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>>As the conversation continues
in this particular conversation
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we want to be talking about
the end of all things, which is
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really the beginning of
the thing that God originally
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intended.
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We've been spending quite a lot
of time sort of developing what
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went wrong.
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Fortunately we started off
with the things that were going
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right.
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But as we've already mentioned
scripture opens in Eden and
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closes in Eden.
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And as we move now in this
conversation to the restoration
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of all things and that end which
is really a beginning we've had
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a lot of things we
want to talk about.
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We want to talk about
the role of the spirit.
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We want to talk about
resurrection because we've spent
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quite a bit of
time on the cross.
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And then we want to talk
about the restoration itself.
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So I think maybe a good place
for us to begin would sort of be
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at this topic of the
resurrection, which, as you've
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mentioned Jeffrey in the past
that there is historical extra
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biblical and intrabiblical
evidence for this as an event of
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history.
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Not just a theological construct
but Jesus literally lived,
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literally died, was literally
buried and literally rose from
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the dead.
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And if that's true, right?
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Then the Christian faith is true
and this is really, really good
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news not just good
advice as you've said Ty.
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So let's talk about the
resurrection and where do we
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want to go from there.
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>>Well in the context of
where we left off in our last
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conversation the resurrection
is of huge significance in the
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light of what we discussed about
the cross because we suggest--we
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said very clearly and showed in
scripture that Jesus experienced
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not merely the first
death but the second death.
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And we defined the second death
as absolute destruction and
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annihilation that is an
experience that will be had by
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incorrigibly evil, unrepentant
human beings that move beyond
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the possibility of salvation.
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We commonly refer to this
event as the destruction of the
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wicked.
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>>Or hell.
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>>Or hell that's right.
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>>Fire, ok.
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>>So if Jesus
experienced the second death.
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>>I know where you are going.
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>>Yeah, why is he alive?
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If the second death is
annihilation that second death
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is the full wages of sin, a
death from which there is no
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resurrection as we talked about
then how can he possibly come
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through that and emerged on the
other side in the resurrection.
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>>So I'm assuming that you
not only are gonna propose the
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question but you are gonna give
us at least some direction by
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way of an answer.
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>>I would like to initiate the
answer by simply pointing out
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that in John chapter 10, look at
John chapter 10 I don't want to
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just refer to it.
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We need to look at this one.
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I was thinking about just
referring to it but no John
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chapter 10, let's look at verse
18 and I'll read the verse and
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then we'll look back to
the implications here for what
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happened at the cross.
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No one, Jesus says, takes it,
that is my life from me but I
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will lay it down of myself.
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I have power to lay it down
and I have power to take it up
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again--to take it again.
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This command I have
received from my father.
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So Jesus is here foretelling,
prophesying of his resurrection
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but he's prophesying of his
resurrection on the premise of
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something the
father revealed to him.
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The father has indicated
that I will be resurrected.
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There were a number of times
when Jesus told the disciples I
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will be resurrected.
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>>That's right.
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>>Ok but then as we saw in
scripture when reality--when
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reality really came into play
regarding the sins of the world
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upon him in Gethsemane straight
through to the cross Jesus was
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enveloped in an impenetrable
darkness psychologically.
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>>Psalm 88.
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>>Psalm 88 I am shut up in the
lowest pit in darkness in the
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deep of this death from which
there is no remembrance of me
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and in verse 8 I am
shut up and I can't get out.
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I don't see
resurrection for myself beyond.
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But here's the amazing thing.
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In that darkness Jesus had
previously told Peter that if I
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wanted to I could call to
the father and he would send 12
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legions of angels to deliver me.
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So Jesus wasn't trapped.
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His back wasn't against a wall.
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It was a voluntary sacrifice,
which is in the first line of
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verse 18 here.
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No one takes my life from me.
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I lay it down of myself.
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>>Another way to say that a very
simple way to say that would be
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you can't kill God.
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>>That's right.
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>>Nobody can come to God and hey
I'm taking your life from you.
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>>So this is a
voluntary sacrifice, right?
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He's giving his life and because
he's giving his life at the
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cross Jesus is
experiencing something that is a
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manifestation of his love
in the most extreme possible
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circumstances that love
could be put to the test.
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ecause he can't see life for
himself beyond this darkness so
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he is essentially making a
totally conscious decision to
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save man at any cost to himself.
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>>Beautiful.
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>>Any cost absolutely
any cost what's the absolute?
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Any cost?
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His own eternal life
he's willing to give.
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And having made that decision
his love conquered death at the
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most fundamental level of
selfishness and therefore the
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grave couldn't hold him.
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So Jesus goes into the grave and
the father doesn't resurrect him
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by fiat or by some
kind of arbitrary command.
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He has a perfect right to come
forth from the grave by virtue
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of the fact that he died without
the stain of sin upon him.
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He never yielded to selfishness.
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He died in love and having done
so he's resurrected by virtue of
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that victory that
he gained at the cross.
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>>Wow that really brings
out a powerful thought because
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understanding that concept it
helps me to recognize why it was
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when he was on the cross that
3 times he was tempted to save
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himself.
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If you remember the Jews came to
him, the thief on the cross came
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to him and the soldier
said to him save yourself, save
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yourself, save yourself.
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And I imagine as you've
explained this Ty that they were
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inspired the devil by Satan
himself because he knew that if
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he could not get Christ to yield
to the principle of selfishness
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that death could not hold him
because death is the consequence
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of sin and selfishness.
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>>Could you say that death
had no legitimate right to keep
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Jesus?
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>>Yes.
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>>I love that language.
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>>Yeah there was a
legal dimension to that great
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controversy as we've mentioned
previously in Jesus has
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prevailed.
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He's victorious.
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The book Desire of Ages which
I love which is a narrative
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commentary on the life of Christ
there's a statement that just is
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always with me when I think
about the cross and it describes
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it like this it says love and
selfishness stood face to face
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that's at the cross love and
selfishness stood face to face
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in mortal combat and
love gained the victory.
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That's what's happening at
Calvary so Jesus goes into the
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grave and he comes forth on the
third day as a rightful victor.
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He is in fact
victorious over hell and death.
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In Revelation chapter 1:18
says that he has metaphoric and
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symbolic language the
keys of hell and of death.
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>>I was thinking of this that
very verse a couple of months
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ago when I had the really sad
experience of watching my mother
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in law die.
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And I have never been in
the room in a room with somebody
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that was literally
breathing their last.
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Even my grandfather I
wasn't present and other family
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members.
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I had never been present
until a couple of months ago.
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And I remember that when
she passed away I began to think
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immediately about the
resurrection--resurrection she
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dies early.
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She had cancer.
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It started with breast cancer.
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We found a lump and then
immediately followed up with a
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mastectomy and
then a lot of, you know.
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>>Procedures.
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>>Yeah procedures and juicing
and all kinds of things that we
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can do and the cancer moved from
to the liver and then it moved
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to the spinal cord and then
eventually it went to the brain.
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And to see the effects of death
and the effects of sin in that
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sin is what brings
death into this world.
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I remember thinking about that
verse you just quoted how Jesus
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has the keys for Revelation 1:18
and I was after they came and
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took the body away I was sitting
on the carpet in that very room
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where she had passed
away and I was just writing.
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And I remember I wrote down that
in this very room Jesus was here
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and he was dangling the
keys in the devils face.
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That Christ conquered death and
that is a powerful statement to
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Satan and now that Christ has
conquered death we have nothing
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to fear because
the tomb is empty.
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>>Well think about
the symbolism Jeffrey.
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He has the keys of hell and
of death in Revelation 1:18 the
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implication is that
he had to acquire them.
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He had to achieve something
in order to get them right?
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And what does this mean then but
that Jesus was conqueror over
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the principles that set the
great controversy into motion
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the principle namely of
sin and evil and selfishness.
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And the devil as we've talked
about, Satan, the fallen angel
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Lucifer is the one who initiated
the death process so Hebrews 2
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and verse 14 says in as
much then as the children.
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>>Are you there?
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>>Really.
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>>In as much then as the
children have partaken of flesh
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and blood he himself, that's
Jesus likewise shared in the
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same that through death he might
destroy him who had the power of
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death.
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>>Or the keys of death.
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>>That, yeah, that is the devil.
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So this is--this is a--this is a
victory test Jesus has conquered
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the devil and in so
doing he conquered death.
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>>And in verse 15.
