A new commandment
Series: No ordinary life
Speaker: Brian Tung
Date: 25th September 2011
00:00:00 --> 00:00:09 Second reading is from John 13, verses 18 to 38, and can be found on page 1045 in the Pew Bibles.
00:00:13 --> 00:00:19 I'm not referring to all of you, I know those I have chosen, but this is to fulfil the scripture.
00:00:19 --> 00:00:23 He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.
00:00:23 --> 00:00:29 I'm telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am he.
00:00:29 --> 00:00:36 I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.
00:00:37 --> 00:00:40 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified,
00:00:41 --> 00:00:44 I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me.
00:00:45 --> 00:00:49 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant.
00:00:50 --> 00:00:54 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him.
00:00:54 --> 00:00:59 Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, ask him which one he means.
00:01:00 --> 00:01:03 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, Lord, who is it?
00:01:04 --> 00:01:08 Jesus answered, it is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.
00:01:09 --> 00:01:13 Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.
00:01:14 --> 00:01:16 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.
00:01:17 --> 00:01:20 What you are about to do, do quickly, Jesus told him.
00:01:20 --> 00:01:23 But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him.
00:01:23 --> 00:01:30 Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the feast,
00:01:30 --> 00:01:32 or to give something to the poor.
00:01:32 --> 00:01:35 As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out, and it was night.
00:01:35 --> 00:01:38 When he was gone, Jesus said,
00:01:38 --> 00:01:42 Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
00:01:43 --> 00:01:48 If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.
00:01:48 --> 00:01:51 My children, I will be with you only a little longer.
00:01:52 --> 00:01:55 You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now,
00:01:55 --> 00:01:57 where I am going, you cannot come.
00:01:58 --> 00:02:00 A new command I give you, love one another.
00:02:01 --> 00:02:03 As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
00:02:03 --> 00:02:08 By this, all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
00:02:08 --> 00:02:10 Simon Peter asked him,
00:02:10 --> 00:02:12 Lord, where are you going?
00:02:12 --> 00:02:13 Jesus replied,
00:02:14 --> 00:02:17 Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.
00:02:18 --> 00:02:18 Peter asked,
00:02:19 --> 00:02:20 Lord, why can't I follow you now?
00:02:21 --> 00:02:22 I will lay down my life for you.
00:02:23 --> 00:02:24 Then Jesus answered,
00:02:24 --> 00:02:26 Will you really lay down your life for me?
00:02:27 --> 00:02:28 I tell you the truth.
00:02:28 --> 00:02:31 Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.
00:02:33 --> 00:02:37 Thanks, Adam.
00:02:39 --> 00:02:40 Will you join me in prayer as we begin?
00:02:42 --> 00:02:44 Gracious Lord and Father, we pray that by your Spirit,
00:02:45 --> 00:02:51 you might bring your word alive in our hearts, in our minds, and in our lives,
00:02:51 --> 00:02:54 so that you might be glorified amongst us.
00:02:55 --> 00:02:57 We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
00:02:57 --> 00:03:02 We'll be looking at John 13.
00:03:04 --> 00:03:07 If you're taking notes, I'm going to be talking about four things.
00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 First is the problem of invisibility.
00:03:11 --> 00:03:15 Second is love, life, and death.
00:03:15 --> 00:03:17 Thirdly, love and glory.
00:03:18 --> 00:03:19 And lastly, Julian's problem.
00:03:21 --> 00:03:24 Firstly, problem of invisibility.
00:03:24 --> 00:03:28 Now, I think it's actually quite cool to be a geek nowadays.
00:03:31 --> 00:03:31 So...
00:03:31 --> 00:03:42 That's why I'm going to proudly make a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 Now, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:03:46 --> 00:03:54 In this series, there's a thing called the SEP.
00:03:55 --> 00:03:57 Can anyone tell me what it is?
00:03:58 --> 00:04:03 It's called the Someone Else's Problem Field.
00:04:05 --> 00:04:05 Okay?
00:04:05 --> 00:04:10 So, if you want to hide something, right, to make it invisible,
00:04:11 --> 00:04:18 what you do is you make it as gary and disgusting as possible,
00:04:18 --> 00:04:20 even in the middle of a field.
00:04:20 --> 00:04:25 You know, you paint something purple with, you know, stars and all that sort of stuff.
00:04:26 --> 00:04:34 And what happens is the thing becomes protected from unwanted eyes.
00:04:34 --> 00:04:40 And that's because it's somebody else's problem.
00:04:41 --> 00:04:43 That's how you make something disappear.
00:04:44 --> 00:04:50 You know, if you want to disappear, you know, pretend that you need something from someone.
00:04:50 --> 00:04:52 And then suddenly, you're gone.
00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 It's not so much become invisible, but unnoticed.
00:04:56 --> 00:05:02 It's a really cheap way, you know, if our governments could figure out a way of putting that into military technology.
00:05:02 --> 00:05:03 There you go, Adam.
00:05:05 --> 00:05:05 S-E-P.
00:05:08 --> 00:05:13 The reason why I mention that is because it's almost, I don't know, like,
00:05:13 --> 00:05:16 we had a combined service today at Willoughby Council.
