00:01:32.000I've worked to ensure that they have the skills to help him in this procedure and for the people that have helped him through his procedures up to now.
00:01:40.000We pray, Holy God, for all of the parents whose children are in surgery and we pray for all the parents that have lost children.
00:01:49.000Lord God, pray for, as you tell us, Jesus, pray for our enemies, pray for those that wish us harm, and pray for the best outcome for them.
00:02:06.000We pray for all those we've wronged or that feel that we've wronged them.
00:02:18.000And Lord, as an unordained, non clergy person, but a devout believer in you, Lord, and in your presence, ever living, ever loving, all powerful Jesus Christ, Saviour.
00:02:39.000Only route to the divine power of the source God.
00:02:44.000We pray for all of those that are watching or listening, even now on Sunday, the 13th of September, or at any point in the future, Lord.
00:02:57.000May your radiant blessings and power be upon them, and may the presence of the Holy Ghost be felt within them.
00:03:07.000We pray for the arrival of your infinite joy.
00:03:13.000And the celebration of your infinite power.
00:03:17.000In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:04:27.000And it was hygienically disposed of, and no one else had to see it.
00:04:30.000You've got to weigh up whether or not leaving in the middle of a performance about anyone, Madame Butterfly or Gandhi or whatever it is in an opera where it can be at points, like it's quite an intimidating.
00:06:40.000I've not yet become a member of the Catholic Church, but I do believe Jesus Christ wants his church to be completely unified.
00:06:49.000And I noticed this lovely thing when I was reading it with Brother Joe and Brother Kyle and our new mate, what we've been doing for a while, Jason.
00:07:00.000But When they throw poor old Joseph down the well, now, while I'm telling this, I don't need to think about Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Joseph in his Technicolor Dream Coat, or Philip Schofield playing the part of Joseph.
00:08:31.000Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him.
00:08:34.000Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
00:08:38.000So, when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the ornate robe he was wearing, and they took him and they threw him into the cistern.
00:08:45.000The cistern was empty, there was no water in it.
00:08:48.000Interestingly, that emphasizes that point in my analysis is because while at the bottom of that well, Joseph becomes the water the vain, narcissistic show off that's like, I've had this dream, I'm brilliant.
00:09:01.000He's like a boastful Martin Luther King.
00:09:04.000If Martin Luther King's dream speech had been, I have a dream, I'm brilliant, maybe the world would not have been so well, powerfully directed.
00:09:14.000He, one thing I will say is that when we talked about because.
00:09:17.000You started with talking about authority, and we talked about that the other day.
00:09:21.000It just you can we can talk about it later the parking situation, or whether or not you can or can't park somewhere, and whether or not you listen to the authority or not.
00:09:30.000I said to you, but there is a difference if there's arrogance like, I can park here if I want.
00:12:55.000So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the system and sold him for 20 shekels of silver, not 30, but 20, to the Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt.
00:13:07.000And, you know, anyway, it goes, you will know where it's a word and all know where it goes.
00:13:11.000But my point is that this is a sort of a.
00:13:14.000In this, the A code of the Bible, I'm not obviously making the outrageous claim that I've discovered a new code in the Bible, but the A code of the Bible is to guide you to a sort of a personal point of transfiguration.
00:13:26.000Transfiguration, by my reckoning, is different from transformation in this way.
00:13:34.000Well, I suppose the literal meaning of it will mean the figure, the individual figure alters.
00:13:38.000It might be more superficial than form, actually, as a word.
00:13:42.000But my point is that what I feel in transfiguration is the allusion and reference.
00:16:16.000Now, whether it's, and I didn't plan to be talking about this, but whether it's the way that one might solve the problem of requiring a mixturation, whether who decides.
00:16:29.000Of course, the idea that you're not hurting anybody, there's more to it than that because you might be hurting yourself or you might be breaking a covenant with God.
00:16:40.000So, how do you feel about our church crawls?
00:16:43.000The church calls have been going well, actually, I feel.
00:16:46.000What Russell and I mean by that is we have been going to two churches, or at least last weekend we did, and we've been discussing it for a while.
00:16:55.000We've been going to the local church that we have been part of really for about a year or more.
00:17:59.000And beyond it being words, we turned up in the middle of either some music or, anyway, the lights were down and someone was talking, maybe reading messages.
00:18:30.000I find it, I find I get claustrophobic quickly from social situations sometimes.
00:18:37.000It's like a feeling that I think I even once said to the pastor from that church, I said, sometimes I just want to come in and sit at the back and for no one to notice me.
00:18:54.000I mean, actually, in one of the comments, of course, we're reminding you know, where more than one people gather in my name, you know, it's truly the communion of church, the coming together and the power of prayer in those sort of groups and the feeling of love.
