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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 3)

March 21, 2026 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 3)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - The Last Kingdom (Part 3) | March 21, 2026
  • 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.
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  • Now, if we're honest, no one has to tell us to listen to things
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  • We wanna hear, right?
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  • But what about the things we don't want to hear?
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  • Today's timeless advice may be challenging, but if you take it,
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  • You'll be glad you did.
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  • So, let's get to it right here on "your move."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: if you have not been following along, you really,
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  • Really need to go back and at least watch the first in this
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  • Series if you're joining us for the first time, or maybe the
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  • First time in a long time, because we have a very unique
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  • Goal in this series.
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  • Our goal, or i should, say my goal in this series is i want
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  • All of us and all of you to accept jesus, but not as
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  • Your savior.
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  • Hopefully you've already done that.
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  • I want all of us, in fact, i wish all of christendom would
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  • Accept jesus or accept jesus and recognize jesus for who his
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  • Closest friends--his closest first century friends,
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  • Recognized him to be and acknowledge him to be and who
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  • His enemies, in fact, his fiercest enemies feared that he
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  • In fact, might be.
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  • And the reason that's my goal is that my hope is that every
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  • Single time you open up the new testament, or every time you
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  • Read a devotional book that's taken from the new testament,
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  • That every time you open up the new testament, you would see
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  • What has been there all along that many of us weren't able to
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  • See and have never seen before.
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  • And it's not your fault that you didn't see it.
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  • It's the fault of people who do what i do.
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  • So i decided we just need to put it out there and talk about it.
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  • Every time you hear, or every time you read the word christ
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  • For the rest of your life, i want you to think in terms of
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  • Not jesus's name or jesus's last name, or even to initially
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  • Think sin forgiver or ticket to heaven, heaven promiser.
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  • But for the rest of your life, that whenever you see or read or
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  • Hear the word christ, you would think messiah, anointed one,
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  • God's final king, who did not come into this world
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  • Primarily--again, read matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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  • Who did not come into this world primarily to provide a safe way
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  • For us out of this world, but who came to establish the
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  • Kingdom of god, the last kingdom in this world, for this world.
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  • That they weren't sent into the world to escape the world, but
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  • They were sent into the world and jesus had come into the
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  • World to transform the world.
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  • So, they devoted themselves to his all-encompassing edict.
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  • His final command as king, we talk about it all the time.
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  • When he gathered the 12 disciples right before he was
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  • Arrested, he said, "as your king, i'm gonna give you
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  • A new command."
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  • They didn't need a new command.
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  • He's like, "yeah, but this one's from me.
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  • You've had all the commands moses gave you.
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  • Moses was your guy," they understood this, "now i'm your
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  • Guy, and here's your command.
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  • You are to love one another the way that i have loved you."
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  • They devoted themselves to this all encompassing command to love
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  • Like their king.
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  • And in addition to that, as we're gonna talk about today,
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  • They also devoted themselves to fight like their king.
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  • You follow them through the first century in the church, and
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  • The second and third century, and you discover that the jesus
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  • Followers refused, this is gonna be hard for some of us, refused
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  • The tactics and the strategies of the kingdoms of men.
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  • And it worked.
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  • That ultimately, as we say all the time, the empire that
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  • Crucified jesus capitulated and acknowledged jesus as their
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  • Heavenly king.
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  • They acknowledge jesus as a god, but this group of jesus
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  • Followers who acknowledge jesus as a king who came to establish
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  • His kingdom on earth and that everyone was invited to
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  • Participate in it, they literally, over the course of
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  • Three centuries, they changed the world and the world has
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  • Never recovered from it, and the world never will.
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  • More on that next time.
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  • But here's the question i want us to ask.
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  • What did this unusual, subversive resistance to empire,
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  • Resistance to caesar, resistance to the temple, what does this
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  • Subversive, this under the radar, what did this resistance
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  • Look like?
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  • How did the early christians fight?
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  • And it's an important--i mean, i should say it's--well, it's
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  • Important, but it's also an appropriate question to ask,
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  • Because in fact, the greatest missionary who ever lived, the
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  • Apostle paul, who took it--on the responsibility personally to
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  • Take the message of jesus to the entire mediterranean basin, he
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  • Basically said to jesus's disciples, "you guys take
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  • Jerusalem and galilee and samaria.
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  • I'm gonna take the rest of the world," and he did.
