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I think we're going to start here in about 30 seconds.

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Make sure if Jonathan asked me if you have not registered yet.

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Make sure you get over there and register and I guess that you guys

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give this accounting.

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Make sure everyone's here and accounted for.

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I will tell you, I'll let you know about an hour. Before we do anything else.

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Let me begin with prayer.

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Dear Lord, Jesus.

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I thank you so much for bringing us here today for the opportunity to

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gather around your word as you have given it to us in the Book of

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Psalms.

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Send your Holy Spirit in us and among us fill our hearts with the joy

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of your salvation. Help us in our daily lives to engage our neighbors

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with the beautiful word of God that you have given us. With the

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assurance of our salvation in the hope that you have given us in your

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risen Son in all we do help our actions to be generous and kind and as

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graceful to others as you have been to us. These things I pray in your

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name.

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Amen. Alright

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so let me just first of all tell you a little bit about myself and

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what we're going to do today.

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And then we will kind of get right into it.

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My name is Tim Saleska and I teach Old Testament here at the Seminary.

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I've been here since 1997. Before that

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I was a pastor for 15 years in Ohio.

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So I was 13 years of Peace Lutheran Church in Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio

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and then in Napoleon, which is in the Northwest part of Ohio, about

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halfway between Toledo and Fort Wayne way up there where the weather

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is really bad.

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I was Family Life Pastor for two years at Saint Paul Lutheran Church

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Napoleon.

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So it was a glorious time in the ministry for me and my wife. My wife

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is still go back into the ministry if the Lord still sends me. So I

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been here for 15 years when I was in Cincinnati is when I went to grad

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school Hebrew Union College, which is a school similar to the seminary

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except in Reformed Judaism.

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And that's where I got my Old Testament training and they also have,

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they sit right across the street from University of Cincinnati and

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they have agreements for a share classes with them.

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So I took a lot of classes in classics at their graduate Classics

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Department there and still have many fond memories of Cincinnati and all of

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that. My wife Diane teaches nursing at UMSL.

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She is presently actually pursuing her Doctor of Nurse Practitioner'

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DNP. And so

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she is up at St.

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Catharines right now in Minnesota.

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They have an online program but twice a semester she has to go up

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there for a class and she is supposed to get a foot of snow up there

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be back tonight, but we'll see we'll see what happens.

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I have three children are all grown and married to a wonderful spouses

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a person should be so blessed we thank God every day for that.

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Becky and Ryan

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my oldest daughter

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they live in Culver City California have four grandchildren two of

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them adopted.

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She went out there originally for Teach for America.

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Math and Science in South Gate and in Crenshaw for 3 or 4 years in

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inner-city LA so that's a tough gig. First time

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we visited her we had to go through twelve foot high fences with razor

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wire on it and go through metal detectors

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and so I was   largest Middle School, I think in the nation

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there.

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You second language Hispanic Latino folk. So and her husband's a

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public defender in LA.

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And you see that as an expression of the Gospel.

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That's why you know people say what in the world are you doing that

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you could have gone for a company made a lot of money, but it's kind

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of his dream job.

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So I'm very proud of both of them. My son Joshua and his wife Jess just

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moved to California.

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She finished her PhD in epidemiology at Ohio State and so she's doing

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a post doctor UCLA my son's an actuary so he gets to work in his

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pajamas at home and make a lot more money than I ever could dream of.

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When he was growing up he goes I want a job where I do not have to do much and make a lot of money. Last year he told me,

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dad I got that job.

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Well good for you Josh, good for you isn't life crazy.

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I don't know what they do, man.

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What do they do?

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They work in the insurance field and and he's like actually a

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consultant for a complicated software that they use so he's always

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doing that.

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But anyway, I left my youngest daughter, JoJo, Joanna and her husband

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Chris used to live in Huntington Beach moved back.

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We got one back in town and they live in Lafayette Square. They're very committed to the city and I see

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another some beautiful historic homes.

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They got a refurbished home and they've been busy decorating and she's

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expecting their first grandchild in June. Little boy is going to be we

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already know and so they've been there very excited about that

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so it's wonderful.

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I have a dog Jack who is really a pain. At lunch I going to have to run home to let him out of his little thing for a while.

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So that's enough about me.

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I'm happy to talk more about myself as the day goes on and I'm really

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anxious to get to know all of you as well feel.

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Feel free during breaks or lunch.

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I think most of us probably will go over to the cafeteria.

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But I guess that's where I'll probably go.

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if you have questions, you want to talk more about something specifically.

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So what we're going to do today to just lay out the schedule.

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Is general topic is the Psalms obviously and

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so yeah about every 45 to 50 minutes

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I'll give you a three or four minute break to get up stretch,

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get drinks use the facilities that kind of thing and again during that

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time feel free to ask questions.

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I do value your discussion.

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But I also know in a group this size a couple questions can get people

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off track or one person is interested but the other 49 or not. So I

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will present and then you know during certain periods of time I'll

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stop and ask if there's questions and I will allow just a definite

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time for that probably 5 minutes and then when those are finished then

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you know, then we'll go back into the presentation. And then feel

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free if you have other questions that I have not answered or that you

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want to ask me.

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Feel free to stop me.

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That's why I'm here.

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I'm kind of yours all day.

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Okay, just beware that that's what we're going to do.

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And if you have questions, I'm not getting to please write them down

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so you don't forget them and feel free to do that. That will kind of

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help us move our presentations along hopefully in good fashion okay.

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Today since we have rather limited time, you'll see me.

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There's going to be kind of two aspects to the presentation some

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I'm going to go through a little rapidly and shorthand some things,

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okay. And then I can backfill as needed with discussion and then other

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times we're going to go very deeply into text,

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okay. And slow down the reading a lot so early in the day we will do

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crunching of things. That I will leave it to you to unpack after the

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our day is over in further discussion with each other with me

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correspond with me, whatever.

