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For in bringing many sons and 
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It was entirely appropriate that
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all things exist, should make 
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Perfect through suffering for 
the one who sanctifies and those

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who are Sanctified all have one.
Father. 

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That is why Jesus is not ashamed
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Brothers and sisters, saying, I 
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brothers and sisters. 
I will sing hymns to you in the 

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congregation. 
Again, I will trust Austin him. 

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And again, here I am with the 
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God gave me. 
This is the word of the Lord 

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siblings. 
Sometimes you love them, 

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sometimes you hate them, and 
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right. 
Sibling relationships are pretty

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interesting growing up. 
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I was the only boy and I was 
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Okay, so my older sister, got 
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older sibling, my younger 
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nothing you middle children know
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Even now right now, as we speak,
my mom who's normally right here

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on the front row her and my two 
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Vegas, right? 
On some trip that I didn't even 

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get an invite to you know it was
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learn about in passing, you 
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you they're going to be gone for
something and you're just and 

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they just try to like Notch a 
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then and then the excuse to 
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have invited you. 
We just knew you weren't going 

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to come and I'm like well if you
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Oh, right. 
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whatever. 
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that the relationship can be 
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Yeah, in my experience, though, 
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siblings grow, there's something
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Now, we live in a broken world, 
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generally like, all the dust of 
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settle the Arguments slowly seem
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Everyone learns, who's the 
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Anyway, so you don't have to 
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That's a joke. 
Hopefully, you don't play 

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favorites but, you know. 
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And and normally at some point 
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relationship and this bond is 
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The idea of family is more than 
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randomly happen to end up 
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originally designed. 
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but as it was originally, 
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a place of wholeness, a place of
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love and ultimately all Earthly 
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something. 
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something more eternal than the 
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given us. 
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Today in our passage, the 
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begin exploring this idea of 
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scriptures. 
The work that Jesus did with his

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life. 
Death, burial and Resurrection 

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is creating not just the new 
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but a whole new family, a people
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Nation with God as the perfect, 
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Jesus as the perfect brother and
with the spirit, as the powerful

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voice that cries out in our 
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And that is the point of our 
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is the true and better brother. 
He is better than any Earthly 

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sibling that you could ever 
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For example, you would never go 
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If you're watching this on the 
live stream, I hope you feel bad

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and you lose all your money. 
I don't think they're gambling. 

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I don't know. 
Who knows? 

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All right, good morning again, 
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As always, I am grateful to be 
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It is a joy, as I said earlier, 
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I'm blessed to just serve as one
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Eden. 
I've been focusing this week on 

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the spiritual family of God as 
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And so, even more than normal 
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our communion is. 
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because of the work that the 
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and Among Us, I'm happy to be on
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And I'm glad you all are a part.
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book of Hebrews, as you know, by
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we're in Chapter 2 verses 10 
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also have verses on the screen. 
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think this is the fourth week. 
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of the book is Jesus is better. 
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better. 
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is a major theme of the book is,
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Alright awesome, little bit of 
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guy, don't freak out. 
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audience feedback. 
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we saw that Jesus is the truly 
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and new Humanity. 
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He makes us fully human and then
our preacher just takes that and

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the flow of thought is it's even
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It is a brand-new family. 
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new family, and that's the 
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today. 
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what I have for us is one main 
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summarizes the sermon and what 
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If you're a note taker, Jesus 
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suffering. 
For the good of his siblings and

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the glory of God. 
So we're going to walk kind of 

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through those three parts 
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is the main sentence. 
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And so let's start by looking at
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sentence. 
Jesus creates a new family right

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away in our text, what does, 
what are we called? 

