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Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 2)

March 14, 2026 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 2)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 2) | March 14, 2026
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  • Andy stanley: hi, 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, and today's episode
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  • Is for those of you who have lost your faith, and you miss
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  • It, and you'd like to get it back.
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  • If that's you, i think i can help, stick around.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: if you're watching or listening to this, or you're in
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  • One of our churches or you're gathered with somebody in the
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  • Living room or somewhere, and you would say, you know what?
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  • I'm not really a christian anymore.
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  • I grew up in church, but i'm not a christian anymore.
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  • Or you maybe you never embraced christianity at all, i'm so glad
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  • That you're listening, watching, that you're here, or you're in
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  • One of our churches today, or you're here in the room with me,
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  • Because i so want you--and we started this conversation
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  • Last week.
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  • I so want you, and i want us, and i want me, and honestly--
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  • And this is kind of a big wish, but i so want our nation, and i
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  • So want the world to recognize and to appreciate and ultimately
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  • To accept jesus for who jesus claimed to be, for who jesus is,
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  • And specifically for those--for who he is, and who those who
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  • Knew him best knew him to be and who his enemies feared that he
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  • Might be.
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  • And i want us to discard and abandon the versions of jesus
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  • That reduce him, that reduce jesus to, you know, in case of
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  • Emergency, you know, call jesus, you know, say prayers.
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  • Sin forgiver and forgetter, you know, if you sin, you just
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  • Forgive your--you know, ask him to forgive, you know, you reduce
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  • Him to that.
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  • The versions that reduce jesus to, you know,
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  • Heaven guarantee-er.
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  • For so many of us, we were raised that jesus is your ticket
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  • To heaven.
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  • That's kind of how he's introduced.
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  • Or maybe later on he was a fellow sufferer, or, you know,
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  • To be kind of snarky, you know, hashtag bestie, he's like my
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  • Best friend, jesus is my best friend.
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  • And are those things true?
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  • Well, maybe 2 1/2 of those things are true, but here's
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  • The point.
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  • In our home, sandra does all the cooking.
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  • I've never introduced her to anybody as my cook.
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  • You don't do that but one time, right?
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  • Now, does she do all the cooking?
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  • Is she the cook in her home?
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  • Yes, have i introduced her, i want you to meet, this is
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  • Sandra, my cook?
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  • No, and it is kind of funny, but this is unfortunately what the
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  • Church has done with jesus and what christians do with jesus.
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  • And so consequently, it's what-- if you're not a christian, it's
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  • What the world's of course what you do with jesus, we reduce
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  • Jesus, and when we reduce jesus to a function or a role, we
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  • Can't help but lose sight of who he is, and we can't help help
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  • But lose sight of what he's done, and we can't help but lose
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  • Sight of what he came to do.
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  • Today's part two of our series, "the last kingdom."
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  • And as i said last time we were together in part one, if you
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  • Grew up in church, and i'm going to limit it this time in church,
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  • If you grew up in church, you were taught or handed a simple
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  • Faith template or a faith paradigm.
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  • I was as well, and this faith paradigm or template it served
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  • Kind of as the framework, something to put everything
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  • About your christianity in or to hang everything about
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  • Christianity on if it was sort of a template or a framework.
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  • You know, you took all your beliefs and your convictions and
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  • Your traditions and your christian expectations and how
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  • You did baptism and how you did communion and when you could get
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  • Baptized and when you could take communion, you know, all that
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  • Stuff, but you were given a simple framework, and then you
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  • Just hung all those things on it, and then you, you know,
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  • Eventually were launched into adulthood, and once you became
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  • An adult and a sort of a thinking adult and you sort of
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  • Owned your own faith and were trying to develop a faith of
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  • Your own, you might have revised that template you were handed as
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  • A child or modified it or modernized it.
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  • Or you may have found it--and this is so common--you may have
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  • Found that framework or that template or that, you know,
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  • Synopsis of what christianity is, you may have found it to be
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  • Incompatible with the real world and incompatible with your life
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  • Experience, it just didn't add up.
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  • And people kept trying to, you know, make your life experience
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  • Fit within this frame or within this box, and you're finally
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  • Like, i'm out, okay?
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  • And you just left it, you walked away from it.
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  • But this is why one of the reasons we're doing this series,
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  • One of the reasons we do church the way we do.
