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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.60,0:00:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let's pray before \Nwe look into the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.53,0:00:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our Father, we ask You
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.60,0:00:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Your Holy Spirit this evening -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.90,0:00:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Spirit of faith and power
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.36,0:00:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and love and of a sound mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.96,0:00:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ask You that You would glorify Yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.48,0:00:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we'd come away
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.99,0:00:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a little glimpse of who You are.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.11,0:00:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us, Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.45,0:00:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not able to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.11,0:00:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we pray that You would do it;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.76,0:00:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that You'd take control.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.37,0:00:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.70,0:00:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, our text this evening
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.87,0:00:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is found in Matthew 6:9.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.05,0:01:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matthew 6:9,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.38,0:01:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actually just the \Nfirst part of the verse.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.80,0:01:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pray then in this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.53,0:01:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Our Father, who is in Heaven...'"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.41,0:01:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pray then in this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.34,0:01:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Our Father, who is in Heaven...'"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.24,0:01:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you know, these are the first words
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.84,0:01:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what's called "the Lord's Prayer."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.33,0:01:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe a better name would be
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.96,0:01:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "model prayer" or the "pattern prayer"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.95,0:01:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the Lord is giving us this prayer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.22,0:01:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a pattern for our own praying.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.09,0:01:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as for the larger context,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.35,0:01:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this prayer comes about in the middle
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.30,0:01:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what we know as the \NSermon on the Mount,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.98,0:01:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this glorious passage of Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.20,0:01:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that begins at the beginning of Matthew 5
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.29,0:01:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and goes all the way \Nto the end of Matthew 7.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.12,0:01:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the end of this sermon,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.61,0:02:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matthew makes this comment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.33,0:02:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "the result was that when Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.04,0:02:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had finished these words,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.47,0:02:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the multitudes were \Namazed at His teaching."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.67,0:02:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were amazed at His teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.51,0:02:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A couple of years ago there in Kirksville,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.30,0:02:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we spent some time considering
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.14,0:02:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the amazing teachings \Nof the Lord Jesus Christ;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.100,0:02:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the radical teachings of Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.74,0:02:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the time we finished the series,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.58,0:02:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I basically had come to the conclusion
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.83,0:02:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that everything the \NLord Jesus taught was radical.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.43,0:02:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's amazing. I mean, think of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.62,0:02:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's easier for a camel to go \Nthrough the eye of a needle
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.90,0:02:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than for a rich man to enter \Nthe Kingdom of Heaven."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.49,0:02:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a shocking word \Nthat was in that setting!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.73,0:03:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Every idle word that a man shall speak,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.01,0:03:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he shall give account for it
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.70,0:03:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the day of judgment."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.90,0:03:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know that has to be true.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.29,0:03:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's not going to let \Nsome things slip by,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.51,0:03:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just think about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.68,0:03:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That which is highly \Nesteemed among men..."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.32,0:03:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.44,0:03:15.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...Highly esteemed among men
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.100,0:03:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an abomination in the sight of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.52,0:03:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Unless a man is born again,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.99,0:03:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he can't see the Kingdom of Heaven."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.34,0:03:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to be born two times.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.13,0:03:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of these things!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.52,0:03:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just one after another!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.40,0:03:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't think that I came to \Nbring peace on the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.24,0:03:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not come to bring peace,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.65,0:03:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a sword."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.04,0:03:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Strive to enter at the narrow gate;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.95,0:03:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for many will seek
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.08,0:03:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will not be able."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.14,0:03:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Before Abraham was born, I am."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.28,0:03:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No one knows the Father except the Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.44,0:03:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he to whom the \NSon wills to reveal Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.72,0:04:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.81,0:04:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said nobody in the whole world
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.70,0:04:06.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knows the Father except for Me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.54,0:04:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anybody that I \Nchoose to reveal Him to.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.59,0:04:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, we could go on and on, couldn't we?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.69,0:04:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wonderful, radical,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.38,0:04:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,world-changing teachings of Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.06,0:04:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But tonight then, I'd like for \Nus to focus on one thing;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.07,0:04:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of those teachings,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.08,0:04:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is the teaching of the Lord Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.15,0:04:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerning the fatherhood of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.01,0:04:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pray then in this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.14,0:04:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Our Father, who is in Heaven..."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.55,0:04:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't imagine how radical
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.96,0:04:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and earth-shaking these words were
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.51,0:04:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the day in which they were spoken.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.28,0:04:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Jews had heard many times
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.01,0:04:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the fatherhood of God
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.74,0:04:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in relation to the corporate \Nnation of Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.83,0:04:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just one example:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.12,0:04:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hosea 11:1,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.38,0:04:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When Israel was a youth,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.93,0:04:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved him,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.62,0:05:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and out of Egypt I called My son."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.10,0:05:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's the Father -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.42,0:05:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Father of Israel His son
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.25,0:05:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a corporate sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.53,0:05:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even on the individual level,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.60,0:05:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were some passages,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.56,0:05:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Isaiah 43:6, He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.10,0:05:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Bring My sons from afar
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.03,0:05:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my daughters from \Nthe ends of the earth."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.00,0:05:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there were some things like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.80,0:05:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when it came to the \Nmatter of private prayer,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.86,0:05:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Jews never addressed God
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.81,0:05:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as "our Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.62,0:05:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, those who have \Ndone a thorough study
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.93,0:05:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the rabbinic writings
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.70,0:05:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just in recent years,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.43,0:05:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say that no Jew ever \Nused the term "father"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.91,0:05:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a direct address to God
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.72,0:05:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the 10th century A.D.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.37,0:05:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, Christians had been saying
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.76,0:05:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"our Father" for 1,000 years
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.32,0:05:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before any Jew began to do that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.49,0:06:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far as any records that we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.80,0:06:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They spoke of "the Father,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.68,0:06:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they never used the term "Father"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.02,0:06:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to address God in prayer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.47,0:06:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, Jesus did it repeatedly,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.91,0:06:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He taught us to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.56,0:06:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "When you pray,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.75,0:06:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pray like this, 'Our Father in Heaven.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.98,0:06:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beloved, if you are Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.08,0:06:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is your Father in a way
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.32,0:06:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that far exceeds any fatherly relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.57,0:06:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He had with the \Ncorporate nation of Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.15,0:06:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, God is your Father
