100:00:00,620 –> 00:00:05,820How can I know God?200:00:05,820 –> 00:00:08,140Where can I find God?300:00:08,140 –> 00:00:09,780Who is He?400:00:09,780 –> 00:00:11,020What is He like?500:00:11,020 –> 00:00:16,080And these are good questions, these are the greatest questions you’ll ever ask in your600:00:16,080 –> 00:00:17,080life.700:00:17,080 –> 00:00:19,400They’re the questions that will shape your eternity.800:00:19,400 –> 00:00:23,879And here’s the good news, God has not left you to make up your own answer.900:00:23,879 –> 00:00:27,040Welcome to Out in the Bible with Paul to Colin Smith.1000:00:27,139 –> 00:00:33,259Well these are pretty heavy questions and if God hasn’t left us to make up our own answers,1100:00:33,259 –> 00:00:35,860where do we in fact go to find those answers?1200:00:35,860 –> 00:00:41,480Well we’re in Isaiah chapter 40 and these wonderful words, Behold your God, behold,1300:00:41,480 –> 00:00:42,480look!1400:00:42,480 –> 00:00:46,959And of course John the Baptist took this up when he pointed to Jesus he said, behold the1500:00:46,959 –> 00:00:48,759Lamb of God, look!1600:00:48,759 –> 00:00:54,639Look at Jesus Christ and then you will know who God is and what God has for you in His1700:00:54,860 –> 00:00:57,000hand and in His great kindness.1800:00:57,000 –> 00:01:01,900And this is a wonderful thing, we need to know where to look, that’s the question.1900:01:01,900 –> 00:01:06,059You could come to know God’s power by looking at the world, but you could never know that2000:01:06,059 –> 00:01:10,400God cares for you simply by looking at the greatness of creation.2100:01:10,400 –> 00:01:15,160You can know that when you look at Jesus Christ because this is revealed in Jesus Christ.2200:01:15,160 –> 00:01:16,160So look, look!2300:01:16,160 –> 00:01:20,040That’s why we always want to point people to Christ, why the Bible always points people2400:01:20,040 –> 00:01:21,040to Christ.2500:01:21,040 –> 00:01:22,779So that’s where we’re looking today.2600:01:22,779 –> 00:01:28,940So as you heard, we go to Isaiah chapter 40, as we continue the message, behold your2700:01:28,940 –> 00:01:29,940God.2800:01:29,940 –> 00:01:30,940Here is Colin.2900:01:30,940 –> 00:01:36,760The glory of the Lord is the full wonder of who God is.3000:01:36,760 –> 00:01:42,800It is the splendor of God Himself.3100:01:42,800 –> 00:01:49,720And those who know the Bible will perhaps immediately think of how earlier in the Bible’s3200:01:50,099 –> 00:01:55,739story, Moses who knew much about God, went up the mountain and on one occasion he prayed3300:01:55,739 –> 00:02:03,279with great passion and intensity, Oh God please show me your glory.3400:02:03,279 –> 00:02:09,320And when Moses prayed that, he was asking God simply this, show me the full wonder of3500:02:09,320 –> 00:02:13,419who you are.3600:02:13,419 –> 00:02:19,160And you can read in Exodus chapter 33 how God spoke to Moses on that occasion and said,3700:02:19,820 –> 00:02:26,699Moses you cannot see my face and live.3800:02:26,699 –> 00:02:32,520And so God hid Moses in the cleft of a rock, the bible says covered him with his hand and3900:02:32,520 –> 00:02:38,520then God caused his glory to pass by the cleft of the rock so that Moses was allowed to see4000:02:38,520 –> 00:02:45,520the afterburn of the glory of the Lord.4100:02:46,679 –> 00:02:48,699He’d seen an appearance.4200:02:49,460 –> 00:02:53,059He’d seen a reflection.4300:02:53,059 –> 00:02:58,660He longed to see the thing itself.4400:02:59,940 –> 00:03:08,820Last month marked 50 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.4500:03:08,820 –> 00:03:17,100And amongst the many programs that were made to mark that occasion, CNN ran a piece that4600:03:17,100 –> 00:03:25,800included reference to the pink suit that was worn by Jackie Kennedy on that