00:05:17 --> 00:05:22 The Christian witness in Chesswood, I think, is almost like an S-E-P.
00:05:22 --> 00:05:27 You know, how many people actually notice that we exist?
00:05:29 --> 00:05:36 Like, how many people notice that St. Paul's meet here on a Sunday evening to worship God?
00:05:37 --> 00:05:39 How many people actually care?
00:05:39 --> 00:05:42 Well, I imagine this is kind of it.
00:05:43 --> 00:05:45 We disappear.
00:05:46 --> 00:05:49 We become unnoticed to the rest of our society.
00:05:49 --> 00:05:56 What will take us to do to become noticeable?
00:05:57 --> 00:05:59 You know, it's the opposite of S-E-P.
00:06:00 --> 00:06:05 If there was an anti-S-E-P, how will we become visible?
00:06:06 --> 00:06:13 How will we individually and corporately make an impact to the rest of the people around us?
00:06:13 --> 00:06:21 Did you notice that this is the type of thing that Jesus is concerned about here in John 13?
00:06:22 --> 00:06:29 Come with me to John 13, 34 and 35.
00:06:30 --> 00:06:35 The passage that I'm sure you all know and love and are familiar with,
00:06:35 --> 00:06:39 and this kind of becomes invisible to us sometimes.
00:06:40 --> 00:06:41 Reading from the ESV,
00:06:42 --> 00:06:42 Jesus says,
00:06:42 --> 00:06:44 A new commandment I give to you,
00:06:44 --> 00:06:47 that you love one another just as I have loved you.
00:06:47 --> 00:06:49 You also are to love one another.
00:06:50 --> 00:06:51 And notice what he says.
00:06:51 --> 00:06:53 If you do this, this is what happens.
00:06:53 --> 00:06:57 By this, all people will know that you are my disciples,
00:06:57 --> 00:07:00 if you have love for one another.
00:07:00 --> 00:07:10 To overcome invisibility, all you need is love, apparently, according to Jesus.
00:07:12 --> 00:07:15 Before we turn to that, just very quickly, background.
00:07:16 --> 00:07:19 We're spending the next few weeks on chapter 13,
00:07:19 --> 00:07:22 I think on to 17 of John's Gospel.
00:07:23 --> 00:07:24 I can't remember, I haven't checked the roster.
00:07:24 --> 00:07:31 But to orient you, the first 12 chapters of John's Gospel
00:07:31 --> 00:07:35 talks about the first three years of Jesus' life,
00:07:35 --> 00:07:36 so three years,
00:07:37 --> 00:07:40 and from 13 to about 17,
00:07:40 --> 00:07:43 kind of the last few hours,
00:07:43 --> 00:07:46 which is kind of disproportional to the rest,
00:07:46 --> 00:07:49 and is essentially one single conversation.
00:07:51 --> 00:07:53 So three, four chapters of John's Gospel,
00:07:53 --> 00:07:54 as opposed to the rest,
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 just focus on one conversation,
00:07:58 --> 00:08:03 which kind of suggests to you that that conversation must be really important.
00:08:04 --> 00:08:12 Really important for John to spend so much ink recording it for our benefit.
00:08:13 --> 00:08:15 And when you read it, it's kind of understandable.
00:08:16 --> 00:08:18 You know, all through John's Gospel,
00:08:18 --> 00:08:21 Jesus makes these amazing promises.
00:08:21 --> 00:08:22 I am the bread of life.
00:08:23 --> 00:08:25 If you come to me, you'll never hunger.
00:08:26 --> 00:08:29 But when you get to the last few hours of Jesus' life,
00:08:30 --> 00:08:32 he says to his disciples and us,
00:08:34 --> 00:08:35 see you later.
00:08:37 --> 00:08:38 I'm going.
00:08:38 --> 00:08:43 And, well, if he's not going to be around anymore,
00:08:44 --> 00:08:47 presumably, what he says is going to be quite significant
00:08:47 --> 00:08:53 for the people who've invested their whole life into Jesus.
00:08:55 --> 00:08:57 And we're in a similar situation.
00:08:57 --> 00:08:59 We don't see Jesus face to face.
00:08:59 --> 00:09:04 And he's invited us to invest our life into him.
00:09:04 --> 00:09:10 So what he says to his disciples, I guess, are relevant to us.
00:09:10 --> 00:09:14 Why should we keep investing our life into him?
00:09:14 --> 00:09:22 What does it mean for us who have invested our life into Jesus to live in a time that he's absent from us?
00:09:22 --> 00:09:27 Well, we'll come to that.
00:09:28 --> 00:09:30 Love, life, and death.
00:09:32 --> 00:09:37 A focus of the topic is the new commandment, a commandment of love.
00:09:37 --> 00:09:42 But it's important for us to understand the context in which it appears.
00:09:42 --> 00:09:46 Yes, it appears in a context of that one long conversation.
00:09:47 --> 00:09:51 But it's a little bit more specific than that.
00:09:52 --> 00:09:54 It's very odd.
00:09:55 --> 00:09:57 The first, if you turn to it,
00:09:59 --> 00:10:03 before he talks about the new command,
00:10:03 --> 00:10:06 18 to 30,
00:10:06 --> 00:10:11 is focused on the betrayal of Judas.