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  • The apostle paul is the one who, in a letter to his protege,
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  • Timothy, wrote these words.
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  • He said, "i have fought the good fight."
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  • So there's a fight to fight.
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  • There's a type of fight that he fought that we all need
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  • To fight.
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  • So ask the question, "what kind of fight should we fight?
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  • And is there a fight?"
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  • Absolutely.
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  • And the apostle paul said, "i have fought the good fight
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  • Because i have fought like my king."
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  • And this is where the church, and this is where oftentimes
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  • Individual christians, at some level, probably all of us have
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  • Dipped into this or fallen into this, and perhaps this is your
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  • Posture even today.
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  • This is where the church and christians often get it wrong.
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  • When the church employs, and i understand why this happens,
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  • When the church or church leaders employ and leverage the
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  • Kingdoms of this world tactics and strategies and tools in an
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  • Attempt to further the kingdom of god, when church leaders
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  • Employ and leverage the kingdoms of men, tactics and strategies
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  • In an effort to further the kingdom of god, it never works.
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  • Things go bad.
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  • In fact, things don't go bad.
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  • Things always go backwards.
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  • Every--in fact, every embarrassing chapter of church
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  • History, every embarrassing chapter of church history, and
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  • There are many, every embarrassing chapter of church
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  • History can be traced back to church leaders attempting to
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  • Advance the kingdom of god with the tactics of the kingdoms
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  • Of men.
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  • By force, by mandates, by defeating an enemy, by defeating
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  • A group of people that they've identified as an enemy.
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  • And it never works, and it never will work, and here's why.
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  • Because the king doesn't participate, he sits it out and
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  • He waits.
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  • And: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address
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  • A growing 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
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  • A difference.
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  • So, if you'll stick around after today's message, we would love
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  • To tell you more about it or visit the website or call the
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  • Number on your screen to learn how you can be a part of this
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  • Revolutionary approach to introducing and reintroducing
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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: but the fight that we're invited into as jesus's
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  • Followers is so counterintuitive.
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  • It's so difficult to catch on to.
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  • It's so not the kingdoms of men, and the problem is the only
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  • Thing we ever see modeled, the only thing we ever see modeled,
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  • The thing--the only thing we're convinced will work because of
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  • What we see modeled is the kingdoms of men.
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  • It's so easy to miss and it's so easy to dismiss.
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  • In fact, by the standards of the kingdoms of men, it often
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  • Appears as if the church is losing.
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  • But, and here's the challenge, if you push back, and i get the
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  • Push back.
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  • Here's the challenge, just follow jesus from the jordan
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  • River valley to jerusalem, to the cross.
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  • Then open the book of acts and follow the apostle paul all
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  • Around the mediterranean rim and then all the way back to rome
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  • Where he's eventually arrested and executed.
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  • And then ask yourself this question, "who won?"
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  • Here's a clue.
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  • Who are we still talking about?
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  • Who are we still quoting?
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  • Who is worshiped currently in every single nation in
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  • The world?
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  • And if you want to get real granular, what is the
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  • Best-selling book of all time?
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  • Did they lose?
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  • No.
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  • They won.
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  • How did that happen?
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  • How does something like that happen?
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  • Can it still happen?
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  • What if that is what we have all been invited into?
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  • It is what we have all been invited into, but how do we
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  • Advance and participate in, don't miss this, how do we
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  • Advance and participate in the ever advancing kingdom of god?
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  • I think the contrast--you may disagree.
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  • I think the contrast between kingdoms was never any clearer
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  • Than when jesus was arrested and brought before pilate, because
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  • Pilate represents rome, pilate represents the empire, but
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  • Pilate represents everything that's powerful and mighty and
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  • Winning in the world.
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  • And now he's confronted with a jewish rabbi who's been rejected
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  • By his own people, and he's already been up all night and
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  • He's already been beaten several times.
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  • And the temple leaders finally bring jesus to pilate.
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  • And they say, "look, we don't need to have a trial.
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  • Just trust us.
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  • This man must die.
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  • We just need you to give us--give him a death sentence.
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  • Look, we can--we don't want to bother you with the details."
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  • Pilate invites him in, and the hypocrisy is unbelievable.
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  • They're like, "no, we--no, no, no, no.
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  • It's the season of passover.
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  • We have to remain ceremonially clean.
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  • We can't step inside a gentile's home, so you'll need to come out
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  • To us and make this decision."
