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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 1)

March 7, 2026 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 1)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 1) | March 7, 2026
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  • Andy stanley: hey everybody, welcome to "your move," where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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  • Did you know that 75 million americans identify as either
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  • Atheists, agnostic, or not religious at all?
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  • Seventy-five million, and most of these folks are under 30
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  • Years old, your kids' or maybe your grandkids' age.
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  • For many people, faith has just become, well, irrelevant,
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  • Christianity in particular, but it wasn't always that way.
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  • Once upon a time, the christian faith was irresistible.
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  • The original version, the version depicted in the new
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  • Testament, well, it's still very much irresistible.
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  • And what did the original, the irresistible version, look like
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  • And what did it sound like?
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  • Stick around, and we'll talk about it today, right here, on
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  • "your move."
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  • Andy: today we're beginning this brand-new series entitled "the
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  • Last kingdom," and for some of you, if you, when you saw this
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  • Is gonna be the title of the series, for those of you who
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  • Follow us on social media, when you saw this, if you were
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  • Hoping, some of you were hoping i would begin like this: "i am
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  • Uhtred, son of ughtred"--few of you get this right, no idea what
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  • I'm talking about.
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  • Anyway, i'm a huge bernard cornwall fan.
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  • He's one of the best historical fiction writers in the world.
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  • I think, i've read, i think, everything he's written, and
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  • Years ago we started this series that netflix then turned into
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  • This netflix series called "the last kingdom."
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  • I think there are 13 books in this series.
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  • I read them as they came out.
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  • Then once they all came out, i read all 13 again, and then i
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  • Watched the netflix series.
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  • Some of you remember that.
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  • But here's the thing: even bernard would admit that england
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  • Or engleland was not in fact the last kingdom, because the
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  • Authors of the new testament-- here's what we're gonna talk
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  • About for the next few weeks.
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  • The authors of the new testament make a compelling case that the
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  • Last kingdom will actually last forever.
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  • And the reason they were so convinced, the reason the
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  • Authors of the new testament were absolutely convinced, is
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  • Because they had met, camped with, laughed with, learned
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  • From, wept with, celebrated with the king, god's final king who
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  • Came to establish the last kingdom.
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  • So i have an agenda in this series, and i don't usually say
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  • I have an agenda in a series, but i have a goal in
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  • This series.
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  • And this is a big goal, and i don't know if this
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  • Is gonna happen.
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  • My goal in this series is that all of us would accept jesus,
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  • Not just as our savior-- hopefully you've done that,
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  • And if you haven't done that, we talk about that all the time--
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  • But by the end of this series, maybe by the end of today, that
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  • You would be willing to accept jesus for who his closest
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  • Friends acknowledged him to be.
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  • And accept jesus for who his fiercest enemies feared that he
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  • Might be.
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  • That every time that you pick up a bible, and every time you read
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  • Anything from the new testament, my goal by the end of this
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  • Series is that every time you read anything from the new
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  • Testament, that you would see what has been there all along,
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  • And that you would never, ever, ever be able to unsee it.
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  • And if you grew up in church, like i did, any kind of
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  • Christian church, then this represents, this will represent
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  • A bit of a paradigm shift.
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  • And you might find yourself going, "okay, i think he's
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  • Making this up, because if this is true, i should have heard
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  • About this before.
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  • Why didn't i hear about this before?"
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  • So i want to go ahead and not give you permission, but
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  • Actually encourage you to fact-check me.
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  • This is not something that's over in some corner.
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  • This is what should have been front and central all along,
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  • Front and center all along.
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  • So my redundancy and my repetition today and throughout
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  • This series is on purpose, as i attempt to drag all of us, and
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  • It's not your fault.
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  • It's not your fault at all.
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  • It's the fault of people who do what i do.
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  • But to drag all of us back to the place that we would
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  • Recognize and accept jesus as the one whom jesus claimed to be
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  • From the very beginning, and the new testament authors present
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  • Him as throughout.
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  • So, here we go.