00:10:12 --> 00:10:15 And I don't know what you think of it.
00:10:15 --> 00:10:19 It sort of struck me as kind of like an odd logic to it.
00:10:19 --> 00:10:24 Why is the commandment of love following what he was saying about Judas?
00:10:25 --> 00:10:27 Well, let me make the first point that love,
00:10:28 --> 00:10:29 the commandment of love,
00:10:29 --> 00:10:32 appears in the context of life and death.
00:10:32 --> 00:10:34 That's the context.
00:10:35 --> 00:10:40 It's clearly a life and death situation for Jesus.
00:10:41 --> 00:10:45 He was going to be betrayed by one of his own,
00:10:46 --> 00:10:49 which lead eventually to his execution.
00:10:50 --> 00:10:53 It's not an idea that is new in John's gospel.
00:10:54 --> 00:10:57 Jesus spoke about it back in chapter 6, verse 71.
00:10:57 --> 00:11:00 So back in those chapters ago,
00:11:00 --> 00:11:02 he spoke about his betrayal.
00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 And chapter 12, again,
00:11:05 --> 00:11:07 he spoke repeatedly about his betrayal.
00:11:08 --> 00:11:10 But there's something new that happens.
00:11:11 --> 00:11:14 Again, there's a bit of a time reference throughout John's gospel.
00:11:15 --> 00:11:16 Now is not the time.
00:11:16 --> 00:11:16 Now is not the time.
00:11:17 --> 00:11:19 But suddenly, in chapter 13,
00:11:19 --> 00:11:21 there's this little reference that says,
00:11:21 --> 00:11:22 now is the time.
00:11:22 --> 00:11:25 Now is the time.
00:11:27 --> 00:11:30 We sort of pass some point of no return.
00:11:31 --> 00:11:34 When Judas made up his mind to betray Jesus
00:11:34 --> 00:11:37 and he's gone out to get the enemies of Jesus,
00:11:37 --> 00:11:38 that was it.
00:11:38 --> 00:11:39 That was it for Jesus.
00:11:39 --> 00:11:43 It would lead to, eventually, his arrest and execution.
00:11:44 --> 00:11:46 The Rubicon had been crossed.
00:11:46 --> 00:11:48 The die had been cast.
00:11:48 --> 00:11:50 This is it for Jesus.
00:11:51 --> 00:11:52 It was life and death for him.
00:11:54 --> 00:11:56 But it's not just life and death for him.
00:11:57 --> 00:12:01 It is life and death for you and for me.
00:12:03 --> 00:12:05 I don't know whether you thought about this point.
00:12:06 --> 00:12:08 Like all the talk of Judas,
00:12:09 --> 00:12:11 what's the relevance of that to you?
00:12:12 --> 00:12:15 What's the take-home message of that?
00:12:15 --> 00:12:20 Well, if you come with me to verse 19 of chapter 13,
00:12:21 --> 00:12:25 Jesus kind of explains why he was going on
00:12:25 --> 00:12:27 about Judas betraying him.
00:12:27 --> 00:12:28 Did you notice?
00:12:28 --> 00:12:30 He says, I'm telling you this now,
00:12:30 --> 00:12:31 before it takes place,
00:12:31 --> 00:12:34 that when it does take place,
00:12:34 --> 00:12:36 when it does take place, what happens?
00:12:37 --> 00:12:38 Have a look at it.
00:12:38 --> 00:12:46 That you may believe.
00:12:48 --> 00:12:50 It's an odd sort of word.
00:12:50 --> 00:12:52 He doesn't say, so that you may know.
00:12:53 --> 00:12:56 He's that you may believe that I am he.
00:12:56 --> 00:13:01 All the things that he's been talking about with Judas
00:13:01 --> 00:13:07 is so that the disciples and us will come to believe
00:13:07 --> 00:13:10 that Jesus is he, that he is to Christ.
00:13:11 --> 00:13:15 Now, John used very similar language in chapter 20, verse 31.
00:13:16 --> 00:13:20 If you flip forward a few chapters,
00:13:21 --> 00:13:24 John chapter 20, verses 30 to 31,
00:13:25 --> 00:13:28 kind of like a summary of what the whole book is about,
00:13:28 --> 00:13:58 John says,
00:13:58 --> 00:14:00 John says,
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 John says,
00:14:02 --> 00:14:05 John's gospel,
00:14:05 --> 00:14:08 John is, and this appeals to me and maybe to some of you,
00:14:09 --> 00:14:10 John's been acting like a lawyer.
00:14:13 --> 00:14:14 Geeks and lawyers.
00:14:15 --> 00:14:18 And he's been trying to prove a point.
00:14:19 --> 00:14:22 And what he does is he brings forward these witnesses
00:14:22 --> 00:14:24 as lawyers do in court.
00:14:24 --> 00:14:28 And these witnesses prove certain things.
00:14:28 --> 00:14:29 That's what lawyers do.
00:14:30 --> 00:14:31 They're called signs,
00:14:31 --> 00:14:34 but another word for it in John's gospel is they're witnesses.
