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Day 1: Greater Works (Part 3) · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Welcome to NECF's sermons. Each message here
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  is designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
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  walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
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  the end for our rewarding experience. Let's dive
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  right in. and i trust that you are following
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  me and god is giving us understanding amen so
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  we we are going to investigate what the scripture
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  is all right since the scripture is now very
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  much a serious matter of conversation in our
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  attempt to do good works to do greater works
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  since the scripture you can write as a topic
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  if you're writing the scriptures since the scriptures
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  are the foundation and the context of the works
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  of jesus so when we're looking for the works
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  of jesus the context the background the inspiration
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  of the works of jesus that he's calling the believers
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  to do we will go to the scriptures so since the
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  scriptures are the foundation and the context
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  of the works of jesus christ the scriptures are
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  also the foundation and the context of the works
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  of the apostles because they do the works of
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  jesus and the ministry we are called to do today
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  as well find its context or their context and
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  foundation from what is found in the scriptures
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  we must understand the scriptures correctly all
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  right it means that we are to know and understand
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  the scriptures correctly we have to know what
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  are the scriptures we have to understand what
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  when we say scriptures what are they or what
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  is the scripture what is the central purpose
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  okay what is the central purpose of the scriptures
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  because that is our manual for the greater works
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  we will do we must understand the central purpose
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  of the message or the message of the scriptures
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  what do the bible reveal about itself all right
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  what is our role message that is you know find
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  the different books we found or we'll find in
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  the scriptures to claim that we have the authority
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  of scriptures to claim that we are you know doing
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  a bible inspired ministry or a bible you know
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  founded ministry we must first understand what
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  the scripture is saying and we say the bible
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  says oh we are doing it according to the word
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  of god we should be able to interpret our beliefs
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  in the light of the whole council of scripture
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  not some isolated verses because that's what
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  we found ourselves doing nowadays you know it's
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  good to memorize verses it's good to cut verses
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  but what i've learned over my maybe short period
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  of life is that you know the intention of memorizing
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  you know good intention that we have of course
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  to memorize we have to memorize we have to have
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  the word in dwelling in us but oftentimes we
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  take away in context of scripture we take verses
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  or part of scriptures in isolation but all scriptures
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  must work together hallelujah either in what
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  we call the old testament or in the new testament
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  there is a you know fine theme of the scripture
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  okay so we have to understand this so later on
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  as i keep waiting our appetite as we go further
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  in this conference we'll have time to go into
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  practice of interpretation which our pastor will
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  bring message to us but much more what is the
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  importance of proper scriptural interpretation
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  what is the importance of it in what we've been
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  called to do sound interpretation is essential
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  for understanding scripture so that we will faithfully
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  you know carry out greater works okay if we don't
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  understand scriptures if we don't interpret scriptures
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  correctly it is impossible for us to do these
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  greater works that we have been called to do
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  so interpretation matters because our doctrine
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  and practice are shaped by how we understand
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  the scriptures all right our teachings and our
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  practices the things we do the things we say
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  how we go about doing the things that we are
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  doing are shaped by our understanding of the
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  scriptures so interpretation is key in helping
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  us to do what god is calling us to do so the
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  goal of interpretation will be for us to discover
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  the author's intended meaning all right because
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  the bible has an intention the scriptures all
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  right has an intention so we must be able to
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  discern or to discover the authors intent is
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  intended meaning before we can apply the text
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  to our lives before we can even see you know
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  the application of the text in the things we
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  do and of course the ministry that we are called
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  to do so we can just insert our own meaning into
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  scriptures because that's what you know we can
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  easily do without proper understanding we are
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  forced to insert our own meanings into scripture
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  thereby altering the author's intended purpose
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  for that text so as far so we bring into us the
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  help that will guide us in proper interpretation
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  i hope there will be better equipped in order
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  to interpret the scriptures well in jesus name
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  but now let's just go in this context that we've
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  started about let's look at an example in scripture
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  of Jesus's ministry Matthew 5 verse 17 Matthew
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  5 verse 17 let's read this text and see something
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  very important Matthew 5 verse 17 I'll be jumping
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  some verses I'll be jumping some so that it will
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  help us to be faster all right let me read verse
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  17 then i'll jump to some verse some verses do
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  not think jesus is speaking here do not think
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  that i have come to destroy the law or the prophets
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  that is he's not come that he might put away
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  what was written in the laws what moses wrote
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  the laws refers to the five or the books that
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  are attributed to moses the first books five
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  books attributed to moses i mean of course the
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  prophets the writings of the prophets and invariably
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  it will include the Psalms okay from Genesis
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  to Malachi so Jesus here is saying that he has
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  not come to destroy or to put an end or to render
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  them useless no that's not what he has come to
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  do all right so the idea that you are a New Testament
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  believer is a questionable idea because you cannot
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  find that in even the New Testament itself so
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  do not think that i have come to destroy the
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  law or the prophets i did not come to destroy
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  but to what to fulfill it hallelujah so jesus
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  christ comes to do what to fulfill now let's
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  look at verse 21 to verse 22 move to verse 21
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  to verse 22 you have heard okay it was said to
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  those of old not if the bible is yours maybe
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  on the land you have heard or in the old kingdoms
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  if you say ye have heard you have heard that
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  it was said to those of old you shall not murder
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  and whoever murders will be in danger of the
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  judgment but i say to you that whosoever is angry
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  with his brother without a curse shall be in
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  danger of the judgment and whoever says to his
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  brother raka shall be in danger of the council
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  but whoever says you fool shall be in danger
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  of hell fire i don't know how comes fire enter
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  this place hallelujah but in danger of hell hallelujah
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  now let's look at verse 27 and verse 28 verse
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  27 and verse 28 you have heard another similar
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  word phrase you have heard ye have heard you
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  have heard that it was said to those of old you
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  shall not commit adultery but i say to you that
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  whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has
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  already committed adultery with her in his heart
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  now let's say it was 31 and was 32 right furthermore
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  it has been said so you see the phrase you have
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  heard you also see the phrase it has been said
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  whoever divorces his wife let him give her a
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  certificate of divorcement of divorce but i say
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  to you that whoever divorces his wife for any
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  reason except sexual immorality causes her to
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  commit adultery and whoever marries a woman who
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  is divorced commits adultery was 33 and was 34
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  again you have heard that it was said to those
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  of old you shall not swear falsely but shall
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  perform your oath to the lord but i say to you
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  do not even swear at all neither by heaven for
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  it is god's throne all right it is god's throne
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  was 43 and was no no no was 38 and was 39 was
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  38 and was 39 yes you have heard that it was
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  said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
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  but i tell you to i tell you not to resist an
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  evil person whoever slaps you on the right cheek
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  you but whosoever slaps you on the right cheek,
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  turn the other to him also alright then of course
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  verse 43 and verse 44 verse 43 and verse 44 verse
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  43 and verse 44 you have heard it was said you
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  shall love your neighbor and what and hate your
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  enemy verse 44 but i say to you love your enemies,
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  bless those who curse you, do good to those who
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  hate you, and pray for those who spicefully use
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  you and persecute you. All right? So oftentimes
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  when we read this, we are tempted to conclude
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  that what Jesus was doing here was contradicting
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  what was written in the 39 books of the Old Testament.
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  We begin to infer that Jesus is is rewriting
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  the old testament or jesus is putting an end
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  to the practices of the old testament no he was
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  rightly interpreting the scriptures in the in
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  the context by which they were inspired hallelujah
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  note there were many materials and sources in
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  the time of jesus christ there were many interpretations
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  in the time of jesus christ there were many schools
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  of thoughts because oftentimes you see the pharisees
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  will bring an issue to jesus and say it is written
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  what do you say about this now what is your own
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  claim about this portion of the law what is your
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  own interpretation of this part of the scriptures
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  so there are many materials many sources many
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  interpretations many commentaries and materials
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  in a time of jesus's interpretation all right
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  so when you hear you have heard or it has been
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  said he wasn't referring to necessarily necessarily
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  he wasn't referred to referring to the 39 books
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  most of the things he said you have heard most
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  of them were not referring to even the altar
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  semantics even though they were involved in what
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  he was saying Jesus was referring to the prevailing
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  interpretation of what was written in that text.
