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1 Peter 1:10-16 - What is the Trinity? Is Modalism Biblical? · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: and after that we will dive into the book of
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  Speaker 1: First Peter one ten through sixteen. Okay, let's go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and read all of this as usual. I will be
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  Speaker 1: reading from the web. You guys are going to want
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  Speaker 1: episode because I am going to be jumping around in
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  Speaker 1: scripture quite a bit today as we discuss the Trinity
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  Speaker 1: and also modalism and some other more in depth topics
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  Speaker 1: today based upon what we are reading again, this is
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  Speaker 1: First Peter one ten through sixteen concerning this salvation. The
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  Speaker 1: profits sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace
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  Speaker 1: that would come to you, searching for who or what
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  Speaker 1: kind of time. The Spirit of Christ which was in them,
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  Speaker 1: pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and
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  Speaker 1: the glories that would follow them to them. It was
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  Speaker 1: revealed that they served not themselves but you in these
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  Speaker 1: things which now have been announced to you through those
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  Speaker 1: who preach the good news to you by the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit sent out from Heaven, which things angels desire to
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  Speaker 1: look into. Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober,
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  Speaker 1: and set your hope fully on the grace that will
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  Speaker 1: be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your
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  Speaker 1: former lusts, as in your ignorance. But just as he
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  Speaker 1: who called you as holy, you yourselves also be holy
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  Speaker 1: in all of your behavior, because it is written you
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  Speaker 1: shall be holy, for I am holy. On Tuesday, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about the first portion of First Peter, and if
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  Speaker 1: you did not get a chance to listen to that episode,
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend that you do go back and listen
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  Speaker 1: to it so that you're up to date with everything
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  Speaker 1: that we previously talked about. To put it all in
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  Speaker 1: a nutshell, Peter was writing to the Christians who were
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  Speaker 1: going through persecution, reminding them that they have been given
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  Speaker 1: a grand gift, this gift of salvation, and since they've
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  Speaker 1: been given salvation, we should be living as people changed
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  Speaker 1: by God. So here's what he says in verse ten,
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  Speaker 1: which starts our passage for today concerning the salvation, the
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  Speaker 1: prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace
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  Speaker 1: that would come to you, searching for who or what
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  Speaker 1: kind of time. The Spirit of Christ which was in them,
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  Speaker 1: pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and
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  Speaker 1: the glories that would follow them. So Peter is going
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to the Prophets in order to
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  Speaker 1: prove how special salvation actually is, because as Christians, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have a tendency sometimes to forget the sufferings of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you who've grown up in the church
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  Speaker 1: like I have, you might even get kind of bored
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  Speaker 1: with the Gospel message. And I am ashamed to say
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  Speaker 1: that that has been me throughout the years where I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I wish we'd go into like more in depth topics.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've heard about Jesus's sacrifice a million times.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Jesus's sacrifice is what the entire
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  Speaker 1: Gospel hinges on. It's what everything is connected to in scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Even the Old Testament points to Jesus and to his sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Everything in the Bible is connected by Jesus's love for
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  Speaker 1: humanity and his sacrifice for the entire world. It is
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  Speaker 1: something that we should be treating with great reverence. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Peter actually says that at the very beginning of his letter.