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.79,0:06:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the most intimate, \Npersonal way imaginable.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.61,0:06:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have been born of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.83,0:06:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John says born, "not \Nof the will of the flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.31,0:06:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the will of man, but born of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.89,0:06:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he goes so far in 1 John,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.23,0:06:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says, "God's seed remains in you."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.42,0:06:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would have never said \Nsomething like that, but he says that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.68,0:07:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God's seed remains in you."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.73,0:07:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've been born of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.16,0:07:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This fatherly relationship with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.06,0:07:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In another place, he says we've become -
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.70,0:07:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peter says, we've become
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.46,0:07:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"partakers of the divine nature."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.81,0:07:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a child of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.12,0:07:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both by legal adoption
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.08,0:07:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by spiritual birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.21,0:07:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from deep within you
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.46,0:07:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes welling up this elemental cry,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.30,0:07:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Abba, Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.51,0:07:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abba, Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.63,0:07:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An intimate, love relationship \Nwith the God of the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.05,0:07:41.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beloved, this is a fatherhood
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.65,0:07:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's far deeper than \Nany human fatherhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.65,0:07:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the reality of which \Nthe best earthly father
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.50,0:07:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is only a shadow.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.01,0:07:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, God created earthly fathers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.85,0:07:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we'd have some idea
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.51,0:08:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what He's talking about when He says
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.71,0:08:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's our Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.01,0:08:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly, many of you may have had fathers
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.72,0:08:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have to try to forget about
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.06,0:08:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to get a right concept of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.76,0:08:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to the degree that \Nthere's common grace -
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.74,0:08:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know myself and my home,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.89,0:08:19.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my father did not truly know the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.89,0:08:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we went to church,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.43,0:08:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he, in many ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.61,0:08:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave me a glimpse of \Nwhat it is to be a father.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.33,0:08:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all of those things are shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.61,0:08:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God created earthly fatherhood
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.32,0:08:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the type of which He is the anti-type
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.18,0:08:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the true Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.28,0:08:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is the only real Father
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.54,0:08:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that any of us will ever have.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.82,0:08:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's what fathers are supposed to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.77,0:08:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Lord Jesus says \Nthis in Matthew 23:9,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.23,0:08:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do not call anyone on earth your father.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.15,0:09:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For one is your Father - \NHe who is in Heaven."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.11,0:09:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's the real deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.49,0:09:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those other fathers are shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.97,0:09:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hebrews 12:9, "We had fathers of our flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.82,0:09:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to discipline us, and we respected them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.94,0:09:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shall we not much rather be subject
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.83,0:09:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Father of spirits and live?"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.06,0:09:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the best earthly fathers
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.58,0:09:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,try to be on a human level
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.54,0:09:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what really only God can be to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.86,0:09:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Jesus not only taught \Nus to say, "Father," to God,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.22,0:09:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He taught us to say, "Our Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.63,0:09:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this means, first of all,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.09,0:09:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's my father on an \Nindividual, personal level.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.87,0:09:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've said that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.69,0:09:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But think of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.61,0:09:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in teaching this, He's teaching us
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.79,0:09:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're part of a family;
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.68,0:09:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we've got brothers and sisters.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.20,0:09:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's true fatherhood -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.13,0:10:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only real fatherhood that ever was.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.95,0:10:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the real family -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.68,0:10:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,true brothers and sisters on a level
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.88,0:10:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's never been in an earthly family.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.84,0:10:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.07,0:10:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we gather together as a family.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.65,0:10:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we lift our voices \Nand say, "Our Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.79,0:10:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.67,0:10:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, when we come to the place,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.91,0:10:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when all these little things
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.42,0:10:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our brother talked about this morning
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.45,0:10:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we separate over this and that,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.68,0:10:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we come to the place
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.17,0:10:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where all that falls away and we stand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.68,0:10:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the presence of our Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.13,0:10:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will feel a love for each other
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.77,0:10:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is unimaginable.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.64,0:10:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brothers and sisters of the true Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.52,0:10:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men from every tribe \Nand tongue and nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.23,0:10:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.16,0:11:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wasn't that glorious to see
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.54,0:11:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all those different languages?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.81,0:11:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's so many more -\Nthere's thousands more.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.63,0:11:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All one in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.51,0:11:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All part of the same family.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.02,0:11:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All from the same Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.88,0:11:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All born from the same Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.01,0:11:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indwelt by the same Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.51,0:11:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, God is our Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.37,0:11:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What else does Jesus say?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.93,0:11:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only our Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.04,0:11:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but He's our Father in Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.28,0:11:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.58,0:11:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, He's in a different realm
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.44,0:11:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.57,0:11:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's the Creator.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.05,0:11:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're the creature.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.82,0:11:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.32,0:11:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're finite.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.92,0:11:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we use this word "infinite" -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.20,0:11:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't really have any idea
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.67,0:11:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what that words means.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.56,0:11:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I used to study math in college,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.63,0:11:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would talk about
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.24,0:11:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a particular function at a certain point -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.54,0:12:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it goes to infinity we'd say.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.71,0:12:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It goes to infinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.30,0:12:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in your mind, you picture
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.75,0:12:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this really, really, really large number
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.17,0:12:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that looks like this...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.68,0:12:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it goes to infinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.50,0:12:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, once you get to that number,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.46,0:12:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not any closer whatsoever
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.82,0:12:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to getting to infinity
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.44,0:12:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there isn't any end to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.43,0:12:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so you travel a million, \Nmillion, million miles
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.91,0:12:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you haven't gotten \Nany closer whatsoever
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.34,0:12:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there isn't any place -\Nyou're never going to get there.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.69,0:12:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't get any closer.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.77,0:12:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are when you think in terms of space
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.27,0:12:39.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in terms of numbers,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.75,0:12:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when we think in terms of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.84,0:12:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infinite - we don't even \Nknow what that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.99,0:12:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.43,0:12:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, how far have we come already?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.96,0:12:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Jesus said pray like this:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.07,0:13:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Our Father in Heaven."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.25,0:13:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's it mean? It means that we are
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.26,0:13:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a love relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.100,0:13:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an intimate family relationship with God,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.06,0:13:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the God that we're \Nin this relationship with
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.71,0:13:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is both personal and infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.58,0:13:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's our Father in Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.93,0:13:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both personal and infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.10,0:13:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the foundation \Nand governing reality
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.86,0:13:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Lord's prayer that follows after,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.21,0:13:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all prayers,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.64,0:13:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole Christian life;
