text
stringlengths
7
443
[1776.98 --> 1777.84] What does it mean
[1777.84 --> 1778.78] to boast in the cross?
[1779.42 --> 1780.70] It means you seek
[1780.70 --> 1781.94] the approval of God
[1781.94 --> 1783.16] and ultimately
[1783.16 --> 1784.96] only Him.
[1788.06 --> 1789.08] Because of Jesus,
[1789.60 --> 1790.64] God sees you
[1790.64 --> 1792.36] and He sees you and I
[1792.36 --> 1794.36] as perfect in Christ
[1794.36 --> 1795.44] the Son.
[1797.32 --> 1798.14] Look at this quote
[1798.14 --> 1799.28] from C.S. Lewis.
[1799.62 --> 1800.42] Let me read it to you.
[1801.00 --> 1801.88] Hopefully it comes up there.
[1804.14 --> 1804.70] We read,
[1805.54 --> 1807.22] How God thinks of us
[1807.22 --> 1810.28] is not only more important
[1810.28 --> 1812.08] but infinitely more important.
[1813.60 --> 1813.92] Indeed,
[1814.06 --> 1815.36] how we think of Him
[1815.36 --> 1817.20] is of no importance
[1817.20 --> 1818.66] except insofar
[1818.66 --> 1819.88] as it's related
[1819.88 --> 1821.22] to how He thinks of us.
[1821.90 --> 1822.52] And then here we go.
[1823.64 --> 1824.28] It is written
[1824.28 --> 1825.82] that we shall stand
[1825.82 --> 1827.16] before Him,
[1827.16 --> 1828.36] shall appear,
[1828.52 --> 1829.52] shall be inspected.
[1831.46 --> 1833.26] The promise of glory
[1833.26 --> 1834.08] is the promise
[1834.08 --> 1835.14] almost incredible
[1835.14 --> 1836.34] and only possible
[1836.34 --> 1837.90] by the work of Christ.
[1838.26 --> 1839.26] That some of us,
[1839.34 --> 1840.46] that any of us
[1840.46 --> 1841.64] who really chooses
[1841.64 --> 1843.44] shall actually survive
[1843.44 --> 1844.30] the examination,
[1844.72 --> 1845.64] shall find approval,
[1845.96 --> 1846.86] shall please God.
[1847.06 --> 1848.12] To please God,
[1848.38 --> 1850.62] to be a real ingredient
[1850.62 --> 1852.16] of divine happiness.
[1852.16 --> 1852.72] happiness.
[1854.42 --> 1855.84] To be loved by God,
[1856.16 --> 1857.28] not merely pitied,
[1857.52 --> 1858.46] but delighted in
[1858.46 --> 1859.56] as an artist delights
[1859.56 --> 1860.20] in his work
[1860.20 --> 1861.42] or a father and a son.
[1861.58 --> 1862.84] It seems impossible.
[1863.22 --> 1864.38] A weight or burden
[1864.38 --> 1864.92] of glory
[1864.92 --> 1865.92] which our thoughts
[1865.92 --> 1866.90] can hardly sustain.
[1867.30 --> 1868.50] But so it is.
[1871.50 --> 1872.38] Do you see
[1872.38 --> 1874.32] you standing before God
[1874.32 --> 1877.76] and God is just delighted?
[1881.02 --> 1882.10] He's just delighted.
[1884.34 --> 1885.42] That's what Paul's saying.
[1886.60 --> 1887.98] When we look at the cross,
[1888.04 --> 1888.54] yeah, we see
[1888.54 --> 1889.82] the horrible instrument
[1889.82 --> 1890.40] of torture,
[1890.68 --> 1891.52] but we also see
[1891.52 --> 1892.96] the pathway to victory
[1892.96 --> 1894.66] because Christ overcame
[1894.66 --> 1895.60] all that was awful,
[1896.24 --> 1897.16] including the cross.
[1897.16 --> 1900.54] All your life,
[1901.16 --> 1901.84] in my life,
[1901.96 --> 1903.06] we've knocked on the door
[1903.06 --> 1903.82] of affirmation.
[1904.18 --> 1905.08] Tell me I'm okay.
[1905.50 --> 1906.52] Tell me I'm loved.
[1908.44 --> 1909.04] Tell me.
[1909.34 --> 1911.02] And you try to get it elsewhere
[1911.02 --> 1912.48] if you don't go
[1912.48 --> 1913.04] to the right place.
[1913.18 --> 1913.94] And you try to get it
[1913.94 --> 1914.90] from the people around you.
[1915.02 --> 1916.22] And you kind of use them
[1916.22 --> 1917.44] to prop yourself up.
[1917.64 --> 1919.00] And it doesn't work out
[1919.00 --> 1919.68] very well.
[1921.86 --> 1922.52] And Scripture says
[1922.52 --> 1923.52] Jesus is the door.
[1923.62 --> 1924.14] He is the way,
[1924.20 --> 1924.76] the truth, and the life.
[1924.76 --> 1926.36] He paid the price for you
[1926.36 --> 1928.06] so that you could hear
[1928.06 --> 1928.70] from God
[1928.70 --> 1930.18] when you come before Him.
[1930.40 --> 1931.18] Well done,
[1931.34 --> 1932.24] good and faithful servant.
[1932.54 --> 1933.38] Well done.