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  • And pilate is, "why--what has he done that he needs to die?"
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  • Look, he'd said, "this is just--he's broken your rules, so
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  • You deal with him.
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  • He hasn't broken any rules of rome.
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  • You deal with it."
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  • "we--no, no, no. we can't execute a man.
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  • Only rome has the authority to execute someone, and this man
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  • Must be executed."
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  • Pilate is like, "what in the world could he have done?"
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  • And listen carefully to these words, because here it is again.
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  • They said--this is amazing.
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  • They said, "look, pilate, we found this man misleading
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  • Our nation.
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  • In other words, this is not a religious issue, this is a
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  • Political issue.
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  • This is a national issue.
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  • This has to do with the populace and the citizenship.
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  • He's misleading our whole nation, and he's forbidding us,
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  • Pilate, pay attention, to pay taxes to caesar.
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  • Hey, what he's doing and what he said, it is conflicting
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  • With empire.
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  • It's conflicting with your emperor.
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  • You need to pay attention.
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  • He's not just breaking our rules, he is a threat to
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  • The empire.
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  • And if that wasn't enough, caesar, he's saying that he
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  • Himself is christ."
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  • Pilate's like, "see, that's your thing.
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  • What's a christ?
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  • What's a messiah?
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  • That has nothing--"
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  • "no, no, no, no, no.
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  • He's claiming to be a king," because that is what
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  • That insinuates.
  • 00:12:04.241 --> 00:12:07.344
  • Christ, anointed one of god.
  • 00:12:07.344 --> 00:12:09.947
  • "he is claiming to be the christ, god's final king.
  • 00:12:09.947 --> 00:12:16.153
  • Pilate, this is political.
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  • You better pay attention, and he deserves to die."
  • 00:12:18.923 --> 00:12:22.893
  • Pilate's like, "oh, all right, bring him in.
  • 00:12:22.893 --> 00:12:27.531
  • But you guys, you know, i know you're not coming in.
  • 00:12:27.531 --> 00:12:29.300
  • You're just ceremonially clean, you know, trying to get me to
  • 00:12:29.300 --> 00:12:31.735
  • Execute an innocent man, whatever, you stay out."
  • 00:12:31.735 --> 00:12:33.537
  • He brings jesus inside.
  • 00:12:33.537 --> 00:12:35.472
  • And he didn't have time for this, so he just says, "are
  • 00:12:35.472 --> 00:12:37.274
  • You--come on, let's just get it out there.
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  • Are you the king of the jews?
  • 00:12:39.043 --> 00:12:40.945
  • They're claiming that you claim to be the king.
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  • Are you the king of the jews?"
  • 00:12:43.113 --> 00:12:44.481
  • And of course jesus never said this specifically, but you know,
  • 00:12:44.481 --> 00:12:47.952
  • Pilate's thinking, "well, what else could he be the king of?"
  • 00:12:47.952 --> 00:12:50.788
  • "are you the king of the jews?"
  • 00:12:50.788 --> 00:12:53.023
  • Jesus has been up all night.
  • 00:12:53.023 --> 00:12:54.358
  • He's been beaten, mocked.
  • 00:12:54.358 --> 00:12:56.493
  • Still he has the presence of mind to kind of tease pilate.
  • 00:12:56.493 --> 00:13:00.831
  • "is that your own idea?"
  • 00:13:00.831 --> 00:13:02.166
  • He said, "or did others talk to you?"
  • 00:13:02.166 --> 00:13:04.468
  • In other words, "have you done your own research, or is this
  • 00:13:04.468 --> 00:13:06.437
  • Just what you--is this just hearsay that i've said something
  • 00:13:06.437 --> 00:13:08.706
  • Like that?"
  • 00:13:08.706 --> 00:13:10.040
  • And pilate's like, "okay, okay, we're not doing this.
  • 00:13:10.040 --> 00:13:11.375
  • No more word games.
  • 00:13:11.375 --> 00:13:12.743
  • I don't understand your customs, i don't understand your people.
  • 00:13:12.743 --> 00:13:14.378
  • I can't wait for this to be over and to get back to my lake
  • 00:13:14.378 --> 00:13:16.814
  • House, you know, my ocean side villa, okay?
  • 00:13:16.814 --> 00:13:19.450
  • This is just too much.
  • 00:13:19.450 --> 00:13:20.784
  • Okay, just tell me, what have you done to cause so
  • 00:13:20.784 --> 00:13:23.153
  • Much trouble?