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.03,0:13:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our Father is both \Ninfinite and personal.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.06,0:13:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles Hodge pointed out many years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.36,0:13:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the human mind left to itself
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.08,0:13:48.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot come up with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.41,0:13:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When men start thinking about God,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.43,0:13:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they start moving in the direction
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.40,0:13:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an infinite God,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.30,0:13:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they lose His personality.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.76,0:14:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see that in Eastern religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.68,0:14:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They talk about a god as a little-g god
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.80,0:14:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is another name for everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.88,0:14:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the God of Hinduism for example
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.57,0:14:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not a personal God.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.10,0:14:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just another word. It's an "it."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.28,0:14:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A word for everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.42,0:14:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some of you know about reincarnation.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.26,0:14:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know that you're reborn,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.16,0:14:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're reborn, you're on this wheel.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.99,0:14:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea is to get off of \Nthe wheel of rebirth
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.76,0:14:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to blend back into the nothingness
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.55,0:14:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the impersonal.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.90,0:14:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hindus don't want to be reborn;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.36,0:14:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they want to get off of that
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.97,0:14:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and blend back into nothingness.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.98,0:14:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why am I saying that?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.24,0:14:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, because there's \Nno place for a person
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.52,0:14:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or for personality in Hinduism
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.60,0:14:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the god of Hinduism is impersonal.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.19,0:14:59.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, it can't hear;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.100,0:15:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can't speak.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.10,0:15:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's less than we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.90,0:15:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Hindu idea of nirvana
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.70,0:15:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not at all like a \NChristian idea of heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.13,0:15:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a negation of personality;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.27,0:15:17.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not an affirmation of who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.18,0:15:24.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, you know in Buddhism,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.81,0:15:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have this saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.05,0:15:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"man enters the water \Nand leaves no ripple."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.92,0:15:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christianity, you have:\Nman enters the water
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.22,0:15:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leaves ripples that go on forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.80,0:15:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because God is personal
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.01,0:15:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.04,0:15:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But anyway, you go in that direction -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.95,0:15:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mind of man has the infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.54,0:15:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go in the other direction,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.04,0:15:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have the personal gods, \Nbut they're not infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.98,0:15:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greek gods are like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.97,0:15:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is popular in our day -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.02,0:16:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these various "gods."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.16,0:16:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're a bunch of big men and women
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.41,0:16:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.76,0:16:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.21,0:16:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, you have personality,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.46,0:16:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but unless God is infinite,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.62,0:16:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's just a big man who can't help you.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.86,0:16:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's in the same predicament you're in.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.32,0:16:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you've got a God who exists -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.06,0:16:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we can imagine a fire that burns;
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.15,0:16:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you keep putting logs on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.56,0:16:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't imagine a fire that \Nburns on its own forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.63,0:16:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are some of the things \Nthat we're talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.22,0:16:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we talk about a self-existent,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.88,0:16:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infinite, personal God.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.99,0:16:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, our God is both infinite and personal,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.00,0:16:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with Him we have \Nanswers to everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.27,0:16:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, oh, what a hard time we have
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.30,0:16:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding on to both realities.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.23,0:16:54.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mind of man wants to go one \Nway or the other constantly.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.61,0:16:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we start seeing how great God is,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.13,0:16:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immediately we start thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.65,0:17:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what could He care \Nabout my little problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.74,0:17:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He gets more and more removed
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.66,0:17:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from really entering in to our feelings
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.94,0:17:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our trials.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.36,0:17:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You start going the other way
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.98,0:17:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you really begin to realize
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.55,0:17:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much God cares,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.72,0:17:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you start thinking of Him as little.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.02,0:17:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, He's torn with the \Nsame problems you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.46,0:17:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He can't figure out what to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.12,0:17:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He's struggling with things.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.68,0:17:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see this in false theology.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.76,0:17:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see both directions all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.58,0:17:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God is both infinite and personal.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.97,0:17:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, first of all, He's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.57,0:17:39.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's in Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.95,0:17:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's absolutely foundational
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.12,0:17:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the whole Christian life,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.88,0:17:47.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to every prayer \Nthat the Christian prays.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.39,0:17:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Thy kingdom come."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.04,0:17:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, God's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.30,0:17:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to make His kingdom come.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.04,0:17:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John the Baptist said God's \Nable from these stones
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.96,0:18:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to raise up children unto Abraham.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.98,0:18:02.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we got out and look at things
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.75,0:18:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say it's impossible -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.97,0:18:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's God going to do?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.29,0:18:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at Islam.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.32,0:18:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've read accounts in the last year or so
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.55,0:18:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people in Mecca having dreams
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.14,0:18:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that led them to read the New Testament
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.01,0:18:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get converted.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.60,0:18:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, God's able to do anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.29,0:18:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to save,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.37,0:18:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter how obstinate
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.52,0:18:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and impossible the sinner is.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.02,0:18:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says to Ezekiel, "Son of man,"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.81,0:18:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, he went out and looked
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.48,0:18:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at that valley of dry bones;
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.94,0:18:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were very many \Nand they were very dry.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.14,0:18:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And God says, "Son of man,\Ncan these bones live?"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.92,0:18:52.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember, years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.39,0:18:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to live in Lawrence, Kansas.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.64,0:18:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One time, I went to the natural \Nhistory museum there.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.07,0:18:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was late in the day
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.48,0:19:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think I was about \Nthe only person in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.98,0:19:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I probably was the only person in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.60,0:19:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I walked around in those hallways
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.43,0:19:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my footsteps echoing,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.26,0:19:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking at those bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.31,0:19:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Son of man, can these bones live?"
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.71,0:19:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you look at the bones
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.30,0:19:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those tar pits
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.31,0:19:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those saber-tooth tigers and all that,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.38,0:19:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you look at them -\Nthey're very dry
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.84,0:19:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.70,0:19:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God speaks and they \Nbegin to come together.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.60,0:19:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, this is the foundation.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.18,0:19:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's infinite power is the foundation
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.36,0:19:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our praying for the kingdom to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.74,0:19:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing can stop Him
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.90,0:19:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from bringing in His kingdom!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.92,0:19:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's infinite in power!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.90,0:19:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can do anything!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.74,0:19:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can keep kings from sleeping at night
