WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.280 in the introduction tied use the words a modern 60 if you would kindly send those 00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:16.869 to my family back home that would be very helpful I'd like for them to 00:00:16.869 --> 00:00:20.420 understand really my place in the world I'm not sure they're quite get it 00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:31.369 sometimes a number of years ago I started to feel dissatisfied with what 00:00:31.369 --> 00:00:37.760 felt like a dysfunctional relationship between my fellow Christians and my 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:41.829 culture american culture and one ways you know you're in a dysfunctional 00:00:41.829 --> 00:00:47.930 relationship this might be helpful for a few minutes and advice relationship 00:00:47.930 --> 00:00:54.030 advice tools as well as you start realizing both parties are seeing each 00:00:54.030 --> 00:00:58.480 other at their worst when the ways you know something has gone wrong is just 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:02.730 went constantly I'm seeing this other person at their worst and they're seeing 00:01:02.730 --> 00:01:08.680 me at my worst and I start to feel like that was what was happening with the 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.780 Christian community that I loved him as part of the culture that I loved and was 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:18.500 part of the culture often with seeing Christians at our worst that are most 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:27.850 vindictive and are most fearful are most judgmental and that when I was in 00:01:27.850 --> 00:01:32.229 Christian settings often when people talked about the culture that we lived 00:01:32.229 --> 00:01:37.750 in that we all shared that what I heard was the culture at its worst culture at 00:01:37.750 --> 00:01:43.130 its most worldly its most damaging and dangerous and it felt like neither side 00:01:43.130 --> 00:01:49.450 was seeing one another at their best and I started asking why in the world is 00:01:49.450 --> 00:01:53.720 this happened why is this you know like a kid who just grows up in a 00:01:53.720 --> 00:01:57.350 dysfunctional family and you don't know where all that came from a right things 00:01:57.350 --> 00:02:01.880 are the way they are but you're in it you belong to it and that's how I felt I 00:02:01.880 --> 00:02:05.500 felt like I without wanting to was part of the story where something had gone 00:02:05.500 --> 00:02:07.360 wrong 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:11.008 and so I started trying to understand the last and particularly the last 00:02:11.008 --> 00:02:15.720 hundred years of how much lower Christians had related to the culture 00:02:15.720 --> 00:02:20.620 around us and i cant believe that we embraced a series of postures in the 00:02:20.620 --> 00:02:25.280 last hundred years that really did not help us very much one of the things that 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:34.360 we became known for was condemning culture protests judgments complaint 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:39.170 criticism and sometimes christians became known especially during a 00:02:39.170 --> 00:02:43.830 residence arafat mostly by what we were against and they're all movements that 00:02:43.830 --> 00:02:48.060 define themselves by the things they didn't do if you didn't do this long 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:52.840 list of things that maybe you were sufficiently holy and and you know 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:58.610 sufficiently detached from the world you could call these folks fundamentalist I 00:02:58.610 --> 00:03:01.480 don't think it's only fair the fundamentalists but some of the 00:03:01.480 --> 00:03:06.060 Fundamentalist were kinda known by what they didn't do and their children found 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:09.780 this very constricting the fundamentals would say don't go to the movies they're 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:13.780 showing that while there are no good movies and for some of their children 00:03:13.780 --> 00:03:17.400 said no we need to go to the movies and what we need to do is not so much 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:22.280 condemn culture is analyzed it we need to become students of culture and 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:26.910 examine the world view of the culture around us and whole shelves of books 00:03:26.910 --> 00:03:31.570 have been written analyzing and engaging culture some of the great book something 00:03:31.570 --> 00:03:36.910 very insightful but I start to feel dissatisfied with this posture to I feel 00:03:36.910 --> 00:03:41.239 like well is all we're gonna do all day all of our lives just analyze what's 00:03:41.239 --> 00:03:47.290 going on that's sort of like education sometimes feels like it's just lots of 00:03:47.290 --> 00:03:51.120 