Vision Series 2023
Series: Jesus. All about Freedom
Speaker: John Lau
Date: 5th March 2023
00:00:00 --> 00:00:10 During the Song Dynasty of China, which began in 1960 AD and lasted until 1279,
00:00:11 --> 00:00:17 Fan Zhong Yuen spent nearly 40 years as a noble scholar official.
00:00:18 --> 00:00:24 He was appointed to be the prime minister over the entire emperor, but later demoted.
00:00:24 --> 00:00:33 He firmly believed that governing officials were the first to worry the worries of all under heaven,
00:00:33 --> 00:00:35 and the last to enjoy its joy.
00:00:37 --> 00:00:44 And this and his reform ensured the Song Dynasty builds on the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty
00:00:44 --> 00:00:52 and left a long-lasting impact on the philosophy of governing and management of a fast country like China.
00:00:52 --> 00:01:03 A friend tried to persuade him to ease off on his reform and be careful about all the political enemy he has stirred up for himself.
00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 And he replied with a poem with this line,
00:01:08 --> 00:01:13 Better to ramassade and die than keep silent and live.
00:01:13 --> 00:01:23 Bringing reform that would benefit all under heaven was so important to him that he was not free to keep silent.
00:01:24 --> 00:01:32 Even though his speak up means demotion or death, but far better than keeping quiet and stay alive.
00:01:32 --> 00:01:39 Today, people get into politics and governing jobs for what they can get out of it.
00:01:40 --> 00:01:49 But Fan Zhong Yuen's idea for a government official is unheard of in modern society, in the East or in the West.
00:01:50 --> 00:01:59 His realization of the limitation of his freedom is even a rare commodity of our current Western culture.
00:01:59 --> 00:02:06 Fan treats liberty for the betterment of his countrymen.
00:02:07 --> 00:02:13 On the other side, many Western people mix independence and freedom together.
00:02:14 --> 00:02:22 Westerners consider themselves free and will protest like William Wallace at the War of Scottish Independence.
00:02:22 --> 00:02:27 They may take my life, but they will never take our freedom.
00:02:28 --> 00:02:33 Or Arthur Scott, one of the United States founding fathers, Patrick Henry,
00:02:34 --> 00:02:36 give me liberty or give me death.
00:02:37 --> 00:02:42 As both calls for their countrymen to break free of their motherland, England.
00:02:42 --> 00:02:48 The same pride has echoed around many countries last few years.
00:02:48 --> 00:02:55 As the world deal with COVID-19 and government restrictions,
00:02:55 --> 00:03:04 people protest that no government or anyone should have the right to tell them what to think or how to behave.
00:03:04 --> 00:03:14 Our modern view of freedom is one of autonomy and make freedom the highest value of human existence.
00:03:15 --> 00:03:20 People define freedom as the absence of any limitations or constraints.
00:03:21 --> 00:03:27 The fewer boundaries they have on their choices and actions, the freer they will feel.
00:03:27 --> 00:03:34 As we carry on our vision series in looking at Jesus is all about life,
00:03:35 --> 00:03:37 we will look at Jesus is all about freedom today.
00:03:38 --> 00:03:44 I want to highlight four observations about modern view of freedom
00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 and suggest two ways to embrace freedom.
00:03:49 --> 00:03:54 Freedom is defined as doing whatever I want without constraint.
00:03:54 --> 00:03:55 Freedom is defined as a way to make freedom.
00:03:55 --> 00:03:56 Freedom is defined as a way to make freedom.
00:03:56 --> 00:04:02 This definition will only work if there is only just one thing called freedom
00:04:02 --> 00:04:04 that either you can have or do not have.
00:04:05 --> 00:04:11 However, there are numerous freedoms at different stages of life journey
00:04:11 --> 00:04:13 and no one can have them all.
00:04:14 --> 00:04:18 We all want to be free from illness or sickness
00:04:18 --> 00:04:24 and live long enough to enjoy a sustained loving relationship with family and friends.
00:04:24 --> 00:04:31 However, if you like to eat wherever you want to
00:04:31 --> 00:04:34 and it causes a problem with your health,
00:04:35 --> 00:04:39 you will have to make an obvious choice to limit and change your eating habit.
00:04:41 --> 00:04:47 Likewise, you pursue a career or profession to ensure an income
00:04:47 --> 00:04:51 that allows you the freedom to choose your living standard and your lessons.
00:04:52 --> 00:04:58 You will have to sacrifice innumerable other freedoms of time and money.
00:04:59 --> 00:05:03 If you speak with anyone who has just started uni this year
00:05:03 --> 00:05:04 or is finishing the course,
00:05:05 --> 00:05:08 you will know firsthand what it is like to make those sacrifices.
00:05:08 --> 00:05:14 Freedom is not what our culture tells us.
00:05:15 --> 00:05:23 Genuine freedom comes only from strategically losing some freedoms to gain others.
