Christ Our Bridegroom | Joel Holm | Cottonwood Church

00:36:42
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Resumo

TLDRThe sermon emphasizes a deep, intimate relationship with Jesus as the bridegroom and Christians as His bride. It illustrates how this understanding shapes daily life and impacts faith, drawing on biblical teachings from Genesis to Revelation about God's covenant with His people. The speaker shares personal anecdotes to highlight the importance of maintaining passion in the relationship with Christ, contrasting it with a transactional view of faith. The sermon covers the dangers of sin, equating it to spiritual adultery, and emphasizes the importance of community in nurturing this relationship. Ultimately, it presents a message of hope in a permanent, loving covenant with Christ that empowers believers to serve and live joyfully.

Conclusões

  • 💖 Jesus as our bridegroom signifies a deep, loving relationship.
  • 📖 Understanding this relationship is vital for daily Christian living.
  • 🤝 The church nurtures and reinforces our connection to Christ.
  • 📜 God's covenant is unconditional, reflecting a deep commitment.
  • 🚫 Sin is viewed as spiritual adultery, affecting our relationship with Christ.
  • 🌱 Cultivating passion in faith should be our priority, not mere obligation.
  • 😇 Receiving God's love requires humility and gratitude.
  • 🕊️ The importance of community in growing in faith together.
  • 🌈 The permanent nature of God's covenant provides hope.
  • 💬 Daily engagement in prayer and worship is key to maintaining intimacy.

Linha do tempo

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The sermon emphasizes the importance of understanding who Jesus is, especially in a practical way that impacts daily life. It highlights that knowing Christ should transcend mere theoretical knowledge, shaping our beliefs and actions through a relationship that extends beyond church walls.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker recounts personal experiences during recent wildfires, illustrating reliance on prayer and partnership within marriage as a reflection of Christ being our bridegroom, fostering deep intimacy and connection amid life's challenges.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Reference is made to Ephesians, framing our relationship with Christ as one of covenant, emphasizing fidelity and commitment, akin to marriage, while stressing that Jesus as our bridegroom defines a communal rather than individual experience in knowing Him.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Genesis establishes the foundational concept of intimacy and union in the relationship between God and His people, using the creation of marriage as an analogy for our connection with Christ, who seeks to know us deeply rather than merely seeing us as distant subjects.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The nature of sin is depicted as adultery, demonstrating how humans stray from their commitment to Christ. References to Jeremiah illustrate the longing God has for a faithful relationship, expressing disappointment when we forget our first love and seek fulfillment elsewhere.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    In the New Testament, Jesus identifies as the bridegroom, fulfilling the covenant, indicating a deep, personal connection through sacrifice. The wedding metaphor invites reflection on Christ's love for us, calling believers to embrace their identity as His bride with humility and gratitude.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:36:42

    Looking forward to the future age described in Revelation, the sermon concludes by affirming the permanent, trusting nature of the covenant with Christ, reinforcing that nothing can separate us from His love and encouraging believers to live in anticipation of this eternal union.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • What does it mean to view Jesus as a bridegroom?

    It signifies an intimate, loving relationship where believers are considered His bride, emphasizing closeness and devotion.

  • How can understanding this relationship change my daily life?

    Recognizing Jesus as the bridegroom reinforces the importance of maintaining a passionate relationship with Him, impacting how you live and interact with others.

  • What role does the church play in this relationship?

    The church acts as a community that nurtures and supports this relationship, emphasizing collective growth in faith.

  • What is the significance of a covenant in our relationship with Christ?

    A covenant represents a deep, committed relationship without conditions or prenups, where both parties are devoted to each other.

  • How does this relationship relate to scripture from Genesis to Revelation?

    The Bible consistently depicts God’s desire for an intimate, covenantal relationship with His people, culminating in the New Testament with Christ as the bridegroom.

  • What are the dangers of losing sight of this relationship?

    Becoming overly transactional in faith can diminish the intimacy and passion that is central to a relationship with Christ.

  • How can I cultivate this relationship daily?

    Engage in prayer, community worship, and service, focusing on fostering love and closeness with Christ rather than mere obligation.

  • What does the sermon say about sin in relation to this relationship?

    Sin is equated to spiritual adultery, where love is given to others instead of being fully devoted to Christ.

