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>> Hebrews 12:2 says, "Let
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author and perfecter of
our faith, who for the joy set
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before Him endured the Cross,
scorning its shame, and sat down
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at the right hand
of the throne of God."
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>> "Let us fix our fix our
eyes on Jesus, the author and
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perfecter of our faith, who for
the joy set before Him endured
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the Cross, scorning its shame,
and sat down at the right hand
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of the throne of
God." Hebrews 12:2.
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>> This is the story of a
boy who wanted to learn to do a
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front flip.
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His name was Luke, and
he had a brother named Sam.
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Sam could do a front flip,
and Luke desperately wanted to
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learn. >> Sam, can you
teach me to do a front flip?
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>> I don't know. Can I? >> Come
on. Please! >> Yeah, I'll help
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you learn. >> Luke was now very
happy his brother agreed to
teach him to do a front flip.
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They headed out to their
grassy backyard to get on their
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trampoline. >> Luke, watch me do
a front flip, and then tell me
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what I'm doing.
>> Okay, I'll try.
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>> Okay, Luke, tell me what you
just saw. >> Um, a front flip?
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>> Is that all you saw? >> It
was too fast. >> Okay, maybe we
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should try a different approach.
>> What do you mean? >> How
about I tell you what to
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do. First, you have
to remember to tuck.
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If you don't tuck, you won't
have enough rotation. Second,
you have to jump at the
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right time. If you jump too
early, you will be too close to
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the ground. Lastly, you'll have
to follow through. If you get
scared and you stop
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rotating, you will have a bigger
chance of falling on your neck
than if you just keep going.
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>> Okay, I think I've got it
all figured out. >> Do you think
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you're ready? >> Nope, but I'm
going to try anyway. >> Now,
Luke was terrified, but
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he didn't show it. He wanted to
look strong. When he tried doing
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the front flip, he stopped
rotating and fell flat on his
back. >> Luke, are you okay?
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What happened? >> I
can't do it. I'm too scared.
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Can you help me not be? >> No,
I can't, but God can. Why don't
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you try praying? Let's try again
tomorrow. >> Okay, I will pray.
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¤¤ >> "Have I not commanded you?
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Be strong and courageous. Do
not be frightened, and do not
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be dismayed, for the Lord your
God is with you wherever you
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go." Joshua 1:9.
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>> Sam, wake up,
wake up! >> Come on, dude.
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It's 6:00 a.m. on a Sunday.
Can't you wait till at least
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10:00? >> Okay, fine.
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I'll wake you up at 10:00.
>> Now, Luke didn't like to
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sleep in. On the
weekends, he would wake
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up at 6:00. He
didn't have that good of a
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sense of time, and
he didn't like waiting.
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Luke waited for about 40 minutes
and said, "Okay, it's probably
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been long enough," and he went
back into Sam's room and woke
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Sam up again. But
Sam told him that it had
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only been one hour and
sent Luke out of his room.
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This went on for
the next three hours.
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>> Finally, it's
10:00. I can get Sam up now.
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>> Hi, Luke. I
guess it's time for your
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front-flip lessons. >> Yay!
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>> Luke spent the next week and
a half learning to do a front
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flip. Every day,
he got a little bit
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better. He
enjoyed his time with Sam.
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Luke was progressing quickly,
and he would come home from
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school and practice.
Then, one day, this happened.
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>> Hey, Sam, come on the
trampoline. Look at my progress.
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I can now land on my knees.
>> Okay, Luke. I'm coming.
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>> See, Sam? Wasn't that great?
>> Dude, that was amazing.
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I'll help you land it. >> As
Luke was getting ready for his
big front flip, his mom was
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making dinner and watching
through the window. "You can do
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it!" she yelled. Of course, Luke
couldn't hear her through the
closed window, and then he
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flipped. He landed it. And
that is the story about how
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Luke Reed learned
to do a front flip.
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>> "But Jesus immediately
said to them, 'Take courage!
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It is I. Don't be afraid.'
'Lord, if it's you,' Peter
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replied, 'tell me to
come out to you on the water.'
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'Come,' He said. Then
Peter got down out of the
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boat, walked on the
water, and came toward Jesus.
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But when he saw the wind, he was
afraid and, beginning to sink,
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cried out, 'Lord, save
me!'" Matthew 14:27-30.
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You see, in my story, I had
to focus on a couple things.
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I had to focus on flipping
at the right time, tucking, and
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landing on my feet. If I
focused on my fear, I would
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get scared and wouldn't do it.
