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The Study of the Book of Colossians Part 3 - Simply Christ Podcast · Simply Christ Podcast

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Welcome back to the Simply Christ.
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Podcast hosted by Leon Martin along with Aaron Keaton, Melvin
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Martin, Andrew Schrock and Dan Blatz.
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Let's get right to it. Okie, Dokie, here we are once
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again, thanks for being on here. Appreciate it.
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After a long week of horse sail away, ready to get back in the
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Word and learn what Colossians, the Book of Colossians has that
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would be helpful for us. So welcome.
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Before we get into the Word, I'll ask Andrew to open us up
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with a word of prayer. Hey, let's pray God, we thank
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you for all you've provided for us.
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Thank you for the work that you did on our behalf and I pray
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that we would teach it in a way that you will just believe it
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and be changed by that power that is already there in Jesus
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name from them. Amen.
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That's right. So to get a running start here
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last week we talked about and this this really stuck out to
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me. I don't know why, but where he
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says that verse 9. So Paul writing this to the
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believers, the church at Colossae for this 'cause we also
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so that would be the we would be Paul and was it Epaphras they we
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heard it. Do not cease to pray for you and
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to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his
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will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding so that you might
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work for thee of the Lord all pleasing and man I'm telling you
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I that is that is an interesting concept that he was praying that
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they would be filled with the knowledge of his will.
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You think about it. What is the knowledge of God's
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will? It is knowing what God would
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that you have that you do you know so so he thinks that so the
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writer of this thinks that to be filled with the knowledge of his
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will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
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Is you going to help you walk worthy of the Lord.
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I mean that is that is good that is really good.
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Like a lot of people probably would tend to think that, you
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know, more prayer or or better church attendance or a more
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rigorous spiritual life or a, you know, all these things that
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we bend ourselves into to try to walk worthy of the Lord.
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But. What does Paul say?
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That we would know that we'd have the knowledge of his will
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in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that is that is a
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basic principle that is not unheard of, but it is definitely
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not commonly taught. I'm he that's pretty good.
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So anyway, that just that just stuck out to me.
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That's that's really good. And that that actually is also
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the source of of power over sin to understanding that knowledge,
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you know, understanding what God did for us in his son Jesus,
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that it affects us in such a way that we can be free from sin,
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free and and and be that way. That's that's just awesome.
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And it goes on to say strengthen with all might according to his
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glorious power. I mean, he gave us every tool
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that we need. He made every way possible.
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All we got to do, like one guy was saying is just walk in the
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path that's already been cleared.
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You know, that's that's all that's up to us being fruitful
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in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of God,
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strengthen with all might according to his glorious power
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unto all patients and long-suffering with joyfulness.
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And then he goes in verse 12. And I'll let you kick this off
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Melvin, giving thanks unto the Father.
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Now he's still talking about, you know, walking worthy of the
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Lord, giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet
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to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in
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light. And I'll stop there.
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That's not that's not the end of the sentence.
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Remember last week we talked about it.
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This is 1 sentence from verse 7 to verse 17 or yeah 17 is the
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end of the sentence. So this is 1 continuous
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disregard the the verse numbers and all that giving thanks unto
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the Father which has made us meet to be partakers of the
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inheritance of the Saints in life.
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No one go ahead with your thoughts on that verse.
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Yeah, there's a lot of things that we could talk about in this
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verse. We're we're going to enter into
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a lot of good things here in these next 5 or 6 verses or
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whatever. The rest of the chapter
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basically, but one thing that stood out to me, I'm going to
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kind of elaborate on a little bit, is the giving thanks unto
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the Father. That is such an important thing
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in the Christian life. You know, we think in our minds
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that you were saying that, you know, we need to be in the word
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more. And I'm not saying I'm not of
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advocating that we shouldn't be in the word, but those are the
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things that we talked about a lot in Christian circles, you
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know, getting into the word more, praying more, and all
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those things are good things. But the Scripture talks a lot
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about being thankful and giving thanks unto the Father.
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And in Colossians 315, it says and let the the grace of God
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ruin your hearts to the which also you're called in one body
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and be thankful. And then right away in verse 17
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two verses later, he says and whatsoever you do in Word or
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deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks unto
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the Father by him. So there he's saying, you know
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in verse 17, like what he says whatever you do in Word.
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Indeed, that's what he's just saying in the previous verses.
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He's saying if you like you pointed out Liam when he when we
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what does it say there when we are look to him walking worthy
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of the Lord and all pleasing and being fruitful in every good
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work and increasing in the knowledge of God, because when
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we understand his will right and his spiritual understanding will
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cause us to be fruitful. And then I just read in class
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17. He says whatsoever you do in
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Word or deed, he's saying those things are good, but he says
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ultimately be thankful and give thanks unto the Father.
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And so that is just really stood out to me and has stood out to
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me for a long time already. When we're praying or whatever
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that we, we enter in to prayer and come to God with
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thankfulness for what he has done ultimately through Jesus.
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But I like what he says here, why we give him thanks here in
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this context, he's saying that we that he has made us meet to
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be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light.
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And there again he uses that word Saints call calling the
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believers Saints. But he's saying that he has made
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us meet. In other words, he has allowed
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us given us a way to be partakers like to be partaking
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of the light of Jesus Christ and John, it talks a lot about Jesus
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being the light. And so I just that just stands
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out to me as well that that we are thankful to God that we can
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be partakers of his Kingdom of the Kingdom of God through Jesus
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Christ and only through Jesus Christ and that we can rest in
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in what Christ has done for us. And because of that, we will
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know His will and we will be able to be fruitful, not by
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trying to do things, but by resting and understanding.
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Who we are. In Christ.
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Amen. That's good, Andrew.
