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in the introduction tied use the words a[br]modern 60 if you would kindly send those

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to my family back home that would be[br]very helpful I'd like for them to

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understand really my place in the world[br]I'm not sure they're quite get it

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sometimes a number of years ago I[br]started to feel dissatisfied with what

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felt like a dysfunctional relationship[br]between my fellow Christians and my

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culture american culture and one ways[br]you know you're in a dysfunctional

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relationship this might be helpful for a[br]few minutes and advice relationship

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advice tools as well as you start[br]realizing both parties are seeing each

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other at their worst when the ways you[br]know something has gone wrong is just

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went constantly I'm seeing this other[br]person at their worst and they're seeing

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me at my worst and I start to feel like[br]that was what was happening with the

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Christian community that I loved him as[br]part of the culture that I loved and was

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part of the culture often with seeing[br]Christians at our worst that are most

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vindictive and are most fearful are most[br]judgmental and that when I was in

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Christian settings often when people[br]talked about the culture that we lived

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in that we all shared that what I heard[br]was the culture at its worst culture at

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its most worldly its most damaging and[br]dangerous and it felt like neither side

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was seeing one another at their best and[br]I started asking why in the world is

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this happened why is this you know like[br]a kid who just grows up in a

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dysfunctional family and you don't know[br]where all that came from a right things

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are the way they are but you're in it[br]you belong to it and that's how I felt I

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felt like I without wanting to was part[br]of the story where something had gone

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wrong

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and so I started trying to understand[br]the last and particularly the last

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hundred years of how much lower[br]Christians had related to the culture

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around us and i cant believe that we[br]embraced a series of postures in the

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last hundred years that really did not[br]help us very much one of the things that

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we became known for was condemning[br]culture protests judgments complaint

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criticism and sometimes christians[br]became known especially during a

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residence arafat mostly by what we were[br]against and they're all movements that

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define themselves by the things they[br]didn't do if you didn't do this long

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list of things that maybe you were[br]sufficiently holy and and you know

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sufficiently detached from the world you[br]could call these folks fundamentalist I

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don't think it's only fair the[br]fundamentalists but some of the

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Fundamentalist were kinda known by what[br]they didn't do and their children found

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this very constricting the fundamentals[br]would say don't go to the movies they're

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showing that while there are no good[br]movies and for some of their children

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said no we need to go to the movies and[br]what we need to do is not so much

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condemn culture is analyzed it we need[br]to become students of culture and

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examine the world view of the culture[br]around us and whole shelves of books

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have been written analyzing and engaging[br]culture some of the great book something

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very insightful but I start to feel[br]dissatisfied with this posture to I feel

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like well is all we're gonna do all day[br]all of our lives just analyze what's

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going on that's sort of like education[br]sometimes feels like it's just lots of

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analysis and sometimes I think the[br]academic fallacies once you've analyzed

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something you've changed it actually[br]that's just the first step in any kind

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of constructive engagement and what if[br]we just got stuck in a kind of Christian

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library where all we did was talk about[br]world view but we never added a thing or

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contributed anything

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and then I noticed the summer fellow[br]Christians were really good at imitating

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culture or copying culture and we even[br]got pretty good with photoshop so you

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know we take something interesting[br]happening in the culture around us

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you know the staples easy button which[br]for those who are not familiar with it

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is a red plastic but that does[br]absolutely nothing but you can push it

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when your mad and initially it was just[br]an advertising campaign but people

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started calling staples and saying I[br]need one of those easy but and so they

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eventually gave in and they start[br]manufacturing them to you now can buy an

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easy button and when you think about it[br]red plastic but that sits on your desk

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and does nothing but you push it when[br]your mad that is so much like Jesus

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that's actually there is the gospel is[br]nothing like this Jesus is nothing like

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a red plastic but not solve your[br]problems like these problems one

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solution is just that easy Jesus that's[br]not the gospel and I thought like in our

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rush to imitate or copy culture even[br]with good intentions we ended up

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borrowing all the wrong assumptions of[br]culture that life should be easy there

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should be a button on it God answered my[br]but when I thought the gospels are much

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deeper more difficult and beautiful[br]thing than anybody and then I realized

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okay so we've got people condemning[br]culture we've got people critiquing it

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we've got people copying and then we[br]have a lot of people who just simply

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consumers we just gotta lay back and lie[br]on the counter alarm remote controller

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like I wonder what's on and whatever you[br]know the fundamentalist said don't go to