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>>So do it verse
15 go--go--go James.
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>>And delivered them who through
fear of death were all their
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lifetime subject to bondage.
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I love that.
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I like to think of it this way
what do you guys think of this?
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The devil has as it were 3
primary weapons at his disposal.
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Now this is an
oversimplification but tell me
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if you like this.
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The devil has 3
tools at his disposal.
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One is sin which he wields very
capably tempting us etc. But
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then the results of sin or what
sin eventuates then is death.
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So he has sin, which is a
sword, he can use temptation.
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Then he has death.
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And then he has
the fear of death.
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And so Jesus he
gets each of those.
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Number one he doesn't sin.
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He lives a life of perfect
relational integrity before God
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and man.
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So sin is now conquered.
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Jesus goes into the tomb as
it was and wrestles the keys of
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death from Satan's hand
and comes forward and then the
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author of Hebrews point
is now there's no more fear.
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He has released you
from the fear of death.
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>>I read a book I've just gotta
say this it's a book that if
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you've not read it
it's an amazing book.
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You like that the fear the death
or the sin, death and fear.
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Here's a book you wanna read
a book that'll change your life
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and I recommend it to
our listeners as well.
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It's called the last words
of sinners and saints by Dr.
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Herbert Locure.
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>>And compilation.
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>>Compilation all he did--all he
did was he went back and he just
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collected hundreds of instances
of the last words of people,
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scientists, actors, kings,
politicians, satirists, authors,
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Christians, atheists,
and he just assembled them.
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This is the chapter on atheist.
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This is the chapter on actors
and you can just go read and I
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would say this if for no other
reason but just the opportunity
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to dies with courage and dignity
you should become a Christian.
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When you read the way that
Christians die and the beauty
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with which they
embrace that cold reality.
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>>It's because
of that perspective.
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Because Christ.
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>>No fear.
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>>Because he has the keys.
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Can I read a text 'cause you
were talking about weapons that
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the devil has 3
weapons and there's sin, death.
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>>You can only read it if
it's Colossians chapter 2.
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[Laughter]
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>>Colossians chapter 2.
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>>I'm already there.
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[Laughter]
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>>Well I'm glad I'm the one
reading it then because verse
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15.
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>>Yes.
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>>It's astounding.
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>>I don't know
I'm a big warrior guy.
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>>Are you?
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>>He's a warrior.
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>>Your muscles are bulging out.
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>>Warrior?
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>>The warrior.
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>>Warrior--Warrior
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>>Grey hair.
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>>No I mean warrior [Laughter]
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>>In verse 15.
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>>I had to clarify that.
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>>I knew that about you.
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>>In verse 15 in Colossians
2 because you were just talking
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about weapons, weapons,
weapons it says having disarmed.
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>>There you go yeah, yeah.
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>>Having disarmed ok now he's
talking about Jesus because of
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verse 17.
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>>There were weapons?
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>>There's weapons but I don't
want to get into the context but
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in verse 14 he's talking about
Jesus at the cross verse 15
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having disarmed principalities
and powers which is familiar
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Pauline language right?
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We have Ephesians and so forth
where he's referring to the
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powers of darkness having
disarmed the principalities and
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powers he made a public
spectacle of them triumphing
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over them in it.
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And I always like
to circle the word it.
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What is the
word it referring to?
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But the last verse in the last
word in verse 14, the cross.
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So--so--so
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>>My marginal said in himself.
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>>Ok, in himself and at
the cross Jesus disarmed
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principalities and powers and
he made a public show of them.
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And the picture that I think of
is like you know the Alexander
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the Great who comes back after
one of his military--one of his
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wars---one of his battles and
he comes back and when he enters
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back into his own gates he
has the enemy with him and he's
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making a public
spectacle of him.
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This is so powerful because
we have God hanging on the
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tree--hanging on a cross, naked
and beaten and in that act he
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has disarmed the
very kingdom of darkness.
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>In an act of what
looks like absolute failure.
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>>Defeat--looks like defeat
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>>Good point
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>>In that very act he defeats
the kingdom of Satan and that's
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so powerful that's amazing
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>>Because the power that he
has is not unlike Alexander the
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Great it's not a power of might
or of swords or of strength it's
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a power of love.
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It's a power of selfishness.
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>>So all of the deceptions
that we've been talking about--I
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guess we began many
conversations ago when we were
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setting the stage about the
Bible and the fall, all of those
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deceptions they get nailed to
that cross--they get nailed to
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the cross of Jesus and its as
God is hanging on the cross he
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is refuting all the accusations
of Satan that he's selfish, that
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he's restrictive and
so forth and so forth.
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>>The wounded Warrior.
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>>Oh wow, wow.
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>>Not just a Warrior he had been
introduced back in Genesis 3 as
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the wounded Warrior.
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You will bite or crush his heel
but he will crush your head.
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>>You know what I think that it
would be appropriate then having
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mentioned Genesis 3:15 and
the language there to just fast
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forward to Romans 16:20 where
Paul quotes that same verse.
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He alludes to that language
and he's basically saying --well
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basically let's just
read it because I'm here.
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>>I love this verse.
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>>Isn't it
great--isn't it great?
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>>I love it because
of what it calls God.
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It calls him
something very special.
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>>The God of peace and the
God of peace will crush Satan.
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>>I like that word.
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>>But doesn't
that seem like almost
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>>There's tension there.
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>>The God of peace
will crush it's almost what?
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>>The God of peace will crush
Satan under your feet shortly.
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Isn't that something?
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>>Yes perfect because if he's
a God of peace he's absolutely
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going to crush Satan.
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>>So the victory of the cross
in some way takes on a ongoing
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residual and then finally
climactic victory in the church.
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>>That's right.
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>>Yeah so Genesis 3:15 is
fulfilled in Christ and then we
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are the recipients and partakers
of his victory which is the
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victory of selfless love, other
centered love, which then is
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manifested ultimately through
human beings and the kingdom of
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darkness comes crashing down
on the premise of the cross.
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>>When we come back Ty would you
take us through a little bit of
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Ephesians 3 there because you
talk about through the church
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that this manifest grand beauty
and glory of God will be shown
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in the church.
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>>Yeah let's do
that when we come back.
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>> I love Deacon Francis.
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This guy devoting his life
to standing in front of that
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hospital--that place where the
sick and the dying are coming
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and he spends his early mornings
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evangelizing people, sharing the
gospel with them and building
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the church of Christ on earth.
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Now David you suggested before
we took our break that we go to
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Ephesians chapter 3.
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And the reason why is because we
were in Romans 16:20 and we saw
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that the apostle Paul alluding
to Genesis 3:15 said that the
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church will be the medium
that through which Christ will
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finally crush Satan under
his feet through the church.
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Well Ephesians chapter 3 and
verse 10 talks about how this
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takes place verse 10 to the
intent that now the manifold
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wisdom of God might be
made known by the church to the
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principalities and
powers in the heavenly places.
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>>Principalities and powers.
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>>Yeah principalities and powers
were back to Colossians 2:15
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>>It's the universal language.
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>>According to the
eternal purpose, which he
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accomplished--accomplished--done
deal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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This is amazing the church is
the vehicle for the replication
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if you will of the victory
that Christ gained at the cross.
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>>And it even says here that
God is trying to make something
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known to the universe and it's
through human beings, through
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the church that that lesson
is going to be demonstrated.
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>>Jeffrey in a previous
conversation I think it was or
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maybe just in this conversation
weren't you referring to the
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Holy Spirit
coming as Christ departs.
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It was a previous conversation.
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>>John
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>>Yeah the Holy Spirit now comes
into the world for the formation
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and development of the
church--for the empowering of
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the church to
execute its mission.
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Yeah so
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>>Well it was remember in John
16 where Jesus was telling his
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church--his followers that its
to their advantage that he goes
00:24:01.43\00:24:05.16
away so that the
spirit could come.
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And in another text in John 7
it says that the spirit had not
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come fully yet because Christ
had not yet been glorified.
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So there's a link there
between Jesus and the Spirit.
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>>Do you think it would
be theologically, biblically
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accurate to say that the victory
that Jesus gained at the cross
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was the catalyst for the
coming of the Holy Spirit?
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>>Absolutely.
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>>Post Calvary--after the cross
the Holy Spirit comes by virtue
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of the sacrifice of
Christ on the cross.
