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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.11,0:00:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.58,0:00:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We heard about it in the song;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.22,0:00:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we heard about it in the first hour -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.72,0:00:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the grace and truth of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.88,0:00:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grace and truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.24,0:00:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, we pray for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.29,0:00:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please deal with us in a way
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.57,0:00:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not according to our sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.48,0:00:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grant us grace.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.11,0:00:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And truth - sanctify them with Thy truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.22,0:00:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thy Word is truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.67,0:00:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pray for that cleansing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.03,0:00:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,purifying, sanctifying reality
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.61,0:00:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be in this place today.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.76,0:00:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, please.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.16,0:00:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You sent Your Son to this earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.02,0:00:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Word became flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.56,0:00:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He dwelt among us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.12,0:00:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because He did and because He has
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.25,0:00:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because He died
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.43,0:00:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because it is finished,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.43,0:00:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is salvation to be had
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.48,0:01:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is a room full of \Nsaved people in this place,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.97,0:01:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would appeal to that blood \Nby which we were saved
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.67,0:01:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that cross work that was finished
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.41,0:01:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made complete,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.65,0:01:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we don't have to stand here
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.33,0:01:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in any of our own doings or works
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.40,0:01:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or accomplishments or merits.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.66,0:01:19.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We stand here based on that sacrifice -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.13,0:01:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Lamb of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.78,0:01:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, we thank You, has put away -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.11,0:01:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many of this in this place can say
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.71,0:01:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've put away our sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.18,0:01:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we stand here forgiven - \Na forgiven people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.60,0:01:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Lord, because of the kindness \Nthat You've shown to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.45,0:01:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we pray, Lord, we want to appeal
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.44,0:01:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Your past mercies \Nto give us fresh ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.89,0:01:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ask in the name of our \NLord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.08,0:01:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The love of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.13,0:01:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would take you once again
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.55,0:01:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.07,0:01:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a little bit of an aside
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.45,0:02:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a number of weeks
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.83,0:02:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.82,0:02:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the purpose is to keep
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.45,0:02:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the spirit of Ephesians 3,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.83,0:02:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and that we would have the strength
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.64,0:02:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to comprehend with all the saints
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.30,0:02:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is the breadth and length
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.74,0:02:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and height and depth
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.77,0:02:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to know the love of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.34,0:02:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that surpasses knowledge."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.68,0:02:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we're seeking to explore
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.89,0:02:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that love of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.30,0:02:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to span some of the depths of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.73,0:02:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I told you last week,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.11,0:02:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my thoughts have come back
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.01,0:02:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Song of Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.42,0:02:48.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again and again and again.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.85,0:02:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.90,0:02:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in your Bibles right before
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.74,0:02:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the major prophet Isaiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.45,0:02:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah's typically easy to find
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.15,0:02:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though the Song of Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.79,0:03:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may not be so easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.34,0:03:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Song - Solomon's Song.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.23,0:03:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old preachers called it: Canticles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.16,0:03:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Found right before the prophet Isaiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.65,0:03:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to look at 2 verses
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.50,0:03:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in chapter 1 of the Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.93,0:03:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Verses 15 and 16.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.55,0:03:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of your Bibles don't supply this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.99,0:03:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some do.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.47,0:03:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ESV has actually separated
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.37,0:03:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this letter into parts.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.81,0:03:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can tell in the original language
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.47,0:04:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are indicators \Nas to who is speaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.17,0:04:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see it in the flow
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.96,0:04:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the song as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.45,0:04:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in v. 15, it says,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.70,0:04:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.62,0:04:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.25,0:04:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, you are beautiful, My love.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.08,0:04:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behold, you are beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.30,0:04:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your eyes are doves."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.55,0:04:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 16, she says,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.92,0:04:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, You are beautiful, my Beloved,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.19,0:04:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,truly delightful.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.56,0:04:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our couch is green."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.18,0:04:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I am not going to preach \Non "our couch is green."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.76,0:04:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can take your own \Nmeanings with that one.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.16,0:04:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what that means
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.11,0:04:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I haven't really thought about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.01,0:04:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But hear me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.82,0:05:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look back at v. 1.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.58,0:05:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Song of Songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.81,0:05:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a song.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.42,0:05:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, we say, the Song of Solomon,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.96,0:05:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's a song.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.06,0:05:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's meant to be sung.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.76,0:05:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God gave it to us to sing it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.69,0:05:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is inspired. Don't miss that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.24,0:05:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is in your Bibles.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.57,0:05:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is inspired.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.96,0:05:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God gave a song for us to sing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.38,0:05:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I can tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.82,0:05:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if you went up and down this road
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.18,0:05:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,singing a song about Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.35,0:05:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of his harem,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.58,0:05:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would think you were pretty weird.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.19,0:05:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not the kind of song \NHe wants us to sing from this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.08,0:05:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not the song of songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.70,0:05:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Holy of holies" is used \Nfor the most holy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.16,0:05:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"King of kings" for the greatest King.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.07,0:05:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord of lords" for the highest Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.96,0:06:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this is the song of songs,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.29,0:06:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being the most excellent of songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.04,0:06:06.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what that means?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.55,0:06:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never has man spoken or written
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.22,0:06:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a song to excel this song.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.74,0:06:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It surpasses all others.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.24,0:06:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only human songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.34,0:06:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, if Solomon \Nwas simply saying this;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.64,0:06:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if a man walked in here and said:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.27,0:06:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all the songs that I ever wrote, \Nthis is the song of all my songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.59,0:06:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you have to hear God's voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.34,0:06:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is inspired.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.49,0:06:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Holy Spirit is saying, Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.44,0:06:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the song of all songs