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.27,0:19:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they happen to pick \Nup a book and read it,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.49,0:20:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that type of thing, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.13,0:20:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can save your child.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.54,0:20:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can save the most impossible cases.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.38,0:20:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil will tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.58,0:20:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"look, God's a God of the mountains,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.97,0:20:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not the valleys."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.18,0:20:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He can save so-and-so, \Nbut this problem's different."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.70,0:20:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You never hear about \Nanybody getting saved
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.87,0:20:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with that kind or problem."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.100,0:20:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God hears that and He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.95,0:20:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We'll see about that."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.01,0:20:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daily bread?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.48,0:20:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just think about these \Nrequests in the Lord's prayer.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.12,0:20:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daily bread? You need daily bread?\NHe's infinite in power.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.89,0:20:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to bend heaven and earth
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.24,0:20:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get daily bread to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.85,0:20:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to do far above
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.33,0:20:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all we can ask or think.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.90,0:20:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to make all grace abound to you
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.42,0:20:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that always having all \Nsufficiency in everything
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.53,0:21:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may have an abundance \Nfor every good work.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.62,0:21:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember Bob Jennings told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.74,0:21:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Terri may have to correct \Nme on some of the details,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.66,0:21:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but one time, when they \Ndidn't have any money,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.33,0:21:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're praying and need daily bread,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.47,0:21:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as I recall, it was in the parking lot
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.08,0:21:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the grocery store.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.20,0:21:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They got out and he said \Nthe wind was blowing
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.12,0:21:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it blew a dollar bill up to his feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.60,0:21:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you can't buy much \Nfood with a dollar bill,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.97,0:21:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's God saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.03,0:21:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"look, I can give you a windfall.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.17,0:21:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can do anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.05,0:21:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to remind you,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.41,0:21:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in charge of this."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.82,0:21:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we put together the testimonies
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.100,0:21:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this room tonight
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.49,0:21:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all the miraculous provisions,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.69,0:22:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it would be astounding.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.87,0:22:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to keep a book of that
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.55,0:22:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the book got full.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.88,0:22:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing after another where God
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.98,0:22:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faithfully provides in ways \Nthat we can't imagine.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.70,0:22:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.90,0:22:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Francis Schaeffer used to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.25,0:22:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There's no black hole back of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.67,0:22:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no hidden things \Nthat He doesn't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.20,0:22:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knows everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.58,0:22:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.79,0:22:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because He knows everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.14,0:22:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing's going to come \Nout of the darkness
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.32,0:22:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and surprise Him and overthrow His plans.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.62,0:22:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Providence. We talked \Nabout that last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.83,0:22:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to control every insect,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.78,0:22:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every snowflake, everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.57,0:22:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every aspect because He's infinite!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.12,0:22:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deliverance from sin?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.36,0:22:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's infinite. He's able.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.85,0:23:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beloved, do you believe this?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.47,0:23:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to take the most helpless,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.64,0:23:04.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopeless drunk or drug addict
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.71,0:23:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make them stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.52,0:23:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Paul says stand he will,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.32,0:23:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for God is able to make him stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.04,0:23:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used to sing that song,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.54,0:23:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's the grandest theme \Nin the earth or main,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.48,0:23:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our God is able to deliver thee."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.84,0:23:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Praying for some weak \Nand struggling brother?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.17,0:23:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.51,0:23:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's able to keep Him from falling
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.64,0:23:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and present him faultless before \Nthe presence of His glory
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.56,0:23:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with exceeding joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.19,0:23:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Praying in relation to \Nthe powers of darkness
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.54,0:23:48.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pressing around?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.11,0:23:50.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother Dan told me that over there
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.11,0:23:51.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they're laboring,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.98,0:23:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel it, you feel it,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.28,0:23:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's laboring under it all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.03,0:24:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't feel it because he's bearing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.21,0:24:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.93,0:24:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Principalities and powers \Nare nothing to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.33,0:24:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greater is He who is in you - \Nhow much greater?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.76,0:24:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Infinitely greater!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.66,0:24:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not just a little bit greater;
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.61,0:24:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's infinitely greater.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.32,0:24:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus is dealing with a legion of demons.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.34,0:24:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just says, "Go."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.65,0:24:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.67,0:24:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We come to Him with reverence and awe
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.38,0:24:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the one who is infinitely exalted.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.23,0:24:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, even the Lord Jesus Himself
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.84,0:24:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in John 17, He says, "O Righteous Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.76,0:24:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Holy Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.21,0:24:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not talking about a flippant \Nattitude in this fatherhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.04,0:24:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's the infinitely exalted One.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.48,0:24:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the same time, God is personal.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.56,0:24:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's our Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.62,0:25:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The God who spoke the \Nuniverse into existence
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.02,0:25:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is our Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.51,0:25:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the present estimate,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.09,0:25:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how many stars do you think there are?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.38,0:25:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ten thousand?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.12,0:25:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think all the \Ngrade school kids here
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.35,0:25:17.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know better than that.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.35,0:25:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about ten thousand billion?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.09,0:25:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.13,0:25:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about ten thousand billion trillion?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.99,0:25:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how many at the present estimate.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.13,0:25:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's probably more than that now.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.83,0:25:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's been a couple \Nyears since I read that.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.72,0:25:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what's a trillion?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.88,0:25:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you take a million of something,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.90,0:25:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you take a million of those millions,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.00,0:25:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can't even imagine that.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.77,0:25:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got a million;
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.94,0:25:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've got a \Nmillion of those millions.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.99,0:25:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now take a billion of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.53,0:25:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A billion of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.60,0:25:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And take ten thousand \Nof that billion trillion,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.12,0:26:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Bible says,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.45,0:26:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He calls them all by name.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.70,0:26:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of the greatness of His power,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.76,0:26:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not one of them's missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.09,0:26:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He calls them out
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.19,0:26:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, think of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:12.14,0:26:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not calling them "one-billion-one,"
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.07,0:26:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"one-billion-two," "one-billion-three."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.18,0:26:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what names are in the Bible?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.58,0:26:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They talk about some \Ncharacteristic of something.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.26,0:26:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's got a unique name \Nfor every one of those
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.61,0:26:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ten thousand billion trillion stars!
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.66,0:26:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And each name - mysterious names -
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.89,0:26:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and names that go into what the character
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.97,0:26:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that star is.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.54,0:26:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's your Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.97,0:26:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What right do we have \Nto be so unbelieving?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.29,0:26:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's pitiful, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.93,0:26:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't lay hold of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.15,0:26:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got to ask our Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.61,0:27:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Help. Help me. Help me to see."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.73,0:27:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Help me to believe a little bit \Nof what You're able to do!"
