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P: Michael let me give you my biggest dad thought on the role of Sonship in his theology, and again I could be you know this is obviously everything is just my perspective but dad I'm the same way it's not any different in me. And I think you see some of this in Paul too. And you see a lot of people who are scholarly, is he would move from theme to theme in his life. And so he would sit on a theme and theme would kind of dominate everything.

So so his so and he would tend to move on to a new theme I mean I really think you see this pattern in Paul. I think that's one of the arguments for Ephesians and Colossians and Philemon that trio being in Rome, written in Rome, because it just, it presents it, it's a new set of ideas for Paul. #0:6:18.8#

P: It really becomes a dominant theme in in Ephesians and Colossians. In a way that it, you know Paul goes into the heavenlies you know in a way that he doesn't anywhere You know it's just, Ephesians is a, but but he that doesn't neglect justification by faith say in Ephesians but but he's in terms of sort of where he's it almost what he did with his theology was this universe he was expanding into just like in his travels he was expanding into new worlds.

It's just kind of a classic entrepreneurial, like in Meyers Briggs INTJ. INTJ you just this kind of pioneer explored, scientist think you know. Where you're constantly going to new horizons. #0:7:30.7#

P: That is dad. That is and there are few things that endure all the way through that.

Now and then there's the then there's the upper layer of what got published. And that doesn't always correlate to the the broad I mean it obviously is the same information.

Now why do I say that is Sonship as a theme only was one of those themes. And because it got, so if you looked at dad his whole life, he, in the, if I were to trace out in from 1970 to 1980 to 2000 Sonship emerged kind of, if you and you could find it in his preaching. #0:9:22.4#

P: If you looked at it. Sonship emerged in here, okay..... #0:9:33.1#

P: The the big theme you know here he had a bunch of overlapping themes, repentance was a very big theme in here. Repentance was a big theme. The age of the spirit was a very big theme. And he stopped talking about it. He didn't stop not believing it you know I mean like Paul. Do you want to pray for us Michael? #0:10:12.5#

P: Is this helpful to get do the the there are some themes that dominated all the way through his life and without question evangelism was was…

So evangelism was a just a huge theme that that that it was kind of the core that kind of everything the Paul's I could be wrong on some of this but his grace is for sinners the Luke grace theme, and it really was, he always returned to those as that that theme was is really dominant theme. And that grace is for sinners. I remember him saying if you come across his little thing that he said about reformed theology... #0:12:27.5#

P: Where someone forgot to put in the door. I think that's just absolutely hysterical. #0:12:33.2#

P: But we’ve built this huge castle of grace... #0:12:41.1#
P But someone forgot to put in the door. That's why Luke was such a big deal for dad. #0:12:44.5#

P: Because Luke was the door. Because that's where the... The reason I'm kind of I mean I could think through I would also say evangelism and missions together those were two of those and they're distinct themes.

They overlap for dad obviously because you do you know missions is about location, about dad was those were steady themes in his life you know.

Almost so you turn a seminary class into, you plant a church out of your seminary class.

Dad loved that kind of thing. He was also heavily into.. #0:13:59.0#

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