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Between Two Advents Part 1

December 22, 2020

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Between Two Advents Part 1

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because you have invited usinto yours so many times.
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We live and breathefor one primary thing
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at Living Proof,and that is to see
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people come to lovethe Lord Jesus Christ
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with everything in themthrough the study of his Word,
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to love God's Word,to live on God's Word.
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That is the greatest joyon earth to us.
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Every time I speak now,I know that ultimately,
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that particular message is goingto come around to our program,
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and I can have people like you
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And so I want you to knowI think about you
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every single time I teach now,and you are so important to us.
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As we flip the calendarto a brand-new year,
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(Beth Moore)You and I are at a timein history between two advents,
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the first advent of Christand the second advent of Christ.
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And what I want to suggestto you is that
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that is a peculiar place to be,and we feel it.
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We in this diaspora,
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we the peopletemporarily residing abroad
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in a place that doesnot feel like home to us.
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And most of the time,we do not know why.
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♪♪♪
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(Beth)Turn with me please to the bookof 1 Peter and chapter 1,
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1 Peter and chapter 1.
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You're going all the way deepin your New Testament,
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and I'm going to start readingat verse 1 through verse 13.
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Let it sink in as we go.
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"From Peter, an apostleof Jesus Christ,
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"to those temporarilyresiding abroad in Pontus,
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"Galatia, Cappadocia,the province of Asia
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"and Bithynia,
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"who are chosen accordingto the foreknowledge
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"of God the Father by beingset apart by the Spirit
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"for obedienceand for sprinkling
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"with Jesus Christ's blood.
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"May grace and peacebe yours in full measure.
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"Blessed be the God and Fatherof our Lord Jesus Christ.
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"By his great mercy he gave usnew birth into a living hope
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"through the resurrectionof Jesus Christ from the dead,
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"that is, into an inheritanceimperishable, undefiled,
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"and unfading.
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"It is reserved in heavenfor you,
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"who by God's powerare protected through faith
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"for a salvation readyto be revealed
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in the last time."
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Oh, it starts gettinghere in verse 6,
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"This brings you great joy,although you may have to suffer
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"for a short timein various trials.
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"Such trials show the provencharacter of your faith,
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"which is much more valuablethan gold,
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"gold that is tested by fire,
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"even though it is passing away,and will bring praise and glory
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"and honor when Jesus Christis revealed.
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"You have not seen him,but you love him.
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"You do not see him now,but you believe in him,
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"and so you rejoicewith an indescribable
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"and glorious joy becauseyou are attaining
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"the goal of your faith--the salvation of your souls.
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"Concerning this salvation,
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"the prophets who predictedthe grace that would come to you
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"searchedand investigated carefully.
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"They probed intowhat person or time
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"the Spirit of Christwithin them was indicating
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"when he testified beforehandabout the sufferings
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"appointed for Christand his subsequent glory.
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"They were shown that they wereserving not themselves but you,
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"in regard to the thingsnow announced to you
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"through those whoproclaimed the gospel
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"to you by the Holy Spiritsent from heaven,
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things angels longto catch a glimpse of."
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Look at the beginning again,look back at verse 1,
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it's written by Peter,an apostle of Jesus Christ.
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If you're familiarwith the gospels,
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you are familiar with Peter.
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Of all the apostles you would bemost familiar with Peter
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in all probability.
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And it says, "To thosetemporarily residing abroad."
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Wherever you live is whereyou are temporarily residing
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abroad if you are in Christ.
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Because we're going to seethat we are gathered
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into the same kind of peoplethat he's about to describe.
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So, he takes on, then,five different cities,
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Pontus, Galatia,Cappadocia,
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the province of Asia,and Bithynia.
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And so what he's doing--
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if we were to lookon a map--
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we would look inwhat was Asia Minor
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or what is modern Turkey today,and we would find
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five different locationsthat would make--
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if we were to drawa line between them
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and connect the dots--
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they would roughlymake a circle.
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And one reason why we would seethat in a number of cities
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that are located close togetherin a letter,
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and in many ancient lettersand pieces of correspondents
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you'd see something like this,
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because they weregoing to go
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from city to city to cityby a courier that was doable.