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  • The it, the it that oftentimes people leave or walk away from,
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  • The it as it represents christianity, the faith they
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  • Were, you know, handed or taught as a child, the it that they
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  • Walk away from is a version of the it, but it's not the
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  • Original it.
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  • It's not the it that jesus's followers, this is amazing,
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  • Risked their lives to export to the world.
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  • And it's certainly not as jesus kept saying over and over, and
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  • Then as the gospel writer said over and over, that certainly
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  • Isn't good news.
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  • But as we saw last time, and we're gonna see further today,
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  • The men and women who knew jesus personally knew better.
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  • For them, they make it so clear, he was in fact the christ.
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  • Not a nickname, not a surname, it was a title.
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  • It was a royal title.
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  • He was in fact a king.
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  • He was god's final king who came to establish a kingdom, who came
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  • To establish god's final kingdom on earth.
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  • And what does that have to do with you, what does that have to
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  • Do with me, and what does that have to do with us?
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  • Don't leave early.
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  • As king, jesus did not come primarily to die, jesus came to
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  • Do what kings do.
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  • He came to reign, to establish a kingdom, a kingdom that would
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  • Last forever, again, the last kingdom.
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  • And here's what i would bet, if you had no faith tradition, if
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  • You had no knowledge of christianity, if you had--if
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  • You were a blank slate when it comes to religion, and you were
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  • To pick up a new testament, and you understood as you begin to
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  • Read the new testament that the term christ refers to a king, an
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  • Anointed one, god's final king, if you knew that going in, the
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  • Reality of who jesus is and who his--the people who knew him
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  • Best knew him to be, that reality leaps off the pages at
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  • You from matthew all the way through revelation.
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  • There's 27 books in the new testament.
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  • The term christ shows up 496 times, because the authors of
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  • The new testament did not want us to miss the point, he was not
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  • Simply a rabbi, a miracle worker, or a sin forgiver, he
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  • Was a king.
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  • He was born a king in matthew and luke, he was crucified as a
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  • King in mark and john, he's acknowledged as a king through
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  • Acts and all the epistles, and he returns as a king in the book
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  • Of revelation.
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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
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  • With the teaching of jesus right where they are and when they
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  • Least 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.
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  • Or visit the website or call the number on your screen to learn
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  • How you can be a part of this revolutionary approach to
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  • Introducing and reintroducing people to jesus.
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  • Andy: so, for the next few minutes, i'm gonna do a quick
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  • Flyover of the new testament, not the entire new testament,
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  • But some of it, a lot of it.
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  • And the point is, i want you to see it to the point that you can
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  • Never for the rest of your life unsee it, and i want the
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  • Significance of this to seep into your lives, because that
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  • Was the point that the apostles and the writer--authors of the
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  • New testament were trying to make.
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  • So, let's begin with the first book of the new
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  • Testament, matthew.
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  • Matthew chapter 1, verse 1, the first verse in the new
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  • Testament, here it is.
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  • Nobody buries the lead.
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  • "this is the genealogy of jesus christ," jesus, king, jesus, the
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  • Anointed one, doesn't bury the lead.
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  • Seventeen verses later, just to make sure we don't miss it.
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  • "now this is the birth of jesus christ," jesus the anointed one.
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  • This is the story of the birth of a king.
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  • Moving on to mark, matthew, mark, mark chapter 1, verse 1.
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  • Mark doesn't want to bury the lead either.
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  • Mark got his information from peter, who was an eyewitness of
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  • The life of jesus.
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  • He begins, "the beginning of the good news about jesus christ,
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  • The son of god."
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  • So what are you writing about?
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  • I'm writing about good news.
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  • If you read my gospel, mark would say, and it doesn't strike
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  • You as anything but good news, you haven't read it correctly.
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  • So let me make it clear, this is a story about really good news
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  • For everybody.
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  • It's the story of jesus, god's anointed king.
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  • Thirteen verses later, we're not even out of the first chapter of
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  • Mark, listen to this.
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  • He says that, "jesus went into galilee, proclaiming the good
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  • News of god."
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  • Now, here's the thing.
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  • If you were to ask most christians, and if i were to ask
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  • You, hey, what is the good news of god?
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  • Our sunday school answer is the good news of god is that jesus
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  • Died on the cross for our sins.
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  • That is not what jesus was teaching.
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  • He hadn't died.
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  • He's still around, and he's going around galilee and
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  • Eventually judea, and he's preaching and teaching the good
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  • News of god.
