
all saying amen in their hearts.
00:36:48.88\00:36:52.20
You show them a bit of your
00:36:52.23\00:36:53.58
and she names a piece
of anatomy I'll leave out,
00:36:53.61\00:36:55.81
or some of that
long leg of yours
00:36:55.84\00:36:57.13
and bam Testosterone City.
00:36:57.16\00:36:59.80
They are instantly
dreaming of what they saw.
00:36:59.83\00:37:01.23
It might seem gross, juvenile,
00:37:01.26\00:37:02.58
or impossible that a
guy would want to touch you
00:37:02.61\00:37:05.73
just because he
can see a part of you,
00:37:05.76\00:37:07.39
but trust me, it's true.
00:37:07.42\00:37:08.64
I've talked to
hundreds of guys about girls
00:37:08.67\00:37:10.17
and it's the
same whatever state,
00:37:10.20\00:37:11.69
country or province I'm in,
00:37:11.72\00:37:13.64
they are turned
on by your flesh.
00:37:13.67\00:37:17.22
We girls-- "This
was insight for me.
00:37:17.25\00:37:19.41
"We girls are so
used to our flesh that
00:37:19.44\00:37:20.91
we don't think
anything about it.
00:37:20.94\00:37:22.46
We undress in
front of each other."
00:37:22.49\00:37:23.78
You do?
00:37:23.81\00:37:26.64
Huh? "We undress--
00:37:26.67\00:37:30.63
We undress in
front of each other,
00:37:30.66\00:37:31.70
we share a dress room,
00:37:31.73\00:37:32.76
we sleep
together in our T-shirts
00:37:32.79\00:37:34.56
and we think
nothing of sexual stuff
00:37:34.59\00:37:36.14
and so it can
seems strange to us
00:37:36.17\00:37:37.27
that guy see a little flesh
00:37:37.30\00:37:38.50
and they go sexual
on us, but it's true.
00:37:38.53\00:37:40.37
That's why guys are more
likely not to share a bed,
00:37:40.40\00:37:43.87
king size or
not with another guy
00:37:43.90\00:37:45.99
when crashing at a friends house
00:37:46.02\00:37:47.21
or on a road trip.
00:37:47.24\00:37:48.29
I will not sleep in that bed.
00:37:48.32\00:37:50.11
I am sleeping on the
floor, do you understand?
00:37:50.14\00:37:53.59
I am not going in
that bed with you, dude.
00:37:53.62\00:37:58.07
That's just the way we are
because it's too suggestive.
00:37:58.10\00:38:03.05
You get her point, don't you?
00:38:03.08\00:38:06.17
That's why it's way
too visual for them.
00:38:06.20\00:38:08.04
They aren't casual
about our bodies like
00:38:08.07\00:38:10.04
we are any hint
of flesh they see
00:38:10.07\00:38:11.77
and it's daydream city
for better or for worse.
00:38:11.80\00:38:14.96
So I'm gonna say one word here
00:38:14.99\00:38:16.39
that I would not do
among others in first church.
00:38:16.42\00:38:18.92
So if you're showing
00:38:18.95\00:38:20.04
the very
tippy-top of your cleavage
00:38:20.07\00:38:21.74
because you think, who cares,
00:38:21.77\00:38:24.97
it's not like they
can see the rest of me.
00:38:25.00\00:38:27.62
Funny thing, no
they don't actually see,
00:38:27.65\00:38:30.20
she puts the rest of you,
00:38:30.23\00:38:31.54
but they do start to
imagining what it looks like.
00:38:31.57\00:38:38.62
I'm glad summer is over
00:38:38.65\00:38:39.68
and we're dealing
with this in a chilly fall.
00:38:39.71\00:38:45.27
We were sitting together
00:38:45.30\00:38:46.65
in our last spiritual life
committee in the conversation,
00:38:46.68\00:38:49.50
bunch of us turned
to MySpace and Facebook
00:38:49.53\00:38:52.37
and somebody made the comment
00:38:52.40\00:38:54.43
and I'm gonna pass it on to you.
00:38:54.46\00:38:55.55
Do you, do you realize
00:38:55.58\00:38:56.96
how much you're
exposing yourself
00:38:56.99\00:38:58.42
to the world by the pictures
that you post in MySpace?
00:38:58.45\00:39:01.43
Do you
understand? The world sees.
00:39:01.46\00:39:04.40
Oh, no, it's just my
friends. No, no, the world sees.
