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The Study of the Book of Colossians Part 13 - Simply Christ Podcast · Simply Christ Podcast

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back to the Simply Christ podcast hosted by Leon Martin,
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along with Aaron Keaton, Melvin Martin, Andrew Schrock and Dan
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Blatz. Let's get right to it.
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Thanks for being on here tonight, guys.
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We're having a discussion here before we get started.
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And sometimes we get off in the left field a little ways, but
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it's all good. So welcome tonight to the Simply
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Christ Bible study. Or we're going to look at God's
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Word and inspect it and see if we can learn something that
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would help us live this life more righteously and more holy
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and reflect the grace of the mercy of God even more than than
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before. So I think the answer is in the
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in the pages of the Bible here by and large, but it's up to us
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to kind of look at it and see. So that's what we're going to
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do. Before we do that, though, I'll
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open us up with the word of prayer.
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God, thank you for this day. Thank you for this beautiful day
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here in the Midwest. Thank you for your goodness.
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Thank you for your grace and mercy.
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God, we just pray for tonight's Bible study that we could talk
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about this clearly and with clear minds.
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Pray that you would help us to differentiate the words they
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should the way they should be, the way that you meant them to
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be understood. And God, I pray that our
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listeners could have open hearts, open ears at ourselves
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that we can learn of of you, God, so that we can serve you
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and honor and glorify you as we live our lives here on this
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earth. And so God, I just thank you and
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praise you in Jesus name, Amen. Yeah.
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So you're about ready for the camp over there, Andrew, this
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weekend, right? Yeah, probably a little bit more
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headache game this time and we're it's looking good.
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I don't have work planned for the rest of the week, so I'm
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still doing stuff around the farm here.
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But yeah, it should be very much ready.
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Yeah, Did it, did you get a lot of rain last week?
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I, I was in, I was in Indiana on Thursday, Friday and overnight
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and it had it stormed and rained a bunch.
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It's in northern Indiana there. We got a pretty good downpour
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yesterday, but it's been pretty dry and it's really nice out
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right now, so Oh yeah, it looks like it's going to be amazing
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weather. Yeah, looks like low.
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Saturday, Thursday, yeah, it's really beautiful.
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It'll be beautiful. And and it what's cool is like
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80% chance I think of rain Thursday and also Monday and
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where our camp is Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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That's cool, Pretty cool. Are you coming up, Melvin?
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Are you guys planning on being there though?
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Yeah. Oh yeah, I saw they're signed
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up. I was like, oh, there, we'll.
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Be there guaranteed. I'm bringing my camper.
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So I, I, I took my heater out of the camper, but it sounds like I
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should maybe put it back in. I might need that.
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I'm from the South. You know my blood's put thin.
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Yeah, upper 50s. That's perfect for blankets.
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Yeah, yeah. Oh, it's going to be different.
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You're not where you have your ACS, it's usually.
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You'll probably have your ACS setter like 55 or 60 anyway.
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That's what's so funny. Hannah's from South Mississippi
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and they're like, Oh yeah, got the heat.
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You know, that's not that bad. Then you walk in their house and
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it's freezing in there. It's.
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Hilarious. My wife accuses me of that too.
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She walks in the house and she's like, why is it so cold in here?
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Why turn the AC back? Yeah.
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Are you, are you any, do any of you guys pick mulberries or
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don't you have mulberries in Kentucky?
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Oh yeah. Yeah, we have mulberries, but I,
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yeah, I mean, that's something we never really picked, I guess,
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blackberries, you know, beside the road.
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We've got a pretty big patch across the road from our house
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here that we pick sometimes, but not mulberries.
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Yeah, I was, we got a bunch. They they grow in the fence rows
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here, of course, which I'm sure they do most places, but I like
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them. They're they're they make good
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Jelly or jam or whatever wine if you want to make that.
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But they're so tedious to pick. Is there, Andrew, do you guys
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pick any of that that you use or if you do, how do you do it?
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Basically the girls they go out and pick them some and one time
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1 picker box. So I put a Torrado tree at the
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business here for. Now you're cutting out a little
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bit adder. I didn't get all that.
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One time a bunch of them and so I put a top under the tree and
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there and short the tree, but it's still a missed Yeah.
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So they're separated with it that.
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I was thinking to try that to see if that would work because,
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yeah, around here they're just getting ripe ready now.
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And like I said, they're good, but they're so tedious to pick
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any amount of. But what I'm picking up, I eat
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every other water, every two of that, put one in the bucket.
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Just get, get, and if you're not.
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What's that, Melvin? I said just get your children a
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bunch of ice cream buckets and let them pick a set of I can.
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I can see you probably not having the patience to pick them
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your children. Absolutely not.
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Yeah. All right, well, we'll get into
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the word here and see if we can pick up a few mulberries or some
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Nuggets out of there for us that way.
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So I think verse 8, if I'm correct, Kevin Hoppers, right.
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We're barely out of the snow up there.
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Yeah. Good.
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Good for him. I'm glad I don't live there.
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We're planning our second garden already, so.
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Yeah, yeah. You guys cropped one round
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already, didn't you? That's.
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Right, we were. We just dug our potatoes today
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and we were ready to put in another crop so.
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Wow, that's crazy. We're we're just getting our
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fresh strawberries here now, so. Oh, serious?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Now we had strawberry. Our strawberries are over.
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We had strawberries a month ago or more.
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I just parted my sweet born and saw my in laws.
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They're picking sweet corn and like what?
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Wow, I had sweet corn for supper tonight.
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No kidding. Worse.
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Yeah. What in the world?
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We're a long ways off yet. Well, all right, verse 8,
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Colossians chapter 3, verse 8 is where we're going to be tonight.
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We're going to start off with anyway, that verse says, but now
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ye but now ye also put off all these anger, wrath, malice,
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blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
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And that comes after we talked to verse five last time where it
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says mortify. Therefore your members which are
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upon the earth, you know, fornication are clear list into
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order, affection, evil, concuba sense and covetousness, which is
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idolatry. And so now these this list of
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sins, I guess if you want to call it that, are kind of a
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little more like everyday stuff. It strikes a little closer to
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home a lot of ways, like talking about being angry to put that
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off wrath, you know, and and malice, just being mean hearted
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evil, just mean hearted nasty or blasphemy, filthy communication.