To follow God, focus on Jesus,
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not fearing other
bad things in life.
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I hope you
enjoyed my play. The end.
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>> Father, we surrender all, as
Gabriel just prayed to You
through his fingers.
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We surrender all. May Jesus be
front and center now so that we
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know to whom we are giving our
all. We pray in His name, amen.
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Another advantage of this
lockdown is we're learning all
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kinds of new stuff.
Have you noticed that?
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I tell you. So,
I'm having breakfast
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[Chuckles] a few days
ago, and I'm eating my banana.
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Karen comes along, and she says,
"Don't throw those peels away."
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I said, "What do you mean
don't throw the peels away?"
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I would put them right under the
kitchen sink like I'm supposed
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to. I get in trouble if I don't.
She says, "No, just leave them
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out." "Okay." Next morning, I'm
having -- I eat a banana a day,
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seven days a week. So, I'm
having my next breakfast banana.
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She comes walking by, she said,
"Don't forget, save those banana
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peels for me." I said, "Listen,
girl, what's up with this
thing?" She says, "I have found
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out, from a YouTube, that banana
peels are very valuable." "They
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are? [ Chuckles ] That's news to
me. Okay. I'll save them." So, I
watched what she did with
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them. She got a quart jar full
of water, and she shoves the
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banana peel in it, screws the
lid on it, puts it out on our
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back porch. Sits there. Looks
really bad. Comes back the next
day, she takes the next banana
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peel, and she puts it in.
Where's she getting all this?
Tell you what, she's the
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resident Gen Z'er, DIY,
do-it-yourself. She's --
YouTube, I told you.
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She's learning all this. I says,
"What are you gonna do with it?"
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She says, "Watch." She takes the
lid off one day, and then she
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begins to pour it on the plants,
the geraniums that are on our
deck. She says, "This is
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potassium. It's good for the
pants." Oh, brother. Are you
serious? I had to look the word
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up last night because it's hard
to pronounce, but I got it right
here -- "horticulturist,"
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and according to the Web, "an
expert in garden cultivation and
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management." This morning, in
the brave new world of
post-Flood -- three times we're
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going to a brave new world,
three times it's post-Flood --
we're gonna meet the world's
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first horticulturist. And, oh,
my, is he good. Open your Bible
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with me please. Let's go.
Genesis chapter nine. I'm in the
NIV. Any Bible you have nearby,
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grab it please. Genesis 9:18.
"And the sons of Noah who came
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out of the ark were Shem, Ham,
and Japheth." Japheth's number
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one, Shem is number two, Ham is
the youngest boy. "And," Moses
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goes on, "Ham was the father of
Canaan." Now, this is a big
deal, because the Israelites,
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who will read this story of the
beginning, like a burr under the
saddle or a thorn in the flesh,
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the Canaanites have just been
driving them to distraction. So
we're tracing them all the
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way back. Now, verse
20 -- no, no verse 19.
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"These were the three sons of
Noah, and from them came the
people who were scattered over
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the whole Earth. Guess what.
One of those three boys is your
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great-great-great-great-great --
whatever. One of them is. Has to
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be. The whole human race came
from those three. Now verse 20.
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Here we go. "Noah, a man of the
soil --" horticulturist. "Noah,
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a man of the soil, proceeded to
plant a vineyard." Oh, that's
great language for us who live
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here in Southwestern Michigan,
because this is vineyard
country. There are vineyards
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everywhere. I don't know -- it
doesn't say what kind of
vineyard he planted.
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What color were the grapes? Were
they red, were they brown, were
they purple, were they
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blue, were they black, were
they green, were they white? It
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doesn't say. Were they Concord?
Were they Thompson, were they
Flame, were they Ruby?
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It doesn't say. It just
says he planted a vineyard.
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And by the way, he's the first
human being to have ever planted
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a vineyard. Wow. That's pretty
cool. Well, I don't know how
many seasons go by, and he's
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doing it somewhere down the
sides of Mount Ararat. So he's
terraced out a vineyard
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somewhere, and this
vineyard is successful. Wow.
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I don't know -- perhaps he
erected a little château, you
know, out of rocks left over
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from the Flood and just piled
them up and has this little
château beside the vineyard, and
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it has the clay jars in it, and
he fills those clay jars with
the juices of the different
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grapes that he's growing. And
of course the family loves the
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juices. He loves the juices. One
day, he comes to that little
château, and he reaches up, and
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he grabs a clay jar, and he
says, "Hmm, I want to try this
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one." And so he gets it,
and he tilts it back. [ Slurps ]
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"Ahh! Wow! What is
that?! This has a bite to it.
