**ReFrame Episode 10 - Joyful Living — Transcript & Summary | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcript/reframe-episode-10-joyful-living/ Explore how Jesus' life and resurrection reframe our story, bringing hope, meaning, and joy to everyday life through the biblical narrative. ## Key Takeaways - Jesus’ resurrection reframes human experience with hope and meaning. - Faith calls for integration of biblical story into everyday life and identity. - The Emmaus Road story exemplifies transformation through encountering Jesus and Scripture. - Christianity offers a holistic worldview encompassing creation, fall, redemption, and renewal. - Believers are commissioned as ambassadors of reconciliation in God’s mission. ## What the video covers - The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ reframes all aspects of human culture and experience with hope and meaning. - Faith shapes everyday life beyond Sunday worship, calling believers to understand their unique purpose and identity in God’s story. - The Emmaus Road story illustrates how Jesus opens eyes to the true meaning of Scripture and transforms despair into joy. - Christian faith presents a comprehensive vision of reality that includes creation, redemption, and the renewal of all things. - Believers are called to be culture makers, engaging with art, science, and technology as part of God’s creative mission. - Despite evil and brokenness, God remains active in blessing and redeeming the world through ordinary people. - Jesus is revealed as the fulfillment of Israel’s hope and the true king establishing a new world order. - The biblical narrative begins and ends with the goodness of creation, emphasizing hope for renewal and care for the world. - Christians are entrusted with the message of reconciliation and called to live as ambassadors of Christ. - Encountering Jesus transforms believers, opening their eyes to see their lives as part of God’s grand redemptive story. Answers ## Questions about this video What is the main theme of the ReFrame Episode 10 video? The main theme is how the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ reframes every aspect of human life and culture, bringing hope, meaning, and a new perspective through the biblical story. How does the Emmaus Road story relate to the video’s message? The Emmaus Road story illustrates the transformation that occurs when Jesus opens the eyes of the disciples to understand Scripture and recognize Him, turning their despair into joy, which parallels how faith reframes our own stories. What role do believers have according to the video? Believers are called to live as ambassadors of Christ’s message of reconciliation, engaging in culture-making and caring for creation while embodying the hope of renewal through faith. ## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown 00:10 Speaker A [Music] The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ reframes everything, bringing hope, life, and meaning to every part of human culture. And yet many of us can't see how our faith shapes much of everyday life and experience Sunday to Sunday, the in-between days. Where was Jesus? I didn't think about the whole of who I am. What was I passionate about? Or how God uniquely made me? What are God's purposes for us? What does it mean to be made in the image of God? How do we live in the world but not of the world? God wants to make us more ourselves. He is holding all things together, and he is reconciling all things to himself. We're exploring how the biblical story reframes our story. We live out of our stories, so be located in the story, the biblical story in which God reveals himself, his character, and his life. [Music] I've always loved the Emmaus Road story. You've got these dejected, dispirited disciples, you know, crawling home after seeing the end of all their dreams. And suddenly their eyes are open to see that what they thought was failure and weakness, that God had abandoned them, that all their dreams were nothing, the gospel was still in control, that he was still the king of the universe, that all the promises of the Old Testament hadn't been squashed because Jesus was dead on a cross but were actually living and alive and active, and God was restoring and redeeming the holy universe. And this event that they'd witnessed was the turning point of all of it. Suddenly they're running back into town, and they're bursting with joy. And that's where the explosion of the gospel came throughout all the world by the disciples on the Emmaus Road. Throughout this course, we've been on a journey. We've been asking the question: if Jesus is the Redeemer of all things, how does faith reframe every aspect of our lives? I know that I'm drawn to this Christian story, this Christian vision of reality, because I think it actually is reality with a capital R. It's really the way to make sense of life. It's a story not just about us but about the cosmos, the heavens, and the earth. It's a story about life, the universe, and everything. We're meant to act, to create. We're culture makers through our art, through our science, through our technology, through what