day.4700:03:25,800 –> 00:03:29,300Now most of us can immediately picture that pink suit.4800:03:29,300 –> 00:03:30,300Right?4900:03:30,300 –> 00:03:32,600I thought, why do I even need to put a picture of that up on the screen?5000:03:32,600 –> 00:03:38,720Because everyone has a picture of the pink suit, the iconic pink suit fixed in our own5100:03:38,720 –> 00:03:39,720minds.5200:03:39,720 –> 00:03:40,720Why is that?5300:03:40,720 –> 00:03:47,139We have all seen many, many pictures, images of this in newsreel footage, and in magazine5400:03:47,139 –> 00:03:49,339photographs, and so forth and so on.5500:03:49,339 –> 00:03:52,220We have all seen a representation of the pink suit.5600:03:52,220 –> 00:03:57,179I would be almost certain that not one of us here has actually seen the thing itself.5700:03:57,179 –> 00:04:04,039And what was fascinating to me about the CNN report is the pink suit, they said, has never5800:04:04,360 –> 00:04:11,360been cleaned, that it was given as a gift to the people of the United States by Carolyn5900:04:12,020 –> 00:04:19,019Kennedy in 2003, which was 9 years after her mother’s death, and that the gift came with6000:04:20,880 –> 00:04:27,500the condition that it should not be put on display for 100 years.6100:04:27,500 –> 00:04:34,500So 2103, and even then it would be with the permission of that generation of the Kennedy6200:04:35,299 –> 00:04:42,299family, and not before that time. Further, the suit is now stored in the National Archives6300:04:44,859 –> 00:04:51,859Building in Maryland, and it is stored in a windowless vault in an acid-free container6400:04:51,899 –> 00:04:58,899in an acid-free container, where the air is changed three times every hour for the preservation6500:05:00,559 –> 00:05:07,559of the fabric, and the temperature is maintained between 65 and 68 degrees. And so it will6600:05:10,160 –> 00:05:17,119be for at least 90 years. Now, all of us have seen images of the pink6700:05:17,119 –> 00:05:21,220suit. I refer to the pink suit immediately. You have a picture as I have a picture in6800:05:21,260 –> 00:05:25,839my mind, but none of us have seen the thing itself.6900:05:25,839 –> 00:05:32,839It is locked up in a vault. It is hidden from public view. But 90 years from now, the children7000:05:36,359 –> 00:05:41,119of the youngest children here today, in their old age, may be able to go and see it if it’s7100:05:41,119 –> 00:05:48,119put on display in Washington. They may get to see the thing itself.7200:05:48,899 –> 00:05:53,760Earlier this year, Karen and I visited the Space Center at Cape Canaveral. Some of you7300:05:53,760 –> 00:06:00,140may have been there. Remarkable experience once in a lifetime just to be up close to7400:06:00,140 –> 00:06:06,880the thing itself. I mean, all of us have seen endless pictures of rockets. But at Cape Canaveral7500:06:06,880 –> 00:06:13,880we were able to see Saturn 5 suspended in a vast hangar so you can walk all its length.7600:06:14,399 –> 00:06:20,720The sheer scale, the sheer size of this was utterly overwhelming. It’s different to see7700:06:20,720 –> 00:06:27,720the thing itself no matter how many pictures you may have seen over many, many years.7800:06:29,679 –> 00:06:36,679Now, think about what is being said here. The glory of the Lord will be revealed. Oh7900:06:36,940 –> 00:06:41,140yes, reflections have been seen, the earth declares the glory of the Lord. There’s been8000:06:41,640 –> 00:06:47,519some reflection of this in the fire and in the cloud but the thing itself is going to8100:06:47,519 –> 00:06:52,179be put on display. It’s going to be after many hundreds of years beyond the time of8200:06:52,179 –> 00:06:57,279Isaiah. We’re going to get something that is more than the reflections of the glory8300:06:57,279 –> 00:07:04,279of the Lord that are unknowable