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Episode 184 - Truth Or Tradition · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Grade is the Lord, and he is greatly to be praised.
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  Speaker 1: From the rising of the sun until the going down
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  Speaker 1: of the same. The name of the Lord is to
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  Speaker 1: be praised. Let everyone, everything that has breath, praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Praise ye the Lord. Amen. We welcome you once again
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  Speaker 1: to this another edition of End Time Reviible Ministries USA podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and today we
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  Speaker 1: continue in our series All about Jesus, and today we
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  Speaker 1: want to and focus on this topic of truth over tradition,
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  Speaker 1: truth over tradition and a man. And again, we are
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  Speaker 1: grateful to the Lord for each and every one of
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  Speaker 1: for your prayers and support a man. We are grateful
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord again that he has enabled us and
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  Speaker 1: allowed us, and called us and appointed us for such
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  Speaker 1: a time as this to stand in the gap to
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  Speaker 1: speak the truth of God, Amen, and to be counted
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  Speaker 1: Amen as one of his spokesmen. Amen, for the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God. If we don't take it lightly, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: God is great, He's greatly to be praised. And again
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  Speaker 1: we are Amen, not worthy of the least of His mercies. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: But by grace we are saved through faith. It's not
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  Speaker 1: of ourselves. It is the gift of God. It is
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  Speaker 1: not a work, lest anyone should boast we are. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
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  Speaker 1: And it is God who works in us, both to
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  Speaker 1: will and to do of his good pleasure. So all
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  Speaker 1: the glory, all the praise, all of the honor belonged
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  Speaker 1: to him. Amen. And so again we are grateful to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Amen for this Amen, great salvation that he
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  Speaker 1: brought down from heaven. Amen. All right, if you have
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  Speaker 1: your bibles, go with us to the Gospel of Mark,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number seven. The Gospel of Mark, chapter number seven.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always before we begin, we take just a moment, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to invoke the presence of the Lord Father. Again. We
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  Speaker 1: are just thankful again for all of your benefits to
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  Speaker 1: each and every one of us. And we pray even
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  Speaker 1: now that your word will have a man great, great
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  Speaker 1: impact upon listening ears everywhere, and that there'll be obedient hearts,
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  Speaker 1: and that there be a pricking in the heart Old God,
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  Speaker 1: and someone somewhere will come to know that you are
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  Speaker 1: the Savior, the Redeemer, the Keeper, Amen, the sustainer, and
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  Speaker 1: the soon coming King. Be glorified in all that we
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  Speaker 1: say in do Lord, let your name be magnified. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: let your kingdom be multiplied. Amen. For your great namesake,
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  Speaker 1: we pray and give thanks for all things. Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Truth over tradition, Truth over tradition, the Church.
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  Speaker 1: The Church absolutely must choose truth over tradition. Tradition has
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  Speaker 1: a stronghold in the lives of many people all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. Amen. And tradition has a stronghold or stranglehold
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  Speaker 1: also even in many churches. The tradition of men is
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  Speaker 1: really this guy as idolatry. It really is idolatry in essence,
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  Speaker 1: because it is the worship of the honoring, the exaltation
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  Speaker 1: of something above the word of God and God himself.
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  Speaker 1: And religious traditions especially and particularly are strangling people everywhere
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  Speaker 1: a man. Religious traditions damn people to hell. Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: truth is what liberates men from tradition, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see that it is the truth that
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  Speaker 1: liberates a man men from tradition, and that is why
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  Speaker 1: that's why it is vitally important for the church a
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  Speaker 1: man to choose truth over tradition and carrying out the
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  Speaker 1: great commission that Jesus has given to us to go
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  Speaker 1: into all the world to preach the Gospel. The Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: and the preaching of the Gospel is to be all
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  Speaker 1: about Jesus, all about Him, not about man, not about us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: not about again our traditions. Amen. We are not to
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  Speaker 1: exalt in any way promote in any way above the
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  Speaker 1: pre eminence of Christ the traditions of men. And this
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what Jesus encountered in his day, during his
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  Speaker 1: ministry when he came down, Amen to this earth. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he encountered those who were a man involved in, and
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  Speaker 1: engaged in, and sold out to, if you will, the
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  Speaker 1: traditions of men. In essence, they had totally abandoned the
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  Speaker 1: truth of God. They would use it as a stepping
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  Speaker 1: stone or as a gateway, if you will. And that's
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  Speaker 1: how insidious the devil operates, that's how insidious and sneaky
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  Speaker 1: that he is a man. He'll take the truth of God,
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God, the Law of God, and use
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  Speaker 1: it in such a way as to entrap people into
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  Speaker 1: religion and tradition. And this is why again the church
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  Speaker 1: has to be very careful. We need to be mindful.