we make. We can take creation and not diminish it but appreciate, give us, given a voice, lift it back up to God. Certainly, moral evil has entered the world, and certainly evil has damaged the world, but biblical faith never gives up on the belief that the good Creator who designed this good world is still involved in blessing it. Whatever may be our biological family history, whether we remember much about it or not, we have a spiritual family history that involves God's mission to redeem and repair a broken world. Israel has so many faults in the entire history that you see is this repeated rebellion against God, and yet God remains among them. God moves his story along by calling people, often very ordinary people, to trust him and obey him. [Music] The Gospels very clearly reveal Jesus to us as the fulfillment of all of Israel's hope, taking it back to the kingship of David to show Jesus as the true king of Israel. Anybody connected to Jesus is connected to salvation because he's the Savior, but he's more than a Savior. He's the Messiah. The implications of this are astonishing, they're amazing, astounding, gobsmacking even. So Jesus is the king, and he is creating a new world order in which he is the ruler. The call of the gospel and the claims of God and of the lordship of Christ in our lives has to do with all of who we are. Hold, behold, behold, the dwelling of God is with humanity. We are going nowhere. Heaven and God, it seems, they're coming here. In fact, the whole biblical narrative starts with two chapters on creation, the goodness of creation, and ends with two chapters on the goodness of creation. What to be a giveaway, but the stuff in between means that we live in this world as God's world, hopeful of the renewal of creation but caring for as best we can. God has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. It is not enough to have a reframed understanding of the biblical story. We must be pulled through the frame and into the story, left breathless from our encounter with a living God. That's the great promise now. Since having been forgiven, we are set free from the past, and with this Spirit now in us, transformed, ready to live into the future. When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the scriptures to us?" I wanted us to once again address this road to Emmaus, and we're going to see and think about what do we take home with us from all of this. Kind of like the two on that road, I've spent a lot of my own Christian experience sort of sadly looking at Jesus and saying, "Don't you know? Don't you know what has gone on in my world?" I mean, think about it. In this passage, it's really kind of funny. It says Cleopas and the other disciple. Now, that would be my luck to finally get into a biblical story and be called the other disciple for over two thousand years. Cleophas and the other disciple. It was Cleopas. He looked at him, looked at him, and said, "Are you the only one that doesn't know what's gone on in Jerusalem?" Now, that's interesting, asking Jesus Christ if he knew what had just happened in Jerusalem. I think it's funny, actually. But anyway, ironically, they thought that they needed to open his eyes when in fact he very desperately wanted and needed to open theirs. We're like that, aren't we? We need to encounter Jesus, or more truly, we need him to encounter us, and he desperately wants to. We're hoping that that's exactly what this course is doing for the reframing of the Christian story so that our eyes are opened to seeing Jesus more clearly in all the events of our lives, the reframing of our own story so that we see it as a part of God's huge, big story of redemption as laid out in Scripture. That's why the road to Emmaus is such a good picture of discovery. First, Jesus encountered them. They were confused, they were distressed, but he encountered them. Second, Jesus reframed their understanding of who he was by explaining the story on the road. It says Jesus explained, starting with Moses and the prophets, all that scripture said concerning him, or showing that everything in scripture concerned him. Jesus took—and think about it—Jesus took the God-breathed words of man to explain himself. But he could have just said, "It's me, I'm God," or "Here's some new words of God." No, he pointed back to scripture, to the story. And as we've heard several times today, their hearts burned within them as he verbally took them through the scriptures in their head. Now, I don't know about you, but my picture of the road to Emmaus is like Jesus with his Bible open, pointing to the story, right? I don't know what I thought that would be like, the zero-century Bible translation. I mean, he didn't do it that way, did he? He had it in his head, they had it in their heads, and he took them through mentally. They didn't even have the text on their smartphones. They were excited, but it wasn't until he went and did the simple task, the simple human task of eating, that their eyes were opened to who he was. And then we see their response. It was joy and celebration, a perfect, beautiful response. And then he disappeared. They had made that seven-mile