00:05:25 --> 00:05:28 You should ask which freedom is more important,
00:05:29 --> 00:05:30 the more truly liberating.
00:05:30 --> 00:05:34 At the same time, ask yourself,
00:05:35 --> 00:05:38 who has sacrificially invested in your life
00:05:38 --> 00:05:41 to ensure that you are not being unjust?
00:05:42 --> 00:05:46 We are all products of a family and a community
00:05:46 --> 00:05:49 that invests much time and love in us.
00:05:49 --> 00:05:53 Much of it happened even before we can speak
00:05:53 --> 00:05:55 or can now remember.
00:05:55 --> 00:05:57 As a child,
00:05:58 --> 00:06:00 when we become injured or sick,
00:06:00 --> 00:06:02 or as we age,
00:06:02 --> 00:06:06 our need and dependence on others increases,
00:06:07 --> 00:06:11 making believing in an absolute individual autonomy
00:06:11 --> 00:06:14 a cruel and unjust choice.
00:06:15 --> 00:06:19 No one is ever only responsible for themselves.
00:06:20 --> 00:06:24 We all share responsibility for and to others.
00:06:25 --> 00:06:30 What John Donne wrote in his poem in 1624,
00:06:31 --> 00:06:33 no man is an island and tire of itself.
00:06:34 --> 00:06:36 Any man's death diminishes me
00:06:36 --> 00:06:39 because I am involved in mankind,
00:06:39 --> 00:06:41 still ring true today.
00:06:44 --> 00:06:47 Modern freedom lives on the principle
00:06:47 --> 00:06:50 that everyone should be free to live as they desire,
00:06:51 --> 00:06:53 as long as they do not harm anyone else.
00:06:53 --> 00:07:00 We no longer need to impose a set of moral rights or wrongs
00:07:00 --> 00:07:04 on anyone if people abide to this harm principle.
00:07:05 --> 00:07:10 The freedom of choice will become a self-correcting absolute
00:07:10 --> 00:07:15 that guides living together without needing any value judgment.
00:07:15 --> 00:07:17 Under this principle,
00:07:17 --> 00:07:27 freedom is the only unconditional good and moral absolute of our society
00:07:27 --> 00:07:30 that should hold a need.
00:07:30 --> 00:07:39 Michael Kahneman of Harvard Law Society denies it as an empty concept
00:07:39 --> 00:07:42 because it cannot stand alone.
00:07:43 --> 00:07:49 It leads us first to define what good and thriving human life is
00:07:49 --> 00:07:53 and agree on what harm is for it to work.
00:07:54 --> 00:07:56 Whether freedom is good or bad
00:07:56 --> 00:08:00 depends entirely on the particular substantive cause
00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 on behalf of which freedom is involved.
00:08:04 --> 00:08:06 Our challenge today
00:08:06 --> 00:08:11 is not to follow the culturally dominant view of freedom from
00:08:11 --> 00:08:16 without any definition of what our freedom is for.
00:08:17 --> 00:08:20 We must also ensure we do not join the crowd
00:08:20 --> 00:08:26 to perpetuate a publicly shaming people or groups
00:08:26 --> 00:08:29 to press our moral beliefs about harm on them.
00:08:31 --> 00:08:35 Freedom of choice cannot stand alone as a guide to a behavior
00:08:35 --> 00:08:39 even with its full intention of not harming other people.
00:08:39 --> 00:08:43 theologian Tim Keller
00:08:43 --> 00:08:46 Tim Keller observed that
00:08:46 --> 00:08:48 the harm principle is useless
00:08:48 --> 00:08:51 as a guide and untrustworthy.
00:08:52 --> 00:08:53 And he also warns
00:08:53 --> 00:08:58 freedom as is widely collected in our society
00:08:58 --> 00:09:03 is corrosive to humanity in general
00:09:03 --> 00:09:07 and to enduring committed love relationship in particular.
00:09:07 --> 00:09:11 He came to this conclusion
00:09:11 --> 00:09:13 drawing on Jonathan Head's
00:09:13 --> 00:09:14 work titled
00:09:14 --> 00:09:15 Happiness
00:09:15 --> 00:09:17 Hypothesis
00:09:17 --> 00:09:20 Hey, right
00:09:20 --> 00:09:24 An ideology of extreme personal freedom
00:09:24 --> 00:09:26 can be dangerous
00:09:26 --> 00:09:28 because it encourages people
00:09:28 --> 00:09:32 to leave homes, jobs, cities, and marriage
00:09:32 --> 00:09:36 in search of personal and professional fulfillment
00:09:36 --> 00:09:38 thereby breaking the relationship
00:09:38 --> 00:09:42 that were properly the best hope for such fulfillment.
00:09:45 --> 00:09:47 His happiness research
00:09:47 --> 00:09:51 confirmed the importance of strong social relationship
00:09:51 --> 00:09:55 in strengthening the immune system
00:09:55 --> 00:09:56 extending life
00:09:56 --> 00:09:59 speeding up recovery from surgery
00:09:59 --> 00:10:02 and reduce the risk of depression
00:10:02 --> 00:10:04 and anxiety disorders.