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  • If you grew up in any kind of faith system, not just
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  • Christianity, but any kind of faith system, whether it's a
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  • Church or synagogue or temple or whatever it might be, as when
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  • You were a child, if you grew up in a faith system at all, as a
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  • Child, you were given a simple faith template, a belief system
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  • Of some sort.
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  • The technical term would be that you were given some sort of
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  • Theology or belief about god.
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  • And that simple framework that you were given as a child, just
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  • Like i was given as a child, it served as the framework for
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  • Everything related to faith: something to hang all of our
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  • Beliefs on, our convictions on, our traditions on, the way we
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  • Did things, the way what we expected of one another, what we
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  • Expected of god.
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  • It was sort of a framework, and you just hung all those things
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  • On it, whenever you ask your parents or your priest or a
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  • Pastor her a question, they would answer the question and
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  • Put that answer and hang it kind of on that general framework.
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  • Your general framework determined whether or not you
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  • Read the bible.
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  • It determined how you read the bible.
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  • It determined which bible you read.
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  • And then, when you left home, once you grew up and left home,
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  • You took that simple framework with you.
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  • And in most cases, most of us, to some extent, we revised it
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  • A little bit, or we modified it, or maybe you modernized it.
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  • But the point is, once you were given that template, and you
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  • Didn't question it because adults gave it to you, once you
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  • Had that template, that theology--if you read the
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  • Bible, if you're in a christian family or went to a church, you
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  • Had verses of scripture that backed up your theology, or
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  • They--you found support for your template in the bible,
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  • Because your church or your denomination emphasized those
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  • Verses that supported that simple template.
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  • Now, in many modern faith traditions, or i should say in
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  • Many, many modern christian faith traditions, certainly
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  • Mine, jesus's primary role--if you were to say, "who is
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  • Jesus?", you know, "what is jesus all about?"
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  • Jesus' primary role and his primary title, that's what we're
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  • Gonna talk about, was this: savior.
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  • Jesus is the savior.
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  • Jesus is my personal savior.
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  • I asked jesus to be my personal savior.
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  • He's the savior of the world.
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  • He's a forgiver.
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  • He's a rescuer.
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  • He's a redeemer, and all of those attributes you can find in
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  • The new testament, and all of those attributes are functions,
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  • Are things that jesus acknowledged about himself.
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  • They're all true.
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  • They're all in the new testament.
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  • But practically speaking, bear with me, practically speaking,
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  • When it came to your day-to-day lives and our day-to-day lives,
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  • Jesus got relegated to--okay, not trying to be irreverent,
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  • Call a friend.
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  • If you're in trouble, you call on jesus, a conscience reliever.
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  • "i did it again.
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  • Lord, please, in jesus's name forgive me my sin."
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  • Then i go out and did it again.
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  • I keep--"god, god, this is so embarrassing.
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  • God, i keep doing the same sin over and over and over.
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  • But you know, but i was told that you'll forgive me of my sin
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  • If i'm--you're faithful, and just forgive me of my sin and
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  • Cleanse me from all unrighteousness."
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  • Also, it's kind of like sin eraser, that jesus is the
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  • Sin eraser.
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  • Bottom line, even though you probably never use this
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  • Terminology, central to christianity, jesus is a savior.
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  • He's your ticket to heaven.
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  • But savior is not the primary title or even the primary role
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  • Jesus claimed for himself.
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  • In fact, check this out for yourself.
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  • Maybe you'll find something i can't find.
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  • I can't find a single place in the entire new testament where
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  • Jesus referred to himself as the savior or gave himself
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  • This title.
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  • Other people did, and he in fact came to save us from our sins,
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  • That's one of his roles, but it wasn't his primary title.
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  • It's not the title he gave himself--this is important, and
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  • It's not the primary title his friends gave him.
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  • Or his enemies or the early church.
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  • In the opening lines, in the opening lines, and i hope you'll
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  • Fact-check me, i hope you-- "that can't possibly be true."