journey from Jerusalem that day, from Jerusalem down to Emmaus. Jerusalem, you always go up, right? But all of a sudden, that didn't matter anymore. They got up after dinner, made that seven-mile journey up this time back to Jerusalem in order to tell his followers. They were so excited. Now, often thought, I would like to have been there. I would like to have—he 00:31 Speaker A in-between days where was Jesus I didn't think about the whole of who I am what was I passionate about or how God uniquely made me what did God's purposes for us what does it mean to be made in the image of God 00:47 Speaker A how do we live in the world but not of the world God wants to make us more ourselves he is holding all things together and that he is reconciling all things to himself we're exploring how does the biblical story reframe our 01:03 Speaker A story we live out of our stories so be located in the story the biblical story in which God reveals himself his character in his life [Music] I've always loved the Emmaus Road story you've got these dejected dispirited disciples you know crawling home after 02:13 Speaker A seeing the end of all their dreams and suddenly their eyes are open to see that what they thought was failure and weakness that God had abandoned them that all their dreams were nothing the go p-- was still in control that he was 02:27 Speaker A the still the king of the universe that all the promises of the Old Testament hadn't been squashed because Jesus was dead on a cross but were actually living and alive and active and the God was restoring and redeeming the holy 02:38 Speaker A universe and this event that they'd witness was the turning point of all of it suddenly they're running back into town and they're bursting with joy and that's where the explosion of the gospel came throughout all the world by the disciples on the Emmaus Road 03:03 Speaker A throughout this course we've been on a journey we've been asking the question if Jesus is the Redeemer of all things how does faith reframe every aspect of our lives I know that I'm drawn to this Christian story this Christian vision of reality 03:26 Speaker A because I think it actually is reality with a capital R it's really the way to make sense of life it's a story not just about us but about the cosmos the heavens and the earth is a story about life the universe and 03:42 Speaker A everything we're meant to ax women to create we're culture makers through our art through our science through our technology through what we make we can take creation and not diminish it but but appreciate give us given a voice 04:01 Speaker A lift it back up to God certainly moral evil has entered the world and certainly evil has damaged the world but biblical faith never gives up on the belief that the good creator who designed this good world is still 04:16 Speaker A involved in blessing it whatever may be our biological family history whether we remember much about it or not we have a spiritual family history that involves God's mission to redeem and repair a broken world Israel has so many faults 04:35 Speaker A in the entire history that you see is this repeated rebellion against God and yet God remains among them God moves his story along by calling people often very ordinary people to trust him and obey Him [Music] the Gospels very clearly revealed Jesus 05:03 Speaker A to us as the fulfillment of all of Israel's hope taking it back to the kingship of David to show Jesus as the true king of Israel anybody connected to Jesus is connected to salvation because he's the savior but he's more than a 05:19 Speaker A savior he's the Messiah the implications of this are astonishing they're amazing astounding gobsmacking even so jesus is the king and he is creating a new world order in which he is the ruler the call of the gospel and 05:35 Speaker A the claims of God and of the Lord ship of Christ in our lives has to do with all of who we are hold behold behold the dwelling of God is with humanity we are going nowhere heaven end god it seems they're coming 05:54 Speaker A here in the fact that it the whole biblical narrative starts with two chapters on creation the goodness of creation and ends with two chapters on the goodness of creation what to be a giveaway but the stuff in between means 06:08 Speaker A that we live in this world as God's world hopeful of the renewal of creation but caring for as best we can God has committed to us the message of reconciliation we are therefore Christ's ambassadors as though God we're making 06:25 Speaker A his appeal through us it is not enough to have a reframed understanding of the biblical story we must be pulled through the frame and into the story left breathless from our encounter with a Living God that's the great promise now 06:45 Speaker A since having been forgiven we are set free from the past and with this spirit now in us transformed ready to live into the future when he was at the table with them he took bread gave thanks broke it and 07:05 Speaker A began to give it to them then their eyes were opened and they recognized him and he disappeared from their sight they asked each other we're