00:39:04.43\00:39:09.20
Are you sure you want
that pose to all your visitors?
00:39:09.23\00:39:14.02
Bill Shoptaw in charge
of our medical students
00:39:14.05\00:39:17.18
who go on to medicine
told me after first church.
00:39:17.21\00:39:19.43
He said, Dwight, I
want to tell you some.
00:39:19.46\00:39:20.49
I was in meetings this week
up at the university Michigan.
00:39:20.52\00:39:24.82
The Director of
admissions for a medical school
00:39:24.85\00:39:26.84
in the State of
Michigan says, you know what?
00:39:26.87\00:39:28.78
When students apply
to our medical school,
00:39:28.81\00:39:31.57
we require that
they give us their,
00:39:31.60\00:39:33.26
their MySpace and
Facebook addresses.
00:39:33.29\00:39:36.05
If they refuse, we will refuse
to consider their application.
00:39:36.08\00:39:40.12
Employers now are
searching the web to find out
00:39:40.15\00:39:43.88
what about you is out there
00:39:43.91\00:39:45.53
that the rest of t world knows
00:39:45.56\00:39:46.82
and that you're
not telling them.
00:39:46.85\00:39:49.09
You think about it, sis or bro.
00:39:49.12\00:39:53.17
You want that picture of you?
00:39:53.20\00:39:56.02
So what's--
00:39:56.05\00:39:57.09
Let's put this in
spiritual perspective.
00:39:57.12\00:39:58.71
Back to your study guide.
00:39:58.74\00:39:59.77
Jesus said,
sermon on the mountain,
00:39:59.80\00:40:02.03
"Whoever looks
at a woman to lust
00:40:02.06\00:40:03.66
for her has
already committed adultery
00:40:03.69\00:40:06.15
with her in his
heart" That's Matthew 5:28.
00:40:06.18\00:40:08.94
Listen lady, "If
you're dressing for his eyes,
00:40:08.97\00:40:11.63
you maybe
dabbling with his fall."
00:40:11.66\00:40:15.53
Come on. We're just that way.
00:40:15.56\00:40:20.98
So of course modesty
00:40:21.01\00:40:22.04
in how you and I
dress is a moral issue.
00:40:22.07\00:40:24.74
It is a moral-- I know, I know,
00:40:24.77\00:40:25.85
guys ought to be
stronger, but we are not
00:40:25.88\00:40:28.60
and by the way you're
not so strong yourself.
00:40:28.63\00:40:32.70
That's why Paul
writes here in, what is this?
00:40:32.73\00:40:34.45
1 Corinthians 8:9, fill it in.
00:40:34.48\00:40:35.95
"Beware lest somehow
this liberty of yours
00:40:35.98\00:40:37.88
becomes a stumbling
block to those who are weak."
00:40:37.91\00:40:41.25
Trust me men are weak,
00:40:41.28\00:40:42.84
so are women and so Paul says,
00:40:42.87\00:40:44.41
If I have a liberty,
00:40:44.44\00:40:45.75
I'm not gonna font my
liberty in front of you.
00:40:45.78\00:40:47.72
It doesn't bother me,
00:40:47.75\00:40:48.81
but I'm not gonna
do it in front of you
00:40:48.84\00:40:50.17
because if it leads to
you sin I'm responsible.
00:40:50.20\00:40:52.51
I won't do it.
00:40:52.54\00:40:55.15
So how much of
naked is acceptable?
00:40:55.18\00:40:58.55
Israel undressed at
the foot of Mount Sinai
00:40:58.58\00:41:00.84
and it was all
downhill from there
00:41:00.87\00:41:03.38
and it took a
meltdown to bring a revival.
00:41:03.41\00:41:06.09
Lesson number one,
00:41:06.12\00:41:07.15
a revival of morality
leads a revival of modesty.
00:41:07.18\00:41:09.50
Write it down.
00:41:09.53\00:41:10.56
Lesson number two, final lesson.
00:41:10.59\00:41:12.25
Lesson number two, "A
revival of spirituality
00:41:12.28\00:41:15.20
leads to a
revival of simplicity."
00:41:15.23\00:41:18.42
Get to those two
words, spirituality,
00:41:18.45\00:41:21.07
A revival of spirituality leads
to a revival of simplicity."
00:41:21.10\00:41:23.92
Because by the
way, what happened
00:41:23.95\00:41:25.85
at the foot of Mount Sinai
was not an isolated incident.