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  Speaker 1: We need to be awake, we need to be alert,
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  Speaker 1: we need to be knowledgeable, we need to be prayerful.
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  Speaker 1: A man in understanding all of the wiles and schemes
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. A man Marx Gospel, Chapter number seven.
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  Speaker 1: Marx Gospel, Chapter number seven, A man, beginning at verse
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  Speaker 1: number one. Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes
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  Speaker 1: came together to him, that is, to Jesus, having come
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  Speaker 1: from Jerusalem. Now, when they saw some of his disciples
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  Speaker 1: eat bread with defiled that is, with unwashed hands, they
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  Speaker 1: found fault. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do
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  Speaker 1: not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way,
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  Speaker 1: holding the tradition of the elders. Verse four. When they
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  Speaker 1: come or came rather from the marketplace, they do not.
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  Speaker 1: When they come rather from the marketplace, they do not
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  Speaker 1: eat unless they wash. And there are many other things
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  Speaker 1: which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pictures,
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  Speaker 1: copper vessels, and couches. Then the Pharisees and scribes ask him,
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  Speaker 1: that is Jesus, why do your disciples the question carefully,
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  Speaker 1: why do your disciples, Jesus not walk according to the
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  Speaker 1: tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?
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  Speaker 1: Verse six, Jesus, hold on, let me pause for just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. First and foremost, this tradition, for example, the
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  Speaker 1: tradition of washing of hands. It was a ritual that
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  Speaker 1: they went through where you had people pouring water out
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  Speaker 1: of a picture, and you would hold your hand up
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  Speaker 1: and scrub in this way or scrub in that way,
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  Speaker 1: then hold your hand down and go again. It was
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  Speaker 1: a certain ritual. It wasn't just a simple washing of
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  Speaker 1: the hands and renting it off. But you had to
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  Speaker 1: hold your hands up and or down in a certain
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  Speaker 1: manner in order to be supposedly purified or cleansed before
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  Speaker 1: you ate bread. So this is what they're referring to,
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  Speaker 1: because the disciples, it wasn't necessarily that they didn't wash
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  Speaker 1: their hands at all. Perhaps it was that they did
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  Speaker 1: not do it in the prescribed manner, or in the
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  Speaker 1: tradition of the elders that had been laid out for
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  Speaker 1: the people to the man follow. So verse six, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: answered and said to them, well, did Isaiah prophesy of
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  Speaker 1: you hypocrites. As it is written this people honors me
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  Speaker 1: with their lips, but their heart is far from me,
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  Speaker 1: and in vain. They worshiped me, teaching as doctrines. This
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  Speaker 1: is very important. They were teaching as does the commandments
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  Speaker 1: of men, for laying aside the commandment of God. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is speaking to these hypocrites. He says, you hold the
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  Speaker 1: tradition of men, the watching of pictures and cups, and
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  Speaker 1: many other such things you do. He said to them,
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  Speaker 1: all too well, you reject the commandment of God that
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  Speaker 1: you may keep your tradition. For Moses said, honor your
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  Speaker 1: father and your mother. And he who curses father and mother,
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  Speaker 1: let him be put to death. But you say, if
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  Speaker 1: a man says to his father a mother, whatever prophet
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  Speaker 1: you might have received from me is corbyn, that is
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  Speaker 1: a gift to God, then you no longer let him
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  Speaker 1: do anything for his father or his mother, making the
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  Speaker 1: word of God of no effect through your tradition which
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  Speaker 1: you have handed down, and many such things you do,
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  Speaker 1: truth over tradition. Again, these are just a couple of examples,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, that are given to us in the
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  Speaker 1: A Man Gospels. A man concerning these traditions that a
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  Speaker 1: man had been handed down over the centuries, that the
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  Speaker 1: Jews would use in order to again, in essence, circumvent,
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  Speaker 1: set aside, disrespect, disallow, reject the word of God, and