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.76,0:27:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our God is a personal God.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.09,0:27:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you theologians,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:16.85,0:27:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't let philosophy \Nrob you of this reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.42,0:27:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the things I've read
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.76,0:27:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about God's supposed impassibility -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.43,0:27:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, His inability to experience
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.02,0:27:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pain or emotion -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.84,0:27:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're sheer philosophy, \Nand they fly in the face
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.10,0:27:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a thousand Bible verses.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.08,0:27:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's from theologians thinking too long
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.14,0:27:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about God's infinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.38,0:27:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you do that, you can't \Nhang on to His personality.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.86,0:27:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they say, look, God's impassible.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.71,0:27:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can't be touched with emotion.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.36,0:27:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let me read a little bit to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.60,0:27:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Grieve not the Spirit of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.19,0:27:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't make Him sad.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.64,0:27:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what the word grieve means.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.27,0:28:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can look it up and look \Nat all the other verses.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.65,0:28:03.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"As a bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.57,0:28:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so your God will rejoice over you."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.80,0:28:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many of you have \Never been to a wedding?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:10.47,0:28:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think there's any emotion there?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.56,0:28:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look at the groom
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.97,0:28:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the bride comes through -
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.30,0:28:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't believe this!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.67,0:28:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The infinite God -
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.00,0:28:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "I'll rejoice over you
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.04,0:28:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a groom rejoices over the bride."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.44,0:28:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't it amazing?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.66,0:28:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He will exult over you with joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.20,0:28:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will be quiet in His love.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.02,0:28:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will rejoice over you \Nwith shouts of joy."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.38,0:28:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That sounds like some emotion to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.50,0:28:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God so loved the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.20,0:28:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He gave His only Son."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.81,0:28:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He delivered Him up.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.86,0:28:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can't comprehend this,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.22,0:29:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we know this, it cost God greatly
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.89,0:29:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to crush His Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.08,0:29:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a revelation.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.27,0:29:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God revealed that to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.81,0:29:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of Abraham
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.45,0:29:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that offering up of Isaac.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:11.12,0:29:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "take now your son,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.17,0:29:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your only son, whom you love."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.65,0:29:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's He saying to us?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.94,0:29:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's getting across \Nthat what Abraham felt,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.55,0:29:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's something, somehow
Dialogue: 0,0:29:23.91,0:29:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connection with Him sacrificing His Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.82,0:29:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beloved, God is not \Nsome philosophical "X,"
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.58,0:29:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's our Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.90,0:29:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"'Wherefore come out from among them
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.02,0:29:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be ye separate,' saith the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:40.91,0:29:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'and touch not the unclean thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.55,0:29:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will receive you.'"\NI'll welcome you.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.30,0:29:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"'And I will be a Father to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.54,0:29:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you shall be My sons and daughters,'
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.61,0:29:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saith the Lord Almighty."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.76,0:29:57.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see it?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.21,0:29:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your Father in Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.37,0:30:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's almighty, and here He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.70,0:30:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You'll be My sons and daughters."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.37,0:30:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He treats the ladies - \N"You're My daughters."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.22,0:30:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to the men, He says, "You're My sons."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.43,0:30:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of that. Isn't that special?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.30,0:30:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This God that we're talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.71,0:30:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, what are some of the implications
Dialogue: 0,0:30:27.97,0:30:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the fact that God is \Nour Father in Heaven?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.41,0:30:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got nine of these.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.76,0:30:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And most of them come from the Gospels.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.78,0:30:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some come from other places
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.14,0:30:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they're a little clearer.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.49,0:30:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some of the implications -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.95,0:30:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this will be the rest of the message.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.83,0:30:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first implication -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.20,0:30:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe the most profound implication -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.56,0:30:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I hope that I'll be able somewhat
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.53,0:31:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get it across.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.44,0:31:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's it mean that God is my Father?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.79,0:31:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means that I have a lap to climb into.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.18,0:31:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have Someone - you have \NSomeone to hold you.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.22,0:31:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.62,0:31:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a home. You belong.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.94,0:31:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of the terrible state of those
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.94,0:31:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have no heavenly Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.03,0:31:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're flying in a plane at night
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.65,0:31:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over some unknown city,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.83,0:31:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking down in the darkness
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.66,0:31:40.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on thousands and thousands
Dialogue: 0,0:31:40.31,0:31:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of little specks of light,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.07,0:31:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every one of them is a house.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.50,0:31:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unknown names.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.51,0:32:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In those little specks \Nof light are people.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.59,0:32:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unknown people.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.19,0:32:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thousands of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.38,0:32:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tens of thousands of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.83,0:32:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.10,0:32:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you realize, you're one of those
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.08,0:32:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little, unknown...
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.82,0:32:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about a person without God.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.21,0:32:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The feeling that you have.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.28,0:32:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pascal said it like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.05,0:32:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When I consider the \Nshort duration of my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:30.60,0:32:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,swallowed up in the eternity
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.72,0:32:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before and after..."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.02,0:32:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's talking about our \Nsmallness in relation to time.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.29,0:32:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...When I consider the \Nsmall space which I fill,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.72,0:32:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even can see engulfed in the infinite
Dialogue: 0,0:32:45.87,0:32:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immensity of spaces of \Nwhich I know nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.72,0:32:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which know nothing of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:52.85,0:32:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm terrified.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.02,0:32:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wonder that I'm here
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.43,0:33:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than there."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.59,0:33:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever thought about it?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.32,0:33:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm here rather than there,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.80,0:33:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for there's no reason why \Nhere rather than there,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.55,0:33:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or now rather than then."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.99,0:33:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says I think about \Nthat - I'm terrified.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.22,0:33:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, without God,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.36,0:33:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man is an orphan in a vast, cold,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.16,0:33:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very uncaring universe
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.14,0:33:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't even know he exists.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.64,0:33:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you look out on those
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.08,0:33:31.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,millions of stars in the darkness,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:31.79,0:33:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you have no heavenly Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.78,0:33:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.22,0:33:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are a nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.04,0:33:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's a terrible sense
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.42,0:33:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of insignificance and aloneness.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.46,0:33:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll quote Pascal again. He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.22,0:33:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The eternal silence of those \Ninfinite spaces alarms me."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.55,0:33:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you realize that your Father
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.53,0:33:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made all those stars,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.40,0:33:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's different, isn't it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.98,0:34:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, that He's both infinite and personal.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.30,0:34:04.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He really does love you.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.18,0:34:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything changes. You belong.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.94,0:34:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're accepted.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:08.30,0:34:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the very root of all reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.68,0:34:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have a home.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:11.82,0:34:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a place to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.93,0:34:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember one time \NI was in a strange city,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.88,0:34:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was already a Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.28,0:34:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it came over me -
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.67,0:34:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this sense of aloneness and smallness.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:31.75,0:34:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's terrifying.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.100,0:34:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it came into my heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:35.97,0:34:37.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will receive you.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.29,0:34:40.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will be a Father to you."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.45,0:34:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as soon as you have that,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.10,0:34:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the infinite God is my Father!
Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.85,0:34:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything's going to be alright.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:47.74,0:34:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:55.91,0:34:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a place to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.10,0:34:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a home.\NYou have a lap.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:58.84,0:35:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've found the ground of your existence
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.24,0:35:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not some cold, \Nabstract principle;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.42,0:35:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the lap of a loving \Nheavenly Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:10.05,0:35:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely the opposite of that
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.51,0:35:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is part of what hell is.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.93,0:35:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember Jesus talks \Nabout outer darkness
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.54,0:35:19.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.43,0:35:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look inside, there's warmth,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.07,0:35:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a family, there's a home,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.70,0:35:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's rejoicing, there's Abraham
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.22,0:35:28.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Isaac and Jacob coming;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.79,0:35:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people coming from the east and west
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.25,0:35:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reclining.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.12,0:35:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're outside. They're in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:37.64,0:35:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have a Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.17,0:35:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're outside in the darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.64,0:35:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No family.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.80,0:35:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:48.63,0:35:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think the most fundamental meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:35:51.93,0:35:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of having God as our Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:55.09,0:36:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is we've found \Nour reason for living.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.43,0:36:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've found the meaning of existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:06.24,0:36:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the second thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.62,0:36:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God is my Father means
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.69,0:36:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I never need to be afraid
Dialogue: 0,0:36:11.63,0:36:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because God cares for me
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.74,0:36:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a personal and intimate way.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.32,0:36:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matthew 10:29-30,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:19.21,0:36:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Are not two sparrows sold for a cent?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:23.03,0:36:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, not one of them will fall
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.54,0:36:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the ground apart from your Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.38,0:36:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the very hairs of your head
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.03,0:36:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are all numbered."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.90,0:36:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus says, "Don't fear \Nthem that kill the body."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.26,0:36:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The One who names every star
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.47,0:36:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has numbered the hairs on your head.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.51,0:36:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cares that much about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:50.59,0:36:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, it's not the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.57,0:36:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just that God knows how \Nmany hairs are on your head,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:55.44,0:36:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew how many \Nhairs were on Hitler's head.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.31,0:36:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the point.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.97,0:37:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that He's that concerned about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.72,0:37:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That concerned,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.72,0:37:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that not one sparrow \Ncan fall to the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.80,0:37:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, how do I know I won't
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.70,0:37:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fall to the ground and get killed?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:14.50,0:37:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know, but you do know this,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.31,0:37:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not going to happen \Nwithout your Father
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.53,0:37:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being right there
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.00,0:37:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controlling the whole thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:23.92,0:37:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The context of these verses in Matthew 10
Dialogue: 0,0:37:26.43,0:37:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is persecution, but it \Napplies to every area
Dialogue: 0,0:37:28.75,0:37:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we might be tempted to fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:31.54,0:37:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God won't just let \Nanything "happen" to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.59,0:37:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cares for me in a \Npersonal and intimate way.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:41.44,0:37:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one of those little birds
Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.13,0:37:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can fall to the ground \Napart from your Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.74,0:37:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the third thing
Dialogue: 0,0:37:50.64,0:37:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the fatherhood of God means to me:
Dialogue: 0,0:37:52.52,0:37:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact that God is my Father
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.02,0:37:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means He will provide for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.64,0:37:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we know these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.48,0:38:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Matthew 6:26-33.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.37,0:38:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Look at the birds of the air,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.32,0:38:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they do not sow,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.58,0:38:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neither do they reap,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.69,0:38:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor gather into barns,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:06.93,0:38:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet your Heavenly Father feeds them."
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.66,0:38:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's the food thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.95,0:38:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Are you not worth much more than they?"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:17.87,0:38:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes on, "Why are you \Nanxious about clothing?"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.52,0:38:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now He's dealing with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.07,0:38:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Observe how the lilies of the field grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.76,0:38:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They do not toil, nor do they spin,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.74,0:38:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet I say that even \NSolomon in all his glory
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.04,0:38:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not clothe himself like one of these,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.37,0:38:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if God so arrays \Nthe grass of the field,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.85,0:38:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is alive today and tomorrow \Nis thrown into the furnace,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.96,0:38:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will He not much more do so for you,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.59,0:38:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,O men of little faith?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:46.07,0:38:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do not be anxious then, saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.60,0:38:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what shall we eat? \NOr, what shall we drink?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:49.83,0:38:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or with what shall we clothe ourselves?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:52.08,0:38:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For all these things the \NGentiles eagerly seek,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.53,0:38:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for your Heavenly Father knows
Dialogue: 0,0:38:59.66,0:39:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you need all these things."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:04.04,0:39:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So God is my Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.66,0:39:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll feed me. He'll clothe me.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.22,0:39:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll provide for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.68,0:39:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What right do I have to be anxious?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.55,0:39:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not telling you \Nanything you don't know,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:14.92,0:39:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but beloved, how much \Nhave we entered into this?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.90,0:39:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine a life \Nwhere you don't have
Dialogue: 0,0:39:21.52,0:39:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any anxiety at all about \Nany of that stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.24,0:39:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you know God is going to
Dialogue: 0,0:39:26.58,0:39:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take care of it all?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.82,0:39:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That He's infinite in power?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:29.62,0:39:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what Jesus is talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.41,0:39:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's talking about freedom from fear
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.30,0:39:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of somebody killing you.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.64,0:39:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's talking about freedom from fear
Dialogue: 0,0:39:38.02,0:39:41.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of not having food or \Nclothing or provision.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.75,0:39:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just to be totally free.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.62,0:39:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, my Father owns everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:46.49,0:39:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He spoke the universe into existence
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.87,0:39:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all those stars.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.12,0:39:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have anything possible
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.10,0:39:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could happen to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.96,0:39:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little bird can't fall to the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:57.75,0:40:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.98,0:40:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that God is my Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.43,0:40:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it means that I don't have \Nto use vain repetitions
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.50,0:40:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the Gentiles do.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:09.87,0:40:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says your Father knows
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.33,0:40:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you need those things
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.85,0:40:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before you ask.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:17.25,0:40:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number four: the fact \Nthat God is my Father
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.69,0:40:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that I can trust Him implicitly.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.50,0:40:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now listen to this,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.64,0:40:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What man is there among you
Dialogue: 0,0:40:25.99,0:40:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when his son shall ask him for a loaf
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.78,0:40:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will give him a stone?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.24,0:40:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or if he shall ask for a fish,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:31.77,0:40:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he will not give him a snake, will he?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.07,0:40:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you then, being evil..."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.57,0:40:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now fathers - the best fathers -
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.74,0:40:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compared to the Heavenly Father are evil.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:41.73,0:40:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They come so far short of what He is,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.47,0:40:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but even we know how to give good gifts
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.06,0:40:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our children.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.42,0:40:53.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How much more shall your Heavenly Father
Dialogue: 0,0:40:53.46,0:40:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give what is good to those who ask Him?"
Dialogue: 0,0:40:56.68,0:40:58.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why would the Lord give this teaching?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.77,0:41:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, because the devil \Nis always telling us -
Dialogue: 0,0:41:01.14,0:41:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know the word "devil" \N(diabolos) means slanderer.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.31,0:41:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's constantly slandering God to man,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.77,0:41:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he'll tell you that the \Nkind of Father you have,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.66,0:41:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if you ask Him for an egg,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:15.49,0:41:17.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll give you a scorpion.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.38,0:41:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil tells you that.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.11,0:41:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Constantly.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.21,0:41:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll tell you God's a liar.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:22.98,0:41:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You shall not surely die."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:24.77,0:41:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He tells you God's holding out on you.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.16,0:41:30.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God knows that if you eat that,\Nyou'll have something good.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.78,0:41:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll tell you that the good land
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.42,0:41:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God is giving you
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.64,0:41:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,devours its inhabitants.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.44,0:41:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go in there, it will eat you up.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.27,0:41:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those slanders about \Nthe character of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.36,0:41:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've shared a lot more examples of this
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.06,0:41:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in talking about our \Nadversary the slanderer,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:53.79,0:41:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's so many of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.84,0:41:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking before
Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.92,0:41:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was preparing this,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.40,0:42:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking of how many \Nyoung people there are here.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.48,0:42:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you girls, you're praying, and you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.69,0:42:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord, I want You to choose \Na husband for me."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.86,0:42:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you guys, you're praying,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:09.37,0:42:11.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord, I want to put it in Your hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.35,0:42:14.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want You to choose my wife."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.41,0:42:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the devil's right there saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.32,0:42:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't do that!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.52,0:42:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God will give you the \Nugliest girl imaginable.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.06,0:42:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, if you do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.08,0:42:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you won't even get married at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:29.93,0:42:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He won't even give you a wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.41,0:42:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to take \Nthis in your own hands."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.56,0:42:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, it all goes back to:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.34,0:42:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do I have a Father?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.87,0:42:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do I have a loving Heavenly \NFather who can do anything?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.83,0:42:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A.W. Tozer was telling \Nhis congregation one day
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.96,0:42:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how he had put his little daughter
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.02,0:42:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into God's hands
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.15,0:42:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just for whatever God would have for her,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.52,0:43:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a woman came up after the sermon.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.28,0:43:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "Aren't you afraid to do that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:43:05.27,0:43:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of what kind of God
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.04,0:43:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the devil tells us we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.30,0:43:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, that he's an "evil" type God.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:14.88,0:43:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can trust Him implicitly.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:17.15,0:43:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what Jesus is saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.66,0:43:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's saying you will never come
Dialogue: 0,0:43:20.88,0:43:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a child of your Heavenly Father
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.85,0:43:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "Father, will \NYou give me an egg?"