  • 00:13:23.153 --> 00:13:24.521
  • What have you done to stir up those people?
  • 00:13:24.521 --> 00:13:25.856
  • What is it that you've done that's so bad that they think
  • 00:13:25.856 --> 00:13:27.825
  • You deserve a death sentence?"
  • 00:13:27.825 --> 00:13:32.129
  • Jesus says, "pilate, my kingdom is not of," or you can say not
  • 00:13:32.129 --> 00:13:39.103
  • From, "doesn't represent and doesn't reflect anything of the
  • 00:13:39.103 --> 00:13:45.009
  • Kingdoms of this world.
  • 00:13:45.009 --> 00:13:47.444
  • Pilate, if my kingdom was like your kingdom," or he says, "if
  • 00:13:47.444 --> 00:13:51.015
  • It were, come on pilate, you know how this works.
  • 00:13:51.015 --> 00:13:53.817
  • Kingdoms clash, kings go to war, and they fight to the bit--you
  • 00:13:53.817 --> 00:13:59.290
  • Know, bitter, bloody end, and then at the end, the losing king
  • 00:13:59.290 --> 00:14:03.060
  • Is surrounded by his loyal men, his bodyguard, and the bodyguard
  • 00:14:03.060 --> 00:14:07.865
  • Fights to the death to defend their king.
  • 00:14:07.865 --> 00:14:10.901
  • Pilate, do you see any of that?
  • 00:14:10.901 --> 00:14:14.138
  • My kingdom's nothing like your kingdom.
  • 00:14:14.138 --> 00:14:17.775
  • My kingdom is nothing like yours.
  • 00:14:17.775 --> 00:14:19.143
  • If my kingdom was like yours, my servants would fight to prevent
  • 00:14:19.143 --> 00:14:24.181
  • My arrest.
  • 00:14:24.181 --> 00:14:25.516
  • Do you see that?
  • 00:14:25.516 --> 00:14:26.884
  • Pilate, my--now my kingdom is from another place."
  • 00:14:26.884 --> 00:14:30.254
  • And pilate's like, "well now we're getting somewhere.
  • 00:14:30.254 --> 00:14:33.190
  • So you are a king.
  • 00:14:33.190 --> 00:14:36.193
  • You are a king," pilate says.
  • 00:14:36.193 --> 00:14:38.395
  • And then he thinks to himself, "you are a very odd king.
  • 00:14:38.395 --> 00:14:42.766
  • You don't fight back, your people don't defend you.
  • 00:14:42.766 --> 00:14:48.639
  • They don't rally around you."
  • 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:49.974
  • And he's thinking, "if you're a king, your kingdom will never
  • 00:14:49.974 --> 00:14:54.378
  • Get off the ground."
  • 00:14:54.378 --> 00:14:56.313
  • And jesus is thinking, "i'm not trying to get it off the ground.
  • 00:14:56.313 --> 00:15:00.784
  • I brought it from heaven to transform the ground."
  • 00:15:00.784 --> 00:15:06.957
  • What jesus launched, what you have been invited into is epic
  • 00:15:06.957 --> 00:15:12.563
  • And nothing is going to stop it.
  • 00:15:12.563 --> 00:15:15.799
  • And we have been invited to participate in it.
  • 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:20.204
  • But here's my point, when you get this right at home and at
  • 00:15:20.204 --> 00:15:23.941
  • Work and in the community, and when i get this right at home
  • 00:15:23.941 --> 00:15:27.277
  • And at work and in the community, and when we get this
  • 00:15:27.277 --> 00:15:30.014
  • Right as a collective--collection of jesus
  • 00:15:30.014 --> 00:15:32.082
  • Followers, it may appear that we're losing, but we're not.
  • 00:15:32.082 --> 00:15:37.354
  • And here's how we know, because from the armpit of the roman
  • 00:15:37.354 --> 00:15:39.890
  • Empire, i know i say that all the time, the armpit of the
  • 00:15:39.890 --> 00:15:41.725
  • Roman empire, nobody wanted to be in judea.
  • 00:15:41.725 --> 00:15:45.396
  • Legionnaires--the legionnaires, the soldiers, nobody, that's no
  • 00:15:45.396 --> 00:15:49.533
  • Senator, nobody wanted to be assigned to judea.
  • 00:15:49.533 --> 00:15:53.103
  • It was the worst assignment.
