Hello and welcome to 3ABN's
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Spring Camp Meeting and Pillars
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of Our Faith
Event. How many of you
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were really
blessed last night. Amen.
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Wasn't this
incredible and you know
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we know that God's
anointing is on this event.
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Because he is
anointing is on his word
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and we are
definitely going to be hearing a
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lot of words
through this whole weekend.
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We want to welcome all of those
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who are joining us
from around the world
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wish you could b here
in person the fellowship
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is sweet but you
still get to here some
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wonderful messages
and wonderful singing
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and speaking of
singers we have someone with
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us that you may
not even recognize
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even though she
doesn't really need a lot of
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introduction.
Melody David Asscherick is
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going to be
speaking this hour. And
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he just got
through telling melody your
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half the person you
use to be. You know,
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after how many
babies Melody? Six.
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After six babies she
is down to a size four,
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and she can't even find
clothes. So, anyway Melody
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is going to be
singing a beautiful song
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"My Hiding place". Amen.
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Lord you know sometimes
I have just hard to bear
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And their were time when
it seems like no one cares,
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Sometimes I get so tired
and I need to take a break
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Apart from my tiny tasks
and a peaceful hiding way
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You're my hiding place, I
wanna run to hide in place.
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The hand that I hold
on to when the precious
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all around me And
it seems there is no
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way I have You make a way
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I have just came
For your my hiding place
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Lord they were days when
everything use to go wrong
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And there were times when
my strength is almost gone
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When the enemies surrounds
me I don't know what to do
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Lord I need a shelter
my only hope lies in you
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Your my hiding place, I
wanna run to hiding in place.
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The hand that I hold
on to when the precious
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all around me And
it seems there is no
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way I have You make a way
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I have just came
For your my hiding place
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I long to ringer in
the shadow of your wings
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And peaceful nest
where I found my rest
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Underneath your covering,
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Your my hiding place,
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I wanna run to hiding in place.
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The hand that I hold
on to when the precious
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all around me And
it seems there is no
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way I have You make a way
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I have just came
For your my hiding place
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You make a way I have just came
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For your my hiding place.
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Thank you, thank
you, so, where would bear
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we go thank you so much Melody.
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We have a real treat
in store this morning,
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I really enjoyed
David's sermon last night
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on the trinity and the
nature of God as he said
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and I particularly
enjoyed how he explained
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love and what is love.
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Love is giving
yourself to others.
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David is going to,
David Asscherick is our
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speaker and he is
the director of ARISE,
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he is very
familiar to so many of you.
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Anybody who watches 3ABN often,
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this young man is
extremely intelligent
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and I am so glad
that the Lord got his
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attention through
the book The Great
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Controversy that's
what brought him into
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the church. But I
am so glad that he is
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putting this intellect
to work for the Kingdom
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of God. Aren't you?
Amen. And you know what?
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David has I
discussed through back
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of the stage I told
him David you need to
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the write a book.
I just did he said.
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We he just gave me a
copy of his brand new
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book and its called God in Pain.
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We all know that
there is a lot of evidence
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that there is a living
God. But apart from the
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empirical
evidence how we do explain
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if there is so
much evil some what pain
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in this world.
How do we explain that
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God is love? Well,
that's what this book
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is all about and
you can get this book
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if you go his website
for arise.com and I believe.
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And if that's not
correct you correct me
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or it available at
the ABC's stores but right
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now please help me
welcome David Asscherick
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he is going to be
speaking to us about
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the friend of God.
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Amen. Thank you, so much Shelly.
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Alright, good morning everyone.
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Good morning.
Alright, my website
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is ariseinstitute.com.
I think if you go
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to arise.com its
for like elicitive.
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Either that or any my
through, its something
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like just want to
clarify for the viewing
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audience
ariseinstitute.com okay. Great.
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Yeah I really excited
about the new book just,
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just wrote it. And
I hope it would be a
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blessing to you, I came
to be a believer in Jesus
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after reading the
book The Great Controversy
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and of course
The Great Controversy
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details to the history
of the Christian Church.
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The conflict
between good and evil,
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light and
darkness, God and Satan
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and so this, this
battle and this biblical
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motive have always
been very near and dear
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to my heart it was
the thing that arrested my
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attention and made
Christianity credible
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in my sight. It's the
thing that I said that
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make sense and so
over the course of
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last 12 years
becoming a believer sort of
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storing away ideas.
Storing away thoughts,
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storing away anecdotes
and biblical illustrations
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on this theme of this
conflict between good and
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evil. I felt it was
the time for me to write a
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book on it. So, that I
can start articulate my
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thoughts about the
nature of the great controversy,
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the nature of God and
how do we explain that God
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is so good, so
loving, so beneficial in the
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context of a
world. That is so corrupt,
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so evil, and so
anyway that's the book
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and I hope that you
get your hands on it.
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If you hear the local
camp meeting it just available
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right outside but
for those of you that are
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viewing you can
get hold of it through
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ariseinstitute.com.
So, let's pray
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together, our presentation
this morning is title the
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friend of God.
The friend of God.
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And I am so,
excited about this message
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it's a presentation
that have been preaching
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a quite little bit
lately, not because
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I don't have other sermons
to preach but because the,
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the central message
of this presentation
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is something that
just thrills my soul every
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time I preach it and I
can assure you I have heard it
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more than any of
you. And it never
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sees to through my
soul not because of the
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presenter, and
certainly not. But because
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of the content of
the message and its, its,
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its not new truth in the
sense of being new light but
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I think its definitely
a new perspective on an
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old truth. And so we are
going to be talking about
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being the friend of God.
So, let's pray together. Amen.
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Father in heaven, it
is our great privilege
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to come before you
here at camp meeting
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and truly these is A
Pillars Event anytime
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that a group of
people come together and say
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Sola Scriptura.
Your word and your alone
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father that is very
much in the spirit of the
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reformation, the
Protestant in the reformation
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and father some of
us are still protesting.
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Help us father to
be committed absolutely
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committed to this great
truth of Sola Scriptura.
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May we not this way
by tradition, may we not
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this way by
culture. May we remain
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resolute in our
commitment to your word.
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Father as we learned
last night from pastor Knott,
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your word is
inspired but father even
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more than that,
it is also inspiring
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and its thrills our
souls. Father we are so
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happy that the Bible
is not dusty old dried
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book of, of
obsolesces but it is a book
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that is absolutely relevant even
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in the modern age.
And father it marvels
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it and boggles the mind, how can
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an ancient book
speaks so eloquently
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and so
profoundly to a modern world
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and here father we
have had the experience
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of hearing your
voice through this book
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and father we come now yet again
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to hear your
words not through a man
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so much as through the
son of man and his spirit.
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Father as we
learned last night your,
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your nature is such
that you're a family
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fathers son and
spirit. And so, we prayed
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that the third
person of the God had, the
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Holy Spirit would
come not just into
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this room but
even more importantly
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into our hearts.
Amen. That we may resonate
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with you. Father I
want to claim the promise
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of Roman 8,15, and
16. that the spirit
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would bear
witness with our spirits
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and that the spirit
inside of us would fly out
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above father that we
would know that we are
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the sons and
daughters of God. Amen.
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Father this morning
as we open your word
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may you open us
and may the inspiring
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spirit now become
the instructing spirit.
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Thank you for the
camp meeting we had already
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and we pray that
this would be not just an
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opportunity just
soak up and become
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spiritual fact
Christians. But this would be an
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opportunity for us to
learn that we may give
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freely we have
received and father may we go
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from here and freely
give to those around us.
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Be with us now we
ask in the name of
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Jesus whatever you
want to say. Amen. Amen.
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Alright so our
presentation is called
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the friend of God and
I want I would like to do
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is to spend the first
sort of 15 or 20 minutes
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on taking a look at
one of the grand unifying
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motives or themes
of scripture. Now,
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students of scriptures
or what we might call more
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technically theologians
tend to come in two flavors.
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Right ice cream comes in
lots of flavors in jelly belly,
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jelly beans come in lots
of flavors but Theologian
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is tend to come in two
flavors how many flavors
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everyone? Two. Two flavors,
one kind of the theologian
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is what we call a systematician.
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A systematician,
what's the root word of
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that
systematician. System, system
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or systematic. The
first kind of theologian is,
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is the kind of
Bible student could be a
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technical theological
in terms of scholarly
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trained academician
or it could just be a
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Bible student like
anyone of us. Novos
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theologian and so the
first kind of theologian
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is what's called systematician
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or somebody who
studies Biblical theology
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and what they do is they try and
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systematize the
great themes of Scripture
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in other words what a
systematician will do is
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he will began in the book
of Genesis he move all the way
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through the Old
Testaments to Melaka then
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he will go Matthew
and all the way through to
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Revelation. He now ask
the question what are the
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big themes in this
book, what's the big picture
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may be the easiest
way to think about the
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systematician is
their looking through the
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telescope at the big
picture in case they will ask
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questions like what
are the central themes
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what are the
unifying motives of this book.
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What's the big
picture? That's a systematician
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that's one flavor of theologian.
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The other flavor of
Theologian they look
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not at the, at the
big picture so much
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as at the guess what?
just take guess at the,
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smaller, the
smaller picture. And we call
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this people
exegesis. Do you heard that
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term before an
exegesis in fact we look right
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over there in house you
will see that there is a
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sign above that
door can anyone read that
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big read sign. Yes.
