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1 Timothy 1:1-11 - An Introduction to the Letters to Timothy · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: How to their faith. Listeners, Welcome to the Bible Explain Podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: On this very cold morning, We're in a brand new
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  Speaker 1: book of the Bible today, First Timothy, and I am
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  Speaker 1: super excited to get into this book. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorites. So we'll talk about the history of First
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  Speaker 1: Timothy and also get into the meat of why Paul
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  Speaker 1: wrote this letter. In today's episode, I am looking out
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  Speaker 1: my window right now and I have about five inches
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  Speaker 1: of snow out there. I do have to say though,
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  Speaker 1: it's very sticky snow, so it actually looks really pretty
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  Speaker 1: because it covers the branches of every single tree and
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  Speaker 1: it just actually looks pretty amazing. But I had to
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  Speaker 1: light a fire for the first time this season, and
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, I guess winter is upon us. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and read First Timothy one one through eleven. I've
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  Speaker 1: got my cup of hot coco here because I needed
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  Speaker 1: it today, So grab your cup of coffee or cocoa
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  Speaker 1: or tea to share with me. Let's a goad and
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  Speaker 1: read First Timothy one one through eleven, and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into what First Timothy is and why Paul wrote this letter.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be reading from the web. Paul an Apostle of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God, our Savior
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord Jesus Christ. Our hope to Timothy, my
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  Speaker 1: true child, in faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God
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  Speaker 1: our Father and Christ, Jesus our Lord. As I urged
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  Speaker 1: you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus,
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  Speaker 1: that you might command certain men not to teach a
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  Speaker 1: different doctrine and not to pay attention to myths and
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  Speaker 1: endless genealogies which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which
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  Speaker 1: is in faith. But the goal of this command is
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  Speaker 1: to love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and
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  Speaker 1: sincere faith, from which things. Some having missed the mark,
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  Speaker 1: have turned away to vain talking, desiring to be teachers
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  Speaker 1: of the law, though they understand neither what they say
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  Speaker 1: nor about what they strongly affirm. But we know that
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  Speaker 1: the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,
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  Speaker 1: as knowing this, that law is not made for a
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  Speaker 1: righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the
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  Speaker 1: godly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers
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  Speaker 1: of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers, for
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  Speaker 1: the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars,
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  Speaker 1: for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the
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  Speaker 1: sound doctrine according to the Good News of the Glory
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  Speaker 1: of the Blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
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  Speaker 1: The Book of First Timothy was written by Paul specifically
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  Speaker 1: to Timothy, who, as you guys remember, was one of
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  Speaker 1: Paul's I guess disciples. In a way, he always traveled
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  Speaker 1: around with Paul. But now Paul is leaving Timothy in
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  Speaker 1: the area of Ephesus and commanding Timothy to stay there,
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  Speaker 1: probably because Paul knew that Timothy was both old enough
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  Speaker 1: and mature enough in spiritual things to go to Ephesus
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  Speaker 1: and teach the people there what they really should do. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this was one of the last books that Paul ever wrote.
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  Speaker 1: This been written right before Paul was arrested for the
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  Speaker 1: second time during his fourth missionary journey, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: know the location of where Paul was when he wrote this.
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  Speaker 1: But a few things about this letter are very different
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  Speaker 1: than Paul's other letters to the churches. You'll notice as
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  Speaker 1: we read this that this letter is very informal as
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  Speaker 1: compared to the other letters, and This has caused some
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  Speaker 1: people to question whether or not this letter is actually
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  Speaker 1: written by Paul, But most theologians believe that this letter
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  Speaker 1: was written by Paul, and the fact that it sounds
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  Speaker 1: a little bit differently was either because Paul was using
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  Speaker 1: a different scribe and allowed that scribe to take more
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  Speaker 1: creative freedom, or because Paul himself was speaking more informally
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  Speaker 1: to Timothy, being that they were on much closer terms
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  Speaker 1: than Paul was with the other churches around the area.