  • How does the idea of Jesus being a bridegroom influence Christian service?

    Understanding Jesus as a bridegroom encourages believers to serve out of love and gratitude rather than obligation.

  • What is the hope presented in the sermon for believers?

    The hope lies in the permanent, loving covenant that will not be broken, ensuring that believers are always in the embrace of Christ’s love.

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    life who does it from a distance like a
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    with you John 159 puts it this
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    for the
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    son and now Jesus is saying that love
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    this enormous passion that he has for
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    4 you have stolen my heart my sister my
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    you have stolen my
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    glance of your
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    eyes here's what Jesus
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    you I'm blown
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    away I see
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    statement to believe sometimes as we
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    look at ourselves when I got married 38
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    years ago you know typical wedding
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    church wedding and you know uh the way
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    it happens is the groom comes out like I
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    did and I had my best man and then the
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    bride comes down the aisle and many of
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    you Brides have done that she walks down
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    the aisle and you have this moment
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    groomed to bride right there's all these
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    people we had a huge wedding because
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    we're both pastors of this church so
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    there's I don't know 7 800 people in the
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    auditorium and Marie comes and she's
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    walking down the AIS and we're supposed
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    to have this like romantic your eyes
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    catch each other and everything else
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    Fades away there's nobody in the room
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    you don't hear anything you just see
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    each other this did not happen at my
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    wedding she was in the aisle and she
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    started coming down the aisle now here's
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    what she did honest to God she's walking
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    down the aisle and we're supposed to
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    have this romantic captivating moment
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    and as she's walking down the aisle she
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    sees friends and family members and of
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    course they're all standing because
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    she's the bride she literally starts to
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    hug people and Shake people's hands she
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    had a
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    conversation with a person she hadn't
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    seen for years she had a conversation
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    moment and she's working the
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    stopped and I
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    glance of my eyes my heart was just
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    you like a bride walking down the
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    goes that's how want how I want you to
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    see how I see you so that's how I want
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    you to see see yourself but here's the
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    Christianity highly
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    it's a transactional with this being
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    that's out there that I know exists
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    something happens in marriages maybe
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    many of you have experienced this is
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    about 10 or 15
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    years into your marriage you start to
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    like stuff and all of a sudden there's
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    more to manage and this beautiful
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    romantic relationship just turns into
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    going to do about these bills and now