00:10:05 --> 00:10:06 Deep down
00:10:06 --> 00:10:09 we all sense the need
00:10:09 --> 00:10:12 to interact and intertwine with others.
00:10:12 --> 00:10:17 We need the gift and take
00:10:17 --> 00:10:18 we need to belong.
00:10:20 --> 00:10:21 What would happen
00:10:21 --> 00:10:24 if everyone ran off to pursue their freedom?
00:10:26 --> 00:10:28 Family would fall apart
00:10:28 --> 00:10:30 neighborhood association would collapse
00:10:30 --> 00:10:34 and the erosion of voluntary
00:10:34 --> 00:10:36 and selfish community
00:10:36 --> 00:10:38 will necessitate
00:10:38 --> 00:10:39 the soft tyranny
00:10:39 --> 00:10:42 of a growing bureaucratic state
00:10:42 --> 00:10:44 where individuals are powerless.
00:10:46 --> 00:10:48 Being honest
00:10:48 --> 00:10:48 generous
00:10:48 --> 00:10:50 and public spirit
00:10:50 --> 00:10:52 being faithful
00:10:52 --> 00:10:54 to your spouse and children
00:10:54 --> 00:10:56 will regularly infringe
00:10:56 --> 00:10:57 on your happiness
00:10:57 --> 00:10:58 and freedom.
00:10:58 --> 00:10:59 However
00:10:59 --> 00:11:01 a more robust
00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 and cohesive government
00:11:04 --> 00:11:06 is the only alternative
00:11:06 --> 00:11:08 if anyone
00:11:08 --> 00:11:10 protects their independence
00:11:10 --> 00:11:11 and stops doing these things.
00:11:13 --> 00:11:14 The harm
00:11:14 --> 00:11:15 of emphasizing
00:11:15 --> 00:11:17 personal freedom
00:11:17 --> 00:11:18 above community
00:11:18 --> 00:11:19 commitment
00:11:19 --> 00:11:20 could eventually
00:11:20 --> 00:11:21 be the loss
00:11:21 --> 00:11:23 of liberty
00:11:23 --> 00:11:24 and independence.
00:11:25 --> 00:11:26 Too much
00:11:26 --> 00:11:28 individual freedom
00:11:28 --> 00:11:29 leads to increased
00:11:29 --> 00:11:30 government control
00:11:30 --> 00:11:31 over the whole group
00:11:31 --> 00:11:32 because no one
00:11:32 --> 00:11:33 is willing to sacrifice
00:11:33 --> 00:11:35 for the better good
00:11:35 --> 00:11:36 of the collectives.
00:11:39 --> 00:11:40 Any
00:11:40 --> 00:11:41 authorities
00:11:41 --> 00:11:42 organizations
00:11:42 --> 00:11:43 or institutions
00:11:43 --> 00:11:44 that impose
00:11:44 --> 00:11:46 rules and regulations
00:11:46 --> 00:11:47 are often perceived
00:11:47 --> 00:11:48 as an enemy
00:11:48 --> 00:11:49 of freedom.
00:11:51 --> 00:11:51 Christian
00:11:51 --> 00:11:52 is often seen
00:11:52 --> 00:11:54 as an arch enemy.
00:11:54 --> 00:11:56 many people
00:11:56 --> 00:11:57 reckon
00:11:57 --> 00:11:58 Christianity
00:11:58 --> 00:11:59 requires people
00:11:59 --> 00:12:00 to recognize
00:12:00 --> 00:12:01 their insufficiency
00:12:01 --> 00:12:03 and turn their back
00:12:03 --> 00:12:05 on their autonomies.
00:12:05 --> 00:12:06 Autonomics
00:12:06 --> 00:12:07 seemingly
00:12:07 --> 00:12:08 happy life.
00:12:09 --> 00:12:10 It stipulates
00:12:10 --> 00:12:10 people
00:12:10 --> 00:12:11 to be born
00:12:11 --> 00:12:13 as human beings
00:12:13 --> 00:12:14 who understand
00:12:14 --> 00:12:14 their dependency
00:12:14 --> 00:12:16 on something
00:12:16 --> 00:12:17 more significant.
00:12:17 --> 00:12:18 They consider that
00:12:18 --> 00:12:19 as a great
00:12:19 --> 00:12:20 infringement
00:12:20 --> 00:12:21 on their freedom.
00:12:21 --> 00:12:23 if that's
00:12:23 --> 00:12:24 what you think
00:12:24 --> 00:12:26 Christianity
00:12:26 --> 00:12:27 is all about
00:12:27 --> 00:12:28 let me encourage you
00:12:28 --> 00:12:29 to scan
00:12:29 --> 00:12:30 the Christianity
00:12:30 --> 00:12:31 explained QR code
00:12:31 --> 00:12:32 in front of you
00:12:32 --> 00:12:33 and find out
00:12:33 --> 00:12:33 the true meaning
00:12:33 --> 00:12:34 of Christianity.