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That's, you know, common, this common stuff right here that
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we're talking about, isn't it, Andrew?
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Yeah, he was telling us the old man is crucified and the
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affections and lusts and everything, the body of sin is
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destroyed and all that we're completing Christ.
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And then when the people say, well, So what do you do then?
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You just, you just do what you want.
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He says, no, that's actually you got a benefit here.
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You're free from the this thing called sin and what's unclean
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and ungodly and dark. And he's like, if you don't know
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what that is, then here, here they are.
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Anger, wrath, malice, blaspheming throughout the
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communication. All those things are the things
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that you're free from. Walk like it.
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Walk worthy of the vocation, walk worthy of the Lord and all
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that. And I don't, I guess I don't
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really know why we need to be told.
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I guess it's nice to know specifically like all the
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darkness, you know, isn't it enough to know that we're
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delivered from darkness? But I've worked with believers
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and do still now and then. But especially in unbelieving
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circles, it's really annoying. But it's more annoying in
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believer circles when the atmosphere is dark, when there's
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a lot of dirty jokes or semi swearing or whatever, just
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constantly yelling at stuff or just that toxic environment.
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I think a believer, what Paul is saying here is an in a
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believer's environment, it's positive, it's clean, it's
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uplifting. And even swearing, there's a
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bunch of people now saying, well, swearing is not sin.
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It's angry swearing like you're angry or out of control or or
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whatever, but you can't curse and have a positive atmosphere
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right at the same moment. Like it's just it, doesn't it?
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It as much as you want to paint it, it's like, well, it's just
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we've been trained to think it's bad.
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No, a negative attitude and and basically cussing out things in
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what you would say consider in a godly manner.
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I I'm glad Paul just said filthy communication.
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Just there's a negative and a positive, and what you say and
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do is going to affect whether it's light or darkness and what
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atmosphere you create, whether it's with your family or at the
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workplace. And I'm telling you, if you're
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working with people that are constantly swearing, using God's
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name in vain and all that, and just losing their cool, getting
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angry and out of control. I really like what Dan was
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saying last time about anger. And it's true.
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We get angry and it's not sin a lot of times.
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God got so angry so many times. Was he sinning then?
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No, he got so angry. He says so and he's like his his
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fire was kindled and he was about to kill everybody.
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I mean, he was that angry. Was God sinning?
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No, it's a righteous fury against evil.
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And so I take it as this far, I think it's very healthy for the
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kids to see that I'm upset when they do things that are not
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right. Like they shouldn't see me being
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this pacifist that is just always happy, even when they do
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evil. They need to see that Andrew
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gets daddy gets upset and he gets angry because God gets
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angry. And but it's a very controlled
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angry out of love that they will always know of it.
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It's that love and passion that I have for righteousness that
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I'm upset. I would like to use the word
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upset more than angry when it comes to kids like my own
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children. Like they need to know that I'm
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upset. I'm not happy about the
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situation, but I don't need them to see me lose it.
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You know, lashing out, out of control and all that good.
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Stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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Being angry, like even like for your kids, it's good to see that
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when you're upset at unrighteousness or like when
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somebody you know, like this is God in a way, or even even when
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you hear a message or something that you're like, man, that was
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like not good. You know, it upsets you.
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That's actually showing them that you really care about the
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truth. And then that is really
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important. Like, so that's not bad.
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What is bad when you get so angry that you call the
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preacher, you know, just trouts all over it.
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That's that's, you know, that's ungodly.
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You can't explain that away at all.
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But yeah, no, but oh, you're muted.
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Hang on a second. Try that again.
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There we go all right, there we go.
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Can you hear me now? I was just going to say that I
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dealt with a lot of anger in my life previous to conversion.
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I got very angry at all the time, not all the time, but I
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would get I just dealt with anger a lot.
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And here's kind of the thing that I see about anger from,
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from my experience with anger. And still, sometimes I still
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struggle with that. It's something that it seems
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like I'm pretty easily tempted with.
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But after I got saved, I, I just, I had power over that the,
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the, the unrighteous anger. But one thing I was going to say
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about anger is I think where the difference comes in is when
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you're angry at like a situation or like you were saying
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something that your children did.
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If you're angry at that and not necessarily at the person or at
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your child, you know, like if you're like you were saying, if
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you call the preacher and you're just reaming him out, you're
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angry at him, right? And, and that I know and like in
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your, in your children's case as well, like when your children do
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something, you can get it's OK to be angry at maybe what they
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had done and, and whatever it is that that they have done,
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whether it's a bad thing or sin or whatever it is.
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But to be angry at the person themselves and knocking them
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down and, and degrading them or manipulating them, because it's
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so easy when you're angry to actually use it as manipulation.
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Yeah. And that's not good that that's
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not, that's not the right kind of anger.
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There's a there's a verse speaking about communication,
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filthy communication or, or swearing and that kind of thing.
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There's a verse that I come across a long time ago and it's
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just one of my favorite verses in Ephesians 429 where it says
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let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but
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that which is good to the use of edify and that it may minister
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grace unto the hears. That.
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Verse has stuck with me for a long time.
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And I just, I, I keep wanting to go back to that because as a
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teenager and as a young person, I had a foul mouth like I would,
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I would use foul language, a lock.
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And it's so easy to get snatched into that where as soon as
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something triggers you, it just, it flows out of your mouth
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without even thinking or trying sometimes.
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And anyway, it's just, yeah. And the Bible is pretty clear
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about. The.
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Communication out of your mouth that it may minister Grace and
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his use of edifying. So in other words, either you're
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speaking positively or upbuilding or you're speaking
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negatively or degraded it. There's there's not really a a
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middle Rd. hardly. It's so.
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Yeah, I agree. I don't I, I would say go far as
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as far as to say that there is no like no neutral word that's
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either it's either good or bad. Like there's not really.
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I mean, there's some that don't have as much impact as others,
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but their origin is either of peace or of, you know, hate or
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whatever. Yeah, Cameron.
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And I'll read it because that everyone can see that's, that's
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good. He said that only a fruitful,
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healthy fellowship with Jesus will bring an ability to detect
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and to fix these problems with ourselves.
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Draw close to Christ and he will give you light.