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I want to reach a basic understanding earlier in the day and then move

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to specific Psalms and specific text as we go through the day so you

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can kind of look forward to that,

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okay. What does the presentations this morning are actually going

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to wrap around what I call four rules of thumb,

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And so you're going to see us discuss each of those rules of thumb for

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reading the text.

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Basic question that I have up here as when we meet these ancient

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poems.

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Alright, it's kind of an assumption by all of us.

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It's really on questioned by anyone that the Psalms are actually poetry

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which makes them very beautiful powerful rather unique in the

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scriptures.

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We believe that they are God's Word.

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So what do we expect when we first come to these ancient text? Notice

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that that before we even start reading and we have certain

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expectations that we bring to our reading of the text. And one of

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those assumptions

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is that we expect to be encountered by God why because they're God's

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That's kind of a rule for what we expect when you read scriptures in

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general.

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So we expect God to be speaking to them and expect to

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encounter him in some way.

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Another thing that we bring to the text is that we expect to be

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renewed by the Holy Spirit,

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We expect that the Holy Spirit is working through his word to

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strengthen our faith to provide guidance sometimes comfort for us

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sometimes challenges to us.

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Just think about our daily our practices daily, but also every week in

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the worship service when you come to the worship service and listen to

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the scripture readings when you listen to the sermon in a real sense,

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you expect to be encountered by God through that Word. And you expect

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to be influenced by that word and hopefully come away influenced by

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shaped by it in ways small and great.

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Right and it happens differently from week to week.

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But in our exercises sharing God's word with people we do that so that

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in our Christian Community, we don't approach the scriptures or a

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text like the Psalms as a disinterested scholar, right, which a lot of

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people do when they come to the Bible in general. Its a object for them

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to analyze and research as a scholarly interest much like, you know an

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expert in Paradise Lost for example, or an expert in English

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literature, medieval literature the texts are objects of study that

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you break down and analyzed and ask certain questions about like who's

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the author what's the purpose of these text?

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You break the text down into its units of meaning all those kinds of

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we take them as texts to live by right.

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So our reading of these texts and our expectations of these texts is

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different than the interests of an academic scholar.

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And there text to live by text in which we again want to find

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direction for our life.

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Hope for our life, okay.

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Through the eyes and ears of faith

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we look for God to address us in ways that change our lives. I

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put that slide up here Russ and that's a bad color.

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Change our lives is what I'm underlining.  Expect God to address us in ways

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that change our lives.

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So we expect in our reading and I expect this in our sessions today of

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our reading of this text and we're going to be shaped or formed by

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Okay, those are expectations.

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this is true for me and it's probably true for you,

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okay, is that we almost immediately sense a gap.

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Between us and these texts as soon as we meet them.

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So for example, just turn to Psalm 79 just for an example.

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I could almost go randomly to these texts.

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But just go here very briefly.

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So notice the gap when you start reading. I sensed this gap boy when I

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was a youngster and as I got more interested in the Psalms, we have

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these expectations and then you're faced with these ancient text and

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there seems to be a disconnect between me and these texts.

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How do I overcome that?

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Maybe some of you experienced that. We've heard in the church that the text

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the Psalms are great text to meditate on. Well if you ever tried to

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meditate on them

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it's like okay question start coming like what is this text have to do

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with me?

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How can I identify with what the speaker is saying?

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How do I relate to the text?

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All right, sometimes I like and certain Psalms

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they're like reading an old friend.

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We're going to go through one Psalm today especially is like meeting an

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old friend and you think I don't have much to teach us. A lot of Psalms

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there like greeting an old friend.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry Psalm 79.

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Some are like meeting a stranger for the first time.

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So notice just when you start off in verse 1 "O God the Nations have

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come into your inheritance;

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they have defiled your holy temple;

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they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

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They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the

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heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.

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They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there

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was no one to bury them.

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We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those

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around us. That's poetry but notice it seems to be referring to an

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event of long ago ensconced in history.

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So how does this word of God influence us?

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How does it affect us?

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How do we relate to how do we understand

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it? Notice that as you're going through it those questions may come

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too and that kind of shows you all there is a gap.

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identify with his circumstances.

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so and we encounter that all over the place.

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So the question is, how do we read

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the Psalms is God God's word?

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what I'm going to talk about today.

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How do we read the Psalms as God's word to us?

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is to use the picture language the metaphor of having a conversation

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with another person.

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readers of the Psalms.

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you're an archaeologist and you find a jug in the ground.

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never influences you. Let's think about the different experience you

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have when you have a conversation with another person. Conversations

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are some of the most probably the most deeply relational affective

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experiences that we have. Building relationships with someone but

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notice when we want to punish someone we put them in isolation, solitary confinement so to speak.

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alright, sense of meaning for their lives. On the other hand when we're

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in conversations with people we find them very enriching. Now think

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about your experience when you have a conversation with someone. Let's

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just say someone

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you don't know that well.

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listening to that other person, but also a lot is going on in your

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Those are the things I'm going to concentrate on when we read the

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For example, if someone says something that you don't understand you

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have this internal conversation with yourself.

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I have to listen a little more what questions should I ask?

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disagree disagree with it's making me mad then you have to decide what

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am I going to do with that?

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Am I going to come back and attack?

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Sometimes they're very challenging and you leave a conversation

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wanting more having to think about it more. Notice that the ability to

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read yourself is something we do almost unconsciously.

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if you're going to establish a relationship with that other person. In

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establishing a relationship or building relationship always takes

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conversations are. Sometimes you can be influenced tremendously by

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single conversation with someone else right?