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  • Well, what in the world is he talking about?
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  • It's not about his death and resurrection.
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  • And for 3 1/2 years, he preaches and teaches and preaches
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  • And teaches.
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  • What was he proclaiming before that?
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  • So, fortunately for us, mark tells us, here's jesus's
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  • Message, the time has come.
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  • He says the king is here, the kingdom of god is near.
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  • "and here's what i want you to do, i want you to repent and
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  • Believe this good news."
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  • Now, when we see the word repent, we think about repent
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  • From sin, and it's certainly used that way, but the greek
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  • Word repent simply means to change your mind, and in
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  • Changing your mind, you can choose a different course
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  • Of action.
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  • And jesus is saying, "i want you to repent from some wrong
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  • Thinking, and i want you to begin to see different and think
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  • Different, and the king has arrived to help you do
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  • Just that."
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  • And then he expands on this idea in his most famous proclamation
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  • Or his most famous sermon that we call the sermon on the mount.
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  • And as you read the sermon on the mount, these statements,
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  • They just begin to pop up everywhere once you have this
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  • Paradigm or this filter through which to read the new testament.
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  • But listen to this statement that you have quoted before,
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  • You've heard it so many times before, but within this new
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  • Framework, the king is speaking, and listen to what he says to
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  • This audience as they're just beginning to grasp whose
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  • Presence they're in.
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  • He says, "here's what i want you to do, i want you to seek first,
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  • Pursue first, make it a priority," first as in ahead of
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  • Everything else that you seek, and we all have multiple things
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  • We feel like we need to seek.
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  • He says, "i understand that, but what i want you to seek first is
  • 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:13.924
  • His kingdom and his righteousness."
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  • Righteousness?
  • 00:11:17.962 --> 00:11:19.296
  • Righteousness, he's referring to the king's take on what is
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  • Right, the king's take on what is just.
  • 00:11:24.201 --> 00:11:27.271
  • He says, "i want you to put on, and i want you to embrace my
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  • View of justice and my view of rightness and my view of how the
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  • World should work, because god our father created the world to
  • 00:11:34.612 --> 00:11:38.082
  • Work in such a way, and he created you to live in such
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  • A way."
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  • And jesus says the king has arrived, the kingdom is being
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  • Established, and you are all invited to participate in it.
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  • In fact, in fact, this will challenge you to go back
  • 00:11:46.056 --> 00:11:48.459
  • And read.
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  • The sermon on the mount, matthew starts in matthew 5.
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  • The sermon on the mount, do you know what it is?
  • 00:11:52.763 --> 00:11:54.431
  • It is a crash course on how kingdom people act, react, how
  • 00:11:54.431 --> 00:12:00.604
  • They pray, and how they prioritize and how they treat
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  • Other people.
  • 00:12:05.176 --> 00:12:06.544
  • In fact, his message that we call the sermon on the mount was
  • 00:12:06.544 --> 00:12:08.813
  • Repeated over and over and over and over.
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  • This was his standard message.
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  • Matthew, a tax collector, a wealthy man who had scribes
  • 00:12:12.817 --> 00:12:15.419
  • Working for him, he knocked it out.
  • 00:12:15.419 --> 00:12:17.221
  • He got all the significant parts and laid it out for us.
  • 00:12:17.221 --> 00:12:20.724
  • This was the message that jesus taught over and over and over
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  • And over.
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  • The king is here, the kingdom has come, and you are invited to
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  • Participate in it, and this is what it looks like to
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  • Participate in the kingdom of god.
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  • Matthew, mark, on to john.
  • 00:12:34.872 --> 00:12:36.240
  • John chapter 1, this is amazing.
  • 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:37.975
  • Now, john, again, is an eyewitness of what we know
  • 00:12:37.975 --> 00:12:40.711
  • Happened in the life of jesus.
  • 00:12:40.711 --> 00:12:42.613
  • He was with jesus from the beginning.
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  • He's one of the original disciples.
  • 00:12:43.981 --> 00:12:46.483
  • And peter, andrew, james, and john, you've heard these names.
  • 00:12:46.483 --> 00:12:49.086
  • When andrew, peter, james, and john, andrew, andrew was a group
  • 00:12:49.086 --> 00:12:52.890
  • Of--was part of a group of young men who were disciples of
  • 00:12:52.890 --> 00:12:56.193
  • John the baptist, and when john the baptist baptizes jesus and
  • 00:12:56.193 --> 00:13:01.265
  • Says, "guys, i'm not the guy, he's the guy.