00:41:25.88\00:41:29.98
Long before Mount Sinai, Jacob
00:41:30.01\00:41:31.65
who was given the name Israel,
00:41:31.68\00:41:34.24
he called for a
spiritual revival in his tribe,
00:41:34.27\00:41:38.66
they went through revival
and notice what happened.
00:41:38.69\00:41:41.64
We'll put this on
the screen. Genesis 35.
00:41:41.67\00:41:44.52
"Then God said
unto Jacob, Arise,
00:41:44.55\00:41:46.15
go up to Bethel, house of God
00:41:46.18\00:41:47.98
where I gave You
that dream years ago.
00:41:48.01\00:41:50.22
I want you to
go there and dwell.
00:41:50.25\00:41:51.48
Make an altar there to
God, who appeared to you
00:41:51.51\00:41:53.51
when you fled from the
face of Esau your brother.
00:41:53.54\00:41:55.87
And Jacob then says,
00:41:55.90\00:41:56.93
he turns to his tribe about
70 people to all go with him,
00:41:56.96\00:41:59.85
pulled away the foreign
gods that are among you,
00:41:59.88\00:42:01.87
purify yourselves
and change your garments.
00:42:01.90\00:42:04.81
Then let us arise
and go up to Bethel
00:42:04.84\00:42:07.26
and I will make an
altar there to God,
00:42:07.29\00:42:08.93
who answered me in
the day of my distress
00:42:08.96\00:42:11.19
and has halleluiah
been with me in the way
00:42:11.22\00:42:13.74
which I have gone.
00:42:13.77\00:42:14.84
Now notice, "So they gave
Jacob all the foreign gods
00:42:14.87\00:42:18.03
which were in their hands,
00:42:18.06\00:42:19.46
and the earrings
which were in their ears,
00:42:19.49\00:42:21.78
and Jacob hid them
under the terebinth tree
00:42:21.81\00:42:25.30
which was by Shechem."
00:42:25.33\00:42:28.69
Spiritual revival breaks out
00:42:28.72\00:42:30.20
in the community of the faithful
00:42:30.23\00:42:31.65
and they bury their earrings.
00:42:31.68\00:42:36.79
This is not a female thing.
00:42:36.82\00:42:37.85
This is not a male thing,
this is an everybody thing.
00:42:37.88\00:42:40.65
They all buried their ornaments.
00:42:40.68\00:42:43.40
So what's going on?
00:42:43.43\00:42:45.46
Very interestingly,
scholars believe that
00:42:45.49\00:42:49.35
the second revival at the foot
00:42:49.38\00:42:50.93
of Mount Sinai
resulted in a lasting.
00:42:50.96\00:42:53.64
Listen now, a
lasting abandonment
00:42:53.67\00:42:55.73
of ornamental jewelry
by the children of Israel.
00:42:55.76\00:43:01.01
Are we still there? Yeah.
00:43:01.04\00:43:02.12
Exodus 33, it's
right in front of you.
00:43:02.15\00:43:03.61
So drop down to
verse 6. Exodus 33:6.
00:43:03.64\00:43:05.97
"So the children of
Israel stripped themselves
00:43:06.00\00:43:08.23
of their ornaments
by the mount Horeb."
00:43:08.26\00:43:11.46
Now the
preposition by in the English
00:43:11.49\00:43:13.97
is translating the
Hebrew preposition mean
00:43:14.00\00:43:16.83
and mean is almost
always translated from.
00:43:16.86\00:43:20.98
Leading some scholars
00:43:21.01\00:43:22.14
and the new
American standard Bible
00:43:22.17\00:43:23.27
to render this verse,
00:43:23.30\00:43:24.36
jot it down in your study guide.
00:43:24.39\00:43:25.67
So Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments
00:43:25.70\00:43:28.11
from mount Horeb onward."
00:43:28.14\00:43:31.27
That was it, from then on.
00:43:31.30\00:43:34.60
Amazingly,
archeological excavations
00:43:34.63\00:43:36.46
in early Israelite
sites with rare exceptions,
00:43:36.49\00:43:39.86
uncover very little jewelry
00:43:39.89\00:43:43.22
and only a poor quality at that.
00:43:43.25\00:43:45.13
So you're saying, okay, Dwight.
00:43:45.16\00:43:46.23
Pastor, what does that mean?
