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Some of you nerds and nerdette's stuck with me for my long talk this morning.

And when I said to Raab how long should I talk to you tonight?

He said they just want to dance Louis.

So okay, I understand that and yet and then and then we just did the blessing of the children in that song.

Just you know what, the word verklempt means it's from Saturday Night Live or so, you just word.

It's like I think I spoke another year and I stood there crying the whole time when I was speaking.

And so I've got extra Kleenex and I've tried not to do that combination of nerdy information so that you won't cry but then hopefully it will be useful and meaningful.

Hopefully may the Lord bless my words and your ears.

They might come out of my mouth wrong, but then they'll get transformed halfway between in the air and you say, oh, that was much better than what she actually said.

They'll be good.

Just to tell you a little bit about my background, I am not Jewish.

You see this?

It's the Torah for the nations of the world and I come from the other end of the world.

My grandparents were from on all of my father and mother side from Norway.

And I don't have a speck of anything, but the lord gave me a jury, has brain.

And I wanted to understand my Bible better.

And so I got fascinated with this topic.

Even though my background had already been seeing, don't know, don't go there, don't go there through you.

I told a friend of mine that I was going to give some talks about the Torah and face contorted into this horrible Grimace like I'm not kidding.

And so I come from a background where they say, what why would God, why would you want to study that old?

What can I teach us up.

Yeah, you know me?

Yeah, that's what the Norwegian says with the, okay.

So let me I don't want to delay.

It won't keep just being foolish here, but I've already told you.

Why would we be interested?

As most of us, here are Gentiles.

And if you've read acts 15, the church officially said, you know what, the Gentiles, if they can just stop themselves from doing the Sims that they are so prone to doing idolatry.

Sexual immorality, murder and the other one I told you about this morning, remember anybody remember what that other strange thing sprinkling?

Like, you know what?

That was you guys that you haven't heard infanticide.

That was a very common thing to do among the Romans and the Greeks is that was that was there alternatives to abortion?

And it was such a strong probation.

There are Scholars that say that probably was what he was heading to the list.

Don't do that.

And the early god-fearers joined the juice and we're learning from the at the synagogue said.

Yeah, we this is terrible.

I'm not going to do this anymore.

So, okay.

So So what I am is am amazed, that is that we're kind of fulfilling a prophecy.

Remember you didn't know we Gentiles if we just don't murder and do those things.

That's okay.

We don't have to do anything else but then there's this wonderful prophecy and Isaiah it says it shall come to pass in the latter days.

Many people still come and say, let's go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the god of Jacob that he made teachers his ways and we will walk in his pads.

That's what you want to study cuz you want to walk in the ways of the Lord shall go forth between the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Here we are sitting here wanting to know let's learn how to walk in God's ways.

Okay.

If you weren't here this morning I can give you the two minutes and abscess of my talk Box 2 minutes.

Yeah there have been the most fascinating books coming out.

One of them they come out from very secular very liberal not Christian voices that are seeing things.

There's one guy, his name is Tom Holland and he's not the guy from Spider-Man for somebody who know the movie, big fat books, about he loves Greeks and Romans and their Gladiators Warriors, and a big fat textbooks, and people love them.

Men love these novel or whatever, their historical thing, but he after writing all these books is he wrote.

He started thinking back about Meet these people who had captivated him as a kid.

He thought they were kind of romantic.

They're powerful and amazing and incredible.

Then as an adult Easter to see, actually I really dislike these people.

He said he was he started realizing But this is a horrible kind of world.

He said the slavery of the Romans, the routine Slaughter of the gladiatorial games, the exposure of unwanted infants, especially girls the rapacious subjection of women the public crucifixions in the torture of criminals.

It was like a horror movie and all that was unsettling and terrifying.

And he said, I hate it here.

And he said, they're saying it's a credible.

How our world is changed these people suck very differently and He could see that, where the Roman world brutalized and oppress the weak.

The Contemporary Western World defer to, and cared for the week.

There's a Hospital's, there's orphanages.

There's, there's many Ministries, and government agencies, all sorts of things.

And he said, how did the total totalizing a Draconian power of the Greco-Roman World become the liberating and redeeming power of the modern Western world?

And this is most true honestly in Europe and America.

If you guys the last and not the old world, the new world started doing more history, he's a history writer and his answer is it was because of Christianity.

Christianity, transform the world and this powerful image really make it out there.

This is a image of a crucifix and that image of Christ on the cross suffering, for his people was such a bomb drop when Everything was about power and oppressing the weak and the great glorious Kings will be victorious.

Stand here, and the Flames will be You know, if you opposed the king, this will happen to you and then to hear God walked on Earth.

And his son became our King and poured out his life to redeem his people.

It was like I can't believe it.

It just blew their minds.

Could not imagine such a wonderful thing.

I'm so he said it's despite honestly even if he was writing, that he's still an atheist, he says, oh it's a nice mess, but it really transformed the world.

Yeah, okay.

And then, he told about another book, I won't go into the details here.

What's interesting is that?

He?

So he, so this secular liberal, Skyler says, where was interesting of Christianity transform, the world that we have hospitals, we have all sorts of things that originally work, Begin by Christians and even.

Not even Christians are feel like you know, that's really a good idea.

We should do that.

It's a good idea but the wider culture has changed because of us.

Okay?

But that I am because I'm interested in Jewish material.

And Scholars.

I was reading other books by Jewish Scholars.

Okay.

Well here's what he said, really has changed because of Christianity but the wider culture now Embraces much more the sanctity of human life.

Respect for women.

Racial equality and fairness.

Care for the poor.

And protections of victims of Oppression.

All these things are actually Christian in origin.

It's not interesting but that's one of my books and the minute.

The Holy Spirit came out on Pentecost Bammel Houston.

We got changed And I said, I think there might be a part of the Bible.

You haven't read yet.

And at the same time because I was reading a book, by some Jewish colors, but it was it called this think you can probably read it says justice for all how The Jewish.