not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the scriptures 07:20 Speaker A to us I wanted us to once again address this road to a mass and we're going to see and think about what do we take home with us from all of this kind of like the two on that road I've spent a lot of 07:43 Speaker A my own Christian experience sort of sadly looking at Jesus and saying don't you know don't you know what has gone on in my world I mean think about it in this passage it's it's really kind of funny it says Cleopas and the other disciple 08:04 Speaker A know that that would be my luck to finally get into a biblical story and be called the other disciple for over two thousand years Cleophas and the other disciple it was clamp estat looked at him looked at him 08:15 Speaker A and said are you the only one that doesn't know what's gone on in Jerusalem now that's interesting asking Jesus Christ if he knew what had just happened in Jerusalem I think it's funny actually but anyway ironically they thought that they needed to open 08:39 Speaker A his eyes when in fact he very desperately wanted and needed to open theirs we're like that aren't we we need to encounter Jesus or more truly we need him to encounter us and he desperately wants to we're hoping that that's 09:05 Speaker A exactly what this course is doing for the reframing of the Christians story so that our eyes are opened to seeing Jesus more clearly in all the events of our lives the reframing of our own story so that we see it as a part of God's huge big 09:28 Speaker A story of redemption as laid out in Scripture that's why the road to amaze is such a good picture of discovery first Jesus encountered them they were confused they were distressed but he encountered them second Jesus reframed their understanding of who he was 09:54 Speaker A by explaining the story on the road it says Jesus explained starting with Moses and the prophets all that scripture said concerning him or showing that everything in scripture concerned him Jesus took and think about is Jesus took the god-breathed words of man to explain 10:20 Speaker A himself but he could have just said it's me I'm God or here's some new words of God no he pointed back to scripture to the story and as we've heard several times today their hearts burned within them as he verbally took 10:40 Speaker A them through the scriptures in their head now I don't know about you but my picture of the road to a mess is like Jesus with his Bible open pointing to the story right I don't know what I thought that would be like the zero 10:55 Speaker A century Bible translation I mean he didn't do it that way did he he had it in his head they had it in their heads and he took them through mentally they didn't even have the text on their smartphones they were excited but it 11:13 Speaker A wasn't until he went and did the simple task the simple human task of eating that their eyes were open to who he was and then we see their response it was joy and celebration a perfect beautiful response and then he 11:35 Speaker A disappeared they had made that seven mile journey from Jerusalem that day from Jerusalem down to a mass of Jerusalem you always go up right but all of a sudden that didn't matter anymore they got up after dinner made that seven 11:56 Speaker A mile journey up this time back to Jerusalem in order to tell his followers they were so excited now often thought I would like to have been there I would like to have heard that Bible study with Jesus I just would and it's one of the 12:13 Speaker A scenes that I have thought in my mind when I die if we can replay scenes of history that's when I want to listen in on and I've often thought what that might feel like to actually hear all that and start to put all that together 12:28 Speaker A but I'd never thought until I started preparing this talk for you guys what did it feel like to Jesus what was it like to finally be able to show them who he was what all this Messiah stuff was 12:49 Speaker A about the road to the mass was his first go at it resurrected what did that feel like in chapter 22 Luke describes for us a bit of what Jesus was feeling earlier that week before he was crucified he 13:08 Speaker A writes that at the Last Supper jesus said I have eagerly desired to eat this meal with you now in Greek this really stands out we don't have a way of saying this in English we say eagerly desired or have really desired but in Greek they 13:28 Speaker A can pile up the same word and they can say with desire I desired and that's what Jesus did with desire deep deep within me I am desiring to eat this Passover to get this week started to make it to where you can 13:48 Speaker A enter my joy and John it tells us that his focus was that they would enter his complete joy when Jesus prays that high priestly prayer in John 17 verse 13 of that chapter tells us that he was excited about the redemption that this 14:10 Speaker A would bring it says that they might enter into my complete joy he knew it would steal them from the hopelessness that those two were feeling on the road jesus knew that once they saw who he was their understanding of being truly human 14:33 