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hello again one last time my name is
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dawn Carson in this final session I want
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to talk about the God who triumphs by
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this title I mean to say more than that
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this God is actually there and not just
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a figment of our religious imaginations
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and that he eventually triumphs over all
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other ostensible gods that is doubtless
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true but the last two chapters of the
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Bible promise much more God is bringing
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the world to a consummation the final
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restoration what the Bible variously
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calls a new heaven and a new earth or
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the new Jerusalem not only will justice
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be done it will be seen to be done the
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final transformation of Christ's blood
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bought people will bring about
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resurrection existence and a universe so
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renovated that no hint of death sin
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corruption hatred and idolatry will lurk
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there
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biblically faithful Christianity
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including the call to sacrifice for
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others as we follow King Jesus does not
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really make much sense unless it makes
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eternal sense so Christians look forward
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to the end even though we know that end
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may be long delayed but we hunger for it
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and we join Christians throughout the
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ages who have prayed even so come Lord
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Jesus we come now to the last book of
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the Bible the last two chapters
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revelation 21 and 22 I'm not going to
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read right through both of them but I
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will read revelation 21 and the first
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few verses of 22 let me begin however
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rather adjacently in the Sermon on the
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Mount reported in Matthew 5 6 and 7
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jesus said that we are not to lay up
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treasures on earth
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for ourselves where moth and rust
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corrode where thieves dig through and
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steal are where the stock market can
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erode at all rather were to lay up
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treasures in heaven where moth and rust
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cannot corrode where thieves cannot dig
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through and steal and where the stock
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market has no effect whatsoever and then
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he adds an astonishingly important
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sentence he adds for where your treasure
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is there your heart will be also
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now note carefully what he says he does
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not say guard your heart
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he says choose your treasure now there
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are other passages where we're told to
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guard our hearts guard your heart wrote
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of it are the Wellsprings of life yeah
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there are texts like that but in this
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passage in the Sermon on the Mount
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that's not what Jesus says what he says
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is your heart will follow your treasure
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so choose your treasure or write in
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other words if what you value the most
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has to do with treasures down here
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things which may in themselves be good
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for which to give thanks things to
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appreciate if nevertheless that is the
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entire horizon of your treasure that's
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where your heart will go part now not in
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some sort of romantic or merely
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emotional sense so often in the Bible
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heart has to do with the the inmost
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being of a human being who you are what
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you think what you cherish and if what
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you value out there has to do with
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everything in this light and that's all
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and that's where you heart will go
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that's where your imagination goes
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that's where your energy goes that's
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where your creative imagination goes
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that that's of what you think abouts
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what you hope for and it may be if
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you're a Christian that it's some sort
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of deep but fairly insignificant Creed
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level you also believe there's a new
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heaven and the new earth but it doesn't
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mean a blessed thing about how you live
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because your heart has its treasures
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here
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if on the other hand though you can
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thoroughly appreciate all the good
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things that God gives us in this light
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and there are so many of them yet what
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you treasure the most has to do with the
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new heaven and the new earth that's
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where your imagination will go that's
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where your energies will go that's where
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your heart goes now Christians in parts
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of the world where there is a lot of
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persecution or violence or suffering
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they have no difficulty understanding
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that at all you meet Christians in the
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Southern Sudan they understand that you
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meet Christians in Iran they understand
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that
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but when we have so much in the West
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then our heart follows so much here that
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it's difficult for our hearts to go
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pitter-patter and become really excited
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about what's over there that means that
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one of the things that we ought to do if
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we're to take the injunction of the Lord
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Jesus seriously is take time pretty
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often to reflect from the Bible what the
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new heaven and the earth are like what
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the new heaven and the new earth are
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like we need to fire up our imagination
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so we we see what it is that the Lord
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Jesus is commanding us to treasure to
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think about to value to run after and
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there are a few passages in all of the
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Bible more calculated to do that than