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  Speaker 1: instead still be couch now still looking the part sounding
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  Speaker 1: the part being reverenced and praised of men, and a
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  Speaker 1: man being at least in the mind of men, elevated
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  Speaker 1: and exalted to the status of For example, sitting in
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  Speaker 1: Moses's seat is where they sat, Amen, as the as
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  Speaker 1: the guardians, as the teachers, as the doctors of the law,
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  Speaker 1: and so and so on. But none of them, none
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  Speaker 1: of them, Amen, were really truly followers, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: or disciples of Moses as they claimed to be. They
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  Speaker 1: were not sons of Abraham as they claimed to be. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And this is something that Jesus Amen made very clear
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  Speaker 1: in his Amen denouncing of their traditions. And as we've
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  Speaker 1: already seen here, but we're gonna look a little further
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  Speaker 1: as we go along here. But the again, what the
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  Speaker 1: Bible speaks about what Jesus has to say about this, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you reject, you lay aside the commandment of God, and
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  Speaker 1: hold on to the tradition of men, and in essence,
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  Speaker 1: you are honoring God when you do this, When people
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  Speaker 1: do this, you honor God with your lips, but your
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  Speaker 1: heart is far from him. People are dying daily for
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  Speaker 1: traditions over truth, dying daily for their traditions, for their religion.
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  Speaker 1: They've deposited their trust in these traditions. If you challenge tradition,
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  Speaker 1: you will be ostracized. If you challenge tradition, tradition, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be persecuted. If you challenge tradition, you will
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  Speaker 1: be an eye outcast. If you cause upheaval to tradition,
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  Speaker 1: you will be, as Jesus was, in essence crucified. Because
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  Speaker 1: this is exactly what happened to Jesus, Amen, this is
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  Speaker 1: precisely why Jesus was hated by the Pharisees. He was
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  Speaker 1: hated by the Sadducees. He was hated by the scribes,
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  Speaker 1: the elders, all of the leaders of the people. For
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  Speaker 1: the most part, they hated Jesus because they had maintained
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  Speaker 1: a stranglehold over the minds and hearts of the people
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  Speaker 1: at large through the use of their traditions, and so
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus came up on the scene as a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, when his forerunner, John the Baptist came up
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  Speaker 1: on the scene. You remember they come to the a
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  Speaker 1: man of Baptism that John the Baptist was doing. And
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptists, I mean, he tore right into him immediately,
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  Speaker 1: you brewed of vipers. Who has warned you to flee
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  Speaker 1: from the raft to come? Now? These are the religious leaders. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He said, bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. And don't
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  Speaker 1: think to yourselves that you are the seed of Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Abraham, and that you have your shoe
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  Speaker 1: in a man passed into heaven into the kingdom. Because
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  Speaker 1: God is able to of these stones raise up a
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  Speaker 1: man children to Abraham. Amen. So, when John the Baptists
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  Speaker 1: burst upon the scene and all the people are flocking
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  Speaker 1: to John the Baptists to be Baptist, here they come.
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  Speaker 1: Here they come because their traditions are being challenged. And
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  Speaker 1: so when Jesus comes on the scene, they were also,
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  Speaker 1: of course envious of him, and they hated the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the multitudes were following Jesus and listening to his teachings.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us how that no one spoke like
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did, No one had the authority that he had,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and he did not teach as the scribes taught. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And people were astonished at the teaching of Jesus. And
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  Speaker 1: again he had multitudes of people following him. He had
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  Speaker 1: the signs and wonders. Amen. He had the Amen, the blessing,
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  Speaker 1: and of course the anointing that flows with the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In his ministry. And so Amen, they were envious and hating,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, on Jesus because Amen, he was not
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  Speaker 1: walking after their traditions. They marveled at him, and later
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  Speaker 1: on they marveled at the disciples. How does this man know?