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The first steps are hard, but the peaceable fruits thereof are
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most excellent. And that's that's right.
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And that's exactly why it's I think it's important to read and
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study and know the word because that we'll, we'll find out here
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as we go on. Kind of what you know, he is
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instructing these these people here in Colossia, the ways of
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righteousness. That's what this book is.
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That's what we're reading and studying how to be rid of these
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things. And we'll even kind of see what
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his recipe is for it here. And yeah, you too, Cameron, that
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jesting is a trap. And I was when Andrew was
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talking, I was thinking the same thing.
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It irritates me. And I probably do it myself
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without thinking even. But suggestive jokes.
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OK, so you're not telling a a dirty joke, but it's a
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suggestive suggestive, which is just as bad in a lot of cases,
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you know? And, and the other thing is, you
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know, people like this is out of the public a lot.
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I see this, you know, people that would call themselves
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Christians, you know, that they're swearing or cussing a
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row and then they notice I have my kids with me.
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Then they're like, oh, I'm sorry.
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You know, I see the kids are with, you know, pardon me.
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I won't ever want to hear kids to hear that I'm like, you're
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using the name of God in vain, you know, in in relation to
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that. The kids hearing it is nothing.
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They know better. You know, it's not going to
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affect. Oh, yeah.
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I wish you wouldn't, but you know, so.
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Yeah, verse 9, lie, not one to another, seeing that ye have put
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off the old man with his deeds. And I think this kind of
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stretches back over verse 8 too. I don't know.
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I mean, it's maybe talking specifically about lying, but I
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think the reason that you would want to put this off, you know,
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evil Cubans, is covetousness, which is idolatry.
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All those other things, wrath, malice, blasphemy, is because
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they're part of the old man. They are not part put it off.
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Andrew, your comments on that? Yeah, and verse?
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Three says for or verse 2, set your affections and things
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above, not on things in the earth, for ye are dead and your
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life is hit with Christ and God. And then verse nine line out one
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another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his
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deeds. That's hard for me to believe,
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but that's what that's how God is counting it and that's his
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plan to put away sins. It's his plan to deal with our
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problem and he's telling us whether you like it or not, but
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the means by which we are we walk in righteousness and he
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spells out all the things that are bad to if you want to you
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want light. It's going to later tell us more
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about what the light is the fruit of the spirit.
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Other places tells us eat in detail the fruits of the spirit
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and what that looks like. So for those that think that
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this grace that we preach gives you license to send that you're.
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The Christ did all the work and that's just up to me to believe
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it. Well, here gives you a lots of
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details of what not to do as someone that is washed, someone
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that is redeemed, someone that is made free from sin.
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And so you can't. It's, it's cool that not only,
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it's a good thing that not only are we made free from sin by the
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sacrifice of Christ, but then he also tells us, look, now you've
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got the ability and the power that he's in Christ to walk in
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that freedom. And the way you do it is by
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having spiritual wisdom and understanding, like you said in
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chapter 1 of this book, that the reason we don't walk worthy of
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the Lord is the lack of spiritual wisdom and
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understanding. So now that we know what God
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dying and rising again did to us, it, it put our old flesh in
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the man to death so that we can walk in righteousness.
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Well, this is what he's talking about.
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Don't be angry, don't lie one to another, be a nice guy, be
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light, 'cause you've been made light.
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He's not telling us to be that way so that we become righteous.
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But because you are washed, because you are redeemed,
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because you are risen with Christ, because you are
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circumcised, because you are risen from the dead, now act
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like it. And you have the right and the
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power to walk in that which you are made and which is righteous.
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So it'd be not it would be A and you'd be inconsistent and you
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would be a hypocrite to embrace darkness when you're in the
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Kingdom of light. Like, come on.
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And how can you say you love the cross and you love
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righteousness, but then love sin and darkness at the same time?
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It just doesn't work that way. Del for.
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Sure. Yeah, that's right, Melvin.
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Yeah, I. I just looking at this Ephesians
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chapter 4 and you know, you hear a lot of terms these days that
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especially even in Christian circles about, you know, having
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to put off your old man or I'm, I'm dealing with my flesh or I'm
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dealing with you. And we do deal with our flesh.
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We do walk in the flesh sometimes.
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But here is specifically talking about our old man.
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And and I hear people say, well, I'm still, you know, this old
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man is rising up within me or whatever the terms are.
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And that's not really true. Old man is dead.
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He just cut down saying pretty clearly, but in Ephesians 4 he
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says, who? Let's see verse 19.
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Ephesians 4, verse 19. He says, Who being past feeling,
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have given themselves over unto the viciousness, and to work all
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on cleanliness with greediness. But ye have not so learned
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Christ, if so be that you have heard him and have been taught
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by him, as the truth is in Jesus that you put off concerning the
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former conversation, the old man which is corrupt according to
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the deceitful lust. So in other words, he's trying
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to say, look guys, before you learned of Christ, and before
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you put your faith in Christ, you were given over to this
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whole list that we just went through here in Colossians.
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He said you were that. But you have not so learned
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Christ that he's saying now that you are in Christ.
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That's not the truth. That's not who you are anymore.
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Your old man has been put off like he's been dead and he's
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been crucified. It says in Romans 6.
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And so, so to, to say that we're still our old man is rising up
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or, or again or whatever where that can't be true because not
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if you're born again, if you're in Christ, because that thing is
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dead. And so you're looking, you're
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like living like you were formulate before Christ like.
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And so you can't do you can't be living like that.
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I mean, not if you're born again.
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The truth is, is that your old man has been crucified with
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Christ on the cross. And so walk in that.
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I think the key to that was walking in that and, and
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trusting and putting your faith and, and understanding that that
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is where we're at. Because in Colossians 3, what
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was it, verse 7, he said that when he went through the list of
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the evil concoctious and idolatry and all that he says in
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the which he also walked some time when you lived in them.
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So in other words, he was saying you walk in this, but now you
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are not walking in that anymore. You're walking in the in the
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truth that your old man has been put to death.
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Yeah. That's right, You know, and I I
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know I was noticing earlier tonight when I was getting ready
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for this that it says several places here in our text, like
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verse 8, it says put off all these.
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You have put off all these modify your members.
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And in Ephesians chapter 6, it says put on the whole armor of
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God. And then here in a little bit in
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Colossians here, it's going to say put on.