00:43:46.26\00:43:47.31
You won't jewelry in the Bible?
00:43:47.34\00:43:48.67
Oh, no, you will
find jewelry in the Bible.
00:43:48.70\00:43:51.26
The most comprehensive treatment
00:43:51.29\00:43:52.42
of Jewelry in the
Bible has been written
00:43:52.45\00:43:55.07
in my opinion
by Angel Rodriguez.
00:43:55.10\00:43:57.91
It's his book,
"Jewelry in the Bible."
00:43:57.94\00:43:59.21
In which he makes
three observations
00:43:59.24\00:44:01.75
that I am still ruminating
on and it's number three.
00:44:01.78\00:44:05.35
But I'll share
all three with you.
00:44:05.38\00:44:06.49
Jot them down
please in your study guide.
00:44:06.52\00:44:07.66
Number one, Rodriguez.
00:44:07.69\00:44:09.67
The Bible
recognizes diverse functions,
00:44:09.70\00:44:13.84
diverse functions for jewelry.
00:44:13.87\00:44:15.68
Yeah, there's
jewelry for status,
00:44:15.71\00:44:16.97
that would called a
crown, a king wear it.
00:44:17.00\00:44:19.93
Ezekiel 16 by the way.
00:44:19.96\00:44:22.36
It shows, God finding
Israel by the side of the road,
00:44:22.39\00:44:24.71
it's just a little
waif, a little baby,
00:44:24.74\00:44:27.30
he washes her, wraps
her in swaddling clothes,
00:44:27.33\00:44:30.63
she grows up into a,
into a lovely young woman
00:44:30.66\00:44:33.81
and then he
says, I'm gonna marry.
00:44:33.84\00:44:35.00
I'm the king of the universe,
you will become my bride,
00:44:35.03\00:44:37.38
Queen Israel and he decks
00:44:37.41\00:44:40.03
in glorious
clothing and jewelry.
00:44:40.06\00:44:42.30
The jewelry that he decks with,
00:44:42.33\00:44:44.31
bedecks her with
is status jewelry.
00:44:44.34\00:44:49.40
I'm queen. So there
different functions.
00:44:49.43\00:44:51.20
Number one, status
number two, there's authority,
00:44:51.23\00:44:54.63
that's a royal or
family signet ring,
00:44:54.66\00:44:56.16
you know, derives,
Daniel in the lions den,
00:44:56.19\00:44:57.98
he puts his ring
down, seals that lions den.
00:44:58.01\00:44:59.76
Jesus in the
parable of prodigal son,
00:44:59.79\00:45:01.41
the boy comes and
they are so excited,
00:45:01.44\00:45:03.08
they put the
ring back on the boy,
00:45:03.11\00:45:04.17
that's a family,
that's a simple of authority.
00:45:04.20\00:45:07.80
Number three, for
spiritual leadership.
00:45:07.83\00:45:10.93
You want to talk about
the high priest of Israel?
00:45:10.96\00:45:12.79
He had this massive,
00:45:12.82\00:45:14.43
this 12 semi-precious
stones arranged on his chest,
00:45:14.46\00:45:18.70
and what's called
ifad, the only person
00:45:18.73\00:45:20.97
in the entire
community that could wear that,
00:45:21.00\00:45:22.73
glorious gems
00:45:22.76\00:45:25.79
and finally the
Bible does recognize that
00:45:25.82\00:45:27.24
some wear jewelry
for ornamentation.
00:45:27.27\00:45:30.07
Can you see the
references there?
00:45:30.10\00:45:32.78
So the three observations.
I'm ruminating on this.
00:45:32.81\00:45:34.73
Here's observation
number two from Rodriguez.
00:45:34.76\00:45:36.58
Number two, "The
Bible recognizes that
00:45:36.61\00:45:38.09
jewelry is not
intrinsically evil."
00:45:38.12\00:45:41.11
Come on, the New Jerusalem,
00:45:41.14\00:45:42.17
the streets are
gonna be pad in gold
00:45:42.20\00:45:44.18
and the 12 foundations
00:45:44.21\00:45:45.90
to the walls are 12
semi-precious stones.
00:45:45.93\00:45:48.09
God created every gem on earth.
00:45:48.12\00:45:50.95
He has a right to those gems.
00:45:50.98\00:45:53.48
The point is,
minerals are not moral agents.
