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Sharing your original moment, I 
have a question for you. 

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Why do people climb mountains? 
Is it just to reach the top and 

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see the view? 
Well, I'll tell you something. 

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Every rock and every river, 
every sore and every splinter, I

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would climb every mountain with 
you. 

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Isn't that sweet? 
But it's not mine. 

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It's top house band. 
And it's the very words that 

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Nathaniel and Jenny came down 
the aisle with these words. 

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Why do people climb mountains? 
I don't know if you've ever been

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halfway up a mountain and 
wondered why am I climbing this 

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mountain? 
As you huffed and you puffed, 

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someone here was doing the 
grouse grind this past week for 

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the first time. 
Yes, Michael, how'd it go? 

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At any point did you ask 
yourself, why am I climbing this

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mountain? 
Can I finish it? 

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Can I get it done? 
Do you know, that's very much a 

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question for us? 
It's a question for us in terms 

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of why do people talk about 
Jesus with those who don't know 

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Jesus? 
Why do we seek, why does the 

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church seek to do that thing 
called evangelism to talk about 

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Jesus with those who don't know 
Jesus? 

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Why would we climb that mountain
of unbelief? 

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Why would we climb that mountain
of terrible awkwardness? 

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Why would we climb that mountain
of great risk? 

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Why would we rise up and do such
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The Apostle Paul said that he 
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longing in his heart for others 
to know the one who loved him 

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and who loved them. 
We're going to read that passage

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in Romans chapter 10 and just 
keep in mind this question of 

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why do people climb mountains? 
Brothers and sisters, he says, 

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my heart's desire and prayer to 
God for the Israelites is that 

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they may be saved. 
For I can testify about them 

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that they are zealous for God, 
but their zeal is not based on 

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knowledge. 
Since they do not know the 

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righteousness of God and sought 
to establish their own, they did

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not submit to God's 
righteousness. 

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Christ is the culmination of the
law so that there may be 

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righteousness for everyone who 
believes. 

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Moses writes about this 
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Law. 
The person who does these things

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will live by them. 
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faith says, do not say in your 
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heaven, that is to bring Christ 
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the deep, that is to bring 
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But what does it say? 
The Word is near you. 

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It is in your mouth and in your 
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That is the message concerning 
faith that we proclaim. 

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If you declare with your mouth 
Jesus is Lord and believe in 

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your heart that God raised him 
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saved. 
For it is with your heart that 

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you believe and are justified, 
and it is with your mouth that 

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you profess your faith and are 
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As the Scripture says, anyone 
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be put to shame. 
For there is no difference 

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between Jew and Gentile, the 
same Lord as Lord of all, and 

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richly blesses all who call on 
him. 

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For everyone who calls on the 
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How? 
How then can they call on the 

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1:00 they have not believed in? 
And how can they believe in the 

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one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without 

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someone preaching to them? 
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they are sent as it is written? 
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those who bring good news. 
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accepted the good news for 
Isaiah, says Lord, who has 

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believed our message. 
Consequently, faith comes from 

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hearing the message and the 
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word about Christ. 
Paul describes his deep longing.

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He says I desire intensely that 
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people of origin, the family of 
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coming from, he's really praying
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Jesus it he's using language 
that says it pains him deeply 

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that they don't know the 
righteousness of God. 

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It is his longing that they 
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Now he recognizes that they have
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In fact, they have a zeal for 
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He just says it's misinformed 
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And this can be troubling for us
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say that's a really good person,
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sincerity about what they 
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But Paul presses in here to say 
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of belief is enough if the 
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it's wrong, if it's inadequate. 
And it pained him deeply that 

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the whole adequacy of God 
explained and expressed in Jesus

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Christ had not been embraced by 
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In fact, it was a deep 
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And he says this is so wrong 
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everyone who believes in Jesus, 
who entrusts themself to Jesus 

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for righteousness, for inclusion
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God would accept all Jew and 
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It's his deep longing. 
This is why Paul would climb a 

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mountain. 
He would climb a mountain so 

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that they might believe, so that
they might receive Jesus into 

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their life and the love of God 
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Have you ever looked out as a 
Christian at some of your family

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or the country from which you 
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that I think their lives would 
be different if they really knew

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Jesus? 
Maybe you've wondered about that

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for yourself because you're not 
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And so you're wondering for 
yourself, would my life really 

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be all that different and better
if I received Jesus as Lord into

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my life? 
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was a longing even in Israel 
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He says, I know that they are 
zealous for God, but having been

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there himself, he would suggest 
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It's not enough to just make 
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and laws of the Scripture as 
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It's not enough to just be 
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It's not enough to just be 
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religiosity does not bring true 
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And so Paul's longing is one 
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movement, our own desire to 
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And I wonder, is it possible for
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Evangelism is using this word 
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proclaiming good news, 
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It was just a common Greek word.
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of people who were called 
Heralds. 