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Therefore, you know, it tells us to put off and put on.
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And, and you see that a lot of the scriptures.
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And when you think about it, like when I, when I put on my
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clothes in the morning, you know, it's I, I do it
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intentionally, very intentionally.
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Like in other words, I look at the forecast, I look at what the
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temperature is. I think about what I'm going to
25:50
be doing that day, and then I put the clothes on that I need
25:54
for that day. It's very intentional.
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It's it's forward-looking, you know, and if we, if we read this
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the same way, like we think about it in the morning, we're
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like, yeah, OK, today I'm probably going to be temptation.
26:08
The weather outside is terrible. You know, whatever you know,
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you're going to, you're going to.
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But so, so put on these things like intentional, be
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intentional. And you know, like before you
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even get tempted, know that you have the way is already made for
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you, right? See what I'm saying?
26:25
Like it's not a it's not a I think to think about it after
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you've sinned, you know, after you've like you've run into this
26:34
wall, you hit your thumb with a hammer and all of a sudden
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you're trying to deal with something.
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Whereas I think your reaction would be different if prior to
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that, you know who who was that? That's was it Daniel, I think.
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Was it Daniel? Yeah, I remember one of those.
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It says that that he purposed in his heart not to defile his body
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with the King's meat. He said, and you know, before he
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ever hit that temptation, he said, you know what, I'm going
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to stay pure. I'm going to keep my body pure.
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And you know, I maybe I'm off in left field by when it uses the
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words put off and put on. That's what that's what I had to
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think of like it's an intentional act.
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It's something that we got to consider maybe on that verse 10
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and there we go and it says and have put on the new man, which
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is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created
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him. And the only thing that I want
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to point out before I would let Andrew go on this is that this
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is not the sentence like to really get this, I really should
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be reading verse 910 and 11 together.
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But I I want you to go ahead and and comment on this.
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And we have put on the new band, which is renewed in the
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knowledge after the image of him that create.
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I think this is an interesting verse and a key verse to our
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success in walking, you know, separate from sin.
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Yeah, this, this is where I always like to point out the
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fact that we should do a search on mind, read everywhere where
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the Bible uses the word mind, what to mind so that when it
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talks about what we need to mind and reckon and and what the
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truth is. And that is knowing these things
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and spiritual understanding and wisdom is what is going to
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prepare us for the life that we are living.
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When we go up, like Leon was saying in the morning, when we
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get up, the way we're thinking the what what is on our mind and
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how we prepare ourselves emotionally and mentally.
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It's probably it's could determine how your day is going
28:49
to go in a lot of ways. You're not just out there
28:52
necessarily winging it. You're already prepared and
28:55
aware that temptations out there and you've already kind of
28:59
conditioned your mind that you're not going to fall for it,
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that you're going to be spiritual minded.
29:04
You're going to be dressed up with that new man and that my
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mentality and mindset that you're free from sin, that
29:11
you're you're a new man, you're a new creature and you're going
29:14
to walk in that light today. And if you're oblivious to it
29:18
and you just start feeding your brain with darkness and watching
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Youtubes and till it gets more and more corrupt, it normally
29:25
does. The more you watch.
29:26
All of a sudden it's just darker and darker and darker and all of
29:28
a sudden you're like, wait, wait, wait, what am I watching?
29:31
You know, it's just letting that mind, letting it, letting that
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mind getting corrupted and carried away.
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And I, I really think it's important to remember, like he
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said, put on the new man, put him on.
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He said, actually, no, he says you have put him on.
29:49
And so it's interesting to me that a lot of religious people
29:54
and and people that are still really fantasize about the laws
29:58
of God and the law and the commandments, how that at the
30:04
end of the day, that's still their excuse.
30:07
Like, Oh, I'm, it's the old man. Did the flesh make me do it?
30:11
You know, we're just these sinners and saved by grace.
30:15
Hallelujah. And then the other ones is like,
30:18
they love to keep the commandments and somehow, you
30:22
know, God made these commandments.
30:23
Well, this is far beyond commandments here.
30:27
He's point putting his finger on our heart and our emotion.
30:30
He's trying to get us emotionally stable within, like
30:35
something that no law or letter in any way possible could do.
30:38
He's getting into our mind, our thoughts, and our emotions.
30:42
And I'm telling you why. When people tap into that, it is
30:45
fun to be around them. They choose to be happy.
30:48
They choose to be thankful. They choose to be positive and
30:52
they built you up. They're encouraging on the alum
30:55
minded person is always just kind of negative.
30:57
Well, yeah, more of that. And the people would just get
31:00
their act together and like they're the trash is laying
31:02
around there. The kits these days they're just
31:04
a bunch of you know what? The other day I had a guy say
31:08
he's a youth pastor of all things.
31:10
He's like talk about kids. He's like, you know, sometimes I
31:13
can't tell the difference between the tools and the tool
31:15
shed and my kids, you know, like, you really think that kids
31:19
are going to do well with that attitude.
31:21
You know, it's like, like, oh, my goodness.
31:25
But then I'm sure that person would not like the idea that
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we're crucified, that the flesh is gone, that we are redeemed,
31:31
you know, So that's where it's at right here.
31:35
You love the law. Well, this would put the law to
31:39
shame. This would produce a children of
31:43
light that no law or letter can ever produce 'cause it goes
31:46
directly to your emotions and feelings and it's telling you to
31:49
take a grip, get a hold of it. You can.
31:52
Jesus has made you new. You are a new creature.
31:55
Old things are passed away. You have the ability and the
31:57
authority and the right to be happy, cheerful and free and
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create a positive atmosphere. You're not deceptive, you're not
32:05
lying to another, you're not out of control, angry.
32:07
You're a lot of fun to be around and a lot of light, and
32:10
everybody that's around you wants to be like that.
32:15
Amen. That's good stuff, Melvin.
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Yeah, I like what he says here that he says he gives us the
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remedy. You would say like in other
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words, he doesn't say. He doesn't just leave it where
32:29
he says you have your old man has been put to death.
32:32
He says you have put on the new man.
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In other words, you have received a new creation.
32:39
You're a new creation. You're a new creature.