00:45:53.51\00:45:57.21
The danger of jewelry is located
00:45:57.24\00:45:58.83
in the heart of the wearer,
00:45:58.86\00:46:00.45
not simply in the object itself,
00:46:00.48\00:46:02.57
which leaves to number three.
00:46:02.60\00:46:03.92
Finally number three.
00:46:03.95\00:46:05.00
The Bible
portrays ornamental jewelry
00:46:05.03\00:46:08.35
as incompatible with
the personal adornment
00:46:08.38\00:46:11.57
of the people of God.
00:46:11.60\00:46:12.67
In Rodriguez's words,
00:46:12.70\00:46:14.11
the Bible regards
jewelry with a quote,
00:46:14.14\00:46:16.18
"General pejorative attitude."
00:46:16.21\00:46:20.02
For that reason,
when spiritual revival
00:46:20.05\00:46:21.96
breaks out in
the tribe of Jacob,
00:46:21.99\00:46:23.31
the ornaments come off.
00:46:23.34\00:46:24.39
It is a moral issue.
00:46:24.42\00:46:25.70
For that reason,
when spiritual revival
00:46:25.73\00:46:27.21
again breaks out with
the children of Israel
00:46:27.24\00:46:29.04
at the foot of
Mount Sinai the ornaments
00:46:29.07\00:46:30.70
come off at God's
commands, it is a moral issue.
00:46:30.73\00:46:36.78
And by the way,
from that point on,
00:46:36.81\00:46:38.62
no more ornamental jewelry,
00:46:38.65\00:46:40.32
until centuries later
they apostatize watch this.
00:46:40.35\00:46:43.90
And has to Isaiah.
00:46:43.93\00:46:45.00
Isaiah 3, "God's
calling for a revival.
00:46:45.03\00:46:47.38
Isaiah 3:18, "In
that day the Lord
00:46:47.41\00:46:49.35
will take away the finery,
00:46:49.38\00:46:50.46
the jingling
anklets, the scarves
00:46:50.49\00:46:52.45
and the
crescents and the pendants,
00:46:52.48\00:46:54.19
and the bracelets and the veils.
00:46:54.22\00:46:56.18
The headdresses,
the leg ornaments,
00:46:56.21\00:46:57.59
and the headbands.
00:46:57.62\00:46:58.65
The perfume boxes, the charms,
00:46:58.68\00:47:00.50
and the rings, the nose jewels,
00:47:00.53\00:47:02.33
the festal
apparel and the mantles,
00:47:02.36\00:47:04.45
the outer garments, the
purses, and the mirrors.
00:47:04.48\00:47:06.91
The fine linen, the
turbans and the robes."
00:47:06.94\00:47:09.05
Revival time
again for the chosen.
00:47:09.08\00:47:14.13
And then along come Jesus.
00:47:14.16\00:47:17.56
The incarnate God of the univers
00:47:17.59\00:47:19.64
who could have worn rightfully
worn every gem in the universe
00:47:19.67\00:47:22.74
and every crown
pilled on top of His head.
00:47:22.77\00:47:25.10
And how does Jesus come?
00:47:25.13\00:47:26.24
He comes to show us the
divine value of simplicity.
00:47:26.27\00:47:30.19
He has one robe to his life
and they will gamble for it,
00:47:30.22\00:47:35.23
at the foot of His cross.
00:47:35.26\00:47:36.69
No coins, no jewels,
00:47:36.72\00:47:40.13
no house, nothing.
00:47:40.16\00:47:45.46
But the divine
principle of modest simplicity.
00:47:45.49\00:47:49.79
And then he has the
gall to look at you and me
00:47:49.82\00:47:52.79
and say, hey, guys, follow me.
00:47:52.82\00:47:56.36
The New Testament church did
00:47:56.39\00:47:57.42
which is why they embrace that
00:47:57.45\00:47:58.77
same principle of
modest simplicity.
00:47:58.80\00:48:02.30
The same principle of Jesus
00:48:02.33\00:48:03.62
and so you will
read this New Testament.
00:48:03.65\00:48:05.09
This is 1 Peter 3:3.
00:48:05.12\00:48:07.05
"Do not let your
adornment be merely outward,
00:48:07.08\00:48:10.03
arranging the hair, wearing gold
00:48:10.06\00:48:11.57
or putting on fine apparel,
00:48:11.60\00:48:13.38
rather let it be the
hidden person of the heart,
00:48:13.41\00:48:15.41
with the incorruptible beauty
of a gentle and quiet spirit,
00:48:15.44\00:48:18.43
which is very
precious in the sight of God."