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.92,0:06:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only humanly speaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.41,0:06:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but divinely speaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.46,0:06:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, if you were to say that's simply
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.66,0:06:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solomon and one of his harem,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.32,0:06:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not an impressive song.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.01,0:06:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And remember just how fitting
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.08,0:06:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the placement of this book.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.92,0:07:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You come out of vanity of vanities
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.87,0:07:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into song of songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.52,0:07:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The emptiness, and then,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.58,0:07:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solomon turns us to the fullness.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.86,0:07:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I reminded you last time,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.70,0:07:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this isn't one woman
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.49,0:07:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with one she loves.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.01,0:07:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at chapter 1, v. 3,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.14,0:07:38.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your anointing oils are fragrant.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.75,0:07:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your name is oil poured out.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.90,0:07:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, virgins love you."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.70,0:07:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you look at v. 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.58,0:07:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Draw me after You..."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.97,0:07:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not, let me run, let us run.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.50,0:07:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I said before,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.53,0:08:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no woman who glories
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.53,0:08:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the love other women \Nhave for their own husband.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.93,0:08:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if the virgins are those
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.08,0:08:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the spirit of 2 Corinthians 11:2
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.94,0:08:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where Paul says that he's betrothing us
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.63,0:08:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as virgins to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.87,0:08:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the whole thing makes sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.34,0:08:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of us as individuals can glory
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.46,0:08:23.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the love of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.96,0:08:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we can glory in the \Nfact that other people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.29,0:08:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,run after Him as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.45,0:08:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the flavor of the Song of Songs.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.74,0:08:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, when we come to v. 15 and 16,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.56,0:08:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reason I want to take you here
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.13,0:08:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is you have mutual expressions.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.50,0:08:47.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What jumped out at me first
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.91,0:08:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was what He says to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.13,0:08:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we say to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.15,0:08:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we say to Him, He says to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.18,0:08:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same language.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.54,0:08:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see it there?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.89,0:09:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, you are beautiful."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.48,0:09:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both say that to each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.21,0:09:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a mutual expression
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.29,0:09:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of admiration and attraction.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.30,0:09:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we know how we feel about Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.59,0:09:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the truth is, we feel it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.87,0:09:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know the attraction.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.19,0:09:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What makes the Song of Songs so precious
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.98,0:09:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we hear God-inspired words
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.52,0:09:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to how Christ feels about us
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.75,0:09:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the attraction that He has for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.43,0:09:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the truth is
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.01,0:09:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's something we would hardly believe
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.40,0:09:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless it was written here.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.53,0:09:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And watch this, in v. 15,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.34,0:10:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, you are beautiful, My love."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.58,0:10:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She never calls Him by that terminology.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.37,0:10:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are His words for her.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.13,0:10:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My love."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.68,0:10:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you go through here,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.80,0:10:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you know what He calls her?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.63,0:10:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My beautiful one,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.86,0:10:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My perfect one,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.78,0:10:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dove,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.18,0:10:32.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My bride,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.67,0:10:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.01,0:10:41.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that possessive pronoun: Mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.65,0:10:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what that reminds me of?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.53,0:10:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You kind of come across this
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.18,0:10:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you must maybe shoot past it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.94,0:10:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're reading Revelation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.38,0:10:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know when Jesus is speaking
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.96,0:10:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the churches in Asia Minor?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.38,0:11:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.72,0:11:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says something.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.73,0:11:08.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gives a promise to the people of God
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.65,0:11:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who overcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.54,0:11:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to what He says.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.14,0:11:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "I will give you..." \Nif you overcome,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.95,0:11:21.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will give you a white stone."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.11,0:11:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's that?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.48,0:11:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it's not so much the stone
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.73,0:11:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as what's written on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.08,0:11:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what's written on it?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.61,0:11:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A name.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.63,0:11:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does anybody remember what name?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.82,0:11:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was it?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.29,0:11:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new name. And listen to how it says it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.78,0:11:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A new name written on the stone
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.58,0:11:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that no one knows
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.02,0:11:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except the one who receives it."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.76,0:12:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus has personal intimate names
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.19,0:12:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just between you and Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.37,0:12:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no one else knows it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.19,0:12:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says these names,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.18,0:12:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My love," "My dove."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.32,0:12:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mine - not just love - My love.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.06,0:12:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My beautiful one," "My bride," "My dove."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.46,0:12:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what are we talking about?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.37,0:12:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about the love \Nof Christ for His people.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.40,0:12:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A love that surpasses knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.99,0:12:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we're looking at these two verses,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.44,0:12:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,v. 15 and 16 of chapter 1,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.82,0:12:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to say something that might
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.49,0:12:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at first not register with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.21,0:12:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were to ask you,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.88,0:12:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which of these two verses
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.78,0:12:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seems to most capture \NChrist's love for us?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.65,0:12:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which one would you pick?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.44,0:12:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'd probably say that's easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.54,0:12:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, v. 15.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.06,0:13:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And undoubtedly it does \Nexpress His love for us,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.43,0:13:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.32,0:13:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I looked at these
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.83,0:13:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I read through the whole book again,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.42,0:13:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself struck
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.90,0:13:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by how much v. 16 reveals His love to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.52,0:13:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, you heard me right. V. 16.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.97,0:13:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 16 expresses Christ's love to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.37,0:13:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think what Christ has done for you
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.40,0:13:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that such expression should ever come
