diff --git "a/Sunday Worship October 10, 2021_transcript.txt" "b/Sunday Worship October 10, 2021_transcript.txt" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/Sunday Worship October 10, 2021_transcript.txt" @@ -0,0 +1,2952 @@ +[0.00 --> 3.28] Oh, Father. +[6.14 --> 12.88] Now I am yours, a former captive free. +[16.56 --> 22.00] Adopted, called your own, your family. +[22.00 --> 32.08] Now I am yours, a former captive free. +[32.84 --> 35.00] Thank you, thank you. +[36.12 --> 41.24] Adopted, called your own, your family. +[41.24 --> 51.32] Now I am yours, a former captive free. +[54.76 --> 60.46] Adopted, called your own, your family. +[63.46 --> 70.52] Now I am yours, a former captive free. +[71.24 --> 79.58] Oh, adopt, called your own, your family. +[82.70 --> 84.88] You are a father. +[87.68 --> 92.28] You are the God who sees. +[92.28 --> 100.24] Moved by compassion, you chose to be. +[100.24 --> 104.58] You are like no other. +[107.00 --> 109.58] Perfect in majesty. +[111.94 --> 113.66] Beauty's creator. +[113.66 --> 119.00] You're the God who sees. +[119.00 --> 122.74] You are the God who sees. +[122.74 --> 124.00] You are the God who sees. +[124.00 --> 124.94] You chose to be. +[124.94 --> 128.88] Now I am yours, a former captive free. +[128.88 --> 129.36] Yeah. +[129.36 --> 131.08] Oh, yeah. +[131.08 --> 137.18] Adopt and call your own, your family. +[140.48 --> 147.28] Now I am yours, a former captive free. +[150.88 --> 156.38] Adopt and call your own, your family. +[156.38 --> 161.78] You are the Father. +[164.36 --> 168.38] You are the God who sees. +[169.56 --> 171.32] Move by compassion. +[173.22 --> 176.92] You've chosen me. +[179.00 --> 181.20] You're like no other. +[181.20 --> 187.62] You're perfect in majesty. +[188.36 --> 190.56] Beauty's creator. +[193.10 --> 196.20] You've chosen me. +[196.20 --> 204.10] You've chosen. +[204.74 --> 207.94] You could have chosen a lot of things. +[208.40 --> 209.84] You chose me. +[211.44 --> 214.28] You could have had a lot of things. +[214.88 --> 216.46] You chose me. +[217.46 --> 218.20] You chose me. +[218.20 --> 219.10] You chose me. +[219.10 --> 220.52] Thank you, Jesus. +[220.82 --> 223.30] Who am I that you would choose? +[223.60 --> 225.38] I thank you, Father. +[226.80 --> 229.48] Oh, thank you, Father. +[230.84 --> 236.44] You chose us before the beginning of time. +[237.14 --> 238.90] You chose me. +[238.90 --> 247.04] You called us your own sons and daughters. +[251.18 --> 253.34] Now we are yours. +[254.16 --> 256.04] Oh, we are yours. +[256.92 --> 258.96] We are yours, Jesus. +[259.96 --> 261.68] Oh, we are yours, Father. +[261.68 --> 264.72] You purchased us at a high cost. +[265.34 --> 267.40] You've chosen me. +[270.14 --> 271.26] Come on, let's just say that again. +[271.34 --> 273.38] Now I am yours, a captive free. +[275.44 --> 281.68] And now I am yours, a former captive free. +[282.52 --> 284.14] Thank you, Father. +[284.14 --> 293.80] Come on, let's just declare it out. +[293.80 --> 293.84] Come on, let's just declare it out. +[294.90 --> 300.80] And now I am yours, a former captive free. +[302.08 --> 302.36] Oh. +[304.42 --> 304.80] And I am yours, a former captive free. +[304.80 --> 308.80] And I am yours, a former captive free. +[308.80 --> 309.80] Oh. +[309.80 --> 312.80] Oh, we are yours. +[312.80 --> 320.46] Now I am yours, a former captive free. +[320.46 --> 321.14] Oh. +[321.14 --> 322.94] Oh, we are yours. +[322.94 --> 323.64] Oh. +[323.64 --> 328.90] A dark day call your own, yours ever. +[328.90 --> 331.36] Oh, we are yours. +[331.36 --> 332.86] Oh. +[332.86 --> 338.54] And now I am yours, a former captive free. +[338.54 --> 339.80] Oh. +[339.80 --> 340.50] Oh. +[340.50 --> 353.62] You are a father. +[353.62 --> 361.06] You are the God who sings. +[361.54 --> 363.24] Moved by compassion. +[366.16 --> 368.48] You chose me. +[368.48 --> 373.48] You're like no other. +[375.76 --> 379.56] You're perfect in majesty. +[380.74 --> 382.40] Beauty's creator. +[385.34 --> 387.48] You chose me. +[389.48 --> 391.48] Beauty's creator. +[393.48 --> 396.48] You chose me. +[398.48 --> 400.64] cancelled. +[405.82 --> 406.64] Beauty's creator. +[406.64 --> 407.70] Water. +[410.16 --> 411.04] Beauty's creator. +[411.30 --> 414.30] b +[415.06 --> 417.42] beauty's creator. +[417.42 --> 419.00] U.S. +[419.00 --> 432.26] We're creation suddenly articulate +[432.26 --> 439.58] With a thousand tongues to lift one cry +[439.58 --> 447.46] Then from north to south and east to west +[447.46 --> 452.50] We'd hear Christ be magnified +[452.50 --> 462.26] Were the hold of echoing His imminent +[462.26 --> 469.24] His name would burst from sea and sky +[469.24 --> 477.48] And from riddles to the mountain tops +[477.48 --> 482.38] We'd hear Christ be magnified +[482.38 --> 486.28] Here we go now +[486.28 --> 487.56] Sing up! +[488.28 --> 492.42] And so Christ be magnified +[492.42 --> 496.04] Let His praise rise +[496.04 --> 501.08] Christ be magnified in me +[501.08 --> 505.76] And so Christ be magnified +[505.76 --> 509.10] From the altar of my life +[509.10 --> 514.88] Christ be magnified in me +[514.88 --> 525.64] When every creature finds its inmost melody +[525.64 --> 531.84] And every human heart is native +[531.84 --> 532.58] God +[532.58 --> 537.78] Of anyone in wrath +[537.78 --> 540.76] Should Him or praise +[540.76 --> 545.80] Will see Christ be magnified +[545.80 --> 547.80] Yes, this is what we're made to do, right? +[547.80 --> 550.30] We give you praise, Jesus +[550.30 --> 551.52] Come on! +[551.52 --> 556.02] And so Christ be magnified +[556.02 --> 559.30] Let His praise rise +[559.30 --> 564.10] Christ be magnified in me +[564.10 --> 569.14] And so Christ be magnified +[569.14 --> 570.14] And so Christ be magnified +[570.14 --> 572.14] From the altar of my life +[572.14 --> 577.14] Christ be magnified in me +[577.14 --> 581.14] I wanna be whole +[581.14 --> 583.14] I wanna be sanctified, Jesus +[583.14 --> 585.14] I wanna be sanctified, Jesus +[585.14 --> 587.14] Burning ye, Jesus +[587.14 --> 589.14] Burning ye, Jesus +[589.14 --> 594.18] I won't bow to idols +[594.18 --> 597.18] I'll stand strong and worship you +[597.18 --> 600.68] And if it puts me in the fire +[600.68 --> 604.18] I'll rejoice, cause you're there too +[604.18 --> 606.18] I won't be... +[606.18 --> 608.18] I won't be... +[608.18 --> 610.18] I won't be... +[610.18 --> 612.18] I won't be... +[612.18 --> 614.18] I won't be... +[614.18 --> 616.18] I won't be... +[616.18 --> 625.46] Hindi,an +[625.46 --> 626.28] talking once +[626.28 --> 628.50] deja pym Sweat +[628.50 --> 631.02] Já cisk +[631.02 --> 632.78] Das kinn +[632.78 --> 634.30] him +[634.30 --> 635.86] Yang +[635.86 --> 638.54] Beз +[638.54 --> 640.50] isini +[642.50 --> 642.70] Las +[642.70 --> 644.98] Prạt +[644.98 --> 645.98] Amen. +[674.98 --> 676.98] Amen. +[704.98 --> 706.98] Amen. +[734.98 --> 736.98] Amen. +[764.98 --> 766.98] Amen. +[794.98 --> 796.98] Amen. +[824.98 --> 830.70] As we celebrate Thanksgiving together, we're going to do that here with a worship service. +[830.88 --> 837.00] And so everyone is invited to participate in our worship tomorrow at 10 a.m. here in +[837.00 --> 838.28] person or online. +[838.40 --> 846.36] You can join us in that way as we give thanks to God for his many blessings and also as +[846.36 --> 850.04] we trust in his provision for the future. +[850.76 --> 854.90] And so even if this past year has not seemed like one full of blessing, +[855.48 --> 861.94] we come in faith, trusting that God will provide as we go into the remainder of this year. +[863.16 --> 866.76] Also, there is an announcement for the Young Adults group. +[867.64 --> 874.28] Young Adults, you have the final event of the Tri-Church tournament coming up next week, Saturday. +[874.98 --> 879.58] And so that's going to be a corn maze, and Josh wants you to know that it's going to be muddy. +[880.76 --> 888.12] And so wear appropriate footwear and pants and the like, and be prepared to do that. +[888.16 --> 891.22] As far as I know, our church is in second place right now, +[891.34 --> 894.44] and I just want to encourage you to bring home that trophy. +[895.66 --> 900.74] We need to start this Tri-Church tournament thing off with a win. +[902.38 --> 907.20] Also, for the Young Adults, and this is for everyone, but connected to the Young Adults ministry, +[907.20 --> 914.22] again this year, we want to be able to send care packages out to the young adults in our midst +[914.22 --> 919.54] who are away at university, or college, or in trade school, +[919.60 --> 922.60] and so have left our community here and gone somewhere else. +[922.60 --> 927.60] We want to bless them with a care package gift as exam season approaches. +[928.68 --> 935.54] Now, it seems early for that, but we want to mail them, and so we have to take some time to do that. +[935.62 --> 941.66] And so please, either as a family or an individual or a care group or something like that, +[941.76 --> 948.46] consider how you can bless one of our young adults who is away at school with a feeling of family. +[948.46 --> 954.62] And so we send a shoebox-ish sized package to them full of about $50 worth of stuff, +[954.80 --> 960.32] although if our last attempt at this $50 was a suggestion and you all just ignored it. +[961.10 --> 963.42] And so we're grateful for your blessing in that way. +[963.46 --> 967.50] But if you want to participate in that, it's going to be first come, first serve. +[968.06 --> 970.34] And so talk to Josh Chamberlain. +[970.40 --> 973.46] You can email him or text him or DM him on Instagram, +[973.46 --> 977.54] and he will get you in the queue for that. +[978.94 --> 981.86] Standing together, we are the church family of God, +[981.90 --> 985.84] and we come to worship him as he gathers us in his presence. +[985.94 --> 991.60] So I invite you to receive, then, the greeting of our good God. +[993.10 --> 996.76] Grace, mercy, and peace to you. +[997.20 --> 1001.12] From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, his Son and our Savior, +[1001.12 --> 1004.60] through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. +[1005.30 --> 1005.94] Everyone said? +[1006.94 --> 1007.46] Amen. +[1010.94 --> 1013.60] In Exodus 15, we read, +[1014.56 --> 1018.42] I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. +[1019.28 --> 1021.48] The Lord is my strength and my defense. +[1022.12 --> 1023.98] He has become my salvation. +[1025.20 --> 1027.46] He is my God, and I will praise him, +[1027.68 --> 1030.80] my Father's God, and I will exalt him. +[1031.92 --> 1033.64] Who among gods is like you, Lord? +[1034.72 --> 1035.78] Who is like you? +[1036.58 --> 1041.24] Majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? +[1042.84 --> 1046.58] Let's sing together of the goodness and greatness of our God. +[1046.58 --> 1047.04] flute andancer home. +[1047.04 --> 1054.96] incoming +[1054.96 --> 1055.42] ogday +[1055.42 --> 1056.42] Amen. +[1085.42 --> 1087.42] Amen. +[1115.42 --> 1117.42] Amen. +[1145.42 --> 1147.42] Amen. +[1175.42 --> 1177.42] Amen. +[1205.42 --> 1207.42] Amen. +[1235.42 --> 1237.42] Amen. +[1265.42 --> 1267.42] Amen. +[1295.42 --> 1296.42] Amen. +[1325.42 --> 1327.42] Amen. +[1355.42 --> 1357.42] Amen. +[1385.42 --> 1387.42] Amen. +[1415.42 --> 1417.42] Amen. +[1445.42 --> 1447.42] Amen. +[1475.42 --> 1477.42] Amen. +[1505.42 --> 1507.42] Amen. +[1535.42 --> 1536.42] Amen. +[1536.42 --> 1537.42] Amen. +[1537.42 --> 1538.42] Amen. +[1538.42 --> 1539.42] Amen. +[1539.42 --> 1540.42] Amen. +[1540.42 --> 1541.42] Amen. +[1541.42 --> 1542.42] Amen. +[1542.42 --> 1544.42] Amen. +[1544.42 --> 1545.42] Amen. +[1545.42 --> 1547.42] Amen. +[1547.42 --> 1549.42] Amen. +[1549.42 --> 1552.42] Amen. +[1552.42 --> 1557.42] Amen. +[1557.42 --> 1563.32] We continue our worship by the giving of our gifts in gratitude with us for our +[1563.32 --> 1568.06] in gratitude and thankfulness to the Lord for his blessings. +[1569.02 --> 1574.32] For the church budget, which covers the administration of the church and its ministries, +[1574.90 --> 1578.54] and the special offering today is for the Langley Food Bank. +[1579.40 --> 1584.80] The Langley Food Bank is a very effective voice in preaching the gospel to the poor +[1584.80 --> 1590.50] through the good works of its volunteers because actions speak louder than words. +[1590.50 --> 1596.04] Actions will often create the pathway for the words to be heard. +[1596.90 --> 1601.58] God's call to the church is to identify with the poor, the weak, the vulnerable, +[1601.94 --> 1605.70] and to invest our time, energy, and money into serving them. +[1606.52 --> 1614.40] The long-term objective of the Langley Food Bank is to effect lasting transformation in the lives of the clients, +[1614.70 --> 1619.20] to bring them from a life of poverty to a life of productivity and hope. +[1619.20 --> 1627.78] They recognize the absolute need for the intervention and work of the Holy Spirit as crucial to this process, +[1628.28 --> 1635.88] as well as the vital necessity for a new and ongoing relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ, his Son. +[1637.02 --> 1644.36] The Langley Food Bank Society operates two food banks, one here in Langley and one in Aldergrove. +[1644.36 --> 1650.54] The offering for the Thanksgiving service tomorrow will also be for the Langley Food Bank, +[1650.94 --> 1657.62] and you are encouraged to bring items to church that have been listed as most needed by the food bank +[1657.62 --> 1662.28] in the lists provided in the bulletins over the last two to three weeks. +[1662.28 --> 1666.44] Jesus answered the young man, +[1666.44 --> 1671.54] If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, +[1672.06 --> 1673.80] and you will have treasure in heaven. +[1674.50 --> 1675.90] Then come, follow me. +[1676.52 --> 1678.34] Matthew 19, verse 21. +[1679.72 --> 1686.16] Next week's offering is for the church budget and refugee chaplain, Dina Nikolai. +[1686.16 --> 1701.76] To their generation, Dina Nikolai 1999, Dina Nikolai, Dina Nik Virgin coseancy, Dina Nikolai vice Cinema Peace +[1701.76 --> 1705.68] みたいな Jew Covid館uni US kingdom. +[1706.02 --> 1709.98] In 2013 Thessма 조د, here general chbags and military chaplain, Dina Nikolai. +[1709.98 --> 1739.96] I will sing. +[1739.98 --> 1769.96] I will sing. +[1769.98 --> 1799.96] I will sing. +[1799.98 --> 1829.96] I will sing. +[1829.96 --> 1832.74] Your goodness is running out. +[1832.88 --> 1834.96] It's running out to me. +[1836.10 --> 1838.96] Your goodness is running out. +[1839.26 --> 1841.38] It's running out to me. +[1841.38 --> 1846.38] Your goodness is running out. +[1846.38 --> 1847.38] It's running out to me. +[1847.38 --> 1848.38] I will sing. +[1848.38 --> 1849.38] I will sing. +[1849.38 --> 1853.38] I will sing. +[1853.38 --> 1854.38] I will sing. +[1854.38 --> 1855.38] I will sing. +[1855.38 --> 1857.36] Our Father has come +[1857.36 --> 1859.94] And we can experience +[1860.30 --> 1864.96] A love was Apple +[1865.24 --> 1867.64] umer vein +[1867.64 --> 1870.98] Our Father has come +[1871.08 --> 1873.36] And