00:48:18.46\00:48:22.85
Write it down.
00:48:22.88\00:48:23.91
You see, in both the
Old and New Testaments guys,
00:48:23.94\00:48:26.84
the principle is the same.
00:48:26.87\00:48:28.35
Human value the
outward appearance,
00:48:28.38\00:48:30.98
but God values the heart.
00:48:31.01\00:48:35.10
That's what counts.
00:48:35.13\00:48:37.30
Rodriguez goes on to point that,
00:48:37.33\00:48:38.84
in fact, the final,
the final appearance
00:48:38.87\00:48:44.02
of women in the Bible is
in the Book of Revelation.
00:48:44.05\00:48:46.20
Two women, one
woman representing
00:48:46.23\00:48:49.51
the people of God,
00:48:49.54\00:48:50.57
not a single piece of
jewelry upon her body,
00:48:50.60\00:48:53.05
the other woman representing
00:48:53.08\00:48:54.12
the antagonist
to the people of God
00:48:54.15\00:48:55.92
and her body is covered
with gold and germs and pearls.
00:48:55.95\00:48:58.83
God is making a
point, it is a moral issue.
00:48:58.86\00:49:01.86
It is a moral issue.
00:49:01.89\00:49:04.26
So what's the
point? Write it down.
00:49:04.29\00:49:06.28
God calls the chosen to a
life of modest simplicity.
00:49:06.31\00:49:10.15
That's the point.
00:49:10.18\00:49:11.70
I understand very well that
it is a countercultural life
00:49:11.73\00:49:14.25
to which he's calling all of us,
00:49:14.28\00:49:15.56
but to follow
Jesus has always been
00:49:15.59\00:49:17.32
countercultural, has it not?
00:49:17.35\00:49:18.38
Come on.
00:49:18.41\00:49:19.44
The Mennonite
author Donald Kraybill,
00:49:19.47\00:49:20.97
in describing
Christ kingdom calls
00:49:21.00\00:49:23.16
it an upside down kingdom.
00:49:23.19\00:49:24.84
It's the exact
opposite of the world.
00:49:24.87\00:49:27.32
And that's why 1 John 2:15,
00:49:27.35\00:49:29.92
"Love not the
world, neither the things
00:49:29.95\00:49:31.65
that are in the
world" is God's plea.
00:49:31.68\00:49:33.18
Guys, it's not like it is,
00:49:33.21\00:49:34.85
it's not like it is
here, not in my kingdom.
00:49:34.88\00:49:37.85
So here's my question for you.
00:49:37.88\00:49:39.11
Answer this for me please.
00:49:39.14\00:49:40.62
Why should we
allow the executives
00:49:40.65\00:49:42.98
and designers of
the fashion industry
00:49:43.01\00:49:44.83
to set the parameters
00:49:44.86\00:49:46.01
for our own walk with God, huh?
00:49:46.04\00:49:49.27
Why should Britney Spears?
00:49:49.30\00:49:52.22
By the way, just yesterday,
00:49:52.25\00:49:53.32
they released Britney Spears
monthly expenditures $49,000
00:49:53.35\00:49:57.62
on a mortgage every month.
00:49:57.65\00:49:59.67
And get this, I heard
this and I scribbled it down.
00:49:59.70\00:50:01.53
$15,000 a month on clothes
00:50:01.56\00:50:04.79
and accessories, 15,000 a month.
00:50:04.82\00:50:08.79
And she's the goddess
of a whole lot of girls,
00:50:08.82\00:50:13.19
a little bit younger than you.
00:50:13.22\00:50:15.69
So why should Britney
Spears and Paris Hilton
00:50:15.72\00:50:17.79
and Soulja Boy
dictate how we dress?
00:50:17.82\00:50:25.60
Who says we have to
wear that to look good, huh?
00:50:25.63\00:50:28.45
Who says we have to put
that on to look dressed up?
00:50:28.48\00:50:30.96
Who says we have to
spend that much money
00:50:30.99\00:50:32.98
on clothing and accessories?
00:50:33.01\00:50:34.42
I am not talking about
00:50:34.45\00:50:35.80
the Seventh-day
Adventist Church,
00:50:35.83\00:50:36.86
I'm not talking
about Christianity, period.