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I want to try a
little more. [ Slurps ] Ohh.
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This has a buzz to it!" I don't
know how he learned the word
"buzz," but you got it.
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[ Slurps, breathes heavily ] And
he kept drinkin'. Yep. And what
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happens? Before long, Noah's
cognition is being affected in a
way no human being's cognition
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has ever heretofore been
affected. Something's happened
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to him. Verse 21. "And when he
drank some of its wine --" that
would be grape juice -- "he
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became drunk --" well, that's
obviously fermented grape juice
-- "he became drunk and lay
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uncovered --" that means naked
--" inside his tent. Now, let's
be clear about one thing.
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Nature invented fermentation.
But the way the story is being
told, we are being told more
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than the story appears to tell.
There obviously is an evil
mastermind who, in his own
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laboratories, has concocted what
will become alcohol, and he's
finally got a human to try it.
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Oh, boy. And thus begins the
ill-fated journey of alcoholic
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inebriation for the human race.
Jacques Doukhan, in his, what I
consider, masterful commentary
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on the first book of the Bible
-- this is for the Seventh-Day
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Adventist International Bible
Commentary, and he wrote the
first volume, and I've read it
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cover to cover. He helped me see
what's embedded in this Hebrew
narrative that I would never
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have seen on my own. Alright,
maybe this will be interesting
for you, too. Point number one
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embedded there. The parallels --
Jacques points this out. The
parallels between drinking
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by Noah and the eating of the
forbidden fruit by Adam suddenly
suggest a warning against that
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temptation of wine drinking.
It's not grape-juice drinking.
It's fermented-grape-juice
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drinking. Something dreadfully
wrong happens in both stories
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when the fruit is consumed, no
matter how it's consumed. In the
first story, the act of
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eating the fruit is clearly
divinely forbidden. In the
second story, the act of
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drinking from the fruit is now
subtly divinely forbidden. Hmm.
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Point number two embedded. This
divine indictment of fermented
wine drinking may also
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be implied -- let me just stay
close to what Jacques' point
here -- is also implied by the
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very fact that the first
drinking ever recorded in the
Bible is associated with shame
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and a curse. And, by the way,
may I tell you that the second
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drinking of wine -- fermented
grape juice -- in the Bible is
also associated with shame and a
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curse when Lot's daughters
hoodwink him into becoming
inebriated, and then they have
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incestuous sex with their daddy.
Yeah, the first two instances.
Something else is being taught
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to us here. Number three, the
specification of a beginning.
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So the line can be translated,
"Noah was a man of the soil and
was the first to plant a
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vineyard." The specification of
the beginning of this culture of
00:32:32.55\00:32:36.45
wine, fermented wine, indicates
it is outside the purview of the
divine act of creation.
00:32:36.45\00:32:46.03
This is something that was never
intended. One more embedded
00:32:46.03\00:32:51.20
point. This presumption --
Doukhan is making a point --
perhaps explains why Daniel
00:32:51.20\00:32:58.27
totally -- totally -- refuses to
drink a drop of wine in Babylon
or be diverted from a
00:32:58.27\00:33:07.82
plant-based diet. Both of those
acts -- his pledge of loyalty to
00:33:07.82\00:33:12.19
the God who created him. Ooh.
I thought that was interesting.
00:33:12.19\00:33:15.82
And of course the Bible's
warnings -- and they are there
-- indicate that that
00:33:15.82\00:33:21.36
drinking of fermented grape
juice now speaks loudly as being
condemned by the Creator
00:33:21.36\00:33:29.54
Himself. Now, lookit, obviously
Noah did not know the
inebriating effects
00:33:29.54\00:33:33.51
of this. He didn't
know. How could he have known?
00:33:33.51\00:33:35.98
He didn't know. But just because
we don't know what the effects
00:33:35.98\00:33:40.35
are of what we're doing doesn't
make what we're doing right.
Does that make sense?
00:33:40.35\00:33:44.55
It's got to. Okay.
Well, the plot thickens now.
00:33:44.55\00:33:48.92
Ooh. Here we go. Verse 22. So
he's drunk and he's naked inside
00:33:48.92\00:33:53.86
the tent. Verse 22 now. "Ham,
the father of Canaan --" we're
being reminded again,
00:33:53.86\00:33:57.60
those affliction bearers to the
tri-- to the community of
Israel, they go all the way back
00:33:57.60\00:34:07.11
to this. "Ham, the father of
Canaan, saw his father naked,
00:34:07.11\00:34:11.15
and he told his two brothers
outside. But Shem and Japheth
took a garment and laid it
00:34:11.15\00:34:15.12
across their shoulders, and as
they walked in backward, they
covered their father's naked
00:34:15.12\00:34:18.55
body. Their faces were turned
the other way so they would not
see their naked father."