32:42
You're a new man. And, and that's, I think so many
32:46
times we focus on, you know what, we shouldn't be doing this
32:50
or I shouldn't be doing that or, or I need to be doing this or
32:53
need to be doing that or, or Christian doesn't do this or
32:56
Christian needs to do that or whatever.
32:58
And you shouldn't be focusing on that, but you should just be
33:01
understanding that, that we are a new creature and, and, and
33:06
that gives us the power to be able to do what is right or
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speak life and, and all those kinds of things.
33:16
Understanding that that I have, I am actually a new man.
33:21
Like God doesn't just leave our old man dead.
33:24
He has given us a new life and a new man.
33:27
And it's, it's full of life, right?
33:29
So I, I just like that. And it's just so powerful, I
33:36
think, to understand that and to be able to walk in that and, and
33:41
put our faith in, in a God that doesn't just leave us hanging,
33:45
but he gives us, he gives us a new life.
33:49
And yeah. Yeah, I this is really a big
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part of my testimony when I got saved and was delivered from
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sin. And you know, it says I, I love
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and this is important I think is it says that you have so it's
34:10
past tense. It happened prior to this put on
34:13
the old man and it says you have past tense.
34:19
Hold on the new man. Imagine how we would live if
34:23
that were not past tense that what if it would say and you can
34:29
put on the new man. You know, while you were talking
34:33
Melvin earlier about, you know, sitting and all the, you know,
34:37
the old man rose up again, you know, or whatever you, we hear
34:40
that in the world all the time. And that is not true.
34:44
If if you send it the new one doing it the, and the old one is
34:49
dead and gone. You, you don't have the ability
34:51
to resurrect that old man. That one is dead and gone is
34:54
completely out of the way. And this new this new one.
34:58
And I don't, I don't know what you think.
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Can it be defiled? But I, I see a lot of a lot of
35:04
Christians, maybe over the years.
35:06
I've seen them come, you know, they, they really found
35:08
something and, and then they cool off or whatever and it
35:15
almost like they, they can't find the victory that they once
35:18
had. And I, I don't know exactly what
35:20
happens there. I probably a lot of stuff.
35:22
I, I know it's, it's probably a combination of a lot of stuff.
35:25
But the, the victory really is though, is that this new man?
35:30
So if I, if I feel tempted, I could, I could literally say it
35:33
out loud, just be like, Nope, but that old man that did that
35:37
kind of stuff, he's dead and gone.
35:38
I'm a new creation modeled after godliness, you know, after
35:44
Christ himself. You know, this is this is a
35:47
thing. Cameron said that again,
35:51
addressing these issues with our humanity is difficult.
35:53
And I agree with you. It is because we're not always
35:57
100% successful. That is why we are to close
35:59
ourselves with the spiritual supposition of the position that
36:03
God clearly says that we have in Christ.
36:06
We are assenting to something supernatural and that of God.
36:10
That approach loads me up with enough joy at Thanksgiving to
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tackle these things. Praise the Lord.
36:15
That's right. And it is supernatural and
36:18
that's not just a fancy word. It is natural super like it's
36:24
above the natural ability. You know, when something is,
36:29
That's what the word literally means, is to be above, you know,
36:32
whatever. And so, yeah, that's, that's how
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it is. But I, I love that.
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I think that's verse 9 to 10. That's key stuff right there. 11
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where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
36:47
uncircumcision, barbarian, Cynthian bond nor free, but
36:51
Christ in all. Christ is all and in all
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there's. Yeah, Andrew, Yeah.
37:02
I am not convinced yet. I know my Pearl teaches the same
37:05
thing, that if you sentence the new man, I don't believe that
37:10
just simply because I believe that we're saved by faith.
37:15
I believe that in the in the heavenly reality, we are
37:18
redeemed, we're free from the flesh.
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But in this life it's up to us based on our faith of whether we
37:26
will acknowledge and walk after the flesh and reckon it that.
37:31
But we have the capacity and not reckon it dead and walk after
37:34
it. And if you walk after it you
37:36
will fulfill it, which is sin. Otherwise in Romans 8, I don't
37:41
think he would say that to to be carnal minded is death, but to
37:44
be spiritual minded is life. So you got those two options to
37:47
walk after. He says if you walk after the
37:50
flesh you will die. And then he says the fruits of
37:54
the flesh is this, and the body of sin where the flesh dwell,
37:59
where the sin dwell is the body of flesh.
38:02
So I don't think sin can dwell in a spiritual body.
38:05
I don't think it can dwell because the the thing that
38:08
destroyed had to be destroyed in order to destroy sin was the
38:12
body of sinful flesh, and that was destroyed by faith.
38:18
And I think we can now still walk after the flesh.
38:21
And when we do that and do sin is because we we walked after
38:27
the old man and the flesh because you wouldn't tell us to
38:30
walk put on the new man and to walk in it.
38:33
Well, he says we have put on a new man, but he wouldn't have to
38:36
tell us who recognized the old man is crucified if it was a
38:42
reality in our experience. It's a faith challenge.
38:46
He's asking us to believe something that God did to us and
38:50
to walk in that while in the heavenly places those blessings
38:54
are there, but in this life we're still challenged to
38:58
believe and walk against the flesh that we're in.
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That's my belief. And you can, if you got a good
39:06
verse to wipe it out, I'd love to hear it.
39:11
No, no, that's, that's interesting.
39:13
I never, never heard it that way.
39:15
As far as like Romans 6-7 or or Romans 8, you know, verses 6-7
39:21
where it says to be carnally minded or to be spiritually
39:23
minded. I don't think that you can go
39:25
back and forth. I think you're either one or the
39:27
other. You're either a new creation
39:29
which is spiritually minded or you are the old man which is
39:32
carnally minded. Well, read a little.
39:34
Bit further read a little bit in the beginning there.
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If you walk after the flesh, you got this you what did you walk
39:41
after? The Spirit is this so you can
39:44
either walk after the one or the other.
39:45
That's my belief. So, yeah, so.
39:48
So you're saying like the flesh would be the old man?
39:51
Is that what you're saying? Or when you walk out.
39:55
Yeah, you can either. So when you my in my mind, if
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I'm sinning, I'm not believing that I'm crucified.
40:04
It's I'm in unbelief and I'm or I'm not recognizing the truth.