  • 00:15:53.103 --> 00:15:54.471
  • From the armpit of the roman empire to every modern nation of
  • 00:15:54.471 --> 00:15:58.208
  • The world, the name of jesus is known and he's worshiped because
  • 00:15:58.208 --> 00:16:03.414
  • Slowly, relentlessly, slowly, relentlessly, the kingdom of god
  • 00:16:03.414 --> 00:16:10.888
  • Makes its way, spreads, leaves its mark and pulls people along
  • 00:16:10.888 --> 00:16:17.227
  • In its wake.
  • 00:16:17.227 --> 00:16:18.629
  • Not by mandates, not by forced conversions or force of arms,
  • 00:16:18.629 --> 00:16:24.668
  • Because that's not the way of the king.
  • 00:16:24.668 --> 00:16:27.004
  • That's not the way we fight.
  • 00:16:27.004 --> 00:16:28.372
  • Our fight is different.
  • 00:16:28.372 --> 00:16:30.340
  • Paul spells it out for us.
  • 00:16:30.340 --> 00:16:32.476
  • Here's what he says.
  • 00:16:32.476 --> 00:16:33.844
  • He wrote two letters, 1 and 2 timothy, to the same timothy, a
  • 00:16:33.844 --> 00:16:37.381
  • Young man he was developing into being--to take his place and do
  • 00:16:37.381 --> 00:16:40.851
  • What he did.
  • 00:16:40.851 --> 00:16:42.286
  • And in the first one he says to the young timothy, he says,
  • 00:16:42.286 --> 00:16:44.455
  • "okay, timothy, this is what you gotta do," this is
  • 00:16:44.455 --> 00:16:47.157
  • Very important.
  • 00:16:47.157 --> 00:16:48.492
  • If you haven't been paying attention, don't miss this.
  • 00:16:48.492 --> 00:16:50.060
  • He says, "timothy, you gotta fight the good fight," this is
  • 00:16:50.060 --> 00:16:53.597
  • The most important part, "of the faith."
  • 00:16:53.597 --> 00:16:57.668
  • This is how church leaders read this.
  • 00:16:57.668 --> 00:17:00.104
  • Fight the good fight for the faith.
  • 00:17:00.104 --> 00:17:03.107
  • Paul is very intentional.
  • 00:17:03.107 --> 00:17:04.708
  • This isn't fighting for something, this is fighting
  • 00:17:04.708 --> 00:17:08.145
  • A type of fight.
  • 00:17:08.145 --> 00:17:09.513
  • He's saying, "timothy, make sure the fight you fight is the
  • 00:17:09.513 --> 00:17:12.216
  • Correct fight.
  • 00:17:12.216 --> 00:17:13.584
  • It's the fight that is characterized by our fight.
  • 00:17:13.584 --> 00:17:15.853
  • It's the fight that characterizes what jesus did.
  • 00:17:15.853 --> 00:17:18.789
  • Make sure you're in the right conflict with the right thing
  • 00:17:18.789 --> 00:17:22.126
  • That you are to be in conflict with.
  • 00:17:22.126 --> 00:17:23.961
  • Make sure you are fighting the fight that characterizes
  • 00:17:23.961 --> 00:17:27.431
  • Our faith."
  • 00:17:27.431 --> 00:17:28.999
  • In other words, we're not fighting on behalf of our faith.
  • 00:17:28.999 --> 00:17:32.536
  • This isn't about defending our faith.
  • 00:17:32.536 --> 00:17:34.738
  • It's not about fighting something in order to gain
  • 00:17:34.738 --> 00:17:37.141
  • Something, to win in such a way that somebody else or another
  • 00:17:37.141 --> 00:17:40.344
  • Group of people loses.
  • 00:17:40.344 --> 00:17:41.879
  • In fact, that's the differentiator.
  • 00:17:41.879 --> 00:17:44.081
  • Ours is not--this is hard for us.
  • 00:17:44.081 --> 00:17:47.484
  • Ours is not a win-lose fight.
  • 00:17:47.484 --> 00:17:50.621
  • Ours is not a conquer or be conquered conflict.
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  • If somebody has to lose so we can win, we are not fighting the
  • 00:17:54.324 --> 00:18:00.297
  • Fight of our faith.
  • 00:18:00.297 --> 00:18:03.400
  • And you've heard me say this before and i'm gonna keep
  • 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:05.903
  • Saying it.