I can if it could +[1873.36 --> 1876.98] And we can experience +[1877.46 --> 1879.56] etc. +[1881.00 --> 1883.44] Our Father has come +[1883.96 --> 1885.32] And I can experience +[1885.32 --> 1887.32] Amen. +[1915.32 --> 1917.32] Amen. +[1945.32 --> 1947.32] Amen. +[1947.32 --> 1949.32] Amen. +[1975.32 --> 1977.32] Come on, everybody. +[1985.32 --> 1987.32] How's everyone doing this morning? +[1987.32 --> 1990.32] It's a little bit of a special weekend this weekend. +[1990.32 --> 1991.32] Does anybody know what it's about? +[1991.32 --> 1993.32] What's up? +[1993.32 --> 1995.32] Thanksgiving. +[1995.32 --> 1999.32] Is everybody having a family kind of dinner today or this weekend? +[1999.32 --> 2000.32] Yeah? +[2000.32 --> 2002.32] You did yesterday? +[2002.32 --> 2003.32] Right on. +[2003.32 --> 2008.32] So this morning we're going to do a video and we got someone in the church, +[2008.32 --> 2011.32] I actually don't even know who, put together a nice video for Thanksgiving. +[2011.32 --> 2016.32] And I want to see if you guys watch closely and see if you show up on that video. +[2016.32 --> 2017.32] Can you do that? +[2017.32 --> 2018.32] And then after that we'll do the blessing. +[2018.32 --> 2019.32] Sound good? +[2019.32 --> 2020.32] Let's do it. +[2020.32 --> 2021.32] Let's roll it. +[2021.32 --> 2022.32] Let's go. +[2022.32 --> 2023.32] Thank you. +[2023.32 --> 2024.32] More fun. +[2024.32 --> 2034.32] I'm thankful for family food and fields. +[2034.32 --> 2035.32] We're great. +[2035.32 --> 2036.32] We're thankful. +[2036.32 --> 2037.32] Thank you. +[2037.32 --> 2039.32] We're being so grateful for our kids. +[2039.32 --> 2044.32] I'm thankful to God for sports and sports. +[2044.32 --> 2051.32] I'm thankful for my family and pets, going to school, and cream cheese. +[2051.32 --> 2053.32] Mmmmm! +[2053.32 --> 2059.32] I'm thankful for buddies, Lego, Mommy, Daddy, and my school. +[2059.32 --> 2061.32] Thank God for my family. +[2061.32 --> 2065.32] I thank my God for my life. +[2065.32 --> 2070.32] I'm thankful to God for my family and my cat. +[2070.32 --> 2075.32] I'm thankful for God so that I can hug my plants. +[2075.32 --> 2081.32] And I'm thankful for that I can hug my, I love my Jesus. +[2081.32 --> 2089.32] I am thankful for my family and my friends and my pets. +[2089.32 --> 2093.32] I am also thankful for food and water. +[2095.32 --> 2101.32] I'm thankful for God for going to handwetting. +[2101.32 --> 2105.32] I thank you and show my mommy. +[2105.32 --> 2108.32] And what else are you thankful for? +[2108.32 --> 2112.32] I'm thankful for everything in the sky. +[2112.32 --> 2122.32] I'm thankful for my family and when I do karate. +[2122.32 --> 2126.32] I'm thankful for my friends at school and for reading. +[2126.32 --> 2132.32] I'm thankful for my family and for hockey. +[2132.32 --> 2136.32] I'm thankful for both airplanes and trains. +[2136.32 --> 2137.32] Mommy! +[2137.32 --> 2138.32] Whoa! +[2138.32 --> 2139.32] Kay! +[2139.32 --> 2140.32] You hate mommy! +[2140.32 --> 2141.32] Mommy! +[2141.32 --> 2142.32] Papa! +[2142.32 --> 2143.32] Grandpa! +[2143.32 --> 2144.32] Grandpa! +[2144.32 --> 2145.32] Grandma! +[2145.32 --> 2146.32] Papa! +[2146.32 --> 2147.32] Papa! +[2147.32 --> 2148.32] Grandma! +[2148.32 --> 2149.32] Dad! +[2149.32 --> 2163.32] I'm thankful for food and for my mom and I am thankful for the world. +[2163.32 --> 2164.32] I'm thankful for my puppy Theo. +[2164.32 --> 2165.32] He's my little doggy. +[2165.32 --> 2166.32] All right. +[2166.32 --> 2167.32] That was fantastic. +[2167.32 --> 2169.32] Now we can stand up everyone and we're gonna do the blessing right now. +[2169.32 --> 2174.32] We can face, let's face that way. +[2174.32 --> 2175.32] All right. +[2175.32 --> 2176.32] Hands ready. +[2176.32 --> 2177.32] The Lord. +[2177.32 --> 2178.32] And also with you. +[2178.32 --> 2179.32] All right. +[2179.32 --> 2180.32] Let's go. +[2180.32 --> 2181.32] Go. +[2181.32 --> 2182.32] And go. +[2182.32 --> 2183.32] Thank you for the cause of the story of the world. +[2183.32 --> 2184.32] In the name of God. +[2184.32 --> 2185.32] Thank you. +[2185.32 --> 2186.32] I'm thankful for the Lord. +[2186.32 --> 2187.32] I'm thankful for the love of God. +[2187.32 --> 2189.32] There's a great day of the love of God. +[2189.32 --> 2190.32] All right. +[2190.32 --> 2191.32] That was fantastic. +[2191.32 --> 2194.32] Now we can stand up everyone and we're gonna do the blessing right now. +[2194.32 --> 2195.32] We can face, let's face that way. +[2195.32 --> 2196.80] and also with you. +[2225.32 --> 2234.06] It was such a lovable thing. +[2236.56 --> 2239.68] Everybody, oh, apparently it is a thing. +[2241.88 --> 2247.20] We are going to come to God in our church family prayer together, +[2248.20 --> 2251.26] and I'm going to lead us in that. +[2251.26 --> 2258.58] And in addition to some of the things that you've already seen in the e-bulletin, +[2258.66 --> 2262.98] if you receive that, we are going to pray. +[2264.30 --> 2269.36] Specifically, there are a number of families who are currently +[2269.36 --> 2272.12] and directly being touched by COVID, +[2272.58 --> 2277.48] and some of them have chosen to keep that anonymous, +[2277.70 --> 2280.34] and of course we understand that, but we want to pray for that. +[2280.34 --> 2285.84] And we know that many of us here know who these people might be +[2285.84 --> 2288.56] and have that in our own families and life together. +[2288.68 --> 2293.24] And so being mindful of the struggles and the difficulties of all of that, +[2293.32 --> 2297.32] we want to lift those people up in our prayer together. +[2298.08 --> 2303.04] In addition to our prayer, we will be giving thanks with Frank and Sylvia +[2303.04 --> 2307.26] for the marriage of their daughter Cheryl to her now husband Kyle, +[2307.26 --> 2309.32] which took place in the church here on Friday, +[2309.42 --> 2312.94] and that's where you see these beautiful flowers are left over from that. +[2313.06 --> 2315.96] And so we celebrate with them, and we give thanks to God for that. +[2316.18 --> 2318.88] Would you join your heart with me in prayer together? +[2318.88 --> 2327.24] Holy God and Heavenly Father, +[2327.88 --> 2330.60] we come before you in prayer. +[2331.36 --> 2333.56] We come to you, +[2334.96 --> 2337.80] acknowledging that you alone are sovereign God, +[2337.94 --> 2340.98] that you alone rule o'er all the earth, +[2341.12 --> 2345.34] that by your word we live and move and have our being. +[2345.34 --> 2350.26] And so we come now asking you to speak that word, +[2350.40 --> 2352.92] asking you to be at work in the world, +[2353.10 --> 2356.32] asking you to meet us here +[2356.32 --> 2364.34] so that, Lord God, we can know your presence. +[2365.08 --> 2367.24] We can know your nearness. +[2367.24 --> 2373.56] God, we come into your presence as a people in great need. +[2374.30 --> 2376.34] We look around the world and we see +[2376.34 --> 2381.90] the seeming reign and rule of chaos and disorder. +[2383.98 --> 2388.84] See the challenges that exist to your sovereignty. +[2388.84 --> 2395.32] And so God, we pray for places like Afghanistan +[2395.32 --> 2399.62] and the struggle that is taking place there, +[2399.74 --> 2400.92] the Taliban in power, +[2401.10 --> 2402.88] and then also now conflicting with ISIS +[2402.88 --> 2405.68] and improvised explosive devices +[2405.68 --> 2408.86] going off in mosques and in markets. +[2409.72 --> 2414.10] We pray for the turmoil of the people who are living there, +[2414.20 --> 2416.68] asking that you would bring peace. +[2416.68 --> 2420.60] We pray, Lord God, for the measures +[2420.60 --> 2423.74] that we as global citizens have taken +[2423.74 --> 2428.14] to provide that with UN workers +[2428.14 --> 2430.96] and the presence on the ground. +[2431.14 --> 2435.56] We pray that you would provide a measure of stability. +[2437.66 --> 2439.66] And yet, God, we know that there will be an impact, +[2439.80 --> 2442.78] especially on women that live in Afghanistan. +[2442.78 --> 2446.70] And so we pray for them and for their safety +[2446.70 --> 2450.04] and their ability to thrive in society. +[2451.52 --> 2457.78] We pray, too, for the currently verbal +[2458.48 --> 2462.98] but also accelerating tensions of China and Taiwan. +[2463.84 --> 2467.66] Pray, Lord God, that cooler heads +[2467.66 --> 2470.00] and wisdom would prevail there +[2470.00 --> 2473.56] even as we hear the threats of violence. +[2475.10 --> 2478.92] Pray, Lord, that you would move in power +[2478.92 --> 2481.64] through different agents and agencies +[2481.64 --> 2486.06] to help restore peace and calm +[2486.06 --> 2487.70] and wisdom to that region. +[2487.70 --> 2493.84] Lord our God, as we come closer to home, +[2493.98 --> 2496.02] we know that we have our own struggles here, +[2496.06 --> 2497.54] not just with COVID +[2497.54 --> 2502.28] and the effects of that on the economy +[2502.28 --> 2503.04] and the lives. +[2503.16 --> 2504.48] And we hear stories of +[2504.48 --> 2509.04] even as the government releases job reports +[2509.04 --> 2511.72] that seem good and we've added more jobs +[2511.72 --> 2513.56] and we've returned to pre-pandemic levels +[2513.56 --> 2514.06] of employment. +[2514.58 --> 2516.74] We know that here on the ground +[2516.74 --> 2517.84] there is still impact, +[2518.02 --> 2520.54] that business people are talking about +[2520.54 --> 2521.90] how their businesses are affected, +[2522.00 --> 2524.30] their employees are not able to come in +[2524.30 --> 2526.96] or places have to shut down. +[2527.78 --> 2530.10] And so in the midst of all of this, Lord God, +[2530.18 --> 2533.42] we come to you asking for healing, +[2533.68 --> 2535.36] asking for peace, +[2535.36 --> 2538.36] asking that you would move in power. +[2538.36 --> 2544.10] Likewise, God, as we have received an offering here +[2544.10 --> 2545.38] for the Langley Food Bank, +[2545.48 --> 2546.76] we pray for their work. +[2546.98 --> 2548.84] We pray for our community +[2548.84 --> 2551.46] and those who rely on the food bank +[2551.46 --> 2553.00] and other social services +[2553.00 --> 2556.20] to provide just the bare necessities of life. +[2557.34 --> 2559.06] Pray that you would use us +[2559.06 --> 2561.88] in our relative wealth +[2561.88 --> 2563.56] and in our actual wealth +[2563.56 --> 2566.30] to provide and to come alongside +[2566.30 --> 2567.36] in those places. +[2567.36 --> 2570.70] And not just with gifts of our treasures +[2570.70 --> 2572.90] and our excess or abundance, +[2573.06 --> 2573.64] but Lord God, +[2573.76 --> 2577.78] with sacrificial presence and giving. +[2579.48 --> 2582.98] Allow us to reveal your kingdom come +[2582.98 --> 2585.66] and your kingdom coming here in Langley +[2585.66 --> 2587.92] and through that work in the world. +[2590.30 --> 2592.14] Father, we pray then for the mission +[2592.14 --> 2593.70] and ministry of our church +[2593.70 --> 2594.80] here at Langley Emmanuel. +[2594.80 --> 2597.60] We thank you for the running +[2597.60 --> 2599.50] and the starting of programs, +[2599.62 --> 2601.68] some of which haven't been running +[2601.68 --> 2602.88] for a couple of years +[2602.88 --> 2606.70] because of our pandemic response +[2606.70 --> 2608.10] and the realities around that. +[2608.16 --> 2609.24] We thank you that those things +[2609.24 --> 2611.58] are coming back and starting up. +[2611.68 --> 2615.58] And so we pray for the GEMS and Cadets programs. +[2615.72 --> 2617.78] We pray for the Children's Worship Times programs +[2617.78 --> 2619.12] and the Coffee Break ministries. +[2619.12 --> 2620.62] We pray, Lord God, +[2620.70 --> 2622.84] for different care groups +[2622.84 --> 2625.16] and the Seniors Alive group +[2625.16 --> 2627.60] and the Men's Meeting group. +[2627.80 --> 2630.50] We pray for all of these ministries and places, +[2630.70 --> 2631.92] all of these opportunities, +[2632.20 --> 2634.44] and there's so many, many more +[2634.44 --> 2635.94] that you have us doing, +[2636.38 --> 2637.70] asking that you would bless them, +[2638.66 --> 2639.04] keep them. +[2639.04 --> 2642.36] Father God, we give you thanks +[2642.36 --> 2643.16] for those times +[2643.16 --> 2644.72] that we can see you at work +[2644.72 --> 2646.00] in the world so clearly. +[2647.32 --> 2649.54] And we pray that you would use those times +[2649.54 --> 2652.10] to give us hope and faith +[2652.10 --> 2653.74] for when we cannot see, +[2655.02 --> 2656.78] that we might endure faithfully +[2656.78 --> 2660.42] even as we go forward blindly, +[2661.42 --> 2664.30] even as we now see through a glass darkly. +[2664.30 --> 2666.40] We pray that our response +[2666.40 --> 2669.84] would be intentional and devoted to you. +[2671.60 --> 2673.58] God, we give you thanks as well +[2673.58 --> 2675.12] with Frank and Sylvia +[2675.12 --> 2678.60] and the celebration of Cheryl and Kyle's wedding. +[2679.32 --> 2682.72] We pray that you would bless Cheryl and Kyle +[2682.72 --> 2683.56] in their marriage, +[2683.66 --> 2685.98] that you would bless Frank and Sylvia +[2685.98 --> 2686.90] and their family +[2686.90 --> 2689.08] and in the celebrations that can happen. +[2689.18 --> 2689.80] And Lord God, +[2689.86 --> 2691.78] that you would bless us all +[2691.78 --> 2693.88] in relationships +[2693.88 --> 2696.56] and the establishing of relationships +[2696.56 --> 2699.02] in our families and life together. +[2701.62 --> 2703.02] God, we know as well +[2703.02 --> 2705.44] that there are many struggles +[2705.44 --> 2707.24] in our community. +[2708.88 --> 2712.18] Today, we mourn with Joanne and Willie. +[2713.62 --> 2715.72] They are remembering +[2715.72 --> 2718.04] and struggling through the death +[2718.04 --> 2720.12] of their nephew, Ryan. +[2720.12 --> 2722.38] We know that he had +[2722.38 --> 2724.28] a long struggle with cancer, +[2724.92 --> 2726.68] that he was just 33 years old, +[2726.74 --> 2727.92] that he leaves behind a wife +[2727.92 --> 2728.88] and three young children. +[2729.98 --> 2731.90] We pray that you would be near to them +[2731.90 --> 2732.70] in their grief. +[2734.12 --> 2735.60] We thank you for their faith. +[2736.50 --> 2737.66] We thank you for the testimony +[2737.66 --> 2740.64] that we heard from Sonia. +[2741.42 --> 2742.76] But we pray, Lord God, +[2742.82 --> 2743.76] that you would continue +[2743.76 --> 2745.04] to draw near to them, +[2746.24 --> 2748.64] continue to gather them up +[2748.64 --> 2750.26] in your loving heart +[2750.26 --> 2751.18] in this time. +[2753.54 --> 2755.22] God, we continue in prayer +[2755.22 --> 2756.36] for the Spa family +[2756.36 --> 2758.34] as they too mourn +[2758.34 --> 2760.02] the loss of Deb. +[2761.14 --> 2762.08] We pray, Lord God, +[2762.20 --> 2764.28] for Peter and for the kids +[2764.28 --> 2765.56] and for their +[2765.56 --> 2767.72] now adjusting +[2767.72 --> 2769.58] to a new way +[2769.58 --> 2770.76] of life +[2770.76 --> 2772.00] and living together +[2772.00 --> 2772.92] without a wife, +[2773.04 --> 2774.06] without a mom. +[2774.06 --> 