Yeah the fire Marshall will
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be happy to hear
that you can read it. It
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says exit and
what is that word mean.
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It's means
that's how you get out,
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it comes from the
Latin Ec which means out.
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Right, exit out. The
word exegesis has the
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same route Ec it
means out. What an
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exegesis will do as
supposed to looking at the big
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picture like the
systematicians do.
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The exegesis will look
at the small picture. The
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exegesis will go to a
single passage or a single
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verse and in many
cases a single word and
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single conjugation
of that verb or a single
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context of that noun and
they will ask questions like
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this. Did the
Apostle Paul ever used
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this word in this
way in any other place.
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Why did he used this
word and what is the extra
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Biblical evidence for
the best usage of this word
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for rather than looking
at the greater big picture
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of what all
scripture teachers the exegesis
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looks at the
individual words the individual
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conjugations and
the individual verses
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I have to gather
everyone. Now, both are on
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the same team alright it
is a little bit like having
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your offense and your defense.
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The systematicians
are looking at the great
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big picture the
great unifying themes.
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While the
exegesis are looking at the
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small picture and they
are tend to be experts in
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the Biblical languages
Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic.
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Now, most of us who
are not classically trained
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as theologians are
not typically exegesis.
00:16:09.37\00:16:12.40
We tend to be
more systematicians
00:16:12.43\00:16:14.87
that is to say most
of us look at the big
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picture of
scripture, we look at the
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central unifying
motives of scriptures and I am
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very much that way.
As I said last night
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I don't know Hebrew
and I don't know Greek.
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I am still working on English.
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Alright, they say that if
you can speak three languages
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you are trilingual.
Alright you are trilingual,
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if you can speak two languages
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you are
bilingual and you can speak
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only language
likely you are from the
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United States.
Likely you are from the
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United States and so,
Hebrew for me, no Greek
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for me. There are Bible
study towards that gives
00:16:50.24\00:16:52.52
me access to those
but, but as a systematician
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I tend to look when I study
scripture at the big picture.
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I ask questions like what
this book really teach us.
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If I meet a
person who knows nothing
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about scripture
and this is happening
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increasingly in a
secular world, who knows
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nothing about the
Bible and they find
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out that I am a
Bible student perhaps
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I am sitting on a
Aeroplane reading the Bible
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and they say to me,
oh you read the Bible
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and the
conversation begins if they know
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about scripture.
How do I communicate
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to them the basic
essences of what this
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book is about,
what are the central
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unifying themes of
scripture. Now, let me just
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ask you that
question. Let me ask you
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somebody said you want. Okay
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what's this book all
about? Its actually not
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a single book of
course its 66 books.
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Its like
encyclopedia. A compendium of
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66 books but as
somebody said you,
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okay in the nut
shell what is this book
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about? What would you say?
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Who is in-charge?
Jesus who is in-charge
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one like that,
anybody else? Okay salvation.
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Okay God's love for
us. Central that's a very
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good one all of
them good. Anybody else?
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Central unifying
motive. God's character,
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okay very good, God's
character. Anybody else?
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How to worship God? Okay,
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so this are some
of the, that's you
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got it exactly. You
have got it exactly,
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this are the unifying motives
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God is good,
God as redeemer, God
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as creator.
These are some of the
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central unifying
themes in Scripture.
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What I would like to
do now is to spend about
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15 minutes sort of walking as
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through what is
unquestionably one of
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we and I would suggest may be
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we great motive of
scripture and so I will
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going to begin as
will be appropriate
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as now as
theologians this morning. As
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systematicians we
are going to be began in
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the book of Genesis.
So, go with me to the book
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of Genesis. We gonna to
see how the book begins.
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So, go to Genesis
Chapter 2, we spend sometime
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last night in Genesis 1.
Let us go now to Genesis 2.
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Genesis Chapter 2,
now just very quickly
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my way over view you tell me
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what is taking place
in Genesis one and two.
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Okay the creation account
and what are the very first
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words in Genesis
1, that God speaks.
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Everybody says that,
listen very carefully
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to the question what
are the very first words
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in Genesis one
that God speaks. Amen.
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That to be right,
very good Moses wrote
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and of course he was
under the inspiration of the
00:19:14.99\00:19:16.24
spirit but Moses
wrote in the beginning right
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but God speaks and
his words are let they be
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line. Okay, the picture
that is presented in Genesis
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Chapter 1 is a very
sequential very Chronological
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picture of creation.
Right, it last six literal
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contiguous continuous
days. And so the first day,
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the second day, the
third day and the fourth day
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extra. And God is
presented as speaking
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things into existence.
Amen. He is presented as
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what everyone.
Speak. And its, its sort of
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typified for us there.
Right in Genesis Chapter1,
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where God its almost as
if this kind of over hear,
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its almost as if
God is here and he says
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let their be light and
then their suddenly is light.
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But there is no
light in no one's life.
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And then God says
let there be a firmament
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in the mix of the
water. There is a firmament
00:20:01.47\00:20:03.57
in the mix of the
water that you find God in
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Genesis Chapter 1,
speaking things into existence,
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let there be a greater
light over all the day.
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Wow! There is a sun.
let there be a lesser light
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overall night. There is a moon.
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Let there will be
stars, stars. God is
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speaking things into
existence. That's almost to
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say this right. He
would say though he
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spokes on Psalm
33 verses 6 and 9.
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He spoke and it was done
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he commended and it stood fast.
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So, what we have
here is this idea that God
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can just speak things
into existence that the
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creative energy that
brings things to existence
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is actually
contained in the word of God.
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So if the God
says let there be light
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there is light. There
God says there would be sun,
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there is a sun. let there
be a moon, there is a moon.
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Let there be a dry
land, there is dry land. Let
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there be a
firmament, there is a firmament.
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If David
Asscherick says or if you say
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by contrast, by way
of contrast big pink
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elephant. Nothing, right
no big just a little pink
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man. Right. no
big pink elephant.
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But the picture that
is printed in Scripture
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is that if God said big
pink elephant there would
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suddenly be a big
pink elephant. This
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is sort of Genesis
Chapter 1, Genesis Chapter 1
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is a very chronological
very sequential, very
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orderly treatment
of creation. Genesis 1,
00:21:25.61\00:21:28.10
day 1, day 2, day
3, day 4, day 5, day 6
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and God has
depicted has speaking things
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into existence. Now, some people
00:21:33.84\00:21:35.13
who are what we might
call liberal theologians
00:21:35.16\00:21:37.89
or even skeptics of
scripture they would
00:21:37.92\00:21:40.78
love us to believe
there is contradiction
00:21:40.81\00:21:43.42
between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.
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you might have
heard this before.
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All those two
different creation accounts.
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There is two
contradictory creation accounts.
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Hogwash and
Poppycock. There is not
00:21:51.43\00:21:53.42
two contradictory
accounts what there is
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an account from one
perspective which is
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a sort of the sequential
chronological overview
00:21:58.50\00:22:00.55
and then Genesis 2,
transitions from that
00:22:00.58\00:22:02.85
sequence into a
relational perspective
00:22:02.88\00:22:06.26
of creation. It
sort of a recompilation
00:22:06.29\00:22:09.10
of the details from a
relational perspective, okay.
00:22:09.13\00:22:13.15
Now watch what
happens in Genesis chapter 2
00:22:13.18\00:22:15.41
as Moses now
recompilate what he has
00:22:15.44\00:22:18.31
discussed in
Genesis Chapter1 and
00:22:18.34\00:22:19.94
goes specifically to verse 7.
00:22:19.97\00:22:20.94
Go specifically to verse 7,
00:22:21.55\00:22:23.67
the Bible says
Genesis Chapter 2, and verse 7
00:22:23.70\00:22:26.16
and the Lord God
what does your Bible say?
00:22:26.19\00:22:28.87
Formed, formed man of
the dust of the earth.
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Oh! wait a minute, wait
a minute, wait a minute,
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there is a change
here. There is a difference
00:22:37.00\00:22:39.48
here, in Genesis
chapter1, God is over the earth.
00:22:39.51\00:22:41.92
He is not aluff
certainly not aluff
00:22:41.95\00:22:44.66
but he appears to be
distant from creation.
00:22:44.69\00:22:47.23
He is speaking things
into just let there be light,
00:22:47.26\00:22:49.56
there is light,
let there firmament,
00:22:49.59\00:22:50.56
there is
firmament, let there a sun,
00:22:50.57\00:22:52.67
a sun, let there be
a moon. But Genesis 2,
00:22:52.70\00:22:55.69
in Genesis 2,
God is not distinct
00:22:55.72\00:22:58.41
God is proximate
God is not over there,
00:22:58.44\00:23:01.62
God is right here and
Genesis Chapter 2 verse 7,
00:23:01.65\00:23:05.70
the Bible says
that the Lord God formed
00:23:06.88\00:23:09.58
man of that what
was it. Dust of ground,
00:23:09.61\00:23:12.99
of the dust of the
ground, dust of the earth.
00:23:13.02\00:23:14.72
The picture here is
not a God over there
00:23:14.75\00:23:16.91
speaking things to
existence. The picture here
00:23:16.94\00:23:19.65
is of a God on
his hands and knees
00:23:19.68\00:23:23.91
in the dirt and he is
forming and fashioning
00:23:23.94\00:23:28.74
man. The picture that
I give in my acetified
00:23:28.77\00:23:31.02
imagination as there is
dirt under the finger nails
00:23:31.05\00:23:33.60
of God. There is,
there is mud on the
00:23:33.63\00:23:37.14
pants of God if God wears pants.