  • 00:18:05.903 --> 00:18:07.237
  • When christian leaders make a they, the enemy, they have lost
  • 00:18:07.237 --> 00:18:13.644
  • The plot line.
  • 00:18:13.644 --> 00:18:15.012
  • And even if they win, they lose, and it is a setback for
  • 00:18:15.012 --> 00:18:19.249
  • The church.
  • 00:18:19.249 --> 00:18:20.584
  • It is not an advancement.
  • 00:18:20.584 --> 00:18:22.052
  • Because like jesus, we fight on behalf of others, not ourselves.
  • 00:18:22.052 --> 00:18:30.527
  • That's what jesus modeled.
  • 00:18:30.527 --> 00:18:32.296
  • That's what the apostle paul modeled.
  • 00:18:32.296 --> 00:18:34.264
  • That is what got the attention of the world.
  • 00:18:34.264 --> 00:18:37.634
  • That these crazy christianas, these followers of the dead
  • 00:18:37.634 --> 00:18:41.371
  • Crucified king, they're so compassionate, they're so
  • 00:18:41.371 --> 00:18:44.942
  • Generous, they're not afraid of death, and they're so
  • 00:18:44.942 --> 00:18:47.945
  • Others oriented.
  • 00:18:47.945 --> 00:18:49.279
  • This doesn't make any sense.
  • 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:50.647
  • Why would you do something for someone who can't return
  • 00:18:50.647 --> 00:18:53.250
  • The favor?
  • 00:18:53.250 --> 00:18:54.618
  • That doesn't make any sense, especially in the first, second,
  • 00:18:54.618 --> 00:18:56.019
  • And third century.
  • 00:18:56.019 --> 00:18:57.354
  • For some people, it still doesn't make any sense.
  • 00:18:57.354 --> 00:18:58.722
  • In parts of our world today, that kind of generosity and
  • 00:18:58.722 --> 00:19:00.924
  • Compassion is like, that's foolish.
  • 00:19:00.924 --> 00:19:03.060
  • Why would you give away something or why would you give
  • 00:19:03.060 --> 00:19:05.896
  • Yourself away to something or some cause that can't do
  • 00:19:05.896 --> 00:19:08.432
  • Anything for you?
  • 00:19:08.432 --> 00:19:11.368
  • Because that's what our king did for us.
  • 00:19:11.368 --> 00:19:16.306
  • We fight on behalf of other people, not ourselves.
  • 00:19:16.306 --> 00:19:18.575
  • Paul's point is this, " you got--timothy, you gotta fight
  • 00:19:18.575 --> 00:19:21.044
  • The right fight, the right way."
  • 00:19:21.044 --> 00:19:24.881
  • If you wanna know what that looks like, you just follow paul
  • 00:19:24.881 --> 00:19:27.084
  • Through the book of acts.
  • 00:19:27.084 --> 00:19:28.785
  • You see this lived out.
  • 00:19:28.785 --> 00:19:30.120
  • You see him live this out under extraordinary circumstances.
  • 00:19:30.120 --> 00:19:33.757
  • The good fight that we're called to fight, the good fight is the
  • 00:19:33.757 --> 00:19:37.194
  • Personal fight to live out the law of christ, regardless.
  • 00:19:37.194 --> 00:19:42.733
  • The good fight, the fight i'm to fight every day, that you're to
  • 00:19:42.733 --> 00:19:45.369
  • Fight every day, is the personal fight to live out the law
  • 00:19:45.369 --> 00:19:47.904
  • Of christ.
  • 00:19:47.904 --> 00:19:49.273
  • The law of christ is when he said, "you are to love as i have
  • 00:19:49.273 --> 00:19:52.676
  • Loved you."
  • 00:19:52.676 --> 00:19:54.444
  • The good fight is the fight to maintain the posture and the
  • 00:19:54.444 --> 00:19:58.115
  • Tone and the approach of our king, regardless.
  • 00:19:58.115 --> 00:20:02.986
  • You're like, "andy, will that work?"
  • 00:20:02.986 --> 00:20:05.355
  • It's already worked.
  • 00:20:05.355 --> 00:20:07.591
  • We're halfway around the world and look at us.
  • 00:20:07.591 --> 00:20:10.894
  • We're halfway around the world and you don't even remember the
  • 00:20:10.894 --> 00:20:13.664
  • First time you heard the name of jesus.