2776.78] God, some of us +[2776.78 --> 2777.54] can't imagine +[2777.54 --> 2779.00] the trials +[2779.00 --> 2779.94] and the difficulty +[2779.94 --> 2780.64] and the hardship +[2780.64 --> 2781.18] of that. +[2782.14 --> 2782.86] Some of us +[2782.86 --> 2783.94] know it all too well. +[2785.60 --> 2786.80] So we come together, +[2786.92 --> 2787.20] Lord God, +[2787.24 --> 2788.28] as a church family +[2788.28 --> 2790.20] asking that you would +[2790.20 --> 2791.70] draw us near, +[2791.82 --> 2792.94] asking that you would +[2792.94 --> 2795.14] bless those +[2795.14 --> 2796.24] who mourn, +[2797.24 --> 2798.56] that you would allow us +[2798.56 --> 2799.82] to mourn +[2799.82 --> 2801.14] with them together, +[2801.14 --> 2802.50] to enter into that +[2802.50 --> 2805.00] valley of the shadow +[2805.00 --> 2805.64] of death +[2805.64 --> 2806.66] together. +[2809.80 --> 2810.82] God, we want to pray +[2810.82 --> 2811.88] for those whom we know +[2811.88 --> 2812.56] who are +[2812.56 --> 2814.38] indeed struggling +[2814.38 --> 2815.56] with COVID, +[2815.72 --> 2816.30] especially those +[2816.30 --> 2817.34] who are in hospital. +[2817.50 --> 2818.18] We pray for +[2818.18 --> 2819.16] Martin, +[2819.48 --> 2820.16] Karen's dad, +[2820.24 --> 2820.84] as he remains +[2820.84 --> 2821.56] in the ICU +[2821.56 --> 2822.56] on life support. +[2824.32 --> 2825.16] God, it gets +[2825.16 --> 2828.34] hard when we don't +[2828.34 --> 2828.82] have answers +[2828.82 --> 2829.48] and when we don't +[2829.48 --> 2831.74] see treatment +[2831.74 --> 2832.16] working. +[2832.72 --> 2833.40] And so we pray +[2833.40 --> 2834.50] for your healing +[2834.50 --> 2835.56] in this circumstance. +[2835.82 --> 2836.36] We pray for +[2836.36 --> 2837.66] peace. +[2837.92 --> 2838.70] We pray for +[2838.70 --> 2839.60] your strength. +[2839.76 --> 2840.12] We pray, +[2840.34 --> 2840.74] Lord God, +[2840.82 --> 2842.06] that you would +[2842.06 --> 2843.32] provide what only +[2843.32 --> 2844.38] you can provide. +[2845.86 --> 2847.52] Even when we rely +[2847.52 --> 2848.96] on medical technologies, +[2849.14 --> 2849.98] even when we +[2849.98 --> 2851.30] have hope +[2851.30 --> 2852.28] in procedures, +[2852.50 --> 2853.40] we know that it is +[2853.40 --> 2854.38] you who work +[2854.38 --> 2855.48] in and through them. +[2855.56 --> 2856.60] And so work here +[2856.60 --> 2857.58] for Martin. +[2858.82 --> 2860.38] God, we know +[2860.38 --> 2861.18] that you can work +[2861.18 --> 2861.96] and so we give you +[2861.96 --> 2864.36] thanks in the life +[2864.36 --> 2865.20] of Patrick +[2865.20 --> 2865.96] that we have seen +[2865.96 --> 2866.46] that work +[2866.46 --> 2867.72] and his struggle +[2867.72 --> 2869.30] with COVID +[2869.30 --> 2870.96] and his hospitalization +[2870.96 --> 2872.62] and his many weeks +[2872.62 --> 2874.58] on the ventilator. +[2875.14 --> 2875.74] We thank you +[2875.74 --> 2876.32] and celebrate +[2876.32 --> 2877.02] with Sarah +[2877.02 --> 2877.88] and their family +[2877.88 --> 2878.92] the news +[2878.92 --> 2880.34] that he is now +[2880.34 --> 2880.86] stable +[2880.86 --> 2882.56] and in good care +[2882.56 --> 2884.08] and good spirits. +[2884.22 --> 2884.62] We pray, +[2884.88 --> 2885.28] Lord God, +[2885.36 --> 2887.18] for continued stories +[2887.18 --> 2887.92] like that. +[2889.04 --> 2889.58] Thank you +[2889.58 --> 2890.14] that his wife, +[2890.28 --> 2890.50] Kate, +[2890.62 --> 2891.32] was able to meet +[2891.32 --> 2891.68] with him +[2891.68 --> 2892.94] and to hold hands +[2892.94 --> 2893.30] with him +[2893.30 --> 2893.78] and to speak +[2893.78 --> 2894.18] with him. +[2895.30 --> 2895.88] And with Sarah, +[2895.98 --> 2896.22] God, +[2896.26 --> 2897.30] we pray that you +[2897.30 --> 2898.44] would continue +[2898.44 --> 2900.34] to be near them. +[2903.34 --> 2903.74] God, +[2903.76 --> 2904.54] we know as well +[2904.54 --> 2907.36] that there are +[2907.36 --> 2909.36] members of our +[2909.36 --> 2909.98] church family +[2909.98 --> 2911.82] and really young +[2911.82 --> 2912.68] members of our +[2912.68 --> 2913.32] church family +[2913.32 --> 2915.00] who have COVID +[2915.00 --> 2916.14] or have COVID +[2916.14 --> 2916.94] in their classrooms +[2916.94 --> 2917.72] and are affected +[2917.72 --> 2918.80] by this now +[2918.80 --> 2919.76] having to be +[2919.76 --> 2920.98] at home again +[2920.98 --> 2921.80] for a period +[2921.80 --> 2922.36] of time +[2922.36 --> 2923.32] through digital +[2923.32 --> 2923.68] learning. +[2924.42 --> 2925.24] We pray, +[2925.42 --> 2925.78] Lord God, +[2925.82 --> 2926.46] that you would +[2926.46 --> 2928.02] bring healing +[2928.02 --> 2929.10] to each +[2929.10 --> 2930.24] and every person +[2930.24 --> 2930.88] here affected. +[2932.24 --> 2933.00] We pray, +[2933.12 --> 2933.48] Lord God, +[2933.54 --> 2934.26] for the families +[2934.26 --> 2935.10] that surround +[2935.10 --> 2936.14] those who are +[2936.14 --> 2937.34] sick and unwell +[2937.34 --> 2938.34] give them +[2938.34 --> 2939.10] what they need. +[2939.70 --> 2940.66] We pray for the +[2940.66 --> 2941.12] many ways +[2941.12 --> 2941.52] that that will +[2941.52 --> 2942.28] affect the rest +[2942.28 --> 2942.92] of life +[2942.92 --> 2943.74] and work +[2943.74 --> 2944.96] and being +[2944.96 --> 2945.44] together, +[2945.56 --> 2946.18] especially this +[2946.18 --> 2947.04] Thanksgiving weekend +[2947.04 --> 2948.32] when we had +[2948.32 --> 2949.22] so many hopes +[2949.22 --> 2949.92] and dreams +[2949.92 --> 2950.76] and plans +[2950.76 --> 2952.12] to be gathered +[2952.12 --> 2953.32] as families. +[2955.58 --> 2956.10] God, +[2956.14 --> 2956.52] in the midst +[2956.52 --> 2957.02] of this, +[2957.28 --> 2958.12] we know +[2958.12 --> 2958.94] the unique +[2958.94 --> 2960.00] impact it's +[2960.00 --> 2960.76] having on those +[2960.76 --> 2961.40] who work in +[2961.40 --> 2961.80] healthcare. +[2962.74 --> 2963.46] We want to pray +[2963.46 --> 2965.04] for all of those +[2965.04 --> 2965.80] whom we know +[2965.80 --> 2966.36] here in our +[2966.36 --> 2966.88] church family +[2966.88 --> 2967.56] and beyond +[2967.56 --> 2968.82] who are working +[2968.82 --> 2969.32] in healthcare +[2969.32 --> 2970.18] either as nurses +[2970.18 --> 2971.06] or care aides +[2971.06 --> 2972.32] or staff +[2972.32 --> 2973.24] in long-term +[2973.24 --> 2973.86] care homes +[2973.86 --> 2974.66] or in hospitals. +[2975.38 --> 2976.04] We pray, +[2976.20 --> 2976.36] God, +[2976.48 --> 2977.76] that you would +[2977.76 --> 2978.72] uphold them +[2978.72 --> 2979.40] in there, +[2980.24 --> 2981.06] that you would +[2981.06 --> 2982.52] speak words +[2982.52 --> 2983.08] of encouragement +[2983.08 --> 2983.62] and hope +[2983.62 --> 2984.98] what they do, +[2985.56 --> 2986.16] that they would +[2986.16 --> 2987.46] know your nearness +[2987.46 --> 2988.14] and that your +[2988.14 --> 2988.86] nearness would be +[2988.86 --> 2989.72] mediated to them +[2989.72 --> 2991.12] through us, +[2991.36 --> 2992.24] through our prayers, +[2992.46 --> 2992.96] through our +[2992.96 --> 2993.98] encouragements, +[2994.14 --> 2995.30] through our support +[2995.30 --> 2996.24] together. +[2996.24 --> 2999.82] Father God, +[2999.88 --> 3000.52] now we come +[3000.52 --> 3001.58] to you +[3001.58 --> 3002.96] that you would +[3002.96 --> 3003.92] speak your +[3003.92 --> 3005.46] truth to us +[3005.46 --> 3007.34] and so take +[3007.34 --> 3007.96] your word +[3007.96 --> 3008.86] and plant it +[3008.86 --> 3010.04] deep in our +[3010.04 --> 3010.54] hearts +[3010.54 --> 3011.74] and allow it +[3011.74 --> 3012.38] to grow +[3012.38 --> 3013.54] into newness +[3013.54 --> 3014.30] of life. +[3015.40 --> 3016.72] Speak in power +[3016.72 --> 3017.78] so that we might +[3017.78 --> 3018.70] go from this +[3018.70 --> 3019.78] place refreshed +[3019.78 --> 3020.86] and renewed +[3020.86 --> 3021.88] and encouraged +[3021.88 --> 3023.72] in our journeys +[3023.72 --> 3024.46] of faith +[3024.46 --> 3026.02] and faithfulness. +[3027.10 --> 3028.30] Help us +[3028.30 --> 3030.14] to understand +[3030.14 --> 3031.72] and to grow +[3031.72 --> 3032.88] in the grace +[3032.88 --> 3033.86] and knowledge +[3033.86 --> 3034.68] of our Lord +[3034.68 --> 3035.26] and Savior, +[3035.42 --> 3036.14] Jesus Christ, +[3036.28 --> 3037.24] in whose name +[3037.24 --> 3037.98] we pray. +[3039.06 --> 3039.46] Amen. +[3039.46 --> 3039.54] Amen. +[3040.82 --> 3041.38] Amen. +[3041.38 --> 3052.06] As we just +[3052.06 --> 3052.46] prayed, +[3052.60 --> 3053.98] we are going +[3053.98 --> 3054.36] to spend +[3054.36 --> 3055.12] some time +[3055.12 --> 3056.86] in God's +[3056.86 --> 3057.14] word, +[3057.54 --> 3058.16] opening that +[3058.16 --> 3058.44] up. +[3059.38 --> 3060.34] We are +[3060.34 --> 3061.58] continuing +[3061.58 --> 3062.44] this week +[3062.44 --> 3063.18] in a series +[3063.18 --> 3064.22] that Pastor Kevin +[3064.22 --> 3065.08] started us +[3065.08 --> 3066.60] in last week, +[3067.40 --> 3067.86] a series +[3067.86 --> 3068.30] called +[3068.30 --> 3068.98] Exiles +[3068.98 --> 3069.82] in a Pagan +[3069.82 --> 3070.28] Land +[3070.28 --> 3070.68] and it's +[3070.68 --> 3072.60] through 1 Peter +[3072.60 --> 3074.24] in our +[3074.24 --> 3075.32] reading together +[3075.32 --> 3077.12] and last week +[3077.12 --> 3077.68] we looked at +[3077.68 --> 3078.20] what it means +[3078.20 --> 3079.14] to be born again +[3079.14 --> 3080.16] into a living hope. +[3080.72 --> 3080.84] Now, +[3081.24 --> 3082.32] before I jump +[3082.32 --> 3083.22] into it too far, +[3083.30 --> 3083.74] I just want to put +[3083.74 --> 3084.58] this in front of you +[3084.58 --> 3085.76] again one more time. +[3085.86 --> 3087.80] This is a Bible study +[3087.80 --> 3089.16] that I, +[3089.38 --> 3090.16] along with a few +[3090.16 --> 3091.16] friends of mine, +[3091.66 --> 3093.36] wrote after a few +[3093.36 --> 3094.76] years of studying +[3094.76 --> 3096.72] the early church +[3096.72 --> 3098.02] and their response +[3098.02 --> 3099.12] to paganism +[3099.12 --> 3099.84] and then studying +[3099.84 --> 3100.84] in 1 Peter, +[3101.72 --> 3104.56] for many, +[3104.72 --> 3105.40] many years, +[3105.88 --> 3107.28] a few centuries +[3107.28 --> 3107.78] actually, +[3108.02 --> 3108.62] if you were +[3108.62 --> 3109.12] to read +[3109.12 --> 3109.86] a commentary, +[3110.78 --> 3111.58] which is just +[3111.58 --> 3112.58] a study book +[3112.58 --> 3113.40] on particular +[3113.40 --> 3114.24] books of the Bible, +[3114.34 --> 3114.68] if you were +[3114.68 --> 3115.58] to read a commentary +[3115.58 --> 3116.74] on 1 Peter, +[3117.10 --> 3118.00] it would often +[3118.00 --> 3119.48] say something like, +[3120.04 --> 3122.08] 1 Peter is addressed +[3122.08 --> 3122.74] to a group +[3122.74 --> 3123.24] of Christians +[3123.24 --> 3124.12] who don't live +[3124.12 --> 3124.88] in a situation +[3124.88 --> 3126.18] like ours. +[3126.18 --> 3127.42] We live in a Christian +[3127.42 --> 3127.90] culture, +[3127.90 --> 3129.06] and so we have +[3129.06 --> 3129.72] to be creative +[3129.72 --> 3130.62] in our application. +[3131.46 --> 3133.12] In the last 20 or 30 years, +[3133.88 --> 3134.94] commentary writing +[3134.94 --> 3135.82] has changed +[3135.82 --> 3136.92] on 1 Peter +[3136.92 --> 3139.00] because more and more +[3139.00 --> 3139.92] we are recognizing +[3139.92 --> 3141.24] that we are living +[3141.24 --> 3142.62] in a post-Christian +[3142.62 --> 3143.48] culture, +[3143.62 --> 3144.12] or we are living +[3144.12 --> 3145.46] in a resurgence +[3145.46 --> 3147.74] of even paganism. +[3148.92 --> 3149.06] Right? +[3149.12 --> 3149.70] The reality, +[3150.44 --> 3152.22] the atheist +[3152.22 --> 3153.44] secular project +[3153.44 --> 3154.56] of the 90s +[3154.56 --> 3155.70] and early 2000s +[3155.70 --> 3156.64] seems to have failed +[3156.64 --> 3157.54] because now people +[3157.54 --> 3158.62] say things like, +[3159.50 --> 3160.32] I'm spiritual +[3160.32 --> 3161.86] but not religious. +[3162.86 --> 3163.66] If you've ever +[3163.66 --> 3164.24] heard that, +[3164.92 --> 3166.76] that's a fundamentally +[3166.76 --> 3168.60] pagan idea. +[3169.30 --> 3169.48] Now, +[3169.50 --> 3169.92] we'll get into +[3169.92 --> 3170.80] some of that stuff +[3170.80 --> 3171.64] in this series +[3171.64 --> 3172.60] and look at that, +[3172.60 --> 3174.16] but there is +[3174.16 --> 3174.78] a Bible study +[3174.78 --> 3175.18] that we have +[3175.18 --> 3176.74] given out to you +[3176.74 --> 3177.72] and offered to you +[3177.72 --> 3179.12] to go through, +[3179.22 --> 3179.96] not necessarily +[3179.96 --> 3182.38] in line with our series, +[3182.48 --> 3183.02] you go through it +[3183.02 --> 3183.72] at your own pace, +[3183.76 --> 3184.12] whether it's +[3184.12 --> 3184.86] with your care group +[3184.86 --> 3186.34] or whatever else +[3186.34 --> 3186.82] you have. +[3187.14 --> 3188.20] I know the coffee break +[3188.20 --> 3189.60] ladies are doing it, +[3189.64 --> 3190.32] there's some other +[3190.32 --> 3190.88] care groups +[3190.88 --> 3191.76] that are doing it, +[3191.88 --> 3192.56] there are individuals +[3192.56 --> 3193.44] who are going through. +[3193.90 --> 3194.08] Anyways, +[3194.12 --> 3195.18] if you would like this, +[3196.02 --> 3197.66] we can make a copy +[3197.66 --> 3198.64] available for you +[3198.64 --> 3199.20] and have it, +[3199.62 --> 3200.36] and then also +[3200.36 --> 3201.02] we're working on +[3201.02 --> 3202.28] getting digital copies +[3202.28 --> 3203.56] available for those +[3203.56 --> 3204.12] people who would +[3204.12 --> 3204.82] prefer to function +[3204.82 --> 3205.78] with it that way. +[3206.14 --> 3206.48] And so, +[3206.88 --> 3207.90] you can find that, +[3207.96 --> 3208.72] you can talk to me +[3208.72 --> 3209.46] or you can email +[3209.46 --> 3210.54] Marilyn in the office +[3210.54 --> 3211.98] and she will get +[3211.98 --> 3214.04] this set for you. +[3215.44 --> 3215.84] Now, +[3215.90 --> 3216.32] last week, +[3216.40 --> 3216.78] as we said, +[3216.88 --> 3217.98] Kevin started us off +[3217.98 --> 3218.94] by grounding us +[3218.94 --> 3220.68] in the living hope +[3220.68 --> 3221.44] of Jesus +[3221.44 --> 3223.10] and he had a beautiful +[3223.10 --> 3224.04] line in his sermon +[3224.04 --> 3224.76] and I wrote it down +[3224.76 --> 3225.28] in my Bible. +[3225.40 --> 3225.64] He said, +[3225.78 --> 3227.80] Jesus is our inheritance. +[3229.76 --> 3230.50] And I'm going to be +[3230.50 --> 3231.68] honest with you, +[3231.68 --> 3232.60] if you take anything +[3232.60 --> 3233.76] out of this series +[3233.76 --> 3234.82] and out of 1 Peter, +[3235.14 --> 3236.26] let it be that line +[3236.26 --> 3237.04] and then let that +[3237.04 --> 3237.86] permeate through +[3237.86 --> 3238.50] the rest of your +[3238.50 --> 3239.06] understanding. +[3239.56 --> 3241.28] Jesus is our +[3241.28 --> 3242.28] inheritance. +[3243.58 --> 3244.04] So, +[3244.10 --> 3244.84] as we are coming +[3244.84 --> 3246.02] into