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[1886.92 --> 1891.72] And if we have to have those things stripped away in order to learn that, I think that's |
[1891.72 --> 1892.92] what Paul's talking about. |
[1893.06 --> 1893.24] Yeah. |
[1893.56 --> 1893.80] Right? |
[1893.86 --> 1900.08] And that's why he can delight in suffering and trials, because as we heard, right, that |
[1900.08 --> 1904.50] doesn't mean he's happy about it, but it means he's choosing as better God. |
[1904.94 --> 1905.22] Yeah. |
[1905.44 --> 1906.72] Than the thing that's being lost. |
[1906.92 --> 1907.12] Yeah. |
[1907.24 --> 1911.60] He's choosing as better Jesus than the thing that's being taken away. |
[1911.92 --> 1912.16] Yeah. |
[1912.16 --> 1917.38] And that profoundly reshapes our experience of life. |
[1917.38 --> 1917.82] Yeah. |
[1917.82 --> 1922.40] Or at least it opens the door to profoundly reshape the experience of life. |
[1922.40 --> 1922.50] Yeah. |
[1922.50 --> 1925.48] Because, again, this delight verb is an active one. |
[1925.56 --> 1926.42] Like, we have to choose that. |
[1926.62 --> 1926.92] Mm-hmm. |
[1927.58 --> 1927.84] Right? |
[1927.84 --> 1930.22] That doesn't automatically apply to us. |
[1930.22 --> 1930.24] Yeah. |
[1930.24 --> 1935.28] That's the role of living out of our sanctification, right? |
[1935.32 --> 1939.40] If sanctification literally means setting apart, right? |
[1939.44 --> 1942.40] This is choosing to live as one set apart. |
[1942.90 --> 1943.16] Yeah. |
[1943.16 --> 1944.16] Right? |
[1945.32 --> 1948.88] And that's what it means then to delight in the sufferings and to join in the sufferings |
[1948.88 --> 1949.96] of Jesus even, right? |
[1950.04 --> 1950.28] Yeah. |
[1950.28 --> 1950.34] Yeah. |
[1950.34 --> 1956.16] It's choosing to live in that frame, out of that way of seeing the life, seeing the |
[1956.16 --> 1956.36] world. |
[1956.94 --> 1960.64] Well, and I think that what's cool with that, I'm going to do more biblical theology here, |
[1960.80 --> 1966.96] but it's also, he was given the vision that he would be the leader over his brothers. |
[1966.96 --> 1972.68] And what Joseph didn't know, because he doesn't have a Bible, is that the leader of God's people |
[1972.68 --> 1975.42] has to be one who suffers greatly. |
[1977.04 --> 1982.42] Then that's what you, it's also foreshadowing Christ, that the person who would be the ruler |
[1982.42 --> 1991.12] of God's people, right, is someone who will suffer so that God is the only thing of value |
[1991.12 --> 1992.24] to them. |
[1992.24 --> 1992.80] Mm-hmm. |
[1992.80 --> 2001.30] And that is then proven in every Christian, that it's the, in, he is strong when I am weak. |
[2001.38 --> 2001.48] Yeah. |
[2001.58 --> 2008.62] Because it's acknowledging that you are not the king of God's people, that you are not |
[2008.62 --> 2013.98] the, as regent over creation, you are not, that's just not what you are. |
[2014.06 --> 2016.18] You're that way because you're made in the image of God. |
[2016.28 --> 2016.44] Yeah. |
[2016.44 --> 2023.26] And so that means he has to be everything to you for that to be the case. |
[2023.26 --> 2023.28] Yeah. |
[2023.28 --> 2028.98] Well, and the, like, that continues to work itself out, right, in the ethic of the kingdom, |
[2029.28 --> 2029.52] right? |
[2029.54 --> 2029.68] Mm-hmm. |
[2029.68 --> 2033.42] Where the last shall be first and the first shall be last, right? |
[2033.54 --> 2033.72] Yeah. |
[2034.06 --> 2038.06] Where the least will be great and the greatest will become the least. |
[2038.06 --> 2038.46] Mm-hmm. |
[2038.46 --> 2044.10] Where John, you know, has his disciples, John the Baptist has his disciples come to him |
[2044.10 --> 2046.34] and they say, hey man, you're losing your influence. |
[2046.72 --> 2046.88] Yeah. |
[2046.88 --> 2047.80] You're losing your place. |
[2047.84 --> 2048.58] And John's like, yeah. |
[2048.58 --> 2048.84] Good. |
[2049.16 --> 2049.46] Good. |
[2049.76 --> 2052.24] I must decrease so that he may increase. |
[2052.42 --> 2052.70] Yeah. |
[2052.84 --> 2053.04] Right? |
[2053.12 --> 2055.30] All of these things stack. |
[2055.60 --> 2055.78] Yeah. |
[2055.86 --> 2060.08] As a redefining of reality in the ethic of the kingdom. |
[2060.08 --> 2060.22] Yeah. |
[2060.22 --> 2066.72] The way the kingdom works itself out in our midst is a changing of priorities and all of |
[2066.72 --> 2074.76] that as a way of, like, elevating and exalting who God is to us on the throne of our hearts. |
[2074.76 --> 2081.44] And that gets into why, Chris, Kevin said that it is through the church that we experience |
[2081.44 --> 2084.72] the presence of God the greatest, I think. |
[2084.72 --> 2114.70] Yeah. |
[2114.72 --> 2116.44] That, just like Christ did. |
[2117.24 --> 2125.10] In Chino, when Paul VanderKley at the conference we went to was having that discussion with |
[2125.10 --> 2126.90] John Verveke. |
[2127.52 --> 2130.92] And John Verveke was wondering, it's like, the world is falling apart. |
[2131.30 --> 2133.36] The old religions need to help the world. |
[2133.70 --> 2135.34] And he says, what is Christianity doing? |
[2135.66 --> 2136.64] It's going to die. |
[2136.86 --> 2138.44] And Paul said, good. |
[2138.90 --> 2139.96] It's what the church does. |
[2140.34 --> 2144.44] It has to die like its savior over and over and over again. |
[2144.72 --> 2150.82] And it's that same ethic of we need to be, we need to go down into the pit. |
[2150.94 --> 2152.60] That's what our whole life is here. |
[2153.74 --> 2156.10] Is so that Christ may be the... |
[2156.10 --> 2157.26] Yeah. |
[2157.26 --> 2166.64] In one of my D-Min courses that I'm in the middle of right now, I'm reading a book called Possessed |
[2166.64 --> 2167.14] by God. |
[2167.14 --> 2170.98] And it's all about a right understanding of sanctification. |
[2170.98 --> 2174.56] And it's a very compelling book. |
[2174.56 --> 2182.48] But in there, it talks about John Calvin and his reading through Romans 6 to 8. |
[2182.48 --> 2194.22] And it talks about the idea of sanctification in this life, right? |
[2194.32 --> 2203.18] Because for Calvin, sanctification has an eschatological focus that ties to the experience of the already |
[2203.18 --> 2205.26] not yet kingdom of God. |
[2205.26 --> 2211.86] And so, you know, a realized and realizing eschatology is another way that that has been put. |
[2211.86 --> 2222.56] But the idea that now, in this life, sanctification looks like repentance. |
[2222.84 --> 2228.46] And for Calvin, repentance, the old words are mortification and vivification. |
[2228.46 --> 2236.56] So, it's putting to death the old self and sin and worldliness or fleshliness, right? |
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