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11 years.

Last six.

Thank you.

Awesome.

How cool is that?

I really appreciate Madden Casey.

And the friendship that that we're growing into just getting to connect with them.

And I'm grateful, you took me up on the opportunity to offer you a week off, when the little one was coming.

So, it worked out perfect.

I've never been to worship with you all before.

So this is my first time to join you and worship.

I've known as Turner and it's a blessing of mine to be worshiping with you.

So, thanks brother.

And that love the connection.

You know, the college has been around for 77 years in Boise.

So I'd I'm standing on the, on the shoulders of men and women that have had an influence at college.

But let me just tell you a bit.

I'd like to kind of phrase it this way that the college for those seven decades has been about helping students, peace scripture, Aaliyah wear Scripture Leah, we're in a world where the scripture is not being a spouse near as much and biblical literacy seems to be on the rise, we're helping students become aware of scripture, not just the data and information of it because in the scripture that's where you encounter the face of God, but also you begin to see yourself.

So there's a, there's another awareness.

They become scripturally where to encounter God that they become self-aware.

You know, James talks about the scriptures being like a mirror and so that, I think we help our students begin to see who they truly are in a, in a gender-confused.

A, for example, students are wondering who they are and they're beginning to encounter the face of God and find out who they're truly made to be in His image.

They become self-aware, scripturally where self-aware, and we believe then they become more and better socially aware.

Surely, they're socially aware, but they don't always think it through a scriptural lens for putting it in that order, so they can become script fully aware know who they truly are in the image of God.

So they can truly interpret, scripture is so exciting and what's going on in society.

And if those students graduate to influence a local church, Hallelujah, that's our end goal.

Cuz we want to equip servant leaders who will help build up the church because through the church, the gospel is incarnated in spread out and that's a global Mission.

So we do and that's our mission and we value your prayerful Partnership.

If you ever think of Boise Bible College, if you're coming through stop by our prayer, we would value your partnership in that regard.

So thank you.

I really appreciate the opportunity to talk about food.

I love this series of eating a meal with Jesus, you know that that is a that's ingenious.

I love it.

So maybe we Feast on this experience.

So let me just tell you.

I love to have a lot of fun about to giggle and laugh.

I do they were tendencies in my earlier days where I was pretty serious.

Like, seriously serious, and I mean like as a young Christian growing up in a Christian home and a solid Christian Church.

I think I thought I could have written a book.

And it might have been titled this, if I were, to be honest, successful habits of the religious Pharisee in me.

As a little dude and I think it would have been a best-seller see early on as a Christian, I viewed.

I viewed Christianity is a set of rules.

I had to keep and do in.

So this book would reveal ways not to know how to do the rules better.

But actually wasted Foster in maintain a badge of honor that I was better than you.

Do you want to sponsor me better than this would be the book?

That was my throat transparency, sort of an attitude of judgmentalism and a heart of of fostering that that I'm keeping the rules better than you are.

That would be the heart of the book and if I would have written that book, which I didn't, but if I written it, I think some of the chapters and topics might have been these Be skeptical of the genuineness of those who overly are demonstrative In Worship.

Be disappointed with the undisciplined Christians who do not have regular devotional time.

He upsets when people do not bother head in prayer during communion.

You may look around and judge your neighbor accordingly if you like just for me.

Be cautious, when meeting people from that church from Crosstown things better, but show themselves to be less consistent, a few more chapters be vexed.

When they are not in person on Sundays,

Biography ated with social sins.

Like when they cuss or drink or when they vote along party lines, that you don't think we're at the right party.

And lastly, be disturbed when they listen to non-Christian radio and they dance or drink alcohol, there you go.

You know, where the spirit of the book, right?

Thank God.

The book never was written.

No word was ever typed.

But at a young age, the spirit of judgment will have its kind of inhabited my heart.

And started my spiritual death than my growth, actually.

And suffocated God's grace early on.

Now that I look back early on I was I was suffocated.

I was suffocating God's grace.

It really want to do zout through me that I can do to that Grace but but my religiosity was prohibiting that and What you see is Tim Keller, it's Tim Keller.

Put it as long as we think we're not that bad.

The idea of Grace will never change us.

Praise God.

He didn't give up on me.

Ask.

His grace, got a hold of me.

And so, if I were to write a new book today, it would be Grace within a recovering Pharisee.

I do feel about the best seller or not, but it would be an autobiography.

And, you know, I'm still learning with you, still learning that true Christian discipleship is based, its grounded, is rooted on the foundation of Grace, that that, that discipleship is based on Grace, which motivated actually empowers and instills, invites me to give myself to something Beyond Myself, not just to keep it about myself, and that's when she's asleep.

That's, that's discipleship.

That's if it's not about me.

I'm learning that.

but I was the focus of my Christian journey early on as a young Pharisee conversation with a guy, what person who clung to religious habits Who is spiritually unhealthy, a man who is religiosity suppressed and suffocated fellowship and wholeness.

He was a Pharisee.

And so, their problem is Pharisees, in Jesus's world was, was I I was their motto.

I mean, they repeated everyday in the mirror, is they shaved and got their hair ready.

Look at how fair I see myself.

Okay.

You can borrow that if you want that was that was going to be a footnote in the book and

The Pharisees to remind ourselves were a group of laymen, the Uber conservative right-wing of the first-century Judaism who stood up for truth.

Their self-appointed Watchdogs.

Let me get to that slide and they ensured Judaism purity.

That it was preserved that they separated themselves from society by strictly harshly applying Old Testament rules to all sorts of aspects of everyone's lives.

They were judgmental.

They were condescending.

They were arrogant and more concerned about their own religious reputation than God's reputation.

Ouch.

Pharisees were highly concerned about preserving man-made, a man-made heads around the Torah.

So, break, one of our rules.

Shame on you break, one of God's rules, that's really bad.

So we created a man-made heads with those became equal to Torah in many ways that they attempt to protect God's law but at the same time they sought to acquire power to control their popularity and in doing.

So they missed God's heart, they missed the heartbeat of the author of the Torah.

They want to do, right?

Forgot, I do believe they wanted to do right for God, but they became so self-righteous.