and unapproachable and inaccessible. Isaiah says the glory of8400:07:04,320 –> 00:07:10,339the Lord will be revealed. What Moses longed to see will be put on display and it will8500:07:10,339 –> 00:07:15,940not be made accessible only to a few like Moses. All flesh will see it together.8600:07:15,940 –> 00:07:20,619The coming of Jesus Christ will bring about a position in which any person in the world8700:07:20,619 –> 00:07:26,940may come to know God as He is through His Son who is the image, the exact representation8800:07:26,940 –> 00:07:33,540of His being. God is going to make the full wonder of who He is made known in Jesus Christ8900:07:33,540 –> 00:07:39,220and that is why when you get to the Christmas story you have John saying, the word became9000:07:39,540 –> 00:07:50,820flesh and dwelt among us and we have seen His glory. The whole Bible story has been9100:07:50,820 –> 00:08:00,679leading up to this. The full wonder of who God is now made known in Jesus Christ so that9200:08:00,679 –> 00:08:06,660the knowledge of God may be accessible, God approachable to all who will come to the Father9300:08:06,820 –> 00:08:12,739through His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the marvel. This is why the coming of Jesus Christ9400:08:12,779 –> 00:08:19,459into the world is the center point of human history and must always be so. The glory of9500:08:19,459 –> 00:08:24,799the Lord should be revealed. Now, in the light of this great reality that9600:08:24,799 –> 00:08:31,540we celebrate at Christmas, what are we to do? Well, says Isaiah, here’s what you do.9700:08:31,660 –> 00:08:40,099You behold your God. You look at what has been revealed. And do9800:08:40,140 –> 00:08:45,940you notice there that the word behold comes not once, but it comes three times? Behold9900:08:45,940 –> 00:08:54,820your God. Behold the Lord God comes with might. Behold His reward is with Him.10000:08:54,820 –> 00:09:01,059Now, to behold simply means look at it. Look at this. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed.10100:09:01,299 –> 00:09:06,559So look at your God. Look at His might. Look at His reward. That’s what Isaiah says. That’s10200:09:06,619 –> 00:09:13,080what we’re to do. And that’s what we’re to call other people to do.10300:09:13,099 –> 00:09:21,020Look at your God. See, here is the message of Christmas, and it is so wonderful. God10400:09:21,020 –> 00:09:28,880became man in Jesus Christ. And He is the image of the invisible God, He is the exact10500:09:29,119 –> 00:09:34,719representation of His being. I’m quoting the Scriptures here word for word.10600:09:34,719 –> 00:09:43,159God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell bodily in Jesus Christ. We have the light10700:09:43,159 –> 00:09:51,179of the knowledge of the glory of God, how, in the face of Jesus Christ.10800:09:51,179 –> 00:09:58,580The full wonder of all that God is, has been revealed in Jesus Christ, so that Jesus says whoever10900:09:59,580 –> 00:10:07,739has seen me has seen the Father, the astonishing statement.11000:10:07,739 –> 00:10:12,500So now here’s the question. Someone’s come into church today and you’re sincerely wrestling11100:10:12,500 –> 00:10:19,719with this question, how can I know God? Where can I find God? Who is He? What is He like?11200:10:22,039 –> 00:10:25,679And these are good questions, and these are the greatest questions you will ever ask in11300:10:25,739 –> 00:10:30,419your life. They are the questions that will shape your eternity. And here’s the good news,11400:10:30,419 –> 00:10:38,239God has not left you to make up your own answer. When you want to know who God is, look at11500:10:38,239 –> 00:10:44,320Jesus Christ. That’s the message here. And when you look at Him, here’s what you will11600:10:44,320 –> 00:10:52,039see. You will