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Yeah, I've been wrestling quite a bit with the idea of, but that
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part of the spiritual wisdom and understandings, the byproduct of
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that is that it's unto all, all patients and long-suffering with
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joyfulness. I know we're I'm a verse behind
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there. But you know, when you have the
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spiritual understanding that Paul is displaying here in these
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verses, it's pretty hard to not have peace.
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It's pretty hard to not have some joy.
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And also the concept of the fact that trials and tribulations and
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difficult times makes us stronger.
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Why do people go in the and work out at the gym and put
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themselves through extreme misery Because of the glory that
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follows That's. Right.
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That's why they do it. They they hurt themselves.
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They go through tremendous pain and mental stress.
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Why the reward? It's great.
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And if we allow ourselves to forgot to try us, Peter says the
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the the reward is more than that of precious gold, tried and
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fire. So kind of goes against all the
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flesh. Like when bad things happens, it
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feels justified and good to be sad and sorrowful and poor me
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and all this. And how can I learn patience and
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long-suffering? And I think it's a, a fruit of
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having good understanding, spiritual wisdom and
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understanding. So I find that interesting that
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that's included in those things. And then he goes right in, like
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my one was saying right in the verse 12 where he says, which
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has made us meet to be partakers.
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That is good news. He made us all the things that
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needed to be met in order for to let us walk right in the glory,
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right into the Kingdom of Light. He, He met all the requirements
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He made us meet to be. He qualified us to go into the
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Kingdom of Light. He did it.
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That should eliminate a lot of theologian books.
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Like you can just clear off your Christian bookshelf on this one.
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Because if he made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance,
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that inheritance is where you get something you didn't earn.
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Somebody gave it to you. If Jesus Christ is that for us,
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then it's over. I don't have to walk around
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wondering if I'm qualified to be in the light, to be ushered in,
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to have that inheritance. Jesus Christ made me qualified.
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And if if you can't just believe that and you need a book to help
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you believe it, then you don't like, I guess my biggest problem
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I've been struggling with this last week when thinking about
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these passages is that it's so good and it's so freeing, But
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most of us don't live in it. And I think it's because we're
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trained to think that it's deeper.
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Yes, we're trained to think that it's it's somewhat spiritual and
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we need to read a bunch of books to figure it out.
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You know, it's like me and you saying, hey, the silo is full.
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We we, we chopped silage today and the silo is full.
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You see the top, it's full. You wouldn't go read some book
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to figure out if what I said is true, that that silo is full.
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You would just, you know, like it's like we're just talking
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here. Jesus said he made us meet to be
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partakers. OK, good.
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I'm done. I'm I'm not trying to be
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qualified. He did it.
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And that's good enough. Like I'm taking him for his
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word. That's called believing in
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faith. You know, when we have to read
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books to try to figure it out and make it deep, I think we're
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just not. It's a it's a disgrace properly.
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Yeah, the the talking about the simplicity that is in the word
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here, it's, you know, I think, I think we actually often look
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over the top of it in search for something a little deeper and,
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and it, and it's right here, right in plain sight.
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You know, I, I think about the in John chapter 4, where Jesus
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said under the woman at the well, he said, that woman,
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believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this
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mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father.
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You worship. You know not what we know, what
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we worship for salvation is of the Jews.
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But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall
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worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh
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such. We worship you like.
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So if if this is on the inside of you, this is this is
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something that the Holy Spirit put inside of you that you would
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would know God. I mean, he is already there
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making us aware and and revealing these truths.
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Like I agree with what you said, Andrew.
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We don't need a book. We need to trust the word,
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however simple and and childish that some people would think
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that it maybe is. But in in, in in fact, it is not
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childish at all. It's incredibly rich and godly.
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It's just not full of a whole bunch of verbiage to confuse us.
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You know, it's just it's all that stuff is missing.
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But listen to this. The word meat simply means to be
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suitable or suitable. OK, now let's read this with
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that word, who have delivered us from the power of darkness.
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No, hang on giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us
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suitable to be partakers of the inheritance.
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So doesn't that sound good? I mean, that is the real God
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said, and not us, because we would estimate ourselves to be
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much lower than that. We would never call ourselves
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suitable to be made partakers of the inheritance of the Saints.
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We would never we would never have the guts to claim that of
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ourselves. He said that you are suitable.
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What I'm a dirty wretched Sinner, but I'm made suitable by
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the blood of Jesus on his cloth and there's nothing that's ever
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going to change that. And it it's it's it's complete.
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I mean, that is glorious. I don't care who you are if that
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doesn't make the hair stand up when you're in a little bit
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something's wrong here would sweat.
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I'm telling you, but that that is good news.
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And so to be to be called suitable to be heart takers of
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the inheritance of The Who the Saints.
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Man, that. That's good, That's good.
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All right, I'll get off my soapbox now.
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Oh, that was good, that good stuff.
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And that and that's why the body of Christ has been able to
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withstand all you know, since Christ died and resurrected for
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the last 2000 years or whatever. That's why the body price has
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been allowed to stand and grow, right, Because this what you're
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just said, because these truths that we're reading here in the
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word will always remain as long as time stands and that that
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that's just that's profound doesn't.
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Matter how rotten we are, the truth is still the truth.
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That's right. And and this is this is a really
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good thing. On Sunday, one of the guys we
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had open sharing and one of the guys was talking.
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He said that Christians have an identity crisis.
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We don't know who we are and and that's exactly what if we can
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take this what he's saying here in Colossians to the bank and
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live our life this way like it were the truth, which it is,
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then it will change the way we act.
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It'll change who we are. It there won't have, there
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doesn't have to be no identity crisis.
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Fights over. I guarantee it is.
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Fights over, you know, talking about complicating it, the verse
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that's always blows me or the concept that always blows me
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away that I think that really is a good gauge of whether we've
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drawn away, walked away from the simplicity of the gospel is when
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Jesus said except ye be converted and become as one of
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these little children, ain't no way you're gonna make or you're
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not gonna make it. Except you become like that, and
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I'm telling you a little kid doesn't have to read and study
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and think deep to believe something.