40:09
I'm not being reminded. Of the thing that God did to me
40:12
2000 years ago. And therefore I'm not benefiting
40:14
from that at that moment. So I'm yielding, I'm turning,
40:18
I'm obeying, I'm I'm following through with that unbelief and
40:22
recognizing my flesh and walking after it.
40:25
Or I can walk after the spirits and this might and remember my
40:29
spiritual reality that in Christ Jesus, I'm free from that flesh
40:33
and I don't have to obey it. What I got these two options.
40:37
I can either obey the flesh or obey the spirit, and if I walk
40:41
after the flesh, I die. If I walk after the spirit, I
40:43
have light. But that's.
40:46
All that's all. So I don't know.
40:49
I'm going to have to think about that one.
40:50
Yeah, yeah, me too. So.
40:52
So you're saying that the blue bag give you some?
40:54
Pushback, but I don't have a good verse to push back down.
40:57
Why? Yeah.
40:59
Well, yeah, why would he be? Challenging us?
41:02
Why would he be challenging us if the other option wasn't
41:05
there? Well, the only.
41:07
Thing that kind of struggles in my brain is is this is that you
41:11
know that. So it sounds to me like you're
41:13
saying you're going from the old man to the new man, Not or or, I
41:16
don't know, Remember, it's a. Remember, it's a faith
41:19
challenge. We're believing in something
41:21
that is not exactly our reality. Yeah.
41:24
So that would be, to me, it would be like Abraham going
41:30
through Hagar. You know, he had that option and
41:35
he took it well. He walked after the flesh at
41:37
that moment, sure, you know, and make the consequences for it.
41:44
He wouldn't. He wouldn't be this great father
41:47
of faith. He didn't have a challenge to
41:48
walk, Not in faith, you know, Sure.
41:54
Yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't agree with that
41:57
necessarily, but that's fine. I'm I'm not, it's, it's a good
42:01
discussion. Well, here's the thing that
42:03
here's the thing that bothers me.
42:04
Two things really with with what you're saying. 1 is that you're
42:08
saying that our new the new creation is a spiritual
42:11
creation. No, it's our reality in heaven,
42:14
in heavenly places, I'm fully redeemed.
42:18
I am seated in heavenly places. I am sanctified.
42:20
I'm I am dressed in the new man. I have put on the new man, but
42:25
that's a promise, and I can walk after that in this life right
42:31
now, he recognizes in Romans that we're still in the flesh.
42:35
Right after or before he said that we're.
42:37
Yeah, no. Definitely.
42:38
And he's like you. Can either walk after it or not.
42:41
So we got that option. You can either renew your mind
42:44
after the things of this world. Like look at all the challenges
42:47
we just went through of the things that we can.
42:49
Either it's like don't don't be angry, don't walk after that you
42:54
have it says mortify there for your members.
42:56
Why if they're already mortified like.
43:01
Right, that one thing that comes to comes to faith.
43:04
Remember, it's a faith challenge.
43:06
He mortified them on the cross. And now he's asking us that are
43:10
still in the body of flesh to believe it and walk in that
43:14
outside of our reality. And it's kind of like I got to
43:18
I'm I'm going to walk in it. But the challenge is, is to walk
43:21
after the flesh. And he's telling us the
43:24
authority that we have to not do it is the fact that in the
43:28
heavenly places it's in in God's economy, it's already the
43:32
reality that we are free. And in this life, you can walk
43:37
after that freedom or you can walk after darkness.
43:44
Yeah, the. Only the only thing that I'm
43:46
going to say it right now, I'm I'm going to study some on it.
43:49
Andrea, I would like to this weekend sit down and talk some
43:52
more about this. But one.
43:54
Thing that this is kind of the way I have seen it kind of like
43:58
how Lean sees it that so the new man in my brain, the new man is
44:03
is our new creation and and gives us power.
44:06
We have the spirit in us now and gives us the power over our
44:09
flesh and temptation where the old man, we didn't have that
44:15
right. So the old man is buried.
44:17
He's dead. And now we're walking in the new
44:19
man. And, and when we do walk in the
44:22
flesh or choose to walk in the flesh, I'm doing no, the flesh
44:26
is not there. So the flesh you're saying is
44:30
dead? You just said, yeah, you just
44:33
said the old man is gone, so how can you walk after a flesh?
44:37
The new man is not flesh, it's spirit.
44:40
There is no flesh. So you have to say that the
44:43
spiritual body, where I didn't know that the spiritual body can
44:47
have sin like a spiritual man without flesh has sin.
44:51
Because remember when he said that the body of sin in the
44:55
flesh was destroyed? We were circumcised, but a
44:59
fleshly part was circumcised and we we were In First Corinthians
45:04
15, he says we were sown a natural man raised a spiritual
45:08
man. We were sowing in dishonor.
45:11
We were raising glory. We were, we were sown a natural
45:14
body and now we're raised a spiritual body.
45:17
So and he's telling us that's where the sin and death was
45:20
destroyed by putting off that physical thing.
45:24
And now we're challenged to believe it.
45:26
And you can either believe it and walk in righteousness or let
45:32
unbelief and darkness and deception, deceitfulness of sin
45:37
darken your mind or cloud your mind to where you go after the
45:40
flesh or you can walk after the spirit.
45:45
I don't think the I don't think Jesus Christ me and him being
45:51
one in the finished work of Christ is going to associate
45:55
itself with sin. I think when we sin, it's we're
45:59
we're we're going after the we're not believing in the
46:03
redemption that's already there. Otherwise we would sin is
46:08
defiling. So it would bring darkness to
46:10
the new man. And I don't, I don't think that
46:12
can be because then we're no longer or we're not redeemed,
46:15
then I think we're completely redeemed.
46:17
We're completely washed clean in Jesus Christ.
46:20
We are ready to be revealed. We're unbelievable, unreprovable
46:23
in this site. And if you we don't walk in
46:28
that, if you don't believe it and walk in it, then we're in
46:32
unbelief and we're listening to the world in darkness.
46:36
So that verse like in first John where it say I was trying to
46:39
find it quick but I and can't find it, it says it says that
46:43
when ye are in God or in Christ ye cannot sin sin.
46:48
Yeah. So what you're saying is that is
46:51
like, like our spiritual new man is what cannot it's our?