00:12:36 --> 00:12:36 Christianity
00:12:36 --> 00:12:37 being the
00:12:37 --> 00:12:37 arch enemy
00:12:37 --> 00:12:38 of freedom
00:12:38 --> 00:12:39 is a case
00:12:39 --> 00:12:40 of mistaken
00:12:40 --> 00:12:40 identity.
00:12:42 --> 00:12:43 You should give
00:12:43 --> 00:12:43 Christianity
00:12:43 --> 00:12:44 the benefit
00:12:44 --> 00:12:44 of doubt
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00:12:46 --> 00:12:49 the only thing
00:12:49 --> 00:12:50 that generally
00:12:50 --> 00:12:51 cannot coexist
00:12:51 --> 00:12:52 with the contemporary
00:12:52 --> 00:12:54 sense of freedom
00:12:54 --> 00:12:55 is not religion
00:12:55 --> 00:12:56 but our need
00:12:56 --> 00:12:57 for love
00:12:57 --> 00:12:57 and worship.
00:12:59 --> 00:13:00 Keller says it well
00:13:00 --> 00:13:01 there is no
00:13:01 --> 00:13:02 greater feeling
00:13:02 --> 00:13:04 of liberation
00:13:04 --> 00:13:05 than to free
00:13:05 --> 00:13:07 and be loved
00:13:07 --> 00:13:07 well.
00:13:08 --> 00:13:09 The affirmation
00:13:09 --> 00:13:10 that comes
00:13:10 --> 00:13:11 from love
00:13:11 --> 00:13:12 liberates
00:13:12 --> 00:13:13 your fear
00:13:13 --> 00:13:14 and self-doubt.
00:13:14 --> 00:13:17 it frees you
00:13:17 --> 00:13:18 from having
00:13:18 --> 00:13:18 to face
00:13:18 --> 00:13:18 the world
00:13:18 --> 00:13:19 alone.
00:13:20 --> 00:13:21 Your friend
00:13:21 --> 00:13:21 and mate
00:13:21 --> 00:13:23 will be crucial
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00:13:25 --> 00:13:25 of your goals
00:13:25 --> 00:13:26 in life.
00:13:27 --> 00:13:28 In all
00:13:28 --> 00:13:29 these ways
00:13:29 --> 00:13:29 love
00:13:29 --> 00:13:30 is liberating
00:13:30 --> 00:13:32 perhaps
00:13:32 --> 00:13:32 the most
00:13:32 --> 00:13:33 liberating thing
00:13:33 --> 00:13:34 but the minute
00:13:34 --> 00:13:35 you get into
00:13:35 --> 00:13:36 a love relationship
00:13:36 --> 00:13:37 and the deeper
00:13:37 --> 00:13:38 and more intimate
00:13:38 --> 00:13:39 and the more
00:13:39 --> 00:13:40 wonderful it gets
00:13:40 --> 00:13:41 the more
00:13:41 --> 00:13:42 you also have
00:13:42 --> 00:13:43 to give up
00:13:43 --> 00:13:43 your independence.
00:13:43 --> 00:13:46 when you love
00:13:46 --> 00:13:46 someone
00:13:46 --> 00:13:47 you are not
00:13:47 --> 00:13:48 free.
00:13:49 --> 00:13:51 You will always
00:13:51 --> 00:13:52 have the well-being
00:13:52 --> 00:13:53 and the happiness
00:13:53 --> 00:13:54 of that someone
00:13:54 --> 00:13:55 on your mind.
00:13:56 --> 00:13:57 You will think
00:13:57 --> 00:13:58 of way to please.
00:14:00 --> 00:14:00 If the feeling
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 and giving
00:14:02 --> 00:14:03 are not mutually
00:14:03 --> 00:14:05 reciprocal
00:14:05 --> 00:14:06 the relationship
00:14:06 --> 00:14:07 will become
00:14:07 --> 00:14:08 exploitative
00:14:08 --> 00:14:10 and you will feel
00:14:10 --> 00:14:12 more trapped
00:14:12 --> 00:14:13 wondering why
00:14:13 --> 00:14:13 the relationship
00:14:13 --> 00:14:14 is not working
00:14:14 --> 00:14:15 and what else
00:14:15 --> 00:14:16 you could have done.
00:14:18 --> 00:14:19 You might go
00:14:19 --> 00:14:20 from being anxious
00:14:20 --> 00:14:22 about staying
00:14:22 --> 00:14:23 in a committed
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00:14:24 --> 00:14:27 to consistently
00:14:27 --> 00:14:28 dipping in
00:14:28 --> 00:14:28 and out
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00:14:29 --> 00:14:31 trying to stay
00:14:31 --> 00:14:32 afloat
00:14:32 --> 00:14:33 to avoid
00:14:33 --> 00:14:33 being so
00:14:33 --> 00:14:34 hopelessly
00:14:34 --> 00:14:35 devoted to someone.
