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VBS 2026 - "Unity of Scripture" by Chris Young - Part 4 · Cumberland Trace Church of Christ (Formerly Lehman Ave Church of Christ)

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Good evening.
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Certainly appreciate everyone being here tonight.
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Appreciate folks coming all the way from Africa to be in my class tonight.
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Very complimentary. Just a few announcements.
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This is Wednesday evening. We typically do announcements on Wednesday evenings. And I'm
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not sure it would be scriptural if we didn't, so we'll do that. We want
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to certainly extend our sympathies to Amanda Loden and her family
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during the loss of her father, Jeffrey Hogue, who passed
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away Monday, July 13th.
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The Wynn Funeral Home will be where the visitation in Horse Cave
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will be. That starts tomorrow from 4 to 8, and then Friday
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will be the funeral. Visitation will start at 8 o'clock on Friday
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until the time of the service at 11 o'clock. Also,
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Lorvetta Dillard received her recent PET scan results,
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which revealed tumors in her pancreas and liver.
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She's chosen not to seek treatment, so please continue to pray
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for her strength and all those that are on our
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prayer list. So I wanted to make sure we communicated those, those announcements.
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All right, let's start in Mark chapter 9 tonight.
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Mark chapter 9. I want to thank those who taught
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the class before me this week.
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We've looked at a lot of interesting things, I believe.
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I want to thank Bill for his presentation on the consistency
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of Scripture and archaeology,
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for Dale, who, his predictive
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prophecies, And then also, Joey last
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night with the scientific consistencies of Scripture.
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And tonight, what we're going to be looking at, my assignment is the unity,
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you call it unity or you can call it harmony of the
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Scriptures with itself. And so, that's what we're going to
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look at tonight. Start in Mark chapter 9
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and let's go down to verse 24. The context
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here, Jesus had just healed a young boy, and his father
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makes a comment here in verse 24 of Mark chapter 9. He says,
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Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears,
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Lord, I believe; help my
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unbelief. Lord, I believe;
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help my unbelief. Do we ever find ourselves
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there? We call ourselves believers.
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We do believe, but sometimes there's
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a little bit of seed of doubt maybe creep in.
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And so, we also have to say, Lord, I believe,
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but help my unbelief. I think that's
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only natural that from time to time,
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little pebbles of doubt might creep into our minds
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And I think hopefully this week has been an encouragement to you,
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not only as you study the Scriptures,
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but also as you talk to others, what we've learned about
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the archaeological consistencies of Scripture, the prophecies
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and how they've come to be, and then also the scientific
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consistencies. Well, tonight, again, we're going to be
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looking at Scripture as a whole, and the unity
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or harmony that's part of that. Let's go over
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to a couple more Scriptures here. Let's go to 2 Peter
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chapter 1, 2 Peter chapter 1,
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and let's look at verses 20 and 21,
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2 Peter chapter 1, verses 20 and 21.
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Here Peter writes, Knowing this first, that no prophecy
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of Scripture is of any private interpretation,
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for prophecy never came by the will of man,
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but holy men of God, as they were moved by
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the Holy Spirit. The second one I'd like
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for us to take a look at is 2 Timothy 3,
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2 Timothy 3, And Paul
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writing to Timothy here, starting in verse 10 of chapter
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3 of 2 Timothy, Paul writes, But you
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have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of
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life, purpose, faith,
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longsuffering, love, perseverance,
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persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me
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at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra,
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What persecutions I endured! And out of them all the Lord delivered
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me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in
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Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse,
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deceiving and being deceived. But you,
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talking to Timothy, must continue in the things which you have
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learned and been assured of, knowing from whom
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you have learned them, And that from childhood you have known the Holy
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Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation
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through faith which is in Christ Jesus. I want
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you to particularly notice verse 16, all Scripture
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is given by inspiration of God
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and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
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for instruction in righteousness. Look at verse 16,
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the first part of verse 16 again, all Scripture is
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given by inspiration of
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God. I think a lot
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of times we'll gloss over that Scripture and not really capture
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what's being said, not realizing what's being said.
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All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. Do we believe that?
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If that's really at the forefront of our minds and
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of our hearts, and we're really honed
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in on that, knowing that what we have
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here is from God to
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us, from God to
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us, if we really believed
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it, And if we really thought about that,
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would we treat the Bible as we do now? Would we study
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more? Would we be into the Scriptures more?