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Hark the Herald, Angels sing. 
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He It was his role to be a 
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news. 
Is it possible to announce good 

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news? 
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those moments in the mall or on 
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comes up to us to have a 
conversation and we realize, oh,

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this is the evangelist who's 
come for me. 

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Been there. 
I've been that person, the 

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evangelist who's come for you. 
Is it possible to do that well? 

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I really like this line from 
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what could be done well and 
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Asher looked at the old man. 
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you've thought about this 
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What do you think makes for good
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Theo rested his chin on his 
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index finger over his bottom 
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Yes, I've thought about it. 
In fact, I've thought about it a

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great deal, and I've asked 
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know if I have an answer either,
other than this. 

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It might not make a lot of 
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good, truly good, there must be 
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I'm not even sure I know fully 
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get, the more I believe it. 
There must be love for the gift 

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itself, love for the subject 
being depicted or the story 

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being told, and love for the 
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sculpture, farming, teaching, 
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raising a child. 
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heart of it, it might be 
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popular, but I doubt it is truly
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Nothing is what it's supposed to
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If love is not at the core, can 
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Amen. 
He's, He's on to something 

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there, isn't he? 
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craft, an expression of a 
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actually be formed and shaped by
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That's when it's at its best. 
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that Jesus has come to form a 
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He did not come to form that 
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He came to form that family with
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He did not come to form that 
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they were asking him on the day 
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riding a donkey. 
They were looking for hammer 

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time. 
And he says no, it's humble 

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time. 
His way was so different, for it

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was truly informed and shaped by
the love of God, and so he comes

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to form a family. 
Paul speaks of this movement as 

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the move of God to come near. 
He doesn't treat God as one that

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we need to climb up into the 
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somehow God, the perfect one who
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the heavens, just out of reach 
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He says no, Christ has come out 
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died on the cross. 
He says you don't even have to 

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go down into the depths. 
You don't have to go into death 

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itself to die and find a home 
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He says no, Christ has risen 
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Whatever move that you might 
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have to do to get close to God, 
God has done more. 

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He has come close. 
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Jesus, of him coming close at 
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We celebrate Jesus laying his 
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down into the depths of Sheol 
because he is forming his family

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and he has the power of life 
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went through Friday and made it 
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give life to those who are dead.
Jesus is forming his new family,

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and so the signs of faith that 
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the family. 
Paul expresses here as very 

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simple. 
He says if you declare with your

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mouth that Jesus is Lord and 
believe in your heart that God 

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raised him from the dead, you 
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That's it. 
The union of speech with belief.

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Jesus is Lord. 
The simplest confession of the 

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church, The simplest confession 
of baptism, that if you have 

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entered into the waters of 
baptism, you were asked the 

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question, who is your Savior and
Lord Jesus Christ Jesus is Lord.

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This is the confession of the 
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It is the confession of a will 
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You are Lord, and what I believe
is that you have conquered death

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and have been raised from the 
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What I believe is that you have 
paid the price and cost of my 

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sin, and so you died and were 
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What I believe is that Jesus has
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now I have a living relationship
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Not with the memory of a dead 
man, but I have the membership 

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of life with a living God. 
And so this is where in 

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resurrection, in the celebration
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Tide Sundays, we see the 
essential nature of belief and 

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faith about the resurrection of 
Jesus as essential to our life 

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and inclusion in his family. 
Do you believe in your heart, in

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the depths of your mind to 
accept this mystery that Jesus 

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has been raised from the dead? 
He says while you will be saved,

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you are being saved, you are 
saved. 

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Salvation has come to this 
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Herein is the assurance of our 
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It was bought and paid for by 
Christ and somehow by some 

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mysterious move of life, I've 
come to believe and entrust my 

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life to him. 
I've repented of my way. 

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I've changed my mind and said, 
Lord Jesus, you are Lord and you

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have risen. 
You have conquered death. 