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revelation 21 in revelation 22 again
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they're deeply symbol Laden and there
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isn't time in the few minutes left for
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me to go through every verse step by
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step step by step there are good
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commentaries out there if you're really
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curious I'll name some afterwards but
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nevertheless even at a superficial fly
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past you begin to see what Jesus is on
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about chapter 21 the seer John writes
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then I saw a new heaven and a new earth
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for the first heaven and the first earth
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had passed away and there was no longer
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any sea I saw the holy city the New
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Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from
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God prepared as a bride beautifully
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dressed for her husband and I heard a
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loud voice from the throne saying look
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God's dwelling places now among the
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people and he will dwell with them they
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will be his people and God Himself will
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be with them and be their God he will
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wipe every tear from their eyes there
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will be no more death or mourning or
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crying or pain for the old order of
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things has passed away he was seated on
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the throne said I am making everything
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new then he said write this down for
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these words are trustworthy and true he
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said to me it is done I am the Alpha and
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the Omega the beginning
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and the end to the thirsty I will give
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water without cost from the spring of
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the water of life those who are
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victorious will inherit all this and I
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will be their God and they will be my
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children but the Cowardly the
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unbelieving the vile the murderers the
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sexually immoral those who practice
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magic arts the idolaters all Liars they
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will be consigned to the fiery lake of
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burning sulfur this is the second death
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one of the seven angels who had the
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seven bowls full of the seven last
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plagues came and said to me come I will
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show you the bride the wife of the Lamb
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and he carried me away in the spirit to
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a mountain great and high and showed me
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the holy city Jerusalem coming down out
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of heaven from God it's Sean with a
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glory of God and its brilliance was like
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that of a very precious jewel like a
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Jasper clear as crystal it had a great
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high wall with twelve gates and with
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twelve angels at the gates on the gates
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were written the names of the twelve
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tribes of Israel there were three gates
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in the east three on the North three on
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the South three on the west the wall of
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the city had twelve foundations and on
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them were the names of the Twelve
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Apostles of the Lamb I will skip down to
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verse 22 I did not see a temple in the
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city because the Lord God Almighty and
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the lamb are its temple the city does
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not need the Sun or the moon to shine on
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it for the glory of God gives it light
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and the lamb is its land the nations
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will walk by its light and the kings of
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the earth will bring their splendor into
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it on no day will its gates ever be shut
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for there will be no night there the
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glory and honor of the nations will be
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brought into it
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nothing impure will ever enter it nor
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will anyone who does what is shameful or
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deceitful but only those whose names are
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written in the Lamb's Book of Life then
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the angel showed me the river of the
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water of life as clear as crystal
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flowing from the throne of God and of
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the lamb down the middle of the great
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street of the city on each side of the
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river stood the tree of life bearing
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twelve crops of fruit yielding its fruit
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every month and the leaves of the tree
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are for the healing of the nations no
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longer will there be any curse the
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throne of God
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of the lamb will be in the city and his
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servants will serve him they will see
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his face and his name will be on their
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foreheads there will be no more night
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they will not need the light of a lamp
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or the light of the Sun for the Lord God
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will give them light and they will reign
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forever and ever
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some of us at Trinity where I teach in
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introductory classes of what we call
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biblical theology sometimes gives
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students the assignment to work through
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Revelation 21 and 22 and pick up every
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single allusion to anything in the Old
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Testament there are scads of them what
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these two chapters do is pull together
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so much from the Old Testament so much
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of what we've seen in these 13 previous
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sessions we can only pick up a small
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part of them but they're wonderful what
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does John see he sees what is new verses
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1 to 8 what especially cymbal Laden
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verses 9 to 21 what is missing verses 22
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to 27 and then what is central at the
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beginning of 22 so first what is new one
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to eight what he sees is initially
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nothing less than a new heaven and a new
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earth well of course that's calling to
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mind the opening words of Genesis 1 God
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made the heaven and the earth so the
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opening of the Bible connects with a
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very closing of the Bible but now this