analysis and sometimes I think the academic fallacies once you've analyzed 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:56.750 something you've changed it actually that's just the first step in any kind 00:03:56.750 --> 00:04:00.850 of constructive engagement and what if we just got stuck in a kind of Christian 00:04:00.850 --> 00:04:05.959 library where all we did was talk about world view but we never added a thing or 00:04:05.959 --> 00:04:08.350 contributed anything 00:04:08.350 --> 00:04:12.450 and then I noticed the summer fellow Christians were really good at imitating 00:04:12.450 --> 00:04:20.820 culture or copying culture and we even got pretty good with photoshop so you 00:04:20.820 --> 00:04:24.780 know we take something interesting happening in the culture around us 00:04:24.780 --> 00:04:28.870 you know the staples easy button which for those who are not familiar with it 00:04:28.870 --> 00:04:33.020 is a red plastic but that does absolutely nothing but you can push it 00:04:33.020 --> 00:04:38.110 when your mad and initially it was just an advertising campaign but people 00:04:38.110 --> 00:04:42.320 started calling staples and saying I need one of those easy but and so they 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:45.750 eventually gave in and they start manufacturing them to you now can buy an 00:04:45.750 --> 00:04:49.100 easy button and when you think about it red plastic but that sits on your desk 00:04:49.100 --> 00:04:53.340 and does nothing but you push it when your mad that is so much like Jesus 00:04:53.340 --> 00:05:04.350 that's actually there is the gospel is nothing like this Jesus is nothing like 00:05:04.350 --> 00:05:07.310 a red plastic but not solve your problems like these problems one 00:05:07.310 --> 00:05:11.970 solution is just that easy Jesus that's not the gospel and I thought like in our 00:05:11.970 --> 00:05:15.430 rush to imitate or copy culture even with good intentions we ended up 00:05:15.430 --> 00:05:19.600 borrowing all the wrong assumptions of culture that life should be easy there 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:25.050 should be a button on it God answered my but when I thought the gospels are much 00:05:25.050 --> 00:05:31.060 deeper more difficult and beautiful thing than anybody and then I realized 00:05:31.060 --> 00:05:34.360 okay so we've got people condemning culture we've got people critiquing it 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.210 we've got people copying and then we have a lot of people who just simply 00:05:38.210 --> 00:05:43.470 consumers we just gotta lay back and lie on the counter alarm remote controller 00:05:43.470 --> 00:05:47.540 like I wonder what's on and whatever you know the fundamentalist said don't go to 00:05:47.540 --> 00:05:51.890 movies and their children even Joel the new evangelical said oh go to the movies 00:05:51.890 --> 00:05:56.580 and investigate their world view and the grandchildren of anomalous just go to 00:05:56.580 --> 00:06:00.620 the movies like we don't ask any big questions you know Harold and Kumar do 00:06:00.620 --> 00:06:03.720 tell us whatever great that's what's on 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:07.160 we don't think about it we don't interact with it we just let it wash 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:13.490 over us and shape and what struck me about all of these postures was not just 00:06:13.490 --> 00:06:17.690 that they all began with C condemning critiquing copying consuming which 00:06:17.690 --> 00:06:21.740 actually they didn't initially when I just think about this but in a southern 00:06:21.740 --> 00:06:24.770 this friend of mine got a hold of this material insert teaching at his church 00:06:24.770 --> 00:06:28.340 and when I got his notes back everything began with the same letter and I was 00:06:28.340 --> 00:06:31.490 like this is also dislike the southern route to spiritual gift of alliteration 00:06:31.490 --> 00:06:38.310 is it was great gift to the body of Christ acts or so I use it I could 00:06:38.310 --> 00:06:43.639 remember those points you might remember them it all starts on scene it isn't all 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:49.470 beginning with CD the promise all of these were reactive they all were 00:06:49.470 --> 00:06:53.220 reacting to culture they were waiting for the culture out there to do 00:06:53.220 --> 00:06:59.930 something and then respond with his criticism with analysis with imitation 00:06:59.930 --> 00:07:05.960 with consumption but none of them were about adding something and I wish this 00:07:05.960 --> 00:07:11.319 were just 20th century history but last year in a number of magazines this ad 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:15.180 ran for a book by a well-known pastor who I respect and appreciate it and I 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:21.020 have nothing bad to say about the book but the ad is amazing 00:07:21.020 --> 00:07:26.909 these hands are folded in prayer but their their sheets in heavy duty rubber 