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>>Of course we were talking
about how every member of the
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Godhead is utterly selfless.
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The father points to the Son and
the Spirit is basically a lens
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that magnifies
what Jesus has done.
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Jesus points back to his father
but the spirit is like a lens to
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magnify the work of Jesus so
it makes perfect, logical sense
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that Christ does his work
and then what follows after
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that--that's necessary for the
spirit then to come and apply
00:25:07.26\00:25:10.90
what Christ has
done to humanity.
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>>Individual basis.
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>>We weren't there.
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We were not at Calvary.
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We weren't present
when that happened.
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How do we enter into an
experience where we interact
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with the cross of Calvary?
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It's in the
person of the spirit.
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He's the connecting link that
allows us to interact with the
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implications of Calvary.
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>>Jesus literally say that when
the Holy Spirit comes he will
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not speak of himself but he
will glorify me--he will magnify
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Jesus and the victory that Jesus
gained at cross on our behalf.
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I love the fact that in Romans
5 picking up on the Holy Spirits
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ministry that the apostle
Paul says in slightly different
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language he says verse 5 now
hope does not disappoint because
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the love of God--the love of
God has been poured out in our
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hearts by the Holy
Spirit who was given to us.
00:26:06.70\00:26:10.50
So the Holy Spirits ongoing
ministry after the cross is to
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continually pour out into human
hearts a magnified sense of the
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love of God
manifested in Christ at Calvary.
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>>You know there's always this
question as to why is it that in
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the New Testament it's all about
the Spirit and the Spirit and
00:26:31.80\00:26:33.96
the pouring down
the day of Pentecost.
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When you read the Old Testament
it seems a bit quiet in regard
00:26:35.23\00:26:38.26
to the Spirit.
00:26:38.26\00:26:39.53
But that's exactly the point
I was trying to make earlier is
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that when you read the Old
Testament the presence of Jesus
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is veiled as well.
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It's in shadow but in the New
Testament as Jesus pumps up the
00:26:48.76\00:26:52.56
volume so to speak and reveals
himself more fully only then
00:26:52.56\00:26:56.73
does the Spirit come and reveals
himself more fully because his
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point is simply to
magnify what Christ has done.
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>>That's good.
00:27:04.76\00:27:05.86
>>So Jesus pumps up the volume.
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The Holy Spirit by necessity has
to pump up the volume because
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he's just simply magnifying
or revealing what Christ is
00:27:11.80\00:27:17.36
actually doing.
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>>Now we've talked about how
that Jesus suffered at Calvary
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and suffers
because of the sin problem.
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We've talked about how
the father also suffers.
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But Jesus and the father suffer
as members of the triune love
00:27:29.80\00:27:35.36
relationship between
father, son and Holy Spirit.
00:27:35.36\00:27:38.00
Is there biblical evidence that
the Holy Spirit also is involved
00:27:38.00\00:27:43.20
in the suffering that is the
result of the sin problem and
00:27:43.20\00:27:47.40
the impact that
it's had on our world?
00:27:47.40\00:27:50.20
Does the Holy Spirit
also experience suffering?
00:27:50.20\00:27:53.40
>>I think the answer is yes we
can say certainly the answer is
00:27:53.40\00:27:58.50
yes because he's a member
of the Godhead and God is love.
00:27:58.50\00:28:02.66
>> At least indirectly,
at least the bare minimum.
00:28:02.66\00:28:04.76
>>But I would go to a passage in
Romans 8 I don't know if that's
00:28:04.76\00:28:08.43
what you're thinking
00:28:08.43\00:28:09.36
>>That's exactly
what I was thinking.
00:28:09.36\00:28:10.76
>>Romans 8 then Romans 8 is we
were just talking at one of the
00:28:10.76\00:28:14.80
breaks there how there are
just certain passages in your
00:28:14.80\00:28:17.50
preaching ministry and in your
study that you just gravitate
00:28:17.50\00:28:20.40
toward and I think we are all in
agreeance that 2 Corinthians 5
00:28:20.40\00:28:24.36
is big for us.
00:28:24.36\00:28:25.33
Romans 8 is huge for me.
00:28:25.33\00:28:27.00
Romans 8 is one of those
passages that I mean I will
00:28:27.00\00:28:30.73
probably read
dozens of times a year.
00:28:30.73\00:28:33.53
Now certainly dozens--it's
just I just go here.
00:28:33.53\00:28:35.63
I'm like a magnet to Romans 8 I
just and especially in the wake
00:28:35.63\00:28:41.96
of the earthquake I was
in Christ Church, New Zealand
00:28:41.96\00:28:44.96
February 22 when the earthquake
struck right down town, hundreds
00:28:44.96\00:28:49.80
of people ended up dying in
that earthquake and I was there.
00:28:49.80\00:28:53.66
The building was doing--it was a
really traumatic experience not
00:28:53.66\00:28:58.83
so much because I
was afraid for my life.
00:28:58.83\00:29:00.96
I actually had peace through the
whole thing but just to see this
00:29:00.96\00:29:04.03
beautiful, quaint little English
city, English type city just
00:29:04.03\00:29:09.93
devastated in 20 seconds.
00:29:09.93\00:29:11.83
And I was asked the next Sabbath
so the earthquake happened
00:29:11.83\00:29:16.80
February 22 I think it was
a Monday or a Tuesday I don't
00:29:16.80\00:29:19.10
remember the exact day.
00:29:19.10\00:29:20.33
The following Sabbath I was
asked to preach in the church,
00:29:20.33\00:29:24.40
now that's a tall order.
00:29:24.40\00:29:26.00
Preaching at funerals that's
a tall order but you're gonna go
00:29:26.00\00:29:28.10
preach their town is devastated
the Christ Church Cathedral
00:29:28.10\00:29:31.00
which is the icon of
their city devastated.
00:29:31.00\00:29:33.30
The CBD Central
Business District devastated.
00:29:33.30\00:29:35.46
I mean you have hundreds
dead they're still searching for
00:29:35.46\00:29:38.66
survivors at this point and they
say would you come preach to us
00:29:38.66\00:29:42.96
Pastor?
00:29:42.96\00:29:44.36
That's a tall order so like the
magnet when it came time for me
00:29:44.36\00:29:49.30
to preach I'm going to
Romans 8 in that situation.
00:29:49.30\00:29:52.53
And in Romans 8 I'll just kind
of quickly race through this
00:29:52.53\00:29:56.00
here.
00:29:56.00\00:29:57.13
Paul basically says in
verse 18 for I consider that the
00:29:57.13\00:29:59.43
sufferings of this present time
which I thought was a perfect
00:29:59.43\00:30:02.70
lead in for the situation there,
the sufferings of this present
00:30:02.70\00:30:07.43
time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory which
00:30:07.43\00:30:09.30
shall be
revealed in us, Paul says.
00:30:09.30\00:30:11.63
Paul I love here what he says
because he's not diminishing our
00:30:11.63\00:30:15.63
sufferings.
00:30:15.63\00:30:17.26
He's not causing us or asking us
to deny the reality of suffering
00:30:17.26\00:30:21.33
in the world.
00:30:21.33\00:30:22.56
But what he is saying is that
by comparison suffering cannot
00:30:22.56\00:30:25.43
compete with glory.
00:30:25.43\00:30:27.93
Then in verse 19 for the earnest
expectation of the creation and
00:30:27.93\00:30:32.96
this gets into where we are
going Ty with this restoration
00:30:32.96\00:30:34.86
of all things eagerly
waits for the sons of God.
00:30:34.86\00:30:38.83
So Paul's point here is that
the destiny of the earth and the
00:30:38.83\00:30:43.73
destiny of humanity
are wrapped together.
00:30:43.73\00:30:45.76
Symbolically Christ, Adam
rather is made of the earth.
00:30:45.76\00:30:50.10
The meek shall
inherit the earth.
00:30:50.10\00:30:51.90
We sometimes think
yeah the earth, the earth.
00:30:51.90\00:30:54.20
But God is redeeming the earth.
00:30:54.20\00:30:57.33
God is redeeming all of us.
00:30:57.33\00:30:59.73
He's redeeming the universe.
00:30:59.73\00:31:01.30
>>In fact when we talk about
quote unquote going to heaven
00:31:01.30\00:31:04.00
and eternal life according
to Revelation 21 and 22 heaven
00:31:04.00\00:31:08.80
turns out to be a
merger of heaven and earth.