  • 00:13:01.265 --> 00:13:04.168
  • You've been following me, you would do well to follow him."
  • 00:13:04.168 --> 00:13:07.171
  • Many of john's disciples, the scripture tells us, went and
  • 00:13:07.171 --> 00:13:10.107
  • Began to follow jesus, and andrew is one of those men,
  • 00:13:10.107 --> 00:13:12.810
  • Those young boys, and he heard jesus teach, and when he heard
  • 00:13:12.810 --> 00:13:16.380
  • Jesus teach, it's like john the baptist was not kidding, this is
  • 00:13:16.380 --> 00:13:20.050
  • The guy, and he goes to find his brother who will become the most
  • 00:13:20.050 --> 00:13:23.487
  • Famous disciple, peter.
  • 00:13:23.487 --> 00:13:25.456
  • Listen to what john tells us in john chapter 1: "the first thing
  • 00:13:25.456 --> 00:13:29.693
  • Andrew did was to find his brother simon," simon peter,
  • 00:13:29.693 --> 00:13:33.697
  • "and tell him--" this is so significant, don't miss this--
  • 00:13:33.697 --> 00:13:36.901
  • "and to tell him, 'we have found the messiah.'"
  • 00:13:36.901 --> 00:13:41.138
  • Now, john is documenting.
  • 00:13:41.138 --> 00:13:42.506
  • John is probably dictating this or writing this, but probably
  • 00:13:42.506 --> 00:13:44.775
  • Dictating this.
  • 00:13:44.775 --> 00:13:46.143
  • He wrote this when he was a very old man, and he stops, and he
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  • Thinks, wait a minute.
  • 00:13:48.646 --> 00:13:49.980
  • He uses the greek term for messiah, but then he remembers
  • 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:53.751
  • Most of my audience, they don't know what a messiah is, and he
  • 00:13:53.751 --> 00:13:58.289
  • Actually pauses.
  • 00:13:58.289 --> 00:13:59.857
  • There are no parentheses, there's no punctuation in the
  • 00:13:59.857 --> 00:14:02.159
  • Greek text, this is for english readers.
  • 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.261
  • He pauses, and he wants us to know with such clarity he
  • 00:14:04.261 --> 00:14:08.532
  • Repeats himself and uses a greek term to make sure his non-greek
  • 00:14:08.532 --> 00:14:13.137
  • Readers know exactly what he's talking about.
  • 00:14:13.137 --> 00:14:15.172
  • Messiah means anointed one, but non-jewish people don't know
  • 00:14:15.172 --> 00:14:18.542
  • That, so he uses the other term as well, christ, that all of his
  • 00:14:18.542 --> 00:14:22.179
  • Greek readers would understand as anointed one.
  • 00:14:22.179 --> 00:14:25.282
  • That's how clear he wanted to make it in this gospel, isn't
  • 00:14:25.282 --> 00:14:28.953
  • That amazing?
  • 00:14:28.953 --> 00:14:30.321
  • And then just in case we miss it, and we read the entire
  • 00:14:30.321 --> 00:14:33.857
  • Gospel of john, and we get to the end and we still haven't
  • 00:14:33.857 --> 00:14:36.727
  • Picked up on the plot line because we've been so confused
  • 00:14:36.727 --> 00:14:39.063
  • By the language, and we're still thinking just in terms of the
  • 00:14:39.063 --> 00:14:41.498
  • Framework of the things jesus came to do rather than who
  • 00:14:41.498 --> 00:14:43.834
  • Jesus is.
  • 00:14:43.834 --> 00:14:45.169
  • At the very end of the gospel of john, john's like, okay, i wanna
  • 00:14:45.169 --> 00:14:48.372
  • Make sure my readers don't miss this, and he ends his gospel
  • 00:14:48.372 --> 00:14:52.343
  • With a purpose statement.
  • 00:14:52.343 --> 00:14:54.244
  • And so john leaves off or he ends his gospel with a big idea,
  • 00:14:54.244 --> 00:14:58.382
  • And he tells us why he wrote this particular account of the
  • 00:14:58.382 --> 00:15:02.486
  • Life of jesus.
  • 00:15:02.486 --> 00:15:04.188
  • Here's what he says at the end of his gospel.