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They just go off of what you say, Dad says they don't touch,
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they get off the table. They just get off the table.
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They don't try to figure. Out what I'm trying to say and.
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That's to me a really good gauge.
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And a lot of these ministries, it has become a thing where you
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have to have to go through seminary, you have to go through
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all kinds of schooling, and you have to know Greek, you have to
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know Hebrew, and you have to be able to be well versed in all
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these things. And then your subjects, when you
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come back from school and you get your little congregation,
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you're like 10 stories up here and everybody down there is
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unlearned. And it's your job to feed them.
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Your knowledge, it's your job to feed them your knowledge and
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it's not true. And that's why people are not
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free is because they can't just believe these what God just says
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like, hey, I took your place, I made you suitable.
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You know, oh, that's good stuff. All right.
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Who hath delivered us from the I'm going to back up and read
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verse 12 again to row into 13, giving thanks unto the Father,
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which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of
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the Saints in light, who have delivered us from the power of
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darkness and have translated us into the Kingdom of his dear
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Son. I mean immediately, right off
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the top, The one thing that grabs my attention.
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This verse is highlighted and underlined in my Bible because
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of the two the two half words in there, past tense words that are
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in there and I tell you what, that's another one of those
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things can I was talking again. If we can take that to the bank
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and realize that to be a fact, the way that it is written it,
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it too is going to help us understand a lot of things in
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this life. But I'll get it.
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Let you go, Mel. And there's man I, this is good
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preaching material, right? If you ever, if you ever get
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caught on to preach this server, you don't know what to do.
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Turn straight to Colossians and just let her.
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It'll be the best thing ever. Mel, go ahead.
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Yeah, that's that is exactly right.
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I was going to talk a little bit about the that he has delivered
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us from the power of darkness. So when I got saved or before, I
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should say, like so when I started hearing the gospel and
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started hearing the truth and listening to different sermons
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and listening to Doctor David Jeremiah on the radio and you
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know, just started hearing these truths that we're reading here.
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It took me a long time. It was over a year actually.
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It took me a long time to realize that I was in darkness,
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that I was a Sinner, right? Because I thought in my
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religious. Mind that I was OK like I was a
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good person and so I want to elaborate a little bit on that
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that that he's saying that Father giving thanks into the
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father who hath delivered us and he is going to tell us who's
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going to who is a deliverer a little in the next part of the
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verse. But who had delivered us from
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the power of darkness? Now there's no way that you can
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be delivered from that power of darkness on your own power.
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Like it's, it's not possible. It has to be there has to be a
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deliverer. There has to be something bigger
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than you to die on the cross, right, and be resurrected.
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That is called the light that can deliver you from that power
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of darkness. And it's interesting.
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And John chapter 3, I came across this and it's just kind
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of amazing in my mind thinking of the light and and darkness.
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You know, we all know John 316, right?
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
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right? We all know that verse.
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And that's but in verse 319, three verses later, he says
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this. But actually let me just let me
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just read a little more of that. So in John 317 it says for God
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sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that
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the world through him might be saved.
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And he that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that
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believeth not is condemned already because he has not
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believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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So if you're not believing in Christ alone for your salvation,
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the Bible says you're condemned. But then in verse 19 he says
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what this condemnation is, and I never really seen this before,
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and it says in verse 19, and this is the condemnation, that
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light is coming to the world. Jesus and the men love darkness
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rather than light because their deeds were evil.
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For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light and neither
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cometh to the light, lest his deeds be reproved.
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And so me and my religious mindset, I would have not
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considered myself to be in darkness, right?
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And so that I think that is so important.
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Like we have to realize that even if I'm trying to do, you
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know, trying to get to heaven in my own, whatever that way is
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that I'm trying to get into heaven is not going to cut it.
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And it is like I am in darkness. Actually outside of Christ, we
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are in total darkness. And that just I don't know.
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That's I think that's very profound that the fact that that
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that darkness cannot be we can't get out of that darkness except
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by Jesus, who is the light. So anyway, I'll let you go on
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Andy. I want to make a few comments
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real later in that verse, but I'll let you go ahead.
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Go. Ahead.
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Yeah, yeah, how cool is it that he just flat out says, hey, I
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also delivered you guys from the power of darkness and I
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translated you into the Kingdom of light in this dear sun.
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Like I put took you from 1 camp and I translated and we could go
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into a lot of details there. And he actually made us a new
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body, glorified body, and put us from a carnal man to a spiritual
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man, from a carnal Kingdom, a corrupt Kingdom to an
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incorruptible Kingdom. A.
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Kingdom of dishonor to the Kingdom of glory and honor.
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I mean, he translated us, changed us from a complete dark,
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wicked demonic Kingdom and translated this over into a
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glorious. Kingdom that is full of light.
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Now I'm glad to find that out. I'm glad to know that.
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That's right. You know, this book is mostly
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information so that we don't. Fall for men beguiling us.
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You know, there's, I don't know how many times in this book, he
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tells, He doesn't say, which I find interesting.
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He doesn't say beware lest any demons or beware lest any evil
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spirits come in and beguile you. He says Beware lest any man,
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every, any man, any man at least.
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Three or four times it's men, it's teachers, it's preachers,
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he says. Don't let him do it.
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And this is one of my favorite verses when people get men get
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so upset that I don't play the demon game where I'm chasing
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after demons and evil spirits in the darkness and, and I'm not
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willing to go there and recognize and try to figure them
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out and try to be very demon minded because Jesus just told
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me they're defeated. He actually delivered me from
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that Kingdom, and he actually put me in the Kingdom of light.
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So why would I be entertaining demons?