00:23:37.17\00:23:39.15
God is, God is in
the mud he is in the dirt
00:23:39.18\00:23:42.43
he is closed, he is
intimate he is proximate,
00:23:42.46\00:23:45.40
he is involved and
God is seen here not over
00:23:45.43\00:23:48.41
there but right
here fashioning, forming,
00:23:48.44\00:23:51.99
sculpting he gets
Adam just as he wants.
00:23:52.02\00:23:59.51
But at this point
only has a sculpture.
00:24:00.55\00:24:02.79
Right at this point
all he has a sculpture
00:24:03.37\00:24:06.40
this is not Adam
yet this is sculpture.
00:24:06.43\00:24:08.62
This is a piece of art
this is God as an artisan.
00:24:08.65\00:24:12.49
This is God as a
sculpture, this is not
00:24:12.52\00:24:15.41
yet Adam. What is
the next part of that
00:24:15.44\00:24:17.97
verse say? that we have
got formed man of the dust
00:24:18.00\00:24:20.08
of the ground and
then what did he do?
00:24:20.11\00:24:21.64
He breathed into his nostrils,
00:24:23.66\00:24:24.63
He breathed into his nostrils,
00:24:24.64\00:24:27.24
the breathe of what? He
breathed into his nostrils.
00:24:28.36\00:24:31.25
We love it there a
only three people on planet
00:24:31.28\00:24:33.96
earth into whose
nostrils I would feel
00:24:33.99\00:24:36.63
comfortable breathing.
00:24:36.66\00:24:37.63
I am going to get
that or not. There is
00:24:39.91\00:24:42.02
only three people in
fact can I just borrow one of
00:24:42.05\00:24:44.91
our sound people.
One of our sound people
00:24:44.94\00:24:46.59
just back there, just
rush on out if you don't mind.
00:24:46.62\00:24:49.02
Come on out just for a moment
00:24:49.05\00:24:50.20
tell me your first name again.
00:24:50.23\00:24:51.46
Jonathan, Jonathan
step into my office
00:24:51.49\00:24:53.28
okay. So, this is Jonathan
and just this is gonna be
00:24:53.31\00:24:57.41
very helpful for
some of you when your
00:24:57.44\00:25:00.14
speaking to some one
you typically want to have
00:25:00.17\00:25:02.38
about arm length
distance this is an, this is an
00:25:02.41\00:25:05.07
appropriate
distance for your just social
00:25:05.10\00:25:07.43
interactions. So I say, hey
Jonathan where are you from?
00:25:07.46\00:25:08.99
Thompsonville. You are local?
00:25:09.02\00:25:11.99
Yes. Were you born in
Illinois? No. Where you born?
00:25:12.02\00:25:14.82
Oregon. Okay, so we are
having, is this a normal
00:25:14.85\00:25:16.60
conversation. Okay,
look at our distance.
00:25:16.63\00:25:18.72
Now watch how
the dynamic changes
00:25:18.75\00:25:21.02
if I just go like
this. So, where in Oregon?
00:25:21.05\00:25:27.37
Portland. Portland's.
Yeah you like it there.
00:25:27.40\00:25:30.47
Yeah. Lot of rain.
Yeah. And now watch how
00:25:30.50\00:25:32.90
the dynamic
changes if I go like this.
00:25:32.93\00:25:34.69
So, how does it feel? Awkward,
00:25:34.72\00:25:38.56
awkward, yeah,
good word, good word
00:25:38.59\00:25:40.67
feels like awkward doesn't it.
00:25:40.70\00:25:41.90
You see as well
as you move closure
00:25:41.93\00:25:44.31
to something
intimacy just arises.
00:25:44.34\00:25:47.11
If I am talking
here, if I am talking
00:25:47.14\00:25:49.42
to somebody, by the
way this is a good piece
00:25:49.45\00:25:50.99
of advice for some
of you who have no sense
00:25:51.02\00:25:52.76
of social space or
social personal space.
00:25:52.79\00:25:55.17
So, this is object
lesson for you arms lengths.
00:25:55.20\00:25:58.49
Okay, and if you
have really short arms
00:25:58.52\00:26:00.52
two arms length
so it's okay. So,
00:26:00.55\00:26:02.96
this is an appropriate
distance okay this is,
00:26:02.99\00:26:05.57
this is weird
okay. He probably thinks
00:26:05.60\00:26:08.37
I am going to
breathe into his. That's not
00:26:08.40\00:26:09.96
going to happen,
okay thank you so much.
00:26:09.99\00:26:12.62
So, the point is this
don't miss the basic point,
00:26:12.65\00:26:14.99
the Bible, the Bible
in Genesis chapter 1 has
00:26:15.02\00:26:18.57
God here let There be
light, there is light,
00:26:18.60\00:26:20.78
let there is a
sun, there is a sun,
00:26:20.81\00:26:21.78
Let there a moon, there is moon,
00:26:21.79\00:26:22.77
Let be the firmament
there is a firmament.
00:26:22.80\00:26:24.12
But in Genesis
Chapter 2, Moses turns the
00:26:24.15\00:26:26.97
corner he recompliates
from a relational perspective
00:26:27.00\00:26:29.46
and he says the
Lord God formed man
00:26:29.49\00:26:31.74
here's man not over
there but right here.
00:26:31.77\00:26:34.78
He is in the, he is
the dust. He is forming
00:26:34.81\00:26:37.55
and fashioning man.
Dirt under the finger
00:26:37.58\00:26:40.49
nails, dirt on the knees,
he is involved in this thing
00:26:40.52\00:26:43.66
there is intimacy here.
There is proximity here,
00:26:43.69\00:26:46.40
there is
investment here and then
00:26:46.43\00:26:48.05
when he has got all sculpted.
00:26:48.08\00:26:49.99
The Bible says he in my
sanctified imagination he
00:26:51.63\00:26:54.82
grabs him the
chick. He sculpture.
00:26:54.85\00:26:58.76
He breathe into his
nostrils Adam brings to
00:27:00.29\00:27:07.47
life. Now, question
as Adam brings to live
00:27:07.50\00:27:11.47
what then would be
the very first thing
00:27:11.50\00:27:15.92
he would see.
What would be his first
00:27:15.95\00:27:17.20
conscious
movements. The uninterrupted
00:27:17.23\00:27:22.70
non interposed non
obfuscated face of God.
00:27:22.73\00:27:28.69
Amen. Amen. In my
sanctified imagination
00:27:29.75\00:27:31.62
God kinds of leans back.
00:27:31.65\00:27:33.53
Welcome my son to life. Amen.
00:27:35.21\00:27:38.92
In Genesis Chapter
2, we see a God who
00:27:39.94\00:27:42.15
is close to
humanity, we see a God who
00:27:42.18\00:27:44.84
is with humanity in
the most emphatic sense
00:27:44.87\00:27:47.41
I mean he is so
with humanity that there
00:27:47.44\00:27:49.46
is dirt under the finger nails,
00:27:49.49\00:27:50.73
there is mud on
the knees and he is
00:27:50.76\00:27:53.22
breathing into his
nostrils. There is a
00:27:54.95\00:27:58.35
closeness here there
is a connection here.
00:27:58.38\00:28:00.25
Are you get together everyone.
00:28:00.28\00:28:01.29
Yeah. Okay now go with
me to the first book of
00:28:01.32\00:28:03.27
the New Testament. First
book of the New Testament,
00:28:03.30\00:28:05.40
well we being good
systematicians this morning
00:28:05.43\00:28:07.24
we are looking at a
central motive of scripture.
00:28:07.27\00:28:10.25
A unifying
motive of scripture we
00:28:10.28\00:28:12.31
go to Matthew
chapter 1. Now, in Matthew
00:28:12.34\00:28:14.16
Chapter 1, there is woman who is
00:28:14.19\00:28:15.65
pregnant she
doesn't know how what's
00:28:15.68\00:28:16.95
her name? her name is Mary
00:28:16.98\00:28:19.02
and an angel
appears to her and says Mary
00:28:19.05\00:28:20.67
you can have a
Baby she says ah! ah!
00:28:20.70\00:28:22.22
How is that can
happen saying I am not
00:28:22.25\00:28:23.84
yet married. And
she says you have a
00:28:23.87\00:28:25.62
child because the
power of the spirit will
00:28:25.65\00:28:26.92
always share you
and then the angel says
00:28:26.95\00:28:28.95
and you call his
name Jesus you assure.
00:28:28.98\00:28:30.79
For he will save this
people from their sins
00:28:30.82\00:28:32.90
and then two verses
later that verse 21.
00:28:32.93\00:28:34.43
Two verses later
it was 23, the angel
00:28:34.46\00:28:36.82
and Matthew
recording in, in thankful
00:28:36.85\00:28:39.58
in Matthew fashion.
He is recording this from
00:28:39.61\00:28:43.26
the book of Isaiah
and the angel extracts the
00:28:43.29\00:28:47.03
passage from the book
of Isaiah of course the
00:28:47.06\00:28:48.81
cauterization of versification
00:28:48.84\00:28:49.89
was at many
centuries later book that's
00:28:49.92\00:28:51.62
that's what we
would call Isaiah 7:14,
00:28:51.65\00:28:53.56
Isaiah Chapter 7
verse 14 and this is
00:28:53.59\00:28:56.15
a originally prophecy that was
00:28:56.18\00:28:57.38
geared toward Isaiah son.