00:14:34 --> 00:14:36 John brings out all these witnesses
00:14:36 --> 00:14:38 to show, to demonstrate to you
00:14:38 --> 00:14:40 that Jesus is the chosen,
00:14:40 --> 00:14:42 special king of God
00:14:42 --> 00:14:45 who can give you life.
00:14:45 --> 00:14:51 It is in his hands that he holds your life
00:14:51 --> 00:14:52 and he can give it to you.
00:14:53 --> 00:14:54 That's what he's been seeking to prove.
00:14:55 --> 00:14:56 Now, you might be thinking,
00:14:56 --> 00:14:57 possibly,
00:14:58 --> 00:14:59 well,
00:14:59 --> 00:15:01 why do I need life from Jesus?
00:15:02 --> 00:15:03 For I'm already alive.
00:15:04 --> 00:15:05 I'm sitting there,
00:15:05 --> 00:15:06 or you seem to be alive.
00:15:06 --> 00:15:08 You know,
00:15:08 --> 00:15:09 most of you aren't
00:15:09 --> 00:15:11 because you're not laughing at my jokes.
00:15:14 --> 00:15:16 But that's maybe more me than you.
00:15:18 --> 00:15:20 Why do we need life from Jesus?
00:15:21 --> 00:15:21 Well,
00:15:22 --> 00:15:24 this week I went to a training thing
00:15:24 --> 00:15:28 with a lady by the name of Elizabeth McKinnon.
00:15:29 --> 00:15:31 She is an expert on aging.
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 And she reckons
00:15:34 --> 00:15:36 that we live in a culture
00:15:36 --> 00:15:37 that denies aging.
00:15:39 --> 00:15:39 As in,
00:15:40 --> 00:15:40 it doesn't happen,
00:15:40 --> 00:15:42 or it doesn't happen to me,
00:15:42 --> 00:15:45 or it's something that could be stopped.
00:15:46 --> 00:15:46 You know,
00:15:46 --> 00:15:48 there's certain things that you can do.
00:15:48 --> 00:15:48 You know,
00:15:48 --> 00:15:49 aging is a terrible thing,
00:15:50 --> 00:15:52 but it sort of sets itself in a wider context.
00:15:53 --> 00:15:55 Not only does our culture deny aging,
00:15:55 --> 00:15:56 but we deny death.
00:15:57 --> 00:15:59 Death doesn't happen.
00:15:59 --> 00:16:00 It's sort of medicalized.
00:16:00 --> 00:16:02 It's something that happens out there.
00:16:03 --> 00:16:04 It doesn't happen in our midst.
00:16:05 --> 00:16:07 It could never happen to me,
00:16:07 --> 00:16:08 particularly if you're young.
00:16:08 --> 00:16:09 But if you're older,
00:16:09 --> 00:16:10 death is not something
00:16:10 --> 00:16:12 that could happen to the people around you.
00:16:13 --> 00:16:15 And so when it does happen,
00:16:15 --> 00:16:18 it takes us completely by surprise.
00:16:18 --> 00:16:19 My wife died.
00:16:20 --> 00:16:20 My husband died.
00:16:21 --> 00:16:22 My children died.
00:16:23 --> 00:16:25 It's so unexpected.
00:16:25 --> 00:16:28 And what McKinnon was saying
00:16:28 --> 00:16:30 is that we need to accept
00:16:30 --> 00:16:33 the reality that we will die.
00:16:34 --> 00:16:36 That death is a reality.
00:16:36 --> 00:16:37 In fact,
00:16:37 --> 00:16:38 the reality is
00:16:38 --> 00:16:41 we are as good as dead.
00:16:42 --> 00:16:45 And she has this wonderful line.
00:16:46 --> 00:16:49 She says that life is a terminal disease.
00:16:49 --> 00:16:52 You know,
00:16:52 --> 00:16:55 you don't need to be diagnosed with cancer
00:16:55 --> 00:16:56 or anything else.
00:16:56 --> 00:16:58 The day that you are born,
00:16:59 --> 00:17:01 you are born to die.
00:17:01 --> 00:17:07 I don't know if anyone's ever brought to you,
00:17:07 --> 00:17:09 or you brought anyone,
00:17:09 --> 00:17:12 like those beautiful flowers from the forest.
00:17:13 --> 00:17:13 Gorgeous.
00:17:13 --> 00:17:13 You know,
00:17:13 --> 00:17:14 something I do for my wife
00:17:14 --> 00:17:16 all the time.
00:17:18 --> 00:17:19 And,
00:17:19 --> 00:17:20 actually,
00:17:20 --> 00:17:21 I don't,
00:17:21 --> 00:17:22 because I think it's such a waste.
00:17:23 --> 00:17:23 I mean,
00:17:23 --> 00:17:24 how long do they last?
00:17:26 --> 00:17:26 A week?
00:17:27 --> 00:17:27 Like,
00:17:27 --> 00:17:27 you know,
00:17:28 --> 00:17:28 you prolong,
00:17:28 --> 00:17:29 you put things in it,
00:17:29 --> 00:17:30 whatever.
00:17:30 --> 00:17:33 Why do they only last for a week?
00:17:34 --> 00:17:35 Because they're dead.
00:17:37 --> 00:17:38 By the time,
00:17:38 --> 00:17:39 it leaves the shop
00:17:39 --> 00:17:40 and goes in your,
00:17:40 --> 00:17:41 they're already dead.