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  We'll see an example. Let's see an example of
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  his engagement with the Pharisees. Matthew chapter
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  19 verse 1 to 9. They brought to him Deuteronomy
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  chapter 24 verse 1 to 4. Matthew 19 verse 1 to
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  9. Now it came to pass when Jesus had finished
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  these sayings that he departed from Galilee.
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  and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan
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  and a great multitude followed him and he healed
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  them there the Pharisees also came to him now
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  the Pharisees came to test him saying saying
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  to him is it lawful for a man to divorce his
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  wife for just any reason you see for just any
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  reason the father okay and he answered and said
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  to them have you not read alright have you not
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  read he who made them were at the beginning made
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  them male and female and said for this reason
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  a man shall leave his father and mother and be
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  joined to his wife and the two shall become one
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  flesh so then they were no longer two but one
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  flesh therefore what god has joined together
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  let no man separate they said to him then why
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  did moses give command to give a certificate
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  of divorce and to put her away now jesus has
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  interpreted that text to them all right concerning
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  the issue of marriage yes yes reveal goes wheel
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  and purpose concerning marriage okay then they
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  come and then they propped more by bringing in
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  the conversation of moses moses because of the
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  hardness of your hearts okay moses because of
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  what the hardness of your heart permitted you
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  to divorce your wives but from the beginning
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  what it was not so in the beginning that is not
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  or that was not the will of god all right and
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  i say to you whoever divorces his wife except
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  for sexual immorality and marries another commits
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  adultery and whoever marries her who is divorced
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  commits adultery so the first is as i said eron
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  they were trying they were interpreting detronomy
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  24 let's look at detronomy 24 verse 1 to 4 where
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  they were bringing in their argument for their
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  question detronomy 24 verse 1 yes when a man
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  takes a wife and marries her and it happens that
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  she finds no favor in his eyes because he has
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  found some uncleanness in her and he writes her
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  a certificate of divorce puts in her hand and
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  send her out of his house when she has departed
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  from his house and goes and becomes another man's
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  wife if the latter husband detests her and writes
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  her a certificate of divorce and puts in her
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  hand and sends her out of the house of his house
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  or if the latter husband dies and dies who took
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  her as his wife then the former husband who divorced
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  her must not take her back to be his wife after
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  she has been defiled for that is an abomination
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  before the lord and you shall not bring sin on
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  the land which the lord your god is giving you
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  as an inheritance so the broad of this takes
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  try to query or question jesus christ but in
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  martin 19 verse 4 particularly he said have you
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  not read have you not read which means is like
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  is like an insult to them these are men that
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  have been grounded in the laws of moses and he's
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  telling them have you not read have you not read
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  these are men who are schooled in the scriptures
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  and he's telling them have you not read the phrase
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  from is from a greek word which refers to know
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  accurately so invariably jesus is saying how
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  don't you have an accurate knowledge okay to
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  know accurately to acknowledge to read properly
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  or thoroughly all right to know accurately to
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  read properly or in another words to interpret
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  properly and come to that place of knowledge
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  the right knowledge we see they use in Matthew
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  12 verse 5 let's see how it was used in other
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  texts too Matthew 12 verse 5 oh have you not
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  read in the law that of the Sabbath the priest
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  in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless
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  22 verse 31 Matthew 22 verse 31 another place
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  where it is what was used matthew 22 verse 31
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  but concerning resurrection of it have you not
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  read what was have you know read what was spoken
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  to you by god saying okay so this means that
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  the scriptures must be read accurately and interpreted
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  properly all right to come to this place of proper
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  and accurate knowledge they must be read properly
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  all right they must be read properly jesus referred
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  them toward to our to the foundation of interpretation
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  itself which they always negate all right they
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  try to interpret the tronomy without genesis
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  so we must read and interpret scriptures correctly
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  because biblical teaching it involves faithfully
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  explaining its meaning so others can understand
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  and apply it properly you see so the wrong knowledge
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  notion that they have established their interpretation
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  that they have established okay will result in
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  their practice will result in the kind of life
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  they will live and even the ministry they will
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  do in luke 24 25 jesus modeled this expounding
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  the scriptures to his disciples the word expounded
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  he used a word expounded mark in luke 2427 meaning
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  to explain thoroughly expounded luke 2427 and
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  beginning at moses and all the prophets he expounded
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  to them in all scriptures the things concerning
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  himself so the Pharisees should have expanded
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  from all the writings of the scripture because
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  the scriptures cannot be interpreted individually
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  we must explain the scriptures in his wholesome
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  so jesus gave an example here by expounding by
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  expounding the scriptures explaining thoroughly
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  interprets by implication to translate the scriptures
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  he unfolded its true meaning and reveal how it
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  points out it is pointing to him from luke chapter
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  24 verse 27 all right now we're going to go back
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  to that later on and look at that issue of marriage
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  later much more properly now let's see another
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  example in matthew 7 26 was 24 Matthew 7 verse
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  28 rather to 29 what we are establishing is a
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  need is a need for proper interpretation because
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  there are varied assumptions about the meanings
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  of scripture and we must know how to interpret
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  scriptures properly Matthew 7 verse 28 and 29
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  how was jesus's teaching for he taught them as
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  one having authority not as the scribes what
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  differentiated jesus's teaching from that of
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  the scribes for he taught them as one having
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  authority and not as the scribes okay jesus did
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  not interpret the scriptures as the scribes and
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  the Pharisees were doing they were astonished
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  at his interpretation at his teaching they've
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  been hearing the scribes and the Pharisees they've
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  been hearing the narratives but what jesus was
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  saying was counter conventional the same scriptures
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  okay but different from what was known at that
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  time because jesus explained and interpreted
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  the scriptures as pointing to him to himself
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  so we can observe the source of jesus's doctrine
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  is more of teaching or interpretation from the
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  early verses in this matthew chapter 7 verse
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  12 see verse 12 that's some text matthew chapter
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  7 verse 12 we see where he was teaching actually
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  in that context of matthew 7 that the bible says
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  the way astonished by his way of teaching therefore
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  okay yes therefore whatever you want men to do
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  to you do also to them for this is the law and
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  the prophets which means that jesus was teaching
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  from what from the law and the prophets all right
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  but they were astonished to how he was explaining
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  the scriptures because his mode of communication
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  his kind of interpretation his kind of explanation
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  is not as the Pharisees and the scribes were
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  doing in that day so he mentioned the law and
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  the prophets which refers to the ultimate scriptures
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  are stated in the verses we read in Matthew 7
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  verse 12 he explained from the scriptures so
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  the word doctrine in Matthew 7 28 implies that
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  the explanation explanation that implies that
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  the statement the people were astonished at his
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  doctrine is really referring to the mark of jesus's