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  • If it'll get you to open your bibles, maybe for the first time
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  • In a long time, in the opening lines of every new testament
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  • Document, matthew, mark, luke, john, peter's letters, paul's
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  • Letters, the book of revelation, jesus is associated with
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  • A title.
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  • Jesus is associated with the title.
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  • He's given a title that points to an epic, and i mean, capital
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  • E-epic narrative that incorporates all of
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  • Human history.
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  • And it incorporates you as an individual, and me, and your
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  • Parents, and your children, and future generations.
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  • But the framework is so different.
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  • The new testament framework, the framework that the authors of
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  • The new testament give us, the framework that is so different
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  • Than the one that we were raised on or confronted with as an
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  • Adult if you became a christian as an adult.
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  • It's so different than what we were presented with, that it's
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  • Hard to see.
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  • In fact, this is why when you read the--especially the
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  • Parables of jesus and some of the things the apostle paul
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  • Would teach later, it's so different that we treat those
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  • Things, again, kind of like that ornament, right?
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  • You put, you got your christmas tree up and you got this
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  • Ornament, you're like, "honey, i don't really think this goes
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  • With our tree this year.
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  • I mean this, i got, and i'm not even sure where to hang it."
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  • So when you read the parables of jesus, and you're like, "okay,
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  • We love prodigal son, we got that one.
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  • I love, you know, the good samaritan, we got that one."
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  • But kind of the rest of them are like, and he starts them all
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  • This way: "the kingdom of heaven is like, the kingdom of god is
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  • Like, the kingdom of heaven is like, the kingdom of god
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  • Is like."
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  • We're like, "i don't know what to do with that.
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  • I don't know where, i don't know where to hang that on the tree."
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  • And the authors of the new testament are shouting at us:
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  • "those things aren't ornaments."
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  • They are the tree, that you have it backwards, that you have
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  • Taken one of jesus's primary roles, and you've made it
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  • A title.
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  • And now you look at everything jesus said and everything jesus
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  • Said through a framework that is not the correct framework, and
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  • You're missing the plot, and you're missing the plot line.
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  • Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address a growing
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  • Crisis in america.
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  • Did you know that nearly 75 million americans have no
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  • Religious affiliation, none whatsoever?
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  • Most of us know some of these people.
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  • Many of us are related to some of these people.
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  • So for us they aren't statistics, they're people we
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  • Love and would love to see return to faith in jesus.
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  • So at your move we are committed to reaching people with the
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  • Teaching of jesus right where they are and when they least
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  • Expect it.
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  • We use a research-backed digital strategy that's already making a
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  • Difference, so if you'll stick around after today's message, we
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  • Would love to tell you more about it or visit the website or
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  • Call the number on your screen to learn how you can be a part
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  • Of this revolutionary approach to introducing and reintroducing
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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: so i wanna begin with the gospel of luke, and i wanna
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  • Begin at the beginning, and i wanna begin with this particular
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  • Text because it is so familiar and we consider it seasonal.
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  • We consider this christmas, but luke would tell you, "wait, this
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  • Doesn't have anything to do with christmas.
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  • This isn't seasonal.
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  • This is foundational."
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  • And yes, we read this recently.
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  • I'm aware of that.
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  • That's why i chose it.
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  • An angel appears to mary, a peasant girl in galilee,
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  • A nobody.
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  • Scares her to death, of course.
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  • And he says, remember this, you can, many of us can quote it:
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  • "do not be afraid, mary; you have found favor with god.
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  • And you're gonna have a baby, a son, and you don't get to choose
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  • His name; his name is gonna be jesus.
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  • And he's gonna be special.
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  • He will be great.
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  • He will be called, unlike anyone who's ever been born, the son of
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  • The most high."
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  • He will be in a unique way the son of the creator of
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  • The universe.
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  • He will be the son of god.
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  • "and thanks to him, you'll get to go to heaven when you die."
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  • That's not in there.
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  • That's our template talking.
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  • Oh good, god sent a savior so i can go to heaven when i die.