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  • He says jesus--and this is so important.
  • 00:15:06.423 --> 00:15:08.726
  • He said, "jesus performed many other signs."
  • 00:15:08.726 --> 00:15:12.096
  • He doesn't use the word miracle, he uses the word sign, because
  • 00:15:12.096 --> 00:15:16.033
  • The entire book of john is outlined around seven, some of
  • 00:15:16.033 --> 00:15:18.736
  • The people say eight, but seven or eight, we would call
  • 00:15:18.736 --> 00:15:21.405
  • Them miracles.
  • 00:15:21.405 --> 00:15:22.773
  • John says they're not just random miracles, they're not
  • 00:15:22.773 --> 00:15:24.441
  • Random acts of kindness, they are signs.
  • 00:15:24.441 --> 00:15:27.578
  • What's the point of a sign?
  • 00:15:27.578 --> 00:15:28.912
  • What's the purpose of a sign?
  • 00:15:28.912 --> 00:15:30.280
  • A sign points to something.
  • 00:15:30.280 --> 00:15:32.016
  • He says, "don't you understand these miraculous things
  • 00:15:32.016 --> 00:15:34.418
  • Jesus did?"
  • 00:15:34.418 --> 00:15:35.753
  • They weren't just random acts of kindness.
  • 00:15:35.753 --> 00:15:37.154
  • He was pointing to the fact of who he is and the title he
  • 00:15:37.154 --> 00:15:41.358
  • Claimed for himself.
  • 00:15:41.358 --> 00:15:42.993
  • "jesus performed many other signs as well in the presence of
  • 00:15:42.993 --> 00:15:45.863
  • His disciples," there are eyewitnesses for all of this,
  • 00:15:45.863 --> 00:15:48.532
  • "which are not recorded in this book."
  • 00:15:48.532 --> 00:15:50.434
  • He said, "i didn't put them all in here, i just picked a few."
  • 00:15:50.434 --> 00:15:54.204
  • He said, "but i picked these few on purpose."
  • 00:15:54.204 --> 00:15:56.807
  • "but these signs," or these miracles that i included, are
  • 00:15:56.807 --> 00:15:59.877
  • Written with a purpose, it's a hina clause in greek, with a
  • 00:15:59.877 --> 00:16:04.415
  • Purpose that you would believe something.
  • 00:16:04.415 --> 00:16:08.786
  • Now, this is the same john that brings us john 3:16, "for god so
  • 00:16:08.786 --> 00:16:12.689
  • Loved the world, he gave his one and only son, that if you
  • 00:16:12.689 --> 00:16:15.893
  • Believe in him, you won't be lost to god, you won't perish,"
  • 00:16:15.893 --> 00:16:19.363
  • Apollumi, you won't be lost to god.
  • 00:16:19.363 --> 00:16:22.399
  • Believe what?
  • 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:23.767
  • John's like, "oh, you mean you got to the end of my entire
  • 00:16:23.767 --> 00:16:25.502
  • Gospel, you still don't know what to believe?
  • 00:16:25.502 --> 00:16:26.970
  • Let me tell you what's critical for you to believe.
  • 00:16:26.970 --> 00:16:31.442
  • I wrote this so that you would believe that jesus is
  • 00:16:31.442 --> 00:16:36.980
  • Ho christos."
  • 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:38.348
  • This is so important.
  • 00:16:38.348 --> 00:16:40.184
  • He includes the definite article.
  • 00:16:40.184 --> 00:16:41.885
  • It appears all over the new testament.
  • 00:16:41.885 --> 00:16:43.320
  • We miss this as well.
  • 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.255
  • Christos, or christ, is not a name, it's a title, that jesus
  • 00:16:45.255 --> 00:16:50.327
  • Is the or the anointed one, the king, god's final king.
  • 00:16:50.327 --> 00:16:57.134
  • "i wrote this entire gospel of john to convince my readers of
  • 00:16:57.134 --> 00:17:02.372
  • Who jesus is and why he came."
  • 00:17:02.372 --> 00:17:07.411
  • And then he doubles down.
  • 00:17:07.411 --> 00:17:09.146
  • Jesus, that jesus is the christ, the son of god, and that by
  • 00:17:09.146 --> 00:17:12.683
  • Believing that jesus is the christ, the son of god, you
  • 00:17:12.683 --> 00:17:16.987
  • Might have life in his name.