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To be in your family is to be 
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And now we are in a new family 
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Read this with me. 
It says as the scripture says, 

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Are you ready? 
Anyone who believes in him will 

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never be put to shame, for 
there's no difference between 

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Jew and Gentile. 
The same Lord of all and richly 

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blesses all who call on him, for
everyone who calls on the name 

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of the Lord will be saved. 
Welcome to the new family of 

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those who call out on Jesus and 
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Paul says this is a move made by
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temple of Jerusalem. 
In fact, now it is pushed out to

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a table that can go around the 
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Everyone who calls on the name 
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Do you know this morning we 
prayed together with Ryan the 

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prayer of the people. 
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we practiced what is said in the
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Do not forget his benefits. 
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benefits of salvation, the 
benefits of being brought into 

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the family of God by grace, for 
we said maybe you prayed it with

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him. 
You have provided the word, the 

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word. 
You have provided the word that 

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delivers us from the evil one. 
That's a great benefit. 

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Did anybody get away from an 
evil person this week? 

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Did you get away from the devil 
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Maybe you don't even know it. 
You can just say, yeah, it 

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happens. 
I'm so glad I didn't even have 

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that kind of trouble this week. 
He delivered us from the evil 1.

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Did anyone experience healing of
diseases? 

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A cold, a virus? 
He heals us of our diseases. 

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Did anyone experience comfort in
your pain? 

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The comfort of God in 
disappointment or pain? 

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Did anyone experience the 
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Father, you are perfect. 
Did any of you experience the 

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courage to take a stand? 
Did you feel like the Lord gave 

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you a word that lets you 
comfortably, confidently take a 

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stand? 
To hold your boundaries, To be 

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non anxious? 
Forget not the benefits of the 

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Lord. 
Did any of you feel like the 

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Lord gave you wisdom when you 
thought you were going to be a 

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fool? 
Did you experience love when you

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thought you were unlovely? 
Did you experience the ability 

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to give love to someone who was 
unlovely? 

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Did you celebrate and delight in
this word that says you have 

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been transferred from death to 
life, from the Kingdom of 

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darkness to light, from the 
Kingdom of Satan to the Kingdom 

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of the Son of God? 
Forget not his benefits. 

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He is a family and He draws us 
into a family with benefits. 

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The Spirit of God is calling 
and, and This is why he says 

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everyone who calls on the name 
of the Lord will be saved. 

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And the Spirit of God is calling
people to himself and to God. 

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We believe this. 
We believe that before we go out

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from here, the Spirit of God has
been calling some to himself 

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before we go and gather at a 
family dinner that the Spirit of

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God has been working there 
before. 

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We as a church showed up 16 
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would form a church here at UBC.
We believe that God was ahead of

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us. 
The Spirit of God was calling. 

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Paul believes that. 
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God is calling his family of 
origin to faith in Jesus. 

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And yet he knows that God is 
also calling us. 

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So he brings us into the logic, 
the beauty and the mystery of 

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the mission. 
The logic of the mission goes 

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this way. 
How? 

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Say it with me how? 
It's a terrible question. 

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How? 
Like this is the question that 

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gets us all uptight. 
How can that be done? 

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It's as bad as the child who 
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How is this going to happen? 
How can they call on the one 

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they've not believed in? 
How can my neighbor call on 

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Jesus if they've not believed in
him? 

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There must be a mustard seed of 
belief. 

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How can they believe in the one 
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What if they've never heard? 
How many of us have asked that 

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of our family of origin at 
times, knowing that we were the 

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first generation to trust Jesus?
How and how can they hear 

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without someone preaching to 
them? 

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And how can anyone preach unless
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And now he's gotten down to The 
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Who? 
This is where it's headed. 

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Who is going to preach? 
Who is God going to send? 

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This is the logic of mission. 
These four questions haunted my 

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life for a season in university,
and it all started with this 

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one. 
This how? 

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Which was no question at all, 
but in a way it is. 

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It's a statement. 
How beautiful are the feet of 

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those who bring good news? 
Well, how beautiful are they? 

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When I was just graduated from 
high school, I started working 

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at a bank. 
I worked there for a week and 

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then I took a holiday. 
Unheard of. 

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But I was young and had asked 
when they hired me. 

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I'm not going on the senior 
trip. 