00:07:26.909 --> 00:07:34.789 gloves and the prayer is deliver us from culture and there's a lot to say about 00:07:34.789 --> 00:07:39.690 this ad you could probably do a whole class on analyzing the messages in this 00:07:39.690 --> 00:07:45.120 very powerful memorable ad but two things struck me about it one was we've 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:48.800 taken to Lawrence prayer in this little advertising slogan and taking the phrase 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:55.380 deliver us from evil and just replaced it as if you could just you know one of 00:07:55.380 --> 00:08:01.180 the other culture evil evil culture just get us out of here Jesus as its culture 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:07.099 and evil are the same thing and then I had another thought which is okay 00:08:07.099 --> 00:08:14.210 suppose god answer this prayer said I have heard you a rubber glove protected 00:08:14.210 --> 00:08:25.780 one with God deliver us to where would we be if God answered this prayer cuz 00:08:25.780 --> 00:08:32.219 culture is not just the bad stuff its buildings its lights it's clothing 00:08:32.219 --> 00:08:36.729 your clothes that you wear culture if you've ever been to a nude beach I spent 00:08:36.729 --> 00:08:40.729 a summer in Greece and got to spend some time on you because I discovered what a 00:08:40.729 --> 00:08:47.060 great gift clothing is to 98% of the Americas I mean it is just it is a 00:08:47.060 --> 00:08:51.980 beautiful thing that we had ourselves this way and it is a terrifying thing 00:08:51.980 --> 00:08:55.459 when it's all British tourists slowly turning into lobsters in the altogether 00:08:55.459 --> 00:09:02.500 on a Greek bTW just less safe please for the love of God in prison culture it got 00:09:02.500 --> 00:09:07.060 delivered us from cultured human beings don't flourish without culture we're 00:09:07.060 --> 00:09:11.089 nothing without all these things that give us structure and meaning and 00:09:11.089 --> 00:09:14.889 possibility and an ability to act in the world so how could not answer this 00:09:14.889 --> 00:09:21.430 prayer and I wondered why is our picture this protection image when it's not 00:09:21.430 --> 00:09:25.610 something more like this kid has just been having so much fun digging in the 00:09:25.610 --> 00:09:26.240 world 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:31.209 yes the world as dirt and yes there's probably bacteria on his hands right now 00:09:31.209 --> 00:09:35.759 but he can washers and she can come into work and be cleansed renewed and 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:40.550 reoriented here's an immune system that protects him from the world the worst 00:09:40.550 --> 00:09:45.540 that the world could do to him and he can go out and dig in the dirt and play 00:09:45.540 --> 00:09:49.970 in the world and make something when he's a kid he just makes mud pies and 00:09:49.970 --> 00:09:53.220 sand castles but when he grows up he could actually make something in the 00:09:53.220 --> 00:09:58.829 world and why would that that joyful eight-year-old want to turn into a 00:09:58.829 --> 00:10:03.589 self-protective fearful forty eight-year-old bring to take me out now 00:10:03.589 --> 00:10:11.500 get me out of here rather than what can I do I start to believe that somehow we 00:10:11.500 --> 00:10:17.059 had been missing some chapters in our Bible not literally these chapters are 00:10:17.059 --> 00:10:20.569 in every bound bible but you know everybody has sort of a Bible they 00:10:20.569 --> 00:10:25.470 really know and then parts of the Bible than ever read and I start to feel like 00:10:25.470 --> 00:10:33.939 we're missing for especially important chapters the first two and the last saw 00:10:33.939 --> 00:10:38.449 the first two chapters Genesis one into the story of the good beginning of the 00:10:38.449 --> 00:10:43.600 world and the last revelation 21 and 22 this story 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:50.410 the remaking of the world kadri giving the world its regimes people and if your 00:10:50.410 --> 00:10:54.420 bible does not appear functional Bible the Bible you actually left shape your 00:10:54.420 --> 00:10:58.459 imagination doesn't include those book and chapters in the Bible the first to 00:10:58.459 --> 00:11:04.420 the last year what are you left with a bottle it starts in just three and ends 00:11:04.420 --> 00:11:10.029 in revelation twenty now sir what's justice three this is your biospherians 00:11:10.029 --> 00:11:15.389 what's in just three befall the word fall isn't in there but that's what we 00:11:15.389 --> 00:11:21.089 call it I like to call it the Declaration of Independence 00:11:21.089 --> 00:11:28.100 humanity declared their independence from God they do fall from their 00:11:28.100 --> 00:11:33.550 original dignified statuses image barriers and become embroiled in census 00:11:33.550 --> 00:11:35.190 in the arrivals in the world 00:11:35.190 --> 00:11:38.089 revelation 20 I don't know if you know this one but if you go to certain kinds 