  • 00:17:16.987 --> 00:17:22.526
  • Again, going back to mark, let me repeat that mark got his
  • 00:17:22.526 --> 00:17:25.929
  • Information from peter.
  • 00:17:25.929 --> 00:17:27.264
  • Peter was illiterate.
  • 00:17:27.264 --> 00:17:28.599
  • We know that from the book of acts.
  • 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:29.967
  • Peter, andrew, james, and john, they were fishermen, they were
  • 00:17:29.967 --> 00:17:31.335
  • Hard workers, they were probably successful, they were going to
  • 00:17:31.335 --> 00:17:33.604
  • Inherit their father's business, but they were illiterate men.
  • 00:17:33.604 --> 00:17:36.974
  • Acts tells us they were uneducated men.
  • 00:17:36.974 --> 00:17:39.109
  • So, when peter sat down to tell the story of the--his story
  • 00:17:39.109 --> 00:17:42.846
  • With his life with jesus, his experiences with jesus, he
  • 00:17:42.846 --> 00:17:45.582
  • Dictates these to mark, who is greek.
  • 00:17:45.582 --> 00:17:48.619
  • And mark documents what happened after jesus was arrested.
  • 00:17:48.619 --> 00:17:52.422
  • Because again, peter was there, he was hanging back, worst day
  • 00:17:52.422 --> 00:17:55.492
  • Of his life, worst mistake of his life.
  • 00:17:55.492 --> 00:17:57.928
  • So, finally, they get down to it.
  • 00:17:57.928 --> 00:18:00.864
  • Okay, just tell us.
  • 00:18:00.864 --> 00:18:03.100
  • Now, ready?
  • 00:18:03.100 --> 00:18:04.434
  • This is important.
  • 00:18:04.434 --> 00:18:05.802
  • The church may have misunderstood who jesus is, his
  • 00:18:05.802 --> 00:18:08.639
  • Enemies did not.
  • 00:18:08.639 --> 00:18:10.541
  • They understood exactly what he was claiming.
  • 00:18:10.541 --> 00:18:13.043
  • So just tell us, are you or are you not, definite article, the
  • 00:18:13.043 --> 00:18:19.716
  • Christ, the one sent from god, the anointed one, god's
  • 00:18:19.716 --> 00:18:25.355
  • Final king?
  • 00:18:25.355 --> 00:18:27.457
  • And then they doubled down, but they can't use the name god,
  • 00:18:27.457 --> 00:18:29.893
  • Because they wouldn't allow themselves to do that because
  • 00:18:29.893 --> 00:18:31.495
  • They were so holy, even though they have--even though they are
  • 00:18:31.495 --> 00:18:33.964
  • In the presence of god's son.
  • 00:18:33.964 --> 00:18:36.900
  • So, tell us, are you the christ?
  • 00:18:36.900 --> 00:18:38.835
  • "are you the son of the blessed one?"
  • 00:18:38.835 --> 00:18:47.678
  • And jesus's answer will condemn him or potentially set him free.
  • 00:18:47.678 --> 00:18:56.653
  • Who would lie in a moment like that?
  • 00:18:56.653 --> 00:19:00.591
  • And jesus said, "i am," a king.
  • 00:19:00.591 --> 00:19:08.498
  • If this is all we had, this is all we need.
  • 00:19:08.498 --> 00:19:13.770
  • And the text says, "and they condemned him to be deserving
  • 00:19:13.770 --> 00:19:18.075
  • Of death."
  • 00:19:18.075 --> 00:19:19.409
  • Look up here, not because of what he taught, because of who
  • 00:19:19.409 --> 00:19:23.947
  • He claimed to be, the christ, god's final king.
  • 00:19:23.947 --> 00:19:30.254
  • And i could go on and on and on and on and round and round and
  • 00:19:30.254 --> 00:19:34.925
  • Round, new testament book after new testament book after new
  • 00:19:34.925 --> 00:19:37.527
  • Testament book, it is everywhere, and it is
  • 00:19:37.527 --> 00:19:41.031
  • So important.
  • 00:19:41.031 --> 00:19:42.966
  • It's important for so many reasons, but let me just kinda
  • 00:19:42.966 --> 00:19:46.303
  • Be negative for a moment about us, me included.