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That it was few enough milesthat they could get
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from one locationto the next to the next.
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Taking that letter,reading it to those,
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then going to the next place,reading it to those.
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So, in thesefive different locations,
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there were these early,early New Testament churches,
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these little nascent,baby churches
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that had already beenbrought into existence
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by the Holy Spiritof the living God,
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and that's whohe's talking to.
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And he says, listen to this,"Chosen according
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"to the foreknowledgeof God the Father
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"by being set apartby the Spirit
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for obedience and for sprinklingwith Jesus Christ's blood."
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So, by this time there arethe Jewish people
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that have been giventhis Promised Land,
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very few of whomare living in it.
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And they were calledthe diaspora,
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it's a word that means--it's a sowing term,
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and by sowingI mean S-O-W-I-N-G.
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It means to scatter seed.
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It's the most gorgeous thing,
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because whenthe New Testament church
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was institutedin Acts chapter 2,
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when God pours outhis Holy Spirit
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and their tonguesare lit with fire,
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and they preach the gospelin all these different languages
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and so many come to know Jesus,
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he had told thembefore he ascended,
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"You will be witnessesto me here of me,
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"here in Jerusalem,then in Judea,
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"and then on to Samariaand into the uttermost parts
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of the world."
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Well, when the persecution brokeout so hotly, they scattered.
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So, only a little communityof Jewish Christians
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remained in Jerusalem,and they were under James
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the half brotherof Christ's leadership.
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And many of the rest of themscattered all over the place,
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so what were they doing?
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They were taking the gospelto all of those places.
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And they were being obedientto the Spirit already,
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but I do want to suggest to youwhen God says go,
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sometimes he thinks you mayneed a little help to go.
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So, I will give you--
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I'm going to turn upthe heat here
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so you'll know you'regoing to have to move.
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And that's exactlywhat happened.
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So, they becametheir own diaspora,
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their own scattering.
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And that's the wayPeter's looking at it.
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He's going to use terminologyhere that is so brilliant,
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because you're goingto see him tie together
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the old covenant and the new.
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Remember, you can't takethe Jewishness
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out of these gospel roots.
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It wasn't meantto be broken off,
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this was a fulfillment.
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This made complete sensein the gospel plan,
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it wasn't that there wassuddenly a plan B.
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This was plan A all along,
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and he fulfilled itjust as he said it would.
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So, now I want youto notice with me,
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this is Peter writing,who is a simple fisherman
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by trade fromthe northern part of Galilee.
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And he has oneof the most spectacular,
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gorgeous openings to a letterin the entire New Testament.
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Because listento what he does
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as he involves all threemembers of the trinity
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in the people of Jesus Christ.
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He said, "By the foreknowledgeof God the Father
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"by being set apartby the Holy Spirit
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"for obedienceand for sprinkling
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"with Jesus Christ's blood.
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May grace and peacebe yours in full measure."
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Then he goes on to say,"Blessed be God."
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All of this is so Jewish,but he's going to turn it
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to where it has all the newnessof the gospel shining all over,
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it's spectacular.
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But is it by the foreknowledge?
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I want you to understand thatthis went into your salvation.
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If you are in Christ,
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the entire Godhead has beeninvolved in your salvation.
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In all our strugglingwith insignificance
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and all our wonderingif we matter here,
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if God even knowswe're alive down here,
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and if he can seewhat we're suffering down here,
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the entire Godhead, there isno exception in this room,
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has been involvedin your salvation.
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You were chosenby the foreknowledge
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of God the Father.
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You were set apart
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by the Holy Spiritof the living God
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for sprinkling with the blood
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of the one and onlyspotless Lamb.
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Now, what he'sdoing right there
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with the sprinklingof the blood,
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he is tying right backto Exodus chapter 24.
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I'm not goingto have you turn there,
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but I'm going to tell youa little bit about it,
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because this is--this is such a wild scene.
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So, Moses is trying to preparethe people of God
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for the laws of God.
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And so they say to him,"Now, listen."
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They're all gatheredaround that Mount Sinai,
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and they're like,
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"You go up, becausethat looks scary to us."