00:50:36.89\00:50:40.78
If you push this back on to me
00:50:40.81\00:50:46.02
because and would
you write this down,
00:50:46.05\00:50:47.67
modest simplicity
is both a moral value
00:50:47.70\00:50:50.86
and a moral issue.
00:50:50.89\00:50:53.49
Now come on pastor.
00:50:53.52\00:50:55.08
Come on, Dwight,
are you suggesting
00:50:55.11\00:50:56.14
that this is a matter
of personal salvation,
00:50:56.17\00:50:57.77
that I won't get,
that I won't get saved
00:50:57.80\00:50:59.72
unless I embrace
modest simplicity?
00:50:59.75\00:51:02.07
No, I am not.
00:51:02.10\00:51:03.41
You won't get saved
unless you embrace Jesus,
00:51:03.44\00:51:05.77
that's the gospel.
00:51:05.80\00:51:07.65
You embrace Jesus,
you'll just fine, thank you.
00:51:07.68\00:51:10.61
However, when you
embrace Jesus as Savior,
00:51:10.64\00:51:13.94
you must also
embrace Him as Lord
00:51:13.97\00:51:16.39
and when He says,
hey, boy, hey girl,
00:51:16.42\00:51:18.27
come, follow Me, that includes
00:51:18.30\00:51:21.37
his moral value
of modest simplicity,
00:51:21.40\00:51:24.88
which, by the
way, equal time now.
00:51:24.91\00:51:27.95
Which, by the way,
means that the principle
00:51:27.98\00:51:32.19
of modest simplicity
addresses both those $20 studs
00:51:32.22\00:51:36.59
in the young adults ears
as well as the $40,000 car
00:51:36.62\00:51:41.34
or the $80,000 motor
home in your driveway.
00:51:41.37\00:51:45.12
Modest
simplicity cuts both ways.
00:51:45.15\00:51:49.12
Won't you give me this?
00:51:49.15\00:51:50.19
We have too many legalist adults
00:51:50.22\00:51:52.43
walking around complaining
about the $5 stud in the ear,
00:51:52.46\00:51:55.32
when they got a
$50,000 car in their driveway.
00:51:55.35\00:51:59.38
Won't you talk
to these kids about
00:51:59.41\00:52:01.59
modes simplicity
living like that?
00:52:01.62\00:52:06.18
Modest
simplicity cuts both ways.
00:52:06.21\00:52:09.95
And so you don't
want the diamond up here?
00:52:09.98\00:52:12.78
You don't want
the diamond up here?
00:52:12.81\00:52:14.14
Trust me, dropping it six inches
00:52:14.17\00:52:16.35
does not baptize it.
00:52:16.38\00:52:23.29
If you don't want
the diamond up here,
00:52:23.32\00:52:25.53
you better not
wear the diamond here.
00:52:25.56\00:52:28.17
Huh.
00:52:28.20\00:52:31.56
And while we're at
it, it is incongruous.
00:52:31.59\00:52:35.72
I can not image a
God in this universe
00:52:35.75\00:52:38.14
who would consistently call us
00:52:38.17\00:52:39.35
to abandoned
external ornamentation
00:52:39.38\00:52:41.65
and not have a
word to say about houses
00:52:41.68\00:52:45.44
that are vastly above
our economic stationed
00:52:45.47\00:52:47.73
or are vastly
above our personal need,
00:52:47.76\00:52:50.89
modest
simplicity cuts both ways.
00:52:50.92\00:52:57.13
Which is why
nobody can judge nobody.
00:52:57.16\00:53:00.51
Oh, great, oh, then that means
00:53:00.54\00:53:02.28
the university has no right
00:53:02.31\00:53:03.70
to print in its
student hand book
00:53:03.73\00:53:04.97
these words and I'll quote.
00:53:05.00\00:53:06.37
"Ornamental rings and bracelets,
00:53:06.40\00:53:08.01
necklace, necklaces and
chains, ear, tongue, nose
00:53:08.04\00:53:10.70
and eyebrow rings
are not appropriate
00:53:10.73\00:53:12.56
at Andrews University."
00:53:12.59\00:53:14.62
After all, Dwight, you
just said nobody can judge.
00:53:14.65\00:53:17.86
Oh, my friend
you're absolutely right.
00:53:17.89\00:53:19.67
But a community
of faith can chose.