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.96,0:13:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from people like us.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.44,0:13:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the expressions here.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.21,0:13:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about what Christ has done
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.27,0:13:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how He's responsible
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.02,0:13:57.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what expressions of love it is
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.25,0:14:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Him to us that out of our mouth
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.96,0:14:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should ever come such \Nexpressions as these.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.20,0:14:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think about where \Nyou have come from:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.00,0:14:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the miry clay, the pit -
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.73,0:14:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you remember the things you've done,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.79,0:14:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you remember the things you've thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.98,0:14:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you think about the stock.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.68,0:14:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at chapter 2:3.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.25,0:14:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2:3, "With great delight, \NI sat in His shadow."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.21,0:14:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, here's what I want you to feel.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.55,0:14:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to feel the expressions
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.00,0:15:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the church to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.36,0:15:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about these.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.06,0:15:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find the most amazing expressions.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.85,0:15:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.97,0:15:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, You are beautiful."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.06,0:15:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2:3, she says,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.16,0:15:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"With great delight, I sat in His shadow."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.28,0:15:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now see the delight.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.38,0:15:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at 2:5, she says,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.61,0:15:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am sick with love."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.08,0:15:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now think.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.07,0:15:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about the Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.74,0:15:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.37,0:15:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.73,0:15:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about you going through this life,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.93,0:15:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.11,0:15:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We heard "love not the world,"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.87,0:15:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you're actually going along
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.63,0:15:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your mind is working
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.67,0:15:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you go through your day
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.35,0:15:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go through your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.72,0:15:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and such feelings well up in you
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.76,0:15:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could say I find beauty in Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.60,0:16:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or that you're even speaking to Him
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.14,0:16:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on an intimate level.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.36,0:16:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are beautiful, my Beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.96,0:16:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just that: truly delightful.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.21,0:16:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"With great delight I sit in His shadow."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.16,0:16:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sick with love.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.18,0:16:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean there's an ache \Nto have more of Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.69,0:16:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see more of Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.24,0:16:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hear His voice more clearly,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.78,0:16:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a visitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.51,0:16:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at chapter 5:9-10.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.100,0:16:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you have others in v. 9.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.94,0:16:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others say to her,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.22,0:16:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What is your Beloved more \Nthan another beloved?"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.08,0:16:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean who is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.23,0:16:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is this that you talk \Nabout Him like this?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.90,0:16:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"O most beautiful among women,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.77,0:16:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is your Beloved more \Nthan another beloved?"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.90,0:16:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in v. 10 she says,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.23,0:16:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My Beloved is radiant."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.29,0:17:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The NAS says "dazzling and ruddy."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.73,0:17:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Distinguished among 10,000,"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.66,0:17:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or "Chief among 10,000" in KJV.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.09,0:17:08.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the New American Standard,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.51,0:17:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"outstanding among 10,000."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.34,0:17:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at v. 16 of Song of Solomon 5.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.16,0:17:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He is altogether desirable."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.90,0:17:23.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or as the KJV says,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.49,0:17:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He is altogether lovely."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.99,0:17:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's the thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.56,0:17:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say to you, Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.52,0:17:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you have felt the most,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.34,0:17:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you have seen Him most clearly,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.61,0:17:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you've heard His voice
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.57,0:17:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with most audibleness,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.36,0:17:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you've smelled the \Nfragrance of His presence,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.18,0:17:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the power of the Word has opened up,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.07,0:17:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when He has come across \Nmost beautiful to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.97,0:17:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say where's the pen?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.28,0:17:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are the thoughts?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.57,0:18:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is the poet? Where is the songwriter?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.54,0:18:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the songwriters are fantastic
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.50,0:18:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the way they're able to bring out
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.44,0:18:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we feel,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.56,0:18:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but who can put what a \NChristian feels into words?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.55,0:18:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Song of Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.22,0:18:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seems to capture it oftentimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.72,0:18:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look, right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.33,0:18:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not speaking to everyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.26,0:18:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm speaking to you who \Nknow what I'm talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.59,0:18:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You who have felt this.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.49,0:18:32.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever considered
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.95,0:18:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Christ's love has done for you
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.45,0:18:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could even be delighted in Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.15,0:18:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, do you hear what I'm getting at?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.08,0:18:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ finding me beautiful?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.99,0:18:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, that should blow us away.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.07,0:18:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What sort of expression \Nof love is that to me!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.23,0:18:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here's the thing, me \Nfinding Him beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.19,0:19:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that too is a massive \Nexpression of His love to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.11,0:19:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these, I mean, they are vehement
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.86,0:19:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expressions of affection to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.91,0:19:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, think with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.97,0:19:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go looking around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.05,0:19:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go looking on the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.80,0:19:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go through the channels,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.78,0:19:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do whatever,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.70,0:19:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do whatever gives you a \Npicture into this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.36,0:19:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go through the radio stations.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.46,0:19:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.18,0:19:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find men who are attracted to women
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.30,0:19:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the computer screen,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.90,0:19:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's common.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.41,0:19:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find young men \Nattracted to computer games,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.41,0:19:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's pretty normal.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.61,0:19:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find young ladies that are interested
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.06,0:19:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in being attractive,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.71,0:19:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,addicted to their cell phones,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.15,0:19:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to make themselves pretty,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.54,0:19:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's average.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.47,0:19:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find people grasping for money,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.46,0:20:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movies, popularity, clothes, \Nfood, fame, power,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.23,0:20:06.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's nothing unusual about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.01,0:20:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think with me here.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.16,0:20:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find a man, a woman, or a child
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.30,0:20:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose heart jumps