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  explanation of the all testament scriptures so
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  we can henceforth infer that there is a christ
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  note of explanation of the all testament books
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  okay there is a way in which jesus explained
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  the all testament scriptures jesus taught from
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  the scriptures giving an example of how the scriptures
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  should be properly explained is disciples also
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  stayed within this same interpretation this mode
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  of explanation that jesus gave of the scriptures
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  of the old testament books of the bible all right
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  so we in the same light must investigate which
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  we are going to go in the course of this this
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  conference to see how the scriptures are to be
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  interpreted especially the old testament scriptures
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  hallelujah so what is the authority of the scriptures
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  let's look at this we're still investigating
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  the scriptures let's see the authority of the
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  scripture jesus established the authority of
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  the scripture look to the nine verse one and
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  two we see how jesus in safe established the
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  authority of the scriptures look to the nine
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  verse one and two look to the nine verse one
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  and two then he called his twelve disciples together
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  and gave them power and authority now please
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  look at this carefully he gave them power and
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  authority over all demons and to cure diseases
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  verse two he sent them to preach the kingdom
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  of god and to heal the sick so deers have authority
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  that he gave the apostles to go and preach and
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  to heal and to cast out devils verse 28 Matthew
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  28 verse 18 to 20 Matthew 28 verse 18 to 20 we
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  are seeing the authority Jesus has okay and Jesus
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  came and spoke to them saying all authority has
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  been given to me in heaven and on earth go therefore
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  and make disciples to all of all nations baptizing
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  them in the name of the father of the son and
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  of the holy spirit them to observe all things
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  that I have commanded you and know I am with
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  you always to the end of the age okay mark 16
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  verse 15 to 20 mark 16 verse 15 to 20 we're going
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  to see how Jesus commissioned the apostles to
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  preach and to make disciples and he said to them
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  go into all the world and preach the gospel to
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  every creature he who believes is baptized will
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  be saved but he who does not believe will be
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  condemned and this science will follow those
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  who believe in my name by the authority that
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  is in the name of jesus christ they will cast
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  out demons they will speak with new tongues they
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  will take up serpents and it will and they will
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  drink and if they drink if they drink any deadly
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  anything deadly it will by no means hurt them
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  they will lay hands on the sick and they will
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  recover all right yes so then after the lord
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  has spoken to them he was received up into heavens
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  and sat down at the right hand of god verse 20
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  with short rows how they went about and they
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  went out and preach everywhere the lord working
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  with them and confirming their words through
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  their company signs amen so we can add look to
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  the 24 verse 44 we can act accept the one verse
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  eight we can also add x to two was two to eight
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  so we can see that apart from jesus commissioning
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  the apostles to go and preach and make disciples
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  giving them authority we can see that he gave
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  them also authority all right to teach to raise
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  his apples and he gave them the boundary of how
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  this authority will be used okay the authority
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  is through the scriptures all right the things
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  that he has taught them and what he has taught
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  them is from the scriptures so they are not inventing
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  a message but the authority he has given to them
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  is is is is guided by what by the scriptures
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  all right let's look at his life himself jesus
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  christ although jesus the all authority belonged
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  to him we've seen this in matthew 18 verse 28
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  verse 18 he himself consistently affirmed the
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  authority of the scriptures luke chapter 24 verse
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  44 let's read that text again luke 24 verse 44
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  then he said to them these are the words which
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  i spoke to you while i was still with you that
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  all things must be fulfilled which were written
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  in the law of moses and the prophets and the
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  psalms concerning me do you know the implication
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  of this the implication is that jesus christ
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  has all authority okay but while he was on earth
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  he never did something that is outside the scriptures
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  despite of him being god he inspired the writers
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  of the text by the holy ghost you know what jesus
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  is older than the scriptures all right jesus
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  is a reason for the for the text jesus is what
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  the text is aiming at explaining yet when he
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  was on earth what did he do he confined himself
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  within the authority of the scriptures let's
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  take an example of his temptation Matthew 4 verse
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  1 to 11 Mark 1 verse to 13 which one will we
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  read let's read Luke Matthew 4 1 to 11 Luke 4
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  1 to 13 let's read Matthew 1 11 we'll see and
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  jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness
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  to be tempted by the devil and when he had fasted
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  40 days and 40 nights after what he was hungry
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  now when the tempter came to him he said if you
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  are a son of god command these stones to become
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  great but he answered and said to him it is written
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  where it is written it is written in the scriptures
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  that mine shall not live by bread alone but by
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  every word that proceeds from the mouth of the
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  law of god then the devil took him up in a holy
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  city set him on the pinnacle of the temple and
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  said to him if you are the son of god throw yourself
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  down for it is written he shall give his angels
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  charge over you and in their hands they shall
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  bear you up lest you dash your foot against a
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  stone jesus said to him it is written except
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  for him to just say i know who i am or use any
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  word he can use he went back to the scriptures
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  he confined himself within the scriptures giving
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  authority to the scriptures he said it is written
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  again you shall not tempt the lord your god and
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  again the devil took him up on an exceeding high
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  mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the
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  world and their glory and he said to him all
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  these i will give you if you will fall down and
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  worship me jesus said to him again away with
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  you satan for it is what it is written you shall
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  worship the lord your god and him only you shall
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  what you shall serve all right so during his
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  temptation we see clearly repeatedly that he
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  uses the word it is written it is written though
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  he inspired the scriptures and existed before
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  them he chose to submit to their authority that's
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  what i want to portray from here all right jesus
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  submitted himself to the authority of the scriptures
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  isn't it amazing jesus never separated his ministry
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  from the written word he never separated his
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  life from the written word even though he precedes
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  the written word he taught from the scriptures
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  jesus public ministry was grounded in the written
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  scripture look chapter four verse six to twenty
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  one we can write this down we'll see that jesus's
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  teaching were enshrined in the written word he
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  taught the scriptures and give him a treat of
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  the five verse seventeen imagine of the five
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  or seventeen we'll see that he fulfilled the
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  scriptures he came not to do what to destroy
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  it but to what to fulfill the scriptures he taught
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  from the scriptures he fulfilled the scriptures
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  his corrections were from the scriptures he correct
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  errors from the scriptures jesus corrects forms
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  doctrine by directing people back to the scriptures
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  matthew 22 verse 29 matthew 22 verse 29 we'll
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  see that his corrections were from the scriptures
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  jesus answered and said to them you are mistaken
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  not knowing the scripture nor the power of god
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  because i think the context is about resurrection
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  right not knowing the scripture nor the power
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  of god so if you know the scripture you will
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  not come with this interpretation hallelujah
