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6: Faithfulness · Finding God at Work

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  (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Hi, I'm Chris.
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  This is Finding God at Work.
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  In our current series, Fruitful Work, we're asking
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  the question, what kind of fruit am I
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  bearing at work?
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  Because we often don't bear the kind of
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  fruit that we wish we would, but by
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  God's grace, by the power of the Holy
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  Spirit, we can learn to bear good fruit.
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  And we're working backwards through Paul the Apostle's
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  list of parts of the fruit of the
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  fruit in Galatians chapter 5, so we've already
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  done self-control the last part of the
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  list.
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  Last time, we did gentleness, and now, one
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  step backwards, faithfulness.
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  So to talk about faithfulness, I want to
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  share a story.
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  My wife and I host a monthly game
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  night, and sometimes we do party games if
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  there's enough people there.
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  We recently did this with a game called
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  Wavelength, which is all about getting on the
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  same wavelength as your team members, trying to
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  guess the way that they would guess something.
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  And it's about opposing opposites and then trying
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  to guess a certain point in the middle
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  between them.
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  So the two opposites that were suggested by
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  the card was stable versus unstable.
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  And then I had to get them to
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  guess stable.
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  It was like all the way on the
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  stable side, so I was like, what is
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  the most extremely stable thing I can think
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  of?
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  And the first thought that popped into my
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  mind was, my dad.
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  Why did my dad's name pop into my
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  mind?
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  Because my dad is Mr. Stability.
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  He is the person that you can count
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  on in any situation, and I love that
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  about my dad.
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  This comes out in his personality in so
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  many different ways in terms of taking care
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  of the house.
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  He not only takes care of his own
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  house, he takes care of my house, too,
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  even though he lives two and a half
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  hours away.
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  He'll come down and work on my house
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  in the summer and be like, Chris, this
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  is something you should know.
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  Let me teach you, because I didn't learn
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  that stuff when I was a teenager.
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  My dad takes care of people.
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  So when I was a little kid and
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  my brother was a little kid, we would
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  have like family Bible time every night.
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  And dad was super consistent about it, where
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  he would sit down with us and read
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  to us from this beautiful picture Bible with
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  illustrations by Russ Flint.
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  If you've never looked it up, please do.
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  It's called my very first Bible and the
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  illustrations by Russ Flint are just breathtaking.
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  And, you know, it was time with the
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  Bible, but it was also just time with
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  dad.
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  I knew every night I was going to
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  get time with dad.
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  It was consistent.
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  My dad and my mom together with him
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  were like this in their approach to church.
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  So a couple of years before I was
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  born, they started attending a new church and
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  they just stuck it out at that church,
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  even though that church went through a bunch
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  of drama and some church splits in the
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  90s and all sorts of difficult things.
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  They said, we're sticking around.
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  We're sticking it out.
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  We're going to be present here.
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  The gospel is still present here.
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  We can be faithful here.
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  And that's what they did.
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  And because of that, I had the experience
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  of attending the same church, my entire growing
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  up experience all the way until I was
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  in college and afterwards, which was not true
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  for most of my friends.
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  A lot of my friends, their families would
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  keep switching from one church to another, and
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  they didn't get that same depth of pastoral
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  care or friendship because of that transience.
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  And sometimes there are valid reasons to leave
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  a church.
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  So I don't see that as a critique
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  of the need to leave at times.
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  But just as an another example of the
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  way that my dad was stable and that
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  idea of stability, of consistency, of reliability is
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  really exactly what is at the heart of
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  faithfulness.
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  The word faithfulness in this passage is sometimes
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  just translated faith.
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  And it connects with a word for faith
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  in the Hebrew scriptures as well.
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  So earlier in Galatians, Paul cites a verse
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  from Habakkuk that says, the righteous will live
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  by faith.
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  And that Hebrew word is emunah.
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  And it literally just means sturdiness.
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  So if you've ever tripped and had to
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  like study yourself against the wall, like to
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  keep yourself from falling over, that wall had
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  emunah.
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  It had sturdiness.
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  You weren't afraid that the wall was going
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  to fall over.
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  You were going to fall over, but then
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  the wall was sturdy.
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  So it kept you upright.
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  And it's used metaphorically in the Hebrew scriptures
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  to give that sense of firmness, steadiness of
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  conviction, loyalty, somebody that you can really count
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  on.
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  And that's exactly the idea that Paul is
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  drawing on as he translates or excuse me,
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  as he lists in Greek, this word faith
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  or faithfulness.
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  Is he saying, and when we are bearing
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  the fruit of the spirit, we should be
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  people that others can count on.
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  We should be stable.
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  We should be steadfast.
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  We can bear the fruit of faithfulness.