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new heaven and new earth as we'll see in
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the following verses is untainted by any
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of the residue of sin of Genesis 3 it's
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a new heaven and earth that's what he
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sees a transformation of existence you
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find this language new heaven a new
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earth going all the way back to Isaiah
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and coming forward from time to time in
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the Bible it shows up for example in
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one of Peters writings sometimes the
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same thing is described in other terms
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the Apostle Paul writes about this whole
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world order
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groaning groaning like a woman in in
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pregnancy waiting for the final
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transformation of God's people when the
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whole universe will be transformed as
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well and then it changes I saw a new
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heaven and the new earth and then I saw
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the holy city the New Jerusalem coming
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out of heaven now we're not to think of
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a new creation into which the New
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Jerusalem comes rather this is simply
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changing the metaphor apocalyptic is
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doing that
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the ultimate state can be thought of as
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in you heaven at a new earth or it can
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be thought of as a new city and you are
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seeing different facets of the same
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reality in the first case in you heaven
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in the new earth the thing that John
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comments about it is this there was no
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more sea well for those of us who love
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the sea that seems a bit harsh doesn't
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it but what you must understand is that
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Tim the sea so often for the ancient
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Israelites is associated with chaos they
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were not a seagoing people I was born in
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Canada but my parents were both born in
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the UK and basically British people are
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born with saltwater in their veins
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they're an island community there are
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seafaring people so their literature and
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their poetry is full of this even as a
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boy growing up in Canada with some of
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this heritage I memorized poems like I
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must go down to the sea again to the
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lonely sea in the sky and all I ask is a
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tall ship and a star to steer her by and
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so forth but the ancient Israelites
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learn like that they were a landlocked
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people and the one time under Solomon
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that they tried to build a navy in fact
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the ships would have to be had to be
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manned by people from seagoing pagan
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ports up the coast so as a result
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Israelite poetry
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is full of negative uses of the seeds
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full of chaos and danger and the like so
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and Isaiah 57 the wicked are like the
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sea which turns up muck and mire forever
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you see and in that kind of heritage
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what John says is I saw a new heaven and
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the new earth and there was no more sea
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this is not talking about the
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hydrological principles of the new
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reality whatever they will be it's
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saying there's no more chaos no more
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destruction
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no more muck and mire the vision of a
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new Jerusalem calls down old Jerusalem
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which was supposed to be the city of the
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Great King the city of the temple the
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city where God manifested himself to his
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people but now it's a New Jerusalem
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without taint or corruption or being
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taken over by the Babylonians or
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anything like that that but it is a
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profoundly social vision do you see so
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much of us so many of us in the West
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think of spirituality in highly
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individualistic terms but this is the
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people of God in a social context a city
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I know that in some of our Western
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literature the city can be seen as the
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cesspool of iniquity but in the Bible it
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can be seen both as a sink a reservoir
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of evil and it can be seen as a glorious
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place of beauty where God lives with his
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people in fact some people of
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tongue-in-cheek call the book of
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Revelation a Tale of Two Cities because
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in this book you have set out Babylon
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with all of its symbolism and the New
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Jerusalem with all of its symbolism and
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then it changes again coming down out of
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heaven
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it's a city finally brought about by God
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prepared us a bride beautifully dressed
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for her husband you change it again the
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city is now a bride if any of you young
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chaps are about to get married I
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strongly urge you not to say to your
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wife
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the first night oh you're such a lovely
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city or you remind me of a big city or
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any such thing because the aim here is
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not typical of apocalyptic literature to
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confuse the two metaphors but to leap
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from one to the other therefore again
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and again and again God is presented in
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the Old Testament as the kind of
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bridegroom of his people and it comes
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along in the New Testament similarly
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Christ is the fiance and the church is
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his fiancee waiting for the final
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consummation their final union the
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marriage supper of the Lamb it's a
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spectacular way of saying in effect the
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joy the intimacy the pleasure the
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missing together of soul and mind and
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heart and body which we best know in our