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What is the preacher of Hebrews?
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very beginning of verse 10. 
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sons, And daughters to Glory, 
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That Jesus is doing the 
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he is doing, is that he did not 
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suffering to Glory alone. 
He is bringing many sons and 

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daughters with him on this 
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remember, right? 
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let you like settle in before we
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amazing, but they're like right 
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If you're like me, I often 
forget the beauty of what Jesus 

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has accomplished in the gospel 
because it seems too good to be 

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true. 
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11. 
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that's Jesus and those who are 
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That's us all have one father. 
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You have the same father as 
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Privileges, the acceptance, the 
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in Christ. 
You receive everything that 

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Jesus received and this is what 
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gospel. 
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read in our text, through whom, 
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right? 
Big Creator, massive is your 

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father and he loves you right 
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daughter. 
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our Earthly fathers. 
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Daughters of the perfect. 
Father, who will never leave us 

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I asked my kids a lot who is 
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And they say, God and I say, 
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play this role for this. 
The small blip on the radar of 

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Eternity in your life and 
hopefully by God's grace, maybe 

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I'll Model A little bit of what 
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But you know what? 
I also tell them when I messed 

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it up, which is a lot and I'm 
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I say, is God like that, is he 
Petty like that is, he reactive 

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know, God is good and under 
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He is not like your Earthly 
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Even the other day, ever lie in 
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she swings the pendulum. 
She says, which she's normally 

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like this. 
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best daddy in the world and 
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God is. 
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But thank you. 
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talking about us. 
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Earthly. 
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I'll take that that title. 
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in here. 
That was just a joke. 

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Yeah. 
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now anyways, all right. 
I want my kids to know that they

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have God as their true and 
better father and so we're 

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reminded of that truth right up 
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Look at the end like I feel like
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amount but this is one maybe we 
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It says that is why Jesus is not
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and sisters. 
I want you to think about this 

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for a second, right? 
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Maybe you were the one who was 
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sister or maybe you were the one
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I don't know which one it was. 
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of each other, but the author of
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not embarrassed or ashamed to 
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and this is wild for me to try 
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know my life. 
I know how much I've messed up. 

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I know how often that I've 
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I know how often I've not lived 
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And you're telling me that when 
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is he your brother? 
He's proud of it. 

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He's not embarrassed by it. 
What he's like, yeah. 

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Yeah, he's my brother. 
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Absolutely. 
It's crazy, like all the crap 

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that has happened in my past or 
present, or will happen in my 

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future. 
You're telling me Jesus is not 

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embarrassed by me and on the 
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No, he is not. 
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begin to grasp this radical 
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Father and Jesus, as our proud 
older brother, this begins to 

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heal us of not only our sin but 
also our pain it holistically 

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deals with us. 
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We're dealing with that. 
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the pain and the rejection, the 
shame from all the rejection of 

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our past. 
We've all at some point, not 

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been accepted, or loved or not 
been invited, or had people who 

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hadn't been there for us. 
Jesus is always there for you. 

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He meets the Lonely and gives 
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come in the back door and we'll 
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No. 
He's like he's not embarrassed 

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by you at all. 
This is the family of God and he

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will complete the work. 
He started in you sometimes it 

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doesn't seem like it, right? 
Sometimes it's it's hard in the 

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road is long but this is God's 
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One of the things dripping off 
the passages of these three 

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verses here for versus here is 
like this is God's work in verse

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10 it is Jesus. 
That is bringing the sons and 

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daughters to glory in verse 11. 
Jesus is our brother but there's

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a clear distinction between the 
one who sanctifies and the one 

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who is being I'm Sanctified in 
verse 12 and 13, the preachers. 

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Like, I ending it with here, I 
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God gave me like, God, is 
Sovereign in the keeping of 

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Sinners, he will create this new
family, he wants, abandon his 

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church, his people. and if this 
is true, then we should not 

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abandon God's people, either. 
As I was reading through this 

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and meditating on this, I was 
convicted about the way in which

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I often view the church with 
such cynicism and don't get me 

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wrong. 
The church absolutely has her 

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flaws. 
And y'all know that we have no 

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issue, calling out hypocrisy, 
legalism and Justice abuse, we 

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will call that out. 
We should absolutely check 

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ourselves. 
And make sure the kingdom were 

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building is God's kingdom. 
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We always want to be aware of 
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We say, all the time, if we're 
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us as a church. 
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is dependent on the spirit is 
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restoring work in the world. 
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by the spirit of God, we could 
have a hope filled god-honoring,

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vision of the church Jesus Will 
sanctify her purify, her woo her

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winner unto himself. 
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father Jesus says, brother it 
breaks forth not only in my 

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relationship with God but also 
in Into the way I treat my 

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brothers and sisters in Christ 
that I do life with. 

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How often do I find myself 
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others? 
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Or the impatience? 
When those people just don't get

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it like I do, right? 
If they just had the same 

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theological leaning I did or 
they just you know understood 

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this singular issue over here. 
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then we would all be better. 
Do we really view each other and

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even ourselves as brothers and 
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claim his fellow Saints, whom 
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purposes, because if we want 
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we're saying is that, that's the
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ones that have it figured out 
and the rat reality is, that's 

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none of us. 
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that we have a bunch of jacked 
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People here, just radically 
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And this isn't easy, it'll 
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forbearance and longsuffering 
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us. 
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reality is being a part of a 
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Like there's the romanticize, 
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might portray and see on social 
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require sacrifice and pain. 
There is a death to oneself and 

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one's own desires. 
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There is a surrender and a 
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There are pains and griefs and 
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We are called to be patient and 
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words. 
Bear one another's burdens. 

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I think sometimes we envision 
that like you know going to help

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somebody carry in the groceries 
on a nice sunny. 

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Beautiful spring day. 
I'm bear one another's burdens. 

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Hey, the reality is this much 
more like picking up a wounded 

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soldier crawling through muck 
and mud through dangerous miles 

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of territory to get them, the 
help they need at the risk of 

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your own life. 
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God, route will require 
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members, but here's the thing. 
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And it's also a hope-filled 
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it is God's work, it is not 
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The person sitting next to you 
because good luck. 

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You can't even sanctify 
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This is all about Jesus going 
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And here's what I want you to 
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bit of the weight of that. 
But Jesus does not call us to 

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the sacrifice of engaging with 
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Without first going before us 
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sons and daughters brought to 
Glory, but this would not happen

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and could not happen without 
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Jesus creates a new family, 
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Look at verse 10 again. 
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appropriate that God for whom 
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exist should make the pioneer of
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Perfect through sufferings. 
Here Jesus is referred to as the

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pioneer of our Salvation. 
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of different ways, the source, 
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the captain it has this. 
This holistic idea of one who 

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goes before who starts it and 
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Last yesterday. 
Well, when the wind came a few 

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weeks ago, at blew our trash. 
Can we watch the just pick it up

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and blow it in this open field 
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And so yesterday, I was going to
try to find it and we have a new

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one coming from Decatur 
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let's go find this one. 
We can have three trash cans now

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even better less taking it out 
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So I'm going to find this and 
there's like a bunch of like 

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really tall thorns and so I have
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these trees, but the trashcan 
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like, all right, let's go. 
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I'm just like plowing, you know,
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these thorns and just clearing 
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So I can just step and like like
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sin and Brokenness and pain and 
it is Jesus going before and 

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clearing the way taking the 
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He leads not in the way. 
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captain he leads by suffering. 
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that he was not perfect and the 
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it is saying this word, perfect 
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order for the saving work of 
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finished, he would have to 
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He couldn't avoid it and go 
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He walked right into it. 
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family requires sacrifice. 
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needy family members than you 
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He did not keep his distance. 
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He knew it would require 
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the flesh for him to bring many 
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It required him first leaving. 
Lori. 

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And he was willing to do, so, 
because he loved you and me as 

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his brothers and sisters and 
he's like, I'm not leaving them.

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We were the ones distant. 
We were the ones as we saw last 

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week who had rejected our 
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Good gifts, chose our own path, 
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ultimately broke God's heart. 
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the story, who squanders 
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them an inheritance and he takes
in a says I'm going off to a 

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distant country to try to find 
satisfaction apart from you 

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happiness and pleasure looking 
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But unlike the story of The 
Prodigal Son, where you have an 

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older brother, who stays back 
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avoid the mess. 
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father's home. 
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the mud and the muck, and the 
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own mess. 
Jesus meets us there because he 

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loves us. 
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meant death. 
He knew for, to become a human 

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to bring us to Glory. 
He would have to first walk 

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through death. 
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24, he said it was foretold by 
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was all along. 
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It was necessary. 
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suffer on the pathway to Glory, 
but he was still willing to be 

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forsaken by his own father so 
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sons and daughters. 
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Because Jesus becomes sin, like 
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scripture, he becomes sin. 
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completely set apart from the 
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But this is so that we might 
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Christ completely set apart to 
the father Even though we were 

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his enemies children of Wrath is
the language that we hear 

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children of Wrath but he loves 
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even while we were still 
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He endures the shame so that we 
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family of God. 
Shame free. 

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That doesn't happen in Earthly 
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If you've been estranged and you
come back home, there's a period

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of shame that might hang over 
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family of God. 
He absorbs all the evil and the 

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Injustice and the sin onto his 
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And in doing, so he is cut off, 
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In verse 12, there is a quote 
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It says I will Proclaim your 
name to my brothers and sisters 

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you heard it read earlier. 
It's a beautiful familial 

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picture, the people of God, 
praising together in the 

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assembly Jesus as our brother. 
But if you read this Psalm, and 

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when the New Testament, writers 
quote, Psalms they know you're 

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going to have the context and 
you should go look at the 

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context if you read the psalm 
before that, all of Psalm, 22 is

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cries of Agony and distress and 
grief and the song starts, it's 

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the same one that Jesus quotes 
on the cross. 

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And it starts by him saying, my 
God, my God, why have you 

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forsaken me? 
This was the moment that Jesus 

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dreaded when he begged for the 
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This was The Darkest Hour of 
history and the song starts 

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there. 
My God, my God. 

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Why have you forsaken me? 
Then it's just this Deep Cries 

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for help and deliverance. 
My bones are broken and like all

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this just begging and the song 
reaches its darkest and the poem

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Christ out for salvation, look 
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22. 
He says save me from the lion's 

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mouth from the horns of wild 
oxen. 

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So it just builds up to this 
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it says you answered me. and 
then, He says, I will Proclaim 

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your name to my brothers and 
sisters. 

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I will praise you in the 
assembly. 

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See, even though Jesus was 
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not ultimately left alone. 
Jesus is cries for deliverance 

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for answered on Resurrection 
morning and the trust that he 

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put in his father was validated 
when the stone is rolled away 

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and he got back up out of the 
grave and accomplished salvation

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for all. 
And he's not alone, he's 

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bringing many sons and daughters
to Glory. 

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This is the work. 
He's doing for our good and for 

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his glory Jesus creates a new 
family through his suffering for

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the good of his siblings and the
glory of God. 

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Jesus comes through suffering 
into Resurrection glory and he 

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brings us with them. 
God hears, the cries of those 

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calling out for help and this is
the offer to trust, not in your 

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own work. 
So your own devices but to 

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Simply believe in the Life, 
Death burial and resurrection of

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Jesus. 
And when this happens, we are 

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immediately made family, no 
matter your social status, no 

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matter What you've done, no 
matter your Earthly, status of 

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family, you are welcomed in. 
You have hope once in. 

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Mm, he's now Sons and Daughters 
of God and brothers and sisters 

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to Jesus. 
And again it's not an 

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embarrassing thing that this kid
finally come home. 

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Then I'm a little of embarrassed
us of the life. 

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He's lived know like the father 
is sitting on the porch just 

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waiting. 
For you and he is a static to 

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welcome you home. 
He's the one that says let's get

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the frickin party started. 
Let's start the celebration, 

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invite all the friends, get the 
music going, and we're going to 

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dance. 
Because he loves us. 

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And the Beautiful Thing is 
unlike the story of The 

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Prodigal, where the older 
brother is angry and 

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self-righteous and stands off in
the distance. 

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As I've done all these things, 
I've served you. 

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I've saved faithful and now look
what you're giving them. 

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I deserve that. 
That is not Jesus. 

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He is at the center of the Dance
Floor, partying with us because 

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he's just glad we're in his 
presence. 

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This is what he prayed in John 
17. 

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I, and you and the father in me,
and I saw all together, 

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father-son spirit, and US 
invited into that Union. 

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It's crazy. 
But that's what Jesus does. 

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I love it hit. 
There is no shame at all at the 

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end of our text. 
He says here I am with the 

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children. 
God gave me. 

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I love the boldness. 
Here we are. 

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Let's go like flashing neon 
sign. 

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Here I am. 
Jesus will not lose any of the 

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children that the father has 
given him and he rejoices in our

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reunions are returned home. 
And this is the good news. 

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You have a home, no matter what 
you've done, no matter your 

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past, no matter who's abandoned 
you in the past in Christ you 

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now have a secure place and if 
you've got that in your life you

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know how grateful you are for a 
place, you can just come home 

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and rest, you have that in 
Christ and he's preparing a 

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place when that's realized for 
you that's perfect. 

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Just like you like it, it will 
be incredible, you know, that's 

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what we're told in Hebrews. 
Later, he says, God is not 

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ashamed to be called our God. 
So similar language, and he 

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says, because he's preparing for
us, an eternal City, whose 

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Builder and maker is God like 
this. 

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This is the Eternal. 
Heavenly new heaven, new Earth, 

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the New Jerusalem where we will 
dwell together as a diverse 

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family made up of every tribe, 
tongue and nation and I love it 

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because this is what I love 
about the family of God. 

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It is not just this Mayberry 
picture of family. 

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That ignores the reality of 
suffering and pain in the world.

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The scriptures don't do that. 
God acknowledges the Brokenness,

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both in your own heart, and 
around you. 

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The hurt that you faced, and he 
deals with all of it 

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holistically. 
That's what you read in 

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Revelation, no more sin, No More
Tears, no more pain, no more 

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grief, no more sin in our 
hearts, no more Injustice in the

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world. 
It is the beautiful family of 

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God and God says, I will dwell 
with them. 

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They will be my people, the one 
who conquers will be my son and 

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the way we conquer is through 
Christ Alone. 

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God is the ultimate protective. 
Dad, he deals with all pain and 

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evil, like the vision, the gates
of the city are always open, you

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know what that means. 
There's no danger, there's no 

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locking doors and eternal 
kingdom of God, there's no fear 

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of harm or evil Perfect Harmony,
no more fighting with our 

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siblings. 
No more, mass shootings, no more

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00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,000
unjust killings, no more 
mothers, losing their sons and 

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having to worry about their 
safety, no, more hatred and 

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strife. 
If because our older brother 

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deals with it, all in a cast, it
all outside the kingdom, no more

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temptation of sin, it's gone and
that Future Vision that got 

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started on the cross. 
The Resurrection the work is 

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completed then we live in the 
already not yet like there's 

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it's true but then we're waiting
for the consummation and 

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realization of it that breaks 
forth into the presence and we 

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can actually begin to experience
this now. 

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Psalm 27 says, even if your 
father and mother abandon you, 

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the Lord will care for you. 
This is what the church is, to 

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be. 
We're nothing special, but we 

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are to be a place to those who 
are lonely. 

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A place of healing for the 
hurting full of spiritual, 

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00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,000
fathers and mothers, and 
brothers, and sisters, and Sons,

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and Daughters who love each 
other. 

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Not only in spite of their 
differences, but we actually see

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our differences as a gift to 
more fully display, the glory of

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God. 
But here's the thing, I can call

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us to this. 
We can talk about it as a good 

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idea, right? 
Like your boss at work that 

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00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,900
like, we're a family. 
You're like, no, I'm just 

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00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:26,300
clocking in and clocking out. 
Like I hope I get along with you

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00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:30,600
guys, but let's be real. 
Like, this isn't a family that's

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not that. 
Like like that's all it is. 

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If we don't have the very spirit
of God Among Us changing our 

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hearts, But with Jesus with him 
pioneering going before us, this

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vision of the new family is 
actually possible. 

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Jesus can change our hearts. 
We can forgive like Christ. 

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Forgave us. 
We can bear one another's 

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00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,800
burdens like Christ. 
The boar ours, we can weep with 

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00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:05,500
those that weep like Christ wept
with us. recently at a church 

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that we're close to in Madison, 
there was a tragedy, a young 

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00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,300
man, he was in 9th grade and he 
tragically lost his life. 

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It's just a few weeks ago, as 
you can imagine. 

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00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:24,200
It was devastating for the 
church Community, but also, 

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especially for the parents. 
And, and I share this because, 

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during the young man celebration
of life, the young man's mom, 

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got up and publicly with great 
courage, said she wanted to 

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speak and I wanted to take a 
moment and just kind of 

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summarize her words for you 
because I think they exemplify a

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small microcosm of what the new 
family of God. can be in the 

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here and the now, So, through 
tears. 

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Through grief, this is what she 
said. 

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00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,000
She said, God has been very 
faithful to us. 

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And when I say that, I don't 
mean that he gave us the answers

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to the prayers, the way that we 
wanted them. 

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But he answered us through the 
presence of his church. 

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This church was started when a 
small group of people said, we 

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want to be a part of a place 
where people can be a mess. 

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00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:21,500
People can be needy and we're 
going to show up for it all. 

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When Jesus was questioned by the
Pharisees about why. 

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He hung out with what they 
considered scum. 

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00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,100
He said healthy people. 
Don't need a doctor Sick people 

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00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:35,400
do. 
I have not come to those who 

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00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,500
think they are righteous, but 
those who know that they are 

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sinners. 
This is the church. 

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00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:47,500
God intended, preaching, the 
gospel, and being willing to be 

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vulnerable. 
We need each other. 

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00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:53,600
No one gets through this life on
harmed. 

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00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,600
No one is going to do it 
perfectly and there's going to 

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00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,800
be hurt, but we cannot do life 
in this broken world without 

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00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,500
community. 
The local church, the body of 

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00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:07,500
Christ is how God demonstrates 
his goodness and faithfulness to

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00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:10,600
us. 
He promises never to leave us 

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and he does that through the 
hands and feet of believers. 

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And as I watched her, share 
this, in a moment of great pain 

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00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:25,800
and grief. 
I found myself joining her in 

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00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,000
her tears. 
Because this is what true family

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00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,100
is. 
It's suffering, but it's also 

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glorious. 
Jesus working through the 

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ordinary average means. 
Of his people. 

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We need you. 
You have a role to play like it.

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00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:48,600
You might think you don't but 
you have a role to play. 

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00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:52,900
And it's not for our own Glory, 
so that happen because we feel 

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00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,900
guilty. 
Let me, let me sign up because 

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00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:56,400
they said they needed people in 
kids. 

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00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,600
I better just do it. 
Let me just do this or I feel 

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bad. 
Like this is like an overflow of

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00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:08,600
the, the Magnificent glory of 
the work of Christ that he has 

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already accomplished. 
This, he has made us family. 

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And so we live out of that as 
members of God's household 

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00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,100
displaying his multifaceted. 
Wisdom to the rulers and 

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00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:22,600
authorities in heaven, empowered
by the spirit through us. 

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00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,200
And this is my prayer for new 
Eden. 

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That we can be a place for the 
hurting. 

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The broken, the lonely, those 
who don't have a family. 

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And as we Gaze on and believe 
the good news of the Gospel as 

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we reflect on that, and that 
sinks down into our hearts, that

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Jesus is not ashamed to be 
called our brother. 

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Then we can begin caring for 
each other. 

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00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:53,500
Not because we're like family, 
but because it's actually, who 

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00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:38,500
Jesus has made us to be And as 
we Gaze on and believe the good 

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00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:42,500
news of the Gospel as we reflect
on that, and that sinks down 

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00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:44,700
into our hearts, that Jesus is 
not ashamed to be called our 

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00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:47,800
brother. 
Then we can begin caring for 

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each other. 
Not because we're like family, 

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but because it's actually, who 
Jesus has made us to be