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  Now, there's a couple ideas here also in
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  the Hebrew scriptures that can be really helpful
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  when the word faithfulness is used.
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  It's often used in connection with the idea
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  of covenant.
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  That's true in both the Hebrew scriptures and
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  in the New Testament.
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  And so in order to kind of unpack
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  this idea of faithfulness, I want to go
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  to one of the key covenant passages from
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  the Hebrew scriptures, something that can kind of
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  help us connect with this idea of covenant
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  is the idea of marriage.
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  Even though marriage has kind of been degraded
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  in our culture to a temporary thing where
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  many people are married to multiple people in
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  succession, we still have that idea that while
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  you're married to someone, you should be faithful
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  to them.
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  And there's language about this in the wedding
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  vows.
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  And the kind of older language of the
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  wedding vows would include a phrase like, there
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  too, I pledge thee my faith or an
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  even older version.
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  There too, I pledge thee my trough.
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  And so again, that word faith, connecting with
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  the idea of faithfulness or trough being from
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  the same root word in English as truth,
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  that you're going to be true to someone,
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  you're going to be true to your spouse.
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  And that obviously includes sexual fidelity, but so
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  much more showing up in the relationship, doing
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  daily life together, being true as that covenant
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  partner for them.
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  And of course, as disciples of Jesus, bearing
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  in mind his teaching on marriage, the best
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  vision of that is a lifelong covenant.
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  It's something stable, something steadfast that endures, that
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  goes through the storms together and still lasts.
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  So that's kind of the closest analog that
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  many of us have experienced to this idea
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  of covenant that we find in scripture.
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  But covenant was not just about marriage in
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  the Bible.
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  It's also about God's relationship with his covenant
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  people, the people of Israel, the descendants of
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  Abraham.
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  And again, that's part of the background of
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  the entire letter to the Galatians that Paul
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  is working with, is what does it mean
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  for us to be members of the covenant,
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  since we're now followers of Jesus, the Messiah.
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  But one of the key moments in this
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  covenant with the people of Israel comes in
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  Exodus chapter 34.
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  And this is when God is giving the
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  Torah to Moses and symbolically giving it in
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  the form of the Ten Commandments.
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  And if you're a real Bible nerd, you
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  may remember that happened twice.
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  This is the second time, the one that,
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  again, lasts, that endures, the tablets that end
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  up in the Ark of the Covenant.
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  And before God gives these tablets, the symbol
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  of the Torah, the symbol of his covenant
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  with his people, he gives something else.
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  He gives them his name.
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  He does this in front of Moses.
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  So let me read starting in verse 34.
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  So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like
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  the first ones and went up Mount Sinai
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  early in the morning as the Lord had
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  commanded him.
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  And he carried the two stone tablets in
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  his hands.
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  Then the Lord came down in the cloud
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  and stood there with him and proclaimed his
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  name, the Lord.
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  And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming,
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  the Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious
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  God, slow to anger, abounding in love and
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  faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands and forgiving wickedness,
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  rebellion and sin.
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  Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished.
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  He punishes the children and their children for
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  the son of the fathers to the third
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  and fourth generation.
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  Moses bowed to the ground at once and
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  worshiped, oh Lord, if I have found favor
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  in your eyes, he said, then let the
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  Lord go with us.
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  Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive
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  our wickedness and our sin and take us
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  as your inheritance.
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  Then the Lord said, I am making a
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  covenant with you before all your people, I
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  will do wonders never before done in any
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  nation in all the world.
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  This is a key passage about the character
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  of God.
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  As you may know, when God says his
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  name, he's not just giving people a label,
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  a way to refer to them, he's giving
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  them a summary of his whole character, his
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  whole heart.
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  Just like Jesus gave that summary of his
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  heart as gentle and lowly, God gives a
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  summary here of his heart as compassionate, gracious,
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  slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
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  maintaining love to thousands.
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  So again, very similar language to what we
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  would associate with that lifelong marriage covenant.
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  God is saying, I will be true to
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  you.
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  I will be steadfast.
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  I will continue my love for a thousand
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  generations of your children and your children's children.
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  Just a side note here because it does
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  have that thing about punishing children for the
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  sins of the fathers, which might raise a
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  kind of red flag.
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  I think what we see there is God
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  speaking of the reality of the consequences of
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  sin that when there's a pattern of sin
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  in a family or in a community, the
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  sins of fathers and mothers do get passed
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  on to children and even to grandchildren to
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  the third and fourth generation.
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  And that's something we have to work through
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  and allow God to redeem if that's something
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  that's been part of our experience.
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  As for all of us, it is in
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  some way.
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  It doesn't mean that God is being vindictive,
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  punishing people for something that wasn't theirs to
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  commit.
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  It means that God is recognizing the reality
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  of how sin unfolds itself over time.