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  • And luke's like, "what are you talking about?
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  • Just shut up and listen.
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  • I'm trying to introduce you to something extraordinary.
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  • And all you, christians, can think about is yourself and
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  • What's gonna happen when i die.
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  • It's like, this isn't about what happens when you die.
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  • This is about what happens right now in your life, and you are
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  • Invited to participate in it."
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  • This isn't about us.
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  • Luke is introducing us to, well, he tells us but somehow it's
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  • Just so easy to miss.
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  • The lord, he goes on, he says this: "the lord god will give
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  • Your son a throne.
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  • The throne of his father david--" we're gonna come back
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  • To that, as in king david, "and your son will reign..."
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  • Well, no, i thought he'll save.
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  • Now that's a function.
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  • That's not his primary role, that's not his primary title.
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  • That's ancillary.
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  • We'll talk about that next week.
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  • Luke says, "pay attention.
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  • He will reign over jacob's descendants."
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  • How long?
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  • Forever.
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  • Wait, forever is a long time.
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  • Luke's like, "let me finish.
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  • His kingdom will never end."
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  • Matthew, mark, luke and john, they are not the stories of
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  • Heaven and hell and who goes to heaven and who goes to hell.
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  • Who's in and who's out.
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  • It's much bigger than that.
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  • Luke is documenting the story of your king, god's final king.
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  • The last kingdom that will last forever.
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  • This is about god coming into the world and wading through the
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  • Complexities and the tragedies and the awfulness of the
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  • Kingdoms of men to establish his final kingdom.
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  • And if you kept reading the book of luke, you would discover:
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  • This is why it's called good news.
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  • That you, no matter what you've done, no matter what you do, no
  • 00:14:14.471 --> 00:14:18.509
  • Matter what you will do, no matter how many promises to god
  • 00:14:18.509 --> 00:14:20.811
  • You break, that you are invited to not just believe in it, you
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  • Are invited to participate in it right now, today, here.
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  • At work.
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  • At home, school, in the community.
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  • That you are members and have been invited to
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  • Function and live as members of god's final kingdom.
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  • It's never going away.
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  • It has already been launched.
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  • And when that becomes the paradigm through which you read
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  • The new testament, everything jesus taught makes a lot
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  • More sense.
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  • The new testament authors were unanimous and unambiguous: jesus
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  • Is a king.
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  • He is, this is why i've been using this language.
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  • He is god's final king.
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  • And now that you know that, i dare you to pick up the new
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  • Testament and try to prove me wrong.
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  • Unfortunately, the term "christ" is an unfortunate--and i'm
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  • Gonna explain this to you in detail.
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  • In fact, detail you're not even interested in, but we gotta get
  • 00:15:30.381 --> 00:15:32.716
  • A little geeky in order to to get through this because this is
  • 00:15:32.716 --> 00:15:35.085
  • Such a paradigm shift.
  • 00:15:35.085 --> 00:15:36.420
  • The term "christ" is an unfortunate lack of translation
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  • That has enabled the church to bury the lead and reduce jesus
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  • To someone who just came to save us from our sins.
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  • And consequently, we lose the plot line and consequently, so
  • 00:15:47.464 --> 00:15:50.367
  • Much of what jesus taught doesn't make any sense, and we
  • 00:15:50.367 --> 00:15:52.369
  • Can't find a place to hang it on the tree.
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  • It causes us to diminish his, not just his role, but who he
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  • Is, rather than recognize him for who he claimed to be and who
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  • The people closest to him believed him to be.
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  • So real quick, here's the kind of "nerd out a little
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  • Bit" moment.
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  • Here's the backstory, okay?
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  • Pay attention because, i don't know, this would just make you
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  • Smarter in general conversation.
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  • Most of us, i would gather, i would assume, almost all of us
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  • Are familiar with or at least heard the term "messiah"
  • 00:16:19.029 --> 00:16:21.632
  • Before, right?
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  • The term "messiah", it's a jewish term.