00:11:38.089 --> 00:11:41.589 of charges might have heard it what's the last thing we see in revelation 00:11:41.589 --> 00:11:45.920 twenty the lake of fire 00:11:45.920 --> 00:11:52.130 I wanna see that you're fast forward through the movie skip all the dialogue 00:11:52.130 --> 00:11:55.870 and all the dramatic person just watch the judgment secrets right we're 00:11:55.870 --> 00:11:58.970 thinking that always works are swept into the lake of fire 00:11:58.970 --> 00:12:02.829 what happens if you buy list starts with sin and ends with judge 00:12:02.829 --> 00:12:08.910 well it's a bad news too bad news but it's the Bible that begins with that is 00:12:08.910 --> 00:12:12.370 an answer that is which of course leaves the question well what is the good I 00:12:12.370 --> 00:12:17.050 thought about good news what's the good news here and the way the story 00:12:17.050 --> 00:12:20.970 sometimes is told from people who have this Genesis 32 revelation 20 Bible is 00:12:20.970 --> 00:12:25.610 well the good news is that's not your story you're going to be lifted out of 00:12:25.610 --> 00:12:29.610 that story entirely and you'll watch the world go to hell and you'll cheer from a 00:12:29.610 --> 00:12:35.839 heavenly sort of you know bench seats and you'll watch as that story comes to 00:12:35.839 --> 00:12:41.990 its conclusion but you will be taken out of it while others are left behind 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:46.399 let the reader understand to suffer the fate of the world the judgment of the 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.649 world so the good news is it's not your story 00:12:50.649 --> 00:12:57.319 but what if there's a better story in the Bible that starts with a could just 00:12:57.319 --> 00:13:03.730 this one just has to and ends with AK horas remade world revelation 21 and 22 00:13:03.730 --> 00:13:07.600 how would that change the way we see culture now so this is going to be very 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:13.490 obvious to you because you have read these chapters but let's just recall 00:13:13.490 --> 00:13:19.829 what they say what they the orientation they give us to the real story of the 00:13:19.829 --> 00:13:24.639 world not a bad news to bed his story but a good news too good news story so 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.920 justice wanted to just a couple themes of course these are very familiar but so 00:13:28.920 --> 00:13:34.339 good just to marinate in the that six times in Genesis one as God is making 00:13:34.339 --> 00:13:38.559 the World God saw that it was good good good good 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:43.540 the world that culture happens in the world that we human beings find 00:13:43.540 --> 00:13:48.329 ourselves in is not world fundamentally characterized by conflict and violence 00:13:48.329 --> 00:13:54.999 as real as those things are but his but deeper down and further back is a world 00:13:54.999 --> 00:14:02.050 that conflict and said that's made by a very good God into this world God 00:14:02.050 --> 00:14:07.259 introduces these particular creatures made in His image unlike all the other 00:14:07.259 --> 00:14:10.939 creatures and that's what we're surrounded by in a room like this right 00:14:10.939 --> 00:14:16.300 now we're surrounded by image barriers male and female he created them in the 00:14:16.300 --> 00:14:21.420 image of God He created and he says it and now I want you to be fruitful and 00:14:21.420 --> 00:14:27.519 multiply the earth and subdue it go out into this could wild world and start 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:33.049 culturing and do it everywhere before I don't want just a few of you I want 00:14:33.049 --> 00:14:37.620 teaming image bury all over the world which means by the way I want cultural 00:14:37.620 --> 00:14:42.019 diversity because there's these image-makers multiply and spread out 00:14:42.019 --> 00:14:46.360 through the incredibly diverse natural world they would naturally develop all 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.749 kinds of different cultures that made different things in the world in 00:14:49.749 --> 00:14:54.899 different climates in different geographies and different latitudes and 00:14:54.899 --> 00:14:59.459 so the cultural diversity that we get little glimpses of in rooms like this is 00:14:59.459 --> 00:15:02.960 actually part of God's original good intentions for the world 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:07.380 and it and one of them to do till it and keep it that world is good take care of 00:15:07.380 --> 00:15:07.680 it 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:13.810 cultivated and then once the image birds are in the World God says now it's not 00:15:13.810 --> 00:15:20.860 just good it's very good so the story of genesis is from good to very good a good 00:15:20.860 --> 00:15:26.440 natural world but once cultures in the world it's very good couple of Surgeons 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:31.600 of this so the world