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.67,0:20:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they hear the name of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.54,0:20:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is rare.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.55,0:20:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is special.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.30,0:20:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a mark of God at work in somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.90,0:20:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an absolutely miraculous way
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.51,0:20:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that is not common.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.62,0:20:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.98,0:20:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing to ask is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.08,0:20:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do such people come from?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.68,0:20:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go back there.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.80,0:20:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go back to Song of Solomon 1:16.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.29,0:21:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I recognize that for a man
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.80,0:21:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually speak
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.36,0:21:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with some of these words
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.09,0:21:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speak them about Christ -
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.75,0:21:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know, maybe it \Nwould cause some people
Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.76,0:21:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be uncomfortable.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.07,0:21:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.09,0:21:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the manliest of men -
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.60,0:21:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Christians should be men.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.16,0:21:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Quit you like men."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.09,0:21:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be men.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.11,0:21:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.07,0:21:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The purest men in this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.80,0:21:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they may not walk around using
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.34,0:21:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terminology like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.66,0:21:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God's man, he feels this in his heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.62,0:21:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He feels v. 16.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.15,0:21:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he feels the realities of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.05,0:21:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he can say,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.14,0:21:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh Christ, You are beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.55,0:21:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are truly delightful."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.66,0:22:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He feels it in the \Nvery fabric of his soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.11,0:22:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the thing to ask is \Nwhere do they come from?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.45,0:22:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do people who truly feel
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.68,0:22:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the depths of their being
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.71,0:22:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Christ is beautiful and desirable -
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.42,0:22:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where do they come from?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.65,0:22:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seminaries don't make them.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.53,0:22:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is churches don't make them.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.84,0:22:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of us have a mother \Nthat makes people like these.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.16,0:22:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen - in fact, turn there.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.42,0:22:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're very close to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.81,0:22:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn to Isaiah 53.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.15,0:22:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah's right after Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.72,0:22:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to the well known Isaiah 53.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.13,0:22:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I have to do is take you here
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.70,0:22:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take you in your mind
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.62,0:23:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back to former days.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.36,0:23:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.38,0:23:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah 53:2.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.19,0:23:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Like a root out of dry ground..."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.05,0:23:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A root sticking up out of dry ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.50,0:23:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...He had no form or majesty
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.99,0:23:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we should look at Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.78,0:23:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no beauty that we should desire Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.68,0:23:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That statement right there
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.06,0:23:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given the chapter of \NScripture that it's in,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.75,0:23:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man in his fallen state is so backward.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.71,0:24:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No beauty..." and look at v. 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.03,0:24:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Despised, rejected by men,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.100,0:24:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as one from whom men hide their faces,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.28,0:24:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was despised
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.50,0:24:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we esteemed Him not."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.98,0:24:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.60,0:24:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pilate said to the Jews,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.19,0:24:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold your King."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.16,0:24:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they did.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.71,0:24:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They looked. They beheld Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.32,0:24:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See Him standing there
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.94,0:24:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with His crown of thorns.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.85,0:24:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His robe of purple.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.49,0:24:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, never, never had they stood
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.79,0:24:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the presence of one pure
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.50,0:24:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or more beautiful or more pleasing to God
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.72,0:24:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or more willing to save,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.75,0:24:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they cried out.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.84,0:24:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what they cried out.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.42,0:24:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Away with Him! Away with Him!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.72,0:25:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crucify Him!"
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.29,0:25:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what that songwriter said.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.86,0:25:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.88,0:25:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call out among the scoffers."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.97,0:25:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.17,0:25:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember those days?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.13,0:25:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was your voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.02,0:25:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was my voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.55,0:25:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ashamed.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.57,0:25:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ashamed. I can hear my voice
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.15,0:25:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that crowd.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.40,0:25:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can listen for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.54,0:25:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clint was telling me
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.03,0:25:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when he's over on the oil rigs,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.60,0:25:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he sometimes watches us livestream.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.36,0:25:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said you listen for Caroline's voice
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.07,0:25:49.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the singing, don't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:49.70,0:25:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, yeah, I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.88,0:25:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you listen for your voice
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.44,0:26:01.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this crowd because it's there.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.27,0:26:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't esteem Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.78,0:26:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We despised Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.07,0:26:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despised Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.03,0:26:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That any of us should \Nfind Christ attractive
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.93,0:26:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is only shocking to the degree
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.91,0:26:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we realize it is not natural,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.15,0:26:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not normal.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.40,0:26:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what normal is?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.81,0:26:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They hated Me without a cause."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.69,0:26:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what normal is?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.76,0:26:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He came to His own
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.17,0:26:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His own received Him not."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.07,0:26:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we get these guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.55,0:26:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They want to write these stories
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.37,0:26:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the end times;
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.06,0:26:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell us about the antichrist.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:38.54,0:26:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, he's going to come \Nfrom the European Union.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.12,0:26:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's going to have 666 \Nstamped on his forehead.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.70,0:26:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to look to Europe,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.34,0:26:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the reality is all we had to do
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.50,0:26:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is walk into the bathroom
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.28,0:27:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look at ourselves in the mirror.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.19,0:27:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what John said?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.66,0:27:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Now many antichrists have come."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.57,0:27:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were the antichrists.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.66,0:27:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anti means to be against.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.91,0:27:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were them.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.50,0:27:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would have never admitted it,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.51,0:27:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's precisely...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.25,0:27:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man's natural disposition is such
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.04,0:27:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Song of Songs