00:17:41 --> 00:17:42 They're dead
00:17:42 --> 00:17:44 because they've been cut off
00:17:44 --> 00:17:47 from the source of their life.
00:17:48 --> 00:17:50 And we are like those flowers,
00:17:50 --> 00:17:52 beautiful for a season.
00:17:52 --> 00:17:54 A really short time, in fact,
00:17:54 --> 00:17:56 but we are ultimately cut off
00:17:56 --> 00:17:58 from the source of our life,
00:17:58 --> 00:17:59 and we are dead.
00:17:59 --> 00:18:01 We are the walking dead.
00:18:01 --> 00:18:02 And John says,
00:18:03 --> 00:18:05 if you put your life
00:18:05 --> 00:18:07 into Jesus' hands,
00:18:07 --> 00:18:09 if you believe
00:18:09 --> 00:18:11 that he is the Christ,
00:18:12 --> 00:18:15 he will give you life
00:18:15 --> 00:18:16 instead of death.
00:18:16 --> 00:18:18 if not,
00:18:19 --> 00:18:21 you are already dead.
00:18:21 --> 00:18:23 See,
00:18:23 --> 00:18:24 this is,
00:18:24 --> 00:18:25 this is the context
00:18:25 --> 00:18:26 of the command
00:18:26 --> 00:18:27 to love,
00:18:27 --> 00:18:28 and I'll show you
00:18:28 --> 00:18:29 the link
00:18:29 --> 00:18:30 between the two.
00:18:31 --> 00:18:31 But,
00:18:31 --> 00:18:33 just to assure you,
00:18:33 --> 00:18:34 in case
00:18:34 --> 00:18:36 you haven't heard this before,
00:18:36 --> 00:18:36 Christianity
00:18:36 --> 00:18:37 is not just
00:18:37 --> 00:18:39 a touch of religion
00:18:39 --> 00:18:40 and morality
00:18:40 --> 00:18:41 in your life.
00:18:41 --> 00:18:42 It's not just
00:18:42 --> 00:18:43 about coming to church
00:18:43 --> 00:18:44 on a Sunday night.
00:18:44 --> 00:18:46 it is a matter
00:18:46 --> 00:18:47 of life and death.
00:18:49 --> 00:18:50 It is centered
00:18:50 --> 00:18:51 on Jesus,
00:18:51 --> 00:18:51 the one
00:18:51 --> 00:18:53 who has power
00:18:53 --> 00:18:54 to give you
00:18:54 --> 00:18:55 life.
00:18:57 --> 00:18:58 Love,
00:18:58 --> 00:18:58 life,
00:18:58 --> 00:18:59 and death.
00:19:00 --> 00:19:01 Love,
00:19:01 --> 00:19:02 and glory.
00:19:04 --> 00:19:05 What's the link
00:19:05 --> 00:19:05 between life,
00:19:06 --> 00:19:06 and death,
00:19:06 --> 00:19:07 and love?
00:19:07 --> 00:19:10 Come with me
00:19:10 --> 00:19:12 to verse 31,
00:19:14 --> 00:19:16 to the sort of
00:19:16 --> 00:19:17 immediate context
00:19:17 --> 00:19:18 of the love
00:19:18 --> 00:19:19 commandment.
00:19:20 --> 00:19:21 The context
00:19:21 --> 00:19:22 is this,
00:19:23 --> 00:19:23 the context
00:19:23 --> 00:19:24 is Judas
00:19:24 --> 00:19:25 left,
00:19:26 --> 00:19:26 verse 31,
00:19:27 --> 00:19:27 is when
00:19:27 --> 00:19:28 Judas
00:19:28 --> 00:19:29 had left
00:19:29 --> 00:19:31 that Jesus
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00:19:32 --> 00:19:33 The only
00:19:33 --> 00:19:35 people who were left
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00:19:36 --> 00:19:36 you know,
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00:19:42 --> 00:19:42 and Jesus
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00:19:51 --> 00:19:52 The important
00:19:52 --> 00:19:52 thing is,
00:19:53 --> 00:19:53 in other words,
00:19:54 --> 00:19:56 you are not
00:19:56 --> 00:19:57 trying to love
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00:19:58 --> 00:19:59 to be a disciple.
00:20:00 --> 00:20:01 It's the other
00:20:01 --> 00:20:01 way around.
00:20:02 --> 00:20:03 You are a
00:20:03 --> 00:20:04 disciple of Jesus,
00:20:05 --> 00:20:06 that's why
00:20:06 --> 00:20:07 you love.
00:20:07 --> 00:20:11 you are not
00:20:11 --> 00:20:11 trying to love
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00:20:12 --> 00:20:12 get life
00:20:12 --> 00:20:13 out of Jesus,
00:20:14 --> 00:20:14 it's the other
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00:20:16 --> 00:20:16 You love
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00:20:21 --> 00:20:23 and so you
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00:20:26 --> 00:20:26 If you're like
00:20:26 --> 00:20:27 everybody else,
00:20:28 --> 00:20:29 then you act
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00:21:01 --> 00:21:02 When Judas
00:21:02 --> 00:21:02 had gone
00:21:02 --> 00:21:02 out,
00:21:02 --> 00:21:02 Jesus
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00:21:03 --> 00:21:04 now is
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00:21:06 --> 00:21:06 God is
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00:21:08 --> 00:21:08 If God
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00:21:09 --> 00:21:10 God will
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00:21:15 --> 00:21:16 One of the
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00:21:22 --> 00:21:22 about?