00:34:18.55\00:34:21.79
They didn't see him at all. They
just dropped that blanket down
and, "Phew, Daddy's covered
00:34:21.79\00:34:26.46
now." Wow. What's going on here?
Robert Alter -- just mentioned
00:34:26.46\00:34:36.04
him a second ago --
three-volume, one-man
translation of Hebrew, and I'm
00:34:36.04\00:34:41.01
in the first volume, and I'm
reading Genesis through right
now in his translation.
00:34:41.01\00:34:46.48
He writes this, a little
translation note, and I'm
quoting him -- "No one has ever
00:34:46.48\00:34:51.55
figured out exactly what it is
that Ham does to Noah." Okay?
What's up with this?
00:34:51.55\00:34:56.83
"Lot's daughters of course take
advantage of his drunkenness to
have sex with him, but it is
00:34:56.83\00:35:01.06
entirely possible that the mere
seeing of a father's nakedness
was thought of as a terrible
00:35:01.06\00:35:05.20
taboo so that Ham's failure to
avert his eyes would itself have
earned him the curse."
00:35:05.20\00:35:11.07
Now, Doukhan compares -- and Ham
saw -- with Eve -- and Eve saw
00:35:11.07\00:35:19.28
the fruit. There's something in
that seeing that is the dramatic
key to their downfall.
00:35:19.28\00:35:28.16
They saw it. They lingered. Huh.
"Patriarchs and Prophets" comes
00:35:28.16\00:35:33.90
along, and I'm telling you what,
she doesn't say what it is, but
her language could hardly be
00:35:33.90\00:35:38.50
more explicit. Let me
just read you one sentence.
00:35:38.50\00:35:41.84
This is all that it said. "The
unnatural --" so whatever is
going on in that tent.
00:35:41.84\00:35:47.71
"The unnatural crime --" so
whatever's going on in that tent
is not only unnatural, it is a
00:35:47.71\00:35:52.48
crime.
00:35:52.48\00:35:53.55
"The unnatural crime of
Ham declared that filial
00:35:53.58\00:35:56.45
reverence --" the reverence of
a child for his or her parent --
00:35:56.45\00:35:59.85
"had long before been cast from
his soul, and it revealed the
00:35:59.85\00:36:03.53
impurity --" whatever took
place was impure -- "and the
00:36:03.53\00:36:07.13
vileness --" it was
vile -- "of his character."
00:36:07.13\00:36:09.83
Boy, you'll spend the rest of
the Sabbath afternoon trying to
00:36:09.83\00:36:12.40
figure that one out. I
don't think we'll have to.
00:36:12.40\00:36:15.40
The point is... Ham
goes back out to share the
00:36:15.40\00:36:21.24
delicious details to his
two older brothers, and their
00:36:21.24\00:36:24.95
response, which is to take that
blanket and do what they did --
00:36:24.95\00:36:29.08
something's going on.
00:36:29.08\00:36:32.79
Now, Noah awakens out of
his stupor. What is this?
00:36:32.82\00:36:37.29
This is verse 24. "When Noah
awoke from his wine and found
out what his youngest
00:36:37.29\00:36:44.40
son had done to him, he
said, 'Cursed be Canaan!'" Ooh!
00:36:44.40\00:36:49.84
He didn't say, "Cursed by Ham."
"Cursed be Canaan." This is not
a blanket cursing of
00:36:49.84\00:36:55.21
all of Ham's children, no. He
didn't curse the others. "Cursed
00:36:55.21\00:37:00.28
be Canaan." Remember, now, this
is going to be the tribe --
these will be the pagans who
00:37:00.28\00:37:05.99
will take Israel down again and
again. Lot's two daughters took
00:37:05.99\00:37:09.22
him down. Sodom and Gomorra was
a Canaanite city. The Moabites
00:37:09.22\00:37:17.27
almost destroyed Israel just on
the the brink of the Promised
Land. Canaanites again.
00:37:17.27\00:37:20.80
The curse is not on Ham. You
can't read it any other than it
is -- he picked out one of
00:37:20.80\00:37:26.74
the children and said,
"Watch this." Noah in advance --
00:37:26.74\00:37:32.01
divinely inspired, obviously --
he traces forward the
infestation of that sin, and the
00:37:32.01\00:37:41.56
rest is history. Mm. So, the
curse is on Canaan, and now
notice the blessing.