00:31:08.80\00:31:12.16
Actually the redeemed are going
to live here forever-on earth
00:31:12.16\00:31:15.06
renewed.
00:31:15.06\00:31:16.50
>>So let me--that's right so let
me just race through this the
00:31:16.50\00:31:19.20
creation was
subjected to futility.
00:31:19.20\00:31:21.70
This is the fall not willingly
but because of him who subjected
00:31:21.70\00:31:24.73
it but there was
always hope, in hope.
00:31:24.73\00:31:26.83
Because the creation itself will
be delivered from the bondage of
00:31:26.83\00:31:30.60
corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God.
00:31:30.60\00:31:33.20
And maybe we could just pause
there and appreciate just how
00:31:33.20\00:31:36.96
far removed this earth
is whether environmentally,
00:31:36.96\00:31:40.43
militarily, socially, familiarly
from the earth that God
00:31:40.43\00:31:44.93
intended.
00:31:44.93\00:31:46.03
I mean the thing is just
falling apart at the seems.
00:31:46.03\00:31:48.16
You all know that
I'm a bird watcher.
00:31:48.16\00:31:49.43
I love birds.
00:31:49.43\00:31:50.66
And I go out to watch birds
and my family is really into it.
00:31:50.66\00:31:53.63
I could spend the next hour
or two talking to you about the
00:31:53.63\00:31:57.10
various avian tragedies that
have taken place just in the
00:31:57.10\00:32:00.83
last hundred years.
00:32:00.83\00:32:02.33
I mean the earth is
waxing old like a garment.
00:32:02.33\00:32:06.70
Not just in the birds but
in the--biologists actually say
00:32:06.70\00:32:10.96
that birds perhaps more than
any other single species are an
00:32:10.96\00:32:14.36
indicator species
because they are migratory.
00:32:14.36\00:32:16.96
So if your bird populations
start going down significantly
00:32:16.96\00:32:20.63
something's wrong.
00:32:20.63\00:32:21.76
That's the
world that we live in.
00:32:21.76\00:32:23.76
the world is falling a part
and the creation itself pulses.
00:32:23.76\00:32:26.40
He personifies creation here as
groaning as just this isn't the
00:32:26.40\00:32:31.20
way it's supposed to be.
00:32:31.20\00:32:32.73
Verse 22 for the whole creation
groans and labors with birth
00:32:32.73\00:32:37.30
pains together until now and
that'll be a passage familiar to
00:32:37.30\00:32:39.73
us because Jesus
spoke about that didn't he.
00:32:39.73\00:32:43.13
He said all of this is
the beginning of birth pains.
00:32:43.13\00:32:45.50
>>I couldn't help to think
about Jeffrey when you said
00:32:45.50\00:32:47.46
groaning---groaning----ohhh--bec
ause we've been
00:32:47.46\00:32:49.80
experiencing----ohhh, ohh so
you know there's a lot of pain
00:32:49.80\00:32:52.26
there.
00:32:52.26\00:32:53.06
Something's wrong.
00:32:53.06\00:32:53.90
>>I'm only 30
and I'm groaning so.
00:32:53.90\00:32:55.30
>>Something's wrong.
00:32:55.30\00:32:58.06
>>You're groaning.
00:32:58.06\00:32:59.33
>>I love the metaphor of birth
pains because birth pains are
00:32:59.33\00:33:01.06
intentional, they're directional
and here's the best part, they
00:33:01.06\00:33:04.46
end in new life.
00:33:04.46\00:33:07.70
So it's this beautiful picture
that the earth waxing old as a
00:33:07.70\00:33:11.26
garment.
00:33:11.26\00:33:11.90
It's actually birth pains.
00:33:11.90\00:33:12.90
It's not the end of a thing.
00:33:12.90\00:33:14.63
>>The end is just the beginning.
00:33:14.63\00:33:15.80
>> It's the
beginning of a thing.
00:33:15.80\00:33:17.23
Ok now here's the point and not
only that but we also who have
00:33:17.23\00:33:22.56
the first fruits of the spirit,
even we ourselves, Christians,
00:33:22.56\00:33:25.43
Jeffry and others.
00:33:25.43\00:33:26.40
We groan within ourselves.
00:33:26.40\00:33:28.33
What are we groaning for?
00:33:28.33\00:33:29.46
Because our back
aches, because our head aches?
00:33:29.46\00:33:31.53
Not so much.
00:33:31.53\00:33:32.83
That's a product of it but
primarily because we are eagerly
00:33:32.83\00:33:34.80
waiting for the
redemption of our body.
00:33:34.80\00:33:38.56
So now don't miss that he says
the creation is groaning and
00:33:38.56\00:33:42.50
then he says even we Christians
are groaning, longing for
00:33:42.50\00:33:45.83
something better.
00:33:45.83\00:33:46.83
Now watch this for we
are saved in this hope.
00:33:46.83\00:33:49.60
The hope that
something better is coming.
00:33:49.60\00:33:51.16
But hope that is seen is not
hope for why does one hope for
00:33:51.16\00:33:54.00
what he sees but if we hope for
what we do not see we eagerly
00:33:54.00\00:33:57.73
wait for it.
00:33:57.73\00:33:58.93
He uses that word 3 times,
eager, we're eager, we're eager.
00:33:58.93\00:34:01.56
Now watch this verse 26 likewise
the spirit also helps in our
00:34:01.56\00:34:06.66
weaknesses.
00:34:06.66\00:34:07.86
For we do not know what we
should pray for as we ought to
00:34:07.86\00:34:11.90
but the spirit himself
makes intercession for us with
00:34:11.90\00:34:14.56
groaning that cannot be uttered.
00:34:14.56\00:34:16.20
Now just let that settle in
on you and I remember when I
00:34:16.20\00:34:20.23
preached that day in Christ
Church I said look not only is
00:34:20.23\00:34:22.00
creation itself groaning heaving
in quakes such as this but
00:34:22.00\00:34:26.46
people are groaning and
even we as Christians groan.
00:34:26.46\00:34:29.93
We long for a better experience
whether in our families or in
00:34:29.93\00:34:33.03
our bodies or in our spirits.
00:34:33.03\00:34:34.33
Human beings are groaning.
00:34:34.33\00:34:35.50
We live on a broken planet.
00:34:35.50\00:34:37.36
And I love this when we don't
know what to say or how to pray
00:34:37.36\00:34:40.46
or how to groan Paul says
that the spirit himself he comes
00:34:40.46\00:34:44.53
along side us in the spirit
groans with us, beside us and
00:34:44.53\00:34:50.33
for us things
that can't be uttered.
00:34:50.33\00:34:54.20
>>Yes.
00:34:54.20\00:34:55.20
>>Verse 27 because he
is searching our hearts.
00:34:55.20\00:34:57.96
>>That's right.
00:34:57.96\00:34:59.23
>>So he's groaning because he's
searching our hearts along side
00:34:59.23\00:35:02.00
us because he's searching
our hearts and knows the mind.
00:35:02.00\00:35:04.60
I love that.
00:35:04.60\00:35:05.53
It's beautiful.
00:35:05.53\00:35:06.76
>>Groaning is a fascinating
word--what kind of words would
00:35:06.76\00:35:10.46
be synonyms for groaning?
00:35:10.46\00:35:12.63
Groaning is a manifestation of
internal agony that is expressed
00:35:12.63\00:35:18.43
in an audible way but
without vocabulary I guess.
00:35:18.43\00:35:24.26
It's just what
does it mean to groan?
00:35:24.26\00:35:26.76
It means to suffer.
00:35:26.76\00:35:28.23
So the Holy Spirit is suffering?
00:35:28.23\00:35:30.96
The Holy Spirit feels the
suffering that impacts our
00:35:30.96\00:35:35.66
world.
00:35:35.66\00:35:36.40
>>Of course.
00:35:36.40\00:35:37.66
>>The actual Greek is to sigh or
to murmur which is [deep breath
00:35:37.66\00:35:42.16
let out]
00:35:42.16\00:35:43.86
>>That's right.
00:35:44.56\00:35:45.83
>>You know it's what we do when
we're feeling something anxed
00:35:45.83\00:35:47.26
anguish, heartache.
00:35:47.26\00:35:48.70
That's what we do.
00:35:48.70\00:35:49.70
>I love that.
00:35:49.70\00:35:50.60
I love that.