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Why? Why would I give them that kind
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of credit? Why would that's like a direct
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unbelief? It's like, oh, Jesus delivered
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me. Well, yeah, but look at what
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we're dealing with. The the reason we're dealing
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with darkness and demonic influence and power over us is
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because of a lack of understanding, spiritual
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understanding. The work has been done.
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That's what God says. And you can either live in that
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and believe it and say, good, I'm glad that's a good thing.
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I'm glad he delivered me from these powers.
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That way I don't have to spend time with him trying to fight
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him 'cause he fought him in. In fact, he says in chapter 2,
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he triumphed over every principality and powers.
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So that one's out the window for me.
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Like how many deliverance ministries are there?
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But one man delivered us from the power of darkness into the
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Kingdom of his dear Son. And it wasn't the man and it
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wasn't man. It was, well, it was a man, but
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it was a man, Jesus Christ. And I'm glad I don't have to
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look at A, at an evangelist or a very popular minister and guy
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that is really good with demons and all that to try to figure
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out if he thinks that I am on the right track to figure out if
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he thinks that I'm actually. You think I have it?
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Do you think I'm there? I'm glad that Jesus Christ made
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me suitable, the one that I'm going to have to be answering
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to. I'm glad he did it for me.
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I'm glad he translated me from the Kingdom of darkness into the
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Kingdom of light. I don't have to find my my some
27:47
man to say yeah, I think he I. From what I see, it looks to me
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like you got it. Like I Yeah.
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Yeah, and that's good stuff. I think I, I just wanted to say
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one thing about this darkness and light 'cause that's, it's
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what's, what's he's kind of, you know, he's saying that you were
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delivered from the power darkness and then you were
28:12
translated into light and it's interesting.
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So there's there's 2 verses in First Thessalonians.
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It says this 54 But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that
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they should take you over as a thief of the night.
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And then First Thessalonians 55 it says ye are the children of
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light and the children of the day, and we are not of the night
28:34
nor of darkness. And then there's one verse where
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it says I was just looking about light and darkness.
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It says like Ephesians 58, it's it says for ye were sometimes
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darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord and walk as the
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children of light. So right, exactly what you're
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saying, Andrew, is that we need to understand that we are of the
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light, not of the darkness. And he's saying that you need to
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walk in that right and believe that because there's so many
29:04
people like you said. That was one thing I was going
29:06
to touch on. You touched it on for me was
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that so many people are dabbing in darkness, like demonic
29:12
things, like Demi, you know, casting out demons and all those
29:15
kinds of things in believers, actually, or trying to deliver
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them from these sins, you know, when.
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And indeed, they should be looking to Christ, who is the
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light. Why are you dabbing with the
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darkness? You are the children of light
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and walk as you are in the light.
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So yeah, that's good. Yeah, the incredible truth here
29:39
is like, you think about the word deliver like a package
29:42
doesn't deliver itself. Never once.
29:44
I mean, someone brings that package to my front door and you
29:48
think about the word translate. That simply means to be moved
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from one place to another again by by another force.
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It's not something that we can't translate ourselves.
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I've never been able to show up at Waverly without actually
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driving or walking or running there, you know, But he did he
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translate. He just moved us from here to
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there by his word or by his blood or however you'd want to
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read that. I mean, that's an incredible
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truth. But I really like what you said,
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Andrew, about, you know, think about the person that's reading
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this for the first time ever and like he don't has no concept
30:24
that somebody died to deliver him or, you know, you you read
30:28
stuff like this. This God has strengthened us
30:32
with all might, you know, he has delivered us from the, wait a
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minute, us from the power of darkness.
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I mean, like, so you mean I'm like free, free.
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I like the power of darkness doesn't affect me anymore.
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Yes, that's what it means. That's right.
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And it translated us into the Kingdom of his.
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Like, I mean, this would be astonishing if you wouldn't be
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indoctrinated by the church, wouldn't it?
30:54
Yeah, Oh my goodness. This would be incredible news
30:58
for somebody that never heard anything like it.
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I mean, I tell you what this is, this is hardcore Christianity
31:03
right here. This is as simple and as hard as
31:07
it gets right there, man. And and he even has the brass to
31:12
call us suitable for the inheritance, in whom we have the
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redemption through his blood, even the even the forgiveness of
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sins. Yeah, let's just throw that in
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there, yeah. Yeah, maybe, maybe just make
31:31
sure that they understand exactly what I'm talking about
31:34
and exactly what is the deliverer here like in whom?
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So he's talking, he makes it very clear that we know exactly
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where our delivery is coming from, where the deliverance is
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coming from, so that we would have no reason to think that
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some of it lays on us. I mean, we are not even into in
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this equation whatsoever, except for the fact that we are the
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subject he's talking about. Anyway, any thoughts on verse 14
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in addition there? Wow, it's interesting that he
32:08
makes 2 separate points there. It says in whom we're talking
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about Jesus Kingdom of his dear Son, in whom we have redemption.
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So like you said, deliverance. So we have deliverance is that
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word means ransom in full riddance, deliverance,
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redemption, salvation through his blood, even the forgiveness
32:30
of sin that that I mean, you could talk on that for a long
32:33
time, but so not only did he redeem us through his blood, but
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he even forgave us of sins past, present and future.
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And I know there's a lot of people, especially of believers
32:49
that maybe don't believe that or live in that, but that is so
32:54
powerful that that he, not only are we delivered, we are
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delivered, right? We are set free.
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So let's live like we're set free.
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Amen. That's right, Andrew.
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Yeah, I wish we would just believe that verse.
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If we would believe that verse, we wouldn't have altar calls, we
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wouldn't have confessions, we wouldn't do any of that.
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We would just go with the fact that Jesus took your sins.
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He did through his blood and put us from a dark Kingdom to a
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Kingdom of light. And in order for him to do that
33:34
yet to forgive us our sins and he did it with his blood,
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they're gone. And if you think just some of
33:42
them are gone and it's your responsibility for the ones that
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you're going to commit after you believe, then you're not
33:48
forgiven. Your sins are not covered.