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00:21:31 --> 00:21:31 So glory,
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00:21:32 --> 00:21:33 glory?
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00:21:45 --> 00:21:45 you know,
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00:22:00 --> 00:22:01 Queensland?
00:22:02 --> 00:22:03 I don't
00:22:03 --> 00:22:03 know.
00:22:06 --> 00:22:07 Yeah.
00:22:08 --> 00:22:09 What is,
00:22:09 --> 00:22:10 what is,
00:22:10 --> 00:22:10 what is the
00:22:10 --> 00:22:11 glory of
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00:22:13 --> 00:22:13 Oh,
00:22:13 --> 00:22:14 that's an
00:22:14 --> 00:22:14 interesting one.
00:22:14 --> 00:22:15 What is our
00:22:15 --> 00:22:16 splendor?
00:22:16 --> 00:22:16 What is,
00:22:16 --> 00:22:17 hmm.
00:22:17 --> 00:22:18 What about
00:22:18 --> 00:22:18 you?
00:22:18 --> 00:22:19 What would
00:22:19 --> 00:22:19 you say
00:22:19 --> 00:22:20 your glory
00:22:20 --> 00:22:20 is?
00:22:20 --> 00:22:20 What is the,
00:22:20 --> 00:22:21 what is the
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00:22:27 --> 00:22:27 go,
00:22:27 --> 00:22:27 wow,
00:22:27 --> 00:22:28 that's,
00:22:28 --> 00:22:28 that's
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00:22:29 --> 00:22:30 Is it
00:22:30 --> 00:22:31 your house
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00:22:39 --> 00:22:39 Is it
00:22:39 --> 00:22:40 your name,
00:22:40 --> 00:22:41 your reputation,
00:22:42 --> 00:22:43 that you have
00:22:43 --> 00:22:44 a good name?
00:22:44 --> 00:22:45 Or maybe,
00:22:45 --> 00:22:46 for the parents,
00:22:46 --> 00:22:47 maybe it's
00:22:47 --> 00:22:47 your children.
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00:22:49 --> 00:22:49 successful,
00:22:50 --> 00:22:50 they achieve
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00:22:51 --> 00:22:51 and they
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00:22:54 --> 00:22:55 Here,
00:22:55 --> 00:22:56 Jesus says,
00:22:57 --> 00:22:58 God's glory,
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00:23:01 --> 00:23:01 which he
00:23:01 --> 00:23:02 shows the
00:23:02 --> 00:23:03 universe,
00:23:03 --> 00:23:04 his splendor,
00:23:05 --> 00:23:06 is in
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00:23:45 --> 00:23:48 love.
00:23:50 --> 00:23:51 Did you
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00:23:51 --> 00:23:52 Jesus says?
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00:24:00 --> 00:24:00 son.
00:24:01 --> 00:24:02 The
00:24:02 --> 00:24:02 son
00:24:02 --> 00:24:03 glorifies
00:24:03 --> 00:24:03 himself?
00:24:05 --> 00:24:06 No.
00:24:06 --> 00:24:07 the
00:24:07 --> 00:24:07 son
00:24:07 --> 00:24:08 glorifies
00:24:08 --> 00:24:08 the
00:24:08 --> 00:24:08 father.
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00:25:00 --> 00:25:01 in
00:25:01 --> 00:25:01 verse
00:25:01 --> 00:25:02 34
00:25:02 --> 00:25:03 Jesus
00:25:03 --> 00:25:03 says
00:25:03 --> 00:25:06 what
00:25:06 --> 00:25:06 does
00:25:06 --> 00:25:06 he
00:25:06 --> 00:25:06 say?