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  so he corrected errors through the scriptures
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  he rebuke from the scriptures during his temptation
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  we see as we read jesus rebuke satan by repeatedly
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  quoting the scriptures demonstrating the authority
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  and the sufficiency of God's word. He rebuked
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  from the scriptures. He didn't wear into Aristotle
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  and garner some wisdom from, which philosopher
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  was one of the famous philosophers within his
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  time? Socrates, right? Jesus did not pick up
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  some Socratic wisdom to rebuke the enemy or the
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  people of his day to correct them. he didn't
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  go into which one will i call today into this
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  famous english writer what's his name Shakespeare
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  yes he didn't go into the Shakespearean wisdom
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  to communicate to the even though Shakespeare
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  lived long long long his contemporary hallelujah
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  but jesus ministry alive was within the boundary
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  of the written word was within the boundary of
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  the scriptures was within the boundary of genesis
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  to malachi hallelujah so he revealed those words
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  through the scriptures okay we'll see again look
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  24 25 and revealing those words Jesus did not
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  bring any new revelation there's no revelation
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  Jesus brought he revealed the will of God the
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  purpose of god the word of god through the scriptures
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  he revealed the redentive plan by explaining
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  how all scriptures pointed to him okay there
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  was no invention in what he came about the specific
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  words even on the cross you see that the word
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  he was saying were within the confines of the
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  written word so our ministry must be hinged on
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  the authority of the scriptures the authority
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  and the effectiveness of our ministry are measured
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  by how faithfully by how faithfully we understand
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  all right the authority of a script of our ministry
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  will be analyzed or will be seen by how much
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  we understand how much we interpret and apply
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  the scriptures not by how popular we are not
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  by the amount of influence we command in society
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  not even by our personal experiences because
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  sometimes we are tempted to ignore our personal
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  experiences our individual experiences that might
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  not necessarily be scriptures above the authority
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  of God's word Jesus never even Paul himself even
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  in his speakings he quoted that he knows a man
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  that was caught in the third heavens he didn't
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  tell us what happened in the third heavens anyway
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  he said that he saw things that even works he
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  doesn't have words to explain them suddenly in
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  our time today people have gone to heaven and
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  they've returned and they are able to explain
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  what they saw in heaven to ask scriptures i don't
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  know maybe i'll be maybe i'll study it but i've
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  not seen any man that goes to heaven and he came
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  back and he have plenty things to say almost
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  everyone that went to heaven have an experience
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  when he comes and his mouth is shut because there
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  are things you know that when jesus came on earth
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  he never tell us how he was relating with the
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  father how they were doing the things the way
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  he confined himself there is a lot he can say
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  all right but all his explanation all his interpretation
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  of the father all this interpretation of the
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  you know in in john chapter 14 the scriptures
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  were written the disciples were saying shows
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  the father i will be okay they wanted something
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  more to know the father and the father has only
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  one way by which he will be known through the
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  sword which is within the boundary of what of
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  the expanded scriptures hallelujah so this is
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  the reality of the kind of ministry that you
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  and I have been called to do we cannot go outside
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  the authority that christ himself have given
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  to the scriptures the authority of our ministry
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  is how biblical we are or how politically correct
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  we are you know in this generation everybody
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  wants to move in a line that he's he's not you
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  know he's trying to balance there's nothing like
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  the gospel is not balanced you can't balance
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  the gospel the the gospel is already balanced
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  by itself are we together so you cannot try to
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  be politically correct in the bits to conform
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  yourself to a certain category of people to a
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  certain movement to a certain association of
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  people that you will be accepted no the gospel
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  itself rightly interpreted is balanced are we
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  together so your authority in ministry is how
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  biblical you are not by how many fellowships
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  have endorsed you but how biblical you are how
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  you know you remain within the authority of the
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  scriptures as rightly explained as rightly interpreted
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  so scripture is meant to guide us in exercising
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  the authority god has given us the way jesus
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  did he says all authority in heaven has been
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  given on to me therefore you go and he didn't
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  just tell him to go he gave them a context of
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  what they will teach and preach hallelujah he
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  said all the things i've taught you what did
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  he teach them he taught them within the scriptures
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  same thing teach others what you've received
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  before me in the presence of many witnesses get
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  some faithful people and give them hallelujah
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  some of you will be leaving us very soon and
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  you'll be going back on my trust in god that
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  you go back to wherever you're going to do the
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  work of god wherever god will take you to and
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  i want you to know that there's no invention
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  you're going to do outside what you've had hallelujah
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  the context of what you would do is within the
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  authority of the scriptures so the bible the
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  scriptures has been given to us as the guide
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  in exercising the authority that we have he who
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  has authority before the scriptures that is jesus
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  he has authority before the scriptures we are
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  written he submits himself to read then we don't
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  have any valid excuse to do ministry without
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  the written word hallelujah jesus who is god
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  submitted himself to the scriptures that he inspired
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  through human authors okay i want to bring to
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  you that is human beings that wrote the scriptures
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  not god all right in the writing is men that
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  wrote it inspired by the spirit of god in human
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  language language that men can understand men
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  with flows like you and like me men like david
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  a murderer men like moses the one that killed
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  someone in egypt and ran away men of light uh
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  how do they explain elijah like passion as us
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  all right ordinary men but god inspired through
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  them to write the words of the holy scriptures
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  to which god himself while coming to earth confined
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  his authority within that scripture that is a
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  humility of god i would say confirmed himself
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  within the authority of what was written by men
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  and in it in the inspiration of scriptures it
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  the inspiration of scriptures did not take away
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  human inefficiency all right the scripture was
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  not inspired you know the scripture was not written
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  by perfect men that's what i want to say sometimes
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  the writings of scriptures it exposes the weakness
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  of the characters and the scriptures all right
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  it exposes their flows what was so secure that
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  you could write even the flows of his prophet
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  in the scriptures the scripture is honest about
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  human feelings and feelings to read the songs
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  songs of solomon you know what is there you read
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  lamentation you're wondering why the lamentation
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  all right so the bible is not the scriptures
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  we're not ignorant of human emotions and feelings
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  and feelings but they are sacred hallelujah they
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  are sacred they are holy and jesus christ himself
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  who is god came into flesh submitted himself
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  to the authority of the world so the greater
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  works we are called to do are define their context
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  that's what i want to say the greater works we
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  are called to do find its context pattern and
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  the way of execution from the written word okay
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  we are not inventing the wheel we are not reinventing
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  the wheel all right so we have a pattern we have
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  a message we have uh how to do it and it's given