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It is up to you to cover your sins by the to reach over and
33:56
grab some blood and sprinkle it on top of your sins.
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Every time you do it, you're going to hell.
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Stop tricking yourself thinking that.
34:04
The minister sings, Oh, man, that was some juicy repentance.
34:07
I mean, did you see them tears? Well, that guy's sorrowful.
34:10
Oh yeah, that blood's doing its job now.
34:13
No, that's all a lie. Jesus Christ died one time and
34:18
took away sins one time forever. And for us to be so ignorant,
34:25
lacking of understanding spiritual wisdom that we're
34:28
going to attempt to go up on some wooden man made Pew and
34:32
kneel down on some carpet and shed some ears and thank God's
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going to go. Yeah, man, that's getting it.
34:38
I mean, we're kitten ourselves. It's pathetic.
34:41
And again, if we understand the gospel, we know that Jesus
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Christ is the mediator between man and God.
34:49
And he's taken away the priesthood.
34:51
He did take it away. He is the great high priest like
34:54
we started in Hebrews. And if we allow that to be, then
34:57
we will stay away from sacrifices.
35:00
We will stay away from offering our own fruits and vegetables
35:03
like Cain did. We, we should not going to do
35:07
it. We're we're going to believe
35:08
that Jesus Christ actually did what he said he did.
35:11
And we're going to believe it and we're going to believe it
35:15
like Abraham did. We're going to believe that our
35:19
our spiritual blessings are in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
35:24
And that's where they're at. They're up there, and one day
35:27
I'm going to see them. And one day I'm going to be
35:30
there and it's going to be revealed and it's going to be a
35:33
reality. But right now I'm believing it
35:36
by faith. Even if I experienced negative
35:39
things, even if I experienced darkness, even if I experience
35:43
guilt, it doesn't change the fact that Jesus Christ make me
35:47
free and delivered me. We believe in it.
35:51
It's a faith challenge. And most of us don't want that
35:54
challenge. And when we see that challenge,
35:56
we go, oh, you're not delivered. Oh, you need to read this book.
36:00
Hey, have you heard this guy? He can deliver you from evil
36:03
spirits. And if you have not found a
36:05
purpose, well, read this book and you'll find purpose.
36:09
You know, you know, get some spiritual wisdom and spiritual
36:13
understanding and it'll be. Well, the question I always have
36:18
in my mind about the altar, you know, like you, there's songs
36:23
about the altar, you know, coming to the altar, why are we
36:28
bringing back something that has been destroyed and has been
36:33
taken care of by the blood of Jesus, right?
36:36
I mean, why are we coming to the altar?
36:38
Like why do you have to come to the altar?
36:42
It just doesn't make sense to me.
36:44
The focus becomes the altar and not Christ.
36:47
It's such an insult. To this the blood of Christ.
36:50
What an insult. Yeah, no, it is absolutely.
36:54
He's asking nothing of that kind of thing here, just, you know,
36:58
asking us to believe this, this incredible story that he's
37:02
writing down here. Like, yeah, yeah, So good.
37:07
Anyway, all right, verse 15 and 16, I guess talking about Jesus,
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who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of
37:17
every creature or by Him were all things created that are in
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heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible, whether
37:25
they be Thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, All
37:31
things were created by Him and for Him.
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We'll stop there. And it goes on actually that
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that thought goes on a little bit.
37:42
But who is the image of the invisible God?
37:46
That's interesting that that Jesus, I'm assuming he's talking
37:49
here about Jesus and he was the image.
37:55
So you look at Jesus, you see God, that's that's what it's
38:00
saying there. And the first born of every
38:02
creature. Oh, interesting.
38:04
So he so again, to get back into the context and the, and the,
38:08
the storyline here now he is making sure that we know who
38:13
this deliverer is, right? I mean, he told us how this
38:16
happened and what he did for us and in our stead.
38:19
Now he's making sure that we know who this guy is, right.
38:24
No one go ahead if you have any thoughts on 15 or 16.
38:27
Yeah. So there's a lot of lot of
38:30
thoughts. I guess I'd I also really stood
38:35
out to me there when verse 15 he said talking about Jesus, who is
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the image of the invisible God. So if we want to know, you know,
38:44
what is God, who is God? What does he look like?
38:49
Christ is the image of him, right?
38:51
And he God is a spiritual being, but he does have an image.
38:55
He has a form and in Genesis it talks about, you know, when they
39:00
created man, let us create them in our image.
39:03
So God is yes, he is a spiritual almighty being, but he does have
39:11
a, a body, right? He has a backside.
39:13
We know that because he showed it to Moses and he has a face.
39:17
We know that. So it it's just really
39:20
important. I think what he's laying out
39:22
here is he's, he's laying out here who Christ is and who God
39:27
is, right? And like showing us that Christ
39:31
did not come into the scene of the crucifixion, or I should
39:36
say, when he was born from Mary, right?
39:40
As a baby, Jesus was on the scene from the beginning.
39:44
He was there when the earth was created, right?
39:47
And, and that was something that for me as a young believer, it
39:51
took me a while to grasp that, to actually realize.
39:55
And that Christ was there. He says he was the first born of
40:00
every creature. And for by Him we're all things
40:04
created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible.
40:07
And invisible. And whether they be Thrones or
40:10
domains of principalities or powers, all things were created
40:14
by him and for him. And it's amazing to think that
40:18
actually, not only was he there in creation to, you know, help
40:23
create the whole earth and everything that is in the earth,
40:27
but he is actually creating all things.
40:30
Like when you can think about that, like everything that is
40:33
here today says principalities and powers and dominions,
40:38
Thrones, all these things, things, earthly things that are
40:42
taking place now here on this earth are created by him.