00:28:57.41\00:28:59.34
God, this the time
of greater prophecy
00:28:59.86\00:29:02.09
and great delinquency in Israel
00:29:02.12\00:29:03.88
and God says okay,
okay, you think I am
00:29:03.91\00:29:05.81
abundant you
Isaiah you will have a son
00:29:05.84\00:29:08.32
and you will call
his name. Immanuel.
00:29:08.35\00:29:11.65
God is still with us
when its original permutation
00:29:11.68\00:29:15.31
this idea of
Immanuel that was Isaiah
00:29:15.34\00:29:18.13
son's but here the
angel Gabriel and Matthew was
00:29:18.16\00:29:21.04
recording takes that
Immanuel and applies this to
00:29:21.07\00:29:24.05
new Oshawa, his name
will be Oshawa he will
00:29:24.08\00:29:26.45
save this people
from their sins but
00:29:26.48\00:29:29.41
in a fuller sense he
will also be Immanuel.
00:29:29.44\00:29:33.44
God with us,
originally applied to Isaiah son
00:29:34.37\00:29:38.07
now when it is most
full and robust context
00:29:38.10\00:29:41.23
applied to Jesus.
And you have notice
00:29:41.26\00:29:45.61
no doubt because your
students of Scripture.
00:29:45.64\00:29:47.14
Good novice
theologians, you have noticed
00:29:47.17\00:29:49.34
that there are
many names in Scriptures
00:29:49.37\00:29:51.69
that either begin
with or end with EL,
00:29:51.72\00:29:54.11
right so have
like the name Elijah,
00:29:54.14\00:29:56.89
right and what it
means El from what we learned
00:29:56.92\00:29:59.26
last night, Elokin,
Elijah means jah or ya
00:29:59.29\00:30:03.20
is God. Elijah he sometimes
have it as prefix Elijah,
00:30:03.23\00:30:09.08
Elijah you
sometimes have it suffix
00:30:09.11\00:30:10.88
Methanuel, el
methanuel gift of God,
00:30:10.91\00:30:15.38
Samuel asked of God. Daniel,
00:30:15.41\00:30:21.07
God is my judge or God judges
00:30:21.10\00:30:24.10
and in this case Immanuel
the IM im coming from the
00:30:24.13\00:30:27.86
Hebrew with and
El elohim Immanuel
00:30:27.89\00:30:31.89
God with us, God next to us.
00:30:31.92\00:30:38.11
Hey this is very much
like Genesis Chapter 2,
00:30:38.14\00:30:40.01
in Genesis 1 we got
a speaking things into
00:30:40.04\00:30:42.86
existence let there will
be light, there is a light,
00:30:42.89\00:30:44.02
let there be a sun,
there is sun let there be
00:30:44.05\00:30:45.05
a moon is a moon.
In Genesis chapter 2,
00:30:45.08\00:30:46.92
the Lord got formed
man at the dust of the
00:30:46.95\00:30:49.38
earth he is with
man. He is what everyone.
00:30:49.41\00:30:52.44
Amen. He is with
man but there is rupture
00:30:52.47\00:30:55.97
there is breaking in
here in this relationship
00:30:56.00\00:30:58.58
we call that rupture
sin or rebellion obscene
00:30:58.61\00:31:01.16
and
transgression, whatever you but,
00:31:01.19\00:31:02.50
but there is reason
that man is separated
00:31:02.53\00:31:04.87
from God. Notice very
carefully the language
00:31:04.90\00:31:06.97
here. God is not
separated from man.
00:31:07.00\00:31:08.87
So, much man is
separated from God.
00:31:08.90\00:31:10.45
Wasn't God that one
fleeing in the garden
00:31:10.48\00:31:11.81
it was man that he
was fleeing the Garden.
00:31:11.84\00:31:12.81
Man is someone who
is hiding and covering
00:31:12.82\00:31:15.23
behind the bush, its
God who those looking.
00:31:15.26\00:31:17.49
And so never
forget that we love it.
00:31:17.52\00:31:19.25
The Bible says in
the book of Isaiah.
00:31:19.28\00:31:20.47
Isaiah Chapter 59,
your sins have separated
00:31:20.50\00:31:23.19
you from your
God. Your sins do not
00:31:23.22\00:31:26.82
push God away
from you they push you
00:31:26.85\00:31:29.39
away from God. God has
a looked right, if try to
00:31:29.42\00:31:32.97
move this piano right
if its firm, it is firm.
00:31:33.00\00:31:35.81
If, if I try to move
this piano right just
00:31:35.84\00:31:39.06
pretend like
it's a car that's even
00:31:39.09\00:31:40.86
better or a huge boulder right.
00:31:40.89\00:31:42.79
And if I push with all of
my mine against this thing
00:31:42.82\00:31:45.29
something is going
to move. Yeah it will be
00:31:45.32\00:31:48.79
me right. if I push
with all of my power I will,
00:31:48.82\00:31:51.63
this is what our sin
does. Our sin does not
00:31:51.66\00:31:53.97
push God away. So, God
is movable it is a movable,
00:31:54.00\00:31:55.95
our sin pushes us
away from God, your sins
00:31:55.98\00:32:01.02
are separated your
God. It was Adam who
00:32:01.05\00:32:03.77
ran in garden not
God. Amen. It was not
00:32:03.80\00:32:06.47
God that went seeking
are we together everyone.
00:32:06.50\00:32:08.73
And so there is distance
here, there is, there is
00:32:08.76\00:32:12.00
fracture here and
yet, yet the angel
00:32:12.03\00:32:15.10
says to that
Mary. You have a baby
00:32:15.13\00:32:18.26
and he is gonna
save this people from
00:32:18.29\00:32:19.99
their sins in fact you
will call his name Immanuel.
00:32:20.02\00:32:25.68
God what is it? God
with us, God with us.
00:32:25.71\00:32:31.41
John has put in this way in
the first part of his Gospel.
00:32:31.44\00:32:33.72
John Chapter 1, the
word became flesh and
00:32:33.75\00:32:35.78
dwelt among us, literally
pitched his tent next to us
00:32:35.81\00:32:40.02
in modern colloquial
language we will say he
00:32:40.05\00:32:43.50
moved into the
neighborhood. God came be
00:32:43.53\00:32:46.75
with us. Now, its
good systematicians
00:32:46.78\00:32:49.13
who rapt at this
part of presentation that
00:32:49.16\00:32:50.86
I am going to
Revelation chapter 21.
00:32:50.89\00:32:52.39
Revelation
chapter 21 is not only
00:32:52.42\00:32:55.24
the climax of the
new testament but in a,
00:32:55.27\00:32:57.46
in a very real sense it's
a climax of all of scripture
00:32:57.49\00:33:00.38
I heard say that wisely once.
00:33:00.41\00:33:01.97
Why is the book of
revelation at the end of the
00:33:02.00\00:33:04.14
Bible simple because
you need the rest of the
00:33:04.17\00:33:06.08
Bible to understand it. Amen.
00:33:06.11\00:33:07.81
Its at the end of
Bible because you need
00:33:07.84\00:33:09.79
write everything else to
get to the place where you
00:33:09.82\00:33:12.06
can understand what
is this book all about.
00:33:12.09\00:33:14.18
So, in revelation
chapter 21, here is John
00:33:14.21\00:33:16.57
and he is on the
Island. He is on an island
00:33:16.60\00:33:18.28
the name of the
island is Patmos and what's
00:33:18.31\00:33:21.35
he doing there?
He is on vacation?
00:33:21.38\00:33:25.02
He is in exile, he is
in exile because he was
00:33:25.73\00:33:28.68
preaching
fearlessly the word of God.
00:33:28.71\00:33:29.98
He says he was
there for the testimony of
00:33:30.01\00:33:31.26
Jesus and the word
of God and so, what it
00:33:31.29\00:33:33.50
happened is Roman
emperor named Domitian,
00:33:33.53\00:33:35.31
who didn't like
Christians had taken John
00:33:35.34\00:33:36.81
and thrown him to
caldron of boiling oil.
00:33:36.84\00:33:39.11
Right they put lid on
and it is like cooking
00:33:40.44\00:33:42.54
enough for the
last of the apostles has
00:33:42.57\00:33:44.16
gone and now all is
well. They gonna lift
00:33:44.19\00:33:46.24
of the caldron to see
how the cooking is going,
00:33:46.27\00:33:48.92
here is John just
oh! yeah the jet seems
00:33:48.95\00:33:54.39
not be working on
the right side could you.
00:33:54.42\00:33:56.68
Do you have Lemon,
not being see which, but
00:33:58.89\00:34:00.44
you get the point.
He couldn't be killed
00:34:00.47\00:34:02.05
and Domitian oh! you
know this guy can't be
00:34:02.08\00:34:04.05
killed and so
what they did is. They
00:34:04.08\00:34:05.41
took John over
here, well, this guy may
00:34:05.44\00:34:07.31
just nervous if we can't
kill him we will put on an
00:34:07.34\00:34:08.85
island and we put
him on a penal colony
00:34:08.88\00:34:10.85
called Patmos,
which was 24 miles out
00:34:10.88\00:34:16.68
into the Aegean
sea and they left him
00:34:16.71\00:34:19.20
there for death.