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  to us in the written word god has delegated to
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  the written text how he must be known and how
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  he must be followed all right so if you want
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  to know god he has given to us in a written text
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  how he must be known and how he must be followed
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  so whatever revelation that you bring from whatever
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  part heavens whatever portals that by grace or
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  by your own doings might be open to see must
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  align itself if it does not align with the written
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  word if it does not find its authority in the
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  written word then it is not qualified to be an
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  inspiration or a sense of direction for the believer
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  because god has delegated to the written text
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  how he must be known and how he must be followed
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  there's no biblical ministry without the written
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  scriptures we keep emphasizing okay is no biblical
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  ministry without the written word without the
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  written scriptures so the greater works christ
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  is calling us to do must be carried out according
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  to the pattern that he has shown to us in scriptures
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  and not creating a new message we are loyal to
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  the written word so sound doctrine requires careful
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  study all right it requires careful study to
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  know biblical doctrine teaching must be carefully
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  developed through patience and accurate study
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  study of the scriptures we don't become lazy
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  we become patient that we might be accurate in
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  a delivery of the message that god has given
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  us effective teaching of scripture effective
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  teachers of scripture handle ghost world with
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  diligence and precision that you may not add
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  your own opinions as overall authority over scripture
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  so we are called on to that kind of ministry
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  and the ministry is within the authority of the
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  scriptures that we have hallelujah now let's
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  look at the scripture more acts of the 20 verse
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  25 to 28 paul communicating to the church in
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  ethesus and indeed now i knew that i know that
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  you all and indeed now i know among whom i have
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  gone preaching the kingdom of god will see my
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  face no more yes therefore i testify to you this
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  day that i am innocent of the blood of all men
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  for i have not shown to declare to you the whole
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  council of god therefore take it to yourself
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  and to the flock among which the holy spirit
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  has made you overseers to shepherd the church
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  of god which he has purchased with his own blood
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  okay to appreciate Paul's statement in this text
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  let's look at verse 27 he says for I have not
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  shown to declare to you the whole council of
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  God the whole council of God where will the whole
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  council of God be found he has not shown he has
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  not ceased from declaring to them the whole council
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  of God now to understand and to appreciate that
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  statement is important for us to flow to understand
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  the flow of his farewell address to them in that
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  particular text contextually here paul has spent
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  about three years in ethesus okay teaching them
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  daily preaching the gospel performing miracles
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  and establishing the church during the time all
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  the residents of asia had the word of the lord
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  demonstrating the depth and the impact of his
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  ministry you can see this in acts of the 19 was
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  one to ten acts 19 was one to ten let's have
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  a context to understand what he mean that he
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  has not shown to declare to them the word council
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  of god's word and it happened while apollos was
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  occurring that paul having passed through the
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  opera regions came to emphasis and finding some
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  disciples he said to them did you receive this
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  the holy spirit when you believe so they said
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  to you we have not so much as heart whether there
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  is a holy spirit as a shokah and they were disciples
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  and he said to them into what then were you baptized
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  so they said into john's baptism then paul said
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  to them john and they baptized with the baptism
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  of repentance saying the people that they should
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  believe on him who will come after him that is
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  on to christ so john was pointing on to someone
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  that will come in the future so there's heightened
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  they see that their message right their ministry
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  was established on a messiah that is to come
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  but because they've not had that there's a measure
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  that has already come and he has died and he
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  is raised again and the spirit has been given
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  they were holding on to the all -time religion
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  they were holding on to the ministry of John
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  there's nothing wrong with the ministry of John
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  there's nothing wrong with the ministry or the
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  message of John but we must understand the context
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  of the ministry of John when they had this they
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  were baptized in the name of the lord jesus christ
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  and when paul had laid hands on them the holy
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  spirit came upon them and they spoke with tongues
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  and prophesied now the men were about 12 in all
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  and he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly
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  for three months reasoning and persuading concerning
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  the things of the kingdom of god but when some
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  were hardened and did not believe but spoke evil
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  of the way which way the way of the gospel the
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  way of the kingdom of god all right but speaking
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  of the way before the multitude he departed from
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  there and with you with the disciples this young
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  these people i will call them at this moment
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  these young ministers reasoning daily in the
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  school of what he was reasoning daily with them
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  in a school called the school of tyranus and
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  this continued for how many years for two years
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  so that all who dwelled in asia had the word
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  of the lord jesus both jews and non -jews all
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  right then in chapter 20 verse 17 to 21 we'll
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  see from mellitus all right paul summoned these
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  men that have become elders the official elders
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  and reminded them of how he had served with humility
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  and faithful teaching he preached publicly and
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  from house to house calling both the jews and
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  the deltas who work to repentance and faith in
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  christ jesus okay there was 20 to 24 and we'll
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  see how paul declared that although imprisonment
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  and suffering awaits him is highest priority
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  was to finish the ministry of christ that has
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  been entrusted to him so when we arrive at verse
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  20 to 27 that we read we see that knowing this
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  as a context will likely be the final meeting
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  him knowing that this might be the final meeting
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  that you have with them paul affirmed that he
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  was innocent of being of their blood because
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  he had what he had not shrunk in the old kingdom
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  he says he has not shrunk from declaring the
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  whole council of god he had taught god's complete
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  message without compromise or omission all right
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  he has taught god's complete message the entirety
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  of the message of god with that word compromise
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  or omission therefore in verse 28 to verse 31
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  we see paul will charge the elders to shepherd
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  ghost flock and he warned them that false teachers
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  will arise even from among them their own leaders
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  to distort the truth and lead believers astray
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  is a warning he was giving them before he would
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  depart from them okay then it was 32 and 35 we
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  read and we see that he committed them to god
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  and to that message that he has been teaching
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  them they has been preaching to them emphasizing
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  that god's word can build believers up and establish
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  them in their inheritance that is their heritage
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  indeed that is what builds them up and mold them
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  and shape them into what god has you know brought
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  them for then the concluding part in verse 36
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  to 38 we see that the meeting ended with prayers
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  tears and hard farewell and elders they were
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  grieved you know that they will not see Paul
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  again so many of the truth Paul's letter wrote
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  in Ephesians reflects what he had already taught
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  them impressive okay if we read the book of Ephesians
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  we'll discover that this whole council of God
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  is what he later reminded them in the book of
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  Ephesians hallelujah for example now if you read
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  efficiency of the one verse three to fourteen
