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[3521.86 --> 3524.86] And so you might have heard during that time, |
[3524.86 --> 3529.86] to be a true Canadian is to be anti-communist. |
[3529.86 --> 3531.86] Now, it's historically reasonable to presume |
[3531.86 --> 3535.86] that the same kinds of things are happening when Peter is writing |
[3535.86 --> 3537.86] and to whom Peter is writing. |
[3537.86 --> 3539.86] Right? Whether you were a Roman triumphalist |
[3539.86 --> 3541.86] and you wanted to see that colonization came in, |
[3541.86 --> 3543.86] or you were an Anatolian historicist |
[3543.86 --> 3545.86] and you wanted to see the region remain the same, |
[3545.86 --> 3547.86] or you were a Parthian champion and you wanted them to win, |
[3547.86 --> 3554.86] the people in that time are being forced to decide on their allegiances. |
[3554.86 --> 3559.86] They're being forced to pick an identity. |
[3559.86 --> 3562.86] And in the turmoil that's going on around them, |
[3562.86 --> 3564.86] if you don't pick correctly, |
[3564.86 --> 3567.86] it is an end for you socially and politically. |
[3567.86 --> 3571.86] It is an end for you in their industry guild or whatever. |
[3571.86 --> 3573.86] Right? For the parallel, |
[3573.86 --> 3575.86] think about the way that communist sympathizers |
[3575.86 --> 3578.86] or people who were charged as agents of communism |
[3578.86 --> 3580.86] were treated in that time. |
[3582.86 --> 3584.86] And into that tension, |
[3584.86 --> 3587.86] Peter writes and he says, |
[3587.86 --> 3590.86] you are elect exiles. |
[3590.86 --> 3593.86] You are a chosen people. |
[3593.86 --> 3596.86] You are God's special possession. |
[3596.86 --> 3599.86] You are God's beloved. |
[3599.86 --> 3601.86] And he says, |
[3601.86 --> 3603.86] because that's who you are, |
[3603.86 --> 3607.86] you are foreigners and exiles, |
[3607.86 --> 3610.86] strangers and aliens, |
[3610.86 --> 3613.86] sojourners and pilgrims. |
[3613.86 --> 3616.86] You may live in Pontus, |
[3616.86 --> 3618.86] but you're not Pontian. |
[3618.86 --> 3620.86] You may live in Galatia, |
[3620.86 --> 3622.86] but you're not Galatian. |
[3622.86 --> 3624.86] You may live in Bithynia, |
[3624.86 --> 3627.86] but you're not Bithynian. |
[3627.86 --> 3629.86] Exactly when people are doubling down |
[3629.86 --> 3633.86] and solidifying their identities as Roman citizens, |
[3633.86 --> 3635.86] offering sacrifices to the emperor |
[3635.86 --> 3638.86] as their version of the pledge allegiance to the flag, |
[3638.86 --> 3641.86] or when they're solidifying their identities as not Roman, |
[3641.86 --> 3643.86] but Parthian or Pontian Galatian, |
[3643.86 --> 3644.86] Peter says, |
[3644.86 --> 3646.86] no, |
[3646.86 --> 3648.86] you are so much more. |
[3648.86 --> 3651.86] You are something different. |
[3651.86 --> 3655.86] There's huge cultural pressure in either direction, |
[3655.86 --> 3656.86] right, |
[3656.86 --> 3659.86] to Romanize or to hang on to the old ways. |
[3659.86 --> 3661.86] And Peter says, |
[3661.86 --> 3664.86] you have to go a third way. |
[3664.86 --> 3667.86] Now I think, |
[3667.86 --> 3669.86] and I would suggest to you, |
[3669.86 --> 3671.86] that this is happening, |
[3671.86 --> 3673.86] and this needs to happen, |
[3673.86 --> 3675.86] right now, |
[3675.86 --> 3676.86] in our world today, |
[3676.86 --> 3677.86] in our culture. |
[3679.86 --> 3682.86] Instead of the anarchist's cry from generations ago |
[3682.86 --> 3683.86] of no gods and no masters, |
[3683.86 --> 3685.86] our culture says, |
[3685.86 --> 3686.86] you, |
[3686.86 --> 3688.86] you are the master of the universe. |
[3688.86 --> 3692.86] Instead of our identities being connected to families |
[3692.86 --> 3693.86] or to a past, |
[3693.86 --> 3698.86] our identities are chosen by an exercise of our own wills, |
[3698.86 --> 3699.86] or our own feelings, |
[3699.86 --> 3700.86] our own whims, |
[3700.86 --> 3701.86] right? |
[3701.86 --> 3703.86] You just have to feel your way to yourself |
[3703.86 --> 3706.86] in order to be true to yourself. |
[3706.86 --> 3707.86] Right? |
[3707.86 --> 3709.86] Our culture approaches a religious identity |
[3709.86 --> 3712.86] from the perspective of absolute tolerance |
[3712.86 --> 3714.86] where everything is the same |
[3714.86 --> 3716.86] and everything means the same. |
[3716.86 --> 3720.86] They're just different expressions of the same fundamental idea. |
[3720.86 --> 3723.86] Now the same fundamental idea is that ultimately, |
[3723.86 --> 3727.86] religious experience is about how to be good and moral in the world. |
[3727.86 --> 3731.86] And then the secret of our contemporary modern culture |
[3731.86 --> 3733.86] is that if you know that secret, |
[3733.86 --> 3734.86] you don't need religion. |
[3734.86 --> 3735.86] Right? |
[3735.86 --> 3736.86] But you can be spiritual, |
[3736.86 --> 3737.86] whatever that means, |
[3737.86 --> 3739.86] because you can be good and moral |
[3739.86 --> 3743.86] apart from a system or a community who shares your belief. |
[3743.86 --> 3744.86] Right? |
[3744.86 --> 3746.86] In our culture, |
[3746.86 --> 3751.86] the world is simultaneously disenchanted. |
[3751.86 --> 3754.86] And what I mean by that is that we have removed God |
[3754.86 --> 3758.86] and the miraculous from it because of our positivism |
[3758.86 --> 3760.86] or because of our strictly materialistic worldviews. |
[3760.86 --> 3764.86] And yet, at the same time, seemingly unaware of the contradiction, |
[3764.86 --> 3768.86] our world is magical and still yet spiritual. |
[3768.86 --> 3769.86] Right? |
[3769.86 --> 3772.86] That you can have access to the powers built into the world |
[3772.86 --> 3774.86] in order to make yourself better |
[3774.86 --> 3777.86] or to make your circumstances more affluent, |
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