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  And that's also something that God can redeem.
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  So just a side note there.
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  But as God is revealing his name, his
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  character as this gracious, compassionate, steadfast and faithful
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  God, we remember that he gave his Torah,
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  he gave his law to show people the
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  course of life.
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  It wasn't the source of life, but it
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  was the course of life.
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  It was the way for them in their
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  relationships with each other to reflect his character
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  of love in the way they treated one
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  another.
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  And one of the things that God gave
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  in the Torah was a feast calendar, a
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  calendar of times to feast and a calendar
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  of times to fast.
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  And one of these feasts eventually became known
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  as Pentecost.
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  And you know what Pentecost commemorated?
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  Well, it commemorated the harvest, but it also
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  commemorated the giving of the law.
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  This moment with Moses, this moment on Mount
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  Sinai, when God is kind of reenacting and
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  sealing the covenant and saying, yes, I am
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  making a covenant with you and revealing his
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  name more fully and his character more deeply,
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  that moment is the moment that Pentecost commemorates.
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  And now for those of us who follow
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  Jesus, the word Pentecost has another resonance because
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  it was on the feast of Pentecost after
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  the resurrection and ascension of Jesus that the
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  Holy Spirit was given to the early believers.
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  That's what kicked off the movement that we
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  see in the book of Acts, the explosion
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  of the church, the spread of the gospel
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  throughout the known world at that time was
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  the coming of the Holy Spirit at the
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  feast of Pentecost.
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  And then it's not an accident that that
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  happened on the feast day that commemorated the
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  giving of the Torah, the giving of the
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  law.
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  We're supposed to see this connection.
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  Oh, God, when he was in covenant with
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  his people, he gave them the Torah.
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  He gave them the course of life.
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  He revealed his character to them.
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  But then what does God give to us?
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  Oh, God gives to us his spirit so
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  that his spirit can realize that character in
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  us from the inside out.
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  And again, this brings us back to Paul's
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  whole context in the letter of the Galatians
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  that the law is not enough to actually
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  change our hearts.
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  It can show us what we need to
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  do, but it doesn't give us the power
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  to do it.
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  But the spirit that we receive because we've
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  put our faith in Jesus, the Messiah, the
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  spirit can change our hearts.
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  The spirit can bring his fruit about inside
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  of us.
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  And so this particular quality of God that
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  he is faithful is seen in the gift
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  of the Holy Spirit, that God is fulfilling
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  his covenant to his people by sending Jesus
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  and by sending the Holy Spirit so that
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  his people can walk in the course of
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  life as they love one another under his
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  grace.
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  So even the fact that we can become
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  faithful a little bit like God is, is
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  itself a proof of God's faithfulness to us,
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  that God has been true to his people.
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  God has kept covenant with his people in
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  Jesus as Messiah and in the gift of
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  the Holy Spirit.
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  So it's always grounded in God's character.
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  It's always grounded in who God is.
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  But it is something that we can grow
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  in ourselves.
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  Faithfulness is a fruit or a part of
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  the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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  So the question is, well, what does that
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  mean?
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  What does faithfulness mean?
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  Who are we supposed to be faithful to
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  and in what ways?
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  Well, the primary context here is the people
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  of God in their relationships with one another.
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  So we might think of, we are all
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  members of the same covenant.
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  Now, this is harder for us.
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  It's a bit more of a stretch because
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  we're so not used to thinking about other
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  human beings this way.
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  Like we might think of being like members
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  of the same club.
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  Like I used to have a membership at
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  this bougie gym called Lifetime Fitness because they
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  had a climbing wall and my company that
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  I was working for helped pay for half
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  the membership, which is why I could afford
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  it.
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  And I was getting to know people at
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  the climbing wall for about three weeks, learning
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  their names, right?
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  Then I got laid off from my company,
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  so I lost my membership.
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  I did not stay in touch with those
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  climbing wall people.
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  That was not a depth of covenantal relationship
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  that endured beyond the climbing wall, right?
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  But sometimes that's the only context we have.
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  It's like, oh yeah, you autonomously choose to
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  be part of a club.
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  And so then you have a kind of
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  tenuous connection with other members of the club.
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  And you're like-minded people.
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  That is not the right metaphor, the right
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  paradigm for thinking about the covenant that we
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  share with each other as disciples of Jesus.
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  It's closer to marriage than to that, right?
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  You're not married to every other Christian on
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  the planet.
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  That's not what I'm saying.
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  But you are part of a covenant with
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  them.
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  You're a part of something that's meant to
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  last, to endure.
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  And so the way that we can think
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  about this is we can be true to
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  each other because God is true to us.
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  We can be true to each other in
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  our relationship with other believers because of how
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  God has been faithful to us and faithful
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  to his covenant with us.