00:35:50.60\00:35:51.80
The reason I love that and
everything you're saying about
00:35:51.80\00:35:53.73
groaning is because often times
the Spirit is viewed as this
00:35:53.73\00:35:57.46
energy.
00:35:57.46\00:35:58.53
>>Yes.
00:35:58.53\00:35:59.80
>>This light, this essence that
kind of floats in the air but
00:35:59.80\00:36:03.13
you're giving us its emotion.
00:36:03.13\00:36:05.86
>>The Holy Spirit
is a person, a being.
00:36:05.86\00:36:09.80
>>When you read the book of Acts
and we're doing, praise God our
00:36:09.80\00:36:11.96
convocation is going
to be on the book of Acts.
00:36:11.96\00:36:14.73
Or have already been
done by the time these go.
00:36:14.73\00:36:17.43
But the whole thing when you
read through the book of Acts
00:36:17.43\00:36:19.73
you cannot escape the fact
that the Spirit is a person.
00:36:19.73\00:36:22.23
I mean he just keeps showing up.
00:36:22.23\00:36:24.26
The Spirit said and it felt good
to us, it seemed good to us and
00:36:24.26\00:36:27.70
to the Spirit and
you've lied to the Spirit.
00:36:27.70\00:36:30.23
He's mysterious.
00:36:30.23\00:36:31.83
>>Admittedly.
00:36:31.83\00:36:33.10
>>But a person as much as the
father and the son are persons.
00:36:33.10\00:36:37.63
>>Totally.
00:36:37.63\00:36:38.86
>>Yeah I think that the idea
that the father, son and Holy
00:36:38.86\00:36:42.76
Spirit are all suffering is
grounded and centered in the
00:36:42.76\00:36:46.86
idea that God is love isn't it?
00:36:46.86\00:36:48.30
>>That's right.
00:36:48.30\00:36:49.56
>>Because love is the means
by which suffering occurs if you
00:36:49.56\00:36:56.90
don't love you don't suffer.
00:36:56.90\00:37:00.43
Right?
00:37:00.43\00:37:01.56
The more I remember Jeffry
you just mentioned recently
00:37:01.56\00:37:05.03
witnessing the passing of
your mother in law and that just
00:37:05.03\00:37:09.73
brought me right back to my
own experience as a young man a
00:37:09.73\00:37:14.86
number of years ago witnessing
the death of my mother.
00:37:14.86\00:37:18.43
She was very young.
00:37:18.43\00:37:20.16
She was only 42 and for a period
of nearly 2 years Sue and I
00:37:20.16\00:37:25.86
ministered to her physical needs
and just watched her deteriorate
00:37:25.86\00:37:31.13
and die.
00:37:31.13\00:37:32.76
And it was--it was painful,
it was emotionally painful but
00:37:32.76\00:37:37.23
think about this we, I'm
speaking of the immediate
00:37:37.23\00:37:40.53
content just Sue and I, we're
fallen, jaded, dysfunctional
00:37:40.53\00:37:46.26
human beings and we find it
painful to witness the suffering
00:37:46.26\00:37:52.76
of someone we love with all the
love we have but with still a
00:37:52.76\00:37:57.63
broken limited love.
00:37:57.63\00:37:59.50
God's love is infinite and
therefore infinitely sensitive
00:37:59.50\00:38:04.50
right?
00:38:04.50\00:38:05.36
>>Yes.
00:38:05.36\00:38:06.50
>>So God's suffering must
be in magnitude far beyond any
00:38:06.50\00:38:12.43
suffering that any human beings
have ever experienced right?
00:38:12.43\00:38:18.36
>>Totally.
00:38:18.36\00:38:19.33
>>Let me put a
trivia question to you guys.
00:38:19.33\00:38:21.46
What is the first thing that
Paul says about love in the love
00:38:21.46\00:38:26.20
chapter, do you remember?
00:38:26.20\00:38:27.53
When he goes into his
description in verse 4
00:38:27.53\00:38:30.40
>>Love is.
00:38:30.40\00:38:33.60
>>Do you remember it?
00:38:33.60\00:38:34.43
Suffers long.
00:38:34.43\00:38:35.66
The very first, and the word
there is patience which comes
00:38:35.66\00:38:36.93
from the Latin to suffer which
is why you can understand why
00:38:36.93\00:38:39.93
that word would become related,
why we would call doctors
00:38:39.93\00:38:42.43
patients--patients.
00:38:42.43\00:38:43.93
He's a patient
because he's suffering.
00:38:43.93\00:38:46.36
And we suffer when we wait.
00:38:46.36\00:38:49.43
We want something now so
patience and suffers long or
00:38:49.43\00:38:53.90
long suffering sometimes--that's
all the same etymology there.
00:38:53.90\00:38:57.26
So I love when you say God
suffers the most because he
00:38:57.26\00:39:01.46
loves the most and the first
thing that Paul says when he's
00:39:01.46\00:39:04.16
gonna tell us what love is
and what love isn't he says oh
00:39:04.16\00:39:07.86
love---oh love suffers long.
00:39:07.86\00:39:09.80
>>And it's kind.
00:39:09.80\00:39:11.40
>>So love feels?
00:39:11.40\00:39:12.76
>>Of course it does.
00:39:12.76\00:39:14.83
>>By its very nature
love feels what others feel.
00:39:14.83\00:39:18.56
I mentioned that book Desire of
Ages at one point and there's a
00:39:18.56\00:39:23.03
statement in the book that
stands out to me it says not a
00:39:23.03\00:39:25.00
sigh is breathed, not a pain
is felt, not a throb vibrates or
00:39:25.00\00:39:29.90
not a throb pierces the heart
but the throb vibrates to the
00:39:29.90\00:39:33.33
father's heart.
00:39:33.33\00:39:34.76
I think I got that a little bit
wrong but the idea is in all our
00:39:34.76\00:39:38.73
afflictions he is afflicted.
00:39:38.73\00:39:40.96
God suffers in our suffering.
00:39:40.96\00:39:44.90
>>You know what's even more
powerful I think in my mind and
00:39:44.90\00:39:48.60
I see this in the
story of David and Absalom.
00:39:48.60\00:39:50.96
We have a tendency as human
beings to put up walls to some
00:39:50.96\00:39:55.76
degree so that we don't suffer
and we put those walls up with
00:39:55.76\00:39:59.00
intention and with evidence.
00:39:59.00\00:40:01.63
Oh that's a bad person, that's a
bad person, that's a bad person,
00:40:01.63\00:40:04.46
wall goes up and they suffer and
we don't feel it as much because
00:40:04.46\00:40:10.00
we don't need to, they're not
related to us, they're not nice
00:40:10.00\00:40:12.20
people, whatever.
00:40:12.20\00:40:13.80
But God doesn't
put up those walls.
00:40:13.80\00:40:15.43
God's love remains extended to
every member of the human family
00:40:15.43\00:40:20.96
and when you look at David he
was nearly overcome with grief
00:40:20.96\00:40:25.26
toward a son who had not only
rebelled against him but wanted
00:40:25.26\00:40:28.43
to kill him.
00:40:28.43\00:40:29.26
>>It's a picture
of the heart of God.
00:40:29.26\00:40:30.43
>>Well it reminds me of
the story of the prodigal son
00:40:30.43\00:40:32.20
because when you think about the
story of the prodigal son and I
00:40:32.20\00:40:35.46
don't know how much time we have
left this segment but that is a
00:40:35.46\00:40:37.40
story where this son comes
to his father and basically says
00:40:37.40\00:40:40.96
drop dead.
00:40:40.96\00:40:44.30
>>We have to go to.
00:40:44.30\00:40:45.43
>>We have to--we have to.
00:40:45.43\00:40:47.13
>>And yet the father when you
see David with Absalom he's so
00:40:47.13\00:40:51.73
overcome with grief when he
hears that Absalom is dead that
00:40:51.73\00:40:54.60
he wishes he would
have died in his stead.
00:40:54.60\00:40:57.46
And that is the cross to me that
is the essence of the love of
00:40:57.46\00:41:01.60
the father for all humanity.
00:41:01.60\00:41:03.40
We see this in the
picture of the prodigal son.
00:41:03.40\00:41:06.16
>>Yes
00:41:06.16\00:41:07.36
>>I love that James God is
always emotionally open never
00:41:07.36\00:41:10.70
emotionally closed.
00:41:10.70\00:41:12.06
He always feels what we feel.