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movies and their children even Joel the[br]new evangelical said oh go to the movies

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and investigate their world view and the[br]grandchildren of anomalous just go to

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the movies like we don't ask any big[br]questions you know Harold and Kumar do

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tell us whatever great that's what's on

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we don't think about it we don't[br]interact with it we just let it wash

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over us and shape and what struck me[br]about all of these postures was not just

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that they all began with C condemning[br]critiquing copying consuming which

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actually they didn't initially when I[br]just think about this but in a southern

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this friend of mine got a hold of this[br]material insert teaching at his church

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and when I got his notes back everything[br]began with the same letter and I was

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like this is also dislike the southern[br]route to spiritual gift of alliteration

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is it was great gift to the body of[br]Christ acts or so I use it I could

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remember those points you might remember[br]them it all starts on scene it isn't all

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beginning with CD the promise all of[br]these were reactive they all were

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reacting to culture they were waiting[br]for the culture out there to do

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something and then respond with his[br]criticism with analysis with imitation

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with consumption but none of them were[br]about adding something and I wish this

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were just 20th century history but last[br]year in a number of magazines this ad

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ran for a book by a well-known pastor[br]who I respect and appreciate it and I

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have nothing bad to say about the book[br]but the ad is amazing

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these hands are folded in prayer but[br]their their sheets in heavy duty rubber

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gloves and the prayer is deliver us from[br]culture and there's a lot to say about

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this ad you could probably do a whole[br]class on analyzing the messages in this

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very powerful memorable ad but two[br]things struck me about it one was we've

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taken to Lawrence prayer in this little[br]advertising slogan and taking the phrase

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deliver us from evil and just replaced[br]it as if you could just you know one of

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the other culture evil evil culture just[br]get us out of here Jesus as its culture

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and evil are the same thing and then I[br]had another thought which is okay

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suppose god answer this prayer said I[br]have heard you a rubber glove protected

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one with God deliver us to where would[br]we be if God answered this prayer cuz

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culture is not just the bad stuff its[br]buildings its lights it's clothing

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your clothes that you wear culture if[br]you've ever been to a nude beach I spent

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a summer in Greece and got to spend some[br]time on you because I discovered what a

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great gift clothing is to 98% of the[br]Americas I mean it is just it is a

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beautiful thing that we had ourselves[br]this way and it is a terrifying thing

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when it's all British tourists slowly[br]turning into lobsters in the altogether

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on a Greek bTW just less safe please for[br]the love of God in prison culture it got

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delivered us from cultured human beings[br]don't flourish without culture we're

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nothing without all these things that[br]give us structure and meaning and

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possibility and an ability to act in the[br]world so how could not answer this

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prayer and I wondered why is our picture[br]this protection image when it's not

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something more like this kid has just[br]been having so much fun digging in the

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world

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yes the world as dirt and yes there's[br]probably bacteria on his hands right now

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but he can washers and she can come into[br]work and be cleansed renewed and

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reoriented here's an immune system that[br]protects him from the world the worst

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that the world could do to him and he[br]can go out and dig in the dirt and play

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in the world and make something when[br]he's a kid he just makes mud pies and

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sand castles but when he grows up he[br]could actually make something in the

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world and why would that that joyful[br]eight-year-old want to turn into a

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self-protective fearful forty[br]eight-year-old bring to take me out now

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get me out of here rather than what can[br]I do I start to believe that somehow we

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had been missing some chapters in our[br]Bible not literally these chapters are

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in every bound bible but you know[br]everybody has sort of a Bible they

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really know and then parts of the Bible[br]than ever read and I start to feel like

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we're missing for especially important[br]chapters the first two and the last saw

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the first two chapters Genesis one into[br]the story of the good beginning of the

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world and the last revelation 21 and 22[br]this story

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the remaking of the world kadri giving[br]the world its regimes people and if your

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bible does not appear functional Bible[br]the Bible you actually left shape your

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imagination doesn't include those book[br]and chapters in the Bible the first to

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the last year what are you left with a[br]bottle it starts in just three and ends

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in revelation twenty now sir what's[br]justice three this is your biospherians

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what's in just three befall the word[br]fall isn't in there but that's what we

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call it I like to call it the[br]Declaration of Independence

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humanity declared their independence[br]from God they do fall from their

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original dignified statuses image[br]barriers and become embroiled in census

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in the arrivals in the world

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revelation 20 I don't know if you know[br]this one but if you go to certain kinds