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And so 'cause all thesethunderings are coming from it,
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a dark cloud is thereon the top of that mountain.
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And here's Moses and they say,"Tell you what,
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"you just tell us what he says,and then we're going to do it.
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"That's it, that's allit's going to be.
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You tell us,we're going to do it."
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And so he begins to writea lot of things down,
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the laws of God.
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You can look at it for yourself.
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And what I'm thinkingis he's thinking,
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"Oh, you ain't doing it.
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Nobody can do it."
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And so what he does--
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Now, it doesn't say that.
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I'm just saying based on whathe's about to do now--
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and of coursehe's under the power
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of the Holy Spirit doing it,obedient to the Spirit--
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what he does, then, is he asksfor a number of sacrifices.
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And then it sayshe has half the blood
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that he uses on the altar.
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The other halfhe takes in a bowl.
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I want you to tryto get this with me,
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imagine being at a gathering
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and somebody takes a bowlof the blood of sacrifice,
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and he starts sprinkling iton the people.
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Can you even imagine?
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What kind of scenewould that be?
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How shocking wouldit have been to them
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to have that sprinkled on them?
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But what was he doing?
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He was--he knew,and under the power of God
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and the leadership of God,
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they could only be coveredby the blood.
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That was it.
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There was no way they weregoing to come through
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and be obedientto all of those laws,
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just exactly like us.
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And so he's usingthat same terminology
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'cause they're saying like,"Oh yeah, we will.
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"We're going to do what you say.
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"We're going to do it,that's it.
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"You go be with him.We're going to be down here.
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You be the intercessor.We're good to go."
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He said, "You're not good to go.
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"You're not good to go.
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You've got to be coveredby the blood."
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Without the blood, thereis no remission of sins.
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(Natalie)Hi, I'm Natalie,and this is Selena.
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I know we all need somethingnew to look forward to.
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Beth and her daughter,Melissa, have written
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a dynamic study called"Now That Faith Has Come,"
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a study of Galatians.
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(Selena)This seven-week studywill walk you
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through Paul's letterto the New Testament church.
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The material iswildly interesting
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in its original context
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and relevantto our present world.
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like no other time.
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that we hope will fullyengage you in every word
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Paul wrote to the Galatians.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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(Beth)I got to tell you, we haveall been through a lot
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in the last years.
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And I have never in my life,
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I say to you I have never hadmore confidence
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in the pure gospelof our Lord Jesus Christ.
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♪ Oh my soul ♪
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♪ Lift up the nameof the one who saves ♪
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♪ He reigns forever ♪
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♪ Oh my soul,lift up your praise ♪
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♪ I will rise and blessthe Lord ♪
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♪ Oh my soul ♪
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♪ Oh my soul ♪
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♪ Oh my soul ♪
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♪ Oh my soul ♪
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(Beth)Let me tell you something,
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he's come to speak in powerto us this weekend,
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because his Wordis fresh and alive.
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That's the miracleof the Scriptures.
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(Natalie)Come join usin a city near you.
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(Beth)Blessed be the God and Fatherof our Lord Jesus Christ,
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by his great mercy he gave usnew birth into a living hope
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through the resurrectionof Jesus Christ from the dead.
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Verses 3 to 12 in Greekare one sentence.
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All of those,it's one gorgeous run-on.
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And it seems to us like thatwould be a treacherous way
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to use language,but to them,
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I mean, it wasa style of writing.
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Paul did the same thingover and over again.
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But I mean, when I tell youthat Peter is displaying
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the work of the Spiritin what he is laying out here
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in this letter,I am not kidding.
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And it says here,he says in verse 4,
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"That is, into an inheritanceimperishable,
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undefiled, and unfading."
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Anybody else just likeat your wits end
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trying to figureout what to give people
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who already have anything?
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Anybody?
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Most of the people we knowhave everything
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they could possibly needand most of what they want.
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I mean, we have to--I have to come up with things.
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Melissa did something with methis year that was brilliant,
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because I say to themevery single year,
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"I need your list."
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And the reason whyI need a list from them
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is because if theydon't give me a list,
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I'm going to buymy own stuff for them,
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and they're not goingto like it.