00:41:12.06\00:41:14.03
Let's just keep exploring this
in our final segment but we do
00:41:14.03\00:41:16.76
need to take a break and
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>>Everything--everything in
the Bible Old Testament, New
00:42:06.73\00:42:15.40
Testament everything
points to the heart of God.
00:42:15.40\00:42:17.93
Everything reveals
to him the love of God.
00:42:17.93\00:42:19.60
This parable of the lost son is
so powerful to me in fact in my
00:42:19.60\00:42:23.76
Bible version here on this IPad
it says here the parable of the
00:42:23.76\00:42:27.83
lost son I would say the
parable of the lost world.
00:42:27.83\00:42:30.73
>>Where are you at?
00:42:30.73\00:42:32.06
>>Acts or Luke 15.
00:42:32.06\00:42:33.30
>>Ok
00:42:33.30\00:42:34.03
>>That's kind of
00:42:34.03\00:42:34.66
>>Prodigal son.
00:42:34.66\00:42:35.93
>>Prodigal son excuse me that's
kind of where we left off at our
00:42:35.93\00:42:38.13
break.
00:42:38.13\00:42:39.33
The parable of the lost son,
the parable of the lost world.
00:42:39.33\00:42:41.56
And we look here at a man
who had these two sons and the
00:42:41.56\00:42:44.73
younger said to him--to his
father verse 12 Luke 15 give me
00:42:44.73\00:42:49.30
the portions of
goods that falls to me.
00:42:49.30\00:42:51.43
The phrase that's out there is
that falls to me at your death.
00:42:51.43\00:42:56.50
In other words I want my
inheritance, which is something
00:42:56.50\00:42:59.76
that they were to
get when the father died.
00:42:59.76\00:43:01.73
What he's basically saying
is you know I'd kind of like to
00:43:01.73\00:43:04.60
have my inheritance
right now I wish you were dead.
00:43:04.60\00:43:06.30
Drop dead.
00:43:06.30\00:43:07.56
>>And even though you're alive I
don't want to hang out with you
00:43:07.56\00:43:09.30
any more I'm out of here.
00:43:09.30\00:43:10.60
>>I'm out of here.
00:43:10.60\00:43:12.43
That's us.
00:43:12.43\00:43:13.26
That's the world.
00:43:13.26\00:43:14.40
>>Self-centeredness.
00:43:14.40\00:43:15.90
>>And the picture the beautiful
picture that we have here is the
00:43:15.90\00:43:17.93
picture of the father.
00:43:17.93\00:43:19.20
The father who not only gives,
gives, gives but longs, longs,
00:43:19.20\00:43:22.40
longs, waits, waits, waits
and then after the prodigal goes
00:43:22.40\00:43:26.96
through and wastes all this
money in this far country with
00:43:26.96\00:43:30.03
this luxurious living and has
nowhere to go but to a pig sty
00:43:30.03\00:43:34.66
and thinks about in a very
misunderstood sense that his
00:43:34.66\00:43:41.13
father might be merciful to
him by making him a servant.
00:43:41.13\00:43:45.03
In other words totally
misunderstands even the heart of
00:43:45.03\00:43:47.93
his father.
00:43:47.93\00:43:49.20
Heads back with this very small
understanding of the goodness of
00:43:49.20\00:43:52.30
his father, heads back to the
father and the father sees him a
00:43:52.30\00:43:55.53
long ways off.
00:43:55.53\00:43:57.00
>>Beautiful.
00:43:57.00\00:43:58.23
>>Runs to meet him which was
very questionable for a Jew to
00:43:58.23\00:44:02.50
do an elderly Jewish man to
do but he just lays aside his
00:44:02.50\00:44:07.76
garment, lays aside all
00:44:07.76\00:44:09.43
>>And his pride.
00:44:09.43\00:44:11.20
>>Of his pride, everything and
just goes after the son, wraps
00:44:11.20\00:44:13.76
his arms around him, restores
him fully to son ship, gives him
00:44:13.76\00:44:17.90
a robe, gives him a
ring, makes a feast.
00:44:17.90\00:44:19.73
>>Restores I love that.
00:44:19.73\00:44:21.13
>>Restores and that's the point.
00:44:21.13\00:44:22.76
Restoration.
00:44:22.76\00:44:23.90
Complete restoration takes
place not because the son, the
00:44:23.90\00:44:27.26
prodigal son is
worthy of any of it.
00:44:27.26\00:44:29.33
Not because he can say well dad
I didn't spend everything I've
00:44:29.33\00:44:32.13
got here a little bit of
money that I can give you.
00:44:32.13\00:44:33.83
I'm gonna make it up to
you I'm going to be a servant.
00:44:33.83\00:44:35.40
I'm going to
earn that money back.
00:44:35.40\00:44:38.03
No.
00:44:38.03\00:44:39.30
There was nothing that he could
do but simply throw himself at
00:44:39.30\00:44:41.03
the mercy of his father.
00:44:41.03\00:44:42.30
>>Sounds to me like the story of
the prodigal son should be the
00:44:42.30\00:44:46.00
story of the prodigal father.
00:44:46.00\00:44:48.16
The word prodigal just
means lavish and wasteful and of
00:44:48.16\00:44:54.20
course the son was wasteful he
took everything the father gave
00:44:54.20\00:44:57.46
him and he just poured it out in
lavish luxurious living as you
00:44:57.46\00:45:02.46
said.
00:45:02.46\00:45:03.63
But there's a sense in
which there's the father who is
00:45:03.63\00:45:07.56
extending and pouring out
himself in a lavish way upon the
00:45:07.56\00:45:13.73
son and I guess even from
an outside perspective in a
00:45:13.73\00:45:20.00
wasteful way.
00:45:20.00\00:45:21.33
But from the father's aspect.
00:45:21.33\00:45:22.83
>>It certainly seemed
that way to the older brother.
00:45:22.83\00:45:24.20
>>Yeah to the
older brother for sure.
00:45:24.20\00:45:25.40
But from the fathers
perspective there's no waste.
00:45:25.40\00:45:28.60
I love my son and I'm going
to give everything to have him
00:45:28.60\00:45:33.66
back.
00:45:33.66\00:45:34.93
>>These 3 parables that Jesus
tells in Luke 15 that lost coin,
00:45:34.93\00:45:37.83
lost sheep and lost son,
every one is both individual and
00:45:37.83\00:45:42.16
universal.
00:45:42.16\00:45:43.43
In other words it's about you as
a person, you as a person, you
00:45:43.43\00:45:46.40
as a person, me as a person.
00:45:46.40\00:45:47.40
But it's also about this earth.
00:45:47.40\00:45:49.40
This earth is the lost sheep.
00:45:49.40\00:45:51.30
This earth is the lost coin
and this earth is the lost son.
00:45:51.30\00:45:55.20
We are the one and everyone
of those things that the father
00:45:55.20\00:45:58.06
does for the son puts a new
robe on him, puts a ring on his
00:45:58.06\00:46:02.16
finger, sandals on his
feet, kills the fatted calf.
00:46:02.16\00:46:04.60
Every one of those
things communicates status,
00:46:04.60\00:46:07.03
reinstatement.
00:46:07.03\00:46:08.30
>>Love it.
00:46:08.30\00:46:10.13
>>So he was that there was no
talk of working your way back,
00:46:10.13\00:46:13.83
no, restoration, reinstatement,
we're back on plan A.
00:46:13.83\00:46:17.80
>>I'll just be a
servant--no you're my son.
00:46:17.80\00:46:20.40
>>What do you mean a servant?
00:46:20.40\00:46:22.16
Yeah.
00:46:22.16\00:46:23.00
Absolutely.
00:46:23.00\00:46:24.26
>>Quit talking like that you're
not my servant you are my son.
00:46:24.26\00:46:26.36
And he is received back
with enthusiasm and joy.
00:46:26.36\00:46:30.26
>>When the older brother comes
up he tries to talk the same
00:46:30.26\00:46:33.43
way, all these years he says
I've been serving you and you
00:46:33.43\00:46:36.53
never gave me a little goat
to celebrate with my friends and
00:46:36.53\00:46:39.13
the father just
in astonishment what?
00:46:39.13\00:46:40.73
>>So he also has
the same misconception.