Speaker A would be explained being always precedes doing from that they would know what to do in their world and sure enough they run with that message filled with joy that's what Jesus is about isn't he placing himself as our resource all of 14:58 Speaker A Scripture speaks of him God's agent of redemption filling us with his spirit as Bruce reminded us how important is that to be his redeemed ambassadors here on earth retelling and reframing who Jesus is for our world not changing who Jesus 15:20 Speaker A is for our world but showing them the true frame the one that is found in Scripture until we understand who he is as Redeemer of a whole lot more than just our personal sin that's big but it's bigger than that and until we learn 15:43 Speaker A that we can't quite understand our role as his ambassadors of redemption sometimes we think that that role is one of stressful labor on our own I think I was living in that place about 20 years ago Phil and I were in a 16:02 Speaker A very hectic phase of life we had four children in the home and that should say enough Phil was teaching an overload of classes an overload of students I was teaching weekly at church and heading up a retreat and I was also going to 16:20 Speaker A seminary I was a Greek student and one evening I went to class and the professor said let's just pray for each other before we start there are only four of us in this class and so I thought yes please and so he said what 16:37 Speaker A are your prayer requests and of course mine was for all this stress for all this busyness and honestly I think there was underlying in my heart a little bit of in this godly see how hard I'm working for Jesus I don't think I would 16:54 Speaker A have ever admitted that but I think it was somehow the framework out of which I was living anyway he said to pray for the person on the right and I happened to be on the right of the professor it 17:09 Speaker A was Bob Yarborough and when it came his time to pray for me he simply said one sentence he said dear Lord please restore to Polly the joy of your salvation now thought that went exactly what I asked for I was thinking of you 17:32 Speaker A know like this prayer like Oh help your servant give her strength you know oh well okay thanks but it wasn't until my ride home was about a 40-minute drive that it really hit me what a profound and insightful 17:53 Speaker A prayer that was somewhere along the line I had subconsciously began to think a lie about Jesus that he had redeemed me to work me and in that work I would find worth worth in God's eyes worth in my 18:16 Speaker A eyes worth in the church's eyes and I think a little bit I thought he would love me more the harder I worked for him now the odd thing is I knew better I knew I couldn't earn more of God's love 18:35 Speaker A but unfortunately for us all isn't it true that good theology can be in our head but not in our hearts and if we live unchecked our behavior can preach a different gospel than we know that's true why would my children look at my 18:57 Speaker A life and want Jesus if all he does is bring you stress why would my world look at my life and watch me live this hectic tired life and understand the truth of a salvation that promises to set you free 19:14 Speaker A and give you joy and rest dr. yar burrs prayer checked my living theology that night and I began to reevaluate what it meant to live from the framework of the joy of God's salvation now that's not to say I just added another work on there 19:33 Speaker A okay don't be stressful be joyful right and that's not to say that I had no problems anymore all the stress went away no no not at all actually what I needed was an under guarding joy that would help me meet 19:52 Speaker A that pain and the hard times not ignore it right I saw for the first time that Jesus wanted to redeem the whole of my life and I saw that I desperately needed his help to stop stressing and to begin enjoying his 20:16 Speaker A presence I needed my eyes opened to start seeing him in everything keep a Sabbath keeper Sabbath find ways to keep a Sabbath the whole world against the Sabbath they want you to do things God doesn't want you to do 20:45 Speaker A anything except just be quiet pay attention keep a Sabbath you know the Sabbath is the most commanded commandment in the whole Bible and it's the most ignored Genesis begins it was evening and there was morning.the first day notice that sequence evening and 21:05 Speaker A morning so what happens in the evening well obviously God's work you wake up and there it is so you you develop a creative imagination that you are participating is something that started eight hours ago and now you wake up and 21:28 Speaker A you get to be in on it and you're part of it so if you can get that first chapter of Genesis into your imaginations it seems to me it saves you from a lot of workaholism anxiety manipulation most of most everything 21:50 Speaker A that goes wrong in the world goes wrong because of we're not doing it out of a context of God created God breathed on call or God said I live by the faith of the Son of God and his father and it's that exchange