00:19:09.000I mean, if you did just shut down and isolate yourself, you wouldn't feel the feeling when you walk in a room that people are happy to see you because they wouldn't know you.
00:19:17.000They wouldn't know you or won't care to know you.
00:19:20.000But actually, so I tried to, I didn't try very hard.
00:19:31.000And I'm not to actually even specifically say, I probably also remember working even in hospitality and really loving a lot of the social element of hospitality and then just being done with it and shutting myself in the office and literally telling people that I wasn't there.
00:20:48.000And I was actually encouraged by my mum to actually carry on and go into the church because she thought if she knows she's going to get away with this, she's going to do it every time.
00:20:57.000So I actually had to sit in church in that outfit.
00:21:40.000And for me, that serves something in me, maybe.
00:21:43.000To balance out some of the other chaos, formality, formality, it's nature is like you know, it's going to happen.
00:21:48.000I mean, I'm a 12 step person, I go to 12 step meetings, and what I like more than you know, just a hangout, I'd hang out with any 10 people in a 12 step situation.
00:21:57.000I'm comfortable that the beginning's like, Hello, time now for me to start.
00:22:01.000My name's so and so, and yeah, whatever it is that, yeah, um, for the next hour, we're here's a reading, so and so's agreed to read this reading, so and so's, and then one by one, we share, we don't comment on each other's shares.
00:22:17.000One of the ways of understanding good versus evil in these complex times is order versus deleterious and decay and entropic aspects of chaos.
00:23:17.000Second week we went to the Catholic Church, and oh my gosh, it was so exciting to hear it like the just the most stunning version of that song.
00:23:26.000And I think in Emperor of the Sun, I feel like it's maybe being sung in Welsh, it feels like maybe it's Welsh.
00:23:33.000And this was in English speaking, absolutely stunning, stunning.
00:25:07.000Forgiveness is like you've got to become like Joseph, living water.
00:25:11.000Like how I check for forgiveness, because 12 steps is really important, forgiveness, especially when you get to step eight, steps eight and nine, making a list of people you've wronged and becoming willing to make amends to them all.
00:25:22.000And then step nine, making amends to those people where appropriate if making amends wouldn't make the scenario worse.
00:27:00.000When one thinks about forgiveness, I'm casting my mind back, but if there's a current lack of forgiveness because you think that the action of the person is still continuing, then you have to maybe pray for them to.
00:28:17.000If you say we know what's right and we know what's wrong, you're saying there's such a thing as right or wrong.
00:28:23.000If you're saying there's such a thing as right and wrong, you are claiming that there isn't a principle.
00:28:28.000The principle, even if you, I was about to say immuable principle, but I'm sure people might go, Oh, the principle evolved over time or whatever.
00:28:33.000But our Lord Christ, He says, I am the Alpha and the Omega.
00:29:57.000So, like, your neighbor is the person who's in front of you now.
00:30:01.000We try to pervert it and create little sub covenants of like, well, only that person's my neighbor because they are.
00:30:07.000Well, I do believe that the story about this tragic story of those murdered children is entering into further complexity as people using the broken and warped lens of our social analysis attempt to understand something that's impossible to comprehend.
00:30:22.000And if your allegiance is postpartum depression, which is a real thing, and you would speak to that, I'm sure, but also a kind of what I'd say secularized and desacularized femininity.
00:30:38.000Like thinking that the female is sacred without God doesn't make sense.
00:30:42.000The reason women are sacred is because they are made in God's image.
00:31:45.000I want to make the kids watch it actually.
00:31:46.000There's a bit where he, Brian, as part of a chase, drops into an unlikely scenario where he's amidst a bunch of ranting streets preachers, a la Hyde Corner, a la Hyde Pike Corner, Speaker's Corner.
00:32:01.000And like he can, he's heard them sort of like ones like I think Terry Gilliam going, Oh, and the fire will consume you, like kind of stuff.
00:32:08.000And then one of them is like a really dry paling being like, Oh, you know, people have placed these raffia.
00:32:14.000A man will misplace, he said, and he put it there only just the night before.
00:32:20.000And Brian sort of just looks around, hears what they're saying, and just does his best to remember what he heard Jesus say at the Sermon of the Mount.
00:33:07.000Because I suppose what that brilliant comedic lens of those geniuses of Python demonstrates is that if you bring comedic scrutiny and a lack of faith to scripture, you miss the essential message.
00:33:18.000But like that moment in my whole day, is you are made in the image of God.
00:33:22.000And even the worst things and the most painful things and the most difficult things that happen in your life is him fashioning you and shaping you for his purpose.
00:33:28.000And if you turn to him and repent of your former life, You will be saved.
00:33:31.000But if you try and handle it on your own, it ain't going to go well for you.
00:33:37.000Here in Romans, my Lord, is there anything you want to say?