00:37:41.56\00:37:47.03
Verse 26. "And Noah also said,
'Praise be to the Lord, the God
00:37:47.03\00:37:52.03
of Shem!'" He does not praise
Shem, he does not praise
Japheth, he does not praise or
00:37:52.03\00:37:57.07
curse any of his boys, but he
says, "The God of Shem, praise
be to Him." What's up?
00:37:57.07\00:38:00.51
Ah, the God of Shem, who is he?
Oh, he's the rainbow-covenant
God, as we noted last week.
00:38:00.51\00:38:05.25
He's the God of love who has
chosen the line of Shem through
which to bring a knowledge of
00:38:05.25\00:38:10.95
Himself to the human
race. Praise be to that God. My.
00:38:10.95\00:38:19.13
Verse 28 -- "And after the
Flood, Noah lived 350 years. And
Noah lived a total of 950
00:38:19.13\00:38:24.27
years, and then he died."
The end. But you want to see
00:38:24.27\00:38:29.87
something really fascinating? I
bet you do. I want to show it to
00:38:29.87\00:38:33.31
you. Never saw this before
in my life. Perhaps you haven't
00:38:33.31\00:38:36.91
either. Doukhan again -- my
friend Jacques. He says, "I want
00:38:36.91\00:38:40.42
you to notice the parallels
between the story of Adam and
Noah." Never seen this, but let
00:38:40.42\00:38:44.62
me run these by you. Number one,
"Adam tends a garden, Noah grows
00:38:44.62\00:38:48.99
a vineyard." Oh. Number
two, "Adam eats the fruit, Noah
00:38:48.99\00:38:52.86
drinks the fruit." Oh. Number
three, "Adam, as a result of his
action, is naked; Noah,
00:38:52.86\00:38:57.13
as a result of his action,
is naked." Number four, "Adam's
00:38:57.13\00:39:00.94
nakedness, of which he is not
aware, is revealed; Noah's
nakedness, of which he is not
00:39:00.94\00:39:05.61
aware, is revealed." Number
five, "A covering is provided
for Adam's nakedness, a
00:39:05.61\00:39:09.88
covering is provided for Noah's
nakedness." And finally, "Both
00:39:09.88\00:39:14.32
stories end in the same way,
with a curse and a blessing."
Something's going on here.
00:39:14.32\00:39:19.75
Something's being communicated
to us. The infestation of the
00:39:19.75\00:39:24.26
original sin carries on from
generation to generation to
generation to generation to
00:39:24.26\00:39:29.70
generation. Guess what. You can
have a global flood, cover the
00:39:29.70\00:39:33.50
world with water, scrub the
Earth clean, but the humans who
disembarked from the ark after
00:39:33.50\00:39:38.31
that Flood are still as infected
as when they went onto that ark.
The infestation is here.
00:39:38.31\00:39:44.48
It's Adam, Noah, you, me. That's
the point. We're all infected.
00:39:44.48\00:39:50.72
The original sin, as it were,
keeps on keepin' on. And it just
keeps on keepin' on.
00:39:50.72\00:39:58.43
My. So, the compelling question
is, how do we get out of sin's
00:39:58.43\00:40:03.67
terrible lockdown? How do we
break this? You probably have a
00:40:03.67\00:40:07.80
family tree. I have a family
tree. Which one of your sins
came from your daddy?
00:40:07.80\00:40:10.37
Which one came from your mommy?
You know we've blamed them along
00:40:10.37\00:40:16.68
the way. Come on. Unbreakable.
Who's gonna pick this lock? You
00:40:16.68\00:40:22.42
remember Romans 5? I want to end
with Romans 5. Come on. We were
00:40:22.42\00:40:26.19
just in Genesis 9. Now we go to
Romans 5. This is that...summit
in the New Testament, certainly
00:40:26.19\00:40:33.23
in the Book of Romans. Romans
chapter five. I want to just
00:40:33.23\00:40:35.73
read a line -- three lines to
you, three of them. Then you'll
00:40:35.73\00:40:38.37
see where this little "father to
son to mother to daughter"
business is going. Romans 5:12.
00:40:38.37\00:40:42.24
"Therefore, just as sin entered
the world through one man..."
00:40:42.24\00:40:46.84
Who would that be? That would be
Adam. "...and death through sin,
and in this way death came to
00:40:46.84\00:40:51.91
all people because all
sinned..." Adam, Noah, you, me
-- we've all sinned, all of us.