of 22:12 Speaker A his communion with the father that now becomes the communion with which I communed with Christ that I'm given resources for that relationship that friendship that Fellowship which I don't have in myself so it's all of grace so to live in Christ is to live a gracious 22:32 Speaker A life and to live in grace means that you're always living in gratitude that's that's how we live we live with gratitude and so when I live in gratitude then we'll always seek and deliver these presents [Music] the life God wants me to live and wants 23:36 Speaker A you to live is not about stressful labor to earn his pleasure but it's all about seeing his pleasure in all of life it's remembering that he is there when we are making dinner as much as he is there 23:53 Speaker A when we are reading our Bibles it's seen that a smile given to a clerk is a redemptive act it may have been the only time I were smiled at that day it's a gift of God through us in the simplest 24:13 Speaker A of things it's understanding that he is engaged with us just as much when we're on our computers as he is when we pray we must remember this we must remind ourselves of these things when we feel worthless even our routine acts once we 24:36 Speaker A are his children can be redemptive acts to his world and acts of worship to him talk about worth it's wonderful when I reminded myself of these truths it changes everything especially the hard times Redemption those centered on Christ work on the cross is not limited 25:01 Speaker A in definition by this one wonderful crowning act of God anytime God is working on behalf of creatures us or creation to reverse the effects of the fall we should name it Redemption it is the continuing work of the Holy Spirit 25:23 Speaker A in people's lives and in creation today and the only reason he was sent when Jesus left when we influence culture creation or each other to be restored and conformed to God's original blueprint that is a redemptive act empowered by God working in tandem with 25:47 Speaker A us as humans it is indeed a high call and a high privilege to be part of God's redemptive plan which began before the foundation of the world and will end in the establishment of a new heavens and a 26:04 Speaker A new earth one time I had been given the task to talk on redemptive living and I didn't quite know what to do with it now is it Regent and passed by Jim Packer in the hallway and thought I'll 26:19 Speaker A just ask him really quick I'll tell you what he said but you know you understand this is with an East Tennessee accent it's not gonna sound like Jim Packer but I said okay what would you do with this 26:31 Speaker A where would you go in Scripture with this topic and he said I heard tempter thinking we're doomed to thinking let me see oh yes yes well that was what Jesus was all about wasn't it I mean he went 26:43 Speaker A around putting all the bits back together and that's what we do we we go around putting all the bits back together and I thought that's it that's what years steeped in deep theology very simple but not simplistic very profound 27:03 Speaker A putting the bits back together what a joyful task we have even when it's hard and it's hard when a culture doesn't even recognize the bits that need to go back together but to know that ultimately we are as his ambassadors 27:23 Speaker A putting the bits back together [Music] now what gets tough is that we have a lot of people say well that sounds like a really great vision but I'm in cubicle and I don't have this sense that I have 27:47 Speaker A all this power to steward to advance the kingdom but even folks that don't feel like they have a lot of vocational power probably have more than they realize so I think it can look as simple as making your cubicle in cubicle land 28:05 Speaker A beautiful welcoming hospitable conducting yourself on the job in a way that is wonderfully teamwork oriented to the extent that you're willing to be someone who readily gives other people credit all of those things are countercultural ways of of acting in the 28:34 Speaker A workplace if the agent of cultural transformation is God not me or my movement that is actually amazingly freeing because the reality is we all experienced tremendous constraint in what we can do if if it's up to me I am 28:51 Speaker A going to be caught up in striving in anxiety and stress in ambition but if God isn't work if the grace of God is present even when I fail even when I mess up then that actually frees me I 29:07 Speaker A think to be much more creative much more fearless I'm actually strangely more willing to take risks because it's not up to me to make this succeed it seems to me that Christian specialty from the beginning was to lose well 29:25 Speaker A just think of the story of Jesus it's a story of him speaking of course being bold but in a sense losing well the powers turn against him he's crucified and as he's crucified its Father forgive them and I do think Western Christians 29:47 Speaker A need to learn the art of losing well of not thinking we have to win every argument win every public debate that was the story of the first 