00:33:39.000Well, only that, well, actually, it's just about, yes, not trying to control things and allowing God to sort of make his presence known in situations where you really want to try and shape it into what you want it to be.
00:33:56.000But actually, when you actually release that and let go of that feeling, you know, it does tend to.
00:34:03.000Fall into place in sort of an unexpected way, I suppose.
00:34:06.000I mean, I'm feeling the holy flow of the Lord in all things, whether it's the Gainesville tortoise.
00:34:18.000For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us, this is Romans 14 7.
00:34:23.000If these are the church reasons, I've sort of decided that I would read what the Catholics are reading as soon as I'm ahead of them when I get there tomorrow.
00:34:32.000You're trying to pip them to the post.
00:38:09.000That's the whole Guardians of James Gunn package.
00:38:11.000So, what I wanted to say is that Christie said that, and in the book of Jude, see what he said there is that Christ died and returned to life so he might be Lord of both the dead and living.
00:38:21.000I wonder if this relates to what it says in Jude over here.
00:38:26.000That's the last book before Revelation.
00:38:28.000When he says, this is everyone's Bible.
00:38:33.000And the angel Jude 6 and the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling, these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day.
00:38:44.000For all we know, when our Lord did the death and resurrection, he lived out all eternity.
00:38:50.000Because what's going on in Revelations when that dragon's chasing the woman and the woman's swallowed?
00:38:54.000I mean, there's so much goes on, it's certainly beyond my powers of analysis.
00:38:59.000Okay, so, yeah, so Laura Kate, we're talking about authority, and of course.
00:39:03.000The whole Catholic Church is about an apostolic line of authority that extends from Peter, but the Bible itself sets up a sort of second authority in John when Christ from the cross says, This is your mother, this is your father.
00:39:17.000Sort of setting that up in the same gospel, admittedly written by John, but we're not going to start saying that he has some sort of dark motivation, St. John, the beloved apostle or the disciple.
00:39:29.000Also, in this type of scriptural analysis that I'm deploying, In terms of wanting to look, for example, at the Ethiopian Bible, which I am doing.
00:40:06.000Anyway, like I'm going in lots of places, but my point about authority is the authority has to come from Jesus Christ, the angel authority.
00:40:13.000So, like, obeying, and Jesus Christ's authority tells you everything you need to know.
00:40:18.000Like, love your neighbor, not just do unto your neighbor what you'd have done to you, love your neighbor.
00:41:00.000Okay, so is it like I know that where I'm parking is not going to cause anyone harm, and the only thing that will cause harm will be if I get into an argument with the parking attendant?
00:41:11.000It's basically, and I would handle that lovingly.
00:41:18.000And to be honest, I'm only using that as an example, otherwise, because we could use the same as we were faced with making some medical decisions this week for our son.
00:41:27.000And even in that, which, you know, if you are yourself a person who has to hear information about how an operation might go and you have questions and if you have any doubts over pharmaceutical companies or medical establishments or anything like that, then what you have to do is you have to really, like we did, we really respect it, but we also really have to hash it out.
00:41:52.000I mean, gosh, that poor doctor got such a list of questions from us just so that we could thoroughly.
00:41:57.000Thoroughly understand, would you say, Russell?
00:42:00.000And we were doing it, I hope, in a respect respecting the authority of him having trained and done the things and having the experience of the many operations he's done, like that, and all of that stuff.
00:42:10.000But we had our own battle with having a slightly different opinion on some things.
00:42:16.000So I'm talking because you've brought up authority, and because this week we have been faced with making decisions from a person and a position of authority, I would say we handled it well, but it was thorough.
00:42:39.000It's because I found, like, I'm studying Romans 13 here, which is where it tells us that we have to give submission to governing authorities.
00:42:47.000But I know there's a bit where it says, except unless the government are acting against God.
00:43:01.000Authority in this particular circumstance.
00:43:02.000I'm guessing that might be one of the reasons you're talking about authority.
00:43:05.000You might not know it, but I suppose we've been faced with authority this week.
00:43:09.000We've had to make decisions based on a person that has more experience than us in that world telling us what we should do and it being difficult.
00:43:18.000We like to interrogate that that authority is a legitimate authority.
00:43:21.000For example, imagine there was a global pandemic and all of the authorities said, We want you to go in your house, we want to wear these masks, we want to maintain these businesses, we're going to shut these businesses and operations, but we're going to keep these businesses and operations open.
00:43:34.000We want you to take these medications, what we're calling medications.
00:43:37.000We want you to take them, and I promise you there's no side effects.
00:44:08.000Indeed, the example of Judas is you might have Christ in your literal gang hanging out with him, and you might think money's more important.
00:44:17.000So, what I think is, of course, the world of medicine is filled, you know, let's say over half, the majority, caring, loving doctors and nurses and hospital porters and scientists and researchers.
