Leo D.M.J. Aurini - August 23, 2015


What does freedom mean when we are obedient to God？


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

106.344826

Word Count

514

Sentence Count

24

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches on the concept of free will and Christian doctrine. God created a world full of individuals with free will, but what does that mean for us as Christians? What does it mean to have free will mean, and how does it fit with Christian doctrine?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Music
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00:00:30.000 Free will
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00:00:34.000 How do we reconcile
00:00:36.000 these two concepts?
00:00:38.000 You know, one
00:00:40.000 statement you'll often hear from
00:00:42.000 atheists is
00:00:44.000 why would God have given Adam
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00:00:48.000 them to sin and
00:00:50.000 create a fallen world?
00:00:52.000 And
00:00:54.000 implicit in that is also the question
00:00:56.000 how is it that you can be said
00:00:58.000 to have free will if
00:01:00.000 you are following
00:01:02.000 the commandments of God?
00:01:06.000 You know, on the surface it seems like
00:01:08.000 if you're doing what God likes then
00:01:10.000 can you really be said to have free
00:01:12.000 will? And I think a
00:01:14.000 good metaphor for this to
00:01:16.000 illustrate how it is that
00:01:18.000 you can be free and
00:01:20.000 do what you're supposed to in life
00:01:22.000 is the idea
00:01:24.000 of a symphony.
00:01:26.000 When you have
00:01:28.000 a number of musicians in a symphony
00:01:30.000 they are all coordinated
00:01:32.000 they're all working together
00:01:34.000 to create a piece of art
00:01:36.000 to create beauty.
00:01:38.000 Now, every single one
00:01:40.000 of those musicians is free.
00:01:42.000 You know, if they want to start
00:01:43.000 playing their own music
00:01:44.000 if they want to just
00:01:46.000 make a bunch of noise
00:01:47.000 they can do that at any point.
00:01:49.000 But if they
00:01:51.000 don't follow the conductor
00:01:53.000 if they don't follow the sheet music
00:01:55.000 all you get is a cacophony.
00:01:57.000 And yet all of these people
00:01:59.000 out of their individual free
00:02:01.000 will choose to follow
00:02:03.000 the music, they choose to obey
00:02:05.000 the conductor.
00:02:07.000 And the result is
00:02:09.000 harmony and beauty.
00:02:11.000 And I believe that's
00:02:13.000 what it means to follow
00:02:15.000 God's will.
00:02:17.000 God doesn't want
00:02:19.000 a universe of
00:02:21.000 any more than you want to go
00:02:23.000 listen to a guy program
00:02:25.000 a computer to play the exact music
00:02:27.000 that he wants.
00:02:29.000 Seeing an actual orchestra
00:02:31.000 is just so much more of a powerful
00:02:33.000 experience than just listening
00:02:35.000 to pre-programmed music.
00:02:37.000 Even though theoretically
00:02:38.000 the pre-programmed music
00:02:39.000 could be better quality.
00:02:41.000 the reality is
00:02:43.000 that when you have
00:02:45.000 free individuals
00:02:46.000 masters of their craft
00:02:47.000 playing instruments
00:02:49.000 it absolutely surpasses
00:02:51.000 the best quality
00:02:53.000 synthesizer.
00:02:54.000 Because
00:02:55.000 there's soul going into it.
00:02:57.000 And I believe that's
00:02:59.000 what God wanted
00:03:00.000 when he created a world
00:03:02.000 full of individuals
00:03:03.000 with free will.
00:03:04.000 Not that we should
00:03:06.000 have the freedom to choose
00:03:07.000 to make a cacophony
00:03:09.000 although we do have
00:03:10.000 that freedom.
00:03:11.000 But that if we
00:03:12.000 chose to follow
00:03:13.000 what is good
00:03:14.000 true
00:03:15.000 and beautiful
00:03:16.000 each of us
00:03:17.000 as individuals
00:03:18.000 as unique people
00:03:20.000 doing
00:03:21.000 our own
00:03:22.000 sort of thing.
00:03:23.000 Working together
00:03:25.000 to create
00:03:26.000 a truly
00:03:27.000 beautiful
00:03:28.000 amazing
00:03:29.000 and creative reality.
00:03:30.000 that one person
00:03:31.000 on their own
00:03:32.000 one
00:03:33.000 consciousness
00:03:34.000 on their own
00:03:35.000 simply cannot do.
00:03:36.000 You know,
00:03:38.000 God doesn't want
00:03:39.000 a world of automatons.
00:03:40.000 He doesn't want
00:03:41.000 a Soviet state
00:03:43.000 where we're interchangeable cocks.
00:03:45.000 But one where we realize
00:03:46.000 our true individuality
00:03:48.000 our true freedom
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00:03:51.000 of ourself.
00:03:52.000 So that's
00:03:54.000 that is
00:03:55.000 that is
00:03:56.000 how I would describe
00:03:57.000 free will
00:03:58.000 and how it does
00:03:59.000 fit with the creator
00:04:00.000 who has a plan
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00:04:22.000 you know,
00:04:23.000 you know,
00:04:24.000 it's not a
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