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  it speaks about god's eternal purpose in christ
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  all right this is this is this is the world council
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  of god efficiency of the one verse three to fourteen
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  speaks about the eternal purpose of god in christ
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  okay and then we'll see that expressed in the
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  concept of salvation by grace we'll go to Ephesians
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  2 verse 1 to 10 Ephesians 3 verse 1 to 7 we'll
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  see the idea of salvation by grace this is him
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  expounding the whole council of god all right
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  we'll see him calling them to holy living in
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  Ephesians 4 chapter 5 holy living how they can
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  live as who they are in christ and then he talks
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  about spiritual warfare chapter 6 and centrality
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  of God's word in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 17
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  specifically talks about God's word so all of
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  these form the whole council of God that Paul
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  has faithfully declared during his ministry in
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  Ephesus hallelujah this involve all it encapsulate
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  what Paul referred to as the whole council of
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  god that paul faithfully declared during his
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  ministry in ethesus so acts of the 20 verse 27
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  is not merely a statement about preaching everything
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  in general okay oh you know i've taught you about
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  politics i've taught you about uh business i've
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  taught you about about marriage i've taught you
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  about anything but it's specific the council
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  of god is specific hallelujah the council of
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  god is specific and has context it's not just
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  anything it's specific is that everything in
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  general it reflects post commitment to teaching
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  the full scope of god's redemptive plan revealed
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  in the scriptures so that all council of god
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  we see in in axe chapter 20 verse 27 is specific
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  to what the whole scope of God's word of God's
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  redemptive plan as revealed within the boundary
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  of the scriptures and as we've emphasized from
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  the beginning that when we say scriptures we
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  have many words Genesis to Malachi so Ephesians
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  will be Genesis will be Paul explaining Genesis
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  to Malachi so the role of the spirit is in helping
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  him understand the written word and then he wrote
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  and he's able to interpret and wrote the epistles
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  hallelujah so where did paul get the whole council
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  of god that he declared onto them that he paul
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  has spent about three years in effesus teaching
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  daily preaching the gospel the authority to perform
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  miracles and also establishing the church we've
• 1:00:54
  said it that this whole council of god that is
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  commending them to in acts of the 20 verse 32
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  that is the whole council of god that paul later
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  wrote to them in a few in the epistles where
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  you know from the scriptures from the all testament
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  scriptures from the all testament scriptures
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  now let's let's look at the word council what
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  is the word council from that axe 2027 the word
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  council that word council give me access council
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  for i have not shown to declare to you the word
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  council of god that word council is from the
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  greek word bole b -o -u -l -e b -o -u -l -e and
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  it means purpose okay it means purpose it means
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  also a plan it means also intention or sometimes
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  you know the wheel all right or a deliberate
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  design you know you have a design for something
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  so that's what council will be referring to the
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  purpose of god will be referring to the plan
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  of god will be referring to the wheel of god
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  or god's deliberate design so it refers to carefully
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  considered decision of predetermined purpose
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  explaining that word council especially one that
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  proceeds from god bringing it to context here
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  in the scriptures that we just read all right
• 1:02:43
  so we can see some of his use in the new testament
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  looked at the seven verse 30 all right looked
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  at the seven verse 30 quickly to see where this
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  word council was used to proper understand it
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  but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the
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  will of god for themselves not having been baptized
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  by him so here that word will is actually the
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  word council so the Pharisees here and the lawyers
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  rejected the purpose of god for themselves how
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  how do you reject it by rejecting the message
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  of jesus christ concerning salvation that's what
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  they did here all right actually two verse 23
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  the word here means god's sovereign predetermined
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  plan of redemption him being delivered by the
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  determined purpose that determined purpose here
• 1:03:30
  has to do with the word council okay is the same
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  word in the greek the council and the for knowledge
• 1:03:35
  of what you have taken by lawless hands and have
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  crucified and put to death so this is god's design
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  okay been delivered by the design and the purpose
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  of god so jesus was delivered by the design the
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  determined design and the purpose of god that's
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  the word council all right another way is axe
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  of the 20 axe 428 axe 428 axe 428 to do whatever
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  your hand and your purpose determined before
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  to be done this is a prayer of the apostles so
• 1:04:16
  that word there they're speaking about jesus
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  christ and what he has done and how they persecuted
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  that they persecuted him and they're persecuting
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  them so this is talking about god's eternal purpose
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  efficiency of the one verse 11 referring to god's
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  wise sovereign purpose governing all things if
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  just one verse 11 in him also have we have obtained
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  an inheritance been predestined according to
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  the purpose of him who works all things according
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  to the council of his will hebrew six verse 17
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  that word is used for god's unchanging plan hebrew
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  six verse 17 hebrew six verse 17 so god determined
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  determined to show more abundantly to the hairs
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  of promise the immutability please help me this
• 1:05:21
  word is a bit heavy let's break it give me nlt
• 1:05:29
  the immutability of god's council god also bound
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  himself with an oath so that those who receive
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  the promise could be perfectly sure that he will
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  never change his mind all right that is what
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  that immutability is going to explain the inability
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  of god to change his position concerning the
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  matter of salvation i read together yes in his
• 1:05:57
  desire to show to the hares of the promise the
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  unchanged the unchangeable nature of his purpose
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  god's purpose concerning salvation does not change
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  so that was this talking about his plan that
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  is unchanging is unchangeable so when paul says
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  he declared the whole council of god now you
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  understand what that council is he is referring
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  to god's complete plan and purpose as revealed
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  in the scriptures okay and that plan and purpose
• 1:06:31
  is revealed in genesis to malachi which form
• 1:06:35
  the basis of his preaching and teaching it means
• 1:06:42
  the scriptures or the scriptures we can call
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  it is the book that reveals gos plan all right
• 1:06:50
  the scripture reveals gos plan gos purpose gos
• 1:06:54
  plan and gos purpose this means it is important
• 1:06:58
  to adequately interpret and understand the council
• 1:07:02
  of god as revealed in the scriptures because
• 1:07:06
  we cannot know the plan and the purpose of god
• 1:07:09
  outside the scriptures you can never know god's
• 1:07:12
  plan for you outside the scriptures you can never
• 1:07:15
  know god's plan for humanity outside the scriptures
• 1:07:18
  you cannot know the reason for the creation of
• 1:07:20
  the world outside the scriptures you cannot know
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  the reason or how redemption or what the promise
• 1:07:27
  of redemption outside the scriptures hallelujah
• 1:07:33
  so let's see acts 20 verse 20 he says how i kept
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  back nothing that was helpful this is what's
• 1:07:43
  familiar remember we're reading timothy timothy
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  use the word timothy use the word profitable
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  and when he said profitable what was he referring
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  to the whole scriptures all scriptures right
• 1:07:57
  now paul is using the same conversation is speaking
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  in the same pattern here how i came back nothing
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  that was helpful but proclaimed to you and taught
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  you how publicly and from house to house okay
• 1:08:15
  now that was helpful is translated from a greek
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  word sin feral i may not pronounce it well but
• 1:08:23
  i will spell it and tell us the meaning s y m
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  meaning to be profitable meaning beneficial it
• 1:08:34
  means advantageous to helpful or helpful rather
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  to bring together for a useful purpose or to
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  contribute to someone's good this is a valid
• 1:08:45
  expression or the uses of this word all right
• 1:08:48
  so what paul is saying that he held back nothing
• 1:08:53
  that is useful for them and how did he help back
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  nothing by declaring to them the whole council
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  of god's word and where is the council of god's
• 1:09:02
  word located is located within the scriptures
• 1:09:06
  so everything you need that is helpful that pertains
• 1:09:11
  to life and to godliness has been fully supplied
• 1:09:15
  in the scriptures so paul will say i held back
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  nothing that was that was helpful to you but
• 1:09:26
  proclaim to you and talk to you publicly and
• 1:09:28
  from house to house and i can see him saying
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  you know some of you came to me in the night