00:44:33.000But if you interrogate the models by which new drugs are brought to market, the way certain treatments are kept off of market, and what the incentives are with some of the bureaucratic institutions and corporate institutions, we're good friends with people that work in, That work in areas like this.
00:44:54.000And these are some of the most credible and credited people that I have been blessed to know or that we have been blessed to know.
00:45:00.000So, my point is this you do need to rely on lawyers when you rely on lawyers, judges, police, doctors.
00:45:08.000These people are the servants of the state.
00:45:10.000If the state, though, is not in the service of God, things could go crazy wrong.
00:46:30.000So, you're no, but you wanted to finish the example, I'm sure.
00:46:32.000Really, what I'm saying is that we interrogated the medical advice we were given, and then we had to, and how we did that very practical, actually, wasn't it?
00:47:09.000And once we've got the information from those people, we'll make our decision based on what we think they're.
00:47:15.000And until then, we had to live in the state of uncertainty, holding it together, being polite to the hospital with all their brilliant work and all their expertise.
00:47:23.000Yeah, and honouring the support of our loving friends who all came through and actually, by God's grace, had a consensus, even though they're from a variety of backgrounds.
00:47:53.000So that's like holding the lamp at the feet.
00:47:58.000You can't see the whole picture and you wouldn't want to see the entirety of the picture, but you do hold the lamp and you can see just the ground in front of you.
00:48:24.000And I said, Well, the main key thing was clear communication.
00:48:29.000And we really did talk it, talk and go through it to the absolute nth degree so that we had no, we left no stone unturned in the discussion of this subject.
00:48:42.000The first, the kingdom of God, yes, and his righteousness, and all this as well.
00:48:47.000Yeah, because there was, yeah, it was like stay with God, don't make a decision based out of fear, yeah, but don't make a decision based out of anger or control or frustration or lack of faith, yeah.
00:48:56.000So, that's I thought we'd done a good job, yeah, we did.
00:48:59.000Our little boy, that's right, it's um, that's that's all the 33s in a row, um, yes.
00:49:03.000But I have two things I want to do, I've got some comments to read, okay.
00:49:07.000So, here's some comments, and I also have a little thing that I want to read as well.
00:49:10.000Um, that list of my attributes as well, that's going to take a while, hopefully, put us out 10 minutes for that, yes.
00:49:30.000Every week I think that this is my favourite service, and each week they just continue to move me more and more.
00:49:35.000There's always something profound, yet simple, humble, and something that provokes a hunger for more, that stirs, convicts, encourages, and yes, gives us Holy Spirit goosebumps.
00:53:31.000Then Peter came unto him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me and I forgive him?
00:53:37.000Till seven times, seven being the number of completion.
00:53:40.000Jesus saith to him, I say not till thee, till seven times, but till 70 times, seven times.
00:53:47.000Therefore, The kingdom of heaven likened to a king who would take account of his servants.
00:53:56.000Therefore, is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king who would take an account of his servants?
00:54:03.000And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him that owed him 10,000 talents.
00:54:08.000And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his Lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
00:54:19.000But that servant falling down besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
00:54:25.000And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt.
00:54:29.000But when the servant was gone, he found one of his fellow servants that owed him a hundred pence.
00:54:33.000And laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying, Pay what thou owest.
00:54:37.000And his fellow servant falling down besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I'll pay thee all.
00:57:23.000And I suppose it says in the Bible, doesn't it, that God does the work while we're asleep.
00:57:27.000I don't know where that is, but there's a passage somewhere in the Bible that refers to something around that, that while we're asleep, you know, while we're asleep.
00:57:34.000But Paul says it don't matter who plants the seed.
00:58:08.000Faith in the Sabbath, that's what we're creating now in prayer will be with Herbie as he goes under anesthetic and as he has the surgery and as he rouses and he's.
00:58:17.000Back in our arms, and as we look after him.
00:58:47.000He didn't obey any fear he might have felt or any concern because he knew that you had told him that his descendants would be as multitudinous as the stars, Lord.
00:58:58.000So Abraham reasoned that were he to sacrifice his son, you would raise him from the dead.
00:59:09.000And surely you did raise your own son.
00:59:18.000The world is so stimulating, the mind is so busy, Lord, that sometimes we are distracted from the divine truth of your eternal presence, Lord.
00:59:30.000Today, we entrust our lives and our marriage and our what we as human beings would call futures, all unto you.
00:59:40.000We lay them at the foot not only of your cross, Lord Jesus Christ, for redemption, but at the foot of your throne.
00:59:45.000For your cross, that place of shame became the place of your glory and your power.
00:59:53.000As you were split asunder, the temple curtain was torn asunder, granting us access, Lord, to your eternal and intimate and holy power, which repenting of the world and of sinfulness, we accept in you.