They exile him, he was the
00:34:19.23\00:34:21.53
last living
apostle don't you know how
00:34:21.56\00:34:22.63
old was probably in
his 60's, 70's , may be
00:34:22.66\00:34:24.37
even in 80's and he is
there and lastly apostles
00:34:24.40\00:34:27.38
has gone and the
Roman Empire can kind of
00:34:27.41\00:34:29.44
wash there hands from
apostolic Christianity
00:34:29.47\00:34:31.62
but here's the
problem. God has set
00:34:31.65\00:34:34.04
his whole thing up
so that on the island of
00:34:34.07\00:34:35.80
Patmos Jesus gives
the fullest manifestation
00:34:35.83\00:34:38.21
and the fullest revelation,
the fullest revelation
00:34:38.24\00:34:43.87
of himself to this
last apostle who would have
00:34:43.90\00:34:45.84
certainly being
attempted to discouragement.
00:34:45.87\00:34:47.55
He would intimated men and call
00:34:47.58\00:34:49.37
everything it is near
and dear to him has gone.
00:34:49.40\00:34:51.05
He is separated from
it. He would look out
00:34:51.08\00:34:53.32
lady on the best of the
days those of you live. I
00:34:53.35\00:34:55.36
live in California
and the very best of days
00:34:55.39\00:34:57.18
if you look out across
the seaboard as long as the
00:34:57.21\00:34:59.94
clarity there is not a
lot of fog. You can look
00:34:59.97\00:35:02.17
out and you can see
on total about 40 miles.
00:35:02.20\00:35:04.34
About 40 miles so and
the best of days being
00:35:05.35\00:35:07.37
24 miles out into the
ocean. John could have
00:35:07.40\00:35:09.56
looked he could have
seen lands, but he struck
00:35:09.59\00:35:13.67
here may be the old man
is not swimming 24 miles.
00:35:13.70\00:35:16.00
So, look at there John
concludes in the book of
00:35:17.58\00:35:19.82
Revelation, Revelation
chapter 21, being verse 1
00:35:19.85\00:35:21.74
now I saw a new
heaven and the new earth.
00:35:21.77\00:35:23.29
For the first heaven and
first earth was passed way
00:35:23.32\00:35:26.10
and also there was no more
sea but that's always being
00:35:26.13\00:35:30.31
troubling to some of us.
We thought no more sea well I
00:35:30.34\00:35:33.23
kind like dolphins in
the purposes in manatees and
00:35:33.26\00:35:35.61
the coral reefs. Half
of biological life exist
00:35:35.64\00:35:38.65
under water more than
half of biological life.
00:35:38.68\00:35:40.96
its someone like oh
no there is not gonna be
00:35:40.99\00:35:43.07
an ocean I need to do
all of my snorkeling in
00:35:43.10\00:35:44.95
the here now because their won't
00:35:44.98\00:35:45.96
be any in the new earth.
00:35:45.99\00:35:46.96
I don't think that God
is making here, I don't
00:35:46.97\00:35:49.95
think that John is
making here primarily
00:35:49.98\00:35:51.53
a geological or
geographical statement there was
00:35:51.56\00:35:54.14
no more sea. For
John the sea was that was
00:35:54.17\00:35:57.20
separated him
from that what he loved
00:35:57.23\00:35:59.44
and he longed
for. And John Jesus you
00:35:59.47\00:36:01.76
have in this new earth
and, and he says there is no
00:36:01.79\00:36:04.45
more sea not
primarily a geological or
00:36:04.48\00:36:06.81
geographical statement
but a statement about the
00:36:06.84\00:36:09.23
nature of separation.
Amen. There will be no
00:36:09.26\00:36:12.29
more separating sea
because for John day in
00:36:12.32\00:36:14.65
and day out the sea is
what separated him from that
00:36:14.68\00:36:16.66
which he loved and he
says there is no more sea,
00:36:16.69\00:36:18.97
no more separation
verse 2, then I John saw the
00:36:19.00\00:36:22.12
Holy city new
Jerusalem coming down
00:36:22.15\00:36:23.69
out of heaven from
God prepared as a bright
00:36:23.72\00:36:25.98
adore for her husband.
00:36:26.01\00:36:27.06
There is no more
intimate context its impossible
00:36:27.09\00:36:31.26
to be more intimate
than the intimacy that a man
00:36:31.29\00:36:33.73
can share with his
wife. In fact this intimacy
00:36:33.76\00:36:35.84
is so profound and so
robust that in the book of
00:36:35.87\00:36:37.96
Genesis it goes
apart to say that two shall
00:36:37.99\00:36:40.95
be one. There is
proximity there in, intercourse,
00:36:40.98\00:36:44.58
there is proximity
there, there is connectivity
00:36:44.61\00:36:46.84
there that is so close
that is it is as if the two
00:36:46.88\00:36:50.31
become accord.
The two become one
00:36:50.53\00:36:53.44
and John uses
this immitari, he knows
00:36:53.47\00:36:55.42
the intimacy between
a father and his, and
00:36:55.45\00:36:57.84
his between a husband
and his wife this is what
00:36:57.87\00:37:00.04
I was demonstrating
there for a moment I am not
00:37:00.07\00:37:02.02
breathing into anyone's
nostrils but I breath into
00:37:02.05\00:37:04.03
my wife. There is an
intimacy there, there is
00:37:04.06\00:37:06.97
closeness there and
he says prepared as a
00:37:07.00\00:37:09.16
bright adore for
her husband and you know
00:37:09.19\00:37:10.98
this is the point he
is making because look
00:37:11.01\00:37:13.09
at verse 3. So, if
you can pick up the
00:37:13.12\00:37:14.72
key verse, that
occurs, the key word the key
00:37:14.75\00:37:16.95
idea that whole think
on which the whole verse
00:37:16.98\00:37:18.77
turns is right there in
verse 3, see if you can pick it
00:37:18.80\00:37:21.19
up verse 3, And I
have heard loud voice from
00:37:21.22\00:37:23.04
heaven saying behold
the Tabernacle of God
00:37:23.07\00:37:24.83
with men and he will draw
with them and they shall be
00:37:24.86\00:37:27.63
his people and God
himself will be with them and
00:37:27.66\00:37:30.05
be their God.
What's the Key thing? Amen.
00:37:30.08\00:37:32.15
With, with, he
doesn't say once or twice
00:37:32.18\00:37:36.96
but thrice three
times it is if he is just
00:37:36.99\00:37:40.15
consumed with this
idea. God will be with us,
00:37:40.18\00:37:42.81
God will be with
us, God will be with us,
00:37:42.84\00:37:47.58
In fact in Revelation
Chapter 22, look at verse 4,
00:37:47.61\00:37:51.00
and they shall see
his face. Amen. That
00:37:51.76\00:37:57.21
intimacy that
proximity that was their in
00:37:57.24\00:37:59.36
Genesis Chapter 2
verse 7 the Lord got breathe
00:37:59.39\00:38:01.19
into his nostril
the breath of what?
00:38:01.22\00:38:03.44
the uninterrupted,
uninterposed, non-obfuscated
00:38:03.47\00:38:06.52
face of God. Paul had
said on earlier occasion
00:38:06.55\00:38:10.30
when he was riding to
the Church Corinthians
00:38:10.33\00:38:11.59
now we see through a
glass darkly; but then,
00:38:11.62\00:38:14.31
face to face.
John says they will see
00:38:14.34\00:38:18.94
his faith this relationship
of intimacy restored
00:38:18.97\00:38:23.67
and this word just
comes to him, comes to him,
00:38:23.70\00:38:26.11
comes to him, with
us, with us, with, with
00:38:26.14\00:38:29.85
and so it was good
systematicians this morning.
00:38:29.88\00:38:32.80
Look at what we have
done. We have found one
00:38:32.83\00:38:34.32
of the unifying
motives in scriptures.
00:38:34.35\00:38:36.32
We can go to many
other dozens even hundreds of
00:38:36.35\00:38:39.12
passages but what we
have done Genesis Chapter 2,
00:38:39.15\00:38:42.31
we find God with
men, close to men
00:38:42.34\00:38:46.44
breathing into his
nostrils forming him
00:38:46.47\00:38:48.48
dirt under the figure
nails dirt on his knees.
00:38:48.51\00:38:50.80
We come Matthew
chapter 1 God Immanuel
00:38:50.83\00:38:53.65
will be what? with
us in the climax of
00:38:53.68\00:38:56.53
scripture in the climax
of the new testament with,
00:38:56.56\00:38:59.09
with, with no more
separating sea we will see
00:38:59.12\00:39:02.72
his face and so we
would say one of the grand
00:39:02.75\00:39:04.53
unifying motives in
scripture is that apparently.
00:39:04.56\00:39:08.71
God wants to be
with people. Amen. Amen.
00:39:08.74\00:39:14.87
God wants to be with
people, it shouldn't really
00:39:14.90\00:39:22.92
come as surprise to
us because it is to be
00:39:22.95\00:39:24.37
learned last
night God by his nature
00:39:24.40\00:39:26.10
not just his character.
00:39:26.13\00:39:27.10
God by his nature he
is a social being, father,
00:39:27.11\00:39:31.37
son and Holy Spirit
and he makes other beings
00:39:31.40\00:39:35.06
in the very same way
that we make children.