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  Speaker 1: How does this man have this wisdom? How does this
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  Speaker 1: man have this knowledge? Remember? At twelve years old? The
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  Speaker 1: only little insight that we have into the early childhood
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, I believe it
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  Speaker 1: is at twelve years old Jesus was in the temple
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  Speaker 1: a man with the doctors of the law and with
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  Speaker 1: the so called learned professors, a man uh speaking and
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  Speaker 1: with them and engaging with them, asking them questions and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so he would later in his ministry, when he
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  Speaker 1: began his earthly ministry, a man he would stun these rulers,
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  Speaker 1: these leaders, these educated doctors of the law, with his
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and knowledge a man because he was not a
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  Speaker 1: man stuck, he was not rooted, he was not learned
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  Speaker 1: in their tradition. And this is why they marveled at him, saying,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, how does this man how does it?
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  Speaker 1: Where do a matter of fact, he said, where does
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  Speaker 1: he get it from? Because he didn't come He didn't
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  Speaker 1: come through our universities, he didn't go through our trainings
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  Speaker 1: in sessions and seminars, and he didn't have our professors
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  Speaker 1: at his disposal. I mean, where did he get this
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and knowledge and understanding? And so again they were
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  Speaker 1: envious of Jesus, and they hated the fact that again
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  Speaker 1: the people were being liberated, as it were, from their
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  Speaker 1: stranglehold with their traditions. Amen. And religious idolatry, that's what
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  Speaker 1: that's in essence again, that's what it is. Tradition will
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  Speaker 1: have you in idolatry, and religious tradition is even worse. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Religious idolatry is what it is, Amen, And it does
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  Speaker 1: not want you to be shown, it does not want
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  Speaker 1: you to discover, Amen, that it truly is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's idolatry, it's false, it's fake, it's phony, it's going nowhere. Amen. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And so these were not the traditions of the truth
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  Speaker 1: from the Word of God that these people were teaching,
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  Speaker 1: but rather again the traditions of men using the truth
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  Speaker 1: of the scriptures as a means or as a stepping
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  Speaker 1: stone or pathway or gateway into captivating and capturing the
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  Speaker 1: minds of these that they were leading down this path,
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  Speaker 1: this piper path. And Jesus spoke about the blind leading
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  Speaker 1: the blind, and that's exactly what they were doing. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible speaks about and Jesus by himself, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: rather or spoke about how the Pharisees would traverse land
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  Speaker 1: and sea to make one proselyte, to convert one person.
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  Speaker 1: And when they had converted that disciple, that person into
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  Speaker 1: their religion by means of their traditions, Amen, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: they made him twice or twofold, the child of Hell
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  Speaker 1: than they were. So again, they were leading people into
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  Speaker 1: damn nation by their traditions. Amen. They sold themselves as
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  Speaker 1: the seed of Abraham. They convinced themselves they were disciples
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  Speaker 1: of And remember, Paul would later write about. You know,
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  Speaker 1: those who are the children of the flesh. These are
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  Speaker 1: not the children of God, the children of Abraham, by
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  Speaker 1: the promises, not through amn traditions, not through the law, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: but by faith, faith and faith alone. Amen. Believe God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't believe, Nobody says. Without faith, it's impossible
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  Speaker 1: to please God. He that comes to God must believe.
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  Speaker 1: That's believe is number one. Believing what God has spoken,
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  Speaker 1: believing what He has said, believing who he is. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Without faith, it is impossible to be found pleasing to God.