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  Speaker 1: But also some people think that Paul's scribe was actually
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  Speaker 1: Luke himself, because if you turned to two Timothy four,
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  Speaker 1: Paul actually says, the only person that is here with
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  Speaker 1: me is Luke. And we know that Luke himself was
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  Speaker 1: a scribe, author, historian, and doctor. Like he was a
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  Speaker 1: very well educated man, and so it could be that
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  Speaker 1: Luke was the one ascribing this letter for Paul, and
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  Speaker 1: Paul actually gave Luke some creative liberties in a way
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  Speaker 1: to make Luke's writing actually shine through a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. But the entire point of this letter,
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  Speaker 1: both First and two Timothy, is that Paul entrusts Timothy
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  Speaker 1: on a very special mission to Ephesus to make sure
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  Speaker 1: the church there continues to thrive because it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: there were some serious problems potentially beginning to happen in Ephesus. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when Paul wrote the letter to the Ephesian Church, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't mention any particular sins that the Ephesians were doing.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the Book of Ephesians is kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a summary of the God Gospel, and it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the few churches Paul writes to where he doesn't correct
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  Speaker 1: any specific problem the church is undergoing, I guess. But
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  Speaker 1: here in One Timothy we find out that the Ephesian
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  Speaker 1: Church did have problems the same as any other church
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  Speaker 1: that has ever existed, because you know, the church is
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  Speaker 1: made up of human people, and humans sin and fall
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  Speaker 1: short all the time. So the Ephesian Church was going
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  Speaker 1: through quite a few problems, mostly related to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the Jewish ideologies. Okay, So whenever we see Paul
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  Speaker 1: writing a letter to a church where he's correcting something,
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  Speaker 1: he's often correcting like Roman cultural problems or Greek cultural problems,
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  Speaker 1: or pagan religion that is kind of infiltrating the church,
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  Speaker 1: or he's correcting the Judaizers who are legalists coming in
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  Speaker 1: claiming the only way to be holy is to follow
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament laws of circumcision and eating specific types
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  Speaker 1: of food and avoiding other types of food. So basically,
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  Speaker 1: Paul was dealing with pagan ideology or people who believe
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  Speaker 1: themselves to be very holy. And it's so funny that
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  Speaker 1: Paul was dealing with the exact same problems that you
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  Speaker 1: and I and every other Christian deals with today. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like the two things Christians always have to counteract
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  Speaker 1: are cultural pagan ideologies coming into the church or legalists
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  Speaker 1: coming into the church adding a whole bunch of stuff
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  Speaker 1: to the Bible and expecting people to follow them and
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  Speaker 1: their words. So the same exact things are happening now
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  Speaker 1: that Paul was dealing with back in his day. So
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  Speaker 1: he says to Timothy in verse three, as I urged you,
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  Speaker 1: when I was going to Macedonia stay at Ephesus, that
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  Speaker 1: you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: So it kind of sounds here that one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why Paul was writing this letter was because Timothy
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  Speaker 1: did not want to stay at Fhay. He wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go to Macedonia with Paul. But Paul's like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: once again urge you to stay at Ephesus. And you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine why Timothy wanted to travel with Paul, because
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  Speaker 1: he always did before. It was something that was comfortable
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  Speaker 1: to him. Maybe as a young man, Timothy was concerned
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  Speaker 1: being in Ephesis alone. Maybe he was scared that people
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't listen to him because of his age. We do
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  Speaker 1: know that Timothy was a very young man, possibly in
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  Speaker 1: his late teen's early twenties when he was in Ephesus alone.