has green and green is good 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:36.240 grant is part of just the natural order of plants but human beings take the 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:40.730 Grand that harvested they crush it they millet they combine it with a little bit 00:15:40.730 --> 00:15:45.670 of Houston salt and water and a little bit of time and they put in and out 00:15:45.670 --> 00:15:55.020 comes bread and so you could say grain is good but bread is very good 00:15:55.020 --> 00:16:01.000 the world has grapes and image various come along they harvest the grapes they 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:05.220 may be trampled underfoot or crushed them in some land put them in a vat give 00:16:05.220 --> 00:16:09.530 it some time and an amazing thing happens if you're baptists it turns into 00:16:09.530 --> 00:16:16.680 groups use its extraordinary actually how that works but I'm episcopalian and 00:16:16.680 --> 00:16:25.160 for us it turns into wine actually I just got a lot of trouble are a little 00:16:25.160 --> 00:16:34.080 trouble and I would lead the group is good but why is very good work riches is 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:40.860 also very good and the difference is image barriers you don't ever get bread 00:16:40.860 --> 00:16:46.180 without image peers you dredges there are no bread trees and it's only through 00:16:46.180 --> 00:16:49.960 cultivation that happens at that very good disappears one appears in the world 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:55.540 it's only through human beings taking the very good breaks and acting on them 00:16:55.540 --> 00:17:02.930 culturing them that you get the very good wine another example make use of 00:17:02.930 --> 00:17:09.510 this so instructor just a major court to see major chord 00:17:09.510 --> 00:17:14.660 and you know the world is full of sound from the moment that God creates but 00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:17.810 it's not real human beings come along when human beings go along somebody gets 00:17:17.810 --> 00:17:22.829 the idea you know if you stretch out a string of a certain kind of got your 00:17:22.829 --> 00:17:27.800 medal until it's tight and tense and then you pluck it or you strike it as a 00:17:27.800 --> 00:17:33.750 piano what do you get a sound a note and that's not just sound that's music 00:17:33.750 --> 00:17:39.250 that's a musical harmonious no one single note are all these overtime 00:17:39.250 --> 00:17:43.530 that's physics have time to go into it but trust me in that single resonating 00:17:43.530 --> 00:17:50.390 string is not just this one of a kind of here but also the fifth about that and 00:17:50.390 --> 00:17:56.620 eventually another note up there which we call the third above the 50 and all 00:17:56.620 --> 00:18:03.490 these all these frequencies are in a single struck or plucked string and they 00:18:03.490 --> 00:18:09.910 make up what we call a major court 00:18:09.910 --> 00:18:22.360 and then you can take a slightly more complicated 24 00:18:22.360 --> 00:18:30.220 any kind of lead you back back back to the spot 00:18:30.220 --> 00:18:37.260 or cords 14 00:18:37.260 --> 00:18:57.520 you can now it's the relative minor it's minor under 14 516 minor you are done 00:18:57.520 --> 00:18:59.559 you're like set 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.940 often as you want 00:19:03.940 --> 00:19:13.320 this most basic secrets and he's just done 14 00:19:13.320 --> 00:19:18.380 in the sport 00:19:18.380 --> 00:19:57.270 so you start to explore all these other possibilities with this one 00:19:57.270 --> 00:20:06.310 visit here for a moment 00:20:06.310 --> 00:20:14.890 what's coming up 00:20:14.890 --> 00:20:21.970 we all those harmonies and overtones are funding 00:20:21.970 --> 00:20:48.020 you cannot just 00:20:48.020 --> 00:21:07.520 and now it's been the scene 00:21:07.520 --> 00:21:32.170 is very good and that's just the simplest little piece and whenever you 00:21:32.170 --> 00:21:35.530 see image barriers doing what they're made to do this is what they're doing 00:21:35.530 --> 00:21:41.080 taking the raw materials the good raw materials of the road gonna they're 00:21:41.080 --> 00:21:45.760 saying how can I cultivate this how can I create with this what possibilities 00:21:45.760 --> 00:21:50.330 are lying in there waiting to be explored we mentioned my family at home 00:21:50.330 --> 00:21:55.240 so here's a picture of my wife my wife is a musician but she's also a physicist 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:58.930 my wife teaches cause students physics and she works in a lab with all this 00:21:58.930 --> 00:22:02.840 complicated equipment behind her I have no idea what she does or what equipment 00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:09.240 does please don't ask she also does math right so I have no idea what these 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:13.550 equations are I'm told they're important and that like they make the world work 