00:39:35.09\00:39:36.70
In the very same
context we make children so
00:39:36.73\00:39:38.90
that are our social
network and our love can
00:39:38.93\00:39:42.32
flow out to them. God
makes others and he invites
00:39:42.35\00:39:45.07
us to participate in his
try own love what you have
00:39:45.10\00:39:47.79
here is this
marvelous picture that God
00:39:47.82\00:39:50.43
he wants to be with
people. And there is
00:39:50.46\00:39:53.97
something that separates
there is a transgression that
00:39:54.00\00:39:55.75
is obsceneness
there is rebellion
00:39:55.78\00:39:57.44
but God
penetrates that rebellion. He
00:39:57.47\00:39:59.42
penetrates that sin
and he comes and he will
00:39:59.45\00:40:02.03
build the bridge
at all cost to himself
00:40:02.06\00:40:04.11
he wants to be with
people and the Bible
00:40:04.14\00:40:06.01
closes with John
saying an almost ecstasy
00:40:06.04\00:40:09.17
he will be with him.
Hee, wow he will be with him,
00:40:09.20\00:40:13.40
he will be with
him. We will see his face
00:40:13.43\00:40:17.46
so one of the certifying
central unifying motives
00:40:20.60\00:40:23.36
of scripture is that
God likes people. Amen.
00:40:23.39\00:40:29.92
God likes people. We
together everyone. Amen.
00:40:29.95\00:40:36.98
Now, we make a
distention in our cheeky clever
00:40:37.01\00:40:41.91
little
manipulation of English language
00:40:41.94\00:40:43.81
all of us have done
it why I shouldn't say.
00:40:43.84\00:40:45.52
Most of us have
done. I know I have certain
00:40:45.55\00:40:47.40
down and we will
say things like this.
00:40:47.43\00:40:49.81
Oh! don't get me
wrong I love him.
00:40:49.84\00:40:54.43
But I don't like
him have you ever said
00:40:55.72\00:41:03.62
anything that can came to that.
00:41:03.65\00:41:05.17
Yes some of them
are seeing here like no
00:41:06.87\00:41:08.74
I don't know what
he is talking about
00:41:08.77\00:41:10.21
you are lying. We
make distinction don't we,
00:41:11.63\00:41:17.99
we make a distinction we
will say I love somebody,
00:41:18.02\00:41:21.28
out of kind of duty
a kind of familial duty
00:41:21.31\00:41:25.18
oh yes, yes, yes. I love
him. But the real question is
00:41:25.21\00:41:29.48
do you like him and
we make a distinction
00:41:29.51\00:41:31.90
don't we do we make a
distinction between loving
00:41:31.93\00:41:33.93
someone and liking
someone. Indeed we do
00:41:33.96\00:41:36.92
in fact let me just
introduce you a kind of radical
00:41:36.95\00:41:40.02
concept here. God
loves you. Amen. Amen.
00:41:40.05\00:41:45.55
Many of us are
comfortable with that idea
00:41:45.58\00:41:47.02
that God loves us
but here something to
00:41:47.05\00:41:49.21
think about a
question for about theologians.
00:41:49.24\00:41:52.85
Is there anything
that you can do make
00:41:52.88\00:41:54.68
God love you
anymore. No, no, oh come on
00:41:54.71\00:41:57.74
now, nothing what
about become a vegan,
00:41:57.77\00:42:01.31
yeah, yeah, now I am
speaking he was vegan here,
00:42:06.22\00:42:10.56
ah, ah, no your
exactly right no.
00:42:10.59\00:42:12.90
and okay so then
the converse of that is
00:42:12.93\00:42:15.14
anything you can do
to make God love you
00:42:15.17\00:42:16.36
any less. No, okay
so than the language
00:42:16.39\00:42:18.93
that we use what's the
word that we use for that.
00:42:18.96\00:42:20.43
We say the Gods
love is what's that word.
00:42:20.46\00:42:22.19
We say that God's love is
unconditional now what that
00:42:22.22\00:42:24.88
means is this?
God's love for you is not
00:42:24.91\00:42:28.03
conditioned on your
response to that love. Amen.
00:42:28.06\00:42:30.89
Right so you may
respond to God's love
00:42:30.92\00:42:33.23
if any positive way
and God does love you
00:42:33.26\00:42:35.25
anymore for it and you
may respond, respond to
00:42:35.28\00:42:37.83
God's love in any
negative way and God's does not
00:42:37.86\00:42:39.68
love you less way.
God's love for you is
00:42:39.71\00:42:41.65
perfectly unconditional
it is not predicated
00:42:41.68\00:42:43.78
in your response to his
love. Can you say Amen to that?
00:42:43.81\00:42:46.07
Now, that one love that
is very, very comforting
00:42:46.10\00:42:48.37
and one love that's very
comforting there is nothing
00:42:48.40\00:42:50.20
I can do make God love
me anymore and there is
00:42:50.23\00:42:51.53
nothing I can do
make God love any less
00:42:51.56\00:42:53.44
God's love is
perfectly non-partisain but here
00:42:53.47\00:42:56.67
something very
interesting to think about I am
00:42:56.70\00:42:57.90
looking down here
in the front row and
00:42:57.93\00:42:59.06
I see very different
people, very different people.
00:42:59.09\00:43:00.92
If God loves you sister
just like he loves this man,
00:43:00.95\00:43:03.70
just like he loves
this man and this sister.
00:43:03.73\00:43:05.70
If God loves you all the
same but wait a minute you
00:43:05.73\00:43:08.28
have very
different person in this man.
00:43:08.31\00:43:10.37
So, God's love for you
unconditional after you
00:43:10.40\00:43:13.93
tells me a great deal
about God but it doesn't
00:43:13.96\00:43:17.64
tell me a lot about
your personality as distinct
00:43:17.67\00:43:20.03
from his personality and
it doesn't tell me a lot about
00:43:20.06\00:43:22.40
his personality as
distinct from her personality
00:43:22.43\00:43:25.22
do you hear where this is going.
00:43:25.25\00:43:27.08
Gods love for us
is unconditional offer
00:43:27.11\00:43:30.03
and shows us a deal
about God but as individuals
00:43:30.06\00:43:33.02
it doesn't tell us a
lot about the personality
00:43:33.05\00:43:34.91
that you process as
approach to the personality that
00:43:34.94\00:43:37.42
you process it's a
two different people
00:43:37.45\00:43:39.53
what's your name.
Dean, Dean, and your name?
00:43:39.56\00:43:44.04
John, Dean and John
are two different people
00:43:44.07\00:43:46.98
God loves John in the
very same way the loves Dean
00:43:47.01\00:43:49.39
and just as much God
loves Dean he loves John are
00:43:49.42\00:43:51.54
we together. So, this
is largely a commentary
00:43:51.57\00:43:53.92
on God on God's
Goodness and God's munificians,
00:43:53.95\00:43:57.24
and God's
non-partisan unconditional love
00:43:57.27\00:43:59.23
it don't tell us the
whole lot about Dean or John
00:43:59.26\00:44:01.59
as individuals. If God
can love totally different
00:44:01.62\00:44:06.72
people radically fundamentally
00:44:06.75\00:44:08.15
different people
in the very same way.
00:44:08.18\00:44:09.97
This tells us as a great
deal about the non-partisan
00:44:10.00\00:44:12.06
and non conditional love
of God. But it doesn't tell
00:44:12.09\00:44:13.76
you a lot of
about your personality.
00:44:13.79\00:44:15.39
So, here is my
question does God ever say
00:44:15.42\00:44:18.05
things like we say
oh don't get me wrong
00:44:18.08\00:44:20.91
I love Dean. But I
don't really like him.
00:44:20.94\00:44:25.87
Yes God loves us, this
is a profound commentary
00:44:28.82\00:44:32.65
on the nonpartisan
nature of God and love of God.
00:44:32.68\00:44:35.21
But does God like
us? Well, for answer to
00:44:35.24\00:44:42.25
that question
turn up your Bible to
00:44:42.28\00:44:43.69
2nd Chronicles, Chapter 20.
00:44:43.72\00:44:45.44
Second Chronicles,
Chapter what everyone,
00:44:45.47\00:44:47.93
20, Second
Chronicles, Chapter 20
00:44:47.96\00:44:50.35
and here we find a man
by the name of Jehoshaphat.
00:44:51.95\00:44:53.90
What's his name
everyone. Jehoshaphat,
00:44:53.93\00:44:56.22
Jehoshaphat, you know you
mean people of Bible names
00:44:56.25\00:44:57.49
all the time. You meet
Elijah's you meet Daniels,
00:44:57.52\00:44:59.71
you meet
David's, you meet Matthews
00:44:59.74\00:45:01.01
but is any one
yet met a Jehoshaphat.
00:45:01.04\00:45:03.15
We neither I think
that will be great record
00:45:04.63\00:45:07.71
your name my name
is Jehoshaphat Johnson.
00:45:07.74\00:45:09.79
Nice to meet you
Jehoshaphat. Amen.