300 years of Christianity they were bold but they were also servants and when they lost 30:03 Speaker A they lost well what would the best-possible promise be is it you're going to change the world jesus never promises that is it you will have a long fruitful life even that is not actually promised what he does promise is I will be with you 30:24 Speaker A and so I don't necessarily have success I don't necessarily have recognition but I do have joy that nothing can take away we play out our part in his story by his power not our own without him the text 30:51 Speaker A tells us we can do nothing but with his indwelling spirit as Bruce reminded us we are enabled to step into this wonderful story to be drawn into that frame that we've been learning about in the now so we hope this course has 31:10 Speaker A restored for you to the joy of his salvation by telling once again the story of scripture that draws us to encounter and to understand who Jesus is and who we are as his little people of dust his image bears his Kings his 31:35 Speaker A priests his prophets to his cosmos to his world putting the bits back together a story that takes us down that same road of a mass and brings us back in a genuine response of joy interestingly the whole book of Luke where we find the 31:59 Speaker A story of Emmaus begins and ends in the same physical place in the temple chapter 1 of Luke we have Zechariah doing his priestly duty working hard for God but with a dim framework of what God can do in his life for when he gets the 32:23 Speaker A message from the angel that the event that he and his wife Elizabeth have waited for so long in their life that should fill them with joy when he gets the news that that's gonna happen he meets it with doubt which kills joy 32:39 Speaker A that's chapter 1 chapter 24 is where we find this road to Emmaus and his ascension and we'll see in that chapter as they were all looking up and Jesus was get away from them it says this and they 32:59 Speaker A worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy and they were continually in the temple by Jesus had transformed a hidden frightened group into his ambassadors filled with joy and confidence perhaps it's when God sees our journey into his joy that his deep 33:26 Speaker A desire is fulfilled perhaps that's what Jesus felt on the road to Emmaus perhaps that's what he feels here today as he gives us the framework of his joy go enjoy my brothers and sisters we have an awesome God 33:49 Speaker A [Music] I'm on this journey to to live out this cultural mandate that goddess commanded us to walk with that's an exciting thing to be a part of but it's humbling to frighten in other ways funny really understanding that my identities as a 34:14 Speaker A child of God that God loves me as I am that not only free me it gave me a confidence that I need never really have this because no one can take that identity [Music] many people have a perception of 34:33 Speaker A Christianity as a no religion and that's really unfortunate because fundamentally I think Christianity is such a huge yes it's God's yes to flourishing because this God who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who reveals himself finally in 34:54 Speaker A Christ is the God who cares about every square inch of the whole of reality who cares about life he cares about cities and he cares about cultures [Music] if we reframed our understanding this big gospel is this gospel isn't just 35:13 Speaker A about me going to heaven when I die but a gospel that accepts me as I never sends me back into the world with God's power with God's Spirit with God's people and I think we will see change Jesus parting words to his disciples are 35:27 Speaker A here you can go you can make disciples you can live as I'm telling you to in my teaching and you can do so because I'm with you this creator of all things sustainer of all life this community of 35:40 Speaker A love of God father God son God Holy Spirit this community of love is saying I'm with you and that makes you a community of love throughout this series we've been on a journey to discover how the great biblical story shapes and 36:03 Speaker A reframes our lives in the world around us and we've discovered that however big this story is there's no getting away from the personal challenge to each one of us where's your heart bird as we've journeyed through refrain what does God 36:15 Speaker A open your eyes to see what does God think to you and do your community about how you can be ambassadors to your world today as your journey with Christ continues our hope is that you will see him as the one in whom all things hold 36:27 Speaker A together [Music] you Topics: Jesus Christ Resurrection Emmaus Road Biblical Story Faith and Culture Redemption Christian Living Regent College Christian Worldview Reconciliation Study this video - [Flashcards from this video](https://sozai.app/tools/ai-flashcard-generator/?from=transcript&id=81113) - [Quiz on this video](https://sozai.app/tools/quiz-generator/?from=transcript&id=81113) Free, made by AI from this transcript. 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