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[4005.98 --> 4008.10] for those of us
[4008.10 --> 4009.54] stuck in death.
[4009.54 --> 4012.86] being
[4012.86 --> 4014.32] and basking
[4014.32 --> 4015.60] in the light
[4015.60 --> 4017.02] of our glorious God
[4017.02 --> 4018.80] is terrifying
[4018.80 --> 4020.88] for those of us
[4020.88 --> 4021.88] who love the dark.
[4023.78 --> 4025.06] The Bible says
[4025.06 --> 4028.34] that if anyone
[4028.34 --> 4030.04] is in Christ,
[4030.98 --> 4032.14] the new creation
[4032.14 --> 4033.46] has come.
[4033.60 --> 4034.90] The old is gone
[4034.90 --> 4035.94] and the new
[4035.94 --> 4037.48] is here.
[4037.48 --> 4042.44] a friend
[4042.44 --> 4045.10] who's back
[4045.10 --> 4046.78] east
[4046.78 --> 4047.70] so you don't know
[4047.70 --> 4048.42] who I'm talking about
[4048.42 --> 4049.44] but I'm going to call him Mike.
[4050.52 --> 4051.32] He is
[4051.32 --> 4052.38] what many people
[4052.38 --> 4052.74] would call
[4052.74 --> 4054.46] a de-churched person.
[4054.90 --> 4055.40] What that means
[4055.40 --> 4056.18] is he grew up
[4056.18 --> 4056.68] in the church
[4056.68 --> 4057.34] and then based on
[4057.34 --> 4058.20] a number of circumstances
[4058.20 --> 4059.02] and life realities
[4059.02 --> 4060.14] he left
[4060.14 --> 4061.62] and now wants
[4061.62 --> 4062.32] nothing
[4062.32 --> 4063.42] to do with that.
[4063.50 --> 4064.38] The primary reason
[4064.38 --> 4064.84] that Mike
[4064.84 --> 4065.74] left
[4065.74 --> 4067.12] church
[4067.12 --> 4067.98] and the Christian
[4067.98 --> 4068.42] faith
[4068.42 --> 4069.46] is because
[4069.46 --> 4070.08] he looked at
[4070.08 --> 4070.50] Christians
[4070.50 --> 4071.72] and he didn't see
[4071.72 --> 4072.30] anything different
[4072.30 --> 4072.74] about them.
[4073.88 --> 4074.70] They were exactly
[4074.70 --> 4075.24] the same
[4075.24 --> 4075.90] as every other
[4075.90 --> 4077.10] person in his life.
[4077.22 --> 4077.84] Nothing really
[4077.84 --> 4078.28] changed
[4078.28 --> 4079.30] and in fact
[4079.30 --> 4080.18] Mike would tell you
[4080.18 --> 4081.02] that it's actually
[4081.02 --> 4081.64] worse than that
[4081.64 --> 4082.30] because he looked
[4082.30 --> 4083.14] at those so-called
[4083.14 --> 4083.58] Christians
[4083.58 --> 4084.90] and they were worse
[4084.90 --> 4085.64] than the other
[4085.64 --> 4086.66] people in his life.
[4087.68 --> 4088.22] They were mean
[4088.22 --> 4089.34] and judgmental
[4089.34 --> 4090.82] and vindictive
[4090.82 --> 4091.74] and in Mike's story
[4091.74 --> 4092.74] even abusive.
[4092.74 --> 4095.92] So no wonder
[4095.92 --> 4098.10] people don't believe.
[4099.28 --> 4099.92] It's not about
[4099.92 --> 4101.16] an intellectual thing
[4101.16 --> 4103.60] it's about a personal thing.
[4104.72 --> 4105.52] You've heard me
[4105.52 --> 4106.66] quote in the past
[4106.66 --> 4108.12] from Jekyll Crow
[4108.12 --> 4109.00] who wrote a book
[4109.00 --> 4109.32] called
[4109.32 --> 4110.32] This Changes Everything
[4110.32 --> 4110.98] she wrote this
[4110.98 --> 4111.82] when she was 18
[4111.82 --> 4113.88] and she says
[4113.88 --> 4114.70] that Jesus
[4114.70 --> 4115.54] makes people
[4115.54 --> 4117.34] 100% new.
[4117.48 --> 4117.92] He takes us
[4117.92 --> 4118.72] spiritually dead
[4118.72 --> 4119.30] and makes us
[4119.30 --> 4119.84] thrillingly,
[4119.96 --> 4120.34] beautifully,
[4120.60 --> 4122.04] abundantly alive.
[4122.04 --> 4123.04] Jesus changes
[4123.04 --> 4123.90] everything
[4123.90 --> 4125.62] with his resurrection
[4125.62 --> 4126.78] and now
[4126.78 --> 4129.04] everything about you
[4129.04 --> 4130.28] changes.
[4131.56 --> 4132.38] The Bible says