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of charges might have heard it what's[br]the last thing we see in revelation

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twenty the lake of fire

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I wanna see that you're fast forward[br]through the movie skip all the dialogue

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and all the dramatic person just watch[br]the judgment secrets right we're

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thinking that always works are swept[br]into the lake of fire

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what happens if you buy list starts with[br]sin and ends with judge

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well it's a bad news too bad news but[br]it's the Bible that begins with that is

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an answer that is which of course leaves[br]the question well what is the good I

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thought about good news what's the good[br]news here and the way the story

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sometimes is told from people who have[br]this Genesis 32 revelation 20 Bible is

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well the good news is that's not your[br]story you're going to be lifted out of

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that story entirely and you'll watch the[br]world go to hell and you'll cheer from a

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heavenly sort of you know bench seats[br]and you'll watch as that story comes to

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its conclusion but you will be taken out[br]of it while others are left behind

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let the reader understand to suffer the[br]fate of the world the judgment of the

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world so the good news is it's not your[br]story

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but what if there's a better story in[br]the Bible that starts with a could just

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this one just has to and ends with AK[br]horas remade world revelation 21 and 22

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how would that change the way we see[br]culture now so this is going to be very

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obvious to you because you have read[br]these chapters but let's just recall

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what they say what they the orientation[br]they give us to the real story of the

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world not a bad news to bed his story[br]but a good news too good news story so

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justice wanted to just a couple themes[br]of course these are very familiar but so

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good just to marinate in the that six[br]times in Genesis one as God is making

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the World God saw that it was good good[br]good good

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the world that culture happens in the[br]world that we human beings find

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ourselves in is not world fundamentally[br]characterized by conflict and violence

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as real as those things are but his but[br]deeper down and further back is a world

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that conflict and said that's made by a[br]very good God into this world God

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introduces these particular creatures[br]made in His image unlike all the other

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creatures and that's what we're[br]surrounded by in a room like this right

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now we're surrounded by image barriers[br]male and female he created them in the

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image of God He created and he says it[br]and now I want you to be fruitful and

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multiply the earth and subdue it go out[br]into this could wild world and start

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culturing and do it everywhere before I[br]don't want just a few of you I want

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teaming image bury all over the world[br]which means by the way I want cultural

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diversity because there's these[br]image-makers multiply and spread out

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through the incredibly diverse natural[br]world they would naturally develop all

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kinds of different cultures that made[br]different things in the world in

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different climates in different[br]geographies and different latitudes and

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so the cultural diversity that we get[br]little glimpses of in rooms like this is

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actually part of God's original good[br]intentions for the world

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and it and one of them to do till it and[br]keep it that world is good take care of

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it

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cultivated and then once the image birds[br]are in the World God says now it's not

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just good it's very good so the story of[br]genesis is from good to very good a good

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natural world but once cultures in the[br]world it's very good couple of Surgeons

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of this so the world has green and green[br]is good

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grant is part of just the natural order[br]of plants but human beings take the

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Grand that harvested they crush it they[br]millet they combine it with a little bit

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of Houston salt and water and a little[br]bit of time and they put in and out

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comes bread and so you could say grain[br]is good but bread is very good

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the world has grapes and image various[br]come along they harvest the grapes they

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may be trampled underfoot or crushed[br]them in some land put them in a vat give

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it some time and an amazing thing[br]happens if you're baptists it turns into

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groups use its extraordinary actually[br]how that works but I'm episcopalian and

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for us it turns into wine actually I[br]just got a lot of trouble are a little

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trouble and I would lead the group is[br]good but why is very good work riches is

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also very good and the difference is[br]image barriers you don't ever get bread

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without image peers you dredges there[br]are no bread trees and it's only through

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cultivation that happens at that very[br]good disappears one appears in the world

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it's only through human beings taking[br]the very good breaks and acting on them

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culturing them that you get the very[br]good wine another example make use of

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this so instructor just a major court to[br]see major chord

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and you know the world is full of sound[br]from the moment that God creates but

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it's not real human beings come along[br]when human beings go along somebody gets

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the idea you know if you stretch out a[br]string of a certain kind of got your

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medal until it's tight and tense and[br]then you pluck it or you strike it as a

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piano what do you get a sound a note and[br]that's not just sound that's music

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that's a musical harmonious no one[br]single note are all these overtime

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that's physics have time to go into it[br]but trust me in that single resonating