• 1:09:35
  on signing council some things that has happened
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  i held back nothing from you that was helpful
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  some of you were having issues with your husbands
• 1:09:41
  and your wives i held back nothing to you that
• 1:09:44
  was helpful some of you have issues even in your
• 1:09:48
  your civil life your natural life i held back
• 1:09:52
  nothing that was helpful for you which means
• 1:09:54
  that all the believer needs that is helpful for
• 1:09:57
  his life on earth is delivered in the whole council
• 1:10:02
  of god is helpful for his life for his stay within
• 1:10:07
  the earth hallelujah so paul is saying that he
• 1:10:12
  taught everything that was spiritually beneficial
• 1:10:14
  and every unnecessary for the believers growth
• 1:10:18
  withholding nothing that will help them know
• 1:10:21
  christ and mature in the faith បបបបបបប first
• 1:10:54
  Corinthians six verse. I want us to read this
• 1:10:57
  first Corinthians six verse 12. First Corinthians
• 1:10:59
  six verse 12. Give me that first Corinthians
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  six verse 12. All things are lovable for me,
• 1:11:07
  but not all things are, but all things are not
• 1:11:10
  helpful. So this is the application or the usage
• 1:11:13
  of that word. And not all things are beneficial,
• 1:11:16
  right? First Corinthians 10 verse 23. all things
• 1:11:25
  yes yes same same same same same same he says
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  all things are lovely for me but not all things
• 1:11:31
  are helpful all things are lovely for me but
• 1:11:33
  not all things are edify so he uses the word
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  help the helpful day and is from that word sin
• 1:11:40
  ferro all right so in second timothy table three
• 1:11:43
  verse 16 we saw another word closely related
• 1:11:46
  to this and i said is the word profitable So
• 1:12:21
  what is the difference or what relates these
• 1:12:23
  two together? Sinfero from Acts 20 -20 is a verb,
• 1:12:32
  all right, which means to benefit. We've seen
• 1:12:36
  the, what do you call it? The definition. And
• 1:12:39
  ophilimus is an adjective, all right? Sinfero
• 1:12:45
  emphasizes what contribute to a person's good
• 1:12:48
  or advantage. it emphasizes what contributes
• 1:12:53
  to a person or advantage, to his person's advantage,
• 1:12:59
  whereas Ophilemos emphasizes the quality of being
• 1:13:02
  useful or profitable. Let me repeat it again.
• 1:13:08
  St. Pharaoh speaks about or emphasizes the contribution
• 1:13:12
  to a person's good or advantage, while Ophilemos
• 1:13:18
  in Timothy speaks or emphasizes the quality of
• 1:13:23
  being useful or profitable talking about the
• 1:13:25
  scriptures so the scriptures is it contributes
• 1:13:30
  to a person good or to a person's advantage and
• 1:13:34
  the scripture also has the quality of being useful
• 1:13:37
  or profitable in a person's life hallelujah so
• 1:13:42
  this is very important that we understand the
• 1:13:46
  usefulness of the scriptures as the basis to
• 1:13:51
  which we find the whole council of God all right
• 1:13:58
  so we've established that when Paul taught the
• 1:14:07
  Ephesians taught and wrote to the Ephesians and
• 1:14:11
  to Timothy both Ephesians and Timothy the book
• 1:14:14
  of Ephesians and the book of Timothy let me be
• 1:14:16
  very he wrote this around AD 63 and AD 67 the
• 1:14:27
  new testament had not yet been completed okay
• 1:14:31
  and the bible does not yet exist in the form
• 1:14:34
  that we have it today when paul wrote Ephesians
• 1:14:38
  and also wrote Timothy and especially his counselor
• 1:14:43
  we saw in the book of acts the new testament
• 1:14:46
  bible have not been collaborated that as we have
• 1:14:49
  it today paul's epistles came later ad okay his
• 1:14:57
  epistles were written between ad 48 and ad 67
• 1:15:02
  they are actually the earliest new testament
• 1:15:05
  writings paul's writings his epistles were actually
• 1:15:08
  new the earliest you know books were written
• 1:15:12
  that comprises the new testament the gospels
• 1:15:17
  were written later after the epistles were written
• 1:15:20
  later on in sometimes around AD 65 -67 we'll
• 1:15:25
  see that was when the book of Mark was written
• 1:15:27
  Matthew was written later on at AD am I too fast?
• 1:15:33
  okay the book of Mark was written around AD 65
• 1:15:38
  -70 the book of Matthew was written around AD
• 1:15:42
  70 -85 the book of luke was written around 80
• 1:15:47
  80 and 90 and lastly john was around 90 to 95
• 1:15:54
  ad okay so the new testament books we are having
• 1:16:00
  today all we have today we are recognized by
• 1:16:03
  the church in the fourth century ad that is about
• 1:16:09
  367 ad 367 and ad 397 approximately about 360
• 1:16:18
  years after the death of christ and his resurrection
• 1:16:23
  why am i listening this is to bring to our understanding
• 1:16:28
  that when paul said i did not shrink from declaring
• 1:16:31
  to you the whole council of god in acts of a
• 1:16:34
  20 verse 27 and later wrote that all scripture
• 1:16:38
  is god breath in second timothy was three to
• 1:16:41
  16 it was primarily referring to the Old Testament
• 1:16:45
  scriptures Genesis to Malachi from these scriptures
• 1:16:50
  Pope proclaimed the whole council of God God's
• 1:16:54
  completely redemptive purpose revealed through
• 1:16:58
  the Old Testament and fulfilled in Jesus Christ
• 1:17:03
  this is a same Christ -centered approach Jesus
• 1:17:08
  modeled when he began with Moses and all the
• 1:17:13
  prophets and then he interpreted across the scriptures
• 1:17:17
  the things concerning himself in luke chapter
• 1:17:19
  24 verse 27 and luke 24 verse 44 to 47 hallelujah
• 1:17:28
  so am i in any way saying that the new testament
• 1:17:33
  is not scripture i did not allude that all right
• 1:17:37
  am i in any way downgrading the authority of
• 1:17:41
  Matthew to Revelation I did not mention that
• 1:17:44
  so if you are hearing that then you are not hearing
• 1:17:47
  from what I'm saying but I'm building a case
• 1:17:51
  and the case I'm trying to build is that we must
• 1:17:57
  learn to appreciate the scriptures in its wholesomeness
• 1:18:02
  because we cannot be accurate in our practice
• 1:18:09
  in our ministry when we relegate Genesis to Malachi
• 1:18:14
  you cannot watch let me use something kind of
• 1:18:19
  to give us an understanding you cannot approach
• 1:18:21
  you cannot appreciate Welcome to America that
• 1:18:24
  was acted on a few years ago you know the movie
• 1:18:27
  you cannot you cannot appreciate the one that
• 1:18:30
  was acted most recently without watching the
• 1:18:34
  one that was acted was produced in the 90s you
• 1:18:39
  will not appreciate the movie but when you have
• 1:18:43
  watched the one that was before and lo and behold
• 1:18:46
  you watch a sequel of it today or for instance
• 1:18:51
  you watch wakanda that was done most recently
• 1:18:53
  and you have no idea of the one that was done
• 1:18:56
  before how will you appreciate what you have
• 1:18:58
  today and understand the storyline without going
• 1:19:02
  back to watch the previous it's impossible for
• 1:19:04
  you to comprehend the storyline and that is also
• 1:19:07
  with the scriptures is impossible for you to
• 1:19:11
  understand the plan and the purpose of god as
• 1:19:14
  expressed in the new testament scriptures what
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  we call the new testament scriptures we dial
• 1:19:20
  a comprehensive appreciation that comes from
• 1:19:25
  proper interpretation proper explanation of the
• 1:19:29
  old testament scriptures and i'm hoping and i'm
• 1:19:33
  trusting god in my heart that before this conference
• 1:19:36
  will end we'll go into the old testament scriptures
• 1:19:39
  and we will try to know the word council of god
• 1:19:42
  from the old testament we will try to explain
• 1:19:46
  as much as we can i know that we cannot exhaust
• 1:19:49
  it in one meeting but we'll try to touch even
• 1:19:51
  if it's even even if it's a part of it to try
• 1:19:53
  to show to us that the new testament scriptures
• 1:19:57
  are they have no value without the old testament
• 1:20:00
  scriptures so in our ministry we must we must
• 1:20:05
  be willing to appreciate the whole council of
• 1:20:10
  God's word. The reason for the rascality we have
• 1:20:14
  in our Christianity today and the false doctrine
• 1:20:17
  we see parading in our society today, in our
• 1:20:20
  practice today, is because of our misunderstanding
• 1:20:24
  of God's intended plan from the beginning. Because
• 1:20:28
  when we don't understand God's intention from
• 1:20:30
  the beginning, there's no how we can communicate
• 1:20:32
  God's plan effectively. Hallelujah. so we must
• 1:20:37
  understand the context the background the the
• 1:20:41
  curriculum the the guide for what god has called
• 1:20:47
  us to do so what are the episodes for main four
• 1:20:53
  okay if i have so much from the beginning till
• 1:20:58
  now emphasize so much okay the importance of
• 1:21:03
  genesis to malachi which we're going to return
• 1:21:05
  back later then someone may be asking them what
• 1:21:07
  are they what is the essence of the epistles
• 1:21:09
  what are they meant for now the epistles are
• 1:21:13
  post -resurrection letters meant to highlight
• 1:21:18
  the importance of the resurrection in gos grand
• 1:21:24
  plan i just try to make it in a simple short
• 1:21:27
  word the importance of the epistles is to highlight
• 1:21:34
  okay the the the epistles are meant to highlight
• 1:21:39
  the importance of the resurrection who's the
• 1:21:42
  resurrection jesus is resurrection in god's grand
• 1:21:48
  plan are we together so in god's grand plan for
• 1:21:52
  humanity for creation for humanity the epistles
• 1:21:56
  helps us because by the help of the spirit the
• 1:21:59
  apostles were able to write from the background
• 1:22:02
  of what they know as a promise john will say
• 1:22:07
  we've seen him we've touched the word of life
• 1:22:10
  we've seen the promise of god as one that came
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  from god he lived from we live within us and
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  he is the eternal life so the new testament books
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  are what we mostly establish or formulate our
• 1:22:28
  doctrines nowadays okay who will talk about tongues
• 1:22:32
  and interpretation of tongues somebody will say
• 1:22:35
  i don't follow paula i follow jesus but you speak
• 1:22:38
  in tongues so how many tongues did jesus speak
• 1:22:40
  you are a prophet and you don't follow you you
• 1:22:45
  only follow jesus what is the context of your
• 1:22:48
  prophetic ministry hallelujah so we must know
• 1:22:54
  what you are doing we're dealing with so that
• 1:22:57
  we can we will not go there and be shaming ourselves
• 1:22:59
  okay we'll not go there and be disgracing ourselves
• 1:23:03
  so our desire is that god will establish us in
• 1:23:06
  his word that we will be those men that know
• 1:23:09
  the plan of god from the beginning okay so as
• 1:23:15
  i said we establish our doctrines or most of
• 1:23:23
  the things we establish our doctrines nowadays
• 1:23:25
  are from the new testament scriptures but we
• 1:23:27
  must be cautious with that okay we must be careful
• 1:23:30
  with that i'm not saying it's wrong but i'm saying
• 1:23:33
  that we must be careful on the line the word
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  careful with that do you know that early church
• 1:23:39
  do not even have them collected as we have today
• 1:23:43
  the new testament scriptures they don't even
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  have them as collected today but yet they are
• 1:23:48
  the standard for us all right which means that
• 1:23:52
  the church okay the bible they use was genesis
• 1:23:57
  to malachi are we together then we see their
• 1:24:01
  writings and their holy spirit working with them
• 1:24:04
  we must not take away the role of the spirit
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  in the early church and even in our church today
• 1:24:09
  hallelujah because if we limit our understanding
• 1:24:13
  of god to the epistles alone please if you are
• 1:24:17
  sleeping right if you are writing right alone
• 1:24:20
  so that you know go and say what i did not say
• 1:24:22
  if we limit our understanding of god to the epistles
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  alone we will not be doing justice to the writers
• 1:24:32
  of the epistles you understand what i said we
• 1:24:36
  will not be kind to them because we are not fair
• 1:24:39
  to their writings their epistles because that
• 1:24:41
  was not even their intention in the beginning
• 1:24:43
  paul who taught from the old testament did not
• 1:24:47
  limit our understanding of god to his epistles
• 1:24:53
  all right he did not limit our understanding
• 1:24:57
  of god to his letters alone therefore we emphasize
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  that the bible in its wholesomeness is a council
• 1:25:05
  of god okay you must be those kind of teachers
• 1:25:12
  that must teach the whole council of god so the
• 1:25:17
  scriptures communicates one coherent message
• 1:25:20
  with a clear focus that unites all their parts
• 1:25:25
  from genesis to where to revelation okay from
• 1:25:30
  genesis to a to revelation there's a coherent
• 1:25:34
  message with a clear focus each has a focus in
• 1:25:40
  all their parts they have a focus the the the
• 1:25:44
  the gospels focus on the humanity of jesus christ
• 1:25:48
  and what he did on the earth the epistles focus
• 1:25:52
  on what the resurrection and all that we have
• 1:25:55
  obtained by the spirit in the resurrection and
• 1:25:59
  all of them will all be connecting to a the genesis
• 1:26:03
  to malakai in order to establish and bring a
• 1:26:06
  picture for us of the entirety of the council
• 1:26:09
  and the plan and the purpose of god for our lives
• 1:26:11
  so we must read the bible properly together as
• 1:26:14
  a whole no part of the bible should be read alone
• 1:26:21
  we don't try to pick the passages that make sense
• 1:26:24
  to us and ignore all three others as lesser the
• 1:26:31
  whole bunch of scripture collected together must
• 1:26:38
  be read together you know the babu is not like
• 1:26:41
  going to a restaurant there's a restaurant in
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  levkosha where when you enter you know they give
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  you a plate and then you pick whatever you want
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  and then you go and sit down and then you pay
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  you don't come to the word of god like that you
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  don't cherry pick what you want from the scriptures
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  there is nothing like favorite scripture or favorite
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  verse the entire scripture is your favorite and
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  you you make it your favorite hallelujah the
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  entirety of scripture is the whole council of
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  god so we must understand this and We have a
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  temptation to read the Bible in isolated themes
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  or topics. It's good, but it's dangerous also.