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Anybody?
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Anybody know whatI'm talking about?
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So, I need a list.
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So, this year she said to me,"I'll give you my list
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as soon as yougive me your list."
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Well, I couldn't even think,I said, "Babe, I can't even--
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"I can't even think.
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I just want y'all."
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I said, "You know, old peopledon't need a lot of stuff."
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I don't know howto explain that exactly.
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I don't know.
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It's one beautiful thingabout getting older is
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you just don't like lustafter a bunch of stuff.
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It just does not have the same--you've already found out that
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that just doesn't reallydo anything for you,
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so it's like--but lookingfor something to give.
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I mean, today I thought,"Well, okay."
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You know, I'd already donesome shopping for the grandkids
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so that you don't feelsorry for them,
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but I even looked up,should I give them a goat?
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You know, 'cause youcan give a gift--
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you can give a goatinto a community
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where it's so helpful,
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and I could do itin their honor.
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Would they understand that theyhad given a goat to someone?
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Would that make themreally, really happy?
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Because aren't we lookingfor something imperishable,
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undefiled, and unfading?
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I want you to understandthat's our inheritance.
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In other words, time has hadno impact on it.
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It's a wonderful thingto think about,
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the eternal condition and state
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and what that orderwill be like,
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because I don't know about you,but I tend to want to think
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living forever and everand ever, I mean,
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it's better than dying,but it seems like a long time.
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Does it?
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And that there's no night there,I need night.
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Like are we going to get awayfrom people some?
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'Cause there's going to be ten--
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So many.
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Will we all get a littleprivate time?
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I don't know, you know?
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It's just like--but see,
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the thing about itis time will not exist there,
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so where we're thinkingwe're going to go,
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"Man, we've been here a long--"
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No, we won't have a--we won't have a concept of time.
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And so understand with me,nothing can get old there.
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So, your inheritance, like thosethat went to be with Christ
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that were inthe first generation believers,
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Peter and the restof the apostles,
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all of those that were inthat generation that knew Jesus,
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our inheritance is no olderthan theirs was,
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because it can't perish,it can't fade.
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Nothing can happen to it.
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Just all there just waiting,just waiting.
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In the New Testament,there are three primary terms
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that are used in--
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for the second coming of Christ,three different terms
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that are used forthe second coming of Christ.
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One of them is the originalGreek form of our word,
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it looks almost exactly like it,
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it's just got a little bitof a different ending on it,
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it looks like our wordand is what our word comes from,
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epiphany.
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Epiphany.
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That word, a form of that wordin Greek is used in reference
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to the second coming.
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It is a word that is--that means appearing,
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it means a manifestationof the divine.
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It means--
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I love that it means an arrival,an arrival of sorts.
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So does the next word,
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but I want you to thinkin terms of this.
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2 Timothy 1:10 uses a form of itfor the first advent,
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and listen carefully to it.
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Speaking of salvation,Paul writes--
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and I'm reading to you2 Timothy 1:10,
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talking about salvation--
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"Which has now been manifestedthrough the appearing--"
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that's a form ofthe word epiphany--
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"appearing of our SaviorChrist Jesus,
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"who abolished deathand brought life
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and immortality to lightthrough the gospel."
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So, it is usedfor the first advent,
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but it is also used at timesfor the second advent.
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So, that's one word that isused for the second coming.
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Another word that is used,it is less familiar to us,
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parousia,
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and it is a word that meansthe same general thing,
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arriving, arriving, a coming,an appearing.
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It's found in 2 Thessalonians.
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It's foundin a number of places,
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but it's found specificallyin a beautiful place
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in 2 Thessalonians 2:1,
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"Now concerning the comingof our Lord Jesus Christ
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and our being gatheredtogether with him."
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Now, this is where we're going.
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This is where we're going,
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because the third wordlooks very much like
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and is what we get our wordapocalypse from.
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Apocalypse, it is the wordthat means revelation,
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a manifestation, a seeing.
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It is the--this third oneis used twice
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in these passages here.