  • 00:19:46.303 --> 00:19:49.573
  • One of the reasons this is so important, recognizing who jesus
  • 00:19:49.573 --> 00:19:52.909
  • Is, a king, is that it reveals, it surfaces, it pulls back the
  • 00:19:52.909 --> 00:20:00.751
  • Veil from our shallow, immature, and in some ways arrogant, "what
  • 00:20:00.751 --> 00:20:09.826
  • Has he done for me lately?"
  • 00:20:09.826 --> 00:20:12.329
  • Christianity.
  • 00:20:12.329 --> 00:20:16.133
  • Don't answer out loud if you know the answer to this, but do
  • 00:20:16.133 --> 00:20:18.969
  • You remember--for those of you that read the bible, do you
  • 00:20:18.969 --> 00:20:21.305
  • Remember the last thing jesus's disciples did before jesus
  • 00:20:21.305 --> 00:20:27.411
  • Left them?
  • 00:20:27.411 --> 00:20:28.745
  • This is amazing, matthew was there, he records it for us.
  • 00:20:28.745 --> 00:20:32.115
  • Matthew says that when jesus came to us, or when we came to
  • 00:20:32.115 --> 00:20:35.485
  • Where he was waiting, that when we saw him, we worshiped him.
  • 00:20:35.485 --> 00:20:44.394
  • Now, these are jewish young men, you can't even have an image of
  • 00:20:47.431 --> 00:20:52.402
  • God, you can't even have representations, you can't even
  • 00:20:52.402 --> 00:20:54.738
  • Have art that represents god.
  • 00:20:54.738 --> 00:20:56.673
  • You're not gonna worship a person.
  • 00:20:56.673 --> 00:20:58.342
  • I mean, that's what caesar has been trying to get us to do, you
  • 00:20:58.342 --> 00:21:01.144
  • Know, since rome, you know, since pompeii came and took the
  • 00:21:01.144 --> 00:21:04.314
  • Temples in 63 bc.
  • 00:21:04.314 --> 00:21:06.383
  • Rome has been trying to get us to worship a person.
  • 00:21:06.383 --> 00:21:08.752
  • We're not ever worshiping a person, we're worshiping the
  • 00:21:08.752 --> 00:21:11.021
  • Invisible god.
  • 00:21:11.021 --> 00:21:12.356
  • And in this moment, these young men worship their rabbi.
  • 00:21:12.356 --> 00:21:18.962
  • If that's all we had, that's all we need.
  • 00:21:18.962 --> 00:21:22.566
  • And matthew's so honest.
  • 00:21:22.566 --> 00:21:24.668
  • He says but some doubted.
  • 00:21:24.668 --> 00:21:27.471
  • But of course they did.
  • 00:21:27.471 --> 00:21:29.339
  • They saw him crucified, and there he stands.
  • 00:21:29.339 --> 00:21:33.377
  • Of course there would be some who doubted, but those who
  • 00:21:33.377 --> 00:21:35.779
  • Recognized him, they worshiped.
  • 00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:40.517
  • And his response, well, first of all, he acknowledged and
  • 00:21:40.517 --> 00:21:45.689
  • Received and accepted their worship.
  • 00:21:45.689 --> 00:21:47.023
  • He didn't be like, "oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, guys.
  • 00:21:47.023 --> 00:21:48.725
  • No, get up, come on, it's just me, jesus."
  • 00:21:48.725 --> 00:21:50.894
  • No, he accepted it.
  • 00:21:50.894 --> 00:21:52.963
  • And his response, this is a statement, i know i've said it
  • 00:21:52.963 --> 00:21:56.166
  • Before, i'll keep saying it.
  • 00:21:56.166 --> 00:21:57.534
  • This is a statement that doesn't get the airplay it deserves.
  • 00:21:57.534 --> 00:21:59.736
  • It is largely ignored.
  • 00:21:59.736 --> 00:22:01.938
  • This would change so much.
  • 00:22:01.938 --> 00:22:04.107
  • I don't want to say it would change everything.
  • 00:22:04.107 --> 00:22:05.442
  • It would change so much if the church, especially evangelicals
  • 00:22:05.442 --> 00:22:09.379
  • And fundamentalists and conservative christians, if we--
  • 00:22:09.379 --> 00:22:12.315
  • If everybody would pause and strip away all the preconceived
  • 00:22:12.315 --> 00:22:15.318
  • Ideas and let this one statement punch through and take hold of
  • 00:22:15.318 --> 00:22:18.889
  • Our conscience and become the filter through which we
  • 00:22:18.889 --> 00:22:21.925
  • Experience life and treat people and read the bible.