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challenging you'll go away with questions.

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All those kinds of things happen.

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So conversations influence shape you. So using the metaphor of reading

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the Psalms like having a conversation helps us to get over the gap and

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that's what we're going to work on today.

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Not treating the Psalm as an object from which you pull nuggets of

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propositional truth.

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Which pastors,

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we are under pressure to do that because we need to preach a sermon.

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other people but rather thinking of them as conversations to be

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enjoyed and listened to and then you can meet the psalm again

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and again as you get to know it more and more deeply. So that metaphor

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I found very helpful in my own reading of the Psalms.

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So four rules of thumb are going to go through these one at a time to

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help us bridge the gap between us and a Psalm.

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The first rule of thumb

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is that we always try to hook a Psalm back up to the larger Old

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Testament story of Israel.

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And that's one of the things we're going to do and I mean think again

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we kind of do this unconsciously, but let me just tell you expand on

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this first rule of thumb whenever you read a Psalm If you want to

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bridge the gap between you and the text.

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the larger Old Testament story.

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the authors of the Psalm believe that they are part of Israel's story,

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gives the authors of the Psalms an identity.

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hope and gives them a future.

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let's bring it in a modern-day

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for example. We have all these terms

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we throw around as God's people. Grace, faith, justification,

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sanctification, salvation, trust, God and so on. Now whenever I use one of

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those terms I don't have to stop and fill in the meaning of hey, what

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do you mean by salvation?

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to fill those abstract terms with meaning which we then unpack almost

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unconsciously when we run across them.

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I know this whole narrative comes into your mind of God's relationship

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to his people that culminates in Jesus.

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example or righteousness.

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story of which they are apart and of which we are apart.

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Psalms. Think about it like this, take the word salvation again, you go

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into another community a community of atheists are very different

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meeting for that term salvation.

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They just are sometimes you going to be like two ships passing through

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the night.

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When we assume that we mean the same thing by the same words we can

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get ourselves into trouble in the conversations and we can miss each

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I have a few so I can brought a hymn book and just just to show you this. I

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went through this kind of at random. Here's the the

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hymn "Crown Him with Many Crowns".

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Heavenly Anthem drowns all music, but his own."

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you're able to understand the language because you're familiar with

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You've talked by you've heard it.

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We've discussed at all those kinds of things would think about if

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you're outside the church.

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What the heck?

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Are you talkin about Crown Him With Many Crowns the lamb upon his

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throne.

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Who is the Lamb why you calling him a lamb?

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What's this throne

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business?

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mean Crown Him With Many Crowns?

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You see all those terms are going to be much less familiar.

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Alright, but you automatically hook it up to the larger story of which

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you are a part.

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Here's another one 529.

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"Since our great high priest Jesus Christ Jesus Bears the name above

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all names raining Son of God surpassing other titles powers and

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claims."

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So why you calling a great high priest?

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And now you saying he reigns as the Son of God, so now in two lines

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you have a reference him as a king and also as a priest. Why? How did

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what? Notice that they have deep meaning to us almost unconsciously and

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obviously we can kind of go on from there one more 560.

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"All mankind fell in Adam's fall one common sin infects us all for one

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to all the curse descends in overall God's wrath impends."

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What the heck?

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So in the Psalms again, you have the same kind of thing happening.

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There's a language there of which the psalmist's are a part that gives

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meaning to their text and so in our interpretation we go back to that

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store and we're going to demonstrate that in a few minutes, okay?

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So the conviction of Christian readers when it comes to Israel's

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story.

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Jesus brings Israel's story to its climax? Now

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I want to stop and make sure we're all clear on what that means and

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that's what I'm going to zero in on because it's kind of crucial for

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what we're doing from here on out.

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Jesus brings Israel's story to its climax

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it doesn't say Jesus story means Israel's story isn't important. It doesn't

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say Jesus means that what God did with his people in the Old Testament

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doesn't have anything to say to us today.

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It says Jesus brings Israel's story to its climax.

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So let's look at those passages that I have listed up there on the

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first one is Luke 24.

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actually.

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and it's at when Jesus appeared to his disciples after his

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resurrection.

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"Then he said to them,

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These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that

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everything written about me", and notice what Luke says, "in

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the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."

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So there's one verse the next versus the kicker, "Then he opened their

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minds to understand the scriptures,"

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disciples before Jesus rose, no.

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interpretations of it.

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It made a certain kind of sense.

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start to read it with Jesus as the climax of the story made a whole

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different kind of sense.

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In fact, it became a new text and this happens fairly regularly in my

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We have students that come from all walks of life and some of them were

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Christians in other denominations, you know, especially some of them

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when they people who have this up fundamentalist Baptist background

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actually have this experience a lot more vividly than a lot of people

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do but they're very deeply immersed in the scriptures.

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the Gospel and I've heard the statement more than once; someone told me

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the Gospel and all of a sudden everything made sense.

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I saw the text becomes read very differently and you can really see

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that in the writings of the New Testament when they begin to connect

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Jesus ministry to the Old Testament.

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He did this to fulfill what was written in the prophet Isaiah

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for example. He did this this was done to fulfill the prophecy that

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was in Hosea.

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Alright, and you can begin to see what I mean by Jesus brings Israel's

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story to its climax,

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alright. The other text 2nd Corinthians 1 verse 20.

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So Paul says, "For all the promises of God find their yes in him",

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ie, Jesus. Just pause over that for second. All the promises of God find

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their yes in Him.

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So what promises is he referring to think about the story.

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See he's thinking about the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac,

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Jacob, the Patriarchs, the promises God made to the children of Israel,

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the promises God made to David and to David's son.

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God is a God who made promises to his people all over the place.

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And where does he answer the promises?