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.14,0:43:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He says, "I will, son, \Nnow close your eyes
Dialogue: 0,0:43:27.69,0:43:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put out your hand,"
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.18,0:43:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He drops a scorpion into it.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:31.89,0:43:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll never do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:34.36,0:43:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll give good things to \Nthose who ask Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:40.93,0:43:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number five: the fact \Nthat God is my Father
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.15,0:43:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that I never need to make
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.03,0:43:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an outward show of goodness.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.42,0:43:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is able to keep track \Nof everything in secret
Dialogue: 0,0:43:51.40,0:43:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reward me in ways
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.98,0:43:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that no man ever could.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.06,0:43:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, that we could lay hold of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.81,0:44:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beware of practicing your righteousness
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.94,0:44:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before men to be noticed by them,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.55,0:44:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,otherwise you have no reward
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.87,0:44:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with your Father who is in Heaven."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.88,0:44:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He goes through three things.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.83,0:44:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When you give alms,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:13.60,0:44:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not sound a trumpet."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:16.03,0:44:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want your alms to be in secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.80,0:44:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't let your left hand know
Dialogue: 0,0:44:20.50,0:44:22.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what your right hand's doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:22.11,0:44:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And your Father who sees in secret
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.34,0:44:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will repay you."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:26.02,0:44:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you pray, don't \Nbe like these hypocrites.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:28.71,0:44:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They stand out in the open.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.05,0:44:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They want to be seen by men.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:31.47,0:44:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go into your inner room,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:34.58,0:44:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shut the door,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:36.46,0:44:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pray to your Father
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.74,0:44:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is in secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.81,0:44:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where God is.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.85,0:44:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, God's so far away;
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.38,0:44:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't find God. Where is He?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.17,0:44:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, He's in secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.68,0:44:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And your Father who sees in secret
Dialogue: 0,0:44:54.13,0:44:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will repay you."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.22,0:44:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then He talks about fasting -
Dialogue: 0,0:44:59.07,0:45:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to put on a gloomy face
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.82,0:45:04.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be seen fasting by men.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.79,0:45:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When you fast, anoint your head
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.58,0:45:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wash your face,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.63,0:45:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you may not \Nbe seen fasting by men,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:10.16,0:45:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but by your Father who is in secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.16,0:45:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your Father who sees in secret
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.55,0:45:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will repay you."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.15,0:45:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of this:
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.25,0:45:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have to put on a show to men.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:22.58,0:45:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't matter what men think anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.32,0:45:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God knows. He sees everything in secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.44,0:45:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every bit of it He knows.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:30.32,0:45:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He said I'm not going \Nto let you miss out.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:35.57,0:45:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as I was preparing \Nthis, I'm thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:38.88,0:45:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, over and over You're saying
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.50,0:45:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will reward you; He will reward you.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.50,0:45:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you fast, if you pray, if you give
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.02,0:45:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the presence of your Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:52.32,0:45:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll reward you.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.46,0:45:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can be sure He will.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.90,0:45:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He keeps perfect records.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.52,0:46:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sees everything in secret
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.24,0:46:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because He's infinite.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.96,0:46:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He will reward.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.91,0:46:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number six: the fact that God is my Father
Dialogue: 0,0:46:07.35,0:46:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that I have a perfect example
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.98,0:46:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pattern my life after.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.60,0:46:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got a Father worthy of \Nemulating in every way.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.96,0:46:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You've heard that it was said
Dialogue: 0,0:46:20.48,0:46:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you shall love your neighbor\Nand hate your enemy,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.77,0:46:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I say unto you,\Nlove your enemies
Dialogue: 0,0:46:24.56,0:46:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pray for those who persecute you,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:26.91,0:46:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order that you may be sons
Dialogue: 0,0:46:28.82,0:46:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of your Father who is in Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:31.69,0:46:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For He causes His sun to rise
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.38,0:46:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the evil and the good,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.45,0:46:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sends rain on the righteous\Nand the unrighteous."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:39.74,0:46:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.72,0:46:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a little kid has an orange ball.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.67,0:46:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has His sun. "That's My sun."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.24,0:46:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God causes His sun to shine.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:51.76,0:46:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He causes His sun to shine on this earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.02,0:46:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He sends rain on the righteous
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.71,0:47:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the unrighteous.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.53,0:47:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "if you love those who love you,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:09.82,0:47:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what reward have you?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.13,0:47:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do not even the tax gatherers do the same?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.14,0:47:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you greet your brothers only,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.01,0:47:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what do you do more than others?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:17.74,0:47:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.08,0:47:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, you are to be perfect
Dialogue: 0,0:47:22.30,0:47:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as your Heavenly Father is perfect."
Dialogue: 0,0:47:26.66,0:47:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know how young sons \Nwant to imitate their fathers.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.82,0:47:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, here's a Father worthy of imitation
Dialogue: 0,0:47:33.44,0:47:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every way.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:35.36,0:47:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Lord Jesus looks \Nat what's happening
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.74,0:47:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:38.86,0:47:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, look, your Father's being kind
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.15,0:47:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to these ungrateful and evil men.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:44.81,0:47:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You imitate Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:46.66,0:47:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Love your enemies.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.04,0:47:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do good and lend
Dialogue: 0,0:47:49.14,0:47:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expecting nothing in return,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.72,0:47:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your reward will be great,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:52.42,0:47:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you will be sons of the Most High,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:56.37,0:47:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for He Himself is kind
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.93,0:48:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ungrateful and evil men.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:01.20,0:48:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be merciful,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.77,0:48:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as your Father is merciful."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:07.79,0:48:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number seven:
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.40,0:48:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Is this good hermeneutics, \NJesse, to have nine points?)
