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Voddie Baucham - Experience Isn't Everything · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: There is also this sense of, going back to the
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  Speaker 1: worldview issue, there is this sense in which we've bought
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  Speaker 1: into the idea that experience trumps all. And therefore, if
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the experience, I can't even speak the
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  Speaker 1: truth I know because the truth of the scripture is
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  Speaker 1: not as powerful as people's experiences. And because we've sort
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  Speaker 1: of bought in to that false way of thinking. I
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  Speaker 1: think that there are a lot of people who are
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  Speaker 1: afraid of this, you know, idea that we'll speak something
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  Speaker 1: that's true scripturally. Somebody will feel like we've been insensitive
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  Speaker 1: to their circumstance and experience, which trumps anything that we
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  Speaker 1: could possibly have said, because after all, God's knowledge is
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  Speaker 1: not nearly as significant as the knowledge of the person
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  Speaker 1: who is experiencing something on the ground. And so we
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  Speaker 1: just sort of step back in that fear. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we need to deal with that first in ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: But secondly, I think we need to help people understand
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  Speaker 1: that your experience doesn't trump anything. Your experience has to
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  Speaker 1: be brought into subjection. Take every thought captive to the
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  Speaker 1: obedience of Christ, every thought. And so I think we're
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  Speaker 1: doing ourselves and we're doing our people a disservice when
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  Speaker 1: we assume that Because I haven't had their experience, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have anything to contribute on this particular issue. So
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  Speaker 1: I totally agree. We don't want to be arrogant and
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  Speaker 1: act like that doesn't matter at all. But we also
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  Speaker 1: don't want to commit the opposite error, which is acting
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  Speaker 1: like it's the only thing that matters.