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All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.
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It's profitable, and it gives all the ways that it's profitable.
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So that's something to think about. Do tonight is talk
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about how it's obvious that
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this book that we have numerous copies
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of, we're very blessed people that we have ready
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access to Scripture, to what God is
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communicating to us, we're going
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to show how it's obviously inspired.
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I realize you probably believe that it is,
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but we may be talking to people on a daily basis
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that may not believe that. There's a lot of people out
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there that think, you know, this is a really good book.
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It's like classic literature. It's like
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Shakespeare or some great works of literary accomplishment.
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But this is more than that. This is special.
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This is from God. And so, that's what we're
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going to look at tonight, and the unity and the harmony of
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Scripture. We've looked at harmony with archaeology.
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We've looked at harmony with the prophecies. We've looked at harmony with scientific
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exploration.
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Tonight, we're going to look at harmony of the Bible with itself.
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Apologetics Press, Eric Lyons wrote an article.
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It was in the book that Neil gave us to use as
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a guide for these classes. I don't
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think anybody's used this one yet, so I'm going to go ahead and read
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this illustration to give you an idea of
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how difficult it would be to pull off what's
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been— by humans to pull off what what we have
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here, okay, without God being involved.
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Here's a story that Eric Lyons wrote as an illustration.
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You have been given a very challenging task: help
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write a 1,000-page book on human health
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and nutrition with 39 other people.
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The publishers of the book would like for it to become
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the best-selling most trusted and complete book in the world
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on eating healthy. It should be accurate about
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everything. Is chocolate good or bad for you?
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Is cow's milk harmful or helpful? Is it okay
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to eat large amounts of pork? And what about
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sugar? This is about eating healthy. Speaking of which,
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it is perfectly fine as far as nutrition is concerned
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to occasionally have a Papa John's pizza. They're really good.
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It's also very acceptable to have
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Baskin-Robbins ice cream with an extra
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scoop. But don't do that within 15 minutes of each other,
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okay? And don't ask me how I know that. The book needs
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to be perfectly consistent without contradictions,
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as well as in harmony with all scientific facts, whether known or currently
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unknown. The publishers want to print a resource that
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can stand up to all manner of inspection. They want a book that
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will stand the test of time and be helpful to people for the next
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2,000 years, if Jesus has not returned by then.
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As if the job does not sound difficult enough, the publishers also inform
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you that the chosen authors of the book have a lot
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of differences. Several writers are from the United
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States, but some are also from Canada,
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Mexico, and Brazil.
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Most speak English, but some speak Spanish,
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and 2 speak Portuguese. There are a number
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of cultural differences among the writers, including their diets,
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and only a few of the chosen authors know
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much about nutrition. To top it all off,
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there is no financial gain working on such a difficult project.
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No one will get a paycheck. Everything is being done
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for the good of humanity.
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Could we pull that off? Is that possible?
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Is it humanly possible? Is it humanly
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possible for even 2 or 3 writers
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writing about the same subject to be consistent?
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Without contradiction, to make it last for
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thousands of years, to be— continue to be relevant?
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That's what we're going to talk about tonight. We're going
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to look at some things with Scripture that makes it obvious that
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it is united, there is harmony,
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and that it has to come from God.
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When we think about the various— well,
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let's look at the time period. What kind of time period are
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we looking at here in Scripture? It's a period over approximately
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1,600 years. You had Moses who
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penned the books that he wrote roughly
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around 1,500 BC. You had
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Isaiah come along a few hundred years later around 700
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BC. And then you've got Malachi around 400
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BC. And then you have the writings of the New Testament,
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which were roughly between 50 AD and 100 AD.
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So, if you do the math, you're talking about a span of
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1,600 years for 40 individuals,
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40 individuals to write 66
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books that comprise the
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book that you have, okay, the Bible.
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So think about that, over 1,600 years,
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which is approximately 40 generations.
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But then also add to that,
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who are the writers? Are the writers in
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sync with one another? Well,
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they're in different time periods, but what about their
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backgrounds? What kind of background does each of these writers have?
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Is it consistent with one another? Well, I think we
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could safely say that the writers of Scripture that
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God used came from various backgrounds.
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What about Moses? What was his background?
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You can talk, by the way. It's okay. Pharaoh's house.