  • 00:20:13.664 --> 00:20:15.432
  • Of course it worked.
  • 00:20:15.432 --> 00:20:17.768
  • The good fight is the fight to be christlike, to return good
  • 00:20:17.768 --> 00:20:24.975
  • For evil, to refuse to demonize any person or any group
  • 00:20:24.975 --> 00:20:29.012
  • Of people.
  • 00:20:29.012 --> 00:20:30.347
  • In fact, to pray for the people that persecute us.
  • 00:20:30.347 --> 00:20:34.518
  • To forgive, to forgive people who aren't even asking to be
  • 00:20:34.518 --> 00:20:38.121
  • Forgiven and don't really even care.
  • 00:20:38.121 --> 00:20:41.625
  • The fight to be christlike is to be the good samaritan, when you
  • 00:20:41.625 --> 00:20:46.563
  • Get nothing in return and you know the person you're helping
  • 00:20:46.563 --> 00:20:50.133
  • Would never do that for you.
  • 00:20:50.133 --> 00:20:54.805
  • The fight to be christlike is to refuse to be the older brother
  • 00:20:54.805 --> 00:20:58.642
  • In the parable of the prodigal son.
  • 00:20:58.642 --> 00:21:03.413
  • In the good fight, in the good fight of faith, no one loses.
  • 00:21:03.413 --> 00:21:11.088
  • When jesus died, who lost?
  • 00:21:11.088 --> 00:21:15.192
  • Nobody.
  • 00:21:15.192 --> 00:21:16.827
  • Who won?
  • 00:21:16.827 --> 00:21:18.962
  • You did, and you did, and you did, and you did, and
  • 00:21:18.962 --> 00:21:23.900
  • You did, and you did, and i did.
  • 00:21:23.900 --> 00:21:27.170
  • Everybody won.
  • 00:21:27.170 --> 00:21:28.505
  • For us, this is important.
  • 00:21:28.505 --> 00:21:29.873
  • Victory--i know this doesn't sound very american.
  • 00:21:29.873 --> 00:21:34.211
  • I know we like competition and in some ways we like conflict,
  • 00:21:34.211 --> 00:21:37.781
  • And everybody likes to win, i like to win.
  • 00:21:37.781 --> 00:21:39.449
  • But for us, the win, the victory, for us, the win or the
  • 00:21:39.449 --> 00:21:43.754
  • Victory is the victory over our natural inclination to make this
  • 00:21:43.754 --> 00:21:48.024
  • A win-lose battle.
  • 00:21:48.024 --> 00:21:51.094
  • We are fighting a different fight for a better price.
  • 00:21:51.094 --> 00:21:55.866
  • Years later, paul finds himself back in rome for a second time.
  • 00:21:55.866 --> 00:22:01.238
  • And this time he's not going to get out.
  • 00:22:01.238 --> 00:22:02.773
  • His life story is just--it's remarkable.
  • 00:22:02.773 --> 00:22:05.308
  • He ends up back in rome, he's been arrested again.
  • 00:22:05.308 --> 00:22:07.144
  • This time he knows he's not leaving.
  • 00:22:07.144 --> 00:22:09.079
  • And he pens a second letter to timothy.
  • 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:11.348
  • We call it 2 timothy.
  • 00:22:11.348 --> 00:22:13.517
  • Listen to what he says: "i have fought the good fight."
  • 00:22:13.517 --> 00:22:19.656
  • "well, paul, you didn't fight hard enough, okay?
  • 00:22:19.656 --> 00:22:22.959
  • You're about to be executed."
  • 00:22:22.959 --> 00:22:25.896
  • He's like, "no, no, no, i insist.
  • 00:22:25.896 --> 00:22:27.998
  • I--you didn't misread that.
  • 00:22:27.998 --> 00:22:30.367
  • I really did fight the right fight.
  • 00:22:30.367 --> 00:22:33.737
  • I didn't just fight, i fought the right fight, i fought the
  • 00:22:33.737 --> 00:22:37.174
  • Good fight."
  • 00:22:37.174 --> 00:22:40.444
  • "so you won?"
  • 00:22:40.444 --> 00:22:43.046
  • "yes."
  • 00:22:43.046 --> 00:22:44.381
  • "well, who lost?"
  • 00:22:44.381 --> 00:22:47.551
  • Nobody. that's the point.
  • 00:22:47.551 --> 00:22:53.223
  • Paul would say, "that's how i know i won.