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string is not just this one of a kind of[br]here but also the fifth about that and

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eventually another note up there which[br]we call the third above the 50 and all

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these all these frequencies are in a[br]single struck or plucked string and they

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make up what we call a major court

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and then you can take a slightly more[br]complicated 24

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any kind of lead you back back back to[br]the spot

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or cords 14

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you can now it's the relative minor it's[br]minor under 14 516 minor you are done

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you're like set

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often as you want

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this most basic secrets and he's just[br]done 14

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in the sport

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so you start to explore all these other[br]possibilities with this one

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visit here for a moment

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what's coming up

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we all those harmonies and overtones are[br]funding

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you cannot just

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and now it's been the scene

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is very good and that's just the[br]simplest little piece and whenever you

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see image barriers doing what they're[br]made to do this is what they're doing

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taking the raw materials the good raw[br]materials of the road gonna they're

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saying how can I cultivate this how can[br]I create with this what possibilities

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are lying in there waiting to be[br]explored we mentioned my family at home

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so here's a picture of my wife my wife[br]is a musician but she's also a physicist

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my wife teaches cause students physics[br]and she works in a lab with all this

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complicated equipment behind her I have[br]no idea what she does or what equipment

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does please don't ask she also does math[br]right so I have no idea what these

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equations are I'm told they're important[br]and that like they make the world work

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and so forth and that's what my wife[br]does and in her own way she's doing what

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doc was doing and what artists do and[br]what engineers do and what doctor says

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she's taking a part of the world and[br]digging deeply into it until she finds

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what's good in it and then using her[br]image bearing capacity she's adding to

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the very goodness of the world that's[br]the story of genesis good to very good

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natural world to cultured world now very[br]quickly what happens when you go over

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the revelation 21 I saw a new heaven and[br]a new earth for the first seven in the

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first year that passed away in the sea[br]was no more and I saw the holy garden

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the restored Garden of Eden coming down[br]out of heaven from God with none of that

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icky human culture to be found in it[br]anywhere

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this is actually really from second[br]opinions 315 which is the most cited

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book in the Bible god helps those who[br]help themselves

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second opinions 15 know there's not what[br]travelers and 21 says the whole thing it

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does not fair I saw in your garden it[br]says I saw a new heaven on earth yes the

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first in the first are the passwords yes[br]there seems no marks but I saw the holy

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city New Jerusalem coming down out of[br]heaven from God not a guard at a city

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and what is a city it's a place where[br]the diversity and depth of culture has

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reached critical mass where everywhere[br]you look you see culture in all of its

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possibility of its variety and in this[br]work in the city

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foundations the wall the city are[br]adorned with every Jul John list them so

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that I'd never heard of it doesn't say[br]every mineral doesn't say you know there

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is a mineral minerals are nature nature[br]natural our culture says the kings of

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the earth will bring their glory and[br]people will bring into that city the

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glory and the honor of the nation's the[br]work of culture making will not be lost

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will not simply be swept into the lake[br]of fire

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anything that was the fulfillment of[br]God's intention for his creation brings

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glory to God will be in that city

0:24:42.110,0:24:46.040
this was on my Starbucks cup couple[br]years ago when they were putting quotes

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on the sides of the cups from joel stein[br]is a columnist for the LA times here's

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what he said how dan is totally[br]overrated it seems boring clouds

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listening to people play the harp it[br]should be someone you can't wait to go

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like a luxury hotel blue skies and soft[br]music were enough to keep people in line

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in the 17th century kevin has to step it[br]up

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they're basically getting my because[br]they only have to be better I reverse I

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had three thoughts one was not what we[br]do not live up to some otherworldly

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cloud hartsfield place nothing against[br]harps but you know there are other

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instruments saxophones

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milan's you know electric guitars we[br]believe heaven is coming to Earth we

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believe that the best meal you've ever[br]had the funniest joke ever told the best

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story you've ever read or just piece of[br]the kind of abundance of the world is

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waiting for my second thought was who in[br]the world told Joel Stein this is what

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we Christians and then I heard this[br]third awful we told him he thinks this

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is no

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go out into this world to take the good[br]World God is made that others have

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already cultivated made very good and[br]you do your part to shape it to tell it

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to keep it to cultivate to create[br]something that might be called the

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quarry and the honor of the nation's[br]that will give God glory and his image

0:26:47.190,0:26:55.330
that's what we go out to do they have a[br]wonderful day you're dismissed Biola

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