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  Speaker 1: And so they didn't have the faith. They were working
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  Speaker 1: in their traditions, trying to a man by their religion,
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  Speaker 1: a man appease God as it were a man. And
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  Speaker 1: so they sold themselves off as the seed of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: They convinced themselves that they were disciples of Moses, as
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  Speaker 1: they were, I mean challenging Jesus, we are Moses disciples.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know where this man came from. We are
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  Speaker 1: Moses disciples. And they sat in the seats of authority, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And were perceived again in the eye of the public
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  Speaker 1: as being God ordained guardians and teachers of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: They were highly respective. You know how Jesus again a
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  Speaker 1: man scolded them and called them out for their hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: How they will walk around in public, pray aloud in public,
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  Speaker 1: do all of their works in public to be seen
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  Speaker 1: of men, to be praised of men. Amen. And and
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  Speaker 1: and again by this Amen, uh holding forth and uh
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  Speaker 1: putting forth the tradition of men over a man the
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  Speaker 1: truth of God. Amen. They they had acted treacherously. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They were treason us against God. Amen. They were devilish,
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  Speaker 1: they were destructive, and their their, their, their doctrine was
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  Speaker 1: deadly to the souls of men. Amen. They were serving
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  Speaker 1: up leavened tradition. And that's why Jesus warned his disciples
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  Speaker 1: beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because it's deadly doctrine. Amen. They served that up over truth. Again,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus has already spoken here when we read earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the Gospel of Mark. Here Amen, they rejected. They
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  Speaker 1: set aside the commandments of God. Amen. They set aside
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Man shall not live by what
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  Speaker 1: bred alone, but by every word that proceeds out of
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of God. They set that aside. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: substituted their traditions as authoritative. Amen. And those same spirits,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, unless we be deceived, unless we think
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  Speaker 1: that this only was applicable to the Pharisees and the Sadducees,
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  Speaker 1: and the scribes and the elders of that day. No, no, no, no, no, no. No,
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, those very same spirits of tradition and
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  Speaker 1: idolatry are alive and thriving in the religions of men,
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  Speaker 1: and always trying to encroach into the Church. Because I
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  Speaker 1: would dare to say that many churches right now, and
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  Speaker 1: of course a lot of these people call themselves Christians
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  Speaker 1: just because someone says they are a Christian. If they
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  Speaker 1: don't walk in the doctrine of Christ, Amen, if they
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  Speaker 1: are not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. If any
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  Speaker 1: man Paul says, preach any other gospel than that which
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  Speaker 1: we have received, let him be a courage Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you have the title you know
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  Speaker 1: or call yourself under the umbrella of Christianity. If you
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  Speaker 1: are not in the doctrine of Christ, Amen, you are
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  Speaker 1: in religious idolatry. Amen. One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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  Speaker 1: one God, one Lord, one Savior, one Redeemer, one way,
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  Speaker 1: one shepherd, one sheepfold. Amen. And so uh, these these
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  Speaker 1: traditions of of of men of religion, which is again
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  Speaker 1: is idolatry. Amen. They are very much alive again because
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  Speaker 1: by the way, these are doctrines of devils. Amen. These
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  Speaker 1: these come out of the pit of hell, because you
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  Speaker 1: got again. Even in these so called churches. Uh, they
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  Speaker 1: have been seduced by the crafty schemes and the practices
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  Speaker 1: a man Uh, that the devil has used to weave
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  Speaker 1: into the fabric of what the churches supposedly are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be rather built upon. Amen. The church is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
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  Speaker 1: upon the foundation, upon the rock that is Christ, who
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  Speaker 1: is the chief cornerstone. Jesus said, behold, I lay in Zion,
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  Speaker 1: and he is that cornerstone. By the way, this is
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  Speaker 1: the prophecy of old. Amen. He is the cornerstone. He
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  Speaker 1: is the rock. He said, upon this rock I build
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  Speaker 1: my church. Amen. The rock is Christ. The church is Christ.
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  Speaker 1: The foundation is Christ. Amen is built on him a
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  Speaker 1: man on Jesus, who is the Truth. And this is
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  Speaker 1: a man. Why a man of the Church has to
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  Speaker 1: choose truth over tradition, because it is built on Christ, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who is the Way, who is the Truth, who is
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  Speaker 1: the Life. Amen. And by extension, ladies and gentlemen, the Church,
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  Speaker 1: by extension, being built upon the truth that is in Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: that is Jesus. The Church, as Paul writes, is the
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  Speaker 1: pillar and ground of the truth. And we are to
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  Speaker 1: be for the truth and again not for tradition. All
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  Speaker 1: the religions of this world are man made, and they
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  Speaker 1: are again doctrines of devils. Religions are all about following
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  Speaker 1: the traditions of men and not the truth that comes
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  Speaker 1: from God. This is why the Church of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: again must be vigilant against the insidious, sliminess, the slickness,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, the slipperness, the slippery a man serpent
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  Speaker 1: who again will creep in the Bible says while men slept, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the parable that Jesus put forth about the weak and
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  Speaker 1: the tears a man, the enemy souls the tears among
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  Speaker 1: the wheat while men are sleeping. Amen. We have to
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  Speaker 1: be vigilant against this insidious craftiness of the devil. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Creeping in a man to synchronize Amen, the traditions of men,
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  Speaker 1: and to make it look as though and feel as though,
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  Speaker 1: and seem as though it should be accepted as authoritative
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  Speaker 1: and necessary, when in fact it is neither authoritative nor necessary.