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small corner in a well-ordered marriage
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is only an indication of the kind of
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intimacy and joy when the church is
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united with Christ forever the marriage
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supper of the Lamb that's language that
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is used a little farther on in the same
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chapter and I heard a loud voice from
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the throne saying look God's dwelling
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place is now among the people and he
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will dwell with them that language is
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used again and again in the Old
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Testament in Leviticus 26 the third book
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of the Bible when the tabernacle is
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being built for the ancient Israelites
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in the desert and there is not even the
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first land the promised land there is
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not a temple they have a tabernacle
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that's where God makes himself present
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among his people
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you read that God says I will put my
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dwelling place among you I will walk
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among you and be your God you will be my
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people and then when the New Covenant is
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promised in Jeremiah 31 God says I will
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put my law in their minds I will be
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their God they will be my people
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have the same language but under the Old
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Covenant it was bound up with God's
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self-disclosure his manifestation in
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that Tabernacle under the terms of the
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New Covenant it's God's self-disclosure
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his manifestation in Christ and in the
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church among his people the same
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language but the whole thing gets
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ratcheted up and now in the last stage
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the same language I will be their God
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they will be my people the same language
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but it's ratcheted up to such a place
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now that the intimacy is so great God is
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so much present with them that it is
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unthinkable that any residue of sin or
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decay or judgment or loss or death can
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prevail anymore there is a ratcheting of
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EPIK ratcheting up of expectations until
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this consummation of perfection so we
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read they will be his people God Himself
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will be with them and be their God he
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will wipe every tear from their eyes
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there will be no more death or mourning
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or crying or pain for the old order of
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things has passed away here eternal
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blessedness is couched in negation that
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is no tears no pain no bad stop that's
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only the negative side of the glory to
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come the positive side is depicted in
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the imagery that still follows to be
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with him in glory and splendor to see
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the limitless perfections that all of
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eternity will still not exhaust because
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he is our God and we are dwelling with
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him he with us forever in calculable
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and then almost as if our faith needs to
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be reassured he was seated on the throne
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that is God Himself said I am making
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everything new then he said write this
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down for these words are trustworthy and
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true he said to me it is done I am Alpha
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and Omega the first and last letters of
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the alphabet the beginning and the end
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from creation to the consummation of the
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new creation from creation and it's
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perfection with this horrible dip of sin
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and destruction and decay to the work
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that I have done in the sending of my
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own son and the pouring out of the
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spirit now to the consummation I am
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Alpha and Omega the beginning and the
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end the turning point is Jesus and now
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we arrive at the consummation to the
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thirsty I will give water without cost
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there's grace all over again water
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without cost from the spring of the
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water of life those who are victorious
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and in this book those who are
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victorious those who are overcomers are
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simply those who persevere to the end
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and confidence in Jesus that's what it
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means to be victorious not to be the
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kind of Christian who sails through life
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with nothing ever sticking to them to be
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victorious in the book of Revelation
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simply means that you persevere in faith
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enlist by God's grace to the very end
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those who are victorious will inherit
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all this and I will be their God and
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they will be my children but the
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Cowardly the unbelieving the vile the
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murderers the sexually immoral those who
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practice magic arts the idolaters and
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all Liars they will be consigned to the
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fiery lake of burning sulfur this is the
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second death
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so what is new the new heaven the new
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earth the new Jerusalem the consummated
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union between Christ people and Christ
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spectacular then what is deeply simba
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Laden in verses 9 to 21 here it would
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take an hour just to work through all
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the symbols let me just pick up one or
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two of them I don't have time for more
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than that we're told that the city that
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john sees shines with a glory of God
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that is the people the city coming out
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of heaven this social entity it shines
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with the glory of God let us be quite
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frank the church here today even the
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very best churches the churches that are
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full of the gospel the churches where
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there's discipline and accountability
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where Christians really do love each