this study +[3246.02 --> 3247.38] under that banner, +[3247.52 --> 3248.62] asking the question +[3248.62 --> 3249.66] of how do we live +[3249.66 --> 3250.36] as exiles +[3250.36 --> 3251.26] in a pagan land, +[3251.52 --> 3252.52] it's important for us +[3252.52 --> 3253.36] to just maybe +[3253.36 --> 3254.98] quickly recap +[3254.98 --> 3255.98] what do we mean +[3255.98 --> 3257.00] when we use the word +[3257.00 --> 3257.68] pagan +[3257.68 --> 3258.84] and what do we mean +[3258.84 --> 3259.70] when we use the word +[3259.70 --> 3260.44] exiles? +[3261.46 --> 3261.68] Now, +[3261.80 --> 3262.08] first, +[3262.92 --> 3263.28] pagan, +[3263.44 --> 3263.80] actually, +[3264.14 --> 3265.42] it used to be +[3265.42 --> 3266.76] when it was first used +[3266.76 --> 3269.34] in the Roman times +[3269.34 --> 3270.52] in Latin, +[3271.32 --> 3272.32] used to just mean +[3272.32 --> 3273.32] country dweller. +[3274.64 --> 3274.92] And so, +[3275.06 --> 3275.72] in some sense, +[3275.78 --> 3276.64] it's kind of like +[3276.64 --> 3277.52] the word redneck. +[3278.56 --> 3279.00] Are you familiar +[3279.00 --> 3279.58] with that word? +[3280.14 --> 3280.80] Maybe hick +[3280.80 --> 3282.28] or country bumpkin, +[3283.16 --> 3283.38] right? +[3284.02 --> 3284.96] Those who were +[3284.96 --> 3286.28] removed from +[3286.28 --> 3286.74] the sort of +[3286.74 --> 3288.16] urban and progressive +[3288.16 --> 3289.16] culture, +[3289.40 --> 3290.04] and the reason +[3290.04 --> 3290.80] they were called +[3290.80 --> 3292.58] pagans or country dwellers +[3292.58 --> 3293.00] and the reason +[3293.00 --> 3294.32] it was a derogatory term +[3294.32 --> 3295.50] is because they were +[3295.50 --> 3296.62] hanging on to +[3296.62 --> 3297.80] the sort of +[3297.80 --> 3299.78] religions of old +[3299.78 --> 3301.64] and the spirituality +[3301.64 --> 3303.14] of old +[3303.14 --> 3304.88] as the urban elite +[3304.88 --> 3306.12] sort of moved on +[3306.12 --> 3309.36] into the next phase +[3309.36 --> 3311.34] of their life +[3311.34 --> 3312.50] and religious understanding +[3312.50 --> 3312.88] together. +[3313.58 --> 3315.22] The country dwellers, +[3315.84 --> 3316.82] the backwards people, +[3316.82 --> 3318.14] were hanging on +[3318.14 --> 3318.98] to these old +[3318.98 --> 3320.04] ideas. +[3321.00 --> 3321.56] But, +[3321.74 --> 3322.36] when we take, +[3323.06 --> 3323.60] when Christians +[3323.60 --> 3325.04] start using that term, +[3325.42 --> 3325.86] what pagan +[3325.86 --> 3327.10] really means +[3327.10 --> 3328.32] is anything +[3328.32 --> 3329.84] not Christian. +[3330.98 --> 3331.38] Anything +[3331.38 --> 3332.28] that doesn't +[3332.28 --> 3332.92] recognize +[3332.92 --> 3334.78] the transcendent +[3334.78 --> 3335.92] sovereign God +[3335.92 --> 3336.62] over all +[3336.62 --> 3337.50] creation, +[3338.02 --> 3339.40] and then in so doing, +[3339.66 --> 3340.28] when you don't +[3340.28 --> 3341.00] recognize the +[3341.00 --> 3341.72] sovereign God, +[3341.82 --> 3342.58] you end up making +[3342.58 --> 3344.08] other lesser gods +[3344.08 --> 3345.72] or lesser glories, +[3345.86 --> 3346.60] the Bible sometimes +[3346.60 --> 3347.18] calls them. +[3347.90 --> 3348.12] And so, +[3348.20 --> 3348.72] here we are +[3348.72 --> 3349.86] in this place +[3349.86 --> 3350.90] recognizing that +[3350.90 --> 3353.14] paganism for Peter +[3353.14 --> 3354.60] and the early Christians +[3354.60 --> 3356.20] looked a particular way +[3356.20 --> 3358.88] and had a pantheon +[3358.88 --> 3359.52] of gods +[3359.52 --> 3360.44] available to them +[3360.44 --> 3361.06] to accomplish +[3361.06 --> 3362.30] a particular set +[3362.30 --> 3364.02] of tasks. +[3365.04 --> 3365.50] And again, +[3365.58 --> 3366.02] last week, +[3366.42 --> 3367.64] Kevin introduced us +[3367.64 --> 3368.28] to the idea +[3368.28 --> 3369.08] of paganism +[3369.08 --> 3370.08] being the idea +[3370.08 --> 3371.08] that the spiritual, +[3371.82 --> 3372.66] whatever that means, +[3372.66 --> 3375.30] is part of this world, +[3375.86 --> 3376.56] and by that we mean +[3376.56 --> 3377.26] it's made up +[3377.26 --> 3378.60] of the same stuff +[3378.60 --> 3379.86] as everything else, +[3380.34 --> 3381.58] and that it is somehow +[3381.58 --> 3383.32] able to affect your life +[3383.32 --> 3383.88] for good +[3383.88 --> 3385.52] or for your detriment. +[3386.64 --> 3386.82] Now, +[3386.84 --> 3387.30] if that's what +[3387.30 --> 3388.28] paganism is, +[3388.72 --> 3389.44] that continues +[3389.44 --> 3390.46] today. +[3391.10 --> 3392.00] We find ourselves +[3392.00 --> 3394.32] in a cultural context +[3394.32 --> 3395.16] where people +[3395.16 --> 3396.42] are spiritual +[3396.42 --> 3397.78] but not religious. +[3398.34 --> 3399.92] I have someone +[3399.92 --> 3400.52] who I know +[3400.52 --> 3401.44] pretty well. +[3401.44 --> 3402.80] she identifies +[3402.80 --> 3404.64] as a pagan witch, +[3405.14 --> 3406.70] and she says it +[3406.70 --> 3407.56] as a celebration. +[3408.76 --> 3410.38] If you are part +[3410.38 --> 3412.72] of the millennial generation +[3412.72 --> 3413.46] but even younger, +[3413.58 --> 3414.44] the Gen Z generation, +[3415.40 --> 3416.62] so younger than me, +[3417.46 --> 3418.50] much younger than me, +[3419.82 --> 3422.44] this is your normal. +[3423.88 --> 3425.02] It's all over TikTok, +[3425.76 --> 3426.38] for instance. +[3427.40 --> 3427.58] Now, +[3427.62 --> 3428.18] I know some of you +[3428.18 --> 3428.44] are like, +[3428.48 --> 3429.04] I have no idea +[3429.04 --> 3430.14] what those last five words +[3430.14 --> 3430.68] just were, +[3431.08 --> 3432.14] but it's there. +[3432.66 --> 3433.38] It's everywhere. +[3434.96 --> 3436.48] The question becomes, +[3436.68 --> 3437.80] for us as Christians, +[3437.94 --> 3438.58] is how do we live +[3438.58 --> 3439.28] in the midst of that? +[3440.08 --> 3441.02] And that's when we begin +[3441.02 --> 3441.72] to use the language +[3441.72 --> 3443.22] of identifying as exiles. +[3444.80 --> 3445.42] And an exile +[3445.42 --> 3446.68] is someone who lives +[3446.68 --> 3449.12] in a foreign culture, +[3449.24 --> 3449.76] in a world +[3449.76 --> 3451.10] that is not the one +[3451.10 --> 3452.60] that they are from +[3452.60 --> 3454.00] or, in our case, +[3454.30 --> 3454.94] made for. +[3454.94 --> 3457.30] In this series, +[3457.50 --> 3458.78] we are asking the question, +[3458.90 --> 3459.62] how do we live +[3459.62 --> 3460.54] as exiles +[3460.54 --> 3461.88] in a pagan world? +[3462.58 --> 3463.62] Or to make it +[3463.62 --> 3464.78] into a statement, +[3465.16 --> 3465.84] we're going to see +[3465.84 --> 3467.08] how being born again +[3467.08 --> 3468.36] into a living hope +[3468.36 --> 3470.18] changes the world. +[3471.16 --> 3471.88] This week, +[3471.94 --> 3472.54] in our text +[3472.54 --> 3474.42] from 1 Peter, +[3475.00 --> 3476.44] we're going to read +[3476.44 --> 3478.98] 1 Peter 1. +[3479.04 --> 3479.82] I'm going to start +[3479.82 --> 3481.00] at verse 13 +[3481.00 --> 3481.62] and read through +[3481.62 --> 3482.46] the end of the chapter +[3482.46 --> 3483.36] to verse 25. +[3483.94 --> 3484.60] This week, +[3484.68 --> 3485.64] to put it pithily, +[3486.14 --> 3487.08] we will see +[3487.08 --> 3488.64] how living out +[3488.64 --> 3489.74] of the living hope, +[3490.36 --> 3492.74] how we live out +[3492.74 --> 3493.46] of a living hope +[3493.46 --> 3494.08] that comes +[3494.08 --> 3495.58] by the living word. +[3496.82 --> 3498.34] So that's our banner. +[3498.72 --> 3500.02] Living out of the living hope +[3500.02 --> 3500.56] that comes +[3500.56 --> 3502.38] by the living word. +[3502.50 --> 3503.30] And so if you have a Bible, +[3504.20 --> 3504.88] I have that open +[3504.88 --> 3505.42] in front of you. +[3505.94 --> 3506.90] Keep it open as we go. +[3507.12 --> 3507.80] As I read it, +[3507.82 --> 3508.20] it should be +[3508.20 --> 3509.08] on the screen behind me. +[3509.08 --> 3513.02] 1 Peter 1, +[3513.14 --> 3514.16] starting in verse 13. +[3516.56 --> 3516.92] Therefore, +[3517.66 --> 3518.48] with minds +[3518.48 --> 3519.40] that are alert +[3519.40 --> 3520.58] and fully sober, +[3521.18 --> 3522.38] set your hope +[3522.38 --> 3523.58] on the grace +[3523.58 --> 3524.68] to be brought to you +[3524.68 --> 3526.16] when Jesus Christ +[3526.16 --> 3526.90] is revealed +[3526.90 --> 3527.70] at his coming. +[3528.70 --> 3530.16] As obedient children, +[3530.28 --> 3531.00] do not conform +[3531.00 --> 3532.04] to the evil desires +[3532.04 --> 3532.52] you had +[3532.52 --> 3533.02] when you lived +[3533.02 --> 3533.48] in ignorance, +[3533.92 --> 3535.18] but just as he +[3535.18 --> 3535.94] who called you +[3535.94 --> 3536.54] is holy, +[3536.90 --> 3537.80] so be holy +[3537.80 --> 3538.66] in all you do. +[3539.20 --> 3539.98] For it is written, +[3540.18 --> 3540.68] be holy +[3540.68 --> 3542.50] because I am holy. +[3544.10 --> 3545.32] Since you call +[3545.32 --> 3546.00] on a father +[3546.00 --> 3546.58] who judges +[3546.58 --> 3547.98] each person's work +[3547.98 --> 3548.98] impartially, +[3549.82 --> 3551.00] live out your time +[3551.00 --> 3552.56] as foreigners here +[3552.56 --> 3553.86] in reverent fear. +[3554.94 --> 3555.66] For you know +[3555.66 --> 3556.46] that it was not +[3556.46 --> 3557.52] with perishable things +[3557.52 --> 3558.60] such as silver or gold +[3558.60 --> 3559.48] that you were redeemed +[3559.48 --> 3560.28] from the empty way +[3560.28 --> 3561.24] of life handed down +[3561.24 --> 3562.56] to you from your ancestors, +[3563.04 --> 3565.06] but with the precious +[3565.06 --> 3566.52] blood of Christ, +[3566.52 --> 3568.28] a lamb without blemish +[3568.28 --> 3569.34] or defect. +[3570.84 --> 3572.14] He was chosen +[3572.14 --> 3573.68] for the creation +[3573.68 --> 3574.28] of the world, +[3574.80 --> 3575.58] but was revealed +[3575.58 --> 3576.66] in these last times +[3576.66 --> 3577.42] for your sake. +[3578.12 --> 3578.56] Through him +[3578.56 --> 3579.68] you believe in God +[3579.68 --> 3580.42] who raised him +[3580.42 --> 3581.02] from the dead +[3581.02 --> 3582.00] and glorified him +[3582.00 --> 3583.00] so that your faith +[3583.00 --> 3583.96] and hope +[3583.96 --> 3585.06] are in God. +[3586.34 --> 3587.28] Now that you have +[3587.28 --> 3588.26] purified yourselves +[3588.26 --> 3589.32] by obeying the truth +[3589.32 --> 3590.00] so that you have +[3590.00 --> 3590.68] sincere love +[3590.68 --> 3591.24] for each other, +[3591.74 --> 3592.66] love one another +[3592.66 --> 3594.38] deeply from the heart. +[3594.38 --> 3595.72] for you +[3595.72 --> 3597.06] have been born again +[3597.06 --> 3599.70] not of perishable seed +[3599.70 --> 3601.70] but of imperishable +[3601.70 --> 3603.28] through the living +[3603.28 --> 3604.36] and enduring +[3604.36 --> 3606.12] word of God. +[3607.12 --> 3608.02] For all people +[3608.02 --> 3609.08] are like grass +[3609.08 --> 3610.52] and all their glory +[3610.52 --> 3611.42] is like the flowers +[3611.42 --> 3612.10] of the field. +[3612.50 --> 3613.46] The grass withers +[3613.46 --> 3614.68] and the flowers fall, +[3614.82 --> 3615.40] but the word +[3615.40 --> 3616.08] of the Lord +[3616.08 --> 3617.72] endures forever. +[3618.72 --> 3619.44] And this +[3619.44 --> 3620.36] is the word +[3620.36 --> 3621.38] that was preached +[3621.38 --> 3622.26] to you. +[3622.26 --> 3624.60] This is the word +[3624.60 --> 3624.98] of the Lord. +[3627.78 --> 3628.70] So first, +[3629.74 --> 3630.52] living out +[3630.52 --> 3631.70] of the living hope. +[3633.08 --> 3634.52] As we read this text, +[3634.72 --> 3636.06] verse 13 +[3636.06 --> 3637.60] and verse 21 +[3637.60 --> 3640.50] bookend +[3640.50 --> 3641.88] a discussion +[3641.88 --> 3643.10] about what it means +[3643.10 --> 3645.00] to live as exiles +[3645.00 --> 3646.06] in our hope. +[3646.94 --> 3647.76] So verse 13 +[3647.76 --> 3648.82] said, +[3648.98 --> 3650.46] set your hope +[3650.46 --> 3652.82] on the grace +[3652.82 --> 3653.46] to be brought +[3653.46 --> 3653.90] to you +[3653.90 --> 3655.20] when Jesus Christ +[3655.20 --> 3656.66] is revealed +[3656.66 --> 3657.52] at His coming. +[3657.98 --> 3659.06] And then verse 21 +[3659.06 --> 3659.84] in the middle +[3659.84 --> 3660.54] of what we read, +[3660.90 --> 3661.34] through Him +[3661.34 --> 3662.08] you believe +[3662.08 --> 3663.34] and so your faith +[3663.34 --> 3664.40] and hope +[3664.40 --> 3665.76] are in God. +[3666.90 --> 3667.44] Now the point +[3667.44 --> 3668.52] that Peter is making +[3668.52 --> 3669.10] is that +[3669.10 --> 3670.50] what you hope +[3670.50 --> 3671.06] in +[3671.06 --> 3671.96] determines +[3671.96 --> 3673.42] how you live +[3673.42 --> 3674.18] now +[3674.18 --> 3675.92] and +[3675.92 --> 3678.20] how you live +[3678.20 --> 3679.04] now +[3679.04 --> 3680.36] reveals +[3680.36 --> 3681.54] what you +[3681.54 --> 3682.24] truly +[3682.24 --> 3683.06] hope +[3683.06 --> 3683.70] in. +[3686.18 --> 3688.10] What you hope +[3688.10 --> 3688.62] in determines +[3688.62 --> 3689.14] how you live +[3689.14 --> 3689.44] now +[3689.44 --> 3690.44] and how you +[3690.44 --> 3691.00] live now +[3691.00 --> 3691.50] reveals +[3691.50 --> 3692.10] what your +[3692.10 --> 3692.46] heart +[3692.46 --> 3693.02] truly +[3693.02 --> 3694.16] hopes in. +[3694.90 --> 3695.22] And look, +[3695.90 --> 3696.38] the reality +[3696.38 --> 3698.02] is that hope +[3698.02 --> 3698.90] when things +[3698.90 --> 3699.76] get hard, +[3700.20 --> 3700.78] that looking +[3700.78 --> 3701.58] for places +[3701.58 --> 3702.16] and people +[3702.16 --> 3702.68] and things +[3702.68 --> 3703.40] or technology +[3703.40 --> 3704.26] or whatever +[3704.26 --> 3704.78] it is +[3704.78 --> 3705.38] to put +[3705.38 --> 3705.98] our hope +[3705.98 --> 3706.34] in +[3706.34 --> 3707.18] is just +[3707.18 --> 3707.90] human. +[3709.14 --> 3709.80] If you've +[3709.80 --> 3710.66] grown up +[3710.66 --> 3711.78] in poverty +[3711.78 --> 3712.64] or on the +[3712.64 --> 3714.02] brink of poverty, +[3714.74 --> 3715.62] putting your hope +[3715.62 --> 3716.66] in education +[3716.66 --> 3717.94] as a way out +[3717.94 --> 3718.80] to break +[3718.80 --> 3720.20] that system, +[3720.46 --> 3720.80] to break +[3720.80 --> 3721.54] that history +[3721.54 --> 3722.88] is what we do. +[3724.20 --> 3724.90] If you are +[3724.90 --> 3726.26] from a war-torn +[3726.26 --> 3726.94] country, +[3727.32 --> 3728.18] emigrating +[3728.18 --> 3729.06] or fleeing +[3729.06 --> 3729.82] as a refugee +[3729.82 --> 3731.26] to another country +[3731.26 --> 3732.18] is placing +[3732.18 --> 3732.92] your hope +[3732.92 --> 3733.74] in the idea +[3733.74 --> 3734.36] that it will +[3734.36 --> 3734.90] be better +[3734.90 --> 3735.62] there. +[3737.84 --> 3738.98] A lonely +[3738.98 --> 3740.66] single mother +[3740.66 --> 3741.88] wanting to be +[3741.88 --> 3742.66] loved and +[3742.66 --> 3743.56] cared for +[3743.56 --> 3744.40] might put +[3744.40 --> 3744.94] her hope +[3744.94 --> 3745.82] in finding +[3745.82 --> 3746.82] a husband +[3746.82 --> 3747.76] to love +[3747.76 --> 3748.50] her and +[3748.50 --> 3749.04] her child. +[3750.14 --> 3750.46] Likewise, +[3750.70 --> 3751.18] a man +[3751.18 --> 3751.72] needing to +[3751.72 --> 3752.58] experience love +[3752.58 --> 3753.20] and respect +[3753.20 --> 3754.06] might put +[3754.06 --> 3754.64] his hope +[3754.64 --> 3755.28] in finding +[3755.28 --> 3755.86] a wife. +[3756.86 --> 3757.64] Someone who +[3757.64 --> 3758.24] feels like +[3758.24 --> 3758.56] they have +[3758.56 --> 3760.18] sacrificed a lot +[3760.18 --> 3761.30] or everything +[3761.30 --> 3762.36] for their career, +[3762.52 --> 3762.64] right? +[3762.72 --> 3763.94] Sacrificed family +[3763.94 --> 3764.82] or sacrificed +[3764.82 --> 3765.48] vacations +[3765.48 --> 3766.34] or relationships +[3766.34 --> 3767.32] might put +[3767.32 --> 3767.94] their hope +[3767.94 --> 3769.82] in that promotion +[3769.82 --> 3771.18] finally coming. +[3772.78 --> 3774.06] A young person +[3774.06 --> 3775.48] who doesn't feel +[3775.48 --> 3776.24] like they belong +[3776.24 --> 3777.02] at their school +[3777.02 --> 3778.14] or who doesn't feel +[3778.14 --> 3778.82] like they belong +[3778.82 --> 3780.32] in their small town +[3780.32 --> 3781.66] might put their hope +[3781.66 --> 3782.92] in finally moving +[3782.92 --> 3784.04] away to that +[3784.04 --> 3784.82] university +[3784.82 --> 3785.42] or college +[3785.42 --> 3786.14] or to the big +[3786.14 --> 3787.44] diverse city. +[3787.44 --> 3789.32] Point is, +[3789.48 --> 3790.78] when life is hard, +[3791.00 --> 3791.54] when we face +[3791.54 --> 3792.56] challenges and +[3792.56 --> 3793.22] struggles, +[3793.48 --> 3794.76] it's normal for us +[3794.76 --> 3795.84] to look for something +[3795.84 --> 3797.06] or someone +[3797.06 --> 3798.68] to rescue us. +[3798.76 --> 3799.26] It's normal +[3799.26 --> 3800.78] for us to hope +[3800.78 --> 3801.60] for something +[3801.60 --> 3802.66] that will change +[3802.66 --> 3803.86] our circumstances. +[3805.40 --> 3806.08] Maybe that hope +[3806.08 --> 3806.82] is a person. +[3807.34 --> 3807.88] Maybe that hope +[3807.88 --> 3809.22] is in a technology +[3809.22 --> 3810.16] or a thing +[3810.16 --> 3811.10] or an idea. +[3811.86 --> 3813.12] Maybe you believe +[3813.12 --> 3813.98] that you have +[3813.98 --> 3814.80] to be your own +[3814.80 --> 3815.34] rescuer. +[3815.48 --> 3815.92] You have to be +[3815.92 --> 3816.68] your own hope. +[3817.44 --> 3819.82] That people hope +[3819.82 --> 3821.56] in these crisis +[3821.56 --> 3822.92] and crucible moments +[3822.92 --> 3824.10] isn't what we are +[3824.10 --> 3824.98] looking at +[3824.98 --> 3826.02] because we all do it. +[3827.20 --> 3827.78] And really, +[3827.94 --> 3828.62] none of these things +[3828.62 --> 3829.46] are bad +[3829.46 --> 3830.26] in and of themselves. +[3830.46 --> 3832.52] Education is good +[3832.52 --> 3833.66] and it can change +[3833.66 --> 3834.20] your life. +[3835.54 --> 3836.68] Moving countries +[3836.68 --> 3837.96] can be good +[3837.96 --> 3838.98] and quite literally, +[3839.18 --> 3840.06] in the case of refugees, +[3840.36 --> 3841.70] can save your life. +[3843.36 --> 3844.60] If you are familiar +[3844.60 --> 3845.28] with the Bible, +[3845.42 --> 3846.30] you know that the Bible +[3846.30 --> 3847.38] says it is not good +[3847.38 --> 3848.42] for man to be alone. +[3848.56 --> 3849.42] And so we believe +[3849.42 --> 3850.04] that things like +[3850.04 --> 3852.08] marriage is good. +[3852.40 --> 3853.48] It's not the only good, +[3853.62 --> 3854.70] but it is a good good. +[3855.96 --> 3856.08] Right? +[3856.18 --> 3857.42] Finding a community +[3857.42 --> 3858.48] that fits +[3858.48 --> 3860.42] and fits you +[3860.42 --> 3861.68] is good. +[3862.26 --> 3862.96] Putting hope +[3862.96 --> 3864.60] in medical technology +[3864.60 --> 3865.74] to help get you pregnant +[3865.74 --> 3867.36] or to save your life +[3867.36 --> 3868.54] or to keep you safe +[3868.54 --> 3869.28] in a pandemic +[3869.28 --> 3871.20] are good things. +[3871.20 --> 3872.42] And let me say it, +[3872.58 --> 3873.70] these are good things +[3873.70 --> 3874.76] and they are worthwhile +[3874.76 --> 3876.68] goals to have. +[3878.04 --> 3879.74] But when a good goal +[3879.74 --> 3882.20] becomes a greatest goal, +[3883.32 --> 3884.86] when our greatest hope +[3884.86 --> 3886.08] is the thing +[3886.08 --> 3888.02] that will deliver +[3888.02 --> 3889.58] that greatest goal, +[3890.00 --> 3890.90] that person +[3890.90 --> 3891.74] or that thing +[3891.74 --> 3892.62] or that circumstance +[3892.62 --> 3893.78] or that technology +[3893.78 --> 3895.46] becomes for you +[3895.46 --> 3897.42] a functional God. +[3897.42 --> 3897.46] God, +[3898.34 --> 3900.30] when a good +[3900.30 --> 3901.84] becomes an ultimate, +[3902.26 --> 3903.24] you start living +[3903.24 --> 3905.02] like that will save you. +[3906.34 --> 3907.84] What you hope in +[3907.84 --> 3909.34] determines how you live. +[3910.12 --> 3912.08] And how you live now +[3912.08 --> 3913.76] reveals what we truly, +[3914.30 --> 3914.76] ultimately, +[3915.56 --> 3916.04] hope in. +[3917.42 --> 3918.24] And when you take +[3918.24 --> 3919.32] a created good +[3919.32 --> 3920.44] and live your life +[3920.44 --> 3921.28] towards it +[3921.28 --> 3922.36] as if that thing +[3922.36 --> 3922.98] will save you, +[3923.02 --> 3923.66] as if that thing +[3923.66 --> 3924.48] will give you purpose +[3924.48 --> 3925.48] or give you meaning +[3925.48 --> 3926.86] or be the answer +[3926.86 --> 3927.42] to the struggle, +[3927.70 --> 3928.92] you have exchanged +[3928.92 --> 3929.94] the creator +[3929.94 --> 3931.38] for a piece +[3931.38 --> 3933.06] of his creation. +[3934.94 --> 3935.64] And according to +[3935.64 --> 3936.76] Romans 1.25, +[3937.12 --> 3938.68] that's the most basic +[3938.68 --> 3939.84] fundamental definition +[3939.84 --> 3941.36] of idolatry. +[3942.82 --> 3943.62] Paul writes there, +[3943.74 --> 3944.48] they exchanged +[3944.48 --> 3945.60] the truth about God +[3945.60 --> 3946.34] for a lie +[3946.34 --> 3947.36] and worshipped +[3947.36 --> 3947.96] and served +[3947.96 --> 3949.22] created things +[3949.22 --> 3950.76] rather than +[3950.76 --> 3951.34] the creator. +[3952.86 --> 3954.08] And it's interesting +[3954.08 --> 3955.42] to me anyway +[3955.42 --> 3957.42] that this is also +[3957.42 --> 3958.80] the sort of fundamental, +[3959.04 --> 3960.38] the basic definition, +[3960.72 --> 3962.64] the operative assumption, +[3962.92 --> 3963.30] as it were, +[3963.48 --> 3964.66] of paganism. +[3965.52 --> 3965.74] Right? +[3965.84 --> 3967.60] Seeing the created thing +[3967.60 --> 3969.32] as a divine thing +[3969.32 --> 3970.36] or containing +[3970.36 --> 3973.26] a spark of the divine +[3973.26 --> 3974.78] or a divine element. +[3975.64 --> 3975.76] Right? +[3975.86 --> 3977.68] Locating the fount +[3977.68 --> 3978.84] of the spiritual +[3978.84 --> 3980.58] in the created world, +[3980.98 --> 3981.46] pushing out +[3981.46 --> 3982.14] or pushing away +[3982.14 --> 3983.10] or simply refusing, +[3983.10 --> 3983.72] really, +[3983.82 --> 3985.26] any transcendent +[3985.26 --> 3986.88] to this reality +[3986.88 --> 3988.16] is the way +[3988.16 --> 3989.12] of paganism +[3989.12 --> 3990.22] in the world, +[3990.32 --> 3991.32] in the world of Peter +[3991.32 --> 3993.20] and in the world of us. +[3994.44 --> 3995.70] And let's be really, +[3996.20 --> 3997.72] really clear. +[3999.04 --> 3999.18] Right? +[3999.18 --> 4000.34] This isn't just sort of +[4000.34 --> 4001.42] 21st century +[4001.42 --> 4003.54] Western individuals +[4003.54 --> 4004.66] and cultures. +[4004.66 --> 4005.88] This isn't just a, +[4006.26 --> 4006.30] quote, +[4006.50 --> 4007.62] post-Christian +[4007.62 --> 4008.88] renewed creation +[4008.88 --> 4010.10] or the new +[4010.10 --> 4011.22] secularism. +[4011.22 --> 4011.64] Right? +[4011.72 --> 4013.86] This is Christians. +[4015.24 --> 4016.76] This is the temptation +[4016.76 --> 4018.10] for you and me. +[4019.28 --> 4019.44] Right? +[4019.44 --> 4019.96] I've already said it, +[4019.98 --> 4020.92] but especially for those +[4020.92 --> 4021.86] of us who are millennial +[4021.86 --> 4022.84] and Gen Z +[4022.84 --> 4023.74] and younger. +[4025.00 --> 4025.50] Right? +[4025.56 --> 4026.42] This is the air +[4026.42 --> 4027.18] that we breathe. +[4027.84 --> 4029.02] This is the water +[4029.02 --> 4029.92] we swim in. +[4030.12 --> 4031.32] And you will have +[4031.32 --> 4031.86] a harder +[4031.86 --> 4033.18] and harder time +[4033.18 --> 4034.60] sorting this out +[4034.60 --> 4035.66] because it's just +[4035.66 --> 4036.48] everywhere. +[4036.48 --> 4039.28] This is the root +[4039.28 --> 4040.14] of our therapeutic +[4040.14 --> 4040.74] culture +[4040.74 --> 4041.72] as an expression +[4041.72 --> 4043.88] of expressive individualism. +[4044.10 --> 4045.12] This is the root +[4045.12 --> 4046.32] behind experience +[4046.32 --> 4047.98] over rational consistency. +[4048.18 --> 4048.74] This is the root +[4048.74 --> 4049.82] behind feeling +[4049.82 --> 4051.44] instead of thinking. +[4051.82 --> 4051.92] Right? +[4051.96 --> 4053.18] This is the practice +[4053.18 --> 4054.50] of mindfulness, +[4054.78 --> 4056.00] which is a Buddhist idea, +[4056.30 --> 4057.56] being put on the list +[4057.56 --> 4058.80] of spiritual disciplines +[4058.80 --> 4060.42] for a Christian institution. +[4060.76 --> 4061.52] This is the idea +[4061.52 --> 4062.22] that karma +[4062.22 --> 4062.94] is the way +[4062.94 --> 4063.58] of the world +[4063.58 --> 4064.88] and that we operate +[4064.88 --> 4065.46] now thinking +[4065.46 --> 4066.28] that some form +[4066.28 --> 4067.44] of reincarnation +[4067.44 --> 4068.42] is expected. +[4069.54 --> 4070.08] And if you think +[4070.08 --> 4070.64] that that's not +[4070.64 --> 4071.30] what Christians +[4071.30 --> 4071.78] are saying, +[4071.96 --> 4072.78] I heard this +[4072.78 --> 4073.90] from a Christian pastor +[4073.90 --> 4074.48] on TikTok +[4074.48 --> 4075.44] this past week. +[4077.96 --> 4078.96] It's the idea +[4078.96 --> 4080.24] that essential oils +[4080.24 --> 4081.28] and crystals +[4081.28 --> 4083.28] are the same thing. +[4085.04 --> 4085.50] Spoiler, +[4085.64 --> 4086.16] think what you want +[4086.16 --> 4086.96] about essential oils, +[4087.14 --> 4087.50] but they're not +[4087.50 --> 4087.96] the same thing +[4087.96 --> 4088.42] as crystals +[4088.42 --> 4089.16] and what crystals +[4089.16 --> 4090.16] are supposed to do. +[4092.12 --> 4092.24] Right? +[4092.28 --> 4093.20] Especially if you +[4093.20 --> 4094.08] are under 40, +[4094.48 --> 4096.36] this is our world. +[4097.76 --> 4098.94] Do you have eyes +[4098.94 --> 4099.60] to see it? +[4100.72 --> 4101.92] Do you have an awareness +[4101.92 --> 4103.08] of how insidious +[4103.08 --> 4104.06] it can be? +[4105.10 --> 4105.98] Do you know what to do +[4105.98 --> 4107.04] and how to respond +[4107.04 --> 4107.88] to your friends +[4107.88 --> 4108.74] who believe +[4108.74 --> 4109.84] that the earth +[4109.84 --> 4110.66] is divine +[4110.66 --> 4111.64] and that your +[4111.64 --> 4113.16] astrological sign +[4113.16 --> 4114.26] is all they need +[4114.26 --> 4114.96] to know about you +[4114.96 --> 4115.58] to know you? +[4117.66 --> 4118.10] Right? +[4118.14 --> 4118.66] It's not even +[4118.66 --> 4119.94] the enneagram anymore. +[4120.56 --> 4121.12] It's whether you're +[4121.12 --> 4121.50] a Libra +[4121.50 --> 4122.22] or a Taurus +[4122.22 --> 4123.40] or an Aris +[4123.40 --> 4124.14] in my case, +[4124.66 --> 4125.56] which I think +[4125.56 --> 4126.42] means I get angry. +[4130.98 --> 4131.94] And so look, +[4133.66 --> 4138.00] what is the opposite +[4138.00 --> 4138.56] of hope? +[4141.24 --> 4142.24] Is the opposite +[4142.24 --> 4142.76] of hope +[4142.76 --> 4143.96] hopelessness? +[4143.96 --> 4146.14] Because I don't +[4146.14 --> 4146.56] think it is. +[4146.62 --> 4146.92] I don't think +[4146.92 --> 4148.04] a definition +[4148.04 --> 4148.88] by privation +[4148.88 --> 4150.18] helps here. +[4151.12 --> 4151.92] I want to suggest +[4151.92 --> 4152.20] to you that +[4152.20 --> 4152.78] the opposite +[4152.78 --> 4153.80] of hope +[4153.80 --> 4155.46] is fear. +[4157.96 --> 4158.52] Specifically, +[4159.38 --> 4160.80] fear of the unknown. +[4162.46 --> 4163.36] Now, the future +[4163.36 --> 4164.40] is unknown +[4164.40 --> 4165.28] and so +[4165.28 --> 4166.20] it's feared. +[4167.32 --> 4167.48] Right? +[4167.48 --> 4168.14] And to mitigate +[4168.14 --> 4169.00] that fear, +[4169.38 --> 4170.08] people try +[4170.08 --> 4171.28] and find ways +[4171.28 --> 4172.72] to either predict +[4172.72 --> 4174.70] or to ensure +[4174.70 --> 4176.18] a particular future, +[4176.30 --> 4176.92] to determine +[4176.92 --> 4178.36] a particular future. +[4178.50 --> 4179.10] People try +[4179.10 --> 4180.02] to find ways +[4180.02 --> 4180.94] to lessen +[4180.94 --> 4182.04] the impact +[4182.04 --> 4182.82] of the unknown +[4182.82 --> 4183.82] by increasing +[4183.82 --> 4184.78] security +[4184.78 --> 4186.00] in the present. +[4186.32 --> 4186.46] Right? +[4186.50 --> 4187.04] The idea being +[4187.04 --> 4188.30] that I need +[4188.30 --> 4189.26] enough now +[4189.26 --> 4190.08] to ensure +[4190.08 --> 4191.06] I will have enough +[4191.06 --> 4191.74] then. +[4192.86 --> 4193.18] Now, +[4193.26 --> 4194.10] in the day of Peter, +[4194.10 --> 4195.66] the future +[4195.66 --> 4196.82] was ensured +[4196.82 --> 4198.44] by the resources +[4198.44 --> 4199.34] of pleasing +[4199.34 --> 4200.12] the gods. +[4201.56 --> 4202.10] That's still +[4202.10 --> 4202.76] true today. +[4203.54 --> 4204.00] We just don't +[4204.00 --> 4204.76] call them gods. +[4205.50 --> 4206.32] But functionally, +[4206.90 --> 4207.46] they are. +[4209.00 --> 4209.12] Right? +[4209.22 --> 4209.82] Paganism, +[4210.36 --> 4210.86] Christianity, +[4211.22 --> 4211.94] all religious +[4211.94 --> 4212.78] and irreligious +[4212.78 --> 4213.50] worldviews +[4213.50 --> 4214.58] in some way +[4214.58 --> 4215.60] are operating +[4215.60 --> 4216.30] in order to +[4216.30 --> 4216.64] minimize +[4216.64 --> 4217.76] or remove +[4217.76 --> 4218.90] our fear. +[4219.66 --> 4219.90] Or, +[4220.02 --> 4220.60] to put it +[4220.60 --> 4221.16] properly, +[4221.90 --> 4222.54] to minimize +[4222.54 --> 4223.74] misplaced +[4223.74 --> 4224.36] fear. +[4224.74 --> 4225.32] Because there's +[4225.32 --> 4225.80] a sense +[4225.80 --> 4226.28] in which +[4226.28 --> 4226.82] when you +[4226.82 --> 4227.40] understand +[4227.40 --> 4227.84] the God +[4227.84 --> 4228.48] of the Bible, +[4228.66 --> 4228.84] right, +[4229.04 --> 4229.88] that apart +[4229.88 --> 4230.64] from His mercy +[4230.64 --> 4231.18] and grace, +[4231.52 --> 4232.18] fear is an +[4232.18 --> 4233.24] appropriate response. +[4234.34 --> 4234.42] Right? +[4234.64 --> 4235.36] And a proper +[4235.36 --> 4236.18] understanding +[4236.18 --> 4237.10] of fear +[4237.10 --> 4238.38] is the right +[4238.38 --> 4239.72] order here. +[4240.20 --> 4240.54] That's what +[4240.54 --> 4241.20] Peter's getting at. +[4241.24 --> 4241.90] Your Bibles are open. +[4242.00 --> 4243.34] Look at verse 17. +[4243.58 --> 4243.90] He says, +[4244.72 --> 4245.38] Since you call +[4245.38 --> 4245.96] on a Father +[4245.96 --> 4246.54] who judges +[4246.54 --> 4247.52] each person's work +[4247.52 --> 4248.32] impartially, +[4248.76 --> 4249.92] live out your time +[4249.92 --> 4250.60] as foreigners. +[4250.78 --> 4251.32] That's the word +[4251.32 --> 4251.98] from where we get +[4251.98 --> 4252.52] exiles, +[4252.70 --> 4253.02] the same +[4253.02 --> 4254.42] Greek word there. +[4254.80 --> 4255.76] Live out your time +[4255.76 --> 4256.82] as exiles +[4256.82 --> 4258.68] here in reverent +[4258.68 --> 4259.86] fear. +[4261.84 --> 4262.72] I love the way +[4262.72 --> 4264.16] that Elliot Clark +[4264.16 --> 4264.92] puts it. +[4264.96 --> 4265.62] He has a little book +[4265.62 --> 4267.20] called Evangelism +[4267.20 --> 4267.94] as Exiles. +[4268.08 --> 4268.78] It's a great read. +[4268.86 --> 4269.88] I highly recommend it. +[4270.42 --> 4270.86] He says, +[4271.40 --> 4272.58] Fearing others +[4272.58 --> 4274.72] more than God +[4274.72 --> 4276.14] usually demonstrates +[4276.14 --> 4277.54] itself in trying +[4277.54 --> 4278.78] to please them +[4278.78 --> 4280.62] more than God. +[4280.62 --> 4280.66] God. +[4282.48 --> 4282.88] Now, +[4282.92 --> 4283.44] I get it. +[4284.08 --> 4284.68] Those of you +[4284.68 --> 4285.80] who know the Bible, +[4286.74 --> 4287.14] you're going to +[4287.14 --> 4288.08] quote the Bible +[4288.08 --> 4288.62] back to me. +[4289.48 --> 4289.96] You're going to say, +[4290.04 --> 4290.20] Well, +[4290.40 --> 4290.66] Pastor, +[4290.76 --> 4291.26] doesn't the Bible +[4291.26 --> 4292.02] say perfect love +[4292.02 --> 4292.82] drives out fear? +[4293.52 --> 4293.76] Yes, +[4293.80 --> 4294.10] it does. +[4294.18 --> 4294.76] 1 John 4, +[4294.80 --> 4295.08] 18. +[4295.50 --> 4296.06] I know the Bible, +[4296.18 --> 4296.28] too. +[4297.72 --> 4298.18] And of course, +[4298.24 --> 4298.72] that's right. +[4299.42 --> 4300.14] But I'm talking +[4300.14 --> 4300.74] about the kind +[4300.74 --> 4301.58] of fear here +[4301.58 --> 4303.54] that is reverence. +[4304.26 --> 4304.44] Right? +[4304.52 --> 4304.74] Like, +[4305.08 --> 4306.26] the fear of the Lord +[4306.26 --> 4307.00] is the beginning +[4307.00 --> 4308.08] of wisdom. +[4309.04 --> 4309.78] That kind of fear. +[4310.44 --> 4310.64] Right? +[4310.68 --> 4311.54] It's not the fear +[4311.54 --> 4312.28] that dominates +[4312.28 --> 4313.62] our world today, +[4313.68 --> 4314.72] which is something else. +[4314.76 --> 4315.86] This is another kind. +[4316.46 --> 4318.26] The opposite of hope +[4318.26 --> 4319.94] kind of fear +[4319.94 --> 4320.68] is different +[4320.68 --> 4322.02] than a reverent fear +[4322.02 --> 4323.00] of the Lord. +[4323.62 --> 4324.50] But let me also be clear +[4324.50 --> 4325.66] because I'm not trying +[4325.66 --> 4326.72] to scare you +[4326.72 --> 4327.68] because, +[4328.38 --> 4328.68] honestly, +[4328.84 --> 4330.04] I think most of us +[4330.04 --> 4330.96] are already scared. +[4332.20 --> 4333.12] Whether we admit it +[4333.12 --> 4333.80] to ourselves or not, +[4333.80 --> 4335.86] most of us live scared. +[4336.74 --> 4338.78] The world lives scared. +[4339.48 --> 4340.44] That's why things +[4340.44 --> 4341.50] like paganism +[4341.50 --> 4342.90] is filling the vacuum +[4342.90 --> 4343.92] that's left +[4343.92 --> 4345.64] in a post-Christian society +[4345.64 --> 4347.84] because there's fear. +[4349.58 --> 4350.60] A few years ago, +[4351.52 --> 4353.26] I gave a lecture +[4353.26 --> 4354.70] to a group of pastors +[4354.70 --> 4356.02] and ministry leaders +[4356.02 --> 4357.18] in St. Catherine. +[4357.32 --> 4358.04] That's where my family +[4358.04 --> 4358.58] moved from. +[4359.62 --> 4360.72] And it was on the history +[4360.72 --> 4362.06] of the early church +[4362.06 --> 4363.46] and how they, +[4363.46 --> 4364.68] not only just survived, +[4364.84 --> 4365.86] but thrived +[4365.86 --> 4367.64] and exponentially +[4367.64 --> 4368.98] grew +[4368.98 --> 4370.08] in the midst +[4370.08 --> 4370.94] of persecution +[4370.94 --> 4371.74] and in the midst +[4371.74 --> 4373.42] of this pagan culture. +[4374.38 --> 4374.74] Afterwards, +[4375.00 --> 4377.50] we led a panel discussion. +[4377.58 --> 4378.52] I led a panel discussion +[4378.52 --> 4379.92] with a group of colleagues +[4379.92 --> 4380.38] that I wrote +[4380.38 --> 4381.30] this Bible study with, +[4381.40 --> 4381.70] actually. +[4382.28 --> 4383.60] We led a panel discussion +[4383.60 --> 4384.02] and there, +[4384.88 --> 4385.70] a woman stood up +[4385.70 --> 4386.84] who does ministry +[4386.84 --> 4388.42] to marginalized women +[4388.42 --> 4389.88] in downtown St. Catherine's +[4389.88 --> 4390.94] and she said, +[4391.94 --> 4393.24] all people are looking +[4393.24 --> 4395.06] for peace and power. +[4396.00 --> 4397.22] Either they will find it +[4397.22 --> 4398.02] in witchcraft +[4398.02 --> 4399.32] or in Jesus. +[4400.40 --> 4401.06] But what they find +[4401.06 --> 4401.56] in Jesus +[4401.56 --> 4402.90] is totally different +[4402.90 --> 4403.94] than what they will find +[4403.94 --> 4404.58] in witchcraft. +[4406.26 --> 4407.08] But oh man, +[4407.14 --> 4407.98] I think she's right. +[4408.98 --> 4410.12] People are looking +[4410.12 --> 4410.90] for peace +[4410.90 --> 4412.20] and power. +[4412.20 --> 4413.76] And why are people +[4413.76 --> 4414.34] looking for peace +[4414.34 --> 4414.82] and power? +[4415.12 --> 4416.22] It's because we feel +[4416.22 --> 4417.62] the chaos of disorder +[4417.62 --> 4418.76] and we fear it. +[4419.48 --> 4420.92] We feel the inability +[4420.92 --> 4422.00] to face the future +[4422.00 --> 4423.60] and we fear it. +[4425.20 --> 4426.66] Peter is putting +[4426.66 --> 4427.58] a choice +[4427.58 --> 4428.80] in front of us. +[4430.42 --> 4431.44] Saying fear +[4431.44 --> 4433.10] or hope. +[4433.10 --> 4434.84] And it can be +[4434.84 --> 4436.10] that simple. +[4436.54 --> 4436.94] Fear +[4436.94 --> 4438.56] or hope. +[4439.50 --> 4439.90] Fear +[4439.90 --> 4441.92] in the future +[4441.92 --> 4443.12] and of the future +[4443.12 --> 4444.70] and of your place +[4444.70 --> 4445.72] in the world. +[4446.60 --> 4447.74] Or hope +[4447.74 --> 4449.08] for the future +[4449.08 --> 4450.16] and your purpose +[4450.16 --> 4450.86] in the present. +[4452.22 --> 4452.80] Because you see, +[4453.00 --> 4455.20] it's only a sense +[4455.20 --> 4455.96] of hope +[4455.96 --> 4457.18] for the future +[4457.18 --> 4458.46] that really fuels +[4458.46 --> 4459.78] and fills +[4459.78 --> 4461.34] a sense of purpose +[4461.34 --> 4462.32] for the present. +[4463.10 --> 4464.22] What you believe +[4464.22 --> 4465.00] about the future +[4465.00 --> 4465.76] determines +[4465.76 --> 4466.88] what you do +[4466.88 --> 4467.90] in the present +[4467.90 --> 4470.36] and how you do it. +[4471.34 --> 4472.22] And Peter is saying +[4472.22 --> 4473.26] because you know +[4473.26 --> 4474.02] the future, +[4474.64 --> 4475.52] because you know +[4475.52 --> 4477.16] that Jesus is returning +[4477.16 --> 4478.36] and that all things +[4478.36 --> 4479.60] will be made right, +[4479.72 --> 4480.74] because you know +[4480.74 --> 4482.42] that this seeming chaos +[4482.42 --> 4483.90] will turn to order +[4483.90 --> 4486.12] and that the mess +[4486.12 --> 4488.02] of the crisscrossing +[4488.02 --> 4489.10] paths before you +[4489.10 --> 4489.94] will be revealed +[4489.94 --> 4491.22] as the beauty +[4491.22 --> 4492.66] of a fractal arrangement +[4492.66 --> 4493.50] coming together +[4493.50 --> 4494.36] in the tapestry +[4494.36 --> 4495.14] of history +[4495.14 --> 4495.98] directed only +[4495.98 --> 4497.00] by a sovereign God. +[4497.18 --> 4498.66] Because you know +[4498.66 --> 4499.82] this truth, +[4500.62 --> 4501.82] you can have hope. +[4503.36 --> 4504.22] And hope +[4504.22 --> 4505.10] for us +[4505.10 --> 4506.54] who know this truth, +[4506.66 --> 4507.30] hope for us +[4507.30 --> 4508.26] who know this God +[4508.26 --> 4510.74] looks a certain way. +[4510.74 --> 4514.62] as obedient children +[4514.62 --> 4516.12] do not conform +[4516.12 --> 4517.20] to the evil desires +[4517.20 --> 4517.68] you had +[4517.68 --> 4518.26] when you lived +[4518.26 --> 4519.02] in ignorance. +[4519.30 --> 4519.82] Ignorance there +[4519.82 --> 4520.44] meaning before +[4520.44 --> 4521.32] you knew this hope. +[4522.42 --> 4523.86] But just as he +[4523.86 --> 4524.70] who called you +[4524.70 --> 4525.36] is holy, +[4525.64 --> 4526.74] so be holy +[4526.74 --> 4527.92] in all you do. +[4528.40 --> 4529.40] For it is written, +[4529.72 --> 4530.34] be holy +[4530.34 --> 4531.70] because I +[4531.70 --> 4532.64] am +[4532.64 --> 4533.70] holy. +[4533.70 --> 4536.14] hope +[4536.14 --> 4537.40] for the Christian +[4537.40 --> 4538.60] looks like +[4538.60 --> 4539.58] holiness +[4539.58 --> 4541.02] in the present. +[4542.66 --> 4543.08] And let's be +[4543.08 --> 4544.10] really clear +[4544.10 --> 4544.90] on the order +[4544.90 --> 4545.56] here, right? +[4545.60 --> 4545.80] Because +[4545.80 --> 4546.74] paganism +[4546.74 --> 4547.90] and all other +[4547.90 --> 4548.54] religions, +[4548.68 --> 4549.14] all other +[4549.14 --> 4549.80] worldviews +[4549.80 --> 4550.22] will put it +[4550.22 --> 4550.64] this way. +[4550.92 --> 4551.86] Do this +[4551.86 --> 4552.30] and you'll +[4552.30 --> 4553.20] get this reward. +[4554.24 --> 4555.34] Behave this way, +[4555.48 --> 4556.38] do this ritual, +[4556.60 --> 4557.52] pray this prayer, +[4557.94 --> 4558.74] empty yourself +[4558.74 --> 4559.36] of this, +[4559.48 --> 4559.96] offer up +[4559.96 --> 4560.86] this sacrifice, +[4561.36 --> 4562.46] work these hours, +[4562.66 --> 4563.60] drink this cup, +[4563.70 --> 4564.38] and you will +[4564.38 --> 4565.10] get your peace +[4565.10 --> 4566.06] and your power. +[4566.42 --> 4567.02] Every other +[4567.02 --> 4568.06] religion +[4568.06 --> 4569.80] and worldview. +[4571.16 --> 4571.60] Christianity +[4571.60 --> 4573.58] is different. +[4574.76 --> 4575.52] The gospel +[4575.52 --> 4577.38] is different. +[4577.58 --> 4578.48] The Bible +[4578.48 --> 4580.60] is different. +[4582.98 --> 4583.86] For you know +[4583.86 --> 4584.42] that it is not +[4584.42 --> 4585.36] with perishable +[4585.36 --> 4586.08] things such as +[4586.08 --> 4586.78] silver or gold +[4586.78 --> 4587.24] that you were +[4587.24 --> 4587.84] redeemed from +[4587.84 --> 4588.80] the empty way +[4588.80 --> 4589.56] of life handed +[4589.56 --> 4590.12] down to you +[4590.12 --> 4590.92] from your ancestors, +[4591.36 --> 4592.60] but with the +[4592.60 --> 4593.88] precious blood +[4593.88 --> 4594.60] of Christ, +[4594.96 --> 4595.62] a lamb +[4595.62 --> 4596.74] without blemish +[4596.74 --> 4597.94] or defect. +[4599.38 --> 4600.12] He was chosen +[4600.12 --> 4601.00] before the creation +[4601.00 --> 4601.58] of the world, +[4601.76 --> 4602.58] but was revealed +[4602.58 --> 4603.80] in these last times +[4603.80 --> 4604.58] for your sake. +[4604.96 --> 4605.88] Through him +[4605.88 --> 4607.10] you believe +[4607.10 --> 4607.68] in God +[4607.68 --> 4608.44] who raised him +[4608.44 --> 4609.00] from the dead +[4609.00 --> 4609.90] and glorified him +[4609.90 --> 4611.50] so that your faith +[4611.50 --> 4612.92] and hope +[4612.92 --> 4615.26] are in God. +[4615.26 --> 4619.82] hope in God +[4619.82 --> 4621.00] is a gift +[4621.00 --> 4622.36] of grace +[4622.36 --> 4623.46] given to you +[4623.46 --> 4624.26] because Jesus +[4624.26 --> 4625.16] lived the life +[4625.16 --> 4625.98] I should have lived +[4625.98 --> 4627.26] and died the death +[4627.26 --> 4628.66] that I deserved. +[4629.60 --> 4630.24] So what is your +[4630.24 --> 4631.26] source of peace? +[4631.80 --> 4632.24] The death +[4632.24 --> 4632.92] and the resurrection +[4632.92 --> 4634.14] of Jesus. +[4634.26 --> 4634.86] What is your source +[4634.86 --> 4635.52] of power +[4635.52 --> 4636.62] in this life? +[4636.72 --> 4637.14] The death +[4637.14 --> 4638.10] and the resurrection +[4638.10 --> 4638.96] of Jesus. +[4639.04 --> 4640.06] If we died with him +[4640.06 --> 4640.72] we are also +[4640.72 --> 4641.72] raised with him. +[4641.72 --> 4642.88] Now, to be sure +[4642.88 --> 4644.82] power looks different +[4644.82 --> 4646.98] and so much different +[4646.98 --> 4648.32] than what the world thinks +[4648.32 --> 4649.70] because the power +[4649.70 --> 4650.28] of the gospel +[4650.28 --> 4650.90] is revealed +[4650.90 --> 4652.04] in weakness. +[4652.80 --> 4653.82] This power of God +[4653.82 --> 4654.30] is revealed +[4654.30 --> 4654.80] in a willingness +[4654.80 --> 4655.44] to serve. +[4655.82 --> 4656.36] This power +[4656.36 --> 4657.24] is the washing +[4657.24 --> 4657.82] of feet +[4657.82 --> 4658.60] and the sitting +[4658.60 --> 4659.54] with tax collectors +[4659.54 --> 4660.68] and prostitutes. +[4661.02 --> 4661.60] This power +[4661.60 --> 4662.88] is foster parenting +[4662.88 --> 4664.46] and night shift ministries. +[4664.62 --> 4665.12] This power +[4665.12 --> 4666.74] is M2W2. +[4666.92 --> 4667.58] This power +[4667.58 --> 4668.38] is not thinking +[4668.38 --> 4669.08] of ourselves +[4669.08 --> 4669.68] more highly +[4669.68 --> 4670.22] than we ought +[4670.22 --> 4670.64] but rather +[4670.64 --> 4671.30] in humility +[4671.30 --> 4672.28] considering others +[4672.28 --> 4673.06] as greater +[4673.06 --> 4674.06] than yourself. +[4674.50 --> 4675.04] Holiness +[4675.04 --> 4676.42] is being set apart +[4676.42 --> 4677.30] in the world +[4677.30 --> 4677.90] in ways +[4677.90 --> 4678.68] that just won't +[4678.68 --> 4679.30] make sense +[4679.30 --> 4680.32] to the world. +[4681.88 --> 4682.38] That's why +[4682.38 --> 4683.18] the early church +[4683.18 --> 4684.20] was ostracized +[4684.20 --> 4685.08] and eventually +[4685.08 --> 4686.24] prosecuted +[4686.24 --> 4687.36] because it doesn't +[4687.36 --> 4688.02] make sense +[4688.02 --> 4689.00] to a people +[4689.00 --> 4690.72] who don't know God +[4690.72 --> 4691.64] and yet +[4691.64 --> 4692.34] when you look +[4692.34 --> 4692.92] at the history +[4692.92 --> 4694.02] that's exactly +[4694.02 --> 4695.58] why the early church +[4695.58 --> 4697.32] grew in exponential +[4697.32 --> 4698.30] ways +[4698.30 --> 4699.84] because it didn't +[4699.84 --> 4701.26] make sense. +[4701.30 --> 4703.26] only God +[4703.26 --> 4704.00] can do +[4704.00 --> 4704.76] that +[4704.76 --> 4706.88] and that's not +[4706.88 --> 4707.42] going to make sense +[4707.42 --> 4707.76] to people +[4707.76 --> 4708.46] who don't know him +[4708.46 --> 4710.20] and it should +[4710.20 --> 4711.22] be that way. +[4712.50 --> 4714.06] If my life +[4714.06 --> 