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    you're just having you know corporate
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    operational meetings to manage it this
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    Jesus actually says you forgotten the
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    first love because we go from this
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    passion this intimacy to now operational
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    meetings God I need this bill paid and I
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    need this taken care of and what do you
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    want from me and how do I serve and
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    passion to be amazed don't work at the
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    service don't work at the performance
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    work at the
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    passion to be a
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    amazed that this is how he sees you I
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    couldn't believe it when my wife said
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    yes to
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    me cuz I don't bring much to the table
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    I'm a more I'm a quiet kind of guy
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    actually and so like you know when you
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    get into elevators people who are really
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    gregarious and Alor and they'll talk in
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    the elevators where's people on the
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    planet by the way cuz I don't want to
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    talk to you I don't know who you are
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    just look at the numbers like the rest
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    of us all
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    right so so I'm going to propose to my
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    wife and I get in the elevator and I do
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    the quiet look at the numbers thing she
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    lives on like the 26th floor and there's
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    people in the elevator nobody's really
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    talking I go to her apartment and I'm
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    going to propose to her and I propose to
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    her and she says yes and I couldn't
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    believe it I just couldn't believe it so
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    when when we were done I got back in the
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    elevator to go back to my apartment and
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    I get in the elevator to go down and
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    there's like five people in that
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    elevator I am no longer the quiet guy
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    looking at the numbers I look and I've
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    got this huge smile I'm like being me
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    and one of the guys says something good
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    happened to you and I said she said
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    yes who I said this girl she said yes I
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    couldn't believe and I for the entire
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    ride of the elevator I wanted to hit the
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    button I'm not done saying she says yes
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    let's do it again you know she said yes
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    he said yes to
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    you he said
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    yes and on Monday morning we should wake
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    up
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    overwhelmed he said
  • 00:14:33
    yes and the place where you discover
  • 00:14:37
    that
  • 00:14:38
    awe and you keep a hold of that
  • 00:14:42
    passion is not
  • 00:14:45
    alone but it's in church together here's
  • 00:14:50
    how the Bible puts it in Revelation 19
  • 00:14:51
    chapter 7 it says this let us rejoice
  • 00:14:54
    and be glad and give him glory for the
  • 00:14:56
    wedding of the Lamb has come his bride
  • 00:14:59
    has made herself ready we are making
  • 00:15:02
    oursel ready and when you are around
  • 00:15:04
    each other and you hear stories of lives
  • 00:15:06
    being transformed families being
  • 00:15:09
    reconciled healings taking place
  • 00:15:12
    Provisions all these amazing things that
  • 00:15:14
    are all reflective of one simple truth
  • 00:15:17
    he said yes to you but if you are
  • 00:15:20
    isolated you don't hear
  • 00:15:22
    that you're not aware of that there are
  • 00:15:26
    so many unbelievable Miracles happening
  • 00:15:30
    at
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    Cottonwood do you know
  • 00:15:34
    them CU if you're in the communities if
  • 00:15:36
    you're a group if you're together even
  • 00:15:38
    being here on a Sunday morning