00:25:07 --> 00:25:08 New
00:25:08 --> 00:25:08 commandment
00:25:08 --> 00:25:09 I give
00:25:09 --> 00:25:09 to you
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00:25:09 --> 00:25:11 love
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00:34:01 --> 00:34:01 life
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00:35:02 --> 00:35:02 heaven
00:35:02 --> 00:35:04 seeing the
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00:35:07 --> 00:35:07 him
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00:35:15 --> 00:35:15 like you
00:35:15 --> 00:35:16 need oxygen
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00:35:21 --> 00:35:22 reasons
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00:35:23 --> 00:35:25 SEP
00:35:25 --> 00:35:26 the
00:35:26 --> 00:35:27 invisibility
00:35:27 --> 00:35:28 of us
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00:35:28 --> 00:35:29 church
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00:35:31 --> 00:35:31 case by the
00:35:31 --> 00:35:32 way
00:35:32 --> 00:35:33 Christians were
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00:35:34 --> 00:35:35 at one
00:35:35 --> 00:35:35 stage
00:35:35 --> 00:35:36 not just
00:35:36 --> 00:35:37 200 years
00:35:37 --> 00:35:38 ago but
00:35:38 --> 00:35:38 back a long
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00:35:41 --> 00:35:42 conclusion
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00:35:43 --> 00:35:45 Julian was
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00:35:46 --> 00:35:46 of Rome
00:35:46 --> 00:35:48 he was
00:35:48 --> 00:35:49 called the
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00:35:52 --> 00:35:53 Constantine
00:35:53 --> 00:35:54 in the
00:35:54 --> 00:35:54 fourth
00:35:54 --> 00:35:55 fifth century
00:35:55 --> 00:35:56 was supposed
00:35:56 --> 00:35:56 to have been
00:35:56 --> 00:35:56 converted
00:35:56 --> 00:35:58 the whole
00:35:58 --> 00:35:59 empire became
00:35:59 --> 00:36:00 Christian because
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00:36:00 --> 00:36:00 supposedly
00:36:00 --> 00:36:02 and one of
00:36:02 --> 00:36:02 his successes
00:36:02 --> 00:36:03 this guy
00:36:03 --> 00:36:03 called Julian
00:36:03 --> 00:36:04 decided
00:36:04 --> 00:36:06 I'm going
00:36:06 --> 00:36:06 to be a
00:36:06 --> 00:36:06 pagan
00:36:06 --> 00:36:08 and I'm
00:36:08 --> 00:36:08 going to
00:36:08 --> 00:36:08 get the
00:36:08 --> 00:36:09 whole empire
00:36:09 --> 00:36:10 to become
00:36:10 --> 00:36:11 pagan once
00:36:11 --> 00:36:11 again
00:36:11 --> 00:36:13 except he's
00:36:13 --> 00:36:14 really smart
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00:36:15 --> 00:36:15 student of
00:36:15 --> 00:36:16 history and
00:36:16 --> 00:36:16 he saw
00:36:16 --> 00:36:17 that the
00:36:17 --> 00:36:18 problem with
00:36:18 --> 00:36:19 Christians is
00:36:19 --> 00:36:19 that they're
00:36:19 --> 00:36:20 like cockroaches
00:36:20 --> 00:36:20 you can't get
00:36:20 --> 00:36:21 rid of them
00:36:21 --> 00:36:22 so you can't
00:36:22 --> 00:36:23 spray them
00:36:23 --> 00:36:23 you can't
00:36:23 --> 00:36:24 persecute them
00:36:24 --> 00:36:24 you can't
00:36:24 --> 00:36:25 do violence
00:36:25 --> 00:36:25 to them
00:36:25 --> 00:36:26 in fact the
00:36:26 --> 00:36:26 more violence
00:36:26 --> 00:36:27 you do to
00:36:27 --> 00:36:27 Christians
00:36:27 --> 00:36:28 the more
00:36:28 --> 00:36:28 the gospel
00:36:28 --> 00:36:29 spreads
00:36:29 --> 00:36:31 so he
00:36:31 --> 00:36:32 wrote this
00:36:32 --> 00:36:32 letter to
00:36:32 --> 00:36:33 one of these
00:36:33 --> 00:36:34 pagan priests
00:36:34 --> 00:36:35 to try to
00:36:35 --> 00:36:35 do what
00:36:35 --> 00:36:36 the Christians
00:36:36 --> 00:36:37 do and
00:36:37 --> 00:36:37 this is what
00:36:37 --> 00:36:38 he said
00:36:38 --> 00:36:40 why do we
00:36:40 --> 00:36:41 not observe
00:36:41 --> 00:36:42 that it is
00:36:42 --> 00:36:42 there that is
00:36:42 --> 00:36:43 the Christians
00:36:43 --> 00:36:44 benevolence to
00:36:44 --> 00:36:45 strangers
00:36:45 --> 00:36:46 they care for
00:36:46 --> 00:36:47 the grace of
00:36:47 --> 00:36:47 the dead
00:36:47 --> 00:36:48 and the
00:36:48 --> 00:36:48 pretended