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  • It came from a hebrew word.
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  • Means it's--we associate it with jesus, you know, god's
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  • Messiah, but it actually is just a term that means "anointed
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  • One," specifically one anointed to be a king.
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  • That's how it was mostly used, anointed to be a king.
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  • So messiah means anointed one, which means king.
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  • One of the easiest ways to understand this is to think
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  • About our english word inaugurate or an inauguration.
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  • When i say the word inauguration, you think
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  • President of the united states or president, but the word
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  • Inaugurate simply means to induct someone into an office.
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  • That's what the word means.
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  • But in our culture, it has become so closely associated
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  • With presidency that when you hear about an inauguration, you
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  • Just think, oh, president of the united states, even though the
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  • Word doesn't actually mean that.
  • 00:17:03.507 --> 00:17:04.842
  • Well, the same happened in ancient israel with some
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  • Rabbinic traditions, not all, that the term that meant
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  • Anointed one or anoint became closely associated with
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  • A future messiah.
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  • But they understood the future messiah to be a king.
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  • God's final king that would one day come and rescue all
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  • Of israel.
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  • Interestingly enough, the term messiah only appears seven times
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  • In the new testament.
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  • Now that's important.
  • 00:17:30.767 --> 00:17:32.102
  • It's important because the new testament was written primarily
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  • To greek-speaking people, non-jewish people who had no
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  • Idea what a messiah was.
  • 00:17:38.275 --> 00:17:39.610
  • That was like a jewish thing, messiah.
  • 00:17:39.610 --> 00:17:41.178
  • So the authors of the new testament, they go out of their
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  • Way to clarify jesus's identity for their first century
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  • Non-jewish audience, people like us.
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  • So instead of using the term messiah, which meant nothing to
  • 00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:52.890
  • Greek speakers, it was just a term that meant "anointed one",
  • 00:17:52.890 --> 00:17:55.926
  • They use the greek term that means anointed one as one in
  • 00:17:55.926 --> 00:18:00.197
  • Terms of one who's been anointed as a king.
  • 00:18:00.197 --> 00:18:02.599
  • And that particular word, again it's like the word inaugurate,
  • 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.402
  • Which is an average term that got associated with
  • 00:18:05.402 --> 00:18:07.704
  • A specific event.
  • 00:18:07.704 --> 00:18:09.072
  • That term instead of messiah was this term, christos.
  • 00:18:09.072 --> 00:18:12.543
  • It simply meant an "anointed one".
  • 00:18:12.543 --> 00:18:14.444
  • Anyone who was anointed as a king was considered an
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  • Anointed one.
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  • Like any president of the united states, we would say he's
  • 00:18:18.048 --> 00:18:19.516
  • An inaugurated one.
  • 00:18:19.516 --> 00:18:20.851
  • Same thing.
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  • So throughout the new testament, what you find is you find this
  • 00:18:22.186 --> 00:18:25.589
  • Greek term "christos" associated with jesus, which what any greek
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  • Reader--again, they didn't bury the lead, any greek
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  • Reader understood.
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  • Jesus, not christ, jesus, the anointed one.
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  • "jesus christo, jesus christo" over and over and over and over.
  • 00:18:38.602 --> 00:18:42.739
  • So years after, maybe 25 years or so after, maybe more, after
  • 00:18:42.739 --> 00:18:47.211
  • The resurrection of jesus, there's this group in antioch
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  • That these gentiles, we've talked about this before, that
  • 00:18:50.414 --> 00:18:52.883
  • Become followers of jesus.
  • 00:18:52.883 --> 00:18:54.918
  • And the gentiles, the non-jesus followers in that large
  • 00:18:54.918 --> 00:18:58.355
  • Metropolitan city, see these crazy people.