  • 00:15:40
    worshiping it raises up in you a little
  • 00:15:42
    bit more of that passion he said yes so
  • 00:15:45
    Genesis
  • 00:15:46
    begins with God saying this is how I
  • 00:15:49
    want you to Define your relationship to
  • 00:15:53
    me and my relationship to you at the
  • 00:15:56
    center of it is passion
  • 00:16:00
    and love but then we move in to the Old
  • 00:16:05
    Testament and things begin to change a
  • 00:16:09
    bit because as mankind rejects God
  • 00:16:13
    throughout the Old Testament sin if our
  • 00:16:16
    relationship is based upon a bride and a
  • 00:16:18
    bridegroom you know how sin is defined
  • 00:16:21
    it's defined as
  • 00:16:24
    adultery when you should be giving your
  • 00:16:26
    love to one and you give your love to
  • 00:16:31
    others here's how Jeremiah describes it
  • 00:16:33
    in Jeremiah chapter 2 verse
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    two this is what the Lord
  • 00:16:38
    says I remember the devotion of your
  • 00:16:42
    youth how as a
  • 00:16:45
    bride you loved
  • 00:16:47
    me I remember there was a day when you
  • 00:16:51
    were so passionate about being a Christ
  • 00:16:54
    follower but then something
  • 00:16:57
    changed he goes on and CH 2:32 and
  • 00:17:00
    here's what he
  • 00:17:01
    says does a young woman forget her
  • 00:17:04
    jewelry a bride her wedding
  • 00:17:07
    ornaments yet my
  • 00:17:09
    people have forgotten
  • 00:17:12
    me you mean you went all week and you
  • 00:17:15
    never thought about
  • 00:17:16
    me you mean you had serious life
  • 00:17:19
    decisions to
  • 00:17:20
    make and you didn't ask
  • 00:17:23
    me and let me be involved in that you
  • 00:17:27
    mean that passion and intimacy that we
  • 00:17:29
    had that just kind of has faded
  • 00:17:32
    away you mean you're actually now truly
  • 00:17:35
    even giving your love to others here's
  • 00:17:38
    what Jeremiah says in chapter 3:
  • 00:17:41
    20 but like a woman unfaithful to her
  • 00:17:44
    husband so you Israel have been
  • 00:17:47
    unfaithful to me declares the Lord and
  • 00:17:52
    if we're going to understand Christ as
  • 00:17:54
    the bridegroom we have to understand
  • 00:17:56
    this part of it because every one of us
  • 00:17:58
    faces at one moment or
  • 00:18:00
    another where sin is now defined as
  • 00:18:04
    adultery imagine this imagine a a young
  • 00:18:07
    man and a young woman and they're
  • 00:18:09
    getting married and it's just amazing
  • 00:18:11
    and they come down the aisle and there's
  • 00:18:12
    the ceremony and everybody's celebrating
  • 00:18:14
    with them and they're having so much fun
  • 00:18:16
    and then the reception gets done and
  • 00:18:18
    they're now married and they've been
  • 00:18:20
    waiting for this moment as a young
  • 00:18:21
    couple and they're going to the downtown
  • 00:18:24
    area where they reserved the honeymoon
  • 00:18:25
    suite and they're both a little nervous
  • 00:18:28
    about this but they go there and they
  • 00:18:29
    get into the honeymoon suite and the
  • 00:18:31
    girl says to the guy you know I saw that
  • 00:18:34
    there was a store in the lobby of the
  • 00:18:35
    hotel I'm just going to go get a few
  • 00:18:37
    things I'll be right back and he says
  • 00:18:39
    cool so she goes down the elevator and
  • 00:18:41
    she goes to go into this store of the
  • 00:18:43
    lobby of the hotel and she notices in
  • 00:18:45
    the lobby of the hotel while her
  • 00:18:47
    husband's in the honeymoon suite she
  • 00:18:49
    notices that there's a
  • 00:18:51
    bar and for some
  • 00:18:53
    reason she walks into the
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    bar and it's dark like bars are and
  • 00:19:00
    there's a bar and there's a set of tools
  • 00:19:01
    and there's one guy sitting on one stool
  • 00:19:04
    uh at the bar and for some reason she
  • 00:19:07
    walks up and of all the stools she sits
  • 00:19:09
    next to him while her
  • 00:19:11
    husband is waiting in the honeymoon
  • 00:19:14
    suite and she sits on this stool and he
  • 00:19:17
    looks at her he says can I buy you a
  • 00:19:19
    drink and she says
  • 00:19:23
    yes and she's allowing him to buy him a
  • 00:19:25
    drink and they sit there together while
  • 00:19:28
    the husband
  • 00:19:29
    is in the honeymoon
  • 00:19:31
    seat and in a way that would just blow
  • 00:19:33
    our
  • 00:19:35
    minds she gets up with him and the two
  • 00:19:39
    of them walk out of the hotel into the
  • 00:19:42
    dark arm in-arm
  • 00:19:46
    together leaving the
  • 00:19:48
    husband
  • 00:19:50
    alone
  • 00:19:52
    waiting in the honey room
  • 00:19:54
    seat this is the picture that the Bible
  • 00:19:58
    presents
  • 00:19:59
    when it comes to sin it's not just some
  • 00:20:01
    list of moral rules we break or don't
  • 00:20:05
    break it's the intimacy of this
  • 00:20:08
    relationship where we begin to give our
  • 00:20:10
    love to somebody else and if every one
  • 00:20:13
    of us was
  • 00:20:14
    friends with the
  • 00:20:16
    husband and he called us us and he told
  • 00:20:19
    us what happened every one of us would
  • 00:20:21
    say the same thing we would say Good
  • 00:20:24
    Riddance thank God you found out early
  • 00:20:28
    enough enough get it an old move on with
  • 00:20:32
    your life find somebody worthy of who
  • 00:20:36
    you are and we would be angry and we
  • 00:20:38
    would be disgusted and we would coach
  • 00:20:41
    that husband to forget about it but
  • 00:20:43
    Christ the bridegroom doesn't do that he
  • 00:20:48
    realizes that his bride is not coming
  • 00:20:51
    back and rather than being disgusted he
  • 00:20:54
    puts on his coat he goes down the