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My senior trip is to go on 
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And for some reason the VP of 
this division in the bank took 

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mercy on me and said go take 
your senior trip, do something 

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good in New Orleans. 
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with a group of other teenagers 
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I tell you, it was my first 
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There were bars everywhere, not 
places to drink. 

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There were bars on the windows, 
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There were bars around the park.
I was like, who locks up their 

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park at night? 
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I was out of my comfort zone. 
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week, I even learned how to 
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I was so tired. 
Every day was full of going out,

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cleaning parks, cleaning places,
going out, greeting people, 

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taking groceries to people's 
homes, going out, playing with 

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the kids, going out, asking to 
pray with people, going out and 

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announcing Jesus. 
I was tired. 

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I was stretched and on the last 
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looked at us and she said you 
have beautiful feet. 

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And the smart aleck 17 year old 
that I was said my feet stink, 

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they're terrible, it's ugly. 
What do you mean I have 

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beautiful feet? 
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highest compliment I ever pay to
a group and I only say it 

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rarely. 
Now she had my attention. 

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You have beautiful feet. 
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questions. 
How can they call on the one 

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they've not believed in? 
And how can they believe in the 

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one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without 

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someone preaching to them? 
And how can anyone preach unless

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they are sent as it is written? 
How beautiful are the feet of 

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those who bring good news? 
And in that moment, God set a 

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truth and a question and a call 
deep in my heart that I fought 

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for almost my full first year of
university. 

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And God kept bringing those 
questions and then the promise, 

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how beautiful are the feet of 
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And I was like, God, that's just
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am. 
But how beautiful are the feet 

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of those who bring good news? 
Do you know this passage is 

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first in Isaiah 52? 
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the service. 
How beautiful on the mountains 

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are the feet of those who bring 
good news, who proclaim peace, 

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who bring good tidings, who 
proclaim salvation, Who to say 

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to Zion your God reigns? 
Do you see, it was the practice 

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that when the armies of Israel 
went out from Jerusalem, went 

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over the mountains and would 
fight a battle, If they won, 

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they would send a messenger. 
If they lost, they would send a 

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messenger. 
Get ready, the armies of Assyria

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are coming. 
That's bad news. 

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But if they sent good news, 
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I wonder if those who ran with 
good news ran like our marathon 

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runner in London today, if they 
could run a marathon under 2 

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hours just flying with good news
beating in their hearts. 

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Peace for you, good tidings for 
you, salvation for you, God is 

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for you. 
How beautiful are the feet of 

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those who bring good news. 
And the Watchmen on the walls of

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Jerusalem would look over the 
mountains where they knew they 

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would be coming from, and they 
could say, oh, there's a 

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messenger running. 
Look at that messenger coming. 

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And they were waiting. 
Why do people climb mountains? 

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That's the question we started 
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Why did Jesus climb the mountain
of your unbelief? 

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Why did Jesus climb the mountain
of our sin? 

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Why did Jesus let that sin rest 
on him as great violence and 

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suffering, a cup of bitterness 
and pain? 

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Because of love, The Church will
have beautiful feet when we 

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enter and accept the mystery of 
the mission. 

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Some of you are anxious about 
the mystery of the mission, and 

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the mystery of the mission goes 
like this. 

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But not all the Israelites 
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Paul was an Israelite who 
accepted the good news. 

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Peter, Josh, Mary, Nathaniel. 
These were people who accepted 

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the good news. 
Clopas, Mary Simon, the Zealot, 

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they accepted the good news, but
there were many who did not 

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accept the good news of Jesus as
the person of God who had come 

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to give them life. 
But Isaiah's foretold and saw 

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this saying, Lord, who has 
believed our message, the 

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prophets have come, even the 
Messiah has come, and who 

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believed? 
Consequently, faith comes from 

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hearing the message, and the 
message is heard through the 

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word of Christ. 
Friends, you must also accept 

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the mystery of the mission, and 
that is that you and I are never

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in charge of someone else's 
believing. 

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You are never in charge of 
someone else surrendering their 

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life to God. 
This is the Holy Spirit's work. 

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This is the mystery of Word and 
Spirit, where the message is 

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heard through the Word about 
Christ. 