  • 00:18:58.355 --> 00:19:01.425
  • Some of them were friends of theirs, some of their sons and
  • 00:19:01.425 --> 00:19:03.493
  • Daughters, and they're talking about a dead jewish, you know,
  • 00:19:03.493 --> 00:19:08.432
  • Itinerant rabbi preacher who claimed to be a king, and now
  • 00:19:08.432 --> 00:19:12.302
  • They're worshiping this dead rabbi as a king because they say
  • 00:19:12.302 --> 00:19:16.240
  • He rose from the dead.
  • 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:17.608
  • And what do you call these people?
  • 00:19:17.608 --> 00:19:19.176
  • I mean, this is crazy.
  • 00:19:19.176 --> 00:19:20.510
  • They keep talking about the anointed one, the anointed one,
  • 00:19:20.510 --> 00:19:23.213
  • You know, god's king, you know, this king has come.
  • 00:19:23.213 --> 00:19:26.149
  • So the people resisting this movement are the ones that
  • 00:19:26.149 --> 00:19:30.120
  • Coined the term that has become so common in our culture and
  • 00:19:30.120 --> 00:19:34.224
  • For, actually, ever since.
  • 00:19:34.224 --> 00:19:36.093
  • They came up with this term "christianos."
  • 00:19:36.093 --> 00:19:38.395
  • Christianos.
  • 00:19:38.395 --> 00:19:39.730
  • This is the followers of the anointed one, followers of the
  • 00:19:39.730 --> 00:19:42.599
  • Anointed one, followers of this dead, supposedly
  • 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.269
  • Resurrected king.
  • 00:19:45.269 --> 00:19:47.404
  • Because even the detractors and the enemies of the church
  • 00:19:47.404 --> 00:19:50.774
  • Understood what these people were claiming, right?
  • 00:19:50.774 --> 00:19:53.810
  • This was not, this was not about, you know, you say your
  • 00:19:53.810 --> 00:19:57.914
  • Guy forgives sins.
  • 00:19:57.914 --> 00:19:59.249
  • We say, i--this was not about sin forgiveness.
  • 00:19:59.249 --> 00:20:01.385
  • This was 100% about the right to rule, and they got labeled.
  • 00:20:01.385 --> 00:20:07.124
  • This meant followers of the anointed one, followers of
  • 00:20:07.124 --> 00:20:12.629
  • A king.
  • 00:20:12.629 --> 00:20:14.631
  • Then we're gonna dig deep into this next time; i'm just gonna
  • 00:20:14.631 --> 00:20:16.466
  • Touch on it quickly.
  • 00:20:16.466 --> 00:20:17.834
  • Then at jesus's trial, you remember he's arrested.
  • 00:20:17.834 --> 00:20:20.270
  • Right before the sanhedrin, the pharisees, they gang up and they
  • 00:20:20.270 --> 00:20:23.707
  • Beat him and they're questioning him.
  • 00:20:23.707 --> 00:20:26.009
  • And they finally hear him blaspheme because he claims to
  • 00:20:26.009 --> 00:20:28.412
  • Be from the holy one of god, you know.
  • 00:20:28.412 --> 00:20:30.781
  • Then they take him to pilate.
  • 00:20:30.781 --> 00:20:32.716
  • Pilate questioned him, questions him.
  • 00:20:32.716 --> 00:20:34.318
  • We're gonna look at that next week.
  • 00:20:34.318 --> 00:20:35.686
  • It's just so powerful.
  • 00:20:35.686 --> 00:20:37.688
  • And pilate listens, he's like, i mean, pilate basically says,
  • 00:20:37.688 --> 00:20:41.658
  • "i think this is just a jewish thing.
  • 00:20:41.658 --> 00:20:43.593
  • Like, why, why are you bringing it to me?
  • 00:20:43.593 --> 00:20:45.595
  • I mean, this, apparently he's broken some of your ridiculous
  • 00:20:45.595 --> 00:20:48.432
  • Laws that nobody cares about, but you guys, anyway.
  • 00:20:48.432 --> 00:20:50.600
  • So you take him and you deal with him, and people break your
  • 00:20:50.600 --> 00:20:53.337
  • Laws all the time, and you can, you know, we've given you some,
  • 00:20:53.337 --> 00:20:56.340
  • Some leeway.