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Okay, so he was a political leader trained in Egypt,
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right? Okay. Who are some
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others? How does that compare with,
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say, several hundred years later, an author of,
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you know, let's say Peter. Fisherman.
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Peter have much education? Probably not,
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okay? What about Amos?
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Herdsman.
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Joshua? Military guy, right?
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Nehemiah? What was his profession?
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Cupbearer, cupbearer to the king of Persia. What about Daniel?
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Daniel, prime minister in the courts of Babylon.
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You have one that wrote 2 books of the New Testament,
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Luke. What about him?
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Physician, doctor, right.
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Solomon, a philosopher, you might say, a king.
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What about Matthew?
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Tax collector. The IRS,
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basically. What about Paul?
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Well-educated, Pharisee of Pharisees.
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But he also worked with his hands, didn't he? Tentmaker.
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Okay. So I think it becomes very clear that
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not only was this book authored over a period of 1,600
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years, by 40 individuals over
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a long period of time, but they are from very
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diverse backgrounds, very diverse backgrounds.
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What about the circumstances they were in?
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Okay, you had Paul, you know, he wrote some while
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in prison, had the prison epistles, Ephesians,
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Colossians, Help me
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out here, Philemon, I think. Philippians, Philippians, there you go,
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thank you. Okay,
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Luke while traveling. What about John? What was his situation when he wrote
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the book of Revelation? Exile,
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island of Patmos, right? Okay, so we have
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a diversity of authors, diversity of backgrounds,
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diversity of You know, times,
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diversity of location, okay,
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3 continents at that time, Asia, Africa,
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and Europe, languages, 3 languages,
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Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek,
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diversity of subject matter, okay.
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So I think it becomes pretty clear that This
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comes from God. This comes from God. Okay,
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uh, let's see here. And it's organized
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so well. Of course, you know, man has done the chapter breaks and
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kind of organized some of this. It's not necessarily in chronological order,
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but, you know, you have history and law. You also have a diversity
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in writing styles, right? You have law
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and history. You also have,
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let's see, what else do we have? Poetry, we have
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poetry, okay? We even have apocalyptic literature
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that we see in the book of, primarily in the book of Revelation, but also
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here and there in some other books as well,
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basically communicating in signs and symbols like
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the book of Revelation. We also have
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a situation where we're promised that we're
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going to have these Scriptures, the longevity,
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we'll have this whenever Christ returns. If you go to Revelation chapter
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12, you don't have to go there, but if you go to Revelation chapter
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12, what you're going to see in John's
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writing there in that apocalyptic language
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or literature that he employs there, Meaning,
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it's in signs and symbols. You're going
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to see there that Satan tried to conquer
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Christ. Didn't work,
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will not work, okay?
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Satan will also try to
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conquer us. It makes it very clear. He may or
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may not, that's going to depend upon us, right?
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But he says, Satan also tries
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to conquer and wipe out the church.
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That's not going to happen. We're told that's not going to happen,
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okay? There's something else that's not going to happen.
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Go to 1 Peter chapter— let's go to
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1 Peter chapter 1, back in 1 Peter.
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We'll go back there for just a minute. 1 Peter chapter
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1, and let's look
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at verses 22 through 25.
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This is one of the things that's so special. You know,
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books come and books go. You know, there'll be a book that's out
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on the market for a while, and then, You know, it fades away.
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But look at what we're told about Scripture,
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starting in verse 22, since you have purified your souls in obeying the
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truth through the Spirit and sincere love of the brethren, love one
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another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed,
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but incorruptible, through the Word of God,
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which lives and abides, how long?
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Forever. Forever, because— now,
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look at the unity of Scripture here. He quotes Isaiah
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chapter 40 right here, Peter does.
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All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as
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the flower of the grass. The grass withers,
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and its flower falls away. Now remember, he's quoting somebody
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from hundreds of years before, He says,
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but the Word of the Lord endures!
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He puts an exclamation point on here, endures forever!
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Okay? Christ's church will
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endure. God's Word will also endure.
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It's what makes it unique, makes it special,
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okay, one of the things, okay? And again, that's a quote
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from Isaiah 40:8. Showing that
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unity, okay?
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So, unity of God's Word,
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the fact that it's so harmonious even among 66 books,
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okay? A few other areas that shows the unity of
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Scripture. There's a unity of the overall
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theme of this book, okay?