see holiness and compassion and justice and truth, and you will see mercy11700:10:52,039 –> 00:10:59,219and kindness and patience and love. Look at Jesus Christ, and you will see the heart of11800:10:59,219 –> 00:11:05,219God. You will discover who God is. The word was made flesh and we have seen His glory.11900:11:05,219 –> 00:11:14,159John, what was it that you saw? We saw that He was full of grace and of truth. If someone12000:11:14,159 –> 00:11:25,719should tell you that they hate God, you ask them to tell you about the God that they hate,12100:11:25,719 –> 00:11:38,059and then talk to them about Jesus Christ. Behold your God. This is who He is.12200:11:38,059 –> 00:11:42,640You’re listening to Open the Bible. We have to pause the message briefly there but we’ll12300:11:42,739 –> 00:11:48,460be back shortly. Merry Christmas from all of us at Open the Bible. It’s good to have12400:11:48,460 –> 00:11:53,179you with us today and maybe you’ve tuned in today because your schedule is a bit different12500:11:53,179 –> 00:11:59,260to the usual one. Well, today as in every day, it’s really easy to hear pastor Colin12600:11:59,260 –> 00:12:03,880Smiths’ teaching when you come online. You can find all the messages that have already12700:12:03,880 –> 00:12:10,859been broadcast on our website at OpenTheBible.org.uk and also as a podcast, and those are on all12800:12:11,260 –> 00:12:16,380the main podcast sites, you can find them by going to your favorite podcast site, searching12900:12:16,380 –> 00:12:21,780for Open the Bible UK, and subscribe if you want to receive regular reminders. You can13000:12:21,780 –> 00:12:28,780also find a link to the podcast on our website. Back to the message now. Here again is Colin.13100:12:29,659 –> 00:12:36,659Behold your God. And then Isaiah says more than that as your beholding your God, focusing13200:12:37,539 –> 00:12:44,539particularly on this, look at his might. Look at his strength. Behold the Lord God comes13300:12:47,140 –> 00:12:54,140with might. And his arm rules for him. As the glory of the Lord is revealed, what do13400:12:55,700 –> 00:13:02,700we see? We see the strength of Almighty God. And how wonderful this is. You see it in The13500:13:03,700 –> 00:13:08,440Life of Jesus. How he endures temptation and opposition and the relentless demands of so13600:13:08,440 –> 00:13:13,080many people. You see it in the power that is demonstrated in his miracles. Bringing13700:13:13,080 –> 00:13:20,080the renewing of life to so many people. You see it in his death. As he suffers physically13800:13:20,419 –> 00:13:27,419and spiritually and emotionally. In every way. And he endures what is indescribable.13900:13:28,020 –> 00:13:35,020And you say, what strength carries that cross with a lacerated back, and endures all this,14000:13:35,219 –> 00:13:41,820and trusts God still. What kind of strength is that? But, you see this strength even more,14100:13:41,820 –> 00:13:48,820and supremely, in the power by which Jesus Christ raises himself from the dead. We quoted14200:13:50,460 –> 00:13:56,299last week the words of Jesus, he says, now, nobody takes my life from me. I’m the one14300:13:56,299 –> 00:14:01,059who has power to lay my life down. I’m the one who has power to take it up again. And14400:14:01,059 –> 00:14:07,200that’s what he did on the third day. The power by which he raises himself from the14500:14:07,200 –> 00:14:13,539dead. Look at his might. Behold, your God comes with might, that’s what Isaiah says.14600:14:13,539 –> 00:14:20,539Now, think what a saviour with power like that could do for you. See, here you are,14700:14:21,380 –> 00:14:28,380and there are things about yourself that you’ve not been able to change. You set out on this14800:14:28,659 –> 00:14:33,419year with resolutions and all the rest of it and how you