46:55
Heavenly reality, it's all the things that we've been saying we
47:00
are redeemed. That's our heavenly reality.
47:02
Our earthly reality is that we need to recognize this flesh is
47:05
dead, which how would you recognize that it's dead if it
47:08
was actually physically dead? So the challenge is to believe
47:14
that it's dead to line up with our heavenly reality.
47:18
Yeah, sure, I get that. Yeah, 100 and if.
47:20
You walk in sin, and it's because you're walking after the
47:25
earthly, carnal, fleshly, sinful, dark reality, and you're
47:30
not walking after your heavenly reality, which is.
47:33
The old, old man in your mind, So who sins?
47:35
When you're you as a believer sins, Who sinned?
47:38
Who's the sin held against? Me but it I've been crucified,
47:48
I've been redeemed, so I'm covered.
47:49
All my sins are colored as present and future.
47:52
It's just I walked in unbelief and I sinned.
47:59
If you're going to say that the new man is sin, then did Jesus
48:04
Christ die for the new man too? I see.
48:09
What? Yeah.
48:09
Yeah. So then he would have to be
48:11
crucified as well as what you're saying the new.
48:14
Man would have to also be circumcised again then I see.
48:17
What you're saying? Yeah.
48:20
I'm about. To think about thou, yeah, I'll
48:22
have. I'll have to because like the
48:24
way that I read Romans chapter 8 verse 9 where it says but ye are
48:28
not in the flesh but in the Spirit.
48:30
If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
48:33
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not of
48:36
his, you know. So if the Spirit of God lives in
48:40
you, then you are not in the flesh.
48:45
Absolutely. Right.
48:47
I mean. That's that's that's but if you
48:50
read a little. Bit further, he tells us to not
48:52
walk after the flesh again. It's our heavenly reality is
49:04
that we're not in the flesh. I know that I am redeemed, I am
49:08
crucified, I'm a spiritual body, but in this life right now, I'm
49:13
not in this. My earthly reality is just not
49:17
the same what I can live according to my heavenly reality
49:22
as I believe it, the more I believe it and walk in it.
49:25
If I put on that armor, if I put on that mindset, if I think of
49:30
on those things, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
49:32
things are on us. If I have this knowledge,
49:35
remember he says what we just read that verse where it says in
49:42
verse 10 and have put on the new man, which is renewed in
49:46
knowledge after the image of him that created him.
49:50
It's renewed in knowledge after the image.
49:53
So when we are not renewed in knowledge, we tend to practice
49:57
the old like we're not renewed in that and then we don't walk
50:00
in that. Yeah, that's, it's a good
50:06
discussion. I I'm going to have to do a
50:07
little bit of gear shifting on that one.
50:10
Maybe we had our first disagreement, huh?
50:12
Oh yeah. No, no, not really not.
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Necessarily it just. There was a couple other things,
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but yeah, I know that's I I love it.
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I love this kind of this is this is good discussion in my my
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opinion. I want to read what Cameron read
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or wrote. Trying to see it.
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Yeah. Walking after the flesh as a
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believer is walking after the law of sin that is in our
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members. Yeah.
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Yeah. There is a pattern of defilement
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in our muscle memory, in our hearts and our minds.
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Yep. I agree with that.
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God comes in taking up residence in our mortal body.
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He hangs with us, He lives in us.
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He convicts us and leads us. We can obey the new law of
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liberty of the Spirit of life in Christ or not.
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That's what you're saying, Andrew, right?
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Pretty much. Like, yeah, yeah, I don't find
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one verse where Jesus died for the new man or that somehow the
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new man's sins are covered. The new man, according to my
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understanding from what I read, is pure and righteous.
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It's yeah. No.
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I would agree with that. It's ready to be revealed.
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So if you're going to say the new man is sinning when we sin,
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then that's an awful new name sometimes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I. Did I was just in my brain?
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I have a hard time the the idea of going back to your old man or
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whatever, like if he's crucified.
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But I see what you're saying. It's it's our.
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I forget. It's a belief.
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It's a belief challenge belief. Challenge.
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Yeah, I see what you're saying. Just like Abraham, he was
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challenged to believe that he's a father of a great nation while
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he had no children. So his reality was different
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from what God's reality was. Yeah.
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And he went up and ran with Hagar.
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Well, God uses that story to tell us that to not do that, to
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not walk after your own flesh. Like, don't try to bring about
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it with your own works. Look at what that brought.
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I mean, we just supposedly ended a war with Ishmael again, like,
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so that was a bad, bad deal. And so, yeah, let's walk after
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the knee man. Yeah.
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Amen. Yeah, so I read verse 11, but we
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never actually got on. Yeah.
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Oh, sorry. Is that what we were supposed to
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talk about or I don't? Well, no.
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That's good. Like I said, I my.
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God sidetracked with your idea that the new man is singing.
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Yeah, no. You did.
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Andrew went off the tracks. Man.
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No, I. Think we went maybe back on the
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tracks? No, that's no.
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I'm just saying his brain went. A lot of people.
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A lot of people think that a, that a disagreement is
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unhealthy. I think it's the healthiest way
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to figure something out is to talk about it.
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You know, when someone gets offended, that's when it becomes
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kind of, yeah, but a good discussion.
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I'm definitely, I'm definitely not offended in any way.
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I I just have never been. I know I've heard Mike teach it
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very authoritatively and other people that you know, you are a
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new man. Well, I guess that's a big leap
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of faith. I don't.
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Maybe I'm not faith. I have that much faith.
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But then my question is then what happens with the sin that
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Christ died for the sin of the new man too then?
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But any rates? We kind of hashed that out
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already, but parts verse 11 where there's neither Jew nor
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Greek circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian,
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Sithian, bond or free, but Christ is All in all.
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So he brought us a full victory. He put us on, He dressed us up
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in his own righteousness, in his robe of righteousness in
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Revelations, when we're going to be revealed and when we're going
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to come out, we're going to come out dressed in the robe of
53:57
righteousness, white robe. And so that's our heavenly
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reality. And Christ is All in all.
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He, he, he, we're circumcised based on his circumcision.
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So we're no longer putting off the old flesh by physically
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cutting, circumcising ourselves. We're we're no longer in
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redeemed based on our genealogies, whether we are a
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Jew or not. Like we don't have to be an
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Israelite to be a child of God. All that's done away,
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everything, all things that we need.
