http://wiki.mrlocke.net/index.php?title=Sermon_for_February_13th,_2022&feed=atom&action=historySermon for February 13th, 2022 - Revision history2024-03-28T12:20:39ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.24.4http://wiki.mrlocke.net/index.php?title=Sermon_for_February_13th,_2022&diff=6317&oldid=prevIraneal at 06:35, 13 February 20222022-02-13T06:35:13Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I think Guy is actually two characters rolled into one:  He's the first man, Adam (which is essentially the Hebrew word for man, or guy), and he is Christ, who is often referred to as the "second Adam" or the "new Adam."  Watch in this clip as Guy "crosses the bridge" then takes a "leap of faith" <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">landing him in something that looks very much like the garden of Eden</del>--<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">all </del>while the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">evil </del>Antwan is trying to destroy the servers with an axe<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>trying to destroy everything just to stop Guy from saving it.   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I think Guy is actually two characters rolled into one:  He's the first man, Adam (which is essentially the Hebrew word for man, or guy), and he is Christ, who is often referred to as the "second Adam" or the "new Adam."  Watch in this clip as Guy "crosses the bridge" then takes a "leap of faith"--while <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">back in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"real world" the villain, </ins>Antwan<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>is trying to destroy the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">video game's </ins>servers with an axe<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">; </ins>trying to destroy everything <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and everyone </ins>just to stop Guy from saving it.   </div></td></tr>
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</table>Iranealhttp://wiki.mrlocke.net/index.php?title=Sermon_for_February_13th,_2022&diff=6316&oldid=prevIraneal at 05:56, 13 February 20222022-02-13T05:56:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There's lots of irony in that clip, of course.  They appeal of a fantasy style shoot-em up video game is the freedom:  You can do whatever you want in a video game.  You can defy the laws of physics, gravity, and of course, the laws of morality, too.  And as you saw, complete freedom often results in complete destruction.  Or as we Calvinists like to call it, the "total depravity of mankind."  </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">====Opening </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Eyes </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Blind====</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bible, the Apostle Paul wrestled a lot with that question of freedom vs. license. On one hand he challenged the super-restrictive laws and regulations of the religious leaders in his day.  He spoke often </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">freedom we have in Christ.  But he also knew that freedom could be abused when it is not tempered with restraint, and guided by love. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">====Paradise Lost & Regained====</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In the film, Guy shows love for everyone--Millie, Buddy, Goldie, random people on the street, and eventually that love inspires people, and reminds them that one person's freedom doesn't have to come at the expense of someone else's. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">====Open Your Eyes====</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">So is Guy a Christ figure?  Maybe.  He does die and come back to life quite a few times.  Or maybe he's more like one of the apostles--the followers of Jesus who first proclaimed the gospel and converted people to Christianity.  The apostles (like Guy) basically had to tell people that everything they thought they knew about the world was wrong, that there was something more, something better waiting for them, if they would only open their eyes.  </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txQcDZl_DI Film Clip #3 - Put 'em on]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</del>what <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">if I could tell you that you could be more</del>, your <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">life could be fuller? That </del>you<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'re free to make your own decisions</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">your own choices</del>?"   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For </ins>what<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'s its worth</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">this is also the ever-recurring theme in all of our movies this year:  Open </ins>your <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">eyes, wake up, look up, things are not what they seem, who can </ins>you <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">trust</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">where can you find the truth</ins>? <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> Sometimes, even though we can clearly see the truth, and we want to share it, we want to </ins>"<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">save" the people around us...it's not that easy. </ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fear gets in the way.  Or confusion.  Or habit.  Jesus said that some people could not believe because their hearts were hardened.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">WE don</del>'t <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wear </del>sunglasses.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In the film, though, Guy doesn</ins>'t <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stop trying.  He even loves his enemies, and wants to open their eyes, too.  In the next scene, Guy is fighting against a bigger, stronger, badder (but only half-baked) version of himself, which Antwan has created for the sequel, and is now using to try to destroy Guy.  For reasons that will become obvious, it's one of my favorite scenes in the movie.  But watch carefully what Guy does with his sunglasses at the very end of the clip, and remember that the </ins>sunglasses <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are a metaphor for truth, freedom, good news, what we as Christians would call "salvation</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"  </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Put 'em on</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> LIfe doesn't have to be something </del>that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">just happens </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">us</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">youtube.com/watch?v=UfqPRD2BlpI Film Clip #4 - Boss Fight]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">====Paradise Lost & Restored====</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The key premise of the film centers around the idea </ins>that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two programmers--Millie and Keys--created a digital paradise; then they created artificially intelligent life </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">live in that paradise; but a powerful, evil figure came along and hi-jacked the world, twisting it and perverting it into something violent, destructive, frightening, and immoral</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> That perfect world, that digital paradise, was still there somewhere, but it was hidden</ins></div></td></tr>
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28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.<br />
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==Galatians 5:13-15==<br />
13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters;[a] only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. 14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.<br />
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==Faith & Film X: Free Guy==<br />
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JORN2hkXLyM Film Clip #1 - Trailer]<br />
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====Three Minute Film Synopsis====<br />
Free Guy will certainly NOT win best picture at this year's academy awards. But I think it is definitely the light-hearted, feel-good, funny, inspirational movie of the year. And it was nominated for at least one academy award: Best Visual Effects!<br />
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Guy--the main character of the film--lives in Free City, where he takes care of his goldfish (Goldie) and works at the bank with his best friend (Buddy). Of course, if you paid attention to the trailer a few seconds ago, you already know that Guy is a program, a background character in a video game. His sole purpose in life is to occasionally to get punched in the face by the "real" players in the game. You can tell the difference between the "real" players and the non-player characters because the real players wear sunglasses, which help them to see things that allow them to play the game. <br />
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When Guy falls in love with one of the real, sunglasses-wearing players, his life (and his programming) start to change. The girl he falls in love with is Molotov Girl, or in real life Millie Rusk--a computer programmer who wrote the original code for the video game along with her partner Keys, which was then stolen by Antwan, the current owner of the Free City Video game, and the film's primary villain. Antwan has turned the code written by Millie and Keys into a violent, degrading (but popular) video game experience. Their original code, however, was an experiment in creating an evolving and self-aware artificial intelligence. <br />
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Inspired by Millie, Guy begins to turn the video game world upside down, by basically being a "good guy"--helping and protecting his fellow NPCs from the violence of the players. People in the real world take note of this, although they don't realize that "blue shirt guy" is a program himself. Eventually, Millie and Keys figure it out, right around the same time that the Antwan attempts to shut down the game so he can release a sequel, and hide any proof that he stole the code. Shutting down the game, however, would also wipe out Guy, his world, and all of his friends. So Keys and Millie hack into the system to try to save them, while Guy and all of his friends band together, and the "real life" gamers of the world watch in suspense. After several explosions, crumbling buildings, wild car chase scenes, and even a boss fight at the end, Antwan manages to destroy their world, but in a final twist, the video game characters are able to use the original code from Millie and Keys to create a paradise for themselves where they can be truly free, and happy, and themselves.<br />
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====Freedom vs. License====<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtH6a0OzN2k Film Clip #2 - Heroes]<br />
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====Opening the Eyes of the Blind====<br />
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====Paradise Lost & Regained====<br />
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"what if I could tell you that you could be more, your life could be fuller? That you're free to make your own decisions, your own choices?" <br />
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WE don't wear sunglasses.<br />
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Put 'em on. LIfe doesn't have to be something that just happens to us.</div>Iraneal