00:53:19.70\00:53:24.45
And the Seventh-day
Adventist Church has chosen,
00:53:24.48\00:53:25.94
that is a simple of our embrace
00:53:25.97\00:53:27.45
of Jesus standard
of modest simplicity.
00:53:27.48\00:53:29.73
We chose like Israel of old,
not to wear ornamental jewelry.
00:53:29.76\00:53:36.40
Why?
00:53:36.43\00:53:37.87
Because the
chosen have always been
00:53:37.90\00:53:41.16
a counter cultural
movement, that's why.
00:53:41.19\00:53:46.86
Jesus' life of modest
simplicity is our example.
00:53:46.89\00:53:49.42
He says, come, follow me.
00:53:49.45\00:53:50.96
By the way, so is His death.
00:53:50.99\00:53:54.27
You do know how
Jesus died, don't you?
00:53:54.30\00:53:56.47
You know how he
did. He died naked.
00:53:56.50\00:53:59.35
There isn't any
artist in the world
00:53:59.38\00:54:00.41
that would realistically
portray the crucifixion.
00:54:00.44\00:54:02.99
Christ with no clothes on.
00:54:03.02\00:54:05.41
He died naked to redeem us
from our own moral nakedness.
00:54:05.44\00:54:10.51
So the question, how
much of naked is acceptable?
00:54:10.54\00:54:14.76
Why don't you ask hat of the God
00:54:14.79\00:54:16.23
who became naked?
00:54:16.26\00:54:21.47
So that He might
cover our nakedness
00:54:21.50\00:54:24.68
with the spotless robe
00:54:24.71\00:54:26.15
of his perfect
modest simplicity.
00:54:26.18\00:54:33.04
Let's pray.
00:54:33.07\00:54:35.04
Oh, God, we see Jesus
00:54:35.07\00:54:40.24
hanging naked on Calvary.
00:54:40.27\00:54:46.41
And all we can say is thank you
00:54:46.44\00:54:50.58
from the depths of our hearts.
00:54:50.61\00:54:54.99
Our God came
and for us, He died.
00:54:55.02\00:55:02.45
Holy Father, grant to
us as a community of faith,
00:55:02.48\00:55:07.19
the courage now
00:55:07.22\00:55:11.21
to follow after Jesus.
00:55:11.24\00:55:16.78
We pray in his name, amen.
00:55:16.81\00:55:23.28
Before you go, I
wanted to take one more moment
00:55:23.31\00:55:25.73
and let you know how glad
00:55:25.76\00:55:26.80
I am to share
this hour of worship
00:55:26.83\00:55:28.76
and Bible teaching with us.
00:55:28.79\00:55:30.35
This is the
Pioneer Memorial Church
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and we're on the
campus of Andrews University
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and the series is "The Chosen."
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This is the series
that has been growing
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and it's burned on my heart
and over the last few weeks,
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before this new season began
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and some, some
concentrated prayer time,
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I believe the spirit of
God led me to the series
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out of the Book of Deuteronomy
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for this generation,
within our community of faith
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and outside this
community of faith.
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I believe both, both communities
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need to hear the
compelling Bible truth
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captured in the
series called "The Chosen."
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So thank you for
joining me and all of us
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as we continue
our journey deeper
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and deeper into the
heart of this theme.
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Living as you and I do
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and I'm, I know I'm
preaching to the choir now.
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Living as we do on
the edge of a civilization
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that is surviving through
constant upheaval and change.
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I am so grateful
and I know you are
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for the bedrock
hope we have in Jesus.
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I'm thankful that
you and I have been given
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the privilege by God to partner,
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to reach this generation
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the world over through
the satellite telecast.
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I don't know how it works.
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I just know that those
satellites drops the signals
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and those
footprints all over the planet
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are helping
disseminate this divine call
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to become a part of the chosen,
God's last generation on earth.
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So, please, here's
what I wanted you to know.
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I thank God for
you, the generous way
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you have partnered with
us in the past in making
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New Perceptions
possible globally.
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Your tax deductible gifts
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are being multiplied
all across the earth,
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I believe, for
such a time as this.
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Look, if you would like
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to order copy of
today's teaching.
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You can order DVD,
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you get all the
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You can share with your friends,
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share with your family.
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I want to just insert this here.
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we will invest your generosity
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in God's mission to
reach this final generation now
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Thank you very, very much.
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And be assured,
I'm looking forward
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to seeing you here,
right here again, next time,
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as we continue our fascinating
journey into "The Chosen."
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God bless you.
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