40:48
That's just, I mean, I don't know, that's just hard for our
40:51
little brains to grasp. But what he's trying to lay out
40:55
here, I see, is that he's trying to point out who this deliverer
41:00
Jesus Christ actually is and how almighty he is.
41:05
Yeah, as a matter of fact, he's so much of a mighty being that
41:11
it says for by him we're all things created.
41:14
I mean, how much more mighty than that can you get?
41:16
So in other words, when he says that he delivered us from the
41:20
power of darkness and translated us, you can take it straight to
41:23
the bank. This guy knows what he's talking
41:25
about. That is the authority on this
41:26
matter. Just like you would go to a
41:28
scientist to help you explain what an atom is.
41:31
You know, you would trust him because he studied this thing.
41:33
So we trust him. I mean, he created this thing
41:36
after all. He created you.
41:37
He knows how you work, all that good stuff.
41:40
So why not trust him if he's writing this?
41:42
So he's just making it clear that we make the connection
41:44
here, right? Yeah, and by the way, we're all
41:46
going to be judged by him as well.
41:48
He says he's going to judge the whole world.
41:51
Jesus Christ is plenty to. So yeah.
41:54
And also be our high priest that interest Andrew.
41:59
Yeah, I think. Like you were pointed out is
42:02
it's a big qualifying record here.
42:06
Like he's highly qualified to make the claims that he's making
42:10
in order to justify us. Like he actually can do it.
42:14
He can back it up. It's not like some prophet that
42:19
didn't create anything along and say, hey, you know what?
42:22
If you follow me, I will deliver you.
42:23
I'll take you all the way, you know.
42:26
I'm the guy, you stick with me, we'll go.
42:28
Places Jesus actually can say that and do it because he
42:33
created everything. And he can actually make that
42:37
statement that he has delivered us from all principalities and
42:41
powers because he made him and he's above him.
42:45
Yeah, He's superior to any principality and power because
42:48
he made him. No.
42:50
And that'd be like if I build a house or if you build a house
42:54
and then I come in there and go. This is not Bill's right, you it
43:01
right here we could use some glue and here we could use some
43:04
staples and here we need to use an extra 2 by 4 and we start
43:10
painting at the color that we think it should be and you would
43:13
walk in and you're what amazed at the make of this perfect
43:17
house. Well, that's kind of what I
43:19
think we're doing a lot of times is we're trying to fix a perfect
43:23
scenario where Jesus Christ is the great high priest.
43:27
He, he's, he's far above anything else.
43:31
He's, in fact, he's God, He's the creator, and he's the one
43:34
making these claims. So let's not try to fix it.
43:38
Let's believe it. Let's not try to correct it.
43:41
Let's not try to make it fit our human fleshly mind, because if
43:48
it has to be able to resonate with your flesh and your
43:52
emotions, they might not be spiritual.
43:56
It's us. There's a reason that the
43:58
Colonel cannot understand the things of the Spirit because
44:01
they're spiritually discerned. So if we can spiritually discern
44:06
this and be completely lifted up, maybe you need to get, maybe
44:10
you need to believe for the first time.
44:12
Just believe it. Yeah, right.
44:15
So using that same analogy, Andrew, so if the the guy that
44:20
created us, he knows how we operate.
44:23
He knows that we're going to get depressed.
44:25
He knows that we're going to get that's we're going to struggle.
44:28
He knows that we're going to, you know, lust after things that
44:32
we shouldn't have. He knows that we're going to
44:35
have a hard time getting along with our wife sometimes or with
44:38
our children sometimes or our brothers.
44:41
You know, the body of Christ. He knows that money is going to
44:45
be an issue. He knows that that things are
44:47
going to affect our our mind and our emotions and our body in a
44:53
negative way. The guy that knew that when he
44:56
created us still chose to give us this information about
45:00
himself and how to be delivered. I mean, I guess that's correct
45:06
then. And, and maybe the philosopher
45:08
is wrong. If we don't need books to read,
45:11
maybe actually what we should do is pay attention to what the
45:15
creator wrote. And that, that I think that's
45:16
exactly what he's doing. He's like you said, he's
45:18
qualifying himself to be giving us this information because we
45:24
had a, we had an app built for our horse sale that we could.
45:28
It was an app that we had built to keep track of the horses that
45:31
were in the barn and which pen they were pending so that the
45:33
public could just search up the horse number.
45:36
And it would say always depend pen 65 though, that he could
45:38
walk to that pen and go find the but the thing wasn't working
45:40
right. Who do I call?
45:42
The guy that made it. The guy that made it exactly and
45:45
he had to fix just like he knew exactly what it needed.
45:48
And that's what we're talking about here.
45:50
How better, how much better would it be to go to the guy
45:53
that actually designed us and use his manual to work things
45:58
out if if we struggle with lust or whatever?
46:00
Huh. Well, there we go.
46:01
The problem is that right that that takes faith that you know
46:06
what I'm saying. That's the problem.
46:08
Like, so another thing I thought of when you were saying that is
46:11
there's so many authors of self help books that after they died,
46:17
like their book is, I mean, there's very little books that
46:22
go on for hundreds of years after the Arthur dies, right?
46:26
But the Bible is actually still the most sold book in the world.
46:33
2000 years, whatever. However, whenever it was printed
46:36
later, it's not that long, but it's a long time, right?
46:40
And so. Yeah.
46:42
One thing I forgot to mention that I still think it's kind of
46:45
an, A valid point is So what do you do with this information?
46:52
The I when I was still very green with the idea that you can
46:57
just take this to the bank, I was sharing with people from
47:01
church, actually a ministry. It was the the main pastor and
47:07
he ended up saying, well, what would we do if we if that was
47:10
the way it was, then what would, what would we even do as a
47:13
church? Like what would be Mike?
47:18
What would be our job then? Now.