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.52,0:27:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a foreign language.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.36,0:27:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lost man - it is unintelligible.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.95,0:27:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's basically a parable.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.08,0:27:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know how in the New Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.36,0:27:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the disciples asked,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:48.01,0:27:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why do You speak to them in parables?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.56,0:27:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Jesus said this is why \NI speak to them in parables:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.36,0:27:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Because seeing they do not see,\Nhearing they do not hear,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.22,0:27:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor do they understand."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.74,0:27:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that's the thing with this.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.91,0:28:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Song of Solomon to the unconverted:
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.27,0:28:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's that?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.20,0:28:11.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is in a foreign language.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.100,0:28:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I know we have a whole number
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.64,0:28:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people in this room
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.33,0:28:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that do have eyes to see and ears to hear
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.32,0:28:22.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you do understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.06,0:28:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you hear these expressions
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.38,0:28:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come from her to Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.36,0:28:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something jumps inside you and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.78,0:28:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yes, that's how I feel.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.01,0:28:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see the thing is
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.79,0:28:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is not ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:41.78,0:28:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is not unkind. He is not cruel.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.43,0:28:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is the Savior of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.07,0:28:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and robed in the beauty of holiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.62,0:28:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's altogether lovely, \Naltogether desirable.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.73,0:28:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man's great problem? Newton said it
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.85,0:28:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in his most famous song:
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.29,0:29:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I was blind, but now I see."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.65,0:29:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.12,0:29:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when Adam took that fruit
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.74,0:29:11.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he brought it up to his mouth,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:11.100,0:29:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can just imagine \Ntwo daggers right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.73,0:29:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The moment his teeth
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.15,0:29:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,broke the skin on that thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.35,0:29:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those daggers took his eyes out.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.50,0:29:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the problem was they took
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.06,0:29:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of our eyes out as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.04,0:29:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.90,0:29:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could see the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.03,0:29:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fields,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.77,0:29:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the weeds that now were in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.97,0:29:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could feel the pain that came,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.97,0:29:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the age.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.94,0:29:52.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could see the sun, \Nthe moon, and the stars.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.87,0:29:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we couldn't see.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.06,0:29:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our eyes had been put out.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.82,0:30:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We sang this too:
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.11,0:30:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Something lives in every hue,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.75,0:30:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christless eyes have never seen."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.95,0:30:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beloved, do you remember
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.25,0:30:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you carried around in your head
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.63,0:30:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christless eyes and Christless ears?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.19,0:30:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.16,0:30:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember how it was?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.87,0:30:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.82,0:30:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said it this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.69,0:30:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"those who are well
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.32,0:30:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have no need of a physician."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.26,0:30:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know how it was?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.46,0:30:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No need.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.89,0:30:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't need Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.13,0:30:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were okay without Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.99,0:30:55.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could walk around. We could smile.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.43,0:30:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could joke. We could laugh...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.54,0:31:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without trembling.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.87,0:31:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could casually sin \Nwithout screaming in terror.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.14,0:31:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could go to sleep each night.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.10,0:31:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could talk about death and hell
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.81,0:31:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if they were fairy tales.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.06,0:31:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, here we were walking through life,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.20,0:31:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this great big mouth of hell
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.21,0:31:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,underneath us waiting to swallow us.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.02,0:31:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we were so casual.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.73,0:31:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So careless. So confident.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:27.43,0:31:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No thought ever crossed our minds:
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.69,0:31:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, may He kiss me
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.70,0:31:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the kisses of His mouth."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.87,0:31:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things like that - what? Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.54,0:31:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We sang "Joy to the World."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.15,0:31:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's a little baby in a manger.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.46,0:31:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.65,0:31:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, that crucifix up on the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.18,0:31:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, that's Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.16,0:31:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me it was a word of cursing
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.23,0:31:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and swearing in my mouth.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.46,0:31:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some effeminate looking picture
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.77,0:32:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of probably some Catholic priest.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.73,0:32:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah is spot on.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.22,0:32:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.81,0:32:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 2, "No beauty."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.99,0:32:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah 53:2, "No beauty
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.66,0:32:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we should desire Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.20,0:32:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Christless eyes we had!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.66,0:32:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"One from whom men hide their faces."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.14,0:32:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want to look at Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.38,0:32:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hide our faces from Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.79,0:32:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want to look His way.\NWe don't want to look at Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.36,0:32:48.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want to regard Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.79,0:32:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want to esteem Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.31,0:32:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just see where Isaiah takes us.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.36,0:32:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at v. 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.25,0:32:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what's so amazing about it!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:59.76,0:33:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not as though you \Ncontinue reading here
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.39,0:33:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you look at it and you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.13,0:33:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh yeah, yeah...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.56,0:33:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah, there was no beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.27,0:33:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.99,0:33:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.25,0:33:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Surely He has borne our griefs
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.91,0:33:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and carried our sorrows."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.81,0:33:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 5, "He was pierced \Nfor our transgressions,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.22,0:33:24.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crushed for our iniquities.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.83,0:33:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Upon Him was the chastisement
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.12,0:33:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brought us peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.26,0:33:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With His wounds we are healed."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.07,0:33:35.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or v. 6, "The Lord laid on Him
Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.47,0:33:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the iniquity of us all."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.62,0:33:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 8, "Stricken for the \Ntransgression of My people."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.96,0:33:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 11, "Out of the anguish of His soul,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.69,0:33:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God shall see and be satisfied.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.75,0:33:52.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He shall make many to \Nbe accounted righteous.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.87,0:33:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He shall bear their iniquities."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.92,0:33:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,V. 12, "He poured out His soul to death
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.36,0:34:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was numbered with the transgressors,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.83,0:34:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet He bore the sin of many,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.05,0:34:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makes intercession \Nfor the transgressors."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.80,0:34:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Christless eyes!