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So when you climb that mountain 
to share with another the 

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mountain of your fear, to share 
with another the good news of 

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Jesus, and you feel out of 
breath because your heart's 

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going, don't do, don't do. 
And your hands feel tingly and 

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anxious. 
Anybody been there in that 

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moment? 
My friend DJ said this about at 

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UBC. 
He says my experience at UBC was

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that every time I got ready to 
say the name of Jesus, my pulse 

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went up. 
But as soon as I said the name 

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of Jesus out loud, something 
changed in the air around me. 

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The mystery of the mission is 
that you and I are not in charge

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of others believing. 
We're just in charge of 

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dispensing that which has been 
charged to us as the messenger 

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climbing that mountain, coming 
down the mountain to meet 

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another person and share with 
them the invitation of Jesus. 

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How many of you had an original 
moment today? 

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What did you all talk about? 
You talked about the weak. 

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Your original moment is actually
a pre practice of sharing your 

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testimony. 
When did you love God, love 

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people, share the gospel, 
delight in the gospel? 

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When did you experience the love
of God, the love of people, of 

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the power of the gospel in your 
life? 

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This week that is preloading 
good news. 

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If you heard another peace 
person share their story, it's 

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your story. 
Now you can say, well, you know,

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I met someone who was so anxious
about their test that they 

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prayed before they did it and 
they asked Jesus for peace and 

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he gave it to them. 
That wasn't your story, but it's

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the story of the church on the 
day you heard it. 

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You have been preloaded with 
good news that points to Jesus. 

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At some point you may have to 
just say the good news. 

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And the best story that's ever 
changed my life is that God has 

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come in the person of Jesus 
Christ. 

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He lived in a place called 
Israel, and he died on a cross 

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in outside Jerusalem. 
But God raised him from the dead

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to announce that all of my sin 
could be forgiven, to announce 

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that I will never be ashamed to 
be in front of God if I am in 

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Christ. 
So many aspects of good news. 

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At some point you'll have to 
share the story. 

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Let's stand together in a 
moment. 

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We're going to come to the 
table. 

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We have not been invited to the 
temple in Jerusalem. 

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Instead, God says, I want to 
make my temple in you, and I'm 

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going to invite you to my table 
as a foretaste of the banquet at

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the end of the age. 
And Jesus has paved the way for 

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us to share this table. 
Isaiah said in the temple that 

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he saw a great vision and there 
he heard the heavenly creature 

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saying, Holy, holy, holy is the 
Lord God Almighty, holy, holy 

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holy is the Lord God Almighty, 
holy holy holy is the Lord God 

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Almighty. 
This really shook Isaiah up 

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because then it says the glory 
of the Lord has filled the whole

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earth. 
Mind blowing if he thought the 

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glory of God was going to be 
just contained in that temple. 

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But no, the glory of God has 
been extended over the whole 

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earth as if the Lord was saying 
the whole earth is mine. 

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And so we pray Lord, your 
Kingdom come on earth as it is 

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in heaven. 
We already acknowledged this, 

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that there is no God forsaken 
place on earth, but Isaiah was 

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really stressed out. 
In fact, it says he, he says I'm

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undone, I'm falling apart God as
I'm standing here in front of 

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you. 
He says because I am a man of 

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unclean lips and I live among a 
people of unclean lips. 

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In other words, he's saying the 
things that we say out of our 

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mouth actually reflect what's in
our heart, and it reflects an 

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emptiness, a profaneness, a 
sewerness. 

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He's got a sewer mouth because 
he has a sewer heart. 

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And he says, God, I'm in 
trouble. 

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I'm in trouble. 
It's almost as if God says do 

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not fear, because then one of 
the heavenly creatures comes 

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down and goes to the altar and 
grabs with tongs. 

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A live coal burning hot coal and
comes up to Isaiah, touches him 

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on the lips. 
I wonder if he heard it sizzle 

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as it came up and said do not 
fear. 

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He cleansed. 
Friends, I tell you that every 

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altar that we see today is meant
to be a table, and Jesus is the 

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live coal that comes from that 
table and transforms our lives, 

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transforms our lips, transforms 
our hearts so that what comes 

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from our lips actually reflects 
a heart that is at home with 

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God. 
And it came at a great cost as 

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Jesus gave his body, as Jesus 
poured out his blood so that we 

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could be at home with him. 
And that's what we're going to 

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celebrate as we come into this 
moment. 

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So if you're helping with the 
Lord's Supper, if you would come

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as we continue to worship and 
we're going to share this table 

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with each other with the bread.