  • 00:22:21.925 --> 00:22:27.297
  • Jesus stands there, and he makes this extraordinarily
  • 00:22:27.297 --> 00:22:30.801
  • Large claim.
  • 00:22:30.801 --> 00:22:36.740
  • "all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me."
  • 00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:45.348
  • Who would say such a thing?
  • 00:22:47.017 --> 00:22:48.685
  • Within the context of the first century world, there was only
  • 00:22:48.685 --> 00:22:52.656
  • One person who could claim authority over a piece of real
  • 00:22:52.656 --> 00:22:55.392
  • Estate or over a kingdom, and that's the king.
  • 00:22:55.392 --> 00:22:59.029
  • This is king language.
  • 00:22:59.029 --> 00:23:02.098
  • And he says to this ragtag group of people who are fearing for
  • 00:23:02.098 --> 00:23:06.203
  • Their lives, now they're outlaws, they're gonna be hunted
  • 00:23:06.203 --> 00:23:08.472
  • Down, several of them will be martyred soon, the rest probably
  • 00:23:08.472 --> 00:23:11.741
  • Later, and he says to them, "i have authority over heaven--
  • 00:23:11.741 --> 00:23:18.381
  • All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me."
  • 00:23:18.381 --> 00:23:22.352
  • Who would say such a thing?
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  • Not somebody who's just a sin forgiver or a rabbi or a teacher
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  • Or a comforter or a good example, only a king, god's
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  • Final king, who owes us nothing and gave us everything.
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  • He's the king who can be trusted with everything, because he's
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  • The good king who can be trusted with everything without fear,
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  • Because he's the king who came not to ask us to give our lives
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  • For him, but came to give his life for us and turn
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  • Everything upside-down.
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  • He's the king who came to reverse the order of things, and
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  • He didn't come to die, he came to reign, and he established his
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  • Kingdom on earth, and you are invited, and i am invited to
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  • Participate in it.
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  • And when men and women embrace the values of the king, that
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  • Piece of real estate gets better, and those families get
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  • Better, and those communities get better, and those nations
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  • Get better, because he's the king.
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  • So, gotta wrap this up.
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  • If you aren't already a follower of jesus, i know, you know, i
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  • Don't have any right to tell you what to do, but you should at
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  • Least consider accepting this invitation to follow, because
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  • His kingdom has come, and in the end his will will be done.
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  • And the other reason you should consider it is the apostles tell
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  • Us, and i'll just choose one piece of text, but they all say
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  • This, jesus said this.
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  • The reason you should at least consider this is because that
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  • Someday, someday, at the name of jesus, every knee will bow.
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  • This is astounding.
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  • Paul said, see, one day--look up here--everyone is gonna have
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  • That moment like the disciples did when they're like, "oh, you
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  • Are who you claim to be."
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  • And in that moment, we won't ask all of our stupid questions.
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  • We will worship the king.
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  • And we have been invited to jump in and do it ahead of time, as a
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  • Commercial announcement to the rest of the world that the king
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  • Has come and the king is coming.
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  • Listen to the rest of this, "that at the name of jesus every
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  • Knee will bow."
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  • Those who are in heaven, those who are on earth, and everyone
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  • Who died previously.
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  • And not only every knee, and every tongue will confess, every
  • 00:25:58.608 --> 00:26:03.179
  • Tongue will recognize, everyone will get it, everyone will see
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  • It, that jesus, god's anointed king, is the boss, is the lord,
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  • Has the right to rule to the glory of god the father.
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  • This is what matthew wanted us to understand, what peter wanted
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  • Us to understand, why luke wrote his orderly account, why john
  • 00:26:27.604 --> 00:26:31.541
  • Wrote his account, why luke wrote the book of acts to say
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  • Look at how this played out in this part of the world and look
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  • At how this played out in the world.
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  • And who would have imagined that by the early fourth century,
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  • Rome would recognize what we miss, jesus is a king.
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  • And we will pick it up right there, next time in part three
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  • Of "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
  • 00:27:14.651 --> 00:27:17.554
  • Drifted away from faith as part of that number.
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  • This is a crisis culturally, and perhaps for you it's a
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  • 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 in
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  • 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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  • To find out more, go to the website or call the number at
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  • The bottom of the screen.
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  • And as always, thank you so much for watching, and now it's
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  • Your move.
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