Dialogue: 0,0:34:08.92,0:34:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.65,0:34:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I have no memory of these verses
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.19,0:34:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I doubt I ever saw them.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.34,0:34:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't care.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.64,0:34:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the midst of my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.86,0:34:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if somebody would have \Nread those verses to me
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.22,0:34:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like clear them aside.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.95,0:34:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lived for the weekends.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:31.95,0:34:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just existed during the week.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:34.59,0:34:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lived for the weekends.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.61,0:34:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make money during the week to live it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:41.30,0:34:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Words like this meant nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.41,0:34:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't bother me with \Nthat religious nonsense.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.82,0:34:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had it figured out, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.66,0:34:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, most of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:51.51,0:34:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we kind of come from the same stock.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.95,0:34:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A bit of religion - that was me.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.63,0:34:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.82,0:35:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of superstition.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.14,0:35:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A good dose of self-love.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.29,0:35:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A portion of self-righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.15,0:35:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were good. We were good!
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.92,0:35:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus? We had a manger thing growing up.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.14,0:35:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or my dad had a crucifix on the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.44,0:35:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, He's either a baby or He's dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.33,0:35:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but don't bother us with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.42,0:35:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're pretty good.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:32.36,0:35:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We esteemed Him not.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:36.61,0:35:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is the world around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.60,0:35:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea, this Song of Solomon
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.22,0:35:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is so foreign to this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.02,0:35:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People - yeah, show me how to miss hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.73,0:35:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.54,0:36:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what it means to be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.23,0:36:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So often, people just think
Dialogue: 0,0:36:05.47,0:36:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no lake of fire in the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.57,0:36:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not really being saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.21,0:36:12.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, yes, that's not suffering
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.43,0:36:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the consequences and the punishment
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.45,0:36:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our sins deserve.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.91,0:36:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to truly be saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.73,0:36:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to truly have life
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.87,0:36:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to know God and to know His Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:27.05,0:36:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To know - intimacy - to have this love.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.96,0:36:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know this.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.03,0:36:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, the greatest thing
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.67,0:36:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the way God has designed us;
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.26,0:36:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the thing that causes the greatest joy
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.56,0:36:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and expression in who we \Nare as human beings
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.77,0:36:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is when we are madly in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.05,0:36:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no getting around that.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.50,0:36:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what we find here.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.62,0:37:01.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, how did we ever come
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.27,0:37:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to esteem Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.12,0:37:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened to us
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.42,0:37:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we looked up one day?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.93,0:37:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember that time in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.17,0:37:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like suddenly the fog was gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.20,0:37:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did I never see Him before?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.23,0:37:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:32.13,0:37:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was stunned.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.22,0:37:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.86,0:37:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did this even happen?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.13,0:37:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John tells us.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.50,0:37:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We love Him because what?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:51.85,0:37:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the thing is, \Nwe're incapable of loving Him -
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.57,0:37:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you say, I didn't get that.\NWhat did he even say?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.94,0:38:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 John 4:19,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.68,0:38:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We love Him because He first loved us."
Dialogue: 0,0:38:02.88,0:38:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What John is teaching is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.54,0:38:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one has to come before the other
Dialogue: 0,0:38:06.33,0:38:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the one is \Nresponsible for the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:08.61,0:38:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one produces the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.50,0:38:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're incapable of loving Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.58,0:38:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apart from what He does to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.64,0:38:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Left to ourselves, the reality is,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.56,0:38:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's nothing in us \Nto call forth love for Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:21.87,0:38:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved everything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.15,0:38:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many other things.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.86,0:38:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did our Lord teach us?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.65,0:38:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said this -
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.45,0:38:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said one day after He had fed
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.23,0:38:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those 5,000 people,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:34.86,0:38:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was talking about the true bread.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.65,0:38:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "No one can come to Me
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.32,0:38:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless My Father who sent Me draws..."
Dialogue: 0,0:38:49.67,0:38:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What sort of drawing was that?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.58,0:38:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't chains of a slave.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.82,0:38:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.86,0:39:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something pulled us to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.44,0:39:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how He saves.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.77,0:39:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He saves by causing us to behold Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.76,0:39:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ asked the question:
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.07,0:39:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What think ye of Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.71,0:39:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How you answer that
Dialogue: 0,0:39:19.92,0:39:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says everything about you -
Dialogue: 0,0:39:22.62,0:39:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not about Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.92,0:39:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you say positive or negative
Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.81,0:39:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't change Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.10,0:39:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how you answer that question
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.92,0:39:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says everything about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.12,0:39:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it says everything about the love
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.46,0:39:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Christ has expressed to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:36.52,0:39:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what He has done for you,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:38.46,0:39:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what He has done in you.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.52,0:39:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can go back to Song of Solomon now
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.08,0:39:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're in Isaiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:44.68,0:39:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Song of Solomon - you remember this.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.43,0:39:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 1:4 - I mean, yes, you have
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.18,0:39:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there in John 6,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.64,0:39:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No one can come to Me
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.67,0:40:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless My Father draws..."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.46,0:40:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here it's the church herself saying -
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.72,0:40:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she's coming to that recognition.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.74,0:40:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Draw me. Draw me."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.60,0:40:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will run. Let us run.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.24,0:40:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Draw, draw, draw.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.61,0:40:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:40:26.48,0:40:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, this is appealing to Him
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.01,0:40:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do something to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.53,0:40:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pull me.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.22,0:40:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are so willingly hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.20,0:40:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so willingly blind, so willingly do we not
Dialogue: 0,0:40:41.59,0:40:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to find anything beautiful in Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.36,0:40:46.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that unless there is this powerful,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:46.39,0:40:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effectual drawing of the soul to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:50.06,0:40:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both at conversion and afterwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:53.07,0:40:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will gladly run right into hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:56.87,0:40:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.10,0:41:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A soul's coming to Christ for life
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.88,0:41:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the product of any power
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.98,0:41:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or free will of man -
Dialogue: 0,0:41:06.53,0:41:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,power found in man -
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.06,0:41:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the result of Christ giving us life.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.45,0:41:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever read this?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.60,0:41:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Whoever does not love
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.85,0:41:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abides in death."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:24.54,0:41:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.53,0:41:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To love is to live.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.55,0:41:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To live is to love.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.82,0:41:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We looked up one day
Dialogue: 0,0:41:36.47,0:41:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can't explain how it happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.74,0:41:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Christ was increasing.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.80,0:41:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was growing brighter.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.01,0:41:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything else was growing pale.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.30,0:41:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything else was decreasing.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.76,0:41:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.74,0:41:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Apostle Paul comes along
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.28,0:42:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Philippians and he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.24,0:42:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was a day my circumcision,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.03,0:42:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my Jewishness,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.79,0:42:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my belonging to one \Nof the premier tribes -
Dialogue: 0,0:42:12.19,0:42:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tribe of Benjamin -
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.28,0:42:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was one of the two tribes
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.75,0:42:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that stayed loyal to the Southern kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:17.34,0:42:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Hebrew of the Hebrews.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.48,0:42:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says but I saw Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.28,0:42:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.76,0:42:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, the Christless \Neyes were taken away.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:32.82,0:42:34.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what does he say?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.31,0:42:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I count it all loss
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.36,0:42:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I might have Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.81,0:42:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I might know Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.55,0:42:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the sake of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:43.72,0:42:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indeed, I count everything as loss
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.38,0:42:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the surpassing worth of knowing
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.43,0:42:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ Jesus my Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.41,0:42:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We looked up one day
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.60,0:42:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we began to have such thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.25,0:42:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as like we find in the Song of Solomon.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:57.96,0:42:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you notice?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:59.68,0:43:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember how that happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.05,0:43:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out at Community, we used to sing a lot -
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.20,0:43:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we sing it sometimes here,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.57,0:43:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but from Revelation 5 -
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.72,0:43:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4 and 5, they both have the words:
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.58,0:43:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Worthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:17.60,0:43:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you remember when you were lost,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.14,0:43:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you never, unless you were lost
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.34,0:43:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your parents made you go to church
Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.26,0:43:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they sang Revelation 4 or 5 -
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.24,0:43:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you never put the word "worthy"
Dialogue: 0,0:43:34.64,0:43:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same sentence with Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.73,0:43:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ninety-nine percent of the time
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.05,0:43:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when His name came out of my mouth,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:47.38,0:43:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was simply cursing and swearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.61,0:43:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never did the term worthy
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.67,0:43:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fall in the same sentence with Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:59.36,0:44:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the term "precious."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.58,0:44:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the term "beautiful."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:07.53,0:44:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore - this is the KJV, \Nthe New King James Version,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.49,0:44:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know this from 1 Peter 2:7.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.73,0:44:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Therefore to you who believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:17.52,0:44:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is precious."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.08,0:44:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the thing that was amazing
Dialogue: 0,0:44:25.71,0:44:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that once you have the eyes to see -
Dialogue: 0,0:44:28.87,0:44:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I remember this -
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.81,0:44:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could see and I suddenly looked around,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.25,0:44:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all my friends -
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.89,0:44:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the comrades that I hunted with
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.20,0:44:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drank with
Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.30,0:44:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lived my life with
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.72,0:44:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my co-workers,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.64,0:44:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my family -
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.48,0:44:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you look around,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.02,0:44:54.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're like the \Ndeer caught in headlights.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:54.11,0:45:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had such revelations to my soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:00.11,0:45:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said oh, I am certain
Dialogue: 0,0:45:03.85,0:45:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that once I tell them,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.32,0:45:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are going to see what I see
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.98,0:45:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are going to jump on board.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:10.60,0:45:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one after another,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:12.53,0:45:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they looked at me like I had three heads.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:17.95,0:45:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unwilling to come to Christ for life.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.74,0:45:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is what He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.05,0:45:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You refuse to come to Me \Nthat you may have life."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:23.76,0:45:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All day long - the book of Romans -
Dialogue: 0,0:45:27.57,0:45:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I have held out My hands to a disobedient
Dialogue: 0,0:45:30.46,0:45:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and contrary people."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.34,0:45:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here's the thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:33.93,0:45:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those Christ sets His love upon
Dialogue: 0,0:45:36.18,0:45:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are made willing in the \Nday of Christ's power
Dialogue: 0,0:45:40.95,0:45:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by some secret, invisible power.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.82,0:45:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He slays that enmity that was in us.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.64,0:45:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That that despised Him;\Nthat that didn't esteem Him;
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.53,0:45:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that that was repulsed, that hid our face.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:53.69,0:45:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't want to see.\NWe didn't want to know.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:56.20,0:45:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give me a small christ, \Na weak christ, a dead christ -
Dialogue: 0,0:45:58.89,0:46:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the Christ of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:00.38,0:46:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't tolerate Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.49,0:46:03.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the one that says \Nthat I have to die to self
Dialogue: 0,0:46:03.87,0:46:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and carry my cross and follow after Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.86,0:46:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And unless I forsake all that \NI have, I can't be His disciple.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.08,0:46:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And unless I repent, I'm going to perish -
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.13,0:46:14.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not that Christ. I don't want Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.21,0:46:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the Christ that deals \Nwith me about my sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.39,0:46:18.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the Christ that's \Ngoing to make me holy.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.38,0:46:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the Christ that's going \Nto love me so much