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  Speaker 1: He says in verse two that he's essentially writing this
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  Speaker 1: letter that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled
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  Speaker 1: with his blood. Thinking about Jesus's sacrifice on a day
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  Speaker 1: to day basis for our souls, it's probably one of
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  Speaker 1: the most healthy things that we can reflect on, thanking
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  Speaker 1: Jesus for what he has done, giving reverence to him
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  Speaker 1: for his sacrifice that he did not need to do
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of sinful humanity, remembering our flaws, remembering our
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  Speaker 1: sins that we laid on Jesus's shoulders, and remembering that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did physically and tortuously suffer for us, and that
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  Speaker 1: his blood truly did flow on our behalf. And this
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  Speaker 1: is how important this salvation actually is. Even the prophets
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament were seeking it diligently. It says
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  Speaker 1: in verse ten that the prophets sought and searched diligently
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  Speaker 1: concerning this salvation, So they were looking for this, they
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  Speaker 1: were wondering what was going to happen. And this is
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  Speaker 1: an excellent answer for anybody who questions, if people don't
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  Speaker 1: hear the name of Jesus, does that automatically mean that
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  Speaker 1: God is going to send them straight to hell? Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: because even the prophets in the Old Testament had never
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  Speaker 1: heard the name of Jesus. They just understood that a
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  Speaker 1: messiah was coming. They understood that salvation was coming. So no,
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  Speaker 1: God does not throw every single person that doesn't hear
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus straight into hell, because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: even do it in the Old Testament days. But it
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  Speaker 1: does say. I think it's in Romans ten that people
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  Speaker 1: have no excuse for not understanding about God, even if
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  Speaker 1: they never do hear the name of Jesus Christ, even
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  Speaker 1: if they die their entire life not hearing Jesus's name once,
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  Speaker 1: there is still no excuse for them not to know God,
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  Speaker 1: because they can see creation, and creation testifies that there
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  Speaker 1: is a God. I was reading a book recently called
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  Speaker 1: Tortured for Christ by this guy named Wormbrand, and he
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  Speaker 1: went through extreme suffering and persecution during the nineteen forties
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  Speaker 1: under Joseph Stalin terrible things happened to Christians in Russia
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  Speaker 1: during that time with the Communist takeover, and he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about the underground church that he started before he
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  Speaker 1: got arrested and tortured, and he dedicated his ministry to
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  Speaker 1: reaching Russian soldiers and people who worked for the Russian
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  Speaker 1: Communist government. And he met to this husband and wife
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  Speaker 1: couple who were sculptors and they were tasked with sculpting
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  Speaker 1: a large statue I guess of Stalin. And apparently what
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  Speaker 1: happened was before they even talked to Pastor Wormbrand, they
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  Speaker 1: were fascinated over the fact that they had thumbs, saying
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  Speaker 1: that if we didn't have thumbs, we would never be
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  Speaker 1: able to hold our hammers or our chisels, we would
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  Speaker 1: never be able to do anything. In fact, all of humanity,
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  Speaker 1: if we didn't have thumbs would be completely useless. We
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do half of the things that
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  Speaker 1: we are able to accomplish now with our thumbs. And
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  Speaker 1: the thumb is such a small little thing that essentially
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  Speaker 1: it controls the course of life. So there must be
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  Speaker 1: somebody out there who created the thumb. And in order
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  Speaker 1: not to get arrested and tortured, for believing in God.
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  Speaker 1: They called God, who they worshiped nobody, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: I worshiped nobody because they didn't know God's name. They
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  Speaker 1: had never heard the name of Jesus once in their
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  Speaker 1: entire lives until they met Pastor Wormbrandt, who witnessed to
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  Speaker 1: them about Jesus. And they were fascinated because they had
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  Speaker 1: been worshiping Jesus that entire time, the creator of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: the savior of the world. And they just understood these
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  Speaker 1: things about Jesus because they saw their own thumbs. They
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  Speaker 1: saw creation, because Creation talks about Jesus. But that was
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  Speaker 1: a very long tangent. I was talking about how the
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  Speaker 1: prophets of old never heard the name Jesus, but they
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  Speaker 1: were worshiping him as the Messiah. They knew that the
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  Speaker 1: Messiah was going to come, but they were searching, it
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  Speaker 1: says in verse eleven, for who or what kind of time.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit of Christ which was in them, pointed to
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  Speaker 1: when he predicted the Son, the frings of Christ, and
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  Speaker 1: the glories that would follow them. So it's really interesting
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  Speaker 1: here because the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: Christ right here. Some of your versions might say the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of Jesus. In fact, if you turn to Acts
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  Speaker 1: chapter sixteen, verse seven, this is not the only time
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  Speaker 1: we see the Spirit of Jesus mentioned. When they came
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  Speaker 1: to Missia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. That's from the
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  Speaker 1: CSB version, by the way, So the Spirit of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is mentioned on a handful of occasions throughout scripture, and
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  Speaker 1: that might make you wonder, is the Holy Spirit Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: spirit instead of a third member of the Trinity. Is
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  Speaker 1: he just the Spirit of Jesus, almost like Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: a different form. So let's go to Romans eight, verses
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  Speaker 1: one through eleven and see how Paul describes the Trinity.