47:22
We're saying you probably get everything and everything's
47:24
already done. Then what's what's what are we
47:28
going to do if our sins are already gone past for in the
47:31
future, why are we here like. What?
47:33
What are we doing and? I look back to that and I'm
47:37
like, Nah, that's pretty sad, but.
47:39
But if you actually believe what the way he believes, it makes
47:42
sense though if God is looking at the church to process sins to
47:48
get people on the right track and to keep them.
47:51
That sanctification thing going, if that's the responsibility of
47:55
the church, not the spirit of Christ in you where you get to
47:58
know him. If it's the responsibility of
48:00
the elders to look out for your souls like Paul does say in
48:04
their mind that's what they're doing.
48:06
But in my mind, an elder's job is to preach What we're
48:10
preaching tonight is so that those souls will we're looking
48:14
out for souls not to get another member of our to our group.
48:19
What? Which, But simultaneously, we'll
48:22
do that so. And many individuals do ask that
48:27
question. Well, then what do I do?
48:29
Like, if it's already done well #1 be thankful and raise an
48:33
awesome family. That's something you can do.
48:37
Walk in faith. I guarantee if you start
48:39
believing this, the challenge will come.
48:42
You know now that now when you get tended with lying or lust,
48:47
believe the fact that you're delivered.
48:49
That's something you can do. You want to do something.
48:53
Believe that you're delivered. When you're tempted, when the
48:55
things are hard, know that Jesus Christ give you.
48:58
Gave you peace, He made peace. On the cross for us, that's
49:02
something you can do. You can talk to someone else
49:06
about this good news. That's the other thing you can
49:09
do. There's a lot to do.
49:12
Just because someone gave you anything you need doesn't mean
49:15
you don't have anything to do. Yeah, right.
49:18
And that's and that's exactly what Paul I, I just when you
49:20
started talking about, that's a really good point, Andrew.
49:24
This is exactly what Paul was dealing with when he wrote
49:26
Galatians. He was like Galatia or Galatia I
49:31
guess is where it is. He says, There, I marvel that
49:33
you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace
49:37
of Christ unto another gospel, which is not another.
49:40
And it goes on to say, that if we are an Angel, or from heaven,
49:43
or any other person would preach of this other thing, let him be
49:47
accursed. And we say before, So now I say
49:50
again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you, then that
49:56
you have received, let him be accursed.
49:58
That is actually our work here. That.
50:01
If you want, if you want to preach about something, preach
50:04
what Paul did, you know, counter these these untruths, bring back
50:10
the simplicity that is in Christ.
50:11
Stand on that and share that. That's actually the gospel, not
50:14
this other muckety muck that people are fussing about all the
50:17
time. The gospel is simple and we're
50:19
we're reading through this is this is a clear gospel message
50:23
right here in the first book chapter of Colossians that we're
50:25
going through and we can't get this information out of books of
50:29
the world. This information comes straight
50:32
from the word of God. And that's that's where it is
50:34
and it's not a popular thing. That's part of the work for
50:37
sure. But Ephesians chapter 4 makes it
50:40
pretty clear what the work of the ministry is through the
50:43
gifts of the Spirit. It says this Ephesians 412
50:48
through 15. It says for the perfecting of
50:51
the Saints, for the working of the ministry, for the edifying
50:54
of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the
50:59
faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.
51:02
Unto a perfect man, and unto the measure of the stature of the
51:06
fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children
51:11
tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctor
51:15
by the sleight of men, and by the cunning craftiness whereby
51:18
we lie and wait to deceive. But speaking the truth in love,
51:23
may we grow up unto Him in all things, which is the head, even
51:27
Christ. That is so clear What the work
51:31
of the ministry is in the body of Christ, and what it looks
51:34
like. Wow.
51:36
That is so rich right there man. I'm nailed it on the head there,
51:39
Melvin, that. Was the head on so good, so good
51:42
information, so good information.
51:45
All right, one more quick or two or whatever we get time for
51:48
verse 17. And he is before all things and
51:52
by him all things consist. Now this is finally the
51:55
conclusion. This is the last part of this
51:58
long sentence that he's writing about.
52:00
And I remember when I was preaching, I preached through
52:04
Colossians many years ago and I got to to studying into this
52:08
word consist there. And it simply means to to stand.
52:13
Let me see, it says to stand together, to be in a fixed or
52:16
permanent state. That is that it.
52:19
That's what the word consist means.
52:21
And so he is before all things and by him all things.
52:25
So he is the one that causes things to stand the way that
52:28
they are, right? I mean, if he, if he establishes
52:32
a truth, whether that truth be a tree or a blade of grass or a
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spiritual truth that we're reading about here, I think the
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same thing. He causes it to stand.
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He causes it to stand as the as the truth, the thing and and
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since since he was before all things, he was a designer of
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them, you know. So again, this is a qualifying
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statement. This is this is just a real good
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truth here. Any other things on that melt?
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Yeah, I I like what it says in John one.
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It talks about Jesus being the word.
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It says in John one, one through 3 in the beginning was the word.
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So Jesus was in the beginning and the word was with God and
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the word was God. Jesus was with God and he was
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God and the same was in the beginning with God and then in
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verse 3 it says and all things were made by him and without him
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was not anything made that was made.
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I mean, that's just I just came across that verse verses just
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now and it just it, it's another verse just sitting pointing out
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what he's saying here. He is before all things and by
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him all things consist. I mean, it's pretty simple.
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Actually that's it is very simple Andrew.
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Yeah, he's like the magnetic glory and power and forces that
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hold everything together. If Jesus Christ would leave, I
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think the sun would get out of rhythm immediately.
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I think the moon and the stars would all come like scrambled
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eggs and everything would just fall apart.
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He is the reason that everything is running and functionally
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functioning perfectly and he's the reason we have winter,
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summer, spring and fall. He the reason that the air is
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fresh and clean and has oxygen in it.