00:40:51.91\00:40:58.85
Every single bloomin' one of
us have sinned. Now drop down to
00:40:58.85\00:41:03.69
verse 15. But along comes the
gift. "And the gift is not like
00:41:03.69\00:41:08.43
the trespass. For if the many
died by the trespass of the one
man --" that would be Adam --
00:41:08.43\00:41:13.60
"how much more did God's grace
and the gift that came by the
grace of the one man, Jesus
00:41:13.60\00:41:18.61
Christ --" the second Adam --
"overflow to the many!" Oh, man,
we've got two Adams
00:41:18.61\00:41:22.58
going here. We have an Adam
through which we all got lost,
00:41:22.58\00:41:28.12
thanks to our participation with
him, and we have a second Adam
through which we all can be
00:41:28.12\00:41:33.09
saved. Drop down to verse 18,
one more line. "Consequently,
00:41:33.09\00:41:37.06
just as one trespass resulted in
condemnation for all people --"
Adam -- "so also one righteous
00:41:37.06\00:41:42.06
act --" talking about Calvary
and the Cross -- "resulted in
justification --" that means to
00:41:42.06\00:41:45.73
be pardoned, to be forgiven,
to be legally declared, "You are
00:41:45.73\00:41:50.84
emancipated! You are free! I've
set you free." So, "...through
00:41:50.84\00:41:55.14
one righteous act resulted in
justification and life --" for
how many people does your Bible
00:41:55.14\00:42:00.25
say? Mine says "all." Guess
what. The entire human race
00:42:00.25\00:42:03.69
emancipated by the gift of
Calvary -- the entire human
00:42:03.69\00:42:07.82
race. Am I reading
something into this? I am not.
00:42:07.82\00:42:10.33
The entire human race. My, my,
my, my, my, my. What's going on
00:42:10.33\00:42:17.60
here? Ah. I had never heard
of Juneteenth before a week ago.
00:42:17.60\00:42:30.28
A week ago yesterday was
June 19th, and it's called
00:42:30.28\00:42:35.55
Juneteenth. All my life, how
come nobody ever told me about
this? Lot of people found out
00:42:35.55\00:42:39.35
about it. "What are
you talking about, Dwight?"
00:42:39.35\00:42:41.46
Well, let me just read it to
you. "Juneteenth --" okay, so I
00:42:41.46\00:42:44.66
got this on the Web. "Juneteenth
is the oldest nationally
00:42:44.66\00:42:48.03
celebrated commemoration of the
ending of slavery in the United
States, dating back to 1865.
00:42:48.03\00:42:52.90
It was on June 19th that the
Union soldiers, led by Major
General Gordon Granger,
00:42:52.90\00:42:58.17
landed at Galveston, Texas, with
news that the war had ended and
that the enslaved were now
00:42:58.17\00:43:04.41
free." Please note that this is
now two and a half years after
00:43:04.41\00:43:08.62
President Abraham Lincoln
has signed the Emancipation
00:43:08.62\00:43:12.82
Proclamation that went into
effect January 1, 1863. Two and
a half years later, the
00:43:12.82\00:43:17.49
slaves in Texas are hearing
about it for the first time. My.
00:43:17.49\00:43:24.23
"You're free!" You've been
free for two and a half years."
00:43:24.23\00:43:27.07
"Well, nobody told me." I want
to take that history and look at
00:43:27.07\00:43:33.04
another history. I want to share
a quotation with you from a book
called "Ministry of Healing,"
00:43:33.04\00:43:37.01
which is all about the healing
ministry of Jesus. This is good,
00:43:37.01\00:43:41.02
so I'm gonna read this to you
right now. "Jesus knows the
circumstances of every soul."
00:43:41.02\00:43:45.25
And that is wonderfully assuring
for me -- and I hope for you. He
knows exactly why I do what I
00:43:45.25\00:43:50.03
do. He knows exactly
why you do what you do.
00:43:50.03\00:43:52.53
He knows it. "The greater the
sinner's guilt, the more he or
00:43:52.53\00:43:58.83
she needs the Savior." Isn't
that something? The badder you
00:43:58.83\00:44:04.24
are, the more you need Him. Keep
reading. "Jesus' heart of divine
00:44:04.24\00:44:08.34
love and sympathy is drawn out
most of all -- most of all --
for the one who is the most
00:44:08.34\00:44:13.45
hopelessly entangled in the
snares of the enemy." Some of
you have been fighting
00:44:13.45\00:44:17.15
this enemy from the get-go. So
have we all, but some of you
have really had a fight on your
00:44:17.15\00:44:21.02
hand. We all have had it,
but it's more obvious to you.
