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🗓️ 28 July 2023
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Like Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, Christians are exiled servants of the King, eagerly awaiting His promised return. In this episode, R.C. Sproul presents this perspective as the remedy for pessimism in the Christian life.
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0:00.0 | There's very real points of similarity between Robin Hood |
0:03.0 | and the contemporary Christian. |
0:08.0 | How could they be Mary-Man? |
0:09.0 | They were stripped of their possessions, |
0:10.0 | stripped of their vocations, |
0:11.0 | had to live at forage in the forest. |
0:14.0 | They were happy because they knew who they were. |
0:17.0 | They were faithful to their king who was absent. |
0:24.0 | One of my favorite stories when I was a child. |
0:27.0 | Back to it was a story that so captivated me, though. |
0:29.0 | I used to play games with my childhood friends, |
0:32.0 | where we would dress up in uniform |
0:34.0 | that we would create up out of our rag bags at home, |
0:37.0 | cut capes and things like that. |
0:39.0 | And we would play Robin Hood. |
0:43.0 | And one of us would be Robin Hood, |
0:44.0 | and somebody else would be Will Scarlet, |
0:46.0 | and somebody else would be Little John and Friartuck, |
0:48.0 | and Alan Adale and Minstrel, and so on. |
0:50.0 | And we had great fun playing Robin Hood, |
0:52.0 | because the movie that captivated us |
0:54.0 | for any other movie was this one that was called |
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