4715.44] makes sense +[4715.44 --> 4716.30] to people +[4716.30 --> 4717.06] who don't know +[4717.06 --> 4717.44] Jesus +[4717.44 --> 4719.74] what is the effect +[4719.74 --> 4720.44] of knowing Jesus +[4720.44 --> 4721.30] having on my life? +[4721.30 --> 4726.38] I mentioned +[4726.38 --> 4726.96] Elliot Clark +[4726.96 --> 4727.38] already +[4727.38 --> 4729.88] Elliot Clark +[4729.88 --> 4732.58] was a missionary +[4732.58 --> 4734.20] to Southeast +[4734.20 --> 4735.42] to a country +[4735.42 --> 4736.38] in Southeast Asia. +[4737.06 --> 4738.04] He doesn't tell you +[4738.04 --> 4738.46] what country +[4738.46 --> 4739.30] because it's illegal +[4739.30 --> 4740.02] to be a missionary +[4740.02 --> 4740.68] where he was +[4740.68 --> 4741.24] and there are still +[4741.24 --> 4742.20] missionaries on the ground +[4742.20 --> 4743.30] where he was +[4743.30 --> 4744.84] and he tells a story +[4744.84 --> 4746.10] of a man named Hassan +[4746.10 --> 4747.36] who was a Muslim +[4747.36 --> 4748.14] who was a friend +[4748.14 --> 4748.76] of a friend +[4748.76 --> 4749.40] of a friend +[4749.40 --> 4750.72] while Elliot +[4750.72 --> 4751.32] was there. +[4751.42 --> 4752.26] They ran into each other +[4752.26 --> 4752.88] a couple times. +[4752.96 --> 4753.32] They didn't know +[4753.32 --> 4754.00] each other well +[4754.00 --> 4756.60] but Hassan knew +[4756.60 --> 4757.34] that Elliot +[4757.34 --> 4758.04] was a Christian +[4758.04 --> 4760.10] and Elliot knew +[4760.10 --> 4760.62] that Hassan +[4760.62 --> 4761.22] was a Muslim. +[4762.18 --> 4762.84] Now in this part +[4762.84 --> 4763.22] of the world +[4763.22 --> 4764.00] and in many parts +[4764.00 --> 4764.52] of the world +[4764.52 --> 4766.36] Hassan is trained +[4766.36 --> 4767.98] with all the answers +[4767.98 --> 4768.92] and assumptions +[4768.92 --> 4770.34] about what Christians +[4770.34 --> 4771.68] supposedly believe. +[4771.68 --> 4774.04] now eventually +[4774.04 --> 4774.98] Elliot left +[4774.98 --> 4776.66] that region +[4776.66 --> 4777.98] and went back +[4777.98 --> 4778.62] to the U.S. +[4778.64 --> 4779.40] to do some work +[4779.40 --> 4780.30] there. +[4781.32 --> 4782.06] It happened +[4782.06 --> 4783.74] that a few years later +[4783.74 --> 4784.66] a year or so later +[4784.66 --> 4785.90] one of his friends +[4785.90 --> 4786.70] was getting married +[4786.70 --> 4787.98] and so they went back +[4787.98 --> 4789.04] to the place +[4789.04 --> 4790.98] where they were +[4790.98 --> 4792.12] to participate +[4792.12 --> 4793.20] in that wedding +[4793.20 --> 4794.34] and while Elliot +[4794.34 --> 4795.04] was there +[4795.04 --> 4796.58] Hassan +[4796.58 --> 4797.58] reached out to him. +[4799.30 --> 4800.14] It seemed random +[4800.14 --> 4800.82] at first +[4800.82 --> 4802.18] but he asked +[4802.18 --> 4803.06] if they could have coffee +[4803.06 --> 4805.40] and over the course +[4805.40 --> 4806.28] of their conversation +[4806.28 --> 4807.26] it came to a point +[4807.26 --> 4808.42] where it was winding down +[4808.42 --> 4809.62] and Elliot had been praying +[4809.62 --> 4810.46] and saying +[4810.46 --> 4811.36] I need to do something +[4811.36 --> 4811.78] with this +[4811.78 --> 4812.30] I need to use +[4812.30 --> 4812.94] this opportunity +[4812.94 --> 4814.16] and so finally +[4814.16 --> 4815.16] he asked Hassan +[4815.16 --> 4816.02] what do you think +[4816.02 --> 4816.64] I believe? +[4817.78 --> 4818.46] And so began +[4818.46 --> 4819.94] a two hour conversation +[4819.94 --> 4820.86] back and forth +[4820.86 --> 4822.04] about Hassan saying +[4822.04 --> 4822.62] well this is what +[4822.62 --> 4823.24] Christians believe +[4823.24 --> 4824.44] and then Clark +[4824.44 --> 4825.16] being able to say +[4825.16 --> 4825.52] well no +[4825.52 --> 4826.28] this is actually +[4826.28 --> 4826.96] what we believe. +[4827.26 --> 4828.14] At the end of that +[4828.14 --> 4829.90] Elliot Clark says +[4829.90 --> 4831.22] Hassan asked +[4831.22 --> 4831.88] the question +[4831.88 --> 4833.10] why didn't you +[4833.10 --> 4834.10] tell me this +[4834.10 --> 4835.22] was what you believed +[4835.22 --> 4835.92] when you were here? +[4836.86 --> 4838.14] Now you have to leave. +[4838.80 --> 4839.62] Had you told me this +[4839.62 --> 4840.18] when you were here +[4840.18 --> 4840.70] we could have had +[4840.70 --> 4841.46] way more time +[4841.46 --> 4842.34] to talk about it. +[4844.84 --> 4845.74] That moment +[4845.74 --> 4846.86] Clark reflects on +[4846.86 --> 4847.46] in his book +[4847.46 --> 4849.00] and he admits +[4849.00 --> 4850.56] that it was fear +[4850.56 --> 4854.84] and his response +[4854.84 --> 4856.26] his learning +[4856.26 --> 4857.06] from that +[4857.06 --> 4857.86] is actually +[4857.86 --> 4858.70] recognizing +[4858.70 --> 4859.92] a greater +[4859.92 --> 4860.74] fear +[4860.74 --> 4861.44] right +[4861.44 --> 4861.96] the fear +[4861.96 --> 4862.60] of God +[4862.60 --> 4863.68] a reverence +[4863.68 --> 4864.18] for him +[4864.18 --> 4865.20] that has to trump +[4865.20 --> 4866.82] all those other fears +[4866.82 --> 4868.78] that's the source +[4868.78 --> 4869.90] of your hope +[4869.90 --> 4871.04] that leads to +[4871.04 --> 4871.76] holiness +[4871.76 --> 4872.76] that enables you +[4872.76 --> 4873.36] to talk +[4873.36 --> 4874.42] in those moments +[4874.42 --> 4875.14] where you will be +[4875.14 --> 4875.90] the odd one out +[4875.90 --> 4876.68] where you will be +[4876.68 --> 4877.30] ostracized +[4877.30 --> 4877.82] where you will +[4877.82 --> 4878.96] have an impact +[4878.96 --> 4880.34] of professing +[4880.34 --> 4881.04] your faith +[4881.04 --> 4882.46] in Jesus Christ +[4882.46 --> 4884.66] it's a reverence +[4884.66 --> 4885.82] for God +[4885.82 --> 4890.56] that's the source +[4890.56 --> 4891.10] of hope +[4891.10 --> 4892.16] that leads +[4892.16 --> 4892.68] to holiness +[4892.68 --> 4895.10] and holiness +[4895.10 --> 4895.72] too +[4895.72 --> 4897.06] looks a certain +[4897.06 --> 4897.52] way +[4897.52 --> 4898.50] for us +[4898.50 --> 4899.76] in the church +[4899.76 --> 4901.94] look at verse 22 +[4901.94 --> 4903.98] now that you have +[4903.98 --> 4905.06] purified yourselves +[4905.06 --> 4906.30] by obeying the truth +[4906.30 --> 4907.08] so that you have +[4907.08 --> 4908.12] sincere love +[4908.12 --> 4909.10] for each other +[4909.10 --> 4910.62] love one another +[4910.62 --> 4911.24] deeply +[4911.24 --> 4912.98] from the heart +[4912.98 --> 4915.82] let me ask you this +[4915.82 --> 4917.96] in a world +[4917.96 --> 4918.96] that is so +[4918.96 --> 4919.72] clearly +[4919.72 --> 4920.98] and deeply +[4920.98 --> 4922.06] divided +[4922.06 --> 4923.96] and only +[4923.96 --> 4924.82] every day +[4924.82 --> 4925.54] becoming more +[4925.54 --> 4926.08] and more +[4926.08 --> 4927.16] polarized +[4927.16 --> 4929.74] when people's +[4929.74 --> 4930.96] normal practice +[4930.96 --> 4931.82] on Facebook +[4931.82 --> 4933.10] is muting +[4933.10 --> 4933.76] conversations +[4933.76 --> 4934.58] because they don't +[4934.58 --> 4934.94] want to hear +[4934.94 --> 4935.48] from that person +[4935.48 --> 4935.86] anymore +[4935.86 --> 4937.54] but they also +[4937.54 --> 4938.02] don't want the +[4938.02 --> 4938.56] social impact +[4938.56 --> 4939.04] of deleting +[4939.04 --> 4939.64] that person +[4939.64 --> 4942.30] what sort +[4942.30 --> 4943.20] of witness +[4943.20 --> 4944.50] can a church +[4944.50 --> 4945.10] community +[4945.10 --> 4946.76] that is genuinely +[4946.76 --> 4947.84] sincerely +[4947.84 --> 4948.96] is Peter's word +[4948.96 --> 4949.44] in that verse +[4949.44 --> 4950.40] sincerely +[4950.40 --> 4952.20] loving one another +[4952.20 --> 4953.28] deeply +[4953.28 --> 4955.44] love one another +[4955.44 --> 4956.26] deeply +[4956.26 --> 4957.18] from +[4957.18 --> 4957.86] the +[4957.86 --> 4958.80] heart +[4958.80 --> 4961.00] that doesn't mean +[4961.00 --> 4961.66] we all agree +[4961.66 --> 4963.34] but it does mean +[4963.34 --> 4964.12] we all get together +[4964.12 --> 4965.44] it doesn't mean +[4965.44 --> 4965.98] we all think +[4965.98 --> 4966.46] the same +[4966.46 --> 4967.82] but it does mean +[4967.82 --> 4968.26] that we think +[4968.26 --> 4968.70] together +[4968.70 --> 4970.34] it doesn't mean +[4970.34 --> 4970.70] that we all +[4970.70 --> 4972.70] live and laugh +[4972.70 --> 4973.86] and love +[4973.86 --> 4974.62] you know +[4974.62 --> 4975.48] around dining +[4975.48 --> 4976.22] tables together +[4976.22 --> 4977.26] but some of us do +[4977.26 --> 4978.32] and we do come +[4978.32 --> 4979.30] around this table +[4979.30 --> 4979.98] together +[4979.98 --> 4981.84] right +[4981.84 --> 4982.48] in a world +[4982.48 --> 4982.94] that is so +[4982.94 --> 4984.24] deeply divided +[4984.24 --> 4985.64] and is intentionally +[4985.64 --> 4986.80] being fractured +[4986.80 --> 4987.62] over and over +[4987.62 --> 4988.30] and over again +[4988.30 --> 4989.44] what might it look +[4989.44 --> 4990.02] like for us +[4990.02 --> 4990.66] as a church +[4990.66 --> 4991.52] to love +[4991.52 --> 4992.20] one another +[4992.20 --> 4993.00] from the heart +[4993.00 --> 4993.56] because make no +[4993.56 --> 4994.18] mistake about it +[4994.18 --> 4994.96] this word +[4994.96 --> 4995.74] of loving one another +[4995.74 --> 4996.20] from the heart +[4996.20 --> 4997.74] isn't a general word +[4997.74 --> 4999.18] to people +[4999.18 --> 5000.04] and humanity +[5000.04 --> 5000.88] this is a word +[5000.88 --> 5002.34] to a local +[5002.34 --> 5004.18] gathered church +[5004.18 --> 5007.14] love +[5007.14 --> 5008.38] one another +[5008.38 --> 5010.08] deeply +[5010.08 --> 5014.86] that's what I want +[5014.86 --> 5015.26] for you +[5015.26 --> 5017.56] to be frank +[5017.56 --> 5017.98] that's what I want +[5017.98 --> 5018.52] from you +[5018.52 --> 5021.32] how do we get that +[5021.32 --> 5023.18] how do we become that +[5023.18 --> 5024.90] you know +[5024.90 --> 5026.32] again if you +[5026.32 --> 5027.46] if you study the early +[5027.46 --> 5027.90] church +[5027.90 --> 5028.38] one of the +[5028.38 --> 5029.26] the reasons +[5029.26 --> 5030.66] why they were able +[5030.66 --> 5031.50] to thrive +[5031.50 --> 5032.64] in persecution +[5032.64 --> 5034.02] and chaos +[5034.02 --> 5035.62] when they did +[5035.62 --> 5036.66] and how they did +[5036.66 --> 5037.58] is because +[5037.58 --> 5038.54] they took +[5038.54 --> 5039.16] God +[5039.16 --> 5040.48] at his +[5040.48 --> 5041.20] word +[5041.20 --> 5042.72] they really +[5042.72 --> 5043.18] believe +[5043.18 --> 5043.82] that God +[5043.82 --> 5044.42] spoke +[5044.42 --> 5044.92] and God +[5044.92 --> 5045.60] speaks +[5045.60 --> 5047.10] in his +[5047.10 --> 5047.84] word +[5047.84 --> 5049.46] that the gospel +[5049.46 --> 5050.06] message +[5050.06 --> 5050.62] really +[5050.62 --> 5051.42] can +[5051.42 --> 5052.46] transform +[5052.46 --> 5053.54] lives +[5053.54 --> 5056.14] that this is the source +[5056.14 --> 5056.82] of God's +[5056.82 --> 5057.60] working +[5057.60 --> 5058.66] in the world +[5058.66 --> 5059.30] right here +[5059.30 --> 5059.66] his +[5059.66 --> 5060.68] word +[5060.68 --> 5062.88] for you +[5062.88 --> 5063.54] have been born +[5063.54 --> 5063.86] again +[5063.86 --> 5065.02] not of perishable +[5065.02 --> 5065.40] seed +[5065.40 --> 5066.58] but of imperishable +[5066.58 --> 5067.94] through the living +[5067.94 --> 5068.86] and enduring +[5068.86 --> 5069.92] word +[5069.92 --> 5070.76] of +[5070.76 --> 5071.62] God +[5071.62 --> 5072.30] for all people +[5072.30 --> 5073.12] are like glass +[5073.12 --> 5073.84] grass +[5073.84 --> 5074.70] and all their glory +[5074.70 --> 5075.46] is like flowers +[5075.46 --> 5076.16] of the field +[5076.16 --> 5076.78] the grass +[5076.78 --> 5077.46] withers +[5077.46 --> 5078.16] the flowers +[5078.16 --> 5078.76] fall +[5078.76 --> 5079.84] but the word +[5079.84 --> 5080.90] of the Lord +[5080.90 --> 5082.06] endures +[5082.06 --> 5083.32] forever +[5083.32 --> 5086.08] living hope +[5086.08 --> 5087.18] looks like +[5087.18 --> 5088.52] living holiness +[5088.52 --> 5089.70] because of +[5089.70 --> 5090.26] the living +[5090.26 --> 5091.10] word +[5091.10 --> 5092.82] live the word +[5092.82 --> 5093.18] of God +[5093.18 --> 5093.78] and you will +[5093.78 --> 5094.24] actually +[5094.24 --> 5094.82] finally +[5094.82 --> 5095.52] for the first +[5095.52 --> 5095.92] time +[5095.92 --> 5096.62] live +[5096.62 --> 5097.66] live the word +[5097.66 --> 5098.12] and you will +[5098.12 --> 5098.50] actually +[5098.50 --> 5099.36] for the first +[5099.36 --> 5099.64] time +[5099.64 --> 5100.24] love +[5100.24 --> 5101.16] live the word +[5101.16 --> 5101.54] and you will +[5101.54 --> 5101.96] actually +[5101.96 --> 5102.76] maybe for the +[5102.76 --> 5103.24] first time +[5103.24 --> 5104.54] live hopeful +[5104.54 --> 5105.50] and not +[5105.50 --> 5106.88] in fear +[5106.88 --> 5110.76] earlier I talked +[5110.76 --> 5111.34] about the culture +[5111.34 --> 5112.02] around us +[5112.02 --> 5112.74] being the air +[5112.74 --> 5113.46] we breathe +[5113.46 --> 5114.54] and the water +[5114.54 --> 5115.36] we swim in +[5115.36 --> 5117.08] it's time +[5117.08 --> 5117.64] to change +[5117.64 --> 5118.22] the air +[5118.22 --> 5119.26] by letting +[5119.26 --> 5119.78] the breath +[5119.78 --> 5120.36] of God +[5120.36 --> 5121.06] come into +[5121.06 --> 5121.44] you +[5121.44 --> 5121.94] through +[5121.94 --> 5122.74] his +[5122.74 --> 5123.52] word +[5123.52 --> 5124.66] or change +[5124.66 --> 5125.14] the water +[5125.14 --> 5125.78] that we swim +[5125.78 --> 5125.98] in +[5125.98 --> 5126.52] by letting +[5126.52 --> 5127.34] the living +[5127.34 --> 5128.04] water +[5128.04 --> 5128.92] come into +[5128.92 --> 5129.12] you +[5129.12 --> 5129.68] immerse +[5129.68 --> 5130.28] yourself +[5130.28 --> 5130.80] in +[5130.80 --> 5131.46] God's +[5131.46 --> 5131.94] word +[5131.94 --> 5132.38] I can't +[5132.38 --> 5132.74] stress +[5132.74 --> 5133.42] this enough +[5133.42 --> 5135.20] let me put +[5135.20 --> 5135.56] it this way +[5135.56 --> 5137.18] when Jesus +[5137.18 --> 5137.62] was +[5137.62 --> 5138.98] after his +[5138.98 --> 5139.40] baptism +[5139.40 --> 5140.02] he was taken +[5140.02 --> 5140.76] out into +[5140.76 --> 5141.28] the wilderness +[5141.28 --> 5141.90] and he was +[5141.90 --> 5142.46] tempted by +[5142.46 --> 5143.00] the devil +[5143.00 --> 5143.42] you remember +[5143.42 --> 5144.06] this story +[5144.06 --> 5145.24] he was tempted +[5145.24 --> 5145.84] by the devil +[5145.84 --> 5146.84] three times +[5146.84 --> 5147.16] the devil +[5147.16 --> 5147.64] came to him +[5147.64 --> 5147.86] and said +[5147.86 --> 5148.26] well what about +[5148.26 --> 5148.72] this and what +[5148.72 --> 5149.12] about this +[5149.12 --> 5149.32] and what +[5149.32 --> 5149.68] about this +[5149.68 --> 5150.36] and every +[5150.36 --> 5150.68] time +[5150.68 --> 5151.00] what did +[5151.00 --> 5151.58] Jesus do +[5151.58 --> 5153.78] he quoted +[5153.78 --> 