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Why Christianity is True · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Why is Christianity true?
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  Well,
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  if we were going to boil it down to its simplest form,
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  I would say that God is love.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is real.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is love.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is real beyond all hope or imagining.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is revealed through the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's revealed most profoundly in my experience through
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  weeping through weeping heart revelation you shall know the
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  truth when you weep
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  before it when your heart truly cracks open and you just weep
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  tears of pure love
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  and pure grace you know this is the truth there really is the
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  way the truth and the
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  life and that is the way of love and the way of Christ the way
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  of self-giving love
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an objective reality,
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  SPEAKER_00: an objective through line,
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  an objective logos or meta pattern that is recurrent throughout
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  all of human
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  SPEAKER_00: experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you align with the way of love,
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  SPEAKER_00: you will know that you're coming into alignment with the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will radiate that love and
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  SPEAKER_00: Bates111 Council of Kings
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  SPEAKER_00: Repentance of Sin
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  SPEAKER_00: Kneeling down with a contrite heart and saying, Lord, have mercy on me.
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  Lord,
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  I'm not worthy to receive you,
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  but only say the word and I shall be healed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Humbly acknowledging that we have sinned,
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  SPEAKER_00: that we've missed the mark,
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  SPEAKER_00: that we've deviated from the center of the cross,
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  SPEAKER_00: from the true logos of self-giving love,
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  SPEAKER_00: which we all do.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're all human.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in a human condition where
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  SPEAKER_00: Deviating from Perfect Loving Wisdom is very common.
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  And so it's absolutely essential to be able to say,
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  Lord,
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  have mercy on me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, forgive me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
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  And when you do that from a true place of contrite hearted
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  devotion and humility,
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  SPEAKER_00: you will feel grace and mercy washing down upon you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will feel yourself being brought increasingly into
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  SPEAKER_00: devotion and surrender to the true logos.
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  You will be invited to participate and to experience union more
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  and more with God
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  SPEAKER_00: and with love and to become an expression of that.
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  And you will see more and more clearly just how far we've truly
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  deviated from love.
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  So you will see your own residual sinfulness and the ways that
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  you miss the mark
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  More and more clearly as you're drawn into this process but at
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  the same time you
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  also feel yourself being sanctified in the light of Christ in
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  the love of Christ in
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  the love of God and it's worth saying that there are many
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  non-Christians who in a
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  sense I would say are better Christians than a lot of nominal
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  Christians many
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  people call themselves Christians but they are basically just
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  going through the
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  SPEAKER_00: motions
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  SPEAKER_00: Their religion is like a ritualistic husk of true faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no real, deep, powerful, living, devotional connection there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not to judge those people.
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  There's still value in going through the motions of tradition
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  and going to church.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a lot of people are not
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  actually endeavoring to be transformed through Christ to truly
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  every day show up
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  and say how can I be further sanctified and purified to walk
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  the path of love and
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  SPEAKER_00: to bring forth the kingdom to this world and you know so there are many
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  SPEAKER_00: Bates111
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  I do believe that that love is all pervading it's with all of
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  us already in our
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  heart of hearts and if a person is sincerely calling for God
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  calling for the true
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  one creator by whatever name with deep earnestness then I
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  believe that God will be
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  with that person and at the same time yeah for me especially
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  returning to my
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  SPEAKER_00: ancestral tradition of Christianity
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a sense of finding something that I didn't find anywhere else.
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  Some say that your your ancestral tradition is your native
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  language spiritually and religiously.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels so right.
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  SPEAKER_00: It fits.
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  And so I would generally encourage people to explore the
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  tradition of their ancestors.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think there's very often gold there and
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  Most religions do to some to varying degrees have this clarity
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  that that God is
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  love that love is the center of reality that the true reality
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  of life is a is a
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  reality of love and grace at the heart of everything and that
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  we are endeavoring to
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  SPEAKER_00: move closer to actually embodying and incarnating that love so
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  I would look for that in your ancestral tradition and at the
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  same time I would
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  invite people to explore Christianity because I do believe
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  there's tremendous
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  wisdom there but everybody has to follow the path of their own
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  heart I believe
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  there is as many ways home to God as there are individuals and
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  so you got to walk
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  the path that's right for you but I would just invite you to
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  deeply consider
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  that love and grace really are the truth of our existence and
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  we are we are invited
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  to participate to embody that love to incarnate that love um
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  there are so many
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  traps on the spiritual path traps of solipsism and nihilism and
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  moral relativism
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  SPEAKER_00: and spiritual bypassing and disembodiment and christianity
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  offers an incredible clarifying answer to all of those traps it
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  avoids all of those
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  traps it invites us into profound relationship profound meaning
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  profound purpose
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  SPEAKER_00: profound love profound service profound grace and um it's really just an
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  SPEAKER_00: unbelievably beautiful gift to this earth so thank you for listening and
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  SPEAKER_00: considering that is my current uh
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless you be well amen much love