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It's used once in verse 7,
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"Such trials show the provencharacter of your faith,
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"which is much morevaluable than gold,
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"gold that is tested by fire,
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"even though it ispassing away,
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"and will bring praiseand glory and honor
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when Jesus Christ is revealed."
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And then you go to verse 13,
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"Therefore, get your mindsready for action
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"by being fully sober,
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"and set your hopecompletely on the grace
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that will be brought to youwhen Jesus Christ is revealed."
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Any of those three wordscould be used interchangeably.
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And very often they'renot even really distinctive
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from one another.
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But when they are distinctivefrom one another--
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and this is what oneGreek dictionary points out
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and this is why Iwanted you to hear it--
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this word that is much likeour word apocalypse.
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it is a word that meansrevelation, uncovering,
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unveiling, a disclosingor a disclosure.
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Listen to this Greek definition,it says,
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"This word is a granderand more comprehensive word,
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"includes not merelythe thing shown and seen
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but the interpretation."
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In other words,when the Word of God says
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that every eye will see him,
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there won't be anybodywho does not know who it is,
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because the interpretation of it
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will come withthe revelation of it.
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You understandwhat I'm saying?
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So much will be understoodin that moment.
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So much that has been confusing
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that on the sight of this oneholy, immortal Son of God,
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not only will there bethe revelation,
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there will be the interpretationthat goes with it,
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the unveiling of it,the manifestation of it.
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I can't thinkof much better news.
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So, as we're gathered hereon this particular day
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for this particular lesson,you and I are
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at a time in historybetween two advents,
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the first advent of Christand the second advent of Christ.
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And what I want to suggestto you is that that is
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a peculiar place to be,and we feel it.
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We in this diaspora,
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we the peopletemporarily residing abroad
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in a place that doesnot feel like home to us.
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And most of the time,we do not know why,
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longing for belongingthat we cannot seem to find.
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Am I speaking anybody'slanguage in this place?
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With a greater and greaterreality at all times
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that this worldis not fond of us,
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we who carry the gospeland believe that there is
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only one name by which man,woman can be saved,
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and that is the name of Jesus.
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Want to say something to you.
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In our non-liturgical churches,we've got a mix in this room,
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which is what I love aboutour Living Proof gatherings,
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and it's always, very,very interdenominational
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and nondenominational.
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But what we havein this room,
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we have a number of peoplecoming from liturgical churches
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and a number of people comingfrom non-liturgical churches.
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But our non-liturgicaldon't realize that there is
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a heavy emphasis inthe liturgical churches
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placed upon the second adventas well as the first.
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And what I wantto suggest to you,
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whether that's ourpractice or not,
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whether that is howwe would want to practice
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our holiday season or not,
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it is meant very much to beon our minds that with the--
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as certain as wasthe first coming of Christ,
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there will be a second coming.
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And that our remembrance of it,what I am hoping the Holy Spirit
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is going to dothrough this lesson
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is somehow awaken somethingin us to understand
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that as surely as Christmasever gets on our minds,
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and I mean how soon--
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I mean, the momentit's out at Target,
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the moment we see the redand green at Wal-Mart,
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I mean the momentwe see the first--
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if you're like me, man,
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I start nearly trembling'cause like no, no.
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Because I know whatthat's going to mean
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to the matriarch in the family.
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Can I see anybody?
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Anybody pressingin with me on it?
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I know the kind of pressurethat's going to be at stake
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at that point.
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But as surely as it's everon our minds,
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we're supposed to be mindful
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that he who cameis coming again.
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And I wonder if we couldinterrupt this holiday season
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with a strong emphasis,
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with a shaking to our bonesof the glorious expectation
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that the one who cameis coming again?
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I'm going to tell you something,if we got that,
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our Christmas would be brighter.
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That here living betweenthese two advents
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has complete implicationsfor everything we do,
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everything we do.
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♪♪♪
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(Beth)All of time is comingtoward the moment
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when every eye will see Christ.
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And it will not just bethe manifestation,
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but the interpretationof the Son of God
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come to rule in righteousnessand right every single wrong.
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(Selena)If you don't already have plans
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for getting into the Scripturesthis new year,
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join us as we diveinto the study of Galatians.
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(Natalie)And we look forwardto seeing you next week.
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