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  Speaker 1: So you can imagine a young man might be very
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  Speaker 1: concerned going off on his own for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: especially as a teacher of the gospel message. But Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: you are ready, I am leaving you in Ephesus, and
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  Speaker 1: I want you to stay there because I want you
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that these men are not teaching a
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  Speaker 1: different doctrine to all these Ephesians. He says, don't pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to myths and endless genealogies which cause disputes, rather
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  Speaker 1: than God's stewardship, which is in faith. So since the
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  Speaker 1: Ephesian Church was dealing more with judaizers coming in like
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  Speaker 1: legalistic people, which, by the way, if you guys don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the word legalistic is referring to that is
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  Speaker 1: a religious type of person that is very focused on
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  Speaker 1: laws and rules and regulations. So legalistic church might be
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  Speaker 1: one that tells all of their people, you have to
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  Speaker 1: dress a certain way every single Sunday. You can't wear this,
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  Speaker 1: you can't wear that, you can't listen to certain types
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  Speaker 1: of music because they are unholy. You can't eat certain
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  Speaker 1: types of food because they're unholy. So that might be
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  Speaker 1: a legalistic type of church. And that was what was
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  Speaker 1: happening with the Ephesians here, and apparently these legalizers were
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  Speaker 1: coming in and just confusing the people with all of
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  Speaker 1: these myths and endless genealogies, is what Paul calls them. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you turn to Titus chapter one, Paul says something
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  Speaker 1: very similar in this letter. In verse fourteen, it says,
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  Speaker 1: don't pay attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men
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  Speaker 1: who have turned away from the truth. So most likely
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  Speaker 1: when Paul is talking to Timothy about these myths and
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  Speaker 1: endless genealogies, he's likely referring to Jewish myths and Jewish genealogies. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: there have been Jewish writings that have been found that
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  Speaker 1: show the most like complicated genealogies and like tie these
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  Speaker 1: genealogies and these specific people in these genealogies to like
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories of some sort or like religious biases where
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  Speaker 1: they say, like, oh, because this person has this genealogy,
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  Speaker 1: he is way way more holy than you know, this
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  Speaker 1: person with this genealogy over here. So this was the
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  Speaker 1: type of mindset Timoth he was dealing with in Ephesus,
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  Speaker 1: was just this like complex weird disputes and myths and
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  Speaker 1: genealogies that the legalizers were bringing in trying to complicate
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  Speaker 1: things and essentially saying that Jesus's grace is not enough.
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  Speaker 1: If you have a certain genealogy, then you're holier than
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  Speaker 1: somebody else, or if you follow the Old Testament laws,
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  Speaker 1: then you are certainly holier than the person who doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: They were saying, Jesus's grace is not enough for you.
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  Speaker 1: You need something more. You need the Old Testament laws,
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  Speaker 1: and you need to follow them to a t to
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  Speaker 1: truly be right with Jesus. And Paul goes into that
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  Speaker 1: in verse five. The goal of this command is love
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  Speaker 1: from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
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  Speaker 1: from which some having missed the mark have turned away
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  Speaker 1: to vain talking. Essentially, Paul is going back to what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said about the law. The law is summed up
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  Speaker 1: by love God first, and then love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Those two commands are the most important in the entire law,
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  Speaker 1: and all of the other laws are essentially summed up
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  Speaker 1: with those two commands. Love God, love other people. The
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  Speaker 1: goal of the command is to love from a pure heart,
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  Speaker 1: a good conscience, and sincere faith. It's really interesting, actually
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  Speaker 1: that Paul mentions a good conscience, because Greek people, especially,
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  Speaker 1: we're very concerned with good consciences. And since Paul is
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  Speaker 1: writing a letter to Timothy, who is a man of
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  Speaker 1: both Greek and Jewish descent, not to mention that this
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  Speaker 1: letter would also be read by both Jewish and Gentile Christians.
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  Speaker 1: Paul includes something that is very important to Gentile Christians,
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  Speaker 1: which is a good conscience, and something very important to
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  Speaker 1: Jewish Christians, which was a pure heart. So Paul really
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  Speaker 1: knows his audience. He's very good at that, and he
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  Speaker 1: says some people have turned away from this commandment to
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  Speaker 1: vain talking. That would be the endless genealogies and myths
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  Speaker 1: that the Jewish people were spreading along with all the legalism.
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  Speaker 1: He says in verse seven, they desire to be teachers
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  Speaker 1: of the law, though they understand neither what the laws
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  Speaker 1: say nor what they strongly affirm. These people desperately want
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  Speaker 1: to be teachers because of the glory and fame they
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to bring them. But they don't even
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  Speaker 1: know the laws that they want to teach. They don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they say, They don't understand what they affirm.
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  Speaker 1: They don't understand the commands of love God first and
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  Speaker 1: love your neighbor as yourself. They just don't understand these things.