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other we are a flawed Bunch the church
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is also full of sin it's full of sinners
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like you and me declare just yes but
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that are still not not not yet perfected
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not even close to what we will be but
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one day the city itself will glow with
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the presence of God no taint anywhere
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the language is drawn from the Old
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Testament when the Old Testament
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prophets anticipated to Jerusalem that
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would be built after the Exile looking
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forward to the ultimate Jerusalem arise
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shine for your light has come this is a
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dress designed to Jerusalem and the
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glory of the Lord
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Rises upon you see darkness covers the
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earth and thick darkness over the
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people's but the Lord Rises upon you and
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his glory appears over you that's Isaiah
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60 and now you see God's glory has
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manifested in the church in the New
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Jerusalem then notice the strange
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dimensions of this city verse 15 the
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angel who walked with me had a measuring
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rod of gold to measure the city its
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gates and its walls the city was laid
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out like a square as long as it
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was wide he measured the city with the
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rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in
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length and as wide and high as it is
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long now the significance of the 12,000
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and 144 apocalyptic loves symbolism and
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it's calling to mind the 12 apostles the
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12 tribes of Israel it's the way of
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saying all of the old covenant people
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the new covenant people together
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constitute this this unified people like
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the book of Ephesians one new humanity
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in Christ but a city built like a cube
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even the most spectacular of our
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high-rise cities doesn't look cube-like
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doesn't this is simple Laden again so
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you stop and ask yourself okay where is
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there a cube in the Old Testament and
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there's only one it's the most holy
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place of the tabernacle or the temple
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it's why I mentioned on the way by that
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the tabernacle was built three times as
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long as it was wide and 2/3 of it took
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up the entrance part the holy place and
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the last third Ark of the Covenant
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perfectly cube like the blood of bull
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and goat was poured out in the presence
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of God on the day of atonement perfectly
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cube like it was the place where God
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manifested himself in his glory when the
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blood was poured out and now we're told
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the whole city is like a cube that is to
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say all of us are forever in the very
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presence of God we don't need any
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mediating priest we don't need any blood
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sacrifices it's equivalent to what we
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discovered when Christ was crucified the
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veil of the temple was rent and we can
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be immediately ourselves directly in the
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presence of God and now the whole New
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Jerusalem is built like a cube and that
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brings me to the things that are missing
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verses 22 to 27 number 1 I did not see a
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temple in the city
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because the Lord God Almighty and the
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lamb are its temple there's no temple in
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the city because the whole city is built
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like a cube you're already in the most
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holy place you don't have a temple
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within the holy place the temple is a
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mark of mediation or to change the
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language just a wee bit God Himself the
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one who sits on the throne and the lamb
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are the temple the focal point the
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mediating place the whole city is that
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it is in the presence of God completely
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always forever so you don't need these
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mediating temples that have served us
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across the millennia to teach us to
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prepare us for the coming of Christ and
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then we're told there's no Sun or moon
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the city does not need the Sun or the
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moon to shine on it for the glory of God
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gives it light and the lamb is its land
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now this is not a way of unpacking for
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us the astronomical structures of the
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new heaven and the new earth any more
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than the absence of a sea is giving us
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the hydrological Arrangements it's
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simple Layton the point is that in the
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ancient world when you have night in a
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culture where there's no electric light
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the night was the time when you shut
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down the city gates that's when you had
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some security you made yourself safe
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because the night time was bound up with
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danger and and wickedness and so the Sun
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in the moon not only give us our time
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spans but give us the cycles of life
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when the gates are shut when there is
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more danger and you hope for the coming
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of the light it becomes symbol aid and
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anticipating the coming of the ultimate
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light the final light and now we're told
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it doesn't need the Sun of the moon
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anymore this city for the glory of God
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gives it light and the lamb is its lamb
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the nations will walk by its light the
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kings of the earth will bring their
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splendor into it on no day will its
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gates ever be shut for there will be no
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night there no day
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sure no curse no sin no rebellion and
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then more sweepingly
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no impurity verse 27 nothing impure will