00:14:35 --> 00:14:38 you will move
00:14:38 --> 00:14:39 into that direction
00:14:39 --> 00:14:40 especially
00:14:40 --> 00:14:40 if you want
00:14:40 --> 00:14:41 to be true
00:14:41 --> 00:14:42 to the contemporary
00:14:42 --> 00:14:43 sense of freedom
00:14:43 --> 00:14:44 and be your own
00:14:44 --> 00:14:45 master.
00:14:46 --> 00:14:47 However
00:14:47 --> 00:14:48 the more
00:14:48 --> 00:14:49 you want
00:14:49 --> 00:14:49 to master
00:14:49 --> 00:14:50 your freedom
00:14:50 --> 00:14:51 the more
00:14:51 --> 00:14:52 you will realize
00:14:52 --> 00:14:53 you are not free
00:14:53 --> 00:14:54 or able
00:14:54 --> 00:14:55 to be the master.
00:14:57 --> 00:14:58 Over the last
00:14:58 --> 00:14:58 few weeks
00:14:58 --> 00:14:59 we have pointed out
00:14:59 --> 00:15:00 that everyone
00:15:00 --> 00:15:01 has an inner
00:15:01 --> 00:15:01 urge
00:15:01 --> 00:15:03 to find love
00:15:03 --> 00:15:04 meaning
00:15:04 --> 00:15:05 and satisfaction.
00:15:06 --> 00:15:07 Humans
00:15:07 --> 00:15:08 are frustrated
00:15:08 --> 00:15:08 and trapped
00:15:08 --> 00:15:10 because we are
00:15:10 --> 00:15:10 looking at the
00:15:10 --> 00:15:11 wrong thing
00:15:11 --> 00:15:12 and wrong place.
00:15:13 --> 00:15:14 We look to
00:15:14 --> 00:15:15 created things
00:15:15 --> 00:15:16 rather than
00:15:16 --> 00:15:17 to God
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00:15:17 --> 00:15:18 that urge.
00:15:19 --> 00:15:20 We are
00:15:20 --> 00:15:21 our worst enemy
00:15:21 --> 00:15:22 regarding
00:15:22 --> 00:15:24 autonomous
00:15:24 --> 00:15:25 freedom
00:15:25 --> 00:15:26 because we do
00:15:26 --> 00:15:27 not just have
00:15:27 --> 00:15:28 an inner urge
00:15:28 --> 00:15:29 to find love
00:15:29 --> 00:15:30 meaning
00:15:30 --> 00:15:31 and satisfaction.
00:15:31 --> 00:15:32 We also
00:15:32 --> 00:15:32 worship
00:15:32 --> 00:15:34 what we identify
00:15:34 --> 00:15:35 as the source
00:15:35 --> 00:15:35 of them
00:15:35 --> 00:15:36 and we end up
00:15:36 --> 00:15:37 being controlled
00:15:37 --> 00:15:38 by it.
00:15:40 --> 00:15:41 I encourage you
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00:15:42 --> 00:15:43 our website
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00:15:44 --> 00:15:45 to the sermon
00:15:45 --> 00:15:46 from the last
00:15:46 --> 00:15:47 two Sundays.
00:15:47 --> 00:15:48 They outline
00:15:48 --> 00:15:49 humanity's
00:15:49 --> 00:15:50 predicament
00:15:50 --> 00:15:51 regarding meaning
00:15:51 --> 00:15:52 and satisfaction
00:15:52 --> 00:15:54 and what we can do
00:15:54 --> 00:15:54 to embrace them.
00:15:56 --> 00:15:57 Contemporary
00:15:57 --> 00:15:58 people
00:15:58 --> 00:15:58 believe that
00:15:58 --> 00:16:00 instead of
00:16:00 --> 00:16:00 allowing religious
00:16:00 --> 00:16:01 authority
00:16:01 --> 00:16:02 or tradition
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00:16:03 --> 00:16:03 to them
00:16:03 --> 00:16:04 they should
00:16:04 --> 00:16:05 be free
00:16:05 --> 00:16:05 to think
00:16:05 --> 00:16:06 or live
00:16:06 --> 00:16:07 as they choose.
00:16:08 --> 00:16:09 But the reality
00:16:09 --> 00:16:10 is none
00:16:10 --> 00:16:10 of us
00:16:10 --> 00:16:11 are free agents.
00:16:12 --> 00:16:12 We are all
00:16:12 --> 00:16:13 worshipping
00:16:13 --> 00:16:14 and serving
00:16:14 --> 00:16:14 something.
00:16:15 --> 00:16:16 There is no
00:16:16 --> 00:16:17 such thing
00:16:17 --> 00:16:17 as freedom
00:16:17 --> 00:16:19 without limitation.