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  Speaker 1: They come in saying you have to follow these laws
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  Speaker 1: to a t in order to be right with God.
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  Speaker 1: But that is not what these laws say. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of the opposite of what the laws say.
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  Speaker 1: Verse eight. We know that the law is good if
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  Speaker 1: a person uses it lawfully. As knowing this, that law
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  Speaker 1: is not made for a righteous person, but for the
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  Speaker 1: lawless and insubordinate. So what does that mean? The law
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  Speaker 1: was written so that we will know our sin. Paul
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  Speaker 1: talks about that a law. Actually, in fact, the entire
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  Speaker 1: Book of Galatians kind of covers that topic pretty in depth.
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  Speaker 1: Galatians three twenty four through twenty six says this about
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  Speaker 1: the law. So the law has become our tutor to
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  Speaker 1: bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.
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  Speaker 1: But now that faith has come, we are no longer
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  Speaker 1: under a tutor, for you are all children of God
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  Speaker 1: through faith in Christ Jesus. So essentially we have been
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  Speaker 1: made right with God through Jesus's sacrifice. We have become
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  Speaker 1: righteous when we initially were not. So the law is
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  Speaker 1: for people who are unrighteous. And this is just common
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  Speaker 1: sense because laws are not for good people, they're for
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  Speaker 1: bad people, right, I mean, that makes sense even in
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  Speaker 1: like a secular kind of idea. People who are good
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  Speaker 1: don't need laws because they naturally just follow them. People
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  Speaker 1: who are bad need laws because they don't follow them.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the same thing with the Old Testament laws.
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  Speaker 1: The Old Testament laws were given to a nation of
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  Speaker 1: people who were unrighteous, who did not know God at all.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about that actually on the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: side of stuff recently, where like the people in the
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  Speaker 1: wilderness who the laws were for, they got like freaked
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  Speaker 1: out every single time God appeared, even though they saw
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  Speaker 1: God in their day to day life. Every single day
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  Speaker 1: he'd show up as a pillar of cloud or a
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  Speaker 1: pillar of fire. He would do something to make his
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  Speaker 1: presence known to his people. Every single time he made
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  Speaker 1: himself known a little bit more. The people just didn't
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  Speaker 1: want it, were terrified of him and would avoid him.
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  Speaker 1: They were unrighteous people who needed the Old Testament laws
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  Speaker 1: because they did not know God. But now you and
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  Speaker 1: I and every other Christian who believes in Jesus, we
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  Speaker 1: have been made right with God. We have been made
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  Speaker 1: righteous because of Jesus's sacrifice. As long as we believe
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus, believe that he is our savior, and truly
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  Speaker 1: understand that without Jesus we cannot get to Heaven on
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  Speaker 1: our own. We have been made right with Christ when
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  Speaker 1: we believe those things. So the law is not for
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  Speaker 1: the righteous person. It is for the unrighteous person, the
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  Speaker 1: people who do not believe in God. So these judaizers
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  Speaker 1: coming in in telling these gentile Christians, oh, you're not
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  Speaker 1: righteous enough. You know, yeah, you believe in Jesus, but
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  Speaker 1: that is not enough. You need these Old Testament laws
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  Speaker 1: to truly believe in Jesus. Paul's like they don't even
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  Speaker 1: understand what the laws are saying, because you've already been
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  Speaker 1: justified with God, You've already become a righteous person. So
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  Speaker 1: these Old Testament laws are not for you. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: is one caveat in all of this, which is obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament Laws are very good. We still have
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  Speaker 1: them to this day and we should read them. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I loved my time in the Old Testament Laws. I
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  Speaker 1: thought Leviticus. You know, everybody says Leviticus is the boringest
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  Speaker 1: book in the Old Testament. I highly disagree. There are
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  Speaker 1: far boring our books than Leviticuss. I'm not gonna say
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  Speaker 1: which ones I found pretty boring, but Leviticus, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: was not boring because it talked about the corruption of
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  Speaker 1: man and God's heart for sinners before Jesus came to earth.