were going to improve and how14900:14:33,419 –> 00:14:36,739you were going to be different and you’ve found that it’s more difficult than you thought.15000:14:36,739 –> 00:14:42,359You’ve found, as the Bible says, the leopard cannot change its spot. You tried the turning15100:14:42,359 –> 00:14:47,059over a new leaf kind of thing and you know that you cannot reinvent yourself. You need15200:14:47,059 –> 00:14:54,059a power that is greater than yourself. Now look, behold the Lord comes in might. The15300:14:55,859 –> 00:15:00,659glory of the Lord has been revealed. There is a savior who comes. He’s strong. Look at15400:15:00,659 –> 00:15:06,580His strong hands. He’s reaching out to you and if your life were to be in His strong15500:15:06,580 –> 00:15:13,580hands how different that life could be. Look at your God. Why in the world are you running15600:15:14,340 –> 00:15:21,340away from fighting against a God who has grace and mercy and love that is reaching out to15700:15:22,000 –> 00:15:29,000you as you see it in Jesus Christ? Look at his strength. What difference can come15800:15:31,559 –> 00:15:36,039to your life if your life, instead of being lived in isolation from Him, is placed into15900:15:36,039 –> 00:15:41,179His strong hands? The one who has the strength to raise himself from the dead and one day16000:15:41,440 –> 00:15:46,400he’ll raise you from the dead and bring you into His immediate presence. What16100:15:46,400 –> 00:15:53,400a savior! Behold look! And here’s the last thing. Look at His reward. The most16200:15:54,580 –> 00:16:01,580wonderful of all, I think. Behold his reward is with Him and His recompense before Him.16300:16:01,580 –> 00:16:08,580The word is with Him, and His recompense before Him. And what does that mean?16400:16:11,619 –> 00:16:15,179Here’s the thing that I found most helpful in all the reading I’ve done of commentators16500:16:15,179 –> 00:16:20,539and scholars and linguists. Alec Meteer, who I’ve quoted to you before, I think the greatest16600:16:20,539 –> 00:16:27,539living scholar on the book of Isaiah, translates it literally like this. Look! His wage is16700:16:28,419 –> 00:16:35,419with Him, and His work is before Him. Meteer says that’s the most literal translation you16800:16:35,460 –> 00:16:42,460can get of the Hebrew, look. His wage is with Him, and His work is before Him. So, we’re16900:16:48,520 –> 00:16:55,520being told here that Jesus Christ comes to do a work, and to earn a wage and that the17000:16:56,200 –> 00:17:03,200wage is with Him, and when He comes into the world, the work is before Him. What is the17100:17:04,280 –> 00:17:09,800work that is before Him? Let Jesus Himself answer that question for you. What does He17200:17:09,800 –> 00:17:15,180say about why He came into the world? Why this Christmas story? He says this, the Son17300:17:15,180 –> 00:17:21,979of Man has come to give His life as a ransom for many. Here’s the great work that was17400:17:22,079 –> 00:17:28,680before Him. Here’s the great reason for which He came into the world. He took our flesh17500:17:28,680 –> 00:17:34,699on that first Christmas. The cross was before Him. Becoming a sacrifice and a substitute17600:17:34,699 –> 00:17:40,400for sinners was before Him. This was the great work, paying the price, being the ransom.17700:17:40,400 –> 00:17:47,400The Son of Man has come to give His life as a ransom, to pay the price to buy back many17800:17:47,880 –> 00:17:54,880is what He says. If that is the work, what is the wage? Think about this. What is Christ17900:17:56,920 –> 00:18:03,920wants so much that He would leave heaven’s glory? What is Christ wants so much that He18000:18:04,760 –> 00:18:11,760would stoop to take the frailty of human flesh to Himself? What is Christ’s desire so intensely,18100:18:12,339 –> 00:18:19,339what