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If I were to ask you,
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the Old Testament, what is, in one sentence,
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what is the overall theme of Genesis
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to Malachi of the Old Testament?
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Christ is coming. A Savior is coming. Okay?
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Absolutely. Okay?
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If I were to ask you, okay, Let's go to the New
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Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the Gospels.
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What's the overall theme in one sentence of
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? Christ came,
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right? He was here. What is the overall
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theme, Acts to Revelation?
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He's coming back, okay?
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That's how you boil it down.
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Unity of theme. Now, that's communicated within
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the Law. It's communicated within the prophecies.
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It's communicated within the Gospels.
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It's communicated within letters to
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individuals. It's communicated in letters to churches.
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It's communicated to the 7 churches of Asia
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in an apocalyptic manner.
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That is the unity of the
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Scripture, the whole Scripture authored over 1,600 years by
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40 individuals through God, by God,
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okay? You also have another
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area, unity of God's instructions.
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There's consistency there. If you take a
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subject, let's say, lying,
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for instance, okay? There is harmony,
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there's unity of Scripture there. Let's take a
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look at that. Go to Exodus chapter 20,
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Exodus chapter 20 and verse
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16,
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Acts chapter 20 and verse 16.
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What's going on in Exodus 20:16?
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We're in the midst of the 10 Commandments, right? What's verse
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16 say? Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor. In other words,
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don't be lying about your neighbor, okay? Don't be doing that.
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So that was written somewhere around 1450 BC.
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Well, let's go 500 years later and see what Solomon has
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to say about it. In Proverbs chapter 12.
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Proverbs chapter 12, and let's go down to
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verse 17. Here Solomon writes,
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He who speaks truth declares righteousness,
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but a false witness deceit. There is one who speaks
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like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health.
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The truthful A true lip shall be established
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forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
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Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but counselors of
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peace have joy. No grave trouble will overtake the
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righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil. Lying lips
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are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully
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are his delight. So, what Solomon pens
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there sounds like right on track with what we saw
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in Exodus chapter 20. Alright, let's go about 1,000
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years later and see what Paul has to say on the subject.
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Ephesians chapter 4, Ephesians chapter
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4, and let's go down to about verse 25.
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Here Paul writes, therefore putting away lying, Let each
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of you speak truth with his neighbor,
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for we are members of one another.
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So, there's harmony and unity in God's instructions,
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and that's an example. It's other things too,
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murder, you know, just pick, and it's consistent
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throughout Scripture. There's also unity
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and consistency as it pertains to historical
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accounts. If you look at, you know,
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those rulers that Paul was in front of, it lines up perfectly
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with actual history, okay?
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Another area I'd like for us to look at as far as example
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of unity of Scripture, this is probably one
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of my favorites. And let's
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go to Genesis chapter 2. Let's kind of go toward the beginning
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there, Genesis chapter 2.
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All right, let's go down to about verse
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8. What I want us to look at here is
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the unity of the end of human history
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with the beginning of human history, okay?
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So, what's going on here? In Genesis chapter 2,
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finishing up creation, right? In chapter
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2, man is created.
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See verse 4, he says, this is the history of the heavens and the earth
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when they were created. And if you go down
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to verse 8, there's a few things I'd like
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for you to particularly notice. Starting in
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verse 8, it says, the Lord God after He'd made
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man here, planted a garden eastward in Eden,
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and there He put the man whom He had formed.
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And out of the ground, the Lord God made every tree grow
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that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.
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The tree of life,
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keep that in mind. You can even mark it if you want to. The tree
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of life, okay, pay particular attention to that,
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was also in the midst of the garden,
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and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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Verse 10, now a river, remember that,
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river, okay? So remember tree of life,
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remember river. Now a river went out of Eden to
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water the garden. And from there it parted
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and became 4 riverheads. Okay?
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Remember tree of life, remember river.
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Let's see,
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go down to— let's go
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down to verse 15. Then the
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Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden.
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To tend and keep it. And the Lord God
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commanded the man, saying, of every tree
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of the garden you may freely eat, but of the
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tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in
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the day that you eat of it you shall surely
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What happens? Chapter 3 happens,
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right? Chapter 3 happens. Is chapter
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3— is that a good thing? Chapter 3,
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disobedience.
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And you're going to see some words as a result of
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this sin that has now entered the world.
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Sin has now entered the world. Man has become disobedient,
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and as a result, there are some words you are going to see.