  • 00:20:56
    elevator and he walks into the dark of
  • 00:20:59
    the night to hunt you and me down that's
  • 00:21:02
    what he does that's the picture but it
  • 00:21:06
    begins with
  • 00:21:08
    understanding because we face at
  • 00:21:11
    times this
  • 00:21:14
    temptation to look
  • 00:21:17
    elsewhere you see the Covenant the
  • 00:21:20
    Covenant is really important the
  • 00:21:22
    bridegroom the bridegroom Jesus he gets
  • 00:21:24
    really jealous Exodus 34:14 puts it this
  • 00:21:27
    way says for you will worship no other
  • 00:21:30
    God for the Lord whose name is jealous
  • 00:21:32
    is a jealous God now in our English
  • 00:21:35
    vernacular we see jealous as a negative
  • 00:21:37
    word somebody who's insecure somebody
  • 00:21:39
    who's prideful biblically it's not
  • 00:21:41
    defined that that way at all when it
  • 00:21:43
    says God is a jealous God it means he is
  • 00:21:45
    never indifferent I grew up really
  • 00:21:48
    independent so when my wife and I first
  • 00:21:49
    got married she would say Joel I'm
  • 00:21:51
    thinking about doing this and I'd say do
  • 00:21:53
    whatever you want she goes well I want
  • 00:21:55
    to should I do do whatever you want and
  • 00:21:58
    it used to bother her and I thought why
  • 00:21:59
    is this bothering her do whatever you
  • 00:22:02
    want because she interpreted do whatever
  • 00:22:05
    you want as indifference she wasn't all
  • 00:22:09
    wrong God is
  • 00:22:12
    never
  • 00:22:14
    indifferent he's always interested the
  • 00:22:18
    bridegroom this Covenant it's highly
  • 00:22:22
    exclusive it's just him nobody else
  • 00:22:26
    there's actually a teaching in the Bible
  • 00:22:27
    that confuses a a lot of people who are
  • 00:22:30
    in society sometimes in the church where
  • 00:22:31
    God says if they're going to get married
  • 00:22:33
    don't have sex before you get married
  • 00:22:35
    and people go what is with that and they
  • 00:22:39
    see it as an outdated moral law but when
  • 00:22:41
    you understand what the Bible teaches
  • 00:22:43
    about a bridegroom and a bride here's
  • 00:22:45
    what it teaches listen when you get
  • 00:22:47
    married when there is a union a covenant
  • 00:22:49
    you are giving yourself fully and wholly
  • 00:22:52
    the reason why the Bible says don't have
  • 00:22:54
    sex is when you give yourself to
  • 00:22:55
    somebody you give yourself socially to
  • 00:22:57
    them my friends your friends we're
  • 00:22:59
    together you give yourself spiritually
  • 00:23:01
    to them we are now United in Christ you
  • 00:23:04
    give yourself financially to them we're
  • 00:23:06
    going to share How We Do money together
  • 00:23:08
    and you give yourself physically to them
  • 00:23:12
    and it makes sense that God says listen
  • 00:23:14
    if you're not going to give yourself
  • 00:23:16
    socially or emotionally or psych
  • 00:23:18
    psychologically or spiritually or
  • 00:23:20
    financially do not give yourself
  • 00:23:22
    physically to them yet so that when you
  • 00:23:24
    do give yourself you are fully and
  • 00:23:26
    completely giving yourself and it is a
  • 00:23:29
    picture of our covenant with Christ Our
  • 00:23:32
    bridegroom that you give yourself fully
  • 00:23:34
    but we have this struggle where there is
  • 00:23:36
    this temptation that says I can find
  • 00:23:39
    something more and better elsewhere most
  • 00:23:43
    of marriages that have affairs do not
  • 00:23:45
    happen in the first 5 years they happen
  • 00:23:47
    around year 15 year 20 where things get
  • 00:23:50
    a little stale and you begin to look
  • 00:23:53
    elsewhere and our response to
  • 00:23:56
    understanding how the marriage with
  • 00:23:57
    Christ is taught through of the Old
  • 00:23:58
    Testament is you need to have an
  • 00:24:00
    accurate
  • 00:24:02
    perspective as to what you bring to the
  • 00:24:04
    table and what Christ brings to the
  • 00:24:07
    table remember when I said when I just
  • 00:24:09
    couldn't believe she said yes cuz look
  • 00:24:12
    at me she said yes I bring very little
  • 00:24:16
    to the table and she said
  • 00:24:19
    yes and when we don't have a
  • 00:24:22
    humility or a
  • 00:24:25
    gratitude when you don't wake up every
  • 00:24:27
    morning going can you believe he chose
  • 00:24:30
    me can you believe he saved me when you
  • 00:24:34
    get to a place of
  • 00:24:36
    entitlement or
  • 00:24:39
    Pride you will find yourself easily
  • 00:24:41
    tempted to look elsewhere Jesus told a
  • 00:24:44
    parable about this two sons both facing
  • 00:24:46
    pride and entitlement with their dad the
  • 00:24:48
    younger son was really rebellious the
  • 00:24:51
    older son was very devout the younger
  • 00:24:53
    son goes to the father and says listen I
  • 00:24:55
    want my inheritance entitlement I'm
  • 00:24:57
    entitled to this Pride I can handle my
  • 00:24:59
    inheritance and the father gives it to
  • 00:25:01
    him it's like saying dad I kind of want
  • 00:25:04
    you dead I'll take care of myself and he
  • 00:25:06
    goes off and he does his own thing and
  • 00:25:08
    his life is destroyed and then he
  • 00:25:10
    realizes and remembers oh yeah my
  • 00:25:11
    father's there and he comes back to his
  • 00:25:13
    father and when he comes back the father
  • 00:25:15
    runs out to him and grabs him and
  • 00:25:17
    Embraces him and loves him and now the
  • 00:25:19
    older son entitlement in Pride wait a
  • 00:25:21
    minute I stayed here I served you I
  • 00:25:24
    should be the one getting the party I'm
  • 00:25:25
    entitled to it pride I'm the one who did
  • 00:25:28
    good you can be highly
  • 00:25:30
    religious and still be very much out of