00:16:20 --> 00:16:21 To embrace
00:16:21 --> 00:16:21 freedom
00:16:21 --> 00:16:23 not in the sense
00:16:23 --> 00:16:23 of our
00:16:23 --> 00:16:24 contemporary culture
00:16:24 --> 00:16:25 tell us
00:16:25 --> 00:16:26 we should look
00:16:26 --> 00:16:27 for the right
00:16:27 --> 00:16:28 the liberating
00:16:28 --> 00:16:29 constraint
00:16:29 --> 00:16:30 that fits
00:16:30 --> 00:16:30 our nature
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00:16:32 --> 00:16:33 We should
00:16:33 --> 00:16:33 consider
00:16:33 --> 00:16:34 which master
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00:16:36 --> 00:16:37 cherish
00:16:37 --> 00:16:38 empower
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00:16:39 --> 00:16:39 us
00:16:39 --> 00:16:40 and which
00:16:40 --> 00:16:41 one will
00:16:41 --> 00:16:41 exploit
00:16:41 --> 00:16:42 and abuse
00:16:42 --> 00:16:42 us.
00:16:43 --> 00:16:44 Which master
00:16:44 --> 00:16:45 is the right
00:16:45 --> 00:16:46 master for our
00:16:46 --> 00:16:47 hearts and lives
00:16:47 --> 00:16:48 and so brings
00:16:48 --> 00:16:49 those right
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00:16:50 --> 00:16:53 Let me
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00:17:01 --> 00:17:02 I do not
00:17:02 --> 00:17:03 say it in a
00:17:03 --> 00:17:04 nasty or
00:17:04 --> 00:17:05 sarcastic sense.
00:17:06 --> 00:17:07 Many modern
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00:17:13 --> 00:17:13 Romans 8
00:17:13 --> 00:17:15 16 to 21
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00:17:18 --> 00:17:19 He created
00:17:19 --> 00:17:19 us
00:17:19 --> 00:17:20 and it
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00:17:26 --> 00:17:26 Verse 20
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00:17:27 --> 00:17:29 for the creation
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00:17:31 --> 00:17:33 not by its
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00:17:47 --> 00:17:47 Your
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00:17:48 --> 00:17:49 in life
00:17:49 --> 00:17:50 are God's
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00:17:50 --> 00:17:51 to you.
00:17:52 --> 00:17:53 God put
00:17:53 --> 00:17:54 them there
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00:18:04 --> 00:18:05 God created
00:18:05 --> 00:18:06 us to know,
00:18:07 --> 00:18:07 serve,
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00:18:09 --> 00:18:10 Trying to
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00:18:10 --> 00:18:11 anything else
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00:18:12 --> 00:18:12 to slavery
00:18:12 --> 00:18:14 like running
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00:18:18 --> 00:18:19 When you
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00:18:20 --> 00:18:20 God
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00:18:22 --> 00:18:23 his will,
00:18:24 --> 00:18:24 you will
00:18:24 --> 00:18:25 become who
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00:18:29 --> 00:18:30 love for
00:18:30 --> 00:18:31 God.
00:18:31 --> 00:18:34 Why is it
00:18:34 --> 00:18:35 that when
00:18:35 --> 00:18:35 you fall
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00:18:36 --> 00:18:37 you take
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00:18:40 --> 00:18:41 things your
00:18:41 --> 00:18:42 loved one
00:18:42 --> 00:18:42 loves and
00:18:42 --> 00:18:43 hates?
00:18:44 --> 00:18:44 Then you
00:18:44 --> 00:18:45 go all
00:18:45 --> 00:18:46 out to
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00:18:46 --> 00:18:47 do the
00:18:47 --> 00:18:47 things that
00:18:47 --> 00:18:48 delight them.
00:18:49 --> 00:18:49 Why do
00:18:49 --> 00:18:50 you gladly
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00:18:52 --> 00:18:53 their will
00:18:53 --> 00:18:54 rather than
00:18:54 --> 00:18:55 your own,
00:18:55 --> 00:18:56 the little
00:18:56 --> 00:18:57 limits on
00:18:57 --> 00:18:58 your behavior?
00:18:58 --> 00:19:00 it's because
00:19:00 --> 00:19:01 you have
00:19:01 --> 00:19:02 put your
00:19:02 --> 00:19:03 joy and
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00:19:03 --> 00:19:05 into the
00:19:05 --> 00:19:05 joy and
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00:19:06 --> 00:19:07 the other.
00:19:08 --> 00:19:08 You are
00:19:08 --> 00:19:09 happy to
00:19:09 --> 00:19:10 the degree
00:19:10 --> 00:19:10 they are.
00:19:11 --> 00:19:12 You have
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00:19:13 --> 00:19:14 pleasure of
00:19:14 --> 00:19:15 giving pleasure.
00:19:16 --> 00:19:16 You don't
00:19:16 --> 00:19:17 follow their
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00:19:18 --> 00:19:18 means to
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00:19:19 --> 00:19:20 want.