00:46:40.73\00:46:43.53
>>Same mentality, both sons
relate to their father--I say it
00:46:43.53\00:46:46.53
this way they're acting like
servants when they're really
00:46:46.53\00:46:51.10
sons.
00:46:51.10\00:46:52.43
God has called us to son ship
to daughter ship in Christ not
00:46:52.43\00:46:57.13
to--now a servant in a sense
but not servant in the earning
00:46:57.13\00:47:01.83
sense.
00:47:01.83\00:47:03.10
>>Right and that's what they're
thinking in the earning sense.
00:47:03.10\00:47:05.40
>>In the earning sense.
00:47:05.40\00:47:06.66
>>And in both instances this
loops back to where we began in
00:47:06.66\00:47:10.26
these conversations and that's
in both instances there relating
00:47:10.26\00:47:16.46
to their father as servants
because they have a fundamental
00:47:16.46\00:47:19.73
misconception of the
character of their father.
00:47:19.73\00:47:24.23
>>That's right.
00:47:24.23\00:47:25.06
>>Some how they
have a distortion.
00:47:25.06\00:47:28.40
A distorted view of him.
00:47:28.40\00:47:30.83
>>You know I was just sitting
back here taking in what you
00:47:30.83\00:47:33.60
guys were saying and I just
couldn't help but think about
00:47:33.60\00:47:35.90
something that's not in the
story but something that's very
00:47:35.90\00:47:38.06
real to us and we've talked
about it a little bit but I just
00:47:38.06\00:47:40.16
couldn't help think about
how life was after the son was
00:47:40.16\00:47:44.43
restored a week later, a month
later, a year later, ten years
00:47:44.43\00:47:47.80
later how life was as the father
begins to age and the son is
00:47:47.80\00:47:52.23
there in the home and every time
the son looks at the father and
00:47:52.23\00:47:56.80
every time the son does
something for the father and
00:47:56.80\00:47:59.63
every time the son is needed by
the father how he's just there,
00:47:59.63\00:48:02.76
there, there.
00:48:02.76\00:48:04.30
And I couldn't help I mean I
almost it almost brought tears
00:48:04.30\00:48:07.16
because I almost thought you
know the love and the devotion
00:48:07.16\00:48:09.63
that that son must have had
for his father from that day on.
00:48:09.63\00:48:13.36
And every time he looked at his
father he just felt and could
00:48:13.36\00:48:17.46
sense the love coming out from
him and then that love returning
00:48:17.46\00:48:20.46
back to him in this
circle of beneficence.
00:48:20.46\00:48:25.66
I might be putting you on the
spot Jeffry--way back like 9 or
00:48:25.66\00:48:30.20
10 conversations ago you had
this great little line about the
00:48:30.20\00:48:33.10
love of God communicated to
replicated in--do you remember
00:48:33.10\00:48:38.53
that by heart and
then reflected back do you?
00:48:38.53\00:48:41.26
>>Vaguely basically the whole
idea there was that the whole
00:48:41.26\00:48:43.83
purpose for God's creating this
world in humanity is for the
00:48:43.83\00:48:48.66
perfect love of God to be
manifested to people, replicated
00:48:48.66\00:48:55.56
in people and then
reflected back from people.
00:48:55.56\00:49:00.13
>>That's it.
00:49:00.13\00:49:00.86
That's it right there.
00:49:00.86\00:49:01.73
That's the picture
that came to my mind.
00:49:01.73\00:49:03.36
>>And those parables
you're mentioning you've said
00:49:03.36\00:49:06.90
already--you've stated already
that they basically represent
00:49:06.90\00:49:10.23
restoration--reinstatement.
00:49:10.23\00:49:11.73
And I'd like to go to Acts
chapter 3 because this is why we
00:49:11.73\00:49:16.43
preach.
00:49:16.43\00:49:19.76
This is why we preach in Acts
chapter 3 we've talked about the
00:49:19.76\00:49:22.50
spirit, we've talked about
the church and in Acts chapter
00:49:22.50\00:49:26.43
3--we're looking at verse 18 and
this is a statement that's right
00:49:26.43\00:49:33.60
in the middle of a sermon
that Peter is preaching and he's
00:49:33.60\00:49:36.63
making these statements in
regard to what is the point form
00:49:36.63\00:49:40.40
here on?
00:49:40.40\00:49:42.33
Christ has come Christ has been
crucified; he's been resurrected
00:49:42.33\00:49:45.16
verse 18 but those things which
God foretold by the mouth of all
00:49:45.16\00:49:50.03
his prophets that the
Christ would suffer he has thus
00:49:50.03\00:49:54.73
fulfilled.
00:49:54.73\00:49:56.20
Ok the covenant verse 19 repent
therefore and be converted that
00:49:56.20\00:50:00.13
your sins may be blotted out so
that the times of refreshing may
00:50:00.13\00:50:05.76
come from the presence of the
Lord and that he may send Jesus
00:50:05.76\00:50:09.36
Christ who was preached to you
before and here's the point in
00:50:09.36\00:50:13.96
verse 21 whom heaven must
receive until the times of
00:50:13.96\00:50:22.16
restoration of all things which
God has spoken by the mouth
00:50:22.16\00:50:26.63
of all his holy
prophets since the world began.
00:50:26.63\00:50:30.86
Peter is saying the whole
point of God's covenant is the
00:50:30.86\00:50:37.03
restoration of all things.
00:50:37.03\00:50:38.56
And this is the thing that
every prophet has proclaimed.
00:50:38.56\00:50:42.10
This is the message from
Genesis all the way through.
00:50:42.10\00:50:45.63
This is the message that every
prophet brought to God's people.
00:50:45.63\00:50:50.90
And this is basically
why we preach isn't it?
00:50:50.90\00:50:52.30
We're preaching basically
the kingdom of God and we're
00:50:52.30\00:50:55.46
inviting people into kingdom
living while their feet are
00:50:55.46\00:51:00.10
still planted on this earth.
00:51:00.10\00:51:01.86
So when Jesus came--remember the
statement the kingdom of heaven
00:51:01.86\00:51:05.16
is within you?
00:51:05.16\00:51:06.83
Remember that?
00:51:06.83\00:51:08.03
>>Of course.
00:51:08.03\00:51:09.30
>>We don't have to wait 'til we
get to heaven to begin to live
00:51:09.30\00:51:11.93
restoration living.
00:51:11.93\00:51:13.63
We're invited to the table to
live that right now I think one
00:51:13.63\00:51:16.66
old Baptist Preacher said
something like it's not a pie in
00:51:16.66\00:51:21.96
the sky bye and bye.
00:51:21.96\00:51:23.40
But a steak on the
plate while you wait.
00:51:23.40\00:51:26.30
Because we get to sample, we get
to taste this thing right now
00:51:26.30\00:51:30.43
while we're still on earth.
00:51:30.43\00:51:31.96
And the reason I'm in ministry
the reason I've given my heart
00:51:31.96\00:51:35.26
to the gospel and the reason
that I am just so thrilled to
00:51:35.26\00:51:39.26
just be a servant and a son is
because God has demonstrated a
00:51:39.26\00:51:45.73
better way.
00:51:45.73\00:51:47.43
God has invited us into a realm
of existence where I can learn
00:51:47.43\00:51:51.83
what it truly means to be human.
00:51:51.83\00:51:53.66
And that's a beautiful thing and
in Acts 3 Peter's saying that's
00:51:53.66\00:51:58.36
what the church is here for and
no wonder what happens in the
00:51:58.36\00:52:03.06
book of Acts is that this
simple, powerful, compelling,
00:52:03.06\00:52:05.66
clear message literally takes by
storm the entire Mediterranean
00:52:05.66\00:52:10.46
world.
00:52:10.46\00:52:11.46
>>Oh yeah.
00:52:11.46\00:52:12.70
>>In the context of Acts 3
the reason that Peter uses that
00:52:12.70\00:52:15.10
language, the restoration of all
things is that this lame man at
00:52:15.10\00:52:19.03
the beginning of
Acts 3 has been healed.
00:52:19.03\00:52:20.70
A lame man who was apparently
a particular--particularly
00:52:20.70\00:52:25.93
terrible case that needed
healing when he's been healed
00:52:25.93\00:52:30.20
they come and say did
you--what's going on here?
00:52:30.20\00:52:32.63
And they come under scrutiny
from the religious leaders and
00:52:32.63\00:52:35.10
in the context of the
restoration of this man.