00:45:11.23\00:45:14.46
Jehoshaphat is
praying Jehoshaphat has
00:45:16.80\00:45:18.76
concerned because
the armies of Israel
00:45:18.79\00:45:20.64
are encroaching on
Israel. The Ammonites,
00:45:20.67\00:45:22.74
and Edomites, are
coming against Israel
00:45:22.77\00:45:24.37
Jehoshaphat is deadly concerned
00:45:24.40\00:45:25.76
and so he stands
in front of Israel
00:45:25.79\00:45:27.95
and he prays the
prayer and I want you to
00:45:27.98\00:45:28.95
notice this prayer
and there is seamless
00:45:28.96\00:45:30.84
transition that
takes place in this prayer
00:45:30.87\00:45:32.63
Second Chronicles, Chapter
20 the beginning verse 5,
00:45:32.66\00:45:35.02
when Jehoshaphat
stood in the of Assembly
00:45:35.05\00:45:36.72
of Judo in
Jerusalem in the house of
00:45:36.75\00:45:38.75
the Lord before
the new court and said
00:45:38.78\00:45:40.52
now watch this verse
6, oh Lord God of our
00:45:40.55\00:45:43.02
father's are you not
God in heaven and you
00:45:43.05\00:45:46.00
not rule over all
the kingdom of earth
00:45:46.03\00:45:48.44
and in your hand is
there not power and might
00:45:48.47\00:45:51.76
so that no one is able
with stand you or you not
00:45:51.79\00:45:54.60
our God who drove out
the inhabitance of this land
00:45:54.63\00:45:56.81
for your people
Israel and gave it to
00:45:56.84\00:45:59.24
the ascendance of Abraham
00:45:59.27\00:46:02.88
and then three qualifying words.
00:46:02.91\00:46:05.40
Your friend forever
notice this seamless
00:46:06.30\00:46:12.85
transition in Jehoshaphat
prayer as he is praying
00:46:12.88\00:46:15.46
he makes the
sense God your awesome,
00:46:15.49\00:46:16.95
God your
omnipotent, God your mighty
00:46:16.98\00:46:19.13
no one with stand
and they notice the
00:46:19.16\00:46:21.66
seamless transition
and don't forget about
00:46:21.69\00:46:24.10
Abraham your
buddy. For, for, for
00:46:24.13\00:46:29.15
Jehoshaphat there is
no contradiction between
00:46:29.18\00:46:31.49
God is sovereign, God
is mighty, God is powerful,
00:46:31.52\00:46:34.33
God is strong and God
as a friend of people.
00:46:34.36\00:46:38.34
Notice this language here
friend I just presented this
00:46:38.37\00:46:41.22
sermon last of this
fall this last Sabbath at,
00:46:41.25\00:46:43.93
at the Reaching Hearts
International Church, there
00:46:43.96\00:46:46.38
in near Washington
D.C. and my good friend
00:46:46.41\00:46:49.01
Clifford Goldstein
he came right up to me
00:46:49.04\00:46:51.21
after he, is it Jew
and he came up to me
00:46:51.24\00:46:53.48
afterward and he
flew into Hebrew and he
00:46:53.51\00:46:55.85
said to be me. He said
David the word here for
00:46:55.88\00:46:57.58
friend it, it
it's it can even lover.
00:46:57.61\00:47:01.49
You gave it to
Abraham your lover
00:47:02.55\00:47:05.71
forever your friend
forever now wait a minute I
00:47:05.74\00:47:10.09
was scratching my
head God has friend
00:47:10.12\00:47:12.76
the infinite, illimitable,
eternal, omnipotent,
00:47:13.99\00:47:17.74
omnipresent,
omni benevolent, God
00:47:17.77\00:47:19.93
of the universe
who transients time
00:47:19.96\00:47:22.42
and space and he is
unfavor and unfavorable
00:47:22.45\00:47:25.58
and his broadness and
is that God has friends.
00:47:25.61\00:47:29.31
Amen. Isaiah
chapter 41, verse 8, uses
00:47:29.34\00:47:32.30
this very same language.
Isaiah chapter 41, verse 8,
00:47:32.33\00:47:35.10
calls Abraham the
friend of God. The friend of
00:47:35.13\00:47:40.80
God let me ask a
question who do you spend most
00:47:40.83\00:47:42.63
of time with your free
time. Where do you spend
00:47:42.66\00:47:45.35
your free time
with? You spend with your
00:47:45.38\00:47:48.55
friends and with
your family and the reason
00:47:48.58\00:47:50.23
that you spend time
with your friends and family
00:47:50.26\00:47:51.69
because you love them
and you don't just love
00:47:51.72\00:47:53.45
them you like them
except their brother in law
00:47:53.48\00:47:56.71
that you really
hoping doesn't come on the
00:47:56.74\00:47:58.36
crews. Right are
we together everyone.
00:47:58.39\00:48:02.20
Now in case we
are inclined to think
00:48:02.23\00:48:03.89
well this is something
that applies to Abraham
00:48:03.92\00:48:05.41
look quickly at
Exodus chapter 33.
00:48:05.44\00:48:08.15
Exodus chapter 33 and
notice this Exodus chapter 33,
00:48:08.18\00:48:13.26
who wrote the book of Exodus.
00:48:13.29\00:48:14.26
Moses. Moses, and look
at what he says Verse 11
00:48:14.27\00:48:16.72
Exodus chapter 33 Verse 11.
00:48:16.75\00:48:18.81
So the Lord spoke to
Moses face, how did he speak
00:48:20.47\00:48:23.91
to him. In the face.
Face to face look at this
00:48:23.94\00:48:27.02
a man speaks to
his friend. But what we
00:48:27.05\00:48:35.74
are picking up here
is absolutely phenomenal,
00:48:35.77\00:48:37.97
its this idea that
the God of the universe
00:48:39.12\00:48:41.14
the infinite,
illimitable God of the universe
00:48:41.17\00:48:43.21
has friends. Now
nobody in this room can relate
00:48:43.24\00:48:47.14
to God as God. No
one, you can't relate
00:48:47.17\00:48:49.54
God on
omnipotent, on the presence,
00:48:49.57\00:48:51.05
he is on the
Netherlands, he is on mission,
00:48:51.08\00:48:52.45
no one can relate
to God in his goodness.
00:48:52.48\00:48:54.67
But god apparently
at some level wants to
00:48:54.70\00:48:57.83
relate to you a
evolutional, moral rational
00:48:57.86\00:49:01.25
loving being. He
once not just you make
00:49:01.28\00:49:04.42
you as puppets as
a Tom-toms pet rocks.
00:49:04.45\00:49:07.08
He wants to be your
friend. See apparently
00:49:07.11\00:49:12.32
its okay to speak
universe into existence
00:49:12.40\00:49:15.05
so there be a
light, there be a sun
00:49:15.08\00:49:16.61
there be a moon, let
there to be firmament
00:49:16.64\00:49:18.73
God could have spoken
to Adam and told let there
00:49:20.32\00:49:21.71
be an Adam, let there be Eve,
00:49:21.74\00:49:23.84
but no, no but
when it comes to make
00:49:25.20\00:49:27.64
not a star, not a
stream, not a moose,
00:49:27.67\00:49:33.03
not a mouse, but a
friend, our speaking
00:49:33.06\00:49:39.42
this into
existence will never do.
00:49:39.45\00:49:41.34
For a friend you
have to be close,
00:49:41.37\00:49:45.14
just making his
friend, just forming his
00:49:48.86\00:49:53.86
friend, he has got
to be, he gonna have
00:49:53.89\00:49:55.64
a friend, you have to be close,
00:49:55.67\00:49:57.24
its got to be proximity there.
00:49:57.27\00:49:59.21
Can't get to
anyone from the distance
00:49:59.24\00:50:01.55
there has to be investment.
00:50:01.58\00:50:02.55
Welcome to life
my son, my friend.
00:50:09.22\00:50:14.69
The Bible records
fantastically amazingly,
00:50:14.72\00:50:20.45
audaciously that God
wants people as his friends.
00:50:20.48\00:50:24.64
And one day Jesus was
speaking to his disciples
00:50:24.67\00:50:27.55
you can turn to
John chapter 15. Jesus is
00:50:27.58\00:50:29.91
speaking to his disciples
and words are failing him,
00:50:29.94\00:50:32.63
he is looking at the
cross, the cross is just
00:50:32.66\00:50:34.09
hours in front of
them. John chapter 15,
00:50:34.12\00:50:35.83
and then in John
chapter 15 Jesus is speaking to
00:50:35.86\00:50:43.12
his disciples he has
just given the parable of the
00:50:43.15\00:50:44.60
branch abiding me and
then looks to his disciples
00:50:44.63\00:50:49.61
and he says no longer
do I call you servants.
00:50:49.64\00:50:53.31
This relationship
that we share disciples
00:50:55.71\00:50:58.90
transcends the
servant master relationship.
00:50:58.93\00:51:01.81
This isn't just I
command and you do.
00:51:01.84\00:51:04.55
No longer do I
call you servants,
00:51:05.78\00:51:08.66
we need a new Norman
Clayture we need a new
00:51:08.69\00:51:10.56
language, no longer
would I call you servants
00:51:10.59\00:51:12.87
because a servant does not know
00:51:12.90\00:51:14.31
what his master is
doing but I've told you
00:51:14.34\00:51:15.80
everything that father has told,
00:51:15.83\00:51:17.79
I call you
friends, I call you friends.