5154.50] the bible +[5154.50 --> 5156.52] the living +[5156.52 --> 5157.16] word +[5157.16 --> 5157.96] quoted +[5157.96 --> 5159.04] the living +[5159.04 --> 5159.74] and enduring +[5159.74 --> 5160.26] word +[5160.26 --> 5161.06] and defeated +[5161.06 --> 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your +[5227.74 --> 5228.36] living +[5228.36 --> 5229.46] word +[5229.46 --> 5232.14] move +[5232.14 --> 5232.62] in +[5232.62 --> 5233.40] us +[5233.40 --> 5234.68] we pray +[5234.68 --> 5235.90] to hear +[5235.90 --> 5236.60] your +[5236.60 --> 5237.68] voice +[5237.68 --> 5238.58] now +[5238.58 --> 5240.04] and to be +[5240.04 --> 5240.66] sustained +[5240.66 --> 5241.72] in our +[5241.72 --> 5242.12] journeys +[5242.12 --> 5243.10] of faith +[5243.10 --> 5244.50] and faithfulness +[5244.50 --> 5246.82] because +[5246.82 --> 5247.12] we +[5247.12 --> 5247.36] lord +[5247.36 --> 5247.72] god +[5247.72 --> 5248.64] have +[5248.64 --> 5248.94] seen +[5248.94 --> 5249.48] your +[5249.48 --> 5250.72] faithfulness +[5250.72 --> 5252.28] we +[5252.28 --> 5252.46] have +[5252.46 --> 5252.88] heard +[5252.88 --> 5253.28] your +[5253.28 --> 5254.04] story +[5254.04 --> 5254.68] of +[5254.68 --> 5255.16] love +[5255.16 --> 5256.48] that +[5256.48 --> 5256.66] led +[5256.66 --> 5256.92] you +[5256.92 --> 5257.40] jesus +[5257.40 --> 5257.92] to the +[5257.92 --> 5258.28] cross +[5258.28 --> 5258.70] in our +[5258.70 --> 5259.14] place +[5259.14 --> 5261.06] that +[5261.06 --> 5261.22] as +[5261.22 --> 5261.38] you +[5261.38 --> 5261.54] are +[5261.54 --> 5261.86] raised +[5261.86 --> 5262.44] victorious +[5262.44 --> 5263.02] we +[5263.02 --> 5263.64] are +[5263.64 --> 5264.26] raised +[5264.26 --> 5264.98] with +[5264.98 --> 5265.30] you +[5265.30 --> 5266.88] sent +[5266.88 --> 5267.18] out +[5267.18 --> 5267.54] in the +[5267.54 --> 5267.90] peace +[5267.90 --> 5268.60] and +[5268.60 --> 5269.12] power +[5269.12 --> 5270.14] of that +[5270.14 --> 5271.08] truth +[5271.08 --> 5272.80] in your +[5272.80 --> 5273.02] name +[5273.02 --> 5273.18] we +[5273.18 --> 5273.44] pray +[5273.44 --> 5274.56] amen +[5274.56 --> 5274.84] maybe +[5274.88 --> 5278.50] do +[5278.50 --> 5279.88] or +[5279.88 --> 5282.62] you +[5283.04 --> 5284.78] we +[5284.78 --> 5289.38] can +[5289.38 --> 5290.28] you +[5290.28 --> 5291.38] can +[5291.38 --> 5294.88] die +[5295.34 --> 5298.90] o +[5302.32 --> 5302.86] by +[5302.86 --> 5304.28] thy +[5304.28 --> 5308.32] Here in living we'll come to Gile with you, +[5308.32 --> 5310.06] Teil of the Lord, +[5311.28 --> 5313.84] This will do slow and slow. +[5316.22 --> 5318.70] Read the message of the Christian, +[5319.32 --> 5321.08] And light to an order of life +[5321.08 --> 5323.20] To the +[5323.94 --> 5325.74] staying stay, +[5326.72 --> 5327.16] To the ground in +[5327.76 --> 5329.62] voi +[5330.76 --> 5332.58] love +[5332.58 --> 5334.50] Praise Allah. +[5362.58 --> 5374.90] The future of heaven is if it is dark, it is dark, it is dark, but it is dark으로, it isfree. +[5374.90 --> 5382.48] He is through the colors and the leaves +[5382.48 --> 5388.40] Tents of this eternal life of peace +[5388.40 --> 5393.80] In my sight, in the works of grace +[5393.80 --> 5399.40] In my soul, Christ in all his name +[5399.40 --> 5402.98] I am not while in the works of grace +[5402.98 --> 5407.60] In the hope of the creation +[5407.60 --> 5414.40] They may die, of the promise reign +[5414.40 --> 5419.04] I shout, 확 out any posts of grace +[5419.04 --> 5426.06] or hell, cause it starts from the point of zn' +[5426.06 --> 5432.50] In forgetting so, unlike the reruns of life, +[5432.62 --> 5438.22] done that sort of rough on several times. +[5438.72 --> 5448.66] And faces on the간 of so thats how thank Indiana. +[5448.66 --> 5478.64] Thank you. +[5478.66 --> 5482.08] May we have a seat. Thank you. +[5488.82 --> 5500.72] As we meet Jesus and hear from him in his word, we now have opportunity to hear from him, to taste and see him in this table. +[5500.72 --> 5508.46] And so we gather together as a church family to be encountered by God here together. +[5508.66 --> 5514.12] This table, we are united not only with God, but also with each other. +[5515.62 --> 5521.24] As at his last supper, the Lord Jesus took bread. +[5522.20 --> 5524.88] And when he had given thanks, he broke it. +[5525.66 --> 5529.90] And he said, this is my body, which is for you. +[5530.94 --> 5533.56] Do this in remembrance of me. +[5533.56 --> 5538.56] In the same way, he took the cup after supper. +[5539.52 --> 5543.62] And he said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. +[5544.64 --> 5547.82] Do this in remembrance of me. +[5548.52 --> 5557.48] For whenever we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord's death and resurrection until he comes again. +[5557.48 --> 5565.78] Therefore, we proclaim our faith as signed and sealed in this sacrament. +[5565.78 --> 5583.08] Church family, the Lord has prepared his table for all who love him and trust in him alone for their salvation. +[5583.08 --> 5593.04] If you are truly sorry for your sins, sincerely believe in the Lord Jesus as your Savior and desire to live in obedience to him. +[5593.10 --> 5601.78] Whether you are here in this sanctuary or participating at home online, we invite you to come with gladness to the table of our Lord. +[5601.78 --> 5617.24] As the elders come forward to help us with distribution, I want to encourage you, as the elements are coming by in front of you, to keep your masks on. +[5617.34 --> 5620.10] So that we're not breathing over everything that people are touching. +[5620.66 --> 5622.10] And then to pass the tray. +[5622.24 --> 5627.20] And then once we are ready all together, we can remove our masks and participate there. +[5631.78 --> 5661.76] And then once we are ready all together, we can remove our masks and participate in the air. +[5661.78 --> 5691.76] We can remove our masks and participate in the air. +[5691.78 --> 5697.08] Make our masks and tape-in the air in the air. +[5697.08 --> 5697.78] infinite. +[5700.46 --> 5701.04] Beautiful. +[5701.04 --> 5701.54] Joyson-L vous-ricot-LทBeisban +[5701.54 --> 5703.64] Enjoy is the festival in a week came by member with persecution. +[5703.74 --> 5703.78] For ye alterncron. +[5703.78 --> 5707.14] Let us meet them for ourirs-line them only for the pegar. +[5707.14 --> 5708.60] okes God bless. +[5708.60 --> 5709.60] Holy연. +[5709.60 --> 5718.72] Thank you. +[5718.74 --> 5719.66] Bless us, we oppose our salts. +[5719.66 --> 5720.82] kehloads-h butt and donation, +[5720.82 --> 5727.72] I say, God is always +[5727.72 --> 5734.72] I say, I hear my walking home +[5734.72 --> 5740.82] I'll ask, I'll ask, I'll ask, I'll ask +[5740.82 --> 5746.82] I'll ask, I'll ask, I'll ask +[5746.82 --> 5753.82] How big it was, I'll ask +[5753.82 --> 5760.82] His giant blood has not been mine +[5760.82 --> 5767.82] I know that it is in earth +[5767.82 --> 5775.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5775.82 --> 5781.82] No grace, no power, no wisdom +[5781.82 --> 5788.82] The breath of life in Jesus Christ +[5788.82 --> 5793.82] His will and resurrection +[5793.82 --> 5796.82] I say, God is always +[5796.82 --> 5801.82] I feel the pain from His reward +[5801.82 --> 5806.82] I know that it is in earth +[5806.82 --> 5812.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5812.82 --> 5816.82] I know that it is in earth +[5816.82 --> 5819.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5819.82 --> 5820.82] I know that it is in earth +[5820.82 --> 5825.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5825.82 --> 5829.82] I know that it is in earth +[5829.82 --> 5832.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5832.82 --> 5833.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5833.82 --> 5835.82] I know that it is in earth +[5835.82 --> 5839.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5839.82 --> 5842.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5842.82 --> 5846.82] I feel the pain in everything +[5846.82 --> 5864.46] The body of Christ given for you. +[5864.94 --> 5867.64] And so take, eat, remember, and believe +[5867.64 --> 5868.98] that the body of our Lord Jesus Christ +[5868.98 --> 5870.52] was given for the complete forgiveness +[5870.52 --> 5873.24] of all our sins. +[5876.82 --> 5878.82] Amen. +[5906.82 --> 5908.82] Blessed Lord Jesus Christ +[5912.92 --> 5914.82] And when the Father dies +[5914.82 --> 5925.42] my Ji-SWER +[5925.42 --> 5933.22] Yeah. +[5933.22 --> 5963.20] Let us pray. +[5963.22 --> 5993.20] Let us pray. +[5993.22 --> 6023.20] Let us pray. +[6023.22 --> 6053.20] Let us pray. +[6053.20 --> 6083.18] Let us pray. +[6083.18 --> 6113.16] Let us pray. +[6113.18 --> 6143.16] Let us pray. +[6143.16 --> 6145.16] Let us pray. +[6145.16 --> 6149.16] Let us pray. +[6149.16 --> 6153.16] Let us pray. +[6153.16 --> 6158.16] Amen. +[6158.16 --> 6159.16] Amen. +[6159.16 --> 6160.16] Amen. +[6160.38 --> 6164.40] I invite you to stand as the elders are making their way back to their seats. +[6164.40 --> 6170.20] as we are standing there are garbage cans receptacles that have been placed by the doors +[6170.20 --> 6174.96] and so you can take your little cups and drop them in there on your way out following our worship +[6174.96 --> 6182.64] together standing together know that you go in the power of our good God on the promise of his word +[6182.64 --> 6189.46] and God himself goes with you I'm going to invite you to join your heart with mine as we pray +[6189.46 --> 6192.78] and that prayer will end with the blessing of our God +[6194.40 --> 6201.34] loving God we thank you that you have fed us in this sacrament you have united us with Christ +[6201.34 --> 6206.44] and given us a foretaste of the heavenly banquet in your eternal kingdom to come +[6206.44 --> 6214.92] send us out now in the power of your spirit to live and to work to your praise and glory +[6214.92 --> 6224.30] by the power of your word for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord all God's people said amen +[6224.40 --> 6239.08] may God go before you to guide you may God go behind you to protect you may God go beneath you to +[6239.08 --> 6246.02] support you may God go beside you to befriend you do not be afraid +[6246.02 --> 6258.62] let the blessing of God come upon you today do not be afraid go in peace to love and serve the Lord +[6258.62 --> 6261.08] God +[6261.08 --> 6261.64] amen +[6261.64 --> 6277.64] you +[6277.64 --> 6277.70] you +[6277.70 --> 6284.62] you +[6284.68 --> 6286.18] you +[6286.18 --> 6287.14] you +[6287.14 --> 6317.12] Thank you. +[6317.14 --> 6321.04] Hallelujah, we are gonna see the change. +[6322.46 --> 6328.88] No more crying, we are gonna see the change. +[6329.60 --> 6335.84] No more crying, we are gonna see the change. +[6335.86 --> 6342.42] No more crying, we are gonna see the change. +[6342.42 --> 6346.74] Hallelujah, hallelujah, +[6347.10 --> 6350.36] we're going to see the bay. +[6350.82 --> 6353.54] No more dying ahead, +[6354.16 --> 6357.58] we are going to see the bay. +[6358.16 --> 6360.76] No more dying ahead, +[6361.26 --> 6365.06] we are going to see the bay. +[6365.32 --> 6367.78] No more dying ahead, +[6368.22 --> 6371.74] we are going to see the bay. +[6371.74 --> 6379.26] Alleluia We're gonna see the king +[6380.82 --> 6386.00] Soon and merry to we are gonna see the king +[6386.00 --> 6393.68] Soon and merry to We are gonna see the king +[6393.68 --> 6400.62] Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King. +[6400.62 --> 6407.84] Hallelujah, hallelujah, we are going to see the King. +[6407.84 --> 6415.78] Hallelujah, hallelujah, we are going to see the King. +[6423.68 --> 6430.68] You're the only answer to the darkness. +[6430.68 --> 6435.68] You're the only right among the wrong. +[6435.68 --> 6440.68] You're the only hope among the chaos. +[6440.68 --> 6445.68] You are the voice that calls me on. +[6445.68 --> 6450.68] Louder than every lie, my sword in every fight. +[6450.68 --> 6456.68] The truth will chase away the night. +[6456.68 --> 6460.68] Your name is power over darkness. +[6460.68 --> 6463.68] Freedom for the captains. +[6463.68 --> 6467.68] Mercy for the broken and the hopeless. +[6467.68 --> 6471.68] Your name is faithful in the battle. +[6471.68 --> 6474.68] Glory in the struggle. +[6474.68 --> 6478.68] Mighty, it won't let us down or fail us. +[6478.68 --> 6481.68] Your name is power. +[6481.68 --> 6485.68] Your name is power. +[6485.68 --> 6495.68] Yeah, I know it is written, hope is certain. +[6495.68 --> 6500.68] Yeah, I know that the world will never fail. +[6500.68 --> 6506.68] Oh, I know that in every situation. +[6506.68 --> 6511.68] Yes, I know you speak the power to prevail. +[6511.68 --> 6517.68] Louder than every lie, my sword in every fight. +[6517.68 --> 6523.68] The truth will chase away the night. +[6523.68 --> 6527.68] Your name is power over darkness. +[6527.68 --> 6529.68] Freedom for the captains. +[6529.68 --> 6534.68] Mercy for the broken and the hopeless. +[6534.68 --> 6538.68] Your name is faithful in the battle. +[6538.68 --> 6540.68] Glory in the struggle. +[6540.68 --> 6545.68] Mighty, it won't let us down or fail us. +[6545.68 --> 6546.68] Your name is power. +[6546.68 --> 6547.68] Your name is power. +[6547.68 --> 6548.68] Your name is power. +[6548.68 --> 6550.68] Your name is power. +[6550.68 --> 6551.68] When you speak, you scatter darkness. +[6551.68 --> 6552.68] Light arrives and heaven opens. +[6552.68 --> 6553.68] Holy Spirit, let us hear it. +[6553.68 --> 6554.68] When you speak, the church awakens. +[6554.68 --> 6555.68] We believe the change is coming. +[6555.68 --> 6563.68] Holy Spirit, let us hear it. +[6563.68 --> 6565.68] When you speak, you scatter darkness. +[6565.68 --> 6567.68] Light arrives and heaven opens. +[6567.68 --> 6569.68] We believe the change is coming. +[6569.68 --> 6570.68] Holy Spirit, let us hear it. +[6570.68 --> 6571.68] When you speak, the church awakens. +[6571.68 --> 6573.68] We believe the change is coming. +[6573.68 --> 6575.68] Holy Spirit, let us come, yeah. +[6575.68 --> 6580.24] Holy Spirit, let us see it. +[6580.60 --> 6583.16] When you speak, you scatter darkness. +[6583.56 --> 6586.12] Light rise and heaven opens. +[6587.02 --> 6591.52] Holy Spirit, let us hear it. +[6591.52 --> 6594.48] When you speak, the church awakens. +[6594.72 --> 6597.26] We believe the change is coming. +[6598.02 --> 6602.96] Holy Spirit, let us see it. +[6602.96 --> 6607.92] Your name is power over darkness. +[6608.66 --> 6611.16] Freedom for the captains. +[6611.50 --> 6614.88] Mercy for the broken and the hopeless. +[6615.30 --> 6619.08] Your name is faithful in the battle. +[6619.68 --> 6621.88] Glory in the struggle. +[6622.48 --> 6626.12] Mighty, it will let us down our failures. +[6627.06 --> 6631.64] Your name is power over darkness. +[6631.64 --> 6634.46] Your name is power. +[6635.34 --> 6637.34] In the chaos. +[6638.34 --> 6640.04] Your name is power. +[6640.04 --> 6653.14] The powers that are como I am... +[6653.14 --> 6655.64] いは線を望るのが... +[6655.64 --> 6656.30] What love