00:36:48 --> 00:36:49 holiness of
00:36:49 --> 00:36:50 their lives
00:36:50 --> 00:36:51 that have
00:36:51 --> 00:36:52 done much
00:36:52 --> 00:36:53 to increase
00:36:53 --> 00:36:54 atheism
00:36:54 --> 00:36:55 atheism that
00:36:55 --> 00:36:56 is unbelief
00:36:56 --> 00:36:57 in the pagan
00:36:57 --> 00:36:57 gods
00:36:57 --> 00:36:58 ironic
00:36:58 --> 00:37:00 we're
00:37:00 --> 00:37:00 atheists
00:37:00 --> 00:37:01 there you
00:37:01 --> 00:37:02 go
00:37:02 --> 00:37:03 for it is
00:37:03 --> 00:37:04 disgraceful
00:37:04 --> 00:37:05 that when
00:37:05 --> 00:37:06 no Jew
00:37:06 --> 00:37:06 ever has
00:37:06 --> 00:37:07 to beg
00:37:07 --> 00:37:09 and the
00:37:09 --> 00:37:09 impious
00:37:09 --> 00:37:10 Galileans
00:37:10 --> 00:37:10 that is
00:37:10 --> 00:37:11 Christians
00:37:11 --> 00:37:12 support not
00:37:12 --> 00:37:13 only their
00:37:13 --> 00:37:14 own poor
00:37:14 --> 00:37:16 but ours
00:37:16 --> 00:37:16 as well
00:37:16 --> 00:37:18 all men
00:37:18 --> 00:37:19 see that
00:37:19 --> 00:37:20 our people
00:37:20 --> 00:37:21 lack aid
00:37:21 --> 00:37:21 from us
00:37:21 --> 00:37:22 teach those
00:37:22 --> 00:37:23 of the
00:37:23 --> 00:37:23 Hellenic faith
00:37:23 --> 00:37:24 to contribute
00:37:24 --> 00:37:25 to public
00:37:25 --> 00:37:26 service of
00:37:26 --> 00:37:26 this sort
00:37:26 --> 00:37:28 he's saying
00:37:28 --> 00:37:29 do what the
00:37:29 --> 00:37:29 Christians do
00:37:29 --> 00:37:30 and paganism
00:37:30 --> 00:37:31 will flourish
00:37:31 --> 00:37:33 he is a
00:37:33 --> 00:37:33 pagan
00:37:33 --> 00:37:34 emperor
00:37:34 --> 00:37:35 trying to
00:37:35 --> 00:37:36 snuff out
00:37:36 --> 00:37:36 the gospel
00:37:36 --> 00:37:37 in the
00:37:37 --> 00:37:37 empire
00:37:37 --> 00:37:39 the world
00:37:39 --> 00:37:40 around us
00:37:40 --> 00:37:42 keep changing
00:37:42 --> 00:37:43 the values
00:37:43 --> 00:37:44 they want to
00:37:44 --> 00:37:44 change the
00:37:44 --> 00:37:45 laws
00:37:45 --> 00:37:46 and we want
00:37:46 --> 00:37:47 to fight
00:37:47 --> 00:37:47 them
00:37:47 --> 00:37:49 in the
00:37:49 --> 00:37:49 schools
00:37:49 --> 00:37:50 in the
00:37:50 --> 00:37:51 parliament
00:37:51 --> 00:37:52 but what
00:37:52 --> 00:37:53 was it
00:37:53 --> 00:37:54 that stopped
00:37:54 --> 00:37:56 the empire
00:37:56 --> 00:37:57 reverting back
00:37:57 --> 00:37:58 to paganism
00:37:58 --> 00:38:01 it was
00:38:01 --> 00:38:03 love
00:38:03 --> 00:38:04 wasn't it
00:38:04 --> 00:38:06 love
00:38:06 --> 00:38:07 that commands
00:38:07 --> 00:38:08 the truth
00:38:08 --> 00:38:09 of the gospel
00:38:09 --> 00:38:12 I wonder
00:38:12 --> 00:38:13 whether
00:38:13 --> 00:38:14 if the glory
00:38:14 --> 00:38:15 of our
00:38:15 --> 00:38:16 church
00:38:16 --> 00:38:17 is the
00:38:17 --> 00:38:17 love of
00:38:17 --> 00:38:18 Christ
00:38:18 --> 00:38:19 whether we
00:38:19 --> 00:38:20 will be
00:38:20 --> 00:38:21 shining so
00:38:21 --> 00:38:21 bright
00:38:21 --> 00:38:23 that not
00:38:23 --> 00:38:24 even a
00:38:24 --> 00:38:24 bushel
00:38:24 --> 00:38:25 can hide
00:38:25 --> 00:38:25 us
00:38:25 --> 00:38:27 a new
00:38:27 --> 00:38:27 commandment
00:38:27 --> 00:38:28 I give
00:38:28 --> 00:38:28 to you
00:38:28 --> 00:38:29 that you
00:38:29 --> 00:38:29 love one
00:38:29 --> 00:38:29 another
00:38:29 --> 00:38:30 just as
00:38:30 --> 00:38:31 I have
00:38:31 --> 00:38:31 loved you
00:38:31 --> 00:38:32 you also
00:38:32 --> 00:38:33 are to
00:38:33 --> 00:38:33 love one
00:38:33 --> 00:38:34 another
00:38:34 --> 00:38:35 but as
00:38:35 --> 00:38:35 all people
00:38:35 --> 00:38:36 will know
00:38:36 --> 00:38:36 that you
00:38:36 --> 00:38:37 are my
00:38:37 --> 00:38:37 disciples
00:38:37 --> 00:38:39 if you
00:38:39 --> 00:38:39 have love
00:38:39 --> 00:38:40 for one
00:38:40 --> 00:38:40 another
00:38:40 --> 00:38:41 what
00:38:41 --> 00:38:41 do
00:38:41 --> 00:38:42 to
00:38:42 --> 00:38:42 do
00:38:42 --> 00:38:43 before
00:38:43 --> 00:38:44 i
00:38:44 --> 00:38:44 see that
00:38:44 --> 00:38:44 would
00:38:44 --> 00:38:46 do
00:38:46 --> 00:38:46 break
00:38:47 --> 00:38:49 this
00:38:49 --> 00:38:53 here
00:38:53 --> 00:38:55 I
00:38:59 --> 00:38:59 oh
00:39:02 --> 00:39:03 what
00:39:03 --> 00:39:06 do