is the reward that He has set His Heart upon that He would be ready to earn it through18200:18:19,380 –> 00:18:26,380an unspeakable suffering endured on the cross? And the answer is right there in verse 11.18300:18:28,439 –> 00:18:35,439He will tend what? His flock, like a shepherd. What does Jesus Christ get out of all that18400:18:36,439 –> 00:18:43,439He endured in this world? What are the wages that He so desired? Answer? A flock of dirty,18500:18:44,500 –> 00:18:51,500smelly sheep. That is why He came into the world, that is why He endured all that He18600:18:55,060 –> 00:19:02,060did. To secure for Himself the great reward of a flock that needs tending and gathering18700:19:02,140 –> 00:19:09,140and carrying and leading? You see Jesus says this Himself in words that you will know well18800:19:09,439 –> 00:19:13,719and they’re really just taken straight out of Isaiah in chapter 40. Jesus says, I am18900:19:13,719 –> 00:19:19,479the good shepherd. I’m the one that Isaiah was talking about and the good shepherd lays19000:19:19,479 –> 00:19:26,479down His life for the sheep. The flock are what I earn, the wages that I earn and the19100:19:26,479 –> 00:19:33,380wages that I earn and the way that they become mine and that I obtain them is that I do this19200:19:33,380 –> 00:19:37,199work of laying down my life on the Cross. I am the good shepherd and the good shepherd19300:19:37,199 –> 00:19:44,199lays down His life for the sheep. The flock are His wages. Brother and Sister in Jesus19400:19:45,839 –> 00:19:51,780Christ You are His reward. You are the reason that He came into the world and you can be19500:19:51,780 –> 00:19:58,300sure that having purchased every one of these sheep at such a cost He will tend and He will19600:19:58,300 –> 00:20:05,079gather and He will carry and He will gently lead every sheep in His flock. And Jesus says19700:20:05,079 –> 00:20:12,079about His flock I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch19800:20:12,760 –> 00:20:19,760them from my hand. The glory of the Lord is revealed in Jesus Christ. Now look at Him.19900:20:24,380 –> 00:20:31,400Behold your God. Look at His love and His mercy and His compassion and His grace and20000:20:31,979 –> 00:20:38,979ask yourself the question why am I still running from this God who reaches out to me with love20100:20:39,380 –> 00:20:46,380like this? Look at his strength and ask yourself the question, what can my life become if it20200:20:46,640 –> 00:20:53,640is wholly placed into the strong hands of this Savior? And look at His reward and say20300:20:53,719 –> 00:20:59,599what greater thing could there be in all of the world than to be one of His sheep? And20400:20:59,599 –> 00:21:05,900when you come to that conclusion you will want then to trust Him with your life. You’ll20500:21:06,459 –> 00:21:12,099want to worship Him with all that you have and all that you are, and you will want to20600:21:12,099 –> 00:21:19,099follow Him all of your days. And you will join with all of the other redeemed flock20700:21:19,520 –> 00:21:26,520of God, who say together at Christmas, come let us adore Him, because He is Christ and20800:21:27,160 –> 00:21:30,280He is the Lord. police20900:21:30,280 –> 00:21:34,479You’ve been listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and a message called Behold21000:21:34,479 –> 00:21:40,280Your God, it’s part of a larger series called Waiting for the Lord, based on Isaiah21100:21:40,280 –> 00:21:45,119chapter 40. And if you’ve missed any of the messages, you can easily catch up, or go back21200:21:45,119 –> 00:21:51,619and listen again online at our website, openthebible.org.uk, also on iTunes, and then order one or two21300:22:22,619 –> 00:22:24,020to talk about these topics.21400:22:24,020 –> 00:22:30,640There you’ll find topics such as