00:52:35.10\00:52:38.40
Peter looks and says I'm
preaching to you the restoration
00:52:38.40\00:52:43.40
of all things.
00:52:43.40\00:52:44.86
>>Everything's going this way.
00:52:44.86\00:52:46.56
>>Everything is going this way.
00:52:46.56\00:52:47.86
>>He was a living
parable that crippled man.
00:52:47.86\00:52:50.63
>>That's right.
00:52:50.63\00:52:51.46
>>I never seen that before.
00:52:51.46\00:52:52.73
I'm preaching that.
00:52:52.73\00:52:53.93
[Laughter]
00:52:53.93\00:52:56.36
>>'Cause I've been
assigned that chapter.
00:52:56.36\00:52:59.70
He is a living parable.
00:52:59.70\00:53:01.73
>>According to this
program you already preached it.
00:53:01.73\00:53:05.23
>>That's true.
00:53:05.23\00:53:06.86
>>How did it go?
00:53:06.86\00:53:08.16
[Laughter]
00:53:08.16\00:53:10.00
>>I love this one verse Romans
chapter 14 verse 17 for the
00:53:10.00\00:53:12.66
kingdom is not meat and drink
but righteousness and joy in the
00:53:12.66\00:53:17.70
Holy Ghost.
00:53:17.70\00:53:18.93
All those things right
now in the Holy Spirit.
00:53:18.93\00:53:21.50
>>What was it you had a
great line there the feet on the
00:53:21.50\00:53:25.26
ground.
00:53:25.26\00:53:26.33
>>Kingdom living while
your feet are still planted.
00:53:26.33\00:53:28.93
>>And the restoration of
all things I like this two
00:53:28.93\00:53:33.03
Revelation 21--Revelation 22 we
go back to the prodigal, we see
00:53:33.03\00:53:36.80
the son reinstated,
he's given everything.
00:53:36.80\00:53:40.06
He is made I think he's put in
a position at least equal to but
00:53:40.06\00:53:45.00
it seems like better I mean
in a sense it seems like better.
00:53:45.00\00:53:47.40
I mean in a sense it seems like.
00:53:47.40\00:53:48.86
>>Of course.
00:53:48.86\00:53:50.00
>>His heart is changed so
>Yeah this is what we see in
00:53:50.00\00:53:51.60
Revelation 21.
00:53:51.60\00:53:52.60
This planet becomes
the center of the universe.
00:53:52.60\00:53:55.76
>>That's right.
00:53:55.76\00:53:57.03
>>Revelation 21 let me just read
it just a couple of verses here
00:53:57.03\00:53:58.93
Revelation 21 beginning with
verse 1 I saw a new heaven and a
00:53:58.93\00:54:02.46
new earth for the first heaven
and the first earth were passed
00:54:02.46\00:54:04.93
away.
00:54:04.93\00:54:06.13
There was no more sea and I
John saw the holy city the New
00:54:06.13\00:54:08.53
Jerusalem coming down from God
out of heaven where ever it is
00:54:08.53\00:54:13.00
right now prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.
00:54:13.00\00:54:16.76
And I heard a great voice
out of heaven saying behold the
00:54:16.76\00:54:19.83
tabernacle of God is with
man and he will dwell with the.
00:54:19.83\00:54:24.60
Isn't that what we've
been talking about from the
00:54:24.60\00:54:26.46
beginning.
00:54:26.46\00:54:27.60
Isn't that what God wanted
and they shall be his people
00:54:27.60\00:54:31.20
covenant and God himself shall
be with them and be their God.
00:54:31.20\00:54:34.46
>>I Love that.
00:54:34.46\00:54:35.50
That's beautiful.
00:54:35.50\00:54:36.66
>>That's the Eden-to-Eden
perspective right there man.
00:54:36.66\00:54:38.70
You're idea in Revelation and
now we're back face-to-face with
00:54:38.70\00:54:41.53
God.
00:54:41.53\00:54:42.80
We started face to face with God
Genesis 1 and 2, all hell breaks
00:54:42.80\00:54:45.50
lose, the fall of humanity,
this state of depravity and the
00:54:45.50\00:54:50.36
promise in Genesis 3:15 for the
coming deliverer and sandwiched
00:54:50.36\00:54:54.63
in between these two pictures
of Eden lost Eden restored.
00:54:54.63\00:54:58.93
>>God is trying to be with
us, be with us, be with us.
00:54:58.93\00:55:00.76
>> The entire Bible--the entire
Bible is journey of not man
00:55:00.76\00:55:04.10
seeking God but God seeking man.
00:55:04.10\00:55:07.36
>>Not sheep seeking a shepherd
but a shepherd seeking his
00:55:07.36\00:55:09.96
sheep.
00:55:09.96\00:55:10.73
>>There you go.
00:55:10.73\00:55:11.80
>>So the pentacle of the
restoration isn't just the
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material blessing of
heaven and eternal life and
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>>Secondary.
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>>Yeah the glorious New
Jerusalem, streets of Gold and
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the pearly
gates and all of that.
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That's not the point.
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The point is being with
God and God being with us.
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God is a with kind of God.
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He's a hang out kind of God.
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He's with it and he's with us
and at this point he's going to
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be with us in the most intimate
personal sense imaginable in
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verse 4 it says he's going to
wipe away all tears from their
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eyes and there will be no
more death or sorrow or crying.
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There shall be no more pain for
the former things have passed
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away then he who sat on the
throne said behold I make all
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things new.
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This is the kind of God if
we can imagine this almighty,
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omnipotent God.
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This is the kind of God who
reaches up his hand and brushes
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tears from cheeks.
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This is a super sensitive God
full of heart who is relational.
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He wants to be with us and the
first thing he's going to do in
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our immediate presence once the
New Jerusalem has come down to
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earth.
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There's gonna be some tears.
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>>Of course.
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>>We're obviously we're
overwhelmed by the entire
00:56:28.16\00:56:34.03
history of the sin problem and
evil and how it's impacted the
00:56:34.03\00:56:38.63
world and we've revisited during
the millennium all kinds of very
00:56:38.63\00:56:43.80
serious episodes in human
history that have impacted us
00:56:43.80\00:56:46.26
individually and he
wipes tears from our eyes.
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>>And what will wipe
the tears from his eyes?
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Just the fact of our presence.
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And that's powerful.
00:56:57.73\00:56:59.13
>>Enjoyed fellowship.
00:56:59.13\00:57:00.46
>>We wipe his tears.
00:57:00.46\00:57:03.13
>>We began this series by
talking a lot about the fall and
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Satan and the enemy and
the accuser and all of this
00:57:06.60\00:57:10.63
Revelation 21, 22 happens after
Revelation 20 where the accuser
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finally with all of those that
align themselves with him they
00:57:14.90\00:57:18.76
receive what they want.
00:57:18.76\00:57:22.16
That's the thing
that's important.
00:57:22.16\00:57:23.43
They want a life apart from God
but a life apart from God is no
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life.
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It's death.
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And so you have Revelation 20
is the end of Satan, the end of
00:57:28.90\00:57:31.60
sin, the end of death.
00:57:31.60\00:57:32.80
Death itself is
thrown into the lake of fire.
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>>Evil, pain,
suffering all of it.
00:57:36.20\00:57:38.20
>>No more and then Revelation
21, 22 some of those tears have
00:57:38.20\00:57:41.83
to be tears of joy.
00:57:41.83\00:57:43.93
>>Oh yeah for sure.
00:57:43.93\00:57:45.73
>>Because it's not the end.
00:57:45.73\00:57:47.13
It's funny how the end of
the Bible, the last book of the
00:57:47.13\00:57:50.53
Bible is the
beginning of the story.
00:57:50.53\00:57:52.30
>>The end is just the beginning.
00:57:52.30\00:57:54.53
What a way to live to know this
what a different paradigm now to
00:57:54.53\00:57:59.73
wake up tomorrow morning and to
just go about normal life with
00:57:59.73\00:58:04.10
this as the backdrop.
00:58:04.10\00:58:05.83
That's a beautiful thing.
00:58:05.83\00:58:07.30
>>Bottom line of this whole
series guys, this is where we
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land the plane.
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God is love in the most
beautiful sense imaginable.
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>>Amen
00:58:15.40\00:58:18.50
>>Hallelujah.
00:58:18.50\00:58:19.20
>>Praise God.
00:58:19.20\00:58:19.76
>>Love it.
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