  • 00:25:33
    the bridegroom relationship because I'm
  • 00:25:36
    entitled I've done the right stuff and
  • 00:25:38
    pride sets in I am
  • 00:25:41
    worthy and the way that we fight the
  • 00:25:46
    Temptation is every morning you wake up
  • 00:25:49
    not with a sense of entitlement and
  • 00:25:51
    pride but with this
  • 00:25:53
    humility and this
  • 00:25:55
    unbelievable gratitude
  • 00:25:58
    let's face it we are all like Amazon
  • 00:26:00
    markdown
  • 00:26:01
    items before salvation and then after
  • 00:26:05
    salvation with Christ now you shine the
  • 00:26:09
    glory out but before salvation you bring
  • 00:26:13
    very little to the
  • 00:26:14
    table he said yes and the Old Testament
  • 00:26:18
    teaches us about this and this is where
  • 00:26:20
    you discover this humility and gratitude
  • 00:26:24
    in the church for 38 years Marie and I
  • 00:26:26
    have been married and one of the best
  • 00:26:28
    things that has helped our marriage not
  • 00:26:30
    just survive but Thrive are other people
  • 00:26:33
    other husbands and wives other people
  • 00:26:36
    whose stories resonated with us and if
  • 00:26:39
    you're here and you're
  • 00:26:40
    isolated you find yourself like a lone
  • 00:26:44
    sheep highly exposed where entitlement
  • 00:26:47
    and pride can seek in and change that
  • 00:26:50
    where you begin to look elsewhere so in
  • 00:26:53
    Genesis you have God saying this is what
  • 00:26:55
    I want out of our relationship then in
  • 00:26:57
    the Old Testament you say sin is
  • 00:26:59
    adultery because we are a bride and a
  • 00:27:00
    bridegroom and I've got to react to that
  • 00:27:03
    and watch out for that but then we get
  • 00:27:04
    into the New Testament where Christ
  • 00:27:06
    actually fulfills the Old Testament
  • 00:27:08
    Covenant look at the screens Hosea 21:16
  • 00:27:10
    puts it this way Hosea 21:16 in that day
  • 00:27:13
    declares the Lord you will call me my
  • 00:27:16
    husband you will no longer call me my
  • 00:27:19
    master now look at what Jesus says in
  • 00:27:22
    Mark 2: 18 now John's disciples and the
  • 00:27:25
    Pharisees were fasting and some people
  • 00:27:27
    came and asked Jesus how is it that
  • 00:27:29
    John's disciples and The Disciples of
  • 00:27:30
    the Pharisees are fastings but yours are
  • 00:27:33
    not and Jesus answered how can the
  • 00:27:35
    guests of the bridegroom fast while he
  • 00:27:37
    is with them they cannot so as long as
  • 00:27:40
    they have him with them but the time
  • 00:27:42
    will come when the bridegroom will be
  • 00:27:43
    taken from them and on that day he will
  • 00:27:46
    fast so in the Old Testament there's
  • 00:27:48
    this prophecy wow we're going to be
  • 00:27:50
    married in the New Testament Christ
  • 00:27:52
    comes up and he says
  • 00:27:54
    listen I am that bridegroom and his very
  • 00:27:57
    first Miracle is at a wedding where the
  • 00:28:00
    mom tries to set him up at the
  • 00:28:02
    bridegroom because there's no wine
  • 00:28:03
    bridegroom's responsibility and she says
  • 00:28:06
    Jesus take care of this and he goes my
  • 00:28:08
    hour is not yet come I am not ready to
  • 00:28:10
    be the bridegroom yet no no take care of
  • 00:28:13
    it so he does it even though he's not
  • 00:28:15
    ready to be the bridegroom when does his
  • 00:28:18
    hour come he starts using the language
  • 00:28:20
    my hour has come when he comes to the
  • 00:28:22
    Lord's supper and his
  • 00:28:25
    cross and that's the moment where he
  • 00:28:27
    goes okay
  • 00:28:29
    now through my death I will be the
  • 00:28:33
    bridegroom in ancient culture when a
  • 00:28:35
    Jewish man got married he wore a crown
  • 00:28:37
    he was a king for a day our bridegroom
  • 00:28:40
    wore a crown of thorns in ancient
  • 00:28:43
    culture a Jewish man would wear one gown
  • 00:28:44
    that would have no tear or seam in it
  • 00:28:46
    whatsoever Jesus had that clothing and
  • 00:28:49
    the picture we get is even in his death
  • 00:28:52
    that's the picture of when he becomes
  • 00:28:54
    our bridegroom he fulfills his vow to us
  • 00:28:57
    and this is the Covenant we have Christ
  • 00:29:00
    who has fulfilled his vow to us in that
  • 00:29:04
    picture of chasing us down you may not
  • 00:29:07
    realize this and it's hard to imagine
  • 00:29:09
    but when we were first dating my wife
  • 00:29:11
    dumped
  • 00:29:12
    me can you why aren't you shocked by
  • 00:29:14
    that you should be going no no she
  • 00:29:18
    dumped me and I worked to get her back
  • 00:29:23
    and I
  • 00:29:24
    succeeded but that's the picture we
  • 00:29:27
    often times have yeah it's too late now
  • 00:29:29
    that's the
  • 00:29:30
    picture that's the picture we often
  • 00:29:32
    times have of our relationship with God
  • 00:29:35
    yeah I screwed up so he dumped me now I
  • 00:29:38
    got to work to get him
  • 00:29:41
    back and that is the wrong picture when
  • 00:29:43
    you understand Jesus as your bridegroom
  • 00:29:46
    he fulfilled his vow and now we are
  • 00:29:50
    called to fulfill our vows Hallelujah
  • 00:29:54
    and our vows is as the Bible says we die
  • 00:29:57
    to our yourself and here's where the
  • 00:29:58
    struggle is cuz we don't want to die to
  • 00:30:00
    oursel how many of you are married how
  • 00:30:02
    many of you are in here are married
  • 00:30:03
    right now amen have you ever realized
  • 00:30:05
    when you get married how it exposes how
  • 00:30:08
    selfish you
  • 00:30:09
    are really I heard it and it's true when
  • 00:30:11
    you get married you discover how selfish
  • 00:30:13
    you are when you have kids you discover
  • 00:30:15
    how angry you