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ever enter it nor will anyone who does
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what is shameful or deceitful but only
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those whose names are written in the
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Lamb's Book of Life
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have you ever tried to imagine what it
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would like what it would be like not
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only to be immaculately perfectly pure
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but to live in a culture that was
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immaculately perfectly pure it is so
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hard to imagine what would it be like
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never ever ever to have lied about
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anybody or anything what would it be
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like always always always to have loved
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God with heart and soul and mind and
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strength and your neighbor as yourself
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what would it be like to live in a
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society where that was true of
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absolutely everyone around you don't you
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see
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that's normal
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that's normal in God's mind it's the way
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it was at the beginning
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it's the way it will be at the end but
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now with resurrection existence and no
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possibility even of falling no impurity
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ever allowed to enter there none no one
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on the ship no greed no Homa costs no
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hate no betrayal no jealousy above all
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no idolatry completely and utterly and
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totally and joyfully God centered
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because it's the way it should be and
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finding all of our supreme joy and
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contentment and the God who is there
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disclosing himself forever and perfectly
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inexhaustibly before his own blood
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bought people
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so you come to the culmination what is
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central in 22 one two five
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- things are reiterated the water of
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life flowing from the throne of God and
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the land verses one two three language
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is drawn in part from Genesis again the
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angel showed me the river of the water
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of life is clear as crystal flowing from
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the throne of God and of the land notice
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this throne of God and of the Lamb that
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harks all the way back to the great
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vision of Revelation four and five that
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I mentioned in the last session in the
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previous session that is the Lamb who
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emerges from the throne
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and is the one who brings all of God's
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purposes to pass because he's the Lion
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King it is a shared throne as it were it
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is the throne of God and of the Lamb and
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all that we need for eternal life comes
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from his reign the water of life comes
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from his throne utterly dependent upon
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him with an immaculate supply down the
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middle of the great city of Azusa Street
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of the city on each side of the river
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stood the tree of life bearing twelve
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crops of fruit yielding its fruit every
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month
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the 12 months reminding us of the twelve
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tribes one more time and of the 12
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apostles all the people of God and such
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a transformation that there's healing of
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the nation's
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no more sin indeed the most spectacular
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part of the whole vision is found in
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verses 4 and 5 it is sometimes called
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the beatific vision the blessed vision
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listen to these words they will see his
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face and his name will be on their
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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,320
foreheads there will be no more night
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they will not need the light of a lamp
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or the light of the Sun
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for the Lord God will give them light
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and they will reign forever they will
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see his face
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do you remember Exodus 32 33 34 where
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Moses asked to see more of God's glory
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00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:52,100
to see God's face God said no one can
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see my face and live the closest we can
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get before the consummation to seeing
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God as as he has disclosed himself in
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Christ Jesus in the god man but now in
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this splendor we have been so
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transformed ourselves that our
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00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,950
sinfulness as it were has been burned
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away the last stages of the old nature
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00:35:22,430 --> 00:35:27,290
and it's sinful desires all gone and now
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00:35:27,290 --> 00:35:29,960
in God's grace we have the privilege of
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looking at of gazing at transcendent
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00:35:33,590 --> 00:35:36,100
holiness
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00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,280
we sometimes sing these things and
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scarcely understand them face-to-face
705
00:35:44,530 --> 00:35:48,700
with Christ my Savior face-to-face watch
706
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will it be when with rapture I behold
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00:35:50,950 --> 00:35:53,620
him Jesus Christ who died for me only
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00:35:53,620 --> 00:35:55,660
faintly now I see him with a Darkling
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00:35:55,660 --> 00:35:58,480
veil between but a better day is coming
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00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:04,290
when his glory will be seen
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00:36:10,750 --> 00:36:13,580
the wonder of the new heaven and the new
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earth is not in the first instance that
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00:36:17,270 --> 00:36:19,190
you may be linked up with your mama who
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00:36:19,190 --> 00:36:23,120
has gone on ahead undoubtedly there will
715
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,130
be a reunion of the people of God
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undoubtedly but the Bible says pretty
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little about that actually compared with
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how much it says about the sheer
719
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god-centered spectacular unimaginable
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00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,650
glory that will be ours forever in in
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00:36:42,650 --> 00:36:46,670
ceasing sweep of glory for all eternity
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00:36:46,670 --> 00:36:50,170