00:44:21.02\00:44:24.66
That entanglement, the more
hopeless it feels, the more
Jesus draws closer to you.
00:44:24.66\00:44:30.30
He's gonna set you free. He
is going to deliver your soul.
00:44:30.30\00:44:35.44
Now, here comes the line. "With
His own blood, He has signed the
emancipation papers
00:44:35.44\00:44:42.31
of the race." Like those slaves
in Texas, it is possible there
00:44:42.31\00:44:48.38
are human beings living today --
they may be living right next
door to you -- who have never
00:44:48.38\00:44:53.62
heard that they have been set
free from the slavery of sin --
never heard it at all.
00:44:53.62\00:44:57.86
You know what? Sometimes you and
I act as if we've never heard it
00:44:57.86\00:45:01.10
either, like Calvary got signed
2,000 years ago and how come
we're not living like we've been
00:45:01.10\00:45:06.53
set free? We're
living like we're in bondage.
00:45:06.57\00:45:08.54
Every day, we mope through the
day -- "I'm in bondage, I'm in
00:45:08.54\00:45:11.74
bondage." No,
with His blood, He has
00:45:11.74\00:45:14.21
signed the
emancipation papers of the race.
00:45:14.21\00:45:17.31
Calvary --
Calvary has set us free.
00:45:17.31\00:45:20.98
2,000 years ago.
00:45:20.98\00:45:24.55
Wow. There's a line right at
the end of chapter five here in
00:45:24.59\00:45:34.10
Romans. And I like this in the
Old King James, by the way. "But
where sin abounded, grace
00:45:34.10\00:45:40.67
did --" what? Come on, help me
out. "Where sin abounded, grace
00:45:40.67\00:45:45.17
did much more... abound." Yeah.
00:45:45.17\00:45:50.08
That's it. The more sin there
is, the greater the outpouring
00:45:50.08\00:45:54.78
of grace. You can't out-sin
grace. That's the point. Ah,
00:45:54.78\00:46:03.66
hallelujah. The first Adam got
us into trouble, [Sighs] but the
second Adam got us out.
00:46:03.66\00:46:09.70
Hallelujah. What do you
say? Amen. Amen. No kidding.
00:46:09.70\00:46:14.00
And therein lies the glorious
truth for Noah, for you, and for
me, and -- listen, listen -- and
00:46:14.00\00:46:21.04
maybe for Ham. Would that bother
you if Ham ended up getting
00:46:21.04\00:46:30.12
saved before he died? Is there
some sin, sexual sin, too
abhorrent, too gross for
00:46:30.12\00:46:36.09
Jesus to forgive? Is there some
alcoholic too abhorrent, too
00:46:36.09\00:46:42.70
gross for Jesus to save? Of
course not. Of course not. The
truth is that Jesus, who
00:46:42.70\00:46:48.84
forgave Peter, would've forgiven
Judas, if only Judas had asked.
00:46:48.84\00:46:55.14
Noah asked. How do we know that
Noah asked? Because he ends up
in the Bible Hall of Fame.
00:46:55.14\00:46:58.75
Oh, my, what a distinction. He
is the only entry, probably, in
the Bible's Hall of Fame who
00:46:58.75\00:47:03.39
unwittingly but unwisely drank
himself into a naked stupor, and
00:47:03.39\00:47:07.49
he ends up in the Bible Hall
of Fame because he asked and God
00:47:07.49\00:47:12.16
forgave him. Forgiven. "Where
sin abounds grace does much more
00:47:13.80\00:47:20.84
abound." Oh, it doesn't get any
better than that. But here's the
00:47:20.84\00:47:25.01
deal. Not only is there no sin
that God cannot forget, there is
no sin that you and I must
00:47:25.01\00:47:32.61
dillydally in dealing with. Come
on. We're living closer to the
00:47:32.61\00:47:37.85
return of Jesus. This lockdown
has just shown us that, if God
00:47:37.85\00:47:41.79
wants to pull the plug on the
human race, He can do it
globally in a matter of hours.
00:47:41.79\00:47:45.53
Gone. This is not the
time to say, "Mañana."
00:47:45.53\00:47:49.83
This is the time to say,
"Lord Jesus, get me out of this
00:47:49.83\00:47:53.87
lockdown. Get me out of the
lockdown of sin. I bring my sin
00:47:53.87\00:47:58.64
to You. I bring it to the foot
of Your Cross. This is Yours.