  • 00:20:56.340 --> 00:20:57.708
  • You can beat him, you can have him flogged a little bit,
  • 00:20:57.708 --> 00:20:59.676
  • But you know, you, you can't put him to death.
  • 00:20:59.676 --> 00:21:01.244
  • So you, you deal with him the way you want to deal with him."
  • 00:21:01.244 --> 00:21:05.582
  • And do you remember how they respond to pilate?
  • 00:21:05.582 --> 00:21:08.618
  • Again, here's why i'm pointing this out.
  • 00:21:08.618 --> 00:21:11.755
  • Nobody is confused.
  • 00:21:11.755 --> 00:21:15.292
  • Only modern christians are confused.
  • 00:21:15.292 --> 00:21:18.161
  • And not just modern christians, even pre-modern christians.
  • 00:21:18.161 --> 00:21:20.430
  • We'll explain why in just a minute.
  • 00:21:20.430 --> 00:21:22.199
  • Nobody in the first century is confused about who jesus claims
  • 00:21:22.199 --> 00:21:24.935
  • To be.
  • 00:21:24.935 --> 00:21:26.670
  • That's what they say to pilate.
  • 00:21:26.670 --> 00:21:28.004
  • "hey, pilate, it's not that simple.
  • 00:21:28.004 --> 00:21:31.742
  • If you let this man go, you are no friend of caesar."
  • 00:21:31.742 --> 00:21:34.511
  • "why are you bringing up caesar?"
  • 00:21:34.511 --> 00:21:37.748
  • "anyone who claims to be a sin forgiver, anyone who claims to
  • 00:21:37.748 --> 00:21:44.421
  • Be a ticket to the jewish heaven, anyone who claims to be
  • 00:21:44.421 --> 00:21:48.692
  • A miracle worker, anybody who claims to be a comforter,
  • 00:21:48.692 --> 00:21:51.294
  • Anybody who claims to come through for you when you
  • 00:21:51.294 --> 00:21:53.096
  • Need them.
  • 00:21:53.096 --> 00:21:54.965
  • Anybody who claims to be your best friend.
  • 00:21:54.965 --> 00:21:59.936
  • Pilate, anybody who claims to be a king, opposed to caesar."
  • 00:21:59.936 --> 00:22:05.175
  • And everybody knows: he claims to be a king.
  • 00:22:05.175 --> 00:22:11.214
  • This had everything to do with who ultimately has the right
  • 00:22:11.214 --> 00:22:15.519
  • To rule.
  • 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.789
  • From the opening lines of the new testament to the final
  • 00:22:18.789 --> 00:22:21.658
  • Lines, nobody's confused.
  • 00:22:21.658 --> 00:22:24.895
  • A king had come, god's final king to establish god's kingdom
  • 00:22:24.895 --> 00:22:31.334
  • On earth.
  • 00:22:31.334 --> 00:22:32.702
  • And everybody is invited to participate in it.
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  • But--i gotta speed this up.
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  • Unfortunately, this is the part you might want to check out if
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  • You don't believe me.
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  • Unfortunately, when the new testament was translated into
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  • Other languages from greek, instead of translating the term
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  • Christos, which meant anointed one or king--there was another
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  • Greek word for king, actually a couple, but instead of taking
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  • This greek word christos and translating it, they
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  • Transliterated it, which means they took each greek letter and
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  • In the english version of the new testament, they took english
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  • Letters and they came up with a different term.
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  • That's where the term "christ" comes from.
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  • Christ is not a translation of the term christos.
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  • Christ is simply taking these letters and coming up with
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  • English letters, and they created a word: christ.
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  • This began to mean whatever the church wanted it to mean, and
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  • Eventually it became a name rather than a title, and when it
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  • Became a name rather than a title, the plot line was lost.
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  • But not on everybody.
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  • And not on you.
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  • Because now you know.