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  Speaker 1: We must the Church must choose truth over tradition. Tradition
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  Speaker 1: is all about controlling and bondage. Amen, rituals, Amen, following
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  Speaker 1: the rules of this that no, no, no, we are to
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  Speaker 1: follow the commandments of Christ, Jesus, the doctrine of Christ. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not tradition of men. Tradition again, is all about a
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  Speaker 1: man control, legalism. That's what it is, legalism and bondage.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is all about liberation from legalism, liberation
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  Speaker 1: from bondage, liberation from a man religious idolatry. Chapter eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna close with this John Chapter eight a man
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty one. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be by faith, faith, faith, faith. You
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  Speaker 1: must believe that he is. He that comes to God
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  Speaker 1: must believed that he is. So you had these Jews
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  Speaker 1: that believe, Amen, the Bible says, So, Jesus says to
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  Speaker 1: those Jews who be believe him. If you abide in
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  Speaker 1: my word. There it is abide in his word, not
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  Speaker 1: in the traditions of men, not in the teachings of
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  Speaker 1: the elders, not in the eleven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Amen, No, no, no, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If you abide in my word, you are my disciples. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: the true disciples of Jesus are those who walk in
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  Speaker 1: the word a lad by the word, lad by the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: live by the word, live by the spirit. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: says in verse thirty two, and you shall know the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and the truth shall make you free. Truth over tradition.
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  Speaker 1: So they answered him verse thirty three. We are Abraham's descendants.
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  Speaker 1: You see, that's where they laid their claim. They put there,
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  Speaker 1: it's the tradition of lineage, of heritage, of ancestry. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we are Abraham's descendants and have never been in bondage
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  Speaker 1: to anyone. That was not true, especially if you speak
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  Speaker 1: of the whole history of the nation of Israel. They
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  Speaker 1: were in and out of bundage constantly, precisely because of
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  Speaker 1: their rebellion and disobedience to the word of God. Amen. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: they claimed Amen to be Abraham's descendants. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: we've never been in bondage to anyone, how can you
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  Speaker 1: say you will be made free. Jesus answered and said
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  Speaker 1: to these a man who protested against not being in bondage,
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  Speaker 1: most assuredly, a man, I say to you, whoever commits
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  Speaker 1: sin is a slave of sin. If you practice sin,
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  Speaker 1: if you cannot cease from sin, you are a slave
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  Speaker 1: of sin and a slave. Verse thirty five. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: does not abide in the house forever, but a son
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  Speaker 1: abides forever. Therefore, if the Son makes you free, and
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  Speaker 1: of course Jesus is speaking of himself, he's the great liberator,
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  Speaker 1: he is the Savior. He is the one who came
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  Speaker 1: to save men's lives. If the Son makes you free,
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  Speaker 1: you shall be free. Indeed, now, ladies and gentlemen, there's
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  Speaker 1: only one way, one way to be free from the tradition,
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  Speaker 1: from the religion, from the idolatry that is in this world.
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  Speaker 2: And that is through the truth, which truth Jesus, who
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  Speaker 2: is the way, who is the truth, and that truth that.
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  Speaker 1: Is of Jesus, in Jesus, by Jesus, that truth makes
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  Speaker 1: you free. Is the Son of God, who is the
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  Speaker 1: very embodiment of truth, who sets you free from tradition,
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  Speaker 1: tradition in religion, Amen will not free anyone from sin.
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  Speaker 1: And these Jews thought that they were free, even though
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they were under the bondage literally bondage
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  Speaker 1: of the Roman government, oppression of the hated Roman government.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they still claim to be Freejesus is not talking
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  Speaker 1: about your bondage to man in the sense that you
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  Speaker 1: don't live in a free country of free society, or no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: He's talking about that spiritual bondage of being a slave
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  Speaker 1: to sin. If you are wrapped up, tied up, tangled up,
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  Speaker 1: enthralled in the bondage of sin, Jesus says, you are
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  Speaker 1: a slave of sin. But if the Sun makes you free,
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  Speaker 1: you shall be free. Indeed, walk in tradition and you
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  Speaker 1: are in bondage. Live by the tradition of men, and
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  Speaker 1: you are in bondage. Only truth in and of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: will set men free. Truth over tradition,