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  Speaker 1: Starting in verse one, it says, there is therefore now
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  Speaker 1: no condemnation to those who are in Christ. Jesus so
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  Speaker 1: first member of the Trinity, who don't walk according to
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, but according to the spirit. Second member of
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  Speaker 1: the Trinity. For the law of the Spirit of life
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  Speaker 1: in Christ, Jesus made me free from the law of
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  Speaker 1: sin and death. For what the law couldn't do, in
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  Speaker 1: that it was weak through the flesh, God did. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the third member of the Trinity, God the Father
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  Speaker 1: sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
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  Speaker 1: and for sin. He condemned sin in the flesh, that
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  Speaker 1: the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us,
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  Speaker 1: who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh
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  Speaker 1: set their minds on the things of the flesh, but
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  Speaker 1: those who live according to the Spirit the things of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit. So Paul is differentiating between all three members
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  Speaker 1: of the Trinity, saying that all three of them had
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  Speaker 1: different roles in accomplishing the same goal. So first and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ did the sacrifice. Secondly, the Spirit used Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice to provide freedom, and God the Father sent his
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  Speaker 1: son Jesus to become the sacrifice. So they all had
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  Speaker 1: the exact same goal, but they all had separate roles
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  Speaker 1: in accomplishing that goal. So, continuing in verse nine, it says,
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  Speaker 1: but you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: If it is so that the Spirit of God dwells
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  Speaker 1: in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, he is not his. So there's another mention
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit of Jesus or the Spirit of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So the Spirit is now referred to in this passage
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  Speaker 1: as three different things. Firstly the Spirit of God, secondly
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of Christ, and thirdly the Spirit of Life.
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  Speaker 1: This passage reminds us that there are three members of
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  Speaker 1: the Trinity, but that all three members are God. That
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  Speaker 1: is why Isaiah nine, verse six can say this about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: For a child is born to us, a son is
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  Speaker 1: given to us, and the government will be on his shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: and his name will be called Wonderful counselor Mighty God,
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  Speaker 1: Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. All of those names describe
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  Speaker 1: a member of the Trinity. That Jesus's name will reflect
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  Speaker 1: each member of the Trinity. Wonderful Counselor that's who we
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  Speaker 1: call the Spirit, Mighty God, that is who we call
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  Speaker 1: all three of them. Actually, Everlasting Father, that is who
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  Speaker 1: we call the Father, and Prince of Peace, that is
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  Speaker 1: who we call Jesus. So this son, Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 1: all of them. He is the Wonderful Counselor, he is
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  Speaker 1: Mighty God, he is the Everlasting Father, and he is
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  Speaker 1: the Prince of Peace. But he's also different from each
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  Speaker 1: one of them as well. I am not a modalist,
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  Speaker 1: which means that God is just one person and he
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  Speaker 1: wears different masks depending on what he is doing. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, he's God the Father most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: but he came down as Jesus, so God the Father
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  Speaker 1: was not actually in heaven anymore because he assumed the
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  Speaker 1: form of Jesus to come down to earth. They just
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  Speaker 1: believe that there is no trinity, essentially, that God is
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  Speaker 1: just one being that assumes different forms depending on what
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  Speaker 1: he is doing. But I'm not a modalist, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that modalism is blatantly unbiblical because if God was
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  Speaker 1: just one entity and there was no trinity, then that
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  Speaker 1: makes scripture out to be a liar in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cases. For example, when it says no one has
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  Speaker 1: seen God, that is referring to God the Father, no