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Where is he faithful to his words?

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It's in this one Jesus.

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They all find their yes in him.

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Alright, so we're going to explore what that means for a reading of

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the Psalms and then finally Colossians 2, which is another Passage

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important for what we're going to do. Colossians 2 verses 16 through

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17.

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Again Paul, "Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of

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food and drink,".

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What's he referring to there?

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The Old Testament you remember the Mosaic legislation had a lot of

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regulations concerning clean and unclean foods how you eat, purity

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laws

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all those kinds of things. But no one pass judgment on you in question of

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food and drink "or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath." So again referring

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to the Old Testament of the Mosaic law because he says these are a

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shadow, this is an important concept.

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These are a shadow of the things to come.

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but the reality is Christ. So

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this sets up a kind of a major thing

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I want you to see they are a shadow of things to come

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the reality is Christ. So notice

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that in the shadows is a promise.

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That was fulfilled in Jesus.

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So in an institution like the sacrificial system.

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There's a promise it's a what we would call visible word it's a promise

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connected with a sign that has its substance in Jesus. Or think about

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the Passover Festival.

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It pointed ahead to the redemption of God's people through Jesus.

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So you need to think when you're thinking of the Old Testament

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sacrificial system the high priesthood those festivals.

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Start thinking of the not so much in sacrificial terms what the law

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demanded but sacramental God gave a promise an assurance.

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The reality came when Jesus came so Paul said the shadows have fallen

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away.

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So notice that in the Old Testament

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you have not only spoken word of the prophets,

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which Jesus fulfilled, but you also have events and institutions and

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people that foreshadowed the coming one that was fulfilled in Jesus.

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So you need to think about both of those things when you're thinking

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of Israel's story and what it means that Jesus is the climax of Israel's

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story.

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So and you're going to see that when you read the Psalms a lot for

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example, and they refer to the temple or the sanctuary.

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How do you bridge the gap between this ancient Psalm ann this ancient

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structure and what it meant for Israel and what it means to us today?

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How do we bridge that?

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Okay in the Psalm where you look at specifically we're going to do that

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as well.

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Okay, so notice that

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in our lingo we say things like Jesus is Israel condensed into one,

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okay.

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Think about it.

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I just get this in your mind Jesus is Israel condensed into one.

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All the promises that God made Israel came true in him. The

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institutions and people of the Old Testament where shadows of who the

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reality is Jesus. Israel was redeemed from the Exodus Jesus had his

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redemption from the grave. You can start to see kind of the patterns

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and that's how the Jesus and the apostles began to read the Old

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Testament scriptures and understand the scriptures in the light of who

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Jesus was.

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Okay.

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So keep that in your mind Jesus is Israel condensed into one. And so

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when you read the New Testament,

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he is the King with a capital K of which David was a shadow and which

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of the Davidic king anticipated over and over again until it came with

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a capital K came, right. In the New Testament

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he is the Son of God.

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Alright.

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He's the Prophet with a capital P is the word made flesh prophets in

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the Old Testament spoke with proclaim the word of God.

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They spoke for God Jesus Is God himself the word made flesh the

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prophet extraordinaire.

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He is the priest as Hebrew says who offers one sacrifice for

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everyone.

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He is the Lamb which is why we don't offer sacrifices anymore on the

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altar.

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He is God's Word with a big W to us.

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So notice all of those things come to their point in Jesus condensed

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into one.

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Alright.

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So what I have up here is, I love this,

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you probably can't see that too good.

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But it says Jesus resurrection takes the familiar story of Israel and

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transfer forms it.

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Okay, now here's what I mean.

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Marilynne Robinson wrote this wonderful book called "The Death of Adam."

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And as she has this quote in it, "I believe it is usual to say that the

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resurrection established who Jesus was and what his presence meant",

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stop right there.

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Okay, I believe it is usual to say that the resurrection established

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who Jesus was and what is present meant what she means by that is when

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we think of the Resurrection our reflex, is that shows that he is the

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Son of God.

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Right, because only

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God can raise someone from the dead that's that's kind of one of the

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straight-line. Marilynne Robinson reverts that and I think she's right.

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Perhaps

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it is true or to say the opposite that who Jesus was established

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what is resurrection meant. If Jesus is Israel condensed into one if

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Jesus is the one in whom all the promises of God are yes, if Jesus is

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the high priest, the prophet, the word made flesh, the Son of God

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then his resurrection is the answer to all the promises of God made

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to Israel.

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So all the prophets that talk about the end times as a feast in the

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nation's flowing to it all the process that talk about the renewal of

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God's creation at the End of Time.

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The resurrection tells us that this is what God has in mind for his

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people.

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So that means that salvation mean something unbelievable to us.

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You see salvation means nothing less than Resurrection from the dead.

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It means the conquering of sin, death and the devil physically tangibly

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for all of us.

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Sometimes we domesticate the amazing awesome thing that God has

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promised.

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That he delivers to His people Israel in the person of Jesus.

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So who Jesus was, Israel condensed into one, tells us what the

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resurrection meant this is what God has in mind for his people for

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his Israel.

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Okay, and it's kind of a very powerful way of packing the meaning of

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the Resurrection again kind of an abstract term with meaning based on

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the story of which we are apart and a God's people are apart.

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Okay.

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Let me stop here and see if there are any questions and it again if

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they're not I will be happy to continue, but I want to make sure I

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time any other everybody with me.

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I'm happy just move right on.

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Okay, we're good.

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We're good then.

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I love it.

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Great. Have you read her book by the way? Yes, a couple of her books. Second rule of thumb.

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We read Israel store in the Light of Christ, which I've already talked

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about.

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I want to just reiterate a very briefly here.