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  Speaker 1: So the Old Testament Laws are good to read because
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  Speaker 1: it does tell you more about who God is, and
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  Speaker 1: it also talks about the total depravity of man. So
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  Speaker 1: the laws are good. And even going back to the laws,
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  Speaker 1: as a modern day, twenty first century Christian, you can
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  Speaker 1: absolutely apply some of them to your life. Like I
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  Speaker 1: know some Christians who actually do try to follow the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament laws because of the health benefits of them,
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  Speaker 1: not because of like religiosity or anything, but because the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament laws teach you about health. There's something that
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  Speaker 1: is gaining some popularity in the diet world right now
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  Speaker 1: called the bibliodiet, and it takes its inspiration from the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament laws showing what clean foods to eat and
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  Speaker 1: what foods to avoid essential but not going so far
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  Speaker 1: into the whole like kosher foods where you can only
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  Speaker 1: eat kosher. You don't have to do that, but you
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  Speaker 1: follow the principles of the Old Testament in your diet.
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  Speaker 1: And the doctor that is pushing this really heavily right now,
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  Speaker 1: his name is Jordan Rubin, and I really like this
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  Speaker 1: guy personally. He healed himself of IBS and I believe
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  Speaker 1: cancer through the bibliodiet, and now he's pushing it right now,
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  Speaker 1: and so I did buy his book. I'm actually curious
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  Speaker 1: as to what he has to say about it. So
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  Speaker 1: you can go back to the Old Testament laws and
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  Speaker 1: read them and see how God wanted his people to
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  Speaker 1: live in the healthiest, happiest way that they possibly could.
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  Speaker 1: And some Christians choose to follow the Old Testament laws.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to know if you make that choice
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  Speaker 1: that those laws are not getting you any closer to God.
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  Speaker 1: They might make you healthier and happier as an individual,
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  Speaker 1: they might help you understand the heart of God a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more and the sinfulness of man, but they
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  Speaker 1: will not gain you any extra brownie points with God.
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  Speaker 1: They're just not going to do it. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: that power. So that's the caveat. The Old Testament laws
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  Speaker 1: are good. We should still look at them, read them,
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  Speaker 1: research them, in some cases follow them. We should always
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  Speaker 1: follow the morality laws of the Old Testament, because those
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  Speaker 1: are actually repeated in the New Testament. Of things we
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  Speaker 1: definitely should do. But when it comes to the non
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  Speaker 1: morality laws, like the cleanliness laws and everything like that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to read them, good to follow them on occasion.
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  Speaker 1: They will not help us with our salvation, though when
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  Speaker 1: we believe in Jesus and his sacrifice, we are already
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  Speaker 1: made righteous with God. So here is who the law
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  Speaker 1: is for in verse nine, knowing this that the law
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  Speaker 1: is not made for a righteous person, but for the
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  Speaker 1: lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the
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  Speaker 1: unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers,
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  Speaker 1: for manslayers, for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders,
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  Speaker 1: for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary
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  Speaker 1: to the sound doctrine according to the good News of
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  Speaker 1: the Glory of the Blessed God, which was committed to
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  Speaker 1: my trust. All of these people that Paul mentioned here
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  Speaker 1: are engaging on a regular basis in some sort of vice,
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  Speaker 1: such as sexual sins, or committing murder, or lying, or
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  Speaker 1: committing perjury, slave trading, which was a very common thing
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  Speaker 1: in Paul's day. All of these sins are not for
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  Speaker 1: the righteous person. Now that's not to say that a
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  Speaker 1: righteous person might not feel these urges at times and
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  Speaker 1: even commit some of these sins. I'm not saying once
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  Speaker 1: you become a Christian you stop lying completely. You don't.