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If God wasn't in the air, we'd die 'cause we have no oxygen.
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He's life. And that's, and again, He's the
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creator like Paul always does, or God.
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I mean, actually it's God. He likes to say it in many
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different ways in case we didn't get it when he said it plainly
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the first time. So it's like, you know what?
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I'm the one that made everything and nothing of this world or the
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world to come were visible, invisible, Thrones, dominions,
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powers, none of that would exist.
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It wasn't for me. I made it all, and I am the one
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that made peace with the blood of his cross, and that's coming
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straight from the horse's mouth, like Leon would say.
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Yeah, and and that's that's a good place to get it from.
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It hasn't been hasn't been defiled.
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So anyway, I'm not going to do another mercy kind of talks
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about AI mean the same same thing here, but different
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subject little bit. So we'll we'll leave that for
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next time. We're a few minutes early yet,
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but I just you know, I'm just thinking about about these
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truths and stuff. So I, I think that we can take
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we as believers or, or unbelievers, actually anybody
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we, we can read this and really take heart, really be encouraged
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and really be excited that you can actually live and walk the
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Christian life or your life, however, whatever you want to
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call it, victorious. I mean, the road map is here.
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It's clear that there's just not a lot of fuss and feathers about
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it. Just just keeps it so plain and
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simple. And this, this doesn't have to
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be a drudgery. A lot of people talk about all,
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you know, my, my thing this week that I struggled with or
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whatever. And and they have these, these
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great battles in their life. Yeah, there's going to be tough
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time. Andrew would be the first one to
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say that not everything is easy. You know, he's going through a
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really, really tough season, but I don't see him discouraged.
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I, I'm, I'm sure you are sometimes, but you read truths
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like this and, and they, they, those truths set you free
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because it's not on us. We get to escape.
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We get to be delivered from this, this Jesus said my yoke is
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easy and my burden is light. Did he mean that or not?
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Yes, he did. You can see it by what he wrote
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here that he is absolutely serious about this.
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Yes, about times are tough, but no, we don't have to stay in
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that miry clay. He set our feet on the solid
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rock and put him there to stay. You know that That's good news.
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So man, I'll tell you what, take heart guys.
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There's, there's more to life than groveling around and
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begging God for some kind of deliverance when He clearly says
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that it is right here before your eyes.
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All you need to do is actually believe what He said.
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And that's not even a thing where you got to get into the
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faith. Got to get into the faith.
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Just simply believe what He wrote down like you wouldn't
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believe a story in any other book or something I told you
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about the weather. Yeah.
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And then and then walk, walk in that, you know, not just not
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just believe it, but act on it. You know, like walking, right?
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Yeah, one of the things that we find a lot that I'm pretty much
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now most of the people I try to interact with, especially from
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kind of outside and also religious, their backgrounds is,
57:44
well, the word of God has been messed with.
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I just can't really trust it. And well, I they found some more
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manuscripts that were never put in the Bible, and King James is
57:53
corrupt and this and that and all that.
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And. We can go all down all the
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excuses and reasons of why we shouldn't believe the gospel and
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why it's just men and all that. But what it comes down to to do
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this is do you have joy and peace about life You have is is
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life full for you? And that is one thing you cannot
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answer if you don't know these truths.
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That's. Right.
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You cannot have it. And so I just won't allow myself
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to go down that road. It's so easy to go with them,
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trying to think you have to defend yourself.
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I started just saying what is true is that, well, according to
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my understanding, and what Jesus Christ did on the cross for me
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gives me peace and victory and joy in life like nothing else.
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And what you're offering sounds depressing.
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Yeah, that's questioning. Everything.
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Trying to read into everything sounds depressing and stressful
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and bondage. My Jesus delivered me and that's
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what I know. And if I'm a child, if I'm
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ignorant and an idiot and a child for believing it, then so
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be it. I have peace.
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That's good. I was so this I'll let you talk
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in. But so this past week was our
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big horse sale. And my auctioneer for the
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Saturday, the last day of the sale, was one of them was an
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Amish guy from Kansas. Jerry Vanderboard, who's
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listening right now, knows this guy.
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And he came to me there on the auction block and he said, Lee,
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and I want to tell you this, this morning when I woke up, I
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knew I had to sell horses today. And he said my voice was not
59:34
right. It was as dusty in there.
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And it's just kind of gets after five days of auction, you know,
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every day it's it gets kind of gravelly.
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So he said, Lee and I got down on my knees in my motel room and
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I said, now godly and hired me for this job and, and we need to
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make sure that my voice works so I can honor my part of the of
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the job. And he said I got up there on
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the mic and everything was fine, just like it should have.
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Been there you go. I mean talk about simple faith.
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Someone that just broke it straight to God and told him now
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this is the deal. It was refreshing.
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I like, I really loved. Hearing yeah, that's good.
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I love that. I was just going to read these
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couple verses that as you were talking it, Kate, it came to my
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mind. It says be aware lest any man,
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this is Colossians 29, we're going to get to this.
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But it says, Be aware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
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and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, and after the
1:00:26
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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For in him in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
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fatherly, and ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all
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principalities and power. That pretty much explains it
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right there and wraps it up what we were talking about here.
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And I'm, I'm so looking forward to going through the rest of
1:00:50
this. Like I said, this, this is just
1:00:51
a jam packed little short book. It's going to be good.
1:00:54
So anyway, we're out of time. Thank you brothers for your time
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and and your input here. Really appreciate that.
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Have a good week. If anyone wants to, like I said,
1:01:03
but the start of the show, if anyone wants to go back and find
1:01:06
the previous version, the previous recordings of this
1:01:09
chapter to tie it all together, just look at Simply Christ
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Ministries. You can find everything right
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there. Appreciate everything guys, have
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a good week. Thank you.