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We don't overlook or ignore or replace God's work with the Old

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Testament that he did with his people in the Old Testament.

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We don't replace it.

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We don't ignore it, but we see it in a new light.

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I've already kind of talked about that.

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Alright, so

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here's what's coming now.

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So we understand time and space differently in the light of Jesus.

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We understand time and space differently in the light of Jesus. I am going to put

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this chart up and Russ

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I need to explain it to you a little but.

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On the left hand side envision the Old Testament with the Ark and in

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the middle the Christ that has his birth, his ministry, his death, his

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resurrection, his Ascension and then on the far right-hand side.

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Think about the land that you see in Revelation the age to come and

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overarching it are arrows connecting all of those points.

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I want you got all the pay close attention to the arrows to what I'm

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going to say here now.

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Because this is not just a I don't know how to get

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our minds into this is not just a cognitive theological ID or doctrine

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but a live real experience for us.

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That in our Christian conception of time and space, time folds in on its

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itself time, folds in on itself.

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So when you look at the course of the arrows to go to the right hand

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side. When I said that Jesus is the climax of the story notice

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the world is still here.

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He came in the middle of time.

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So how do you begin to think about that the climax is coming in the

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middle of time. Think about it

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in this these terms. In Jesus the future the end times has come into

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our present.

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So time is folded in on itself. The future Has Come into our present in

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the death and resurrection of Jesus,

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Israel condensed into one, has passed through the judgment to

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Salvation.

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Okay.

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So his resurrection is the end times judgment, salvation, that God's

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people received it came ahead of time in him.

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Alright.

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Notice that Arrow extends all the way back to the Old Testament as

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well. This arrow right here.

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See this one.

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This is what I was talking about before when I said that the Old

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Testament foreshadows

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Jesus.

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Alright, all the people and institutions and events in the Old

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Testament foreshadow Jesus. Notice it this Arrow reminds us

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that

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all of the things like let's just say the worship in the sanctuary.

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Is an in-breaking of the future in Israel's present.

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Okay now think about this.

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The book of Exodus

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okay.

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Turn The Exodus 24 just for a second.

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Then we can I may have to stop here.

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So you guys can

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understand what I'm saying.

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I want to get a little farther. Exodus 24,

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this is a kind of a signal event.

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I love I love this passage.

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Actually.

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This is an unbelievable to me.

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After G.

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After God gave Israel The Ten Commandments and some other laws in the

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previous chapters.

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Here's where the Covenant is ratified. And remember this famous story and

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which notice that Moses and takes blood he writes on all the words of

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the Lord. And he takes some oxen and sacrifices peace offerings and then

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he takes half the blood and puts it and basins and he throws half

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against the Altar and then takes the book of the Covenant which refers

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to the previous chapters and reads it. And they say all it is spoken

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we will do in Moses throws blood on it on the people and says behold

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the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with you

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in these words. Okay. So they ratify the covenant and then notice what happens verse 9 "Then Moses and

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Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu and 70 of the Elders of Israel went up."

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And does it say "and I saw the God of Israel." "There was under his feet

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as it were a pavement of sapphire stone,

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like the very heavens for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on

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the chief men of the people of Israel;" and then its got this throwaway line.

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It's got to be the greatest throwaway line in the Bible.

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"They beheld God and ate and drank."

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What?

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So it comes from nowhere and it's striking to me.

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It's just like throws me every time I see it. They're seeing very

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God himself there in the presence of God and what they eat and drink

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that have a banquet there in the presence of God and enjoying their

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presents with him their fellowship with him.

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What's the meaning of this event?

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The eschaton, the future, has come into their present.

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Because what are we all hope for we're not going to see through a

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glass darkly but face-to-face the eschaton means new heaven new Earth

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when we will spend eternity with God. Notice how the Old Testament

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pictures the eschaton as a wonderful banquet. God has prepared a

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banquet of rich foods for all peoples

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he says in Isaiah 25. And so notice that is brought

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into the Old Testament already with Moses and Aaron and the

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high priests,

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alright. So they can see that that's what I mean and what the future

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has folded in on their past.

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That's a real experience you guys it's not just a cognitive idea.

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They actually experienced that.

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What happened after that the whole second book second part of the book

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of Exodus is about some probably a boring part.

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to read, but it's really interesting.

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The whole rest of it is when they had to come down from the mountain

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and what what is it concentrate on building the Tabernacle.

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Why because in that moment on the mountain the gap between God and man

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was bridged.

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That's the future

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hope you guys, right. We're going to be in his presence at the Eternal

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banquet, but they had to come back down the mountain cuz there's all

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these people Israel.

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There went the gap again.

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So what's the whole significance of the Tabernacle?

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How did Israel how do you bridge the gap between God and Israel?

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Well it happened at the sanctuary.

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Because at the end of the book of Exodus remember the glory of the

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Lord, Kavod Adonai, comes down and rests upon the mercy

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seat in the Tabernacle in the glory of the Lord was present with his

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people.

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So what's the significance of the Tabernacle?

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It's an in-breaking of the future into the present because when Israel

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went to the Tabernacle God was present in this place.

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And what did they do with the peace offerings that ate and drank in

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his presence. Again

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it's not a cognitive doctor ideas a real experience time folds in on

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itself.

747
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The future becomes part of their present now notice how that is all

748
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foreshadowed.

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In Jesus the reality who is God made flesh among us right.

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So who bridged the gap between God and man Jesus did God did when he

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came in human flesh.

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00:48:05.700 --> 00:48:11.400
What did his Ministry consist of? Well at lot of times he ate with sinners with

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outcast,

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alright. And he talked about in Parables about the Kingdom of Heaven

755
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is like this great banquet where God invites people to the feast. You

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see how

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the shadow the and remembering John.