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We're completely complete in Christ Jesus and he is All in
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all. And he's telling us to walk like
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it, act like it, and stop walking after the flesh and
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darkness. Yep.
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Amen. Doesn't matter who you are.
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Doesn't matter who you are. Yeah.
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I that's what I like about it too.
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He's just he's in Christ. He's just making a simple point
54:55
that in Christ we're All in all. It doesn't matter whether we are
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a, a slave. It says bond nor free says
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whether we're a slave or servant or or whether we're the master
55:09
or it doesn't really matter in Christ, he his come, his
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completeness and his our victory in him over the flesh that we
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were talking about is the same for all.
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It doesn't matter who we are. I like in in revelations, I
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think it's 19 or 20 where it says where, where Jesus comes
55:30
back on his great White Horse and it says that and the armies
55:33
are with him riding on white horses.
55:36
And that's going to be that's the Saints riding back with him
55:40
on his great White Horse and wait on their horses.
55:44
And that's going to be all of us.
55:46
I mean, it doesn't matter where we're from or what color we are
55:49
or whatever. So it that is so comforting, you
55:54
would say, because a lot of religion and and all these other
55:59
religions in the world, you know, and say, well, you need to
56:03
be like this or you need to become like this, or you need to
56:05
do this or, or whatever it is or, or dressed like this or
56:10
whatever it is. And there's a lot of different
56:12
things. But it that's in Christ.
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It's we are, he is our all and we are in he is in all of us is
56:22
how he said, we saying, and that's just so beautiful.
56:26
And that's what makes Christ so complete.
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And and he making him the Alderman high priest.
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that's right.
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And the best part of it is like, you know, Jew and Gentile,
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there's there's no difference. Male, female, you know, whatever
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there's yeah, it's there for everybody.
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Bond or free? Yeah, Yeah, that's right.
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You know, I think we're just going to quit there.
56:55
I because it kind of goes into another kind of longer sentence
57:00
there that I I just rather not pick apart.
57:02
Probably we're that close. We'll just leave it leave it go.
57:06
I I know for myself, I got a little I'm going to do have a
57:10
little study here coming up about this whole thing.
57:16
This is this is good. I love it.
57:19
So anyway, hey that. That's what I like.
57:22
That's what I like about getting together with, with brothers
57:26
that, you know, when we maybe don't all think the same or we,
57:30
something comes out where, you know, I might think differently
57:34
about something than someone else.
57:36
And, and that's OK. I, I like it took me a long time
57:39
to learn that actually, because I'm kind of a peacemaker.
57:44
Like I, I like when things are peaceful.
57:46
I don't like a lot of conflict, but this is not really conflict.
57:49
It's just it, it's not that we disagree that we get upset or
57:55
anything. It when you can sit down and
57:58
just be able to, to say, I just was talking with, with this with
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my wife the other day. And I think what happens when we
58:06
are when people argue, whether it's with your spouse or whether
58:10
two brothers or whatever it is in the church or whoever.
58:13
When you argue is when you are interrupting each other and
58:17
you're getting upset and you're just and, and and you're trying
58:21
to interrupt and trying to say your thing and not letting the
58:24
other person talk. Why can't we just let the person
58:27
say his, what he wants to say, let him say it, let him do it
58:32
then now I'll say what I want it.
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You know what I think about it. And then we just talk about it
58:37
in a, in a peaceful manner. And and that's so that's
58:40
sharpening each other. That's the that's awesome.
58:43
I love that. Yeah, I'm no way, said I I'd be
58:46
very happy to be have my mind changed on it.
58:49
I just haven't personally gotten enough evidence where I would
58:54
say that's the case. Yeah.
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And it's a new thought to me, so I'm going to study that song and
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we'll talk about it some more. Yeah.
59:05
Coming up, you know, that's that's what I think that's what
59:07
made Charlie Kirk so great. He was able to to have discourse
59:11
with people, you know, in the most intense situations and just
59:16
and still just and and I liked it.
59:18
I like listen to it because it was often informative to me
59:22
because he was saying this side, the argument was from the other
59:25
side. And you could then you could,
59:27
you could see both sides of the argument and draw your own
59:29
conclusion based on what what they were saying this stuff.
59:32
So that's. This is not.
59:33
A salvation issue or anything. I I've, no, I, I, I don't even
59:37
bring it up like it's well, I did now, but it's just I, I
59:47
wouldn't look at you guys any different for believing that at
59:50
all. Like I, I just personally
59:53
believe that our heaven reality is different from our earthly
59:55
reality and we're challenged to believe our heavenly.
59:58
And if we believe our heavenly reality, we will act according
1:00:01
to our heavenly more or if we can walk after the earthly and
1:00:05
perish and die. Yep.
1:00:07
It's a it's a reckoning issue about that's.
1:00:11
My view, yeah. I agree with you 100%.
1:00:14
I want to read you at what cover?
1:00:15
We'll close with this further discussion.
1:00:17
We will come to the new creature, the body of Christ.
1:00:21
Some people can't fully grasp this thing.
1:00:22
Some folks think the individual believer is a new creature.
1:00:26
Again, not accurate, depending on context.
1:00:28
Here. There's a huge thing happening
1:00:30
in Christ. Fellowship of the mystery, Huge,
1:00:32
awesome operation is what will come of it, and that is awesome.
1:00:36
So, yeah. All right.
1:00:38
Well, hey, God bless you guys. Look forward to meet both of you
1:00:42
at the family camp there. I don't know.
1:00:45
Headed in there Thursday and Friday, spending the weekend
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there. And anybody listed, if you
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you. Yeah.
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Last. Minutes I know or even just
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showing up is fine too yeah they.
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Got they got good food there they got really good fellowship
1:01:01
and it's going to be a fun weekend good weather the way it
1:01:04
looks so anyway central Hayek message Andrew find them on
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Facebook. They're all over the place.
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You'll see them. I'm no longer.
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On Facebook so it won't be any good.
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Your wife. Is so you're you're good, my
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wife. Is yeah, Hannah Hannah's rock
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the cute one? Always looking for that points
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you can score right there. All right, sounds good.
1:01:25
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