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  Speaker 1: one has seen him. If the Father is the exact
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  Speaker 1: same person as Jesus and he comes down to earth, well,
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  Speaker 1: then that verse becomes a lie because people did see
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  Speaker 1: God the Father at that point. And then there's verses,
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  Speaker 1: for example, where Jesus says that once he ascends back
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  Speaker 1: up into Heaven that somebody greater than him is going
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  Speaker 1: to come. Well, if Jesus is the exact same person
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  Speaker 1: as the Holy Spirit, why would Jesus call one form
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  Speaker 1: of himself greater than another form of himself? And there
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  Speaker 1: are just too many scriptural passages that talk about the trinity,
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  Speaker 1: even going back to the very beginning of everything in
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Genesis, chapter three, verse twenty two, right
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  Speaker 1: after the man and the woman sinned in the garden.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what God says in verse twenty two. Yahweh God said, behold,
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  Speaker 1: the man has become like one of us, knowing good
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  Speaker 1: and evil. Now lest he reach out his hand and
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  Speaker 1: also take of the tree of life and eat and
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  Speaker 1: live forever. Therefore, Yahweh God sent him out of the
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  Speaker 1: garden of Eden to till the ground from which he
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  Speaker 1: was taken. God right there in that verse said that
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  Speaker 1: there was a trinity. He said, us us infers that
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  Speaker 1: there is more than one. So modalism is just not biblical.
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  Speaker 1: There is no basis for it in scripture. And that
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  Speaker 1: is certainly not what Peter is implying in One Peter
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  Speaker 1: one eleven that the Spirit of Christ means that the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is the exact same person as Christ. He's not
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  Speaker 1: saying that there is no trinity. He is saying that
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  Speaker 1: there is a trinity where all three persons are interconnected,
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  Speaker 1: that all three of them are different yet equal. He
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  Speaker 1: says the Spirit of Christ, which was in these prophets
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  Speaker 1: pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and
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  Speaker 1: the glories that would follow them to them. It was
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  Speaker 1: revealed that they served not themselves but you in these
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  Speaker 1: things which now have been announced to you through those
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  Speaker 1: who preached the good news to you by the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit sent out from Heaven, which things angels desire to
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  Speaker 1: look into. So first and foremost the prophets, even though
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  Speaker 1: they were diligently searching for what this salvation meant, what
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit was telling them, they desperately wanted to
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  Speaker 1: know it themselves, but they began to understand over time
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  Speaker 1: that they weren't going to get the answer to their question,
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  Speaker 1: at least not on this side of eternity. They were
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  Speaker 1: prophesying for the benefit of people in the future, the
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  Speaker 1: benefit for people like us who can go back and
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  Speaker 1: read the prophets right now. For example, that verse in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah that we just read about Jesus that a son
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  Speaker 1: would be born to us, we can go back and
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  Speaker 1: read that Isaiah wrote that hundreds of years before Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was born, and be like, wow, this is the truth.
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  Speaker 1: All of this stuff has been preserved, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Isaiah. God proved how preserved that book
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  Speaker 1: specifically really was when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found,
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  Speaker 1: and the Dead Sea Scrolls were written two hundred years
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  Speaker 1: before Jesus was born, and when scholars compared what was
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  Speaker 1: found in the Isaiah version of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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  Speaker 1: to the modern nineteen forties version of Isaiah, it was
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  Speaker 1: nearly word for word, absolutely amazing how the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah has been preserved. It talks about everything from Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: birth to his death, to the Second Coming, to the millennia.