00:19:21 --> 00:19:21 Their love
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00:19:24 --> 00:19:25 In our
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00:19:25 --> 00:19:26 with God,
00:19:27 --> 00:19:27 Jesus took
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00:19:29 --> 00:19:30 humanity.
00:19:31 --> 00:19:32 He saved
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00:19:36 --> 00:19:36 He emptied
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00:19:44 --> 00:19:45 When you
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00:19:47 --> 00:19:47 God has
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00:19:57 --> 00:19:59 when you
00:19:59 --> 00:20:00 put your
00:20:00 --> 00:20:01 happiness into
00:20:01 --> 00:20:02 his happiness,
00:20:03 --> 00:20:04 serving him
00:20:04 --> 00:20:05 will become
00:20:05 --> 00:20:06 your perfect
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00:20:09 --> 00:20:10 The concept
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00:20:18 --> 00:20:18 God's love
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00:20:20 --> 00:20:21 you can
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00:20:22 --> 00:20:22 come to be
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00:20:23 --> 00:20:25 God's
00:20:25 --> 00:20:25 will.
00:20:25 --> 00:20:25 That is why we
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00:20:26 --> 00:20:27 urge everyone
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00:20:34 --> 00:20:34 The more you
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00:20:37 --> 00:20:38 freer you
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00:20:45 --> 00:20:46 past, people
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00:20:49 --> 00:20:49 They
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00:21:05 --> 00:21:06 after some
00:21:06 --> 00:21:07 time, God
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00:21:17 --> 00:21:17 God said
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00:21:20 --> 00:21:21 he created
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00:21:23 --> 00:21:24 I am he,
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00:21:26 --> 00:21:27 My own hand
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00:21:56 --> 00:21:57 If only you
00:21:57 --> 00:21:57 have paid
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00:21:58 --> 00:21:59 my commands,
00:21:59 --> 00:22:00 your peace
00:22:00 --> 00:22:00 would have been
00:22:00 --> 00:22:01 like a river.
00:22:02 --> 00:22:03 Your well-being
00:22:03 --> 00:22:04 like the ways
00:22:04 --> 00:22:05 of the sea.
00:22:06 --> 00:22:07 Jesus knows
00:22:07 --> 00:22:08 what is best
00:22:08 --> 00:22:09 for us and
00:22:09 --> 00:22:10 does not hold
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00:22:12 --> 00:22:13 are and
00:22:13 --> 00:22:14 directing how
00:22:14 --> 00:22:14 we should
00:22:14 --> 00:22:15 live.
00:22:15 --> 00:22:16 He keeps
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00:22:17 --> 00:22:18 his commands.
00:22:19 --> 00:22:19 If only you
00:22:19 --> 00:22:20 pay attention
00:22:20 --> 00:22:21 to them and
00:22:21 --> 00:22:22 follow God's
00:22:22 --> 00:22:23 will of and
00:22:23 --> 00:22:24 in a desire to
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00:22:26 --> 00:22:27 will increasingly
00:22:27 --> 00:22:28 sense that you
00:22:28 --> 00:22:29 are also becoming
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00:22:35 --> 00:22:36 In Matthew
00:22:36 --> 00:22:37 chapter 11,
00:22:37 --> 00:22:38 verse 28 to
00:22:38 --> 00:22:39 30, Jesus
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00:22:42 --> 00:22:43 all you who
00:22:43 --> 00:22:44 are weary
00:22:44 --> 00:22:45 and burdened,
00:22:45 --> 00:22:46 and I will
00:22:46 --> 00:22:46 give you rest.
00:22:47 --> 00:22:48 Take my yoke
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00:22:49 --> 00:22:50 learn from me,
00:22:50 --> 00:22:51 for I am gentle
00:22:51 --> 00:22:52 and humble in
00:22:52 --> 00:22:53 heart, and you
00:22:53 --> 00:22:54 will find rest
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00:22:55 --> 00:22:56 for my yoke is
00:22:56 --> 00:22:58 easy, my burden
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00:22:58 --> 00:23:02 Jesus essentially
00:23:02 --> 00:23:04 tells us that he
00:23:04 --> 00:23:05 calls only to do
00:23:05 --> 00:23:06 those things we
00:23:06 --> 00:23:07 were created to
00:23:07 --> 00:23:10 do, and you
00:23:10 --> 00:23:10 will find that
00:23:10 --> 00:23:11 his yoke is
00:23:11 --> 00:23:12 easy.
00:23:13 --> 00:23:14 He put on us
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00:23:15 --> 00:23:17 follow him, but
00:23:17 --> 00:23:17 he had already
00:23:17 --> 00:23:20 paid the price, so
00:23:20 --> 00:23:21 we will be
00:23:21 --> 00:23:22 forgiven when you
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00:23:24 --> 00:23:25 Jesus has
00:23:25 --> 00:23:26 taken off us
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00:23:28 --> 00:23:29 that other
00:23:29 --> 00:23:29 people have.
