The Heavenly City – The City E13

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In the Bible, cities have a bad reputation as centers of immorality and unrighteous living. First-century followers of Jesus continued to live in cities, but they lived by an other-worldly ethic set by Jesus. Their way of living was so different that Jesus’ followers began to talk about their citizenship being primarily in a coming heavenly city, rather than the physical city in which they lived. In this episode, join Jon and Tim as they wrap up our theme study of the city.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John at Bible Project.
0:02.4	I'm here to let you know that we've got a new video coming out on the theme of the city.
0:06.8	It is premiering on Monday, July 24th on our YouTube channel at 7am Pacific time.
0:13.3	And you can actually join us live watching the premiere of the video.
0:17.1	During the premiere, we'll share a bit more about the video and some behind the scenes of making the video.
0:22.7	We'd love for you to be there.
0:24.1	If you can't make the premiere, it's also just really helpful to watch the video
0:27.5	within the first few days of it being released.
0:30.0	That's just how the YouTube algorithm likes to do it.
0:33.3	So if you're on YouTube, check out the city premiering July 24th.
0:38.6	Here's today's episode.
0:44.5	Today we wrap up our discussions on the theme of the city.
0:47.6	In the Bible, the first city is founded by a murderer on the run,
0:51.3	wanting to protect himself from others.
0:53.4	The origin of cities comes from this human rationale of fear of death.
0:58.1	Cain's city has a wall to keep others out and uses the threat of violence to keep peace.
1:03.9	The desired preserve life in a land of scarcity and death creates a city with walls
1:10.7	where peace and prosperity is secured at the cost of human lives.
1:14.9	When Jesus shows up announcing the Kingdom of God,
1:17.6	He gives a vision for a new type of city.
1:20.8	A city that's run by a different logic, a city based on the trust of God's abundance
1:26.0	and provision of eternal life.
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