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What is Jesus the word became flesh and made his tent among us. You see

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00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.600
destroy this Temple

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00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:33.300
and in three days, I will raise it

761
00:48:33.300 --> 00:48:34.300
he was talking about his body.

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So you see Jesus is this real reduce the reduce condensed into one and

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the Tabernacle God present with his people

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is the shadow which becomes a reality in Jesus.

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So the so again the future breaks in

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00:48:52.500 --> 00:48:57.700
in the ministry of Jesus in the present in the present time for him

767
00:48:57.700 --> 00:49:02.300
alright. And again, I want you to think of that as a real experience

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for what I'm going to show you next.

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Okay?

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Okay, everybody with me.

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00:49:09.200 --> 00:49:13.090
So the first rule of thumb is what?

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00:49:15.500 --> 00:49:20.300
Always hook the Psalm back up into Israel's story.

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Now we've been talking about Israel's story.

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The second rule of thumb is?

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In the light of Jesus read Israel's story in the light of Jesus,

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we've been talking about that,

777
00:49:33.400 --> 00:49:36.200
alright. Third rule of thumb.

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Remember that we identify

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with Israel's story

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It is Israel's story that gives us our identity.

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00:49:51.700 --> 00:49:55.900
This is a very important thing to keep in mind when people in our

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00:49:55.900 --> 00:50:00.900
culture today, the talk is about where do you find your identity?

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00:50:00.900 --> 00:50:02.700
Who are you?

784
00:50:05.200 --> 00:50:07.700
Notice that if a person has amnesia.

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They lose their sense of identity.

786
00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:18.600
If they lose their sense of, people there been studies done,

787
00:50:19.900 --> 00:50:22.800
that when people start talking about the meaninglessness of life,

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they've lost the sense of their part of a story. Life has become

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meaningless and when they start talking like that the potential for

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them to commit suicide goes way up.

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Alright, that's not a cognitive idea that they have it's a lived

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experience cuz they've lost the story of which they are apart.

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But Israel story gives us our identity tells us who we are.

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So here's my second and final chart.

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Notice that thrust in the middle of the Jesus and the age to come I have

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put us.

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Alright.

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00:51:01.700 --> 00:51:06.400
So the third rule of thumb is that we identify with Jesus story. And now

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00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:07.700
think about it

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because again time folds in on itself for us.

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Okay.

802
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:17.900
So notice that I've added the arrows

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from the future into the present in Jesus.

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So this is kind of a very simple concept that I want to unpack to you

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00:51:30.500 --> 00:51:31.500
for you.

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And just as Jesus

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00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:45.000
death and resurrection is a past salvation event for us.

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00:51:46.100 --> 00:51:51.200
We look forward to the final realization of that in the eschaton in

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00:51:51.200 --> 00:51:57.500
our here and now all right, even as we experience the future coming to

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00:51:57.500 --> 00:52:00.800
us in various ways, which I will talk a little bit more about in the

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second.

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00:52:01.300 --> 00:52:06.300
So notice that there is a basic tension that God's people lived in

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00:52:06.300 --> 00:52:09.800
in the Old Testament and that we live in that is very important for us

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to reading the Psalms. So God's people lived between the Exodus and the

815
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.100
fulfillment of his promises that the prophets prophesy right?

816
00:52:19.100 --> 00:52:23.000
So God had redeemed them and yet they were waiting for their Redemption.

817
00:52:23.900 --> 00:52:25.700
Same thing with us in the New Testament.

818
00:52:25.700 --> 00:52:30.400
God has redeemed us through his Son and yet we wait for that final

819
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:30.700
redemption.

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00:52:32.700 --> 00:52:38.500
That puts the Christian experience in a tension between the now and

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00:52:38.500 --> 00:52:39.300
the not yet.

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00:52:39.300 --> 00:52:41.700
That I think the

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major Christian experience it's not so again,

824
00:52:46.200 --> 00:52:49.000
I'm not talking doctrine, and I want you to think in terms of an

825
00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:53.700
experience that we have and then we're going to talk about okay. So by

826
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saying we identify with the story.

827
00:52:55.300 --> 00:52:56.600
You cannot see those at all.

828
00:52:56.600 --> 00:52:59.700
We have been grafted into Israel's story.

829
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Grafted in and I'm going to take some time to look at these passages

830
00:53:05.600 --> 00:53:10.500
with you so that you can understand what I mean by this and then we

831
00:53:10.500 --> 00:53:12.000
need to talk about this a little more.

832
00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:14.600
I want you to look at Romans 6.

833
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These are all well-known passages.

834
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So the first one is Romans 6 verses 1 through 4.

835
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It's about baptism.

836
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Which we as Lutheran's love but I want to remind you of its

837
00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.500
significance. Roman 6.

838
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Okay notice what Paul says here.

839
00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:36.700
He says, "Do you not know that all of us have been baptized into Christ

840
00:53:36.700 --> 00:53:39.700
Jesus were baptized into his death?

841
00:53:39.700 --> 00:53:43.100
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death,

842
00:53:43.100 --> 00:53:47.700
just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,

843
00:53:47.700 --> 00:53:51.500
we too might walk in newness of life." Then he says "For if we have been

844
00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:55.900
united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with

845
00:53:55.900 --> 00:53:58.800
him in a resurrection like his." Okay think about it like this.

846
00:54:02.900 --> 00:54:05.000
When we are baptized.

847
00:54:06.200 --> 00:54:13.600
We received the promises that God made to his people Israel that he

848
00:54:13.600 --> 00:54:15.900
fulfilled in Jesus. In baptism

849
00:54:15.900 --> 00:54:19.200
I like to say that we have been Israelatized.

850
00:54:20.500 --> 00:54:23.900
That story becomes our story.

