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[3763.74 --> 3764.78] In Jerusalem
[3764.78 --> 3765.50] Judea
[3765.50 --> 3766.12] Samaria
[3766.12 --> 3767.50] And British Columbia
[3767.50 --> 3768.36] Because that's
[3768.36 --> 3769.12] The end of the earth
[3769.12 --> 3770.10] If you look at Jerusalem
[3770.10 --> 3770.74] On the map
[3770.74 --> 3773.20] Jesus says
[3773.20 --> 3774.88] Your identity
[3774.88 --> 3775.76] And your purpose
[3775.76 --> 3778.06] Is to be witnessing
[3778.06 --> 3779.46] To me
[3779.46 --> 3781.74] That's the purpose
[3781.74 --> 3782.36] You have
[3782.36 --> 3783.74] Until I return
[3783.74 --> 3785.28] And my question for us
[3785.28 --> 3786.96] Is do we believe that?
[3787.76 --> 3789.12] Do we see ourselves
[3789.12 --> 3789.76] Individually
[3789.76 --> 3791.12] And as a church family
[3791.12 --> 3792.98] As defined by
[3792.98 --> 3794.18] Witness
[3794.18 --> 3795.58] And by the way
[3795.58 --> 3796.36] Jesus doesn't say
[3796.36 --> 3797.46] You will do my witness
[3797.46 --> 3797.84] He says
[3797.84 --> 3799.52] You are my witnesses
[3799.52 --> 3800.84] It's something that you are
[3800.84 --> 3801.44] As a being
[3801.44 --> 3802.32] That's to say
[3802.32 --> 3803.66] It's not just a question
[3803.66 --> 3804.34] As a Christian
[3804.34 --> 3806.78] Am I a witness or not
[3806.78 --> 3807.28] The question is
[3807.28 --> 3808.10] How faithfully
[3808.10 --> 3809.36] Am I living into
[3809.36 --> 3810.44] My identity and calling
[3810.44 --> 3812.40] As a witness to Jesus Christ
[3812.40 --> 3813.56] Do we give credible
[3813.56 --> 3814.90] Testimony in our words
[3814.90 --> 3815.66] And our lives
[3815.66 --> 3817.12] To the resurrection of Jesus
[3817.12 --> 3818.60] And everything he is
[3818.60 --> 3820.76] And this is
[3820.76 --> 3822.18] Exhumed in our passage
[3822.18 --> 3822.68] But I'm actually
[3822.68 --> 3823.20] Going to draw it
[3823.20 --> 3823.74] To the foreground
[3823.74 --> 3825.28] That when Jesus says
[3825.28 --> 3826.24] You are my witnesses
[3826.24 --> 3827.98] He assumes that it's
[3827.98 --> 3829.82] A public witness
[3829.82 --> 3831.32] He's sending his disciples
[3831.32 --> 3832.36] To Judea
[3832.36 --> 3832.86] And yes
[3832.86 --> 3834.24] There are believers in Judea
[3834.24 --> 3834.90] But guess where he's
[3834.90 --> 3835.72] Sending them as well
[3835.72 --> 3836.76] Samaria
[3836.76 --> 3838.22] There are no churches
[3838.22 --> 3839.46] And believers in Samaria
[3839.46 --> 3840.30] Therefore the church
[3840.30 --> 3841.00] Must plant
[3841.00 --> 3842.08] And share
[3842.08 --> 3843.48] And make Jesus known
[3843.48 --> 3845.48] And also it goes on
[3845.48 --> 3846.44] To the ends of the earth
[3846.44 --> 3847.36] We are to bear
[3847.36 --> 3848.86] Public witness to Jesus
[3848.86 --> 3850.16] And why I want to
[3850.16 --> 3851.24] Emphasize that point
[3851.24 --> 3852.56] Is that in our
[3852.56 --> 3853.34] Imaginations
[3853.34 --> 3854.06] As Christians
[3854.06 --> 3854.76] And even as people
[3854.76 --> 3855.66] Who are not part of the church
[3855.66 --> 3857.04] We think of Christianity
[3857.04 --> 3858.52] As a private religion
[3858.52 --> 3859.36] Right
[3859.36 --> 3860.00] There's sort of
[3860.00 --> 3860.80] The public world
[3860.80 --> 3861.62] Which operates by
[3861.62 --> 3862.58] Secular things
[3862.58 --> 3863.24] And then there's
[3863.24 --> 3864.46] This religion stuff
[3864.46 --> 3864.98] And it's not just
[3864.98 --> 3865.38] Christianity
[3865.38 --> 3865.96] It's Islam
[3865.96 --> 3866.52] Buddhism
[3866.52 --> 3867.34] Sikhism
[3867.34 --> 3867.80] All the rest
[3867.80 --> 3868.98] They're just private religions
[3868.98 --> 3870.22] We gather on Sundays
[3870.22 --> 3871.42] We do our thing
[3871.42 --> 3872.12] Then we go back out
[3872.12 --> 3872.56] To the public
[3872.56 --> 3873.80] And we keep quiet
[3873.80 --> 3874.88] About Jesus
[3874.88 --> 3877.24] Let me read for us