  • 00:22:53.223 --> 00:22:57.394
  • I was whatever i needed to be, and i was whoever i needed to be
  • 00:22:57.394 --> 00:23:01.631
  • To everyone i met, so that they could be introduced to and see
  • 00:23:01.631 --> 00:23:05.402
  • In me an image, a reflection of my king."
  • 00:23:05.402 --> 00:23:09.973
  • He would say, "you know what, i won over my pride, i won over my
  • 00:23:09.973 --> 00:23:14.411
  • Envy, i won over my selfishness, i won over my desire for
  • 00:23:14.411 --> 00:23:18.348
  • Revenge, i won over my innate desire to do what others as they
  • 00:23:18.348 --> 00:23:21.785
  • Had done unto me."
  • 00:23:21.785 --> 00:23:23.119
  • And so many people had mistreated the apostle paul.
  • 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:28.859
  • "i have fought the good fight, i finished the race.
  • 00:23:28.859 --> 00:23:35.365
  • Timothy, it's not the race most people are running, but you and
  • 00:23:35.365 --> 00:23:37.734
  • I know.
  • 00:23:37.734 --> 00:23:39.102
  • And i got to the end of this race.
  • 00:23:39.102 --> 00:23:40.437
  • I finished the race.
  • 00:23:40.437 --> 00:23:41.805
  • I have kept, i did not depart from, i didn't water it down,
  • 00:23:41.805 --> 00:23:45.675
  • I've kept the faith.
  • 00:23:45.675 --> 00:23:50.113
  • I've lived like, i've loved like, and i've fought like
  • 00:23:50.113 --> 00:23:56.686
  • My king."
  • 00:23:56.686 --> 00:23:58.421
  • That's the win.
  • 00:23:58.421 --> 00:24:00.123
  • If you forget everything else, don't forget this.
  • 00:24:00.123 --> 00:24:02.092
  • The good fight is the fight to be christlike, regardless.
  • 00:24:02.092 --> 00:24:10.600
  • "andy, i don't think that'll make a difference."
  • 00:24:10.600 --> 00:24:12.002
  • Just--whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, just imagine if every
  • 00:24:12.002 --> 00:24:16.006
  • Single christian in this community or your community or
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  • Your state or my state or our nation or any nation decided
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  • That was the guidepost, the north star for their life.
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  • Things would change.
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  • Things would immediately get better.
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  • This is the way we were created to live, this is the way of our
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  • King, to maintain the tone and posture and approach of our king
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  • In all things.
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  • Jesus modeled it, paul modeled it.
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  • They both lost, they both won, neither were cowards, neither of
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  • Them were passive.
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  • And the words of both of them literally, and i'm not trying
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  • To, you know, make this more than it is, but the words of
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  • Both of those men will literally echo in eternity.
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  • So, i don't know how this lands with you at home, at work, in
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  • The workplace, in the marketplace, and whatever season
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  • Of life you're in, at school, but would you at least consider
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  • Fighting that fight?
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  • The good fight, the right fight.
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  • It's the most difficult fight to fight.
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  • That's why we just opt for kingdoms of men.
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  • Win, lose, power up, show them who's right, win the argument,
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  • Talk them down, demonize them, make a case against them.
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  • It's just so much easier and it leads nowhere.
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  • It just leads to more conflict between the kingdoms of men, and
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  • You have been invited to something better.
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  • In fact, we have been, as christians, commanded to do
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  • Something better.
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  • It's the more difficult fight to fight.
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  • It's the fight that may never be rewarded in this life.
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  • It's the fight that begins every morning in the mirror.
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  • It's the fight that begins every morning with renewed submission
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  • To our king.
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  • It's the fight that begins every morning with open hands that
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  • Says, "my life is yours, take it.
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  • I wanna follow you.
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  • And when i get it wrong, i'm gonna be the first to admit it
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  • Because you are my king."
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  • "it's a race?"
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  • Yeah, it's a race, but it's a race that most people
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  • Aren't running.
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  • It's a race unfortunately that too many christians
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  • Aren't running.
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  • It's the race that matters most.
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  • This is undeniable.
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  • It is the race that changed the world.
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  • And it could change the world again when christians submit to,
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  • Bow to their king, and decide to love like their king and fight
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  • Like their king.
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  • And we will pick it up right there next time as we conclude
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  • Our series, "the last kingdom."
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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