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  • And now that you've seen it, you can't unsee it because every
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  • Time you read the new testament and you see jesus christ, christ
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  • Jesus our lord, jesus christ, christ, jesus our lord, you're
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  • Gonna read it differently.
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  • I hope you do.
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  • God's anointed one, jesus.
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  • Jesus anointed one, jesus anointed one, jesus king, jesus,
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  • God's final king.
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  • The story, the narrative, the emphasis, the purpose of your
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  • Faith is not about a ticket to heaven.
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  • It is so much bigger than that.
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  • It is about a king, and this is about, it is about a kingdom.
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  • And here's the thing, and i'll wrap up, okay?
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  • Look up here.
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  • We see what we're looking for.
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  • This is just a general principle.
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  • You wanna catch your kids doing something good, you'll see it.
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  • You wanna catch them doing something bad, you'll see it.
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  • You don't even have to be looking, you can hear it, right?
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  • Okay.
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  • We see what we're looking for, always.
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  • And when you were introduced to the bible as a child, perhaps
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  • Your whole thing was "god is love, god is love, god is love,"
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  • So you start reading the bible and you're looking for "god is
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  • Love," and it's in there.
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  • Or you're raised like me where it's all about ethics and
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  • Morality and fidelity and being a good person and there's--
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  • I mean, if you're looking for the rules, it's in there.
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  • And the whole time the authors of the new testament are
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  • Screaming off the pages.
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  • "no, yes, that, but that's not the plot line.
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  • A king has come."
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  • When you open up the pages of the bible, look for a king,
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  • Because you are invited to participate in a kingdom.
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  • The last kingdom.
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  • Now, hopefully, beyond your skepticism, but there's some
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  • Skepticism, you're asking this question.
  • 00:25:24.341 --> 00:25:27.177
  • "okay, so now what?"
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  • You know?
  • 00:25:28.812 --> 00:25:30.146
  • "so what now; what does this mean for me?
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  • What does this mean for you?
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  • What does this mean for us?
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  • What does this mean for the world?"
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  • And those are big important questions, and we're gonna
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  • Explore some of those.
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  • But i'll give you one disorienting clue as to what
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  • This means for you.
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  • If you will attempt to recenter your faith, if you will attempt
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  • To recenter your faith around the arrival of a king and the
  • 00:25:52.302 --> 00:25:56.172
  • Establishment of a kingdom rather than a ticket to heaven,
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  • You will discover why everyone who knew jesus and everyone who
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  • Knew why he came, considered his message 100% good news for
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  • All people.
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  • And perhaps for you, your resistance to your king will
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  • Diminish and go away.
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  • And perhaps you will accept for the first time not a ticket to
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  • Heaven, the invitation to participate in god's final
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  • Kingdom with his amazing last king.
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  • And it will change you.
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  • And once upon a time, it turned the world upside down.
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  • And we will pick it up there next time in part two of
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  • "the last kingdom."
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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  • You may find it hard to believe that 75 million americans claim
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  • No religious affiliation.
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  • On a personal note, perhaps you found it nearly impossible to
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  • Believe that your son or your daughter or perhaps a grandchild
  • 00:27:15.218 --> 00:27:18.154
  • Drifted away from faith as part of that number.
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  • This is a crisis culturally, and perhaps for you it's
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  • A crisis personally.
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  • At "your move" we are committed to addressing that crisis.
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  • We actually have a plan to solve it, but we need your help.
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  • We've developed a digital online tool that invites people to take
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  • A personal assessment that launches them on a journey that
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  • Eventually intersects their questions with the teaching of
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  • Jesus and ultimately with a bible-teaching church
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  • In their community.
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  • Tens of thousands of people are currently engaged in this
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  • Process, but we need your help to continue creating the bread
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  • Crumbs, the content that keeps them moving forward on their
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  • Faith journey.
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  • We're attempting something that no one has ever attempted
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  • Before, and it is already working.
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  • The bottom of the screen, and as always, thank you so much for
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  • Watching, and now it's your move.
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