00:51:20.84\00:51:28.73
Jesus here was picking up
on the very same language,
00:51:30.46\00:51:32.54
the very same connectivity
found in the old testament
00:51:32.57\00:51:34.84
Abraham was the
friend of God, Moses spoke to
00:51:34.87\00:51:36.54
God as a man face to
face as a man speaks to his
00:51:36.57\00:51:38.67
friend, and Jesus
says the servant master
00:51:38.70\00:51:41.00
thing yes that is
helpful, yes that does
00:51:41.03\00:51:43.51
inform our
relationship to a degree,
00:51:43.54\00:51:45.08
but there is a point at
which the servant master
00:51:45.11\00:51:46.97
thing comes to and end,
its adequately describing
00:51:47.00\00:51:49.37
this connectivity that
we have, I call you friends,
00:51:49.40\00:51:53.22
I call you my friends,
and thus if you are the friend
00:51:54.41\00:51:57.88
of Jesus, you are
the friend of God.
00:51:57.91\00:52:02.35
Beloved Jesus
more than loves you,
00:52:03.54\00:52:06.63
he likes you, and you are the
00:52:07.67\00:52:11.72
only you available to Jesus.
00:52:11.75\00:52:14.29
There is no substitute for you.
00:52:14.32\00:52:17.48
You are the only
you available to God.
00:52:17.51\00:52:19.26
There might be other
people named to your name,
00:52:19.29\00:52:21.57
there are other
Davids but there is no other
00:52:21.60\00:52:23.10
David Asscherick,
nobody else possess
00:52:23.13\00:52:25.05
the unique
idiosyncratic personality that I
00:52:25.08\00:52:27.62
possess and no one
else possess the unique
00:52:27.65\00:52:29.63
idiosyncratic
personality that you possess,
00:52:29.66\00:52:30.63
you are the only you
listen very carefully possible,
00:52:30.64\00:52:33.86
not even God
could make another you,
00:52:33.89\00:52:36.36
because you are the
product of the three
00:52:36.39\00:52:38.78
choices that you have
made. Even twins who receive
00:52:38.81\00:52:41.84
identical genetic
inheritances from their parents,
00:52:41.87\00:52:44.75
do they become
the very same people.
00:52:44.78\00:52:46.64
They become different
people how, how did twins
00:52:46.67\00:52:49.98
become different people
because they have been faced
00:52:50.01\00:52:51.60
with different choices, and
they make different decisions
00:52:51.63\00:52:53.45
and those different
decisions have made them the
00:52:53.48\00:52:55.41
people that they are
today. So I have become
00:52:55.44\00:52:57.30
the David Asscherick
that you see standing before
00:52:57.33\00:52:59.18
you, and I am
thrilled that in the process of
00:52:59.21\00:53:01.03
becoming David Asscherick,
I am not yet solidified
00:53:01.06\00:53:03.19
my Asscherickness
because I am only thirty seven,
00:53:03.22\00:53:05.65
right. And some of
you are twenty seven,
00:53:07.15\00:53:09.59
and fifty seven and
sixty seven you are becoming
00:53:09.62\00:53:11.86
the person that you
will be for eternity.
00:53:11.89\00:53:13.86
You are becoming the
only one of you possible not
00:53:13.89\00:53:17.33
even God can make
another you because God
00:53:17.36\00:53:18.96
would have to
fashion another being just
00:53:18.99\00:53:20.85
like you with the
identical genetic inheritance
00:53:20.88\00:53:22.37
and then he would
have to make all of
00:53:22.40\00:53:23.53
your free choices
for you. No, no, no
00:53:23.56\00:53:26.37
you are the only you
possible. You are the only
00:53:26.40\00:53:29.84
you available to God, in
fact let me put you this way.
00:53:29.87\00:53:32.28
You are God's only
shot at you. Yours Gods
00:53:32.31\00:53:38.16
only shot at you, if
De is saved and David is
00:53:38.19\00:53:41.78
lost Davids this
sadness cannot make up
00:53:41.81\00:53:46.33
for Davids lossness
because De and David
00:53:46.36\00:53:48.15
are different people.
There would always be a
00:53:48.18\00:53:50.52
vacancy, there would
always be avoid in the
00:53:50.55\00:53:52.45
heart of God that
only David Asscherick
00:53:52.48\00:53:54.57
can fill because
there is only one in me.
00:53:54.60\00:53:55.99
In classic
keynesian economics, you have
00:54:00.09\00:54:02.60
a price point and then
you quantity determining
00:54:02.63\00:54:08.12
price point as long
as demand stays the same.
00:54:08.15\00:54:10.26
If you have the
price point here and demand
00:54:10.29\00:54:12.93
remains the same, if
you have lot of items
00:54:12.96\00:54:15.15
says a new car
$20,000 new car, if you
00:54:15.18\00:54:17.24
have twenty
thousand of them stock
00:54:17.27\00:54:18.62
the manufacture
says we can sell this
00:54:18.65\00:54:19.84
for 20,000 bucks. But
what happens what typically
00:54:19.87\00:54:23.03
happens to price
points as quantity increases
00:54:23.06\00:54:27.09
now we have forty
thousand of these cars,
00:54:27.12\00:54:28.63
what has happened
to the price as long as
00:54:28.66\00:54:30.75
demand remains the
same price decreases,
00:54:30.78\00:54:33.37
price point
decreases but what happens
00:54:33.40\00:54:35.40
if we there is demand for
twenty thousand but we only
00:54:35.43\00:54:37.92
have ten thousand to
sell price will increase,
00:54:37.95\00:54:40.70
so they operate on
inverse relationship right.
00:54:40.73\00:54:42.95
Okay so you take a $20,000 car,
00:54:42.98\00:54:45.25
there are twenty
thousand in existence and
00:54:45.28\00:54:46.74
you contrast that with
the collectors item like
00:54:46.77\00:54:48.33
a Porsche like a 1959
Porsche and there is just
00:54:48.36\00:54:50.97
fifty of them made
in the first place,
00:54:51.00\00:54:52.50
and of those fifty
that were made there is only
00:54:52.53\00:54:54.28
five remaining,
just five remaining in
00:54:54.31\00:54:57.10
perfect pristine
condition and collectors have
00:54:57.13\00:54:59.14
gobble this up,
and three of them on a
00:54:59.17\00:55:01.45
truck to Las Vegas to
go to a show, a car show
00:55:01.48\00:55:05.19
but that truck tips
over and three of them
00:55:05.22\00:55:07.73
are obliterated.
What just happened to the
00:55:07.76\00:55:09.70
value of those two. It
increase because quantity
00:55:09.73\00:55:13.53
decrease,
availability decrease, access
00:55:13.56\00:55:16.15
decreased. Now lets
say something happens
00:55:16.18\00:55:18.48
to another one of
them, the other one,
00:55:18.51\00:55:20.24
another one of the
two is racked and only one
00:55:20.27\00:55:21.98
remains. What
would be the value, what
00:55:22.01\00:55:24.58
would be the pride point
of that remaining Porsche.
00:55:24.61\00:55:27.07
It would be
whatever someone is going to
00:55:28.09\00:55:29.62
pay for it, it will
be literally priceless
00:55:29.65\00:55:31.07
and beloved think this through.
00:55:31.10\00:55:32.85
What's worth
more the $20,000 car
00:55:32.88\00:55:35.26
that we have 20,000
of or the Porsche that we
00:55:35.29\00:55:38.71
have one of. What's worth more.
00:55:38.74\00:55:40.83
Porsche. You are the Porsche.
00:55:40.86\00:55:43.06
There is only of
you, and you are different
00:55:45.59\00:55:50.51
person from me or
different person from you,
00:55:50.54\00:55:52.29
or different
person from you and yes
00:55:52.32\00:55:54.01
God loves you. This
is a profound commentary
00:55:54.04\00:55:55.63
on the nonpartisan love of God,
00:55:55.66\00:55:57.16
but according to
scripture he more
00:55:57.19\00:55:59.61
than loves you, he likes you.
00:55:59.64\00:56:02.39
He wants to be your
friend, he wants you
00:56:03.62\00:56:06.09
spend eternity with
him because you are the
00:56:06.12\00:56:10.94
only you available
to God. If heaven forbid
00:56:10.97\00:56:16.62
you are lost, you
are irreparably lost,
00:56:16.65\00:56:20.12
you are irredeemably
lost, you are perfectly
00:56:20.15\00:56:23.60
irreplaceable to
God. Thousand and millions
00:56:23.63\00:56:27.78
may be saved, but if
you are lost there is a
00:56:27.81\00:56:32.08
vacancy, an eternal
vacancy in the heart of God
00:56:32.11\00:56:34.68
that only your
personality could fill.
00:56:34.71\00:56:37.33
You might your nose
is too big, that you
00:56:37.36\00:56:39.32
are too short,
that you are too chubby,
00:56:39.35\00:56:40.80
and maybe you
are through chubby,
00:56:40.83\00:56:42.63
but God likes you,
and he is forming you and
00:56:44.37\00:56:49.91
fashioning you into a
person whom he can say
00:56:49.94\00:56:53.30
in absolute
transparency she is my friend,
00:56:53.33\00:56:57.16
he is my friend,
and can invite you to
00:56:57.19\00:57:00.22
spend eternity with
him. Beloved one of the
00:57:00.25\00:57:04.06
unifying motives of
scripture is that God
00:57:04.09\00:57:07.83
wants to be with
people. He wants to be
00:57:07.86\00:57:10.66
their friend, and God
wants to be your friend.
00:57:10.69\00:57:14.53