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  Speaker 1: It talks about like everything, it is prophecy through and
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  Speaker 1: through some of it not even being fulfilled, yet absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And these prophets were writing these things on our behalf,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that God was using them to serve people in
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  Speaker 1: the future, to serve us, to serve you, to serve me,
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  Speaker 1: and even for the angels as well. This isn't just
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  Speaker 1: a benefit for you and I, but also for the angels.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked a little bit about how angels don't quite
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  Speaker 1: understand the message of salvation the same way that humans do.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't been revealed to them in the same way.
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  Speaker 1: So the angels actually are looking into things themselves. They
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  Speaker 1: are attending our church services. That's mentioned in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 1: I think ten. They are viewing how Christians live their lives.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's mentioned in First Corinthians four. And they're
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  Speaker 1: also viewing how Jesus responds to somebody becoming saved. Actually
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  Speaker 1: that's mentioned in let's see here. I think it was Luke,
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifteen, verse ten. Even so, I tell you there
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  Speaker 1: is joy in the presence of the angels of God
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  Speaker 1: over one sinner repenting. Notice that verse. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: times that verse is misconstrued to say that the angels
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  Speaker 1: are joyful when a sinner repents. But that's not what
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  Speaker 1: it says. It says there is joy in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the angels of God over one sinner repenting. It
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  Speaker 1: is God who is doing the rejoicing in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the angels. That is so much more grand than
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  Speaker 1: twisting it to say that the angels are rejoicing over us. No,
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  Speaker 1: it is God himself rejoicing over us, and the angels
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  Speaker 1: are watching that because they don't quite under stand the
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  Speaker 1: mystery of salvation yet it hasn't fully been revealed to them.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Ephesians three nine through eleven says, to
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  Speaker 1: make all men see what is the administration of the mystery,
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  Speaker 1: which for ages has been hidden in God, who created
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  Speaker 1: all things through Christ Jesus, to the intent that now,
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  Speaker 1: through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God might be
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  Speaker 1: made known to the principalities and the powers in the
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  Speaker 1: heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished
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  Speaker 1: in Christ, Jesus our Lord. So that was written by Paul,
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  Speaker 1: and he basically says that the mystery that has been
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  Speaker 1: revealed to us, that was hidden for ages, still is
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  Speaker 1: not quite revealed to the angels. So the angels, going
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  Speaker 1: back to one Peter one, they desire to look into
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  Speaker 1: this message of salvation. They are trying to figure it
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  Speaker 1: out for themselves right now, is what Peter says. That
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  Speaker 1: is how amazing this salvation is that the prophets prophesied
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  Speaker 1: about it hundreds of years, thousands of years in some cases,
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  Speaker 1: before Jesus even was born, and that the angels now
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  Speaker 1: are attending our church services looking at our lives, looking
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  Speaker 1: into these prophecies, desiring to understand this salvation. That is
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  Speaker 1: how amazing all of this really is. So Peter gives
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  Speaker 1: us a call to action. He says, therefore, prepare your
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  Speaker 1: minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully
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  Speaker 1: on the grace that will be brought to you at
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  Speaker 1: the revelation of Jesus Christ. So Jesus is going to
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  Speaker 1: give us grace when he returns, which means that we
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  Speaker 1: need to be watching out for him. That's actually what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus mentions in Luke twelve thirty five. He says, let
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  Speaker 1: your waist be dressed in your lamps burning, and he
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  Speaker 1: goes on to give a parable about people who are
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  Speaker 1: watching for their lord. So we have to be watching
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  Speaker 1: and waiting for Jesus that when he does come again
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  Speaker 1: the second time, which I believe wholeheartedly that he wills someday,
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  Speaker 1: we won't be left in the dark. We won't be
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  Speaker 1: caught not waiting for him or caught surprised by his presence,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll be ready for him, ready for him to
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  Speaker 1: take us up into heaven and finally free us from
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  Speaker 1: this temporary life that we currently live. That's why, to
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  Speaker 1: conclude in one Peter one fourteen and fifteen, he says,
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  Speaker 1: