1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,560 All right, welcome back. If you're watching online, glad 2 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:07,680 that you are here with us and we want to invite you to come and 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,120 be with us in person. Come and worship with us at 115 4 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:13,560 E Main St. in the heart of Gaylord. 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,960 It's kind of the old historic part 9 and 1030 are services. 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:19,240 So we look forward to seeing you. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,480 So this morning we're going to do something very different. 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,040 And this morning we're I want to talk to you, oddly enough, about 9 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,640 CS Lewis, which might seem like CS who? 10 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:31,720 CS who? How many of you have heard of CS 11 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,440 Lewis? Wave at me if you have, if 12 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,920 you've never heard of CS Lewis, wave at me too, right. 13 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:37,640 If you haven't, OK, Some of you haven't. 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,880 OK, Very good. OK, I'm excited then to tell you 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,080 about CS Lewis, CS Lewis. OK. 16 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,600 And so this is different than most weeks, but the reason we're 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,400 doing this is because many in our church band this past 18 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,240 weekend on Friday night did a concert at the Great Lakes 19 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,720 Performing Arts Center as the CS Lewis Festival house band. 20 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,760 And there was ACS Lewis Festival that happened Friday night and 21 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,000 then all day Saturday that we got to be part of. 22 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,640 And my daughter Gabby came in from Minnesota. 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,280 Her and I are like Narnia nerds. We call ourselves and. 24 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,040 And so it was really fun and. Then there was me. 25 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,040 And then, OK, so watch this, Jason's gonna tell you this is 26 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,520 like her love language to me is going to the Lewis Festival with 27 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,360 the year after year. My life for somebody I love. 28 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,160 But here's what happened. So I'm going the first week and 29 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,560 I really love the people there. Like the people are great, OK? 30 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,320 It's just the subject. That's a hard thing. 31 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:30,840 People come in from all over the world. 32 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,000 They fly in from around the country to sit it for a couple 33 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,920 days and talk about the writings of CS Lewis. 34 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,800 I love it. She loves that I love it. 35 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,720 And I love the people. And you love the people, the 36 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,760 first song we're going to do. How many of you are familiar 37 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,080 with the Narnia story? Right. 38 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,600 OK, if you haven't read it to your kids, parents, read Narnia 39 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,240 to your children. It's so profoundly beautiful, 40 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,120 and I'm grateful that I got to read it to my kids and 41 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,800 particularly my daughter, who's 22, Gabby, who came in from 42 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,680 northern Minnesota and was here for the festival. 43 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,280 It's so sweet. I'd been wanting to write a song 44 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,920 for some time based on the story that happened with her when she 45 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,039 was just like 5 and I was about to read her the story. 46 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:11,960 I had a friend say, whatever you do, don't ruin the story by 47 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,360 saying, Gabby, did you know that Aslan is Jesus? 48 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,120 You know, don't tell them. Let them come to the revelation 49 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,080 themselves. Just let them discover it. 50 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,400 And when they discover it, it will be the most beautiful 51 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,640 moment. So I remember just reading it 52 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:29,400 and holding my tongue and not giving her the the the ending 53 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,200 right, so to speak. I just let her find it. 54 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,880 And so one night I was reading to her and out of nowhere, she's 55 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:41,120 like Daddy, Daddy. I know him. 56 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,760 Daddy. The lion's like Jesus and I was 57 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,600 like, yes. And the fact that she discovered 58 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,320 it herself and then it was so profoundly wonderful. 59 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,800 So the the, the, the picture that Lewis paints of Jesus in 60 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:04,200 the Narnia stories, Aslan being not an allegory like, you know, 61 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,160 line upon line and precept upon precept. 62 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,080 But Lewis said he wrote it to be like, suppose Jesus was like a 63 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,360 lion, what would he be like? And so it's so beautiful. 64 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,720 So this is song is intended to be like a story of me reading 65 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,600 the Gabby and her asking me to read to her and how she 66 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:45,840 responds. Take me to Narnia. 67 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:54,840 Just one more page. I'll try to stay awake. 68 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:07,600 Take. Take me to Darnia, the book with 69 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,480 the wardrobe. Come on, let's go. 70 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,800 Went. Tell me of your seat. 71 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,000 She opened the door. She climbed through the coats, 72 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,640 went in to explore. And then tell me your veteran. 73 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:34,800 Sadly, the Brat Circus Delight took him down the wrong path. 74 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:46,480 Take, take me to the army. Just one more place. 75 00:04:48,840 --> 00:05:00,000 I'll try to stay away. Take, take me to the army. 76 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:13,840 Hold the book with the wardrobe. Come on, let's go and sell me of 77 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:15,800 Susan. The motherly. 78 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,680 Soul, the voice of caution though brave with her bow. 79 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:27,480 Then selling of Peter King Magnificent, the oldest of the 80 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,360 siblings, with his sword so courageous. 81 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:46,440 Say take me to Narnia. It's just one more page. 82 00:05:47,920 --> 00:06:02,040 I'll try to stay away. Say, take me to Narnia for the 83 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,000 book with the wardrobe. Come on. 84 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:13,760 Let us go. Oh, and poor Mr. Thomas. 85 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,240 Was. Scarfing with tea, terribly used 86 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,880 and then tricked by the Queen in the wound. 87 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,480 And Beavers, the Pavenzi's perfect guide who helped find 88 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:32,880 the lion who's day dressing lime day. 89 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:42,680 Take me to Narnia. Just one more page. 90 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:55,880 I'll try to stay away. Say take me to Narnia. 91 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:04,640 Hold the book with the wardrobe. Come on, let's go. 92 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:18,200 And all the wicked Jesus they call her White Witch made it 93 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,480 always winter and Merry Christmas. 94 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,720 Really famous line in the Narnia story where the kids are asking. 95 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:41,120 About. Aslan and they say, is he safe? 96 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:48,360 And the answer is he isn't safe. No, he's not safe, but he's 97 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,480 good. The idea is that like if you're 98 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,520 looking for safe, don't look for it in Jesus, right? 99 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,600 Jesus isn't safe, but he's good. So this is Aslan's verse. 100 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:08,080 Tell me of Aslan. He's not safe, but he's good. 101 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:15,680 From Floyd. He made everything just by 102 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:22,720 roaring a tomb. Gave his life on the table. 103 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:31,840 Then he cracked it half. Then he broke the deep magic, 104 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,960 the Kuwait. The witches cry. 105 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:49,880 Say take me to Nah here. Oh, just one more thing. 106 00:08:52,400 --> 00:09:03,520 I'll try to stay away. Say, take me to Narnia. 107 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,600 Yeah, the book with the wardrobe. 108 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:27,200 Come on, let's go. I wisely never told her it was 109 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:37,240 so earth wait when she stopped me from reading. 110 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:47,520 She. Had something to say, she said. 111 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:52,560 Daddy, I know him. I get it. 112 00:09:52,960 --> 00:10:06,560 I see the lions like Jesus. He's like Jesus to me. 113 00:10:26,650 --> 00:10:33,280 I'm grateful I suck my little girl the Narnia. 114 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:41,880 Oh every single page. I'm glad I stayed awake. 115 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:51,240 I'm grateful lights hurt my little girl to Narnia. 116 00:10:53,400 --> 00:11:00,320 Oh, the book with the wardrobe. It was so worth to go. 117 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,360 OK, So what I want to do part of this morning is I want to, I 118 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:47,920 want to like inspire you to go and watch YouTube, do a Google 119 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,080 search, do whatever you wherever you find your information, use 120 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,320 chat G whatever. And and in start, I would 121 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,400 encourage you get to know the writings of CS Lewis. 122 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:02,320 So you need to know this. CS Lewis born in 1898 and became 123 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,040 a an atheist at a young age because of the death of his 124 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,440 mother and World War One was very troubling to him. 125 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,200 And so here he kind of grown up in the tradition of 126 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,000 Christianity, but he walks away from his faith, becomes a very 127 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,760 staunch, hard nosed atheist, highly educated. 128 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,520 He's teaching at Oxford and Cambridge as a young man. 129 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,360 And then in 19, I had it in my notes, but it's like 19, let's 130 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,760 say 36 or so, 1936 within a couple years of each other. 131 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,400 He, he becomes, in fact, I want to give in 1930. 132 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,600 He accepts that God is there. He becomes a theist. 133 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,040 And maybe, you know, people that are theists, in other words, 134 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,240 they, they believe that there's a God out there, but he can't be 135 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:38,680 known. But I guess there's a God 136 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,920 because philosophically, the world does not add up without a 137 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,640 God. So his first step in leaving is 138 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,600 atheism is like, OK, I guess there's a God. 139 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,000 I can accept that. He becomes a theist. 140 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,560 You know, people that are theists, they know they're like, 141 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,000 OK, I guess there's a God, but they're not submitted or 142 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,880 surrendered to Jesus. And you can't have a discussion 143 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,600 with them if they don't believe the Bible to prove the Bible. 144 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,960 You can't use the Bible to prove the Bible if they don't believe 145 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,080 the Bible. And so some of you you're trying 146 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,880 to witness to people and say you need to Jesus is real. 147 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,120 Look, John says this and certainly the Bible is amazing 148 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,960 and astounding and and inspiring, yes, but if someone 149 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,240 is staunchly opposed to the Bible being true, then you can't 150 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,480 start there right. So Lewis, what he, what he did 151 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:26,920 is he started in, he started it philosophically to say, listen, 152 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,520 I admit there's no, there can't be all of this without Aegon. 153 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,520 So in 1930 he becomes a theist, but then in 1931 he converts to 154 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,120 Christianity and he comes to see Jesus as truth and true. 155 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:39,960 And there's a movie that you can watch right now. 156 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,480 It's either on Netflix or Prime, Amazon Prime, whatever it is, 157 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,960 it's called the most reluctant convert. 158 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:46,800 Think about that. The most reluctant. 159 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,920 He believed that he was the furthest from God. 160 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,880 He was the last person that would ever come to Jesus. 161 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,360 The most reluctant convert. He said this. 162 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,200 He later described this moment of his conversion as being the 163 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,080 most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England. 164 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,680 He thought he was the last one that would ever believe. 165 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,760 And yet he becomes one of the most greatest apologists of the 166 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:10,280 last century, building the truth and and saying, listen, Jesus is 167 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,720 real, God is real. And he builds it upon this 168 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,280 philosophical background. OK. 169 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,760 And so in 19 during World War 2, he's doing these radio 170 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,200 broadcasts in England from London while the Germans are 171 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,040 bombing England and the Nazis are bombing. 172 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,160 And so so he is doing these radio broadcasts that become 173 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,000 this book called Mere Christianity. 174 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,160 If you've never read read it, it's a great book. 175 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,640 You can go listen to it on YouTube. 176 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,520 Just go somebody it will read it to you on YouTube, right? 177 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,000 If you don't enjoy reading, just listen to it on your way to work 178 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,320 for a little while, right? And it's but it's a great way to 179 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,480 get some ideas on how to present the truth of God, the gospel to 180 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,600 your friends that are atheists or theists. 181 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:49,840 And it's from a philosophical viewpoint. 182 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,360 And some of his arguments are so beautiful and so profound. 183 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,400 So I want to just kind of whet your appetite for it. 184 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,040 Go and and maybe listen to me or Christian or even give a 185 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,240 summary. You could go to like chat GB 186 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,160 whatever and say give me a summary of Mere Christianity and 187 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:04,520 they will give you. Want to do that? 188 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:06,200 There you go. Just a summary is good you go. 189 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,720 Yes, there you go. So so he writes that and so 190 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,480 watch this. So then he I'll tell you about 191 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,560 in fact, I'll tell you he gets married at later in life, like 192 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,000 in 1956. OK, I'll tell you about his 193 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,120 marriage to Joy when we get to the song Help me to believe. 194 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,120 OK, but for the sake of this, where we are is that watch this 195 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,920 for Lewis, who was a he was an unbeliever, he was an atheist. 196 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,520 He gets the point. He's like God created everything 197 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:31,800 and watch this. He said this. 198 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,840 He said it's in your notes. He said no philosophical theory, 199 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,520 which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the 200 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,880 words of Genesis. Genesis one one that says in the 201 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,240 beginning God made the heavens and the earth. 202 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,000 He's like, there's no better explanation for what is around 203 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,440 us than that. So watch this if you're if 204 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,200 you're witnessing to your. That studied it, right? 205 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:57,040 This is somebody who studied profusely like on what evolution 206 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,640 explanation is dead. He exhausted every other 207 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,280 possible possible explanation for what is here. 208 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,760 And he says after all of his education, all of his 209 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,440 philosophies, and he's like, really the what? 210 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,080 What makes better sense for this around us than Genesis? 211 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,880 Fun one in the beginning, God made the heavens in the earth. 212 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,400 So you might be around some folks that are they believe in 213 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:18,400 evolution. They're atheist. 214 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,120 Like, OK, here's what I here's where I start philosophically. 215 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,120 Give me something better. And there's so many holes in 216 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:25,920 evolution and other explanations. 217 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,240 So Lewis gets to the point. He's like, there's no 218 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,800 philosophical better explanation for what's around us. 219 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:32,520 So he believed that God was a great creator. 220 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,200 And in the halls that he walked in at Cambridge and Oxford where 221 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,400 he taught, I'm sure people like really Lewis got to believe in 222 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,160 God creating everything, really. But he stood for it. 223 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,440 He wrote a lot about it, right. And then I won't read them all, 224 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,400 but they're in your notes. Go home. 225 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:45,960 And I would encourage you to read the other things that I 226 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,520 grabbed. He said because God created the 227 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,520 natural, invented it out of his love and artistry. 228 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:54,520 It demands our reverence. So from that I have a song 229 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,880 written called Great Creator. Here we go. 230 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:37,320 Great creator, you are God. Great creator you are awesome. 231 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:45,360 When I look around 6 progress away and I extend all they said 232 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,080 all you is faded, all you is faded. 233 00:17:51,040 --> 00:18:01,520 Great creator. You painted shows around the 234 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,840 oceans, gave life to the land and sea. 235 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,080 You touched the valleys and carved the. 236 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:14,080 Mountains that in your image created me. 237 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:20,600 Great creator you are God. Great Creator, you are awesome. 238 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:28,520 When I look around these, my breath, the way I stand amazed 239 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,160 at all your fate and all your fate. 240 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:43,880 Great Creator, Lord, you have created all things for your 241 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:50,280 fashion dancing. It's treasure most purity. 242 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:02,560 Great creator you are God, great creator you are awesome. 243 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:10,440 When I look around, takes my breath the way I send a Mason 244 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:17,520 All you made and all you made hell you made. 245 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:35,520 All. Right. 246 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:40,000 We're going to do. Until then, can I share a little 247 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:40,840 bit about this? Yeah, you can. 248 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,360 Sorry. Yeah, Kurt and I wrote this song 249 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,920 right when we got married, probably about 12 years ago. 250 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,240 It's called Until Then and it truly is one of my favorite 251 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,160 songs. I think we Co written together 252 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,440 and it talks about and you have some things to share about what 253 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,040 CS. Lewis said, you know, again, the 254 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,880 idea that Lewis was a atheist and now he believes in Christ 255 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,280 and he's like dealing, he's proclaiming God's the creator of 256 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,000 all things. And then watch this, he's 257 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,040 amongst people that don't believe in an afterlife, they 258 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,640 don't believe in heaven. They think it's silly. 259 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,160 And all of a sudden Lewis becomes this bold proclaimer of 260 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,320 there's life after this and we're intended to live with 261 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,360 Jesus for forever. And he writes a lot about it. 262 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,480 And watch this, but from a again, if you use Scripture to 263 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,440 prove that, but he used just this basic idea, it's a 264 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:28,360 philosophical idea, he says. If I find myself in myself a 265 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:33,880 desire which no experience in this world can satisfy the most 266 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,480 probable explanations that I was made for another world. 267 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,920 And he's talking about this in the context of heaven and the 268 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,720 afterlife. And he's just saying, hey, just 269 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,800 the fact that I have this desire and I feel like, man, I'm made 270 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,920 for something more. I'm made for like something in 271 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,400 another world. He's like, yeah, you are. 272 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:50,680 You're made for eternity with God. 273 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,280 That's what you're made for. It's a great starting point if 274 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,520 you're trying to explain Jesus. You can say to people, hey, that 275 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,680 feeling in that you have inside that there's more like you're 276 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,840 made for something that's like another world, like it's there 277 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,000 by design. God put it there because you're 278 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,480 made to experience them after all that you endure on this 279 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:37,880 life. One day all things will be made 280 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:46,280 new and I won't need daily forgiveness for the things that 281 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:55,320 I do. Someday all tears will be wiped 282 00:21:55,720 --> 00:22:04,760 away and my failures will be but a distant memories. 283 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,840 But. Until then, until then, I will 284 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:22,480 depend on your mercy every morning, every morning. 285 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,040 But. Until then, until then I will 286 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:34,600 live some my eyes to and then when my. 287 00:22:42,080 --> 00:23:04,400 Home comes from until they. One day your wrongs will be made 288 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:10,480 right. There'll be no more wars, no 289 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:20,000 taking of innocent lives. Someday, the hungry will have 290 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:26,040 their. They'll be healing for the 291 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,720 orphan, then the widow, and the hopelessly. 292 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:41,560 But until then, until then, I will depend on your mercy every 293 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:49,240 morning, every morning. And. 294 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:53,560 Until then, until then. I. 295 00:23:53,760 --> 00:24:00,800 Lived on my eyes too, and then when in my home comes. 296 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:26,440 From up to rain. The world, it's not here, but 297 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:32,280 it's meant to be. But soon as this darkness will 298 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:40,280 give way to the light of eternity, and there will be 299 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:53,840 heavenly, but until late. Until then I will depend on your 300 00:24:54,240 --> 00:25:00,760 mercy every morning, every morning. 301 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:11,000 And until then, until then, I will live from my house to then 302 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:20,160 where my home comes from, where my home. 303 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:36,720 'Cause unto them, Oh, hold us unto them, Oh, strengthen us 304 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:45,480 unto them, give mercy and grace unto them, unto them. 305 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,840 OK, so this one is set up. Let me set this up with you this 306 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:11,160 way so we can develop a habit of honoring God in the highs and in 307 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,320 the lows. And let me tell you to make 308 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,280 sense of what I mean by that, Lewis says, and his writing 309 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,880 letters to Malcolm. He said, we are at least I shall 310 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,080 not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have 311 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,800 learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. 312 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,040 He says at best our faith and reason will tell us that he is 313 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,480 adorable. God's adorable, but we shall not 314 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,480 have found him so by the. Way I never. 315 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,880 Made sense of that word. Adorable, right? 316 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,800 Like, did you guys know that that's what it means to adore 317 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,640 something Like I didn't know that. 318 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,760 Like I always thought it was like, you're so cutie patootsie 319 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,560 little pie thing. That's what I thought. 320 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,320 Anybody else with me? Because we go, oh, you're 321 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,920 adorable. Look at you're adorable. 322 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,760 Adorable, but like me, something is worth adoring. 323 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,280 Yeah, something worthy of adoring is adorable, right? 324 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:02,800 So you can find God adorable at best, but is that the depth that 325 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,360 we're looking for? So he says the best. 326 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,800 Our faith and reason will tell us that he is adorable, but we 327 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,440 should not have found him so not have tasted insane. 328 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,640 Any now watch this. This is so profound. 329 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,920 Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about 330 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,400 the sun which you could never get from reading books on 331 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,640 astronomy. So watch this. 332 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,680 Let's say you're deep in the Pigeon River Forest and it's 333 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,720 really dark and you're in a place of great state and all of 334 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,000 a sudden a little light shine saying like, oh, light, that's 335 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,440 light. Well, it's like you see it, you 336 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,800 feel it like now you could go read a book about astronomy. 337 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,160 The sun is out there and this is the physics of it, which I don't 338 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,520 understand. And this is the size of it. 339 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,000 It's like you don't really know the sun until you see it, even 340 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,840 if it's a little patch light coming through the trees. 341 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,880 So he's like that. Sometimes it may be all you'll 342 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,240 see of God is just a little ray of light coming through the 343 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,640 trees. But even that can lead you in 344 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,760 that place to like have deep, meaningful worship and adoration 345 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,120 of God. He said any patch of sunlight in 346 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,080 the wood will show you something about the sun which you could 347 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,080 never get from reading books on astronomy. 348 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,440 These pure and simple spontaneous pleasures are 349 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,080 patches of God light in the woods of our experience. 350 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,880 And then he said, let me see here. 351 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:10,680 Then he said it comes the very moment you wake up each morning, 352 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,840 all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild 353 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,040 animals. And the first job each morning 354 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,360 consists simply and shoving them all back and listening to that 355 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,120 other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that 356 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:25,360 other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. 357 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:28,040 He's talking about the life that comes in God and so on all day, 358 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,040 standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings 359 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:36,040 and coming out of the winds to find God in the heights and the 360 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:36,920 lows. It's like. 361 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,120 Yeah, talk to us in English. Yeah. 362 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,840 So, OK, so the idea is that is that if you, let's say you're 363 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,360 like, oh, I can worship God when everything's great, but he's 364 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,160 like, hey, wait a minute. If you'll learn to worship him 365 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,560 when it's just a little tiny ray of light, it's all you're 366 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,160 saying, just a little speck of light. 367 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,800 If you learn to worship him in that moment, then when the sun 368 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,600 is shining radiant on you, it will be more meaningful. 369 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,800 If you only worship him when the sun and the light of God is so 370 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,520 prevalent and so glorious, well, then you'll, you'll, you'll 371 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,400 never get to the real depth of worship. 372 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,600 That's a. Good word for winter. 373 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,440 Coming up, yes, it is a good word for winter. 374 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,480 It's like so. We need. 375 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,200 This. So the idea is it's like, OK, 376 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,680 when when you're anxious and you're like, it feels like all 377 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,200 hope is gone in that moment because oh God, things seem so 378 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,680 hopeless. I can barely see you. 379 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,840 God, where are you? And you finally like, OK, God, 380 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,360 even in this place where it's like man, very little light is 381 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,400 getting through, but God, I'm going to honor and worship. 382 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,400 I'm going to declare your goodness. 383 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,280 I'm going to declare your words. I'm going to find you. 384 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,280 I'm going to adore you. God, you are worthy of 385 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,360 adoration. I'm going to adore you. 386 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,320 Then watch this when the sun shines radiant again and all of 387 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,360 its glory, that worship on the heights, the highest places will 388 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,920 be even the more meaningful. Learning to have the habit of 389 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,160 worshiping God. When things are great, you're at 390 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,360 the heights of just beauty. And when you're at the most sad, 391 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,640 difficult, hopeless moment, you'll find that in that moment, 392 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,200 it might be the most meaningful worship that you'll ever have in 393 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,640 your. This is called learning to 394 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:26,120 adore. And the. 395 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,160 Anxious whisper. And the lost and restless night. 396 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:36,200 And when sunrise shouts look everyone there is light. 397 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,480 And in the humble moments when the heart just can't get still, 398 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,480 Then when beauty overwhelming is a winter restless vessels. 399 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,280 You want to know what I am learning? 400 00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:01,480 I am learning to adore God found in the highest, having found in 401 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,280 lost soul in the low, in the low. 402 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,160 It can become a habit, learning to adore. 403 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:15,080 Yeah, the lowest places will give them more of the meaning to 404 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,120 God. In the highest, the highest the 405 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:33,360 highest. Find the joy in small. 406 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:38,280 Things get that great. Joy get it strong when the 407 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:44,640 morning wakes us with the dark before the dawn just to be most 408 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:50,520 sunlight in a forest. Darkest shade adds A rhyming 409 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,920 reason over reason for our faith. 410 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,080 You want to know what I am learning how you're learning to 411 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:08,280 adore God found in the highest, having found him also in the 412 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,760 low. In the low. 413 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,480 And it can become a habit, learning to adore. 414 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:21,120 Yeah, the lowest places will give more of the meaning to God. 415 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,080 In the highest, the highest, the highest. 416 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:40,800 We'll do this all. See, there is such power and all 417 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,840 the spontaneous glimpses of our God who made us for adoration. 418 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,520 He made us for adoration. So in the surprising spaces and 419 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,840 in sweet and bitter tastes, we find balance between the 420 00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:02,200 majestic and the mundane, seeing moments painful and then in 421 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,080 others too pleasant to be explained. 422 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,800 Times of great grief and seasons of uncontainable things. 423 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:17,720 We know that his heart as it may seem and his heart as it may be. 424 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:29,200 I am learning to adore God found in the highest, having found him 425 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:34,880 also in the Lord and the low and he can become a habit. 426 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:41,560 The learning to Adobe Yeah, the lowest places will give more of 427 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,520 the meaning to God in the highest, the highest, the 428 00:33:45,520 --> 00:34:02,760 highest. All right. 429 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,960 We got one more song, guys. So, you know, usually I give you 430 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,960 like 2 or 4 pages of like notes with like lots and lots of 431 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,480 scripture. And this week maybe go to some 432 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,560 friends and say our pastor this last week, he's on with this guy 433 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,880 named CSI. Wish you ever heard of him. 434 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,159 He was an atheist and wow, he came to faith in Christ and you 435 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:23,239 know, he was at Cambridge and Oxford. 436 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,000 And so maybe it'll be a conversation starter for you. 437 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:28,560 We're going to end with this song called So Help Me God. 438 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,159 And it's based on this book that Lewis wrote after his wife Joy 439 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:35,480 dies. So his wife Joy, they're only 440 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,159 married just a few years. She dies three years after 441 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:40,480 they're married. And here he is like one of the 442 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,320 greatest Christian thinkers of the 20th century, so strong in 443 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,560 faith, writes the narniest stories. 444 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:51,040 He writes surprised by Joy, the screw tape letters, just all 445 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,400 these brilliant books, you know, that have his faith overflowing 446 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,320 in them. The four loves all these great, 447 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,080 great, great books, right. But then when his wife dies, he 448 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,080 has a crisis of faith. Any questions? 449 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,680 Is God really there? Which is shocking. 450 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,840 So I love to give the book a grief observed to people going 451 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,280 through grief. And it's a great book to see. 452 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,480 I mean, how did he get through it? 453 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,640 How did he work through it? And and watch this, what he says 454 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,240 in the midst of this great grief. 455 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:22,080 He says, this is so profound. He says not that I am, I think 456 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,680 in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. 457 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,800 The real danger is of coming to believe that such dreadful 458 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,440 things about him. He's like, I'm not worried I'll 459 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,120 stop believing that there's a God. 460 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,440 I'll believe there's a God. But what he's saying, what if I 461 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,160 get to the place where I believe dreadful, horrible things about? 462 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,320 God. What if I believe God isn't 463 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,880 good? Maybe God's mean, maybe God's 464 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,120 not loving. That's what he's wrestling 465 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,320 through. The conclusion I dread is not so 466 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,240 there's no God after all, but so this is what God's really like. 467 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,840 Deceive yourself no longer, Sam. What good surgeon would stop in 468 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,480 the middle of a surgery because it hurts right with with God. 469 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,320 So it's like sometimes in the middle of the hurt, God just 470 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,760 keeps going, just keeps operating. 471 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,600 If he yielded to our entreaties, in other words, if God hurt, if 472 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,080 God said when we go, it hurts God and God went, oh, OK, well, 473 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,600 I'll just stop then. If he stopped before the 474 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,560 operation was complete, of all the pain up to that, all the 475 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,640 pain up to that point would have been useless. 476 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,760 But is it credible that such extremities of torture should be 477 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,680 necessary sometimes for us? Wow. 478 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,240 I wanted an idea. Sometimes life just brings 479 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:35,920 things that are so hard to get through. 480 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,880 And that's what he's saying about his wife, Joy. 481 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,160 I'll let you read what else he said there. 482 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,840 But so the idea of this song is that we wrote. 483 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,440 It's based on his idea. It's like, sometimes it's like, 484 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,320 God, I need you to help me to believe that. 485 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,360 I don't want to just end up believing that you're there. 486 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,880 I want to believe in your goodness, so help me God. 487 00:36:54,880 --> 00:37:01,440 Help me, God, not just to believe, but to believe in who 488 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,680 you really are. God help me to see it. 489 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,920 And my prayer, God, is that the challenges of life won't 490 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,400 diminish our view of who you are. 491 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:14,720 Holy, good, merciful, gracious, loving, help us to continue to 492 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:20,200 see it. One 1. 2/3. 493 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,120 I'm going to sing this as if I'm CS Lewis, OK? 494 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,800 So you can kind of hear him to maybe with these ideas. 495 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:39,760 I'm not. Given to be cheated, I've grown 496 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:46,280 to be a man of faith. I dealt without the use and I 497 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:53,640 was steadied out of the state. But here I am in crisis, the 498 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:58,000 world in this reign. Everything I've. 499 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,960 Grown to know. Is being. 500 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,920 Challenged by this fake. And I'll fear. 501 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,280 I don't worry that I can cease to believe. 502 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:16,760 In the fog I sensed a danger. I admit I'm wrestling. 503 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:25,440 I fear I might come to believe him. 504 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:30,600 Dreadful. Losing sight of what he's like. 505 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:38,040 So help me God. Oh, not just to believe. 506 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,000 I want to hold fast. To meet old fast. 507 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,760 See, you are good. Yeah, you were good. 508 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:52,360 So help me God. I'm not just to believe. 509 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:56,400 I want to hold fast. Tell me to hold fast. 510 00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,960 See, you are good. Yeah, you were good. 511 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:20,440 In the midst of all this anguish, I'm so convinced that 512 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:26,200 God is there. I'm hanging on to hope and I'm 513 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:32,120 still calling him Creator. The storm and lost in grief. 514 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:40,080 This trial, it has me best. It will not last forever, and I 515 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:48,040 won't always fight for rest. I'll fear our fear that I could 516 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:53,440 cease to believe. As soon as that's the danger, 517 00:39:53,840 --> 00:40:04,080 I'll admit our wrestling or fear I I might come to believe him 518 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:11,520 dreadfully. Insight of what he's like so 519 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:18,800 help me God oh that is to be the I want to hold fast. 520 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:24,320 I'll be the whole fast. You are good yeah, you're good. 521 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:31,760 So help me God. Oh that is to be the I want to 522 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,200 hold fast. I'll be the whole fast. 523 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:36,880 See. You are good. 524 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:54,720 Yeah, you are good. 525 00:40:54,720 --> 00:41:02,360 I'm not forsaken. I am not feeling when I'm 526 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:21,920 afraid. When I'm afraid and I pray, so 527 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:27,760 help me God. Oh, not just to believe, I want 528 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,840 to go fast. So be the wolf fast. 529 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,800 So you are good and you are good. 530 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:39,880 So help me God. That is to believe. 531 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:46,320 I want to hold fast. So you are good and you are 532 00:41:46,320 --> 00:42:09,200 good. The church will sing this 533 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:14,920 together all my life. Cause all my life you have been 534 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:22,160 faithful. It's all my life you have been 535 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:30,120 so so good. With every breath I am able 536 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,600 guess I will sing of the goodness. 537 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,480 My life, Here we go. Ready. 538 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:50,440 So my life, you have been faithful, you know my life, you 539 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:58,680 have been so, so good with every breath that I am. 540 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,040 Able. Oh, I will see of the goodness 541 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:12,600 of God. Oh, I will see of the goodness 542 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,440 of God. Amen. 543 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:21,920 You mean, let's all stand together. 544 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,440 I encourage you to go and try to start some conversations with 545 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,080 some people about what you've learned today. 546 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,600 Maybe this would be a great starting point for some of the 547 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,800 people you work with or some people in your family. 548 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,760 Hey, did you know about this, this atheist, this guy who had 549 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,920 no faith in Jesus? And wow, he came around and look 550 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,880 where he ended up. And it was it's JRR Tolkien, 551 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,360 right? Who I don't know if you know the 552 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,320 the guy who could witness to to Lewis was the guy who wrote The 553 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,760 Lord of the Rings. Did you know that? 554 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,080 How about that interesting part of his story? 555 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:03,280 You might be like a Tolkien type in someone's life. 556 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,280 Before you go, I want to send you out with a blessing if 557 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,320 you'll prepare your heart to receive this blessing. 558 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:24,200 And now may the Lord bless you and keep you, and may he make 559 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:30,680 his face to shine upon you. And may the joy of the Lord that 560 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:37,000 is unspeakable and full of glory made abound to you. 561 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:44,280 And may the peace God, the past is all understanding may 562 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:48,120 surprise you in the midst of all of the challenges and 563 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,320 disappointments that life brings. 564 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,240 And then may the mercies of the Lord, in other words, the 565 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:57,160 forgiveness of God that is new every morning. 566 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:02,120 May it be especially new to you now and your mornings to come. 567 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,480 And now may the Lord Jesus Christ guard your heart and your 568 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,160 mind. You were salt and you were 569 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:14,160 light. Go now and be salt and light, 570 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,720 and to the world. You are blessed. 571 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,520 We'll see you again sometime soon.