  • 00:30:17
    are but when you're married so I now
  • 00:30:20
    you're going you're never going to
  • 00:30:21
    listen to another sermon I give you but
  • 00:30:22
    when we were when we were getting
  • 00:30:24
    together I love to do stuff outside so I
  • 00:30:27
    wanted to go bik riding with Marie Marie
  • 00:30:29
    was born and raised on the south side of
  • 00:30:30
    Chicago Nobody Rides bikes on the south
  • 00:30:32
    side of Chicago you ride buses those are
  • 00:30:33
    your bikes no riding bikes but I said
  • 00:30:36
    come on honey and I pitched it like it
  • 00:30:38
    would be something she would love all
  • 00:30:40
    along I wanted to go bike riding on the
  • 00:30:42
    lakefront in Chicago so she because
  • 00:30:44
    she's selfless was willing to do it so I
  • 00:30:46
    get the bikes to go bike riding and the
  • 00:30:48
    lakefront of Chicago is full of people
  • 00:30:51
    it's really crowded I didn't care I
  • 00:30:52
    wanted to go bike riding so she has her
  • 00:30:54
    bike I have my bike she's never rid a
  • 00:30:56
    bike in her life I don't give her a
  • 00:30:59
    lesson I just said come on let's
  • 00:31:00
    go she managed to going and we're going
  • 00:31:03
    all a sudden I hear this scream behind
  • 00:31:05
    me and she has fallen head over her bike
  • 00:31:08
    crashed into something and the first
  • 00:31:11
    that thrs my mind is oh crap I hope that
  • 00:31:14
    doesn't ruin a bike
  • 00:31:16
    ride isn't that horrible it's just
  • 00:31:19
    horrible yeah you have your own story
  • 00:31:21
    and you know what I'm talking
  • 00:31:24
    about inherently we're not selfless
  • 00:31:29
    and our response to Christ and his
  • 00:31:33
    vow is to realize wow I need to take my
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    vow to him seriously because he took his
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    vow to me incredibly seriously
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    Hallelujah and I need to do that because
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    here's why many people say it takes love
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    to sustain a marriage I actually believe
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    it takes marriage to sustain
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    love cuz when you get together you love
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    each other and you get married and then
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    you begin to build a life together and
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    then there are seasons where love just
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    seems to go out the window and you look
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    at the Spirit going what was I
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    thinking and in those moments the
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    Covenant keeps you together amen and
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    then love comes back and it's renewed
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    and it's refreshed and it's even greater
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    but if you only base it upon this
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    emotional passion of love and not the
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    Covenant you will find it very difficult
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    there are times in our walk with Christ
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    where you may feel like he went out the
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    window and I feel all
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    alone and in those moments the
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    Covenant because the Covenant will
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    sustain a love and if you stick to that
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    Covenant now here's the deal you go well
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    what's My Vow if you read through the
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    New Testament most of the vows of
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    Christians in a covenant with Jesus are
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    centered in how we treat each other
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    they're actually more about carrying
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    each other's burdens forgiving each
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    other loving each other how we treat the
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    world that is how we live out our
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    covenant vow to
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    Jesus so you look at
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    yourself am I taking my Covenant vow to
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    the
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    Lord as
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    seriously as he took his Covenant vow to
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    me Genesis this is what I want
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    passion Old Testament it's adultery
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    you've given your love somewhere else
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    new testament Christ fulfills it he's
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    the bridegroom and he really fulfilled
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    his vow and still does you got to