851
00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:30.500
Notice that Israel had its death and resurrection experience in the

852
00:54:30.500 --> 00:54:35.200
Exodus, the land of death, God brought them through the waters of the

853
00:54:35.200 --> 00:54:35.700
Red Sea.

854
00:54:36.500 --> 00:54:41.600
Adopted them as his own gave them life brought them to the promised

855
00:54:41.600 --> 00:54:41.700
land.

856
00:54:41.700 --> 00:54:47.100
Jesus had his own death and resurrection experience.

857
00:54:48.600 --> 00:54:51.000
Israel condensed into one had it,

858
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:51.800
alright.

859
00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.600
So on the Mount of transfiguration talks about his exodus.

860
00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:57.000
Luke says, okay.

861
00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:07.900
So Israel in the Old Testament has death and resurrection experience. Jesus, Israel condensed into one has a death and resurrection experience. We

862
00:55:07.900 --> 00:55:11.000
because of an through baptism have our own death and resurrection

863
00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:11.900
experience.

864
00:55:11.900 --> 00:55:16.400
We have been made into Israel we have passed through the Judgment. The

865
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:21.500
future has come to us, notice how this text shows us that basic tension

866
00:55:21.500 --> 00:55:24.100
between the now and not yet, the future has come to us

867
00:55:24.100 --> 00:55:27.600
we've had our death and resurrection experience. We've been made into the

868
00:55:27.600 --> 00:55:32.300
people of Israel and yet as verse 5 says "if we united with him in a

869
00:55:32.300 --> 00:55:34.600
death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in the

870
00:55:34.600 --> 00:55:35.900
resurrection." Notice he uses that word

871
00:55:35.900 --> 00:55:39.300
certainly. Why, because Israel always gets the resurrection.

872
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.200
Israel always gets the resurrection think about in the Old Testament.

873
00:55:45.100 --> 00:55:49.100
Israel was as good as dead in in Egypt God brought them out

874
00:55:49.100 --> 00:55:54.100
alright. In the promised land Israel was off and handed over to its

875
00:55:54.100 --> 00:55:58.200
enemies just read the book of Judges Israel gets the resurrection.

876
00:55:58.200 --> 00:56:02.000
Israel continued to sin and be unfaithful to God.

877
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:05.900
God exiled them to Babylon.

878
00:56:07.500 --> 00:56:09.100
And yet he didn't forget his people.

879
00:56:09.100 --> 00:56:13.200
Remember the prophet Ezekiel the dry bones.

880
00:56:13.200 --> 00:56:18.100
He shows Ezekiel the vision of dry bones and says can these bones

881
00:56:18.100 --> 00:56:22.100
bones live is he thinks himself know why but he says only you know

882
00:56:22.100 --> 00:56:30.300
Lord. Yes the Lord knows, so he puts breathe in them puts flesh on them and says these are my people Israel.

883
00:56:30.300 --> 00:56:32.300
So he. Notice

884
00:56:32.300 --> 00:56:36.100
what is Ezekiel saying. Think about Israel's return from Babylon like a

885
00:56:36.100 --> 00:56:37.000
resurrection from the dead.

886
00:56:38.300 --> 00:56:42.500
Because no other nation got that Egypt didn't get it as Assyria didn't

887
00:56:42.500 --> 00:56:42.800
get it.

888
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.100
Assyria ruled for 300 years

889
00:56:45.100 --> 00:56:48.300
when Nineveh fell you never heard from them again.

890
00:56:48.300 --> 00:56:52.000
Same thing as Babylon same thing with the rise and fall of God's

891
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:52.400
nation.

892
00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.000
Israel has got the resurrection.

893
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:58.200
That's why Jesus says to his disciples.

894
00:56:58.200 --> 00:57:00.600
If you knew how to read the Old Testament, you know Christ had to rise

895
00:57:00.600 --> 00:57:01.000
from the dead.

896
00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:05.500
That's not just because a couple verses talk about Resurrection.

897
00:57:05.500 --> 00:57:10.300
It's because this whole story is a resurrection story and I'm Israel

898
00:57:10.300 --> 00:57:11.600
condensed into one.

899
00:57:11.600 --> 00:57:12.600
Alright.

900
00:57:12.600 --> 00:57:17.500
So God delivered Israel when it looked impossible God delivered his

901
00:57:17.500 --> 00:57:19.000
son when he was dead.

902
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.900
And he is faithful to raise us from the dead see

903
00:57:24.900 --> 00:57:27.600
that's what the point of being God's people are

904
00:57:27.600 --> 00:57:29.700
we are Heirs of that promise.

905
00:57:29.700 --> 00:57:30.400
Alright.

906
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:37.500
So look at these next three passages Exodus 4:22 through 23.

907
00:57:37.500 --> 00:57:41.500
We will look at these in line because I want you to see the point.

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00:57:43.600 --> 00:57:48.600
Exodus 4:22 through 23 Exodus 4

909
00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:51.200
22 through 23

910
00:57:52.700 --> 00:57:53.100
Okay.

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00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:59.700
Here God has told Moses to go back return to Egypt and get the people

912
00:57:59.700 --> 00:57:59.900
out.

913
00:58:01.100 --> 00:58:04.900
And in verse 21

914
00:58:06.500 --> 00:58:07.800
the Lord tells Moses

915
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:12.600
he's going to harden Pharaoh's heart. And then verse 22 and 23 are the key

916
00:58:12.600 --> 00:58:13.100
verses.