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  Speaker 1: But a person who is made right with God will
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  Speaker 1: not want to engage each in these things. They want
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  Speaker 1: to be better. They want to stop lying, They want
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  Speaker 1: to stop having homosexual urges. They want to not look
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  Speaker 1: at pornography or have angry and murderous thoughts about people.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to do these things. They want to
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  Speaker 1: change and be better because of who God is of
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  Speaker 1: who Jesus is. So you might ask the question, jen
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  Speaker 1: can a Christian person live like on a day to
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  Speaker 1: day basis in some of these sins, Like let's just
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  Speaker 1: take homosexuality for the example. Here, can a Christian person
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  Speaker 1: be a homosexual? I would say they cannot act on
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  Speaker 1: those homosexual urges on a day to day basis and
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  Speaker 1: be right with God. But if a person who is
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  Speaker 1: homosexual becomes a Christian, that baby Christian might not understand
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  Speaker 1: why homosexuality is a sin yet, and the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: will convince them of their sin. The Holy Spirit will
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  Speaker 1: teach them over time, especially as this Christian starts going
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  Speaker 1: to church, starts reading their Bible, starts praying and having
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  Speaker 1: an active relationship with Christ. They're actually going to eventually
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  Speaker 1: want to live in a lifestyle that is conducive to
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  Speaker 1: their spiritual health, and so that means no longer acting
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  Speaker 1: on homosexual urges. There's a really interesting guy who he
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  Speaker 1: might have heard of. His name is Beckett Cook. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he was a famous photographer in Hollywood for years and
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  Speaker 1: years and years. He was a gay man. I believe
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  Speaker 1: he had a husband or was living with a man,
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  Speaker 1: and he one day was at this party, this Hollywood party.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the balcony looking down at the people,
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  Speaker 1: and he just remembered thinking, is this all there is
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  Speaker 1: to life? A few weeks later, he was in this
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  Speaker 1: coffee shop and he was sitting down and the table
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  Speaker 1: next to him, these two guys were having a Bible
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  Speaker 1: study together. And Beckett Cook was like, that was the
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  Speaker 1: first time I'd ever seen a Bible open, ever in
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  Speaker 1: my life. So he was curious because you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: having these newfound feelings about the purpose in life, and
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  Speaker 1: so he asks these men, He's like, what are you
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  Speaker 1: guys doing, Like, are you seriously doing a Bible study
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  Speaker 1: in this coffee shop right now? And so these men
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  Speaker 1: talked to Beckett and told him like, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're Christians. We go to such and such church, like
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  Speaker 1: here's what we believe, and they kind of evangelized to Beckett.
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  Speaker 1: He decided he was going to try out their church.
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  Speaker 1: He went to church and eventually got saved, and now
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  Speaker 1: he no longer lives with another man. He has rejected
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  Speaker 1: the homosexual lifestyle because he is understood why that particular
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  Speaker 1: sin is against God and is also against his own
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  Speaker 1: spiritual flourishing. But the point is not just with homosexuality,
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  Speaker 1: but any of these things. If somebody is actively engaging
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  Speaker 1: in a sin with no guilt, with no care, no
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  Speaker 1: wanting to change whatsoever, and they claim to be a Christian,
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  Speaker 1: you can be pretty sure that person is probably not
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  Speaker 1: a Christian. Of course, I am not God. Ultimately, God
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  Speaker 1: knows if somebody is saved or not. God is the
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  Speaker 1: one who sees hearts. But Jesus does say you will
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  Speaker 1: know people buy their fruit. So if a person claims
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  Speaker 1: to be a Christian but refuses to live the Christian
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle and has no problem living a lifestyle that is
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  Speaker 1: anti Christian in some way, Jesus does say you will
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  Speaker 1: know them by their fruit. And these people are the
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  Speaker 1: ones Paul's talking about when he says the law is
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  Speaker 1: for the unrighteous. But yeah, we'll talk about the next
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  Speaker 1: portion of First Timothy one on Thursday. So I hope
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  Speaker 1: to see all of you guys. Then hope you enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: today's episode as well. Don't forget to check out all
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  Speaker 1: or if you want to grab the Adore Advent devotional
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  Speaker 1: for teenage girls that I wrote because Advent is like
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, two weeks away or something crazy like that.
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  Speaker 1: We are almost in the Christmas season. Feels like the
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  Speaker 1: Christmas season to me because of this crazy snow that
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  Speaker 1: I have right now. But yeah, it's coming up, so
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  Speaker 1: if you want to grab that, check the link in
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  Speaker 1: the description. Faithful Listeners, have a fantastic rest of your Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you guys tomorrow, bright and early for an
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  Speaker 1: episode from Second Chronicles. Happy listening, and God bless