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  The Bible is God's story woven around men. So
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  when we begin to focus on some specific topics,
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  as good as character study, we'll end up emphasizing
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  things that are not meant to be emphasized. I'm
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  forgetting the entire council of God, the story
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  of God, because the Bible is a story from Genesis
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  to Revelation. Hallelujah. So you cannot pitch
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  a tent in Malachi and establish a whole council
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  of God in Malachi without knowing that Malachi
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  started from Genesis and is headed towards the
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  Revelation. Hallelujah. So as I said, the New
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  Testament is a sequel of the Old Testament. And
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  for us to understand the New Testament properly,
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  we must understand the Old Testament. If we remove
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  context from a story, what it means is I will
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  be telling a different story. I remember a game
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  where people would line up, all right, and then
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  one person would tell something, something else,
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  and the next person would tell the person. And
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  before the story reached the last person, what
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  the first person said have changed meaning because
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  the story has lost you know the important ingredient
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  that makes it the complete story so we can't
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  remove a part of scripture and treat it more
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  special than the other because the word of god
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  is a complete story so the new testament writers
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  always assume that their audience are familiar
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  with the Old Testament scriptures all right the
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  New Testament writers they have an assumption
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  most times they have assumption they assume a
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  position that their their hearers their audience
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  have an understanding of the Old Testament the
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  story in the Old Testament so you cannot just
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  pick up the story in the New Testament without
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  sitting at where they sat knowing what they knew
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  so that you better understand what they wrote
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  that you will come to a place of proper interpretation
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  and even teaching hallelujah so we must give
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  context to what we are studying that we will
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  be able to be better ministers so i'm tempted
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  to say something here do the new testament scriptures
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  or writers ask and answer the questions we are
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  asking today okay the serious matter when the
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  new testament writers were writing We are confronted
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  with the same issues we are confronted with today.
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  I think it was when he was a brother before he
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  became Pasota Kunda. One day he came to me and
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  he asked me a question. Is it about transgender?
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  And honestly I've never thought about it. I don't
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  know how I answered him but I just let it go.
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  I have to go and think about it. Say for example
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  now, a man changed his sex and said he's a female
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  and then he comes to you and says he's now born
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  again. Is he a she or a he? I don't know, but
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  let's assume there is a she now. And then you
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  are the pastor of the church that belongs, that
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  that person is a fellow shaman. Now this person
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  has changed gender. He's now a she now. And this
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  person is led to marry. and it came to you as
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  a parcel of that trust for counselling. How will
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  you deal with that circumstance? Show me any
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  text in the New Testament that interprets that
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  scenario. How will you address that matter? And
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  I was, okay, let me think about it. How will
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  you address that matter? Because you know what?
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  When the writers of a New Testament were writing,
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  they have no idea of what is called transgender.
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  you understand but you know what as a man of
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  god you must be equipped to give answer to that
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  okay because you must explain you must guide
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  you must teach how will you confront that kind
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  of situation from the council of goals or how
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  will you confront it so do the new testament
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  writers attempt to write to confront the issues
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  we are dealing with today one of the challenges
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  we face today is trying to answer today's questions
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  using the writings in the new testament we must
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  also be careful to not move into error in application
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  of their holy writings okay also will teach us
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  about context i'm waiting i i don't know how
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  much i'm waiting for a session hallelujah i love
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  them i i want to i want to hear that context
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  is king hallelujah One of the most important
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  principles of Biblical interpretation is to allow
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  the New Testament writers to answer the questions
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  they were actually addressing themselves. Rather
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  than forcing them to answer a question that arose
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  in our time or in many centuries later. Every
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  epistle was written to a real audience. Is there
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  any epistle that's written to those people in
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  left kosha in the year 2026 it's not a person
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  like that it was written to a rip most of them
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  you see timothy is a young man like us in his
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  time and his season and the issues he was dealing
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  with some of them could be familiar to our situation
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  that we can apply but some of them are not really
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  an issue right so a real audience in a specific
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  historical context to address particular issues
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  facing the early church so our responsibility
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  is to first understand their question what are
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  they trying to ask what are they trying to answer
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  then we'll find a way to apply their answers
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  in our world today for example now i said he
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  has a we are not the corinthian church okay no
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  we are the efficient or the roman the roman church
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  Indeed, the thing is written, we are written
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  for, they were written for us, they were written
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  to us. Is it to us? Romans 15 verse 4. The things
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  that were written were not written to us, but
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  they were written for us. That is, we are not
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  the ones that have been addressed, but we are
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  written for our identification. For whatever
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  things that were written before were written
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  for our learning even them right in the time
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  that we're writing the epistles they refer to
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  the writings of the Old Testament they contextualize
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  the Old Testament for whatever things were written
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  before were written for our learning that we
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  through patience and comfort of the scriptures
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  might have hope so there's a sense of hope in
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  the scriptures so the central concern of the
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  New Testament is the New Testament is God's redentive
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  plan in Christ. His humanity, his dead, his resurrection,
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  his exaltation, and the implication of the gospel
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  to the church. So these are the things that they
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  were faced with. Okay? They were faced with the
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  idea of the humanity of Christ. If you read what
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  Paul read, give me Luke 1 verse 1, you see what
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  Luke was telling Theophilus. Many people have
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  written a record, right? But it seems good to
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  me that I will also write my own. okay why is
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  he writing in order to set it to set in order
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  the narrative of those things which have been
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  fulfilled among us you were not there when those
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  things were fulfilled all right so verse two
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  he says just as those who from the beginning
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  ways eyewitnesses and minister of god deliver
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  them to us so he was addressing specifically
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  a man says okay it's simple to me also having
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  perfect understand of all things from the very
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  first to write you an orderly account most excellent
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  yours was for that you may know the certainty
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  of those things which you were instructed so
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  this is to encourage a young man that he may
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  have conviction in the things that he has been
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  taught so there's a context to the writings of
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  the new testament scriptures hallelujah so i
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  said here i said for example now When the epistles
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  were written, Paul was never writing with the
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  intention of discussing women in ministry. Specifically
• 1:36:44
  about the issue of women in ministry. When he
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  was writing the epistles, Paul did not write
• 1:36:49
  his letters to settle modern -day debate. What
• 1:36:52
  is modern -day debate? can women serve in ministry?
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  That was all the question Paul was writing to
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  address. So if you go to the epistle and try
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  to answer the question of can women serve in
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  ministry, you have to be very careful to interpret.
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  In fact, you have to go back to Genesis to know
• 1:37:08
  whether women can serve in ministry or not, because
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  Genesis gives us the entire plan for the purpose
• 1:37:13
  of God for the creation of the man and the woman.
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  So if you go to the epistles, you can double
• 1:37:19
  into error in trying to answer a question that
• 1:37:23
  it was never intended to if paul was aware that
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  today in our world today we'll be discussing
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  can women be ministry maybe he could have write
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  it boldly and clearly not to put us in an ambiguous
• 1:37:34
  position because that was his intention but we've
• 1:37:38
  tried to answer questions with what was written
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  what he wrote and that was not his intention
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  hallelujah another concept today is can salvation
• 1:37:47
  be lost the new testament writers address right
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  the primary addresses assurance perseverance
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  faithfulness and warning against apostasy rather
• 1:38:04
  than framing the discussion around later theological
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  question can a truly regenerated believer lose
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  his elevation their focus is the believer's life
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  in christ and perseverance in faith not so in
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  the entirety of the new testament if you read
• 1:38:49
  carefully you will discover that the idea of
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  salvation in the minds of the writers of the
• 1:38:56
  epistles and even the gospel is that salvation
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  is an eternal stuff there's nothing there they
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  were not trying to answer whether salvation can
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  be lost or not hallelujah so if we try to answer
• 1:39:09
  both the answer can salvation be lost what of
• 1:39:10
  these things what of this says baba go to the
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  context and see from the beginning what is the
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  intent of that writing was it meant to talk about
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  that and then you begin to properly interpret
• 1:39:20
  this you discover that that is all what there's
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  time to answer hallelujah there are issues we
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  will address okay but i hope that we will have
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  time to go after them one after the other i will
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  see the pattern that jesus used in answering
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  question remember when he was confronted with
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  the issue of divorce where did it go to jesus
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  went to the beginning all right he went to genesis
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  all right so all the questions we are facing
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  today we can answer them from the scriptures
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  hallelujah there is no question that we confirm
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  you are confronted today that cannot be answered
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  from the scriptures that is when we read it in
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  the entirety of his context the whole council
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  of god but when we try to you know read it out
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  of context or picture depict scriptures alone
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