00:47:58.64\00:48:02.84
You take it. You died for me. I
receive your death." ¤ At the
Cross, at the Cross
00:48:02.84\00:48:07.68
¤ Where I first saw the light
¤ And the burden of my heart
00:48:07.68\00:48:12.52
rolled away ¤ I love that -- at
the Cross. Today we're going to
the Cross in just a split
00:48:12.52\00:48:18.03
second. You get to go! You say,
"I didn't get any kit." Don't
worry about the kit.
00:48:18.03\00:48:22.16
You just go to the Cross. It's
gonna be beautiful. And you'll
00:48:22.16\00:48:26.27
be blessed. Because in your mind
and my mind, we're taking our
sins -- nobody else knows it.
00:48:26.27\00:48:30.71
Nobody else knows those sins but
God. We're taking our sins, and
00:48:30.71\00:48:34.24
we're laying them at the
nail-scarred feet of Jesus, and
we're saying, "You may have it.
00:48:34.24\00:48:38.18
All to Jesus I surrender. All to
Him I freely give." God has
victory for you, and you
00:48:38.18\00:48:43.35
can deal with it, and God will
bring you through. He brought
00:48:43.35\00:48:48.22
Noah through. You may end up in
the Hall of Fame yourself. Why
00:48:48.22\00:48:52.16
not? Today we'll go to that
Cross, and we'll lay them there.
It's a beautiful montage on the
00:48:52.16\00:48:58.37
Cross that our media team has
very creatively put together.
And when that's ended, in just a
00:48:58.37\00:49:04.01
few seconds, we'll be up there,
and we'll be ready for the
00:49:04.01\00:49:09.01
Lord's Supper. [
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>> I've taken part in and
I've officiated in quite a few
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Communion services in my day,
but I have never before -- and I
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assume you either -- ever
participated or officiated in
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one quite like this one,
completely digital and virtual,
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if you will.
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But here's the truth. I mean,
look, we can't all be gathered
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together here yet because of
coronavirus, COVID-19. But yet
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we still have to continue
remembering and honoring the
body that was broken for us, the
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blood that was spilled for us,
and that's why we're here today.
Matthew 26:26, and it reads,
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"And as they were eating, Jesus
took bread, blessed and broke it
and gave it to the disciples
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and said, 'Take,
eat; this is my body.'"
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[ "Were You There" begins ]
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¤¤ "Then he took the cup and
gave thanks and gave it to them,
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saying, 'Drink from it, all of
you, for this is my blood of the
New Covenant, which is shed for
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many for the remission of sins.
But I say to you, I will not
drink of this fruit of the vine
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from now on until that day when
I drink it anew with you in my
Father's Kingdom.'"
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Amen.
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>> And the record in Matthew
answered these words, "When they
had sung a hymn, they went out
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to the Mount of Olives." Sitting
down with our leadership team on
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Monday, we said, "Listen, let's
bring back that old hymn." We
used to end the Lord's Supper
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with this hymn years ago --
"Blessed be the tie that binds
our hearts in Christian love."
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Because you know what?
Community goes on. Can't stop.
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I don't know what's happening
next. I do know that, July 11,
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we'll be back here, and we're
looking forward to that. But
we've got to be intentional.
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So send that text. Come on, get
on the phone. "Hey, I've been
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thinking about you. How
you been?" Shoot an e-mail.
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It doesn't matter. Just keep the
ties. Blessed be these ties that
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bind us. They don't only bind us
to each other -- they bind us to
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the Lord Himself. And that's the
common bond of our community.
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So, our singers are here. It's
a beautiful hymn. The words will
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be -- subtitles will be there.
You just sing along, and we'll
celebrate the community we find
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in Christ. [ "Blessed Be
the Ties That Bind" begins ]
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>> We've been really blessed by
the financial support that comes
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from our viewers, and we've
made a conscious decision not to
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continually appeal
to you for that support.
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The fact is, as everyone in the
industry will tell you, we're
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needing to make constant
upgrades to our technology.
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So if God has blessed you and
you'd like to further the work
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of this ministry, we
invite you to partner with us.
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Not a single penny of
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Every bit of your gift goes
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community and our world.
You can donate on our website,
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Or call the number.
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You know the
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Again, that number is 877
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And may the God who has blessed
you continue to pour into your
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life the gifts of
His joy and His hope.
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Thank you. And
I'm looking forward to
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seeing you, right
here, again, next time.
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