as we contemplate God in His perfections
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and all the other biblical language
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about the work we'll have and the
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00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,850
responsibility we'll have and the worlds
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00:36:55,850 --> 00:36:57,740
that we may well supervise our cities
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00:36:57,740 --> 00:36:59,720
that we rule over or whatever it's all
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00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:01,700
there in biblical descriptions of one
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00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:03,020
sort or another but at the heart of
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00:37:03,020 --> 00:37:04,520
everything and the heart of everything
731
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:10,810
is the sheer cut hood of God which
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00:37:10,810 --> 00:37:14,300
consumes us and empowers us and leaves
733
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:21,170
us perpetually transformed part of my
734
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job takes me to many different parts of
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the world
736
00:37:25,430 --> 00:37:32,810
I fly far too much but once in a while
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00:37:32,810 --> 00:37:34,820
I'm closer to home and then I Drive and
738
00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:38,540
when I Drive I bring lots of music and
739
00:37:38,540 --> 00:37:40,820
my music tastes I have to tell you are
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00:37:40,820 --> 00:37:46,940
painfully eclectic not too too long ago
741
00:37:46,940 --> 00:37:52,730
I was listening to Roger Whitacre a Kiwi
742
00:37:52,730 --> 00:37:56,720
by origin New Zealand er a kind of New
743
00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:58,970
Zealand folk singer who then starts
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00:37:58,970 --> 00:38:00,410
singing the folk songs of many different
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00:38:00,410 --> 00:38:04,910
parts of the world and he sang a folk
746
00:38:04,910 --> 00:38:07,390
song from Canada which immediately
747
00:38:07,390 --> 00:38:13,000
perked up my ears he's saying a song of
748
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a Canadian part of the world came Breton
749
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a song of Cape Breton and the last
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00:38:19,810 --> 00:38:22,890
stanza puts it this way
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00:38:22,890 --> 00:38:28,130
if my time could end perfectly I know
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how I'd want it to be God's gift of
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00:38:32,790 --> 00:38:38,300
heaven would be made up of three mile of
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00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:43,560
Cape Breton and me and I thought to
755
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,230
myself my dear Roger you just defined
756
00:38:46,230 --> 00:38:51,900
hell because Roger and his love would
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00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:53,480
breed like rabbits
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00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,910
sinners still and you'd have Cain and
759
00:38:56,910 --> 00:38:59,220
Abel all over again and another cycle of
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00:38:59,220 --> 00:39:01,950
a downward spiral God's gift of heaven
761
00:39:01,950 --> 00:39:05,610
would be made up of three he's still
762
00:39:05,610 --> 00:39:07,590
thinking in self focused terms how much
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00:39:07,590 --> 00:39:09,270
I like the geography of Cape Breton and
764
00:39:09,270 --> 00:39:13,380
how much I love my love God's gift of
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heaven is first and foremost consumed
766
00:39:17,390 --> 00:39:20,130
with a centrality of God such that for
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00:39:20,130 --> 00:39:23,090
the first time without any footnotes any
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taint we will know experientially what
769
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it means to obey what Jesus calls the
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00:39:30,870 --> 00:39:33,930
most important commandment to love him
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00:39:33,930 --> 00:39:35,340
with heart and soul and mind and
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00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:39,930
strength and we will so be transformed
773
00:39:39,930 --> 00:39:43,520
in this beatific vision that will know
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00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,900
experientially what it means to love our
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neighbors as ourselves and so Christians
776
00:39:51,660 --> 00:39:54,240
in every generation in every century in
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every country all over the world have
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learned to come together and pray in
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words drawn from the end of this chapter
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yes even so come Lord Jesus
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let us pray
782
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how constrained is our vision how
783
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inadequate our words how paltry our love
784
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for you Lord God in the wake of all that
785
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,160
you have done and in the wake of all
786
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,800
that you have disclosed of yourself in
787
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your son in your word fill our hearts
788
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with joy that we may not only be ashamed
789
00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:08,580
of sin and loathe it but also be drawn
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00:41:08,580 --> 00:41:12,050
to your own dear son to holiness all
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00:41:12,050 --> 00:41:15,150
secured by Christ and his cross work on
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00:41:15,150 --> 00:41:16,280
our behalf
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00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,720
draw us on to the new heaven and the new
794
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,390
earth precisely because that will also
795
00:41:21,390 --> 00:41:24,720
make us better stewards of your grace
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00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:32,339
year granted even now it may be so in
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00:41:32,339 --> 00:41:36,300
our experience that the Holy Spirit is
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the downpayment of the promised
799
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inheritance the anticipation of what
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00:41:43,470 --> 00:41:46,550
will one day be
801
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,609
so shape our lives by gratitude and
802
00:41:53,609 --> 00:41:57,480
adoration give us courage and stamina
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00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:02,450
and with it holy joy and a love for the
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00:42:02,450 --> 00:42:09,599
transcendentally holy open our eyes to
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see Jesus the costs that he bore the
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00:42:17,130 --> 00:42:23,820
grace that He pours out upon us till we
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are ravished by his beauty consumed by a
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00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:40,380
heart full of adoration for Jesus sake
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amen
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[Applause]
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hello my name is dawn Carson I thought
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it might be appropriate to come back one
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more time to thank you for staying with
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this series to the end
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my dearest hope and prayer is that the
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series has begun in you a lifelong habit
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of humble and careful Bible study
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perhaps some of you have become
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Christians in the course of the series
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please please attach yourself to a local
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church where God is reverenced where the
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Bible is well taught where Jesus is
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loved where the cross and resurrection
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are central and where Christians are
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growing in maturity and godliness you
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will also find a lot of useful resources
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to help you all free on the website of
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the gospel coalition that's the gospel
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coalition org god bless you
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you
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