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    fulfill your vow not as a means of
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    earning his love but as a means of
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    responding to his love and then you get
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    to this final age in the Book of
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    Revelation look at the screens 199 says
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    this in Revelation chapter
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    19:9 blessed are those who are invited
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    to the wedding supper of the lamb
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    there's this future age the age that we
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    look forward to it's almost like while
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    we're on this Earth we're like an
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    Engaged couple waiting for that moment
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    you ever met engaged couple they are the
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    happiest people on the planet they have
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    no idea what's facing them they are the
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    happiest people on the
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    planet and all they're doing as an
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    Engaged couple is planning the future
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    how many kids do you want where are we
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    going to live what kind of career are we
  • 00:34:23
    going to do and they're they're so
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    thrilled in planning the future in some
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    some ways our life on this planet is
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    planning the
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    Future these 80 years they're important
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    but make no mistake about it when Christ
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    is your bridegroom these 80 years do not
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    define
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    you that time come on defines you so
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    what I'm doing now is everything in
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    preparation for that time because this
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    bridegroom he has this incredible plan
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    for a future with you Hebrews 13:5 puts
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    it this way says this God has said never
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    will I leave
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    you never will I forsake you you see
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    this Covenant it's not just passion it's
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    not just exclusive it's not just about a
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    vow this Covenant is
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    permanent and sometimes we
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    struggle in wondering wow am I separated
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    from Jesus it will never be taken from
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    you Romans 8:35 puts it this where where
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    it says who shall separate us from the
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    love of Christ shall trouble or hardship
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    or persecution or famine or nakedness or
  • 00:35:38
    danger or
  • 00:35:40
    sword as it is written for your sake we
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    Face death all day long we are
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    considered asleep to be sheep to be
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    slaughtered knowing in all these things
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    we are more than conquerors through him
  • 00:35:51
    who loved us for I am convinced that
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    neither death nor
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    life neither angels nor demons neither
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    the present nor the future nor any
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    powers neither height nor depth nor
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    anything else in all creation will be
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    able to separate us from the love of God
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    that is in Christ Jesus our
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    lord this is you and this
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    Covenant is
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    permanent and our response is to know
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    that the Covenant we have with a
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    bridegroom is completely based on
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    trust 1 John 4:16 puts it this way we
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    know and
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    rely on the love that God has for us
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