00:23:30 --> 00:23:31 He removed the
00:23:31 --> 00:23:32 burden of earning
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00:23:46 --> 00:23:47 He is the
00:23:47 --> 00:23:48 only Lord and
00:23:48 --> 00:23:49 Master who
00:23:49 --> 00:23:49 will satisfy
00:23:49 --> 00:23:51 you if you
00:23:51 --> 00:23:52 find him, and
00:23:52 --> 00:23:53 if you fail
00:23:53 --> 00:23:54 him, he will
00:23:54 --> 00:23:54 forgive you.
00:23:54 --> 00:23:57 Without
00:23:57 --> 00:23:58 Jesus,
00:23:58 --> 00:23:59 Christianity is
00:23:59 --> 00:24:00 exploitative,
00:24:01 --> 00:24:02 because God
00:24:02 --> 00:24:02 will not
00:24:02 --> 00:24:03 change, and
00:24:03 --> 00:24:03 you will have
00:24:03 --> 00:24:04 to do all
00:24:04 --> 00:24:05 the submitting,
00:24:05 --> 00:24:06 repenting, and
00:24:06 --> 00:24:07 making all the
00:24:07 --> 00:24:07 sacrifice.
00:24:08 --> 00:24:09 But in
00:24:09 --> 00:24:10 Jesus, God
00:24:10 --> 00:24:11 says, I
00:24:11 --> 00:24:12 will adjust
00:24:12 --> 00:24:13 to you.
00:24:13 --> 00:24:14 I will
00:24:14 --> 00:24:15 sacrifice for
00:24:15 --> 00:24:15 you.
00:24:16 --> 00:24:17 I will give
00:24:17 --> 00:24:18 up my glory
00:24:18 --> 00:24:19 and immortality
00:24:19 --> 00:24:20 in becoming
00:24:20 --> 00:24:22 human, and
00:24:22 --> 00:24:23 all light and
00:24:23 --> 00:24:24 joy, and
00:24:24 --> 00:24:24 my very
00:24:24 --> 00:24:25 life on
00:24:25 --> 00:24:26 the cross.
00:24:27 --> 00:24:27 He was
00:24:27 --> 00:24:28 nailed fast
00:24:28 --> 00:24:29 to it, so
00:24:29 --> 00:24:30 he could not
00:24:30 --> 00:24:30 move.
00:24:31 --> 00:24:32 How is that
00:24:32 --> 00:24:32 for giving
00:24:32 --> 00:24:33 up your
00:24:33 --> 00:24:33 freedom?
00:24:36 --> 00:24:36 I can
00:24:36 --> 00:24:37 invite the
00:24:37 --> 00:24:37 music team to
00:24:37 --> 00:24:37 come up.
00:24:38 --> 00:24:39 Christianity
00:24:39 --> 00:24:41 is the only
00:24:41 --> 00:24:42 religion that
00:24:42 --> 00:24:43 claims God
00:24:43 --> 00:24:43 gave up his
00:24:43 --> 00:24:45 freedom so we
00:24:45 --> 00:24:45 could experience
00:24:45 --> 00:24:46 the ultimate
00:24:46 --> 00:24:47 freedom from
00:24:47 --> 00:24:48 evil and death
00:24:48 --> 00:24:48 itself.
00:24:49 --> 00:24:50 Therefore, we
00:24:50 --> 00:24:51 can trust
00:24:51 --> 00:24:51 Jesus.
00:24:52 --> 00:24:52 He
00:24:52 --> 00:24:53 sacrifices
00:24:53 --> 00:24:53 his
00:24:53 --> 00:24:54 independence
00:24:54 --> 00:24:56 for you, so
00:24:56 --> 00:24:57 that you can
00:24:57 --> 00:24:58 sacrifice yours
00:24:58 --> 00:24:58 for him.
00:24:59 --> 00:24:59 And when you
00:24:59 --> 00:25:00 do, you
00:25:00 --> 00:25:01 will find it
00:25:01 --> 00:25:01 is the
00:25:01 --> 00:25:02 ultimate,
00:25:02 --> 00:25:03 infinite,
00:25:03 --> 00:25:04 liberating
00:25:04 --> 00:25:05 constraint.
00:25:06 --> 00:25:06 If the
00:25:06 --> 00:25:07 Son sets
00:25:07 --> 00:25:07 you free,
00:25:08 --> 00:25:08 you will be
00:25:08 --> 00:25:09 free indeed.
00:25:09 --> 00:25:09 Amen.
00:25:09 --> 00:25:10 Amen.
00:25:10 --> 00:25:10 Amen.
00:25:10 --> 00:25:10 Amen.
00:25:10 --> 00:25:11 Amen.
00:25:11 --> 00:25:11 Amen.
00:25:11 --> 00:25:11 Amen.
00:25:11 --> 00:25:11 Amen.
00:25:11 --> 00:25:12 Amen.
00:25:12 --> 00:25:12 Amen.
00:25:12 --> 00:25:12 Amen.
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