Dialogue: 0,0:46:21.59,0:46:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He's going to remove \Nevery single idol from my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:26.12,0:46:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want that.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.100,0:46:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we were made willing.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:31.92,0:46:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ exercised such a power on us.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.83,0:46:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He killed that enmity that was in here.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.45,0:46:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in the heart, in the brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.17,0:46:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the thoughts, in our discernment.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.44,0:46:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.43,0:46:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something way beyond our power.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:53.06,0:46:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we weren't forced.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.48,0:47:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like it was a sweet drawing.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.88,0:47:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was us beholding that He was desirable
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.97,0:47:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that makes us run.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.13,0:47:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He captures us by \Ncapturing our affections,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:13.10,0:47:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing the desire.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.54,0:47:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's precisely what happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.24,0:47:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking as we \Nwere listening to Jeff
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.85,0:47:23.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the first hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:23.100,0:47:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those words:
Dialogue: 0,0:47:25.18,0:47:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have seen His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:31.01,0:47:36.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know, what glory?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:36.100,0:47:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't walk around shining.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:38.53,0:47:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know on the Mount of Transfiguration,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:40.51,0:47:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't believe that is at all
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.24,0:47:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what John is talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.30,0:47:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His glory - we have seen His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.27,0:47:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that "we" right there,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.12,0:47:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:53.64,0:47:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many people who with their eyes
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.75,0:48:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they saw Christ do His miracles.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.95,0:48:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't repent.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.78,0:48:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.09,0:48:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus appeals to them in John 5.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:07.28,0:48:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll see that when \Nour brother gets there.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:09.82,0:48:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says they bear witness.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.93,0:48:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My works bear witness that I am Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.42,0:48:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a gift of all gifts
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.68,0:48:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you stand in the crowd
Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.30,0:48:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Christ does His miracles
Dialogue: 0,0:48:35.96,0:48:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:45.23,0:48:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need Him more than I need anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:48.20,0:48:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to have Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.04,0:48:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a beauty, there's a power,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:51.71,0:48:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's forgiveness.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:53.04,0:48:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what my heart has \Nbeen looking for forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.80,0:48:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the crowd is big
Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.46,0:49:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you look around and most in the crowd:
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.97,0:49:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's for dinner?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:06.05,0:49:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And away they go.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.51,0:49:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a phenomenal gift.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:15.57,0:49:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, do you count it
Dialogue: 0,0:49:18.24,0:49:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the greatest gifts \Nof Christ's love to you
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.13,0:49:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that your heart aches for Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.77,0:49:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it is. And it's special.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:28.20,0:49:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He doesn't just haphazardly
Dialogue: 0,0:49:30.52,0:49:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and randomly throw that gift around.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.76,0:49:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are for His loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:38.55,0:49:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said this, that drawing -
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.56,0:49:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said you lift Me up
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.19,0:49:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will draw all men.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.10,0:49:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't mean all without exception.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:50.38,0:49:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means men from all the nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.42,0:49:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were Greeks there.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.10,0:49:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the context in which He said that.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.37,0:50:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing that is so \Nbeautiful about Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.96,0:50:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not like the beauty that we would find
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.01,0:50:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a woman necessarily or in a sunset.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.85,0:50:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, that which Christ Himself says
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.28,0:50:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has that drawing efficacy
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.88,0:50:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is lift Me up and I will draw.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:18.79,0:50:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize His death, His blood,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.68,0:50:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gore, the agonies,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.24,0:50:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the shame of that cross,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:30.50,0:50:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's where so much \Nof His beauty is found.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:33.67,0:50:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's found in those words \Nwe read in Isaiah 53.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:37.14,0:50:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the most \Nprecious thing imaginable.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:42.63,0:50:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Word became flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.51,0:50:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He dwelt among us."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.99,0:50:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He took His humanity - the God-man,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:52.60,0:50:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do what He did.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.84,0:50:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you not say it is \None of the greatest gifts
Dialogue: 0,0:50:56.18,0:50:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has ever given you
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.54,0:51:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find Him whom you have never seen -
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.28,0:51:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what Peter says.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.65,0:51:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peter says though you have \Nnot seen Him, you love Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.26,0:51:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, can you imagine it?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:09.66,0:51:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine that \Nyou have been given a gift
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.95,0:51:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ache for, to worship, to long after,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:18.30,0:51:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to feel the need of, to have a love for,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.74,0:51:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find desirable this Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:27.57,0:51:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you love Him more \Nthan anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.08,0:51:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than father or mother \Nor husband or wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.75,0:51:37.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you've never seen Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:37.53,0:51:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a miracle.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:40.54,0:51:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a gift.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.02,0:51:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is altogether \Nan expression of His love
Dialogue: 0,0:51:46.44,0:51:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can look up and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.47,0:51:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are beautiful, my Beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.78,0:51:59.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Altogether desirable and precious.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:59.100,0:52:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a manifestation of His love.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.87,0:52:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now next week, what I want to look at
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.92,0:52:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is Him looking at her -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:10.65,0:52:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking at us;
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.87,0:52:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking at His people and saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.88,0:52:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You are beautiful, My love."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.44,0:52:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You are beautiful."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.28,0:52:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we often don't feel it.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.73,0:52:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want you to see His heart
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.67,0:52:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expressed to you, Lord willing, next week.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:34.48,0:52:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, I pray,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:36.11,0:52:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,help us just to delight
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.50,0:52:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the fullness, the realities
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.54,0:52:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what it means to be loved by Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:49.92,0:52:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This love that surpasses knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.21,0:52:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us, give us according \Nto the riches of Your glory,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.59,0:53:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, enable us to comprehend
Dialogue: 0,0:53:00.32,0:53:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with all the saints
Dialogue: 0,0:53:02.74,0:53:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is the breadth and length \Nand height and depth.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.49,0:53:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ask this in the name \Nof our Savior, Amen.