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Look at verse 16 of chapter 3,
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because you have done this, you are cursed. You see the word
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cursed. If you go on down,
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He talks— He is talking to the serpent there, then He talks
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to the woman. And the curse.
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Then to Adam, about verse 17,
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cursed is the ground for your sake. Okay?
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You see all that? Cursed. Remember that word,
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cursed. Go down to verse 23,
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therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of
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Eden to till the ground from which he
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was taken. Verse 24,
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remember this, so he drove out the man,
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remember that, and he placed cherubim
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at the east of the Garden of Eden with a flaming sword
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which turned every way to guard the way to the
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tree of life. Okay, remember,
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They've been banished from the garden, no access
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to the tree of life. Remember that.
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Go all the way back, to the back of
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your Bible, to Revelation chapter 21.
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Revelation chapter 21.
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We're going to get a description of heaven.
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Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and
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the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea.
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Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem,
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coming down out of heaven from God.
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Prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice
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from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
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men. Look at this. He will dwell with them,
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and they shall be His people. God Himself
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will be with them and be their God.
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And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes,
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There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
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There shall be no more pain, for the former things
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have passed away. Look at this wording in verse
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5, then He who sat on the throne said,
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behold, I make all things new.
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Why is He making things new? Because of Genesis
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chapter 3 when man gommed everything up.
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Sin comes into the world. He's going to make
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everything new. And he said to me, write, for these
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words are true and faithful.
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Go over to chapter 22. As he continues this description,
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look at the wording that's used and notice the
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harmony and the unity as
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he concludes human history here,
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the end of human history, and ties it to the beginning.
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Look at the wording that's used here and see if you notice
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anything. Hint,
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maybe something we've just read, okay?
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Chapter 22, verse 1, And He showed me
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a pure river of water,
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where did we hear that? Genesis chapter 2,
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of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from
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the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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In the middle of its street, and on either side of
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the river, was the tree of life.
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Where have we heard about that tree of life? Genesis chapter 2
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at the beginning. Which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding
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its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were
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for the healing of the nations. And there shall be
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no more, what? Curse.
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No more curse. Where do we hear about curse?
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Genesis chapter 3, right? And the throne
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of God and of the Lamb shall be
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in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
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They shall see His face.
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Whose face? God, okay?
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Remember, they were driven out.
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Sin will separate you
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from God. In the end,
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all the effects of sin— remember, all things made new?
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All the effects of sin are going to be gone. No effects
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of sin in heaven.
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They shall see His face, and His name
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shall be on their forehead. There shall be no night
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there. They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord
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God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and
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ever. So here,
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talking about unity of Scripture,
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John is linking up the end of human history
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with the beginning that we saw in Genesis chapter 2 and
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3.
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Humans by themselves cannot pull this off.
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Absolutely no way. Absolutely no way.
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Period of 1,600 years, 40 individuals
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being used that spoke 3 languages,
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from 3 different continents over
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a period of about 40 generations, and you
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will not find a book anywhere that links
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up and harmonizes like
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Scripture does. And what we've been promised,
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just like the church will be here, When Christ
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returns, so will this. So,
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when we think about that, the fact that
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this 66 books, it's a letter to me
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and it's a letter to you from God.
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If we keep that at the forefront of our minds,
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I don't think we'll be leaving the book on the shelf. We'll be
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getting in it. And we'll be learning from it and we'll be doing
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what it says. I appreciate,
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again, Bill and Dale and Joey
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and the way they've— the way they showed that.
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But they did an outstanding job. And between
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that and the way you see the unity of the Bible,
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surely, There's no doubt who
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this book is from. Any comments or anything
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anybody else wants to make? I've done pretty much all the talking. Yes, sir.
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Chris, it's interesting that when Jesus was
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tempted 3 times, he said,
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it is written. Yeah. Satan knows the Word. Right.
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He misuses it, uses it, but Jesus
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That's all he had to say. Right. We can say
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the same thing. Absolutely. Others say the same thing. Absolutely.
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The Word of God does. Sword of the Spirit. That's right. That's right.
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You know, it talks about the sword of the Spirit. That's what Scripture is.
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Anything else? All right. Thank you
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all for your attention. I think I was
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told you're supposed to be in here quietly until the children come back.
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But you can talk if you want to, I think. All right.
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Thank you.