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  So that's the primary context where we live
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  out this fruit of the Spirit is in
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  our relationships with each other, being true to
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  each other, being faithful to one another.
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  What does that mean practically?
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  Well, there's a couple of different ways that
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  I think we can live this out.
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  And one of them is a church application
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  and one of them is a work application
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  because we also want to get back to
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  that idea of living out this fruit at
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  work in this current series.
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  So one is just to show up at
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  church.
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  Sometimes we get stuck on this and we
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  think that showing up at church is somehow
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  a law, right, like thou shalt show up
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  at church on Sunday.
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  Or maybe that's somehow sad with keeping it,
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  showing up at church on Sunday or something
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  like that.
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  But again, that's the wrong way of thinking
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  about this.
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  We don't show up at church because it's
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  a law.
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  We show up at church because it's our
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  family.
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  So Katie and I, we're married, right?
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  We've been married for over a decade.
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  And when we see each other in the
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  evening, it's not like I'm like, oh, checking
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  off the box, saw my wife today, law
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  fulfilled, accomplished.
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  No, it's like, I want to see her.
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  I am motivated to see her because we
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  are married, because we're family, right?
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  This is the home that we share together.
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  Again, there are times when I don't get
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  to see her on a given day because
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  she has work and I have school or
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  vice versa, and we aren't able to do
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  the same thing.
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  Our schedule doesn't overlap, but I'm eager to
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  go back.
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  So again, it's not a law, it's not
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  a rule that you have to be at
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  church on every Sunday, but you want to
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  be connected with your family.
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  You want to be faithful.
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  Part of being faithful to one another as
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  disciples of Jesus is being present enough, showing
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  up enough so that we can open our
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  hearts to each other and form a measure
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  of mutual reliability and trust.
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  But we can also show up at work.
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  So at work, we may not have the
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  same covenant connection with everybody around us.
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  We may have brothers and sisters in Christ
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  who work with us, but there are likely
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  others who are not.
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  And so we may not have that same
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  sense of the covenant bond, but faithfulness also
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  just simply means part of our character in
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  terms of are we the kind of person
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  that others can count on?
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  Are we the kind of person who is
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  trustworthy where others know that we will keep
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  faith for the things entrusted to us?
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  And you can see that Paul gets at
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  this a little bit in Galatians 5 verse
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  23, when he lists the parts of the
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  fruit of the spirit.
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  And then he says, against such things, there
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  is no law.
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  Like there might be different laws that Christians
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  are concerned about.
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  In the early centuries, it was the laws
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  of the empire of Rome.
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  Like sometimes the requirement to sacrifice to the
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  emperor was idolatry.
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  And so Christians couldn't go along with that.
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  Paul may have something like that in mind
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  here where he's saying, look, there's never been
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  a law against love.
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  There's never been a law against joy.
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  There's never been a law against peace.
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  When you open up your company handbook and
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  you read all the requirements for you as
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  an employee of your company, you're not gonna
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  find a page that says, sorry, you can't
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  be self-controlled in this workplace.
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  Sorry, you can't be gentle in this workplace.
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  Sorry, you can't be faithful in this workplace.
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  Like it's not gonna happen.
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  You're never gonna run into that problem.
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  If you bring the character of faithfulness to
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  your workplace, that will win the admiration of
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  the people around you, not because you're trying
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  to impress them, but just because you're you,
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  because you're being an authentically faithful person.
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  So you can ask this question diagnostically about
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  yourself.
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  Can your boss count on you?
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  Can your coworkers rely on you?
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  Can your clients trust you?
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  And if not, that's an area where the
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  Holy Spirit needs to work to bring more
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  of the fruit of the spirit in your
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  life.
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  We can learn to be faithful to the
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  charge.
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  And just like in a covenant of marriage
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  or in a commitment to the community of
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  a local church or in a workplace, faithfulness
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  is all about the small steps.
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  There are big moments of temptation that come
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  along.
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  And what you do in those moments of
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  temptation is determined by the small steps you've
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  taken beforehand.
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  So it's not about doing some big heroic
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  thing at your workplace.
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  It's about showing up to work today, doing
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  your job well today, asking the Holy Spirit,
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  what does it mean for me to be
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  faithful to the charge today, just doing the
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  next right thing.
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  And as you do that, you will be
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  a witness to the power of the Holy
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  Spirit to those around you, even if they
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  don't quite know exactly where it comes from
• 19:24
  yet.
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  Lord Jesus, we want your Holy Spirit to
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  be in us.
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  We want to be faithful the way you've
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  been faithful to us.
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  Show us how to be faithful to one
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  another, to be true to one another, and
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  to be faithful to the charge with whatever's
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  been entrusted to us at work.
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  Do your work in us as we do
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  our work with you, Amen.
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