00:22:13.550 --> 00:22:19.460 and so forth and that's what my wife does and in her own way she's doing what 00:22:19.460 --> 00:22:24.270 doc was doing and what artists do and what engineers do and what doctor says 00:22:24.270 --> 00:22:29.030 she's taking a part of the world and digging deeply into it until she finds 00:22:29.030 --> 00:22:34.640 what's good in it and then using her image bearing capacity she's adding to 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:39.670 the very goodness of the world that's the story of genesis good to very good 00:22:39.670 --> 00:22:44.070 natural world to cultured world now very quickly what happens when you go over 00:22:44.070 --> 00:22:49.630 the revelation 21 I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first seven in the 00:22:49.630 --> 00:22:54.790 first year that passed away in the sea was no more and I saw the holy garden 00:22:54.790 --> 00:23:00.430 the restored Garden of Eden coming down out of heaven from God with none of that 00:23:00.430 --> 00:23:05.980 icky human culture to be found in it anywhere 00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:11.950 this is actually really from second opinions 315 which is the most cited 00:23:11.950 --> 00:23:17.330 book in the Bible god helps those who help themselves 00:23:17.330 --> 00:23:24.530 second opinions 15 know there's not what travelers and 21 says the whole thing it 00:23:24.530 --> 00:23:28.840 does not fair I saw in your garden it says I saw a new heaven on earth yes the 00:23:28.840 --> 00:23:32.980 first in the first are the passwords yes there seems no marks but I saw the holy 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:41.809 city New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God not a guard at a city 00:23:41.809 --> 00:23:49.730 and what is a city it's a place where the diversity and depth of culture has 00:23:49.730 --> 00:23:54.980 reached critical mass where everywhere you look you see culture in all of its 00:23:54.980 --> 00:24:00.230 possibility of its variety and in this work in the city 00:24:00.230 --> 00:24:04.730 foundations the wall the city are adorned with every Jul John list them so 00:24:04.730 --> 00:24:12.620 that I'd never heard of it doesn't say every mineral doesn't say you know there 00:24:12.620 --> 00:24:21.440 is a mineral minerals are nature nature natural our culture says the kings of 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:26.260 the earth will bring their glory and people will bring into that city the 00:24:26.260 --> 00:24:31.040 glory and the honor of the nation's the work of culture making will not be lost 00:24:31.040 --> 00:24:33.710 will not simply be swept into the lake of fire 00:24:33.710 --> 00:24:38.820 anything that was the fulfillment of God's intention for his creation brings 00:24:38.820 --> 00:24:42.110 glory to God will be in that city 00:24:42.110 --> 00:24:46.040 this was on my Starbucks cup couple years ago when they were putting quotes 00:24:46.040 --> 00:24:51.429 on the sides of the cups from joel stein is a columnist for the LA times here's 00:24:51.429 --> 00:24:59.450 what he said how dan is totally overrated it seems boring clouds 00:24:59.450 --> 00:25:04.860 listening to people play the harp it should be someone you can't wait to go 00:25:04.860 --> 00:25:11.700 like a luxury hotel blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line 00:25:11.700 --> 00:25:16.400 in the 17th century kevin has to step it up 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:28.850 they're basically getting my because they only have to be better I reverse I 00:25:28.850 --> 00:25:37.970 had three thoughts one was not what we do not live up to some otherworldly 00:25:37.970 --> 00:25:41.890 cloud hartsfield place nothing against harps but you know there are other 00:25:41.890 --> 00:25:44.180 instruments saxophones 00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:51.100 milan's you know electric guitars we believe heaven is coming to Earth we 00:25:51.100 --> 00:25:55.850 believe that the best meal you've ever had the funniest joke ever told the best 00:25:55.850 --> 00:26:00.090 story you've ever read or just piece of the kind of abundance of the world is 00:26:00.090 --> 00:26:05.050 waiting for my second thought was who in the world told Joel Stein this is what 00:26:05.050 --> 00:26:14.590 we Christians and then I heard this third awful we told him he thinks this 00:26:14.590 --> 00:26:22.390 is no 00:26:22.390 --> 00:26:27.090 go out into this world to take the good World God is made that others have 00:26:27.090 --> 00:26:33.930 already cultivated made very good and you do your part to shape it to tell it 00:26:33.930 --> 00:26:39.720 to keep it to cultivate to create something that might be called the 00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:47.190 quarry and the honor of the nation's that will give God glory and his image 00:26:47.190 --> 00:26:55.330 that's what we go out to do they have a wonderful day you're dismissed Biola 00:26:55.330 --> 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