the Lord is my shepherd, meet Jesus Part 1, 10 Distinctives21500:22:30,640 –> 00:22:35,560of a Gospel-Centered Church, and How you can Florish.21600:22:35,560 –> 00:22:42,060Each topic takes you to a series of sermons, including a video introduction to each. Again,21700:22:42,060 –> 00:22:50,020to find these resources go to openthebible.org.uk, and select the menu item, Sermons.21800:22:50,020 –> 00:22:55,640Open the Bible is able to stay on this station and the Internet and available as a podcast21900:22:55,640 –> 00:23:00,739because of the generous financial support of our listeners, that’s people like you,22000:23:00,739 –> 00:23:04,880and if you already give to support the work, thank you so much.22100:23:04,880 –> 00:23:08,900If supporting Open the Bible is something you want to start doing, this month we are22200:23:08,900 –> 00:23:11,560delighted to offer a free gift.22300:23:11,560 –> 00:23:16,880When you set up a New Direct Debit to the work of Open the Bible in the amount of £522400:23:16,880 –> 00:23:22,939per month or more or a one off gift of £50 or more, we’d love to say thank you by sending22500:23:22,939 –> 00:23:28,119you a free copy of Pastor Colin’s new book, Hike Through the Bible.22600:23:28,119 –> 00:23:31,719Colin, where did the idea of this book come from?22700:23:31,719 –> 00:23:37,680Well we have Fly Through the Bible for those who are looking for a place to begin, then22800:23:37,680 –> 00:23:41,040Drive Through the Bible obviously takes people a bit further.22900:23:41,040 –> 00:23:44,920but for everyone that wants to get serious about the Bible’s story,23000:23:44,920 –> 00:23:47,719Hike Through the Bible is for you.23100:23:47,719 –> 00:23:49,839I mean, this is where you get your boots on the ground23200:23:49,839 –> 00:23:54,359and really get to grips with what the Bible is all about,23300:23:54,359 –> 00:23:57,140and you’ll discover that the whole Bible is one story,23400:23:57,140 –> 00:24:01,839that the whole of it points to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,23500:24:01,839 –> 00:24:06,420and I wrote this for people who want to have a better grasp of the Bible.23600:24:06,420 –> 00:24:10,680I wrote it for people who want to have a deeper love for the Lord Jesus Christ23700:24:11,560 –> 00:24:15,579Just by way of encouragement, if you think that hiking sounds like hard work,23800:24:15,579 –> 00:24:18,199you can hike at a gentle pace.23900:24:18,199 –> 00:24:20,540This is fifty chapters,24000:24:20,540 –> 00:24:22,920and that’s designed so that you can do one a week –24100:24:22,920 –> 00:24:24,839a nice gentle hike through the Bible –24200:24:24,839 –> 00:24:26,939so that at the end of the year,24300:24:26,939 –> 00:24:30,099you really have grasped the Bible as a whole,24400:24:30,099 –> 00:24:34,400and you’ve got a clearer grip on what it is God is saying into your life.24500:24:34,400 –> 00:24:37,119Well, we’d love to send you Colin’s new book24600:24:37,119 –> 00:24:39,300when you set up a new direct debit24700:24:39,640 –> 00:24:41,680five pounds per month or more24800:24:41,680 –> 00:24:45,420or a one-off gift of 50 pounds or more this month.24900:24:45,420 –> 00:24:48,520Full terms and conditions online at our website25000:24:51,520 –> 00:24:53,300and you can give online.25100:24:53,380 –> 00:24:55,900Don’t forget to leave your name and address25200:24:55,900 –> 00:24:57,739so we can send you your gift.25300:24:58,339 –> 00:25:01,000For Open the Bible and Pastor Colin Smith,25400:25:01,000 –> 00:25:02,199I’m David Pick25500:25:02,199 –> 00:25:05,199and I look forward to being with you again next time.25600:25:09,939 –> 00:25:13,239David was far from perfect.25700:25:13,239 –> 00:25:16,699Discover what made him a man after God’s own heart25800:25:16,699 –> 00:25:19,500next time on Open The Bible