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.40,0:48:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that God is my Father means
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.16,0:48:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He loves me too much
Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.54,0:48:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave me without discipline.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.80,0:48:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that something?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.88,0:48:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hebrews 12, "You have forgotten
Dialogue: 0,0:48:29.63,0:48:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the exhortation which is \Naddressed to you as sons.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.62,0:48:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My son, do not regard lightly \Nthe discipline of the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:35.88,0:48:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor faint when you are reproved by Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.06,0:48:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those whom the Lord loves,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.01,0:48:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He disciplines and He scourges every son
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.38,0:48:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whom He receives.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.38,0:48:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is for discipline that you endure;
Dialogue: 0,0:48:46.27,0:48:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God deals with you as with sons.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:48.38,0:48:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For what son is there whom his \Nfather does not discipline?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.38,0:48:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He disciplines us for our good,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.07,0:48:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we may share His holiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.60,0:49:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All discipline for the moment
Dialogue: 0,0:49:01.02,0:49:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.12,0:49:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet to those who have been trained by it
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.26,0:49:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,afterwards it yields the \Npeaceful fruit of righteousness."
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.18,0:49:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Proverbs 3:12, "For whom \Nthe Lord loves, He reproves,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.96,0:49:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as a father the son \Nin whom he delights."
Dialogue: 0,0:49:19.14,0:49:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, God loves me too much to \Nleave me without discipline.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:23.66,0:49:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't mean that every \Nhard thing that happens to us
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.89,0:49:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a punishment for sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:28.37,0:49:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes a trainer will \Nhave a runner carry weights -
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.41,0:49:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something like that -
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.07,0:49:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's not punishing him;\Nhe's disciplining him,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:37.86,0:49:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preparing him; making him stronger.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.15,0:49:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God does that too.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.89,0:49:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number eight: The fact \Nthat God is my Father
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.48,0:49:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that His attitude toward me
Dialogue: 0,0:49:50.12,0:49:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of kindness and compassion;
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.71,0:49:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not harshness and rejection.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:56.06,0:49:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many people are going around
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.87,0:50:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking that God is carrying this club
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.82,0:50:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting for them to slip up
Dialogue: 0,0:50:02.26,0:50:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that He can smash them?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:06.29,0:50:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus talks about this even in conversion.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.84,0:50:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says (Luke 15), "While he \Nwas still a long way off,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.66,0:50:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his father saw him and felt compassion
Dialogue: 0,0:50:16.19,0:50:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ran and embraced him and kissed him."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:19.10,0:50:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's telling us what God is like
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.39,0:50:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in His attitude toward us.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.44,0:50:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Psalm 103:13-14,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:27.67,0:50:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Just as a father has \Ncompassion on his children,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.29,0:50:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the Lord has compassion \Non those who fear Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.88,0:50:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for He Himself knows our frame;
Dialogue: 0,0:50:37.83,0:50:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is mindful that we are but dust."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:40.34,0:50:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of what a wonderful thing that is!
Dialogue: 0,0:50:44.19,0:50:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I'm going through a trial,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.78,0:50:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God knows our frame.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.21,0:50:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has compassion on us.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:48.68,0:50:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's mindful.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.76,0:50:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My Father understands.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.24,0:50:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knows my frame.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.78,0:50:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His attitude's one of compassion.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:56.40,0:50:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's so patient. He's so merciful.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.90,0:51:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not a harsh taskmaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:01.35,0:51:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malachi 3:17, "'They shall be Mine,'
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.13,0:51:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says the Lord of Hosts,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:05.37,0:51:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'On the day when I make \Nup My own possession,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.14,0:51:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will have compassion on them
Dialogue: 0,0:51:10.12,0:51:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a man has compassion \Non his own son who serves him.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:51:15.06,0:51:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last one.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.44,0:51:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I truly am sorry to \Nhave so many points.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:20.99,0:51:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that God is my Father means
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.06,0:51:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He delights to \Ngive me an inheritance.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:27.92,0:51:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may feel ever so weak and afraid
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.44,0:51:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may not even make it to heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.26,0:51:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Satan may tell you that \NGod doesn't want you
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.45,0:51:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make it to heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:35.90,0:51:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that He's against you.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:37.94,0:51:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That isn't true.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:41.13,0:51:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said, "It's not \Nthe will of your Father
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.45,0:51:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is in Heaven that \None of these little ones..."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:46.13,0:51:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's talking about believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.60,0:51:50.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...That one of these \Nlittle ones should perish."
Dialogue: 0,0:51:50.39,0:51:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And none of them will. Not one.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.61,0:51:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right after Jesus tells us \Nto seek first the kingdom,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:59.56,0:52:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He immediately assures us,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.30,0:52:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Fear not, little flock,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:03.27,0:52:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your Father has chosen gladly \Nto give you the Kingdom."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.83,0:52:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And according to the Lord Jesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:10.81,0:52:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a day coming when the righteous
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.24,0:52:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will shine forth like the sun
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.16,0:52:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the kingdom of their Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.34,0:52:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, there's so much \Nmore that could be said.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:22.94,0:52:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much hinges on this love relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.74,0:52:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Father and son \Nor Father and daughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:29.42,0:52:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When our love for the Father
Dialogue: 0,0:52:31.82,0:52:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really strong and clear,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:33.56,0:52:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immediately we think about His name,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:36.98,0:52:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanting His name to be glorified.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:38.94,0:52:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Immediately we think about wanting
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.62,0:52:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His kingdom to be advanced.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.46,0:52:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:43.81,0:52:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I've got to remember now
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.24,0:52:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be concerned about the name of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:49.13,0:52:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just happens automatically
Dialogue: 0,0:52:50.62,0:52:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you're full of love for Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.99,0:52:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it happens automatically
Dialogue: 0,0:52:54.78,0:52:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when you pray for your daily bread,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.33,0:53:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's in connection with wanting \NHis kingdom to come,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:00.19,0:53:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just selfish.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:01.76,0:53:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And wanting to have victory over sin;
Dialogue: 0,0:53:04.02,0:53:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanting forgiveness for sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:05.50,0:53:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deliverance from sin
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.38,0:53:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not so you'll feel \Nbetter about yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.58,0:53:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But so that you can what?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.07,0:53:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that you can let your light so shine
Dialogue: 0,0:53:18.16,0:53:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that men will see your good works
Dialogue: 0,0:53:19.88,0:53:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and glorify your Father
Dialogue: 0,0:53:22.82,0:53:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is in Heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:26.22,0:53:31.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Jesus said when you pray,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:31.67,0:53:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say, "Our Father in Heaven."
Dialogue: 0,0:53:36.03,0:53:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May God help us to believe \Nand lay hold of these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.55,0:53:42.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.