917
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:19.900
Okay. He says, "Then you shall say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord, Israel

918
00:58:19.900 --> 00:58:25.800
is my first born son, and I say to you let my son go that he may

919
00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:28.300
serve me. If you refuse to let him go behold,

920
00:58:28.300 --> 00:58:32.500
I will kill your first born son." Notice that God establishes the

921
00:58:32.500 --> 00:58:37.300
relationship of father-son. Two major metaphors for God's relationship

922
00:58:37.300 --> 00:58:40.300
with his people are husband wife sit all over the place the Old

923
00:58:40.300 --> 00:58:41.400
Testament father son.

924
00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:42.600
This is my son.

925
00:58:42.600 --> 00:58:43.700
Alright.

926
00:58:43.700 --> 00:58:45.900
It's a relational term.

927
00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:47.800
It's that's why he wanted his son to be faithful.

928
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:51.200
Alright. The next that's a little better.

929
00:58:51.200 --> 00:58:54.300
Next passage is Matthew 17 verse 5.

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00:58:56.200 --> 00:58:58.000
This is the account of the Transfiguration.

931
00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:08.900
Matthew 17 verse 5

932
00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:22.000
Alright notice how the Lord speak or how God speaks the father speaks

933
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.500
to his son at the Mount of transfiguration verse 5.

934
00:59:25.500 --> 00:59:29.500
"He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a

935
00:59:29.500 --> 00:59:33.900
voice from the cloud said, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am

936
00:59:33.900 --> 00:59:37.700
well pleased." Now notice our minds automatically go second person of

937
00:59:37.700 --> 00:59:41.300
the Trinity which is fine, but I want you to think about Israel's story,

938
00:59:41.300 --> 00:59:45.000
that's why the Old Testament is still important. Because I think what

939
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:47.300
he was saying, they're equally is wait a minute

940
00:59:47.300 --> 00:59:50.700
this is the one who I'm going to fulfill the promises that I made

941
00:59:50.700 --> 00:59:50.800
to

942
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:52.400
my son Israel.

943
00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:57.300
All right, and it becomes very important when we get to Galatians.

944
00:59:57.300 --> 01:00:02.900
Now, here's the Capper which I love Galatians 3 26 through 29.

945
01:00:05.100 --> 01:00:09.200
Galatians 3 26 through 29,

946
01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:29.500
it's just again beautiful. "For in Christ Jesus

947
01:00:29.500 --> 01:00:35.700
you are all the sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were

948
01:00:35.700 --> 01:00:37.800
baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

949
01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:39.900
There is neither Jew nor Greek

950
01:00:39.900 --> 01:00:41.300
there is neither slave nor free,

951
01:00:41.300 --> 01:00:46.600
there's no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if

952
01:00:46.600 --> 01:00:52.500
you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed heirs according to the

953
01:00:52.500 --> 01:00:52.500
promise."

954
01:00:52.500 --> 01:01:01.000
You see we've been made through Jesus, Israel. Abraham's seed, sons,

955
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:03.000
Israel was God's son the Old Testament

956
01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:04.200
Jesus was God's son,

957
01:01:04.200 --> 01:01:08.700
we are God's son. Notice how that term, son

958
01:01:10.200 --> 01:01:13.600
is very provocative in our culture, but it's a beautiful turn notice

959
01:01:13.600 --> 01:01:17.500
that Paul has totally changed the meaning of that word son.

960
01:01:17.500 --> 01:01:21.300
So you don't even need to think in terms of gender anymore.

961
01:01:21.300 --> 01:01:26.300
He has packed it with a whole different meaning because as

962
01:01:26.300 --> 01:01:28.900
sons we are there is no noticed.

963
01:01:28.900 --> 01:01:30.400
There's no racial differences.

964
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:34.300
There's no class differences or economic differences.

965
01:01:34.300 --> 01:01:36.500
There's no gender differences.

966
01:01:36.500 --> 01:01:39.200
We are all one in Christ Jesus.

967
01:01:39.200 --> 01:01:44.500
It's a beautiful expression that I think it's very relevant for us

968
01:01:44.500 --> 01:01:46.900
today showing us,

969
01:01:47.900 --> 01:01:52.000
how important Israel's story is to us, we're Israel. Notice it that

970
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.900
gives us an identity.

971
01:01:55.600 --> 01:01:59.400
Tells us who we are. Who are we? You don't we don't need to identify

972
01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:00.800
ourselves by our gender.

973
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:03.500
We don't need to identify and our identity in our work.

974
01:02:03.500 --> 01:02:08.200
We don't need to find our identity in material possessions.

975
01:02:08.200 --> 01:02:13.000
We find it in this story of which we are apart.

976
01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:15.900
We are sons of God.

977
01:02:15.900 --> 01:02:23.700
Heirs of eternal life. Notice that he has given us a hope and

978
01:02:23.700 --> 01:02:25.200
a future we don't have to find it ourselves.

979
01:02:25.200 --> 01:02:28.900
That means than this whole question of

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01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:34.900
how are Psalms God's word to us? Remember the psalmist found their

981
01:02:34.900 --> 01:02:36.300
identity in the same story.

982
01:02:37.500 --> 01:02:40.800
They have the same hope the same future as us.

983
01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:45.400
And so when we read a Psalm we can identify start to identify with the

984
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:50.100
beliefs of these poets because they are our beliefs we kind of

985
01:02:50.100 --> 01:02:55.100
assume that. And the language they use becomes our language

986
01:02:55.100 --> 01:03:00.900
it helps inform who we are helps us tell each other the story of which

987
01:03:00.900 --> 01:03:05.200
we are part reminds us of our identity.

988
01:03:05.200 --> 01:03:06.100
Okay?

989
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:11.700
I'm going to stop here and give it you all a break and we'll continue

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01:03:11.700 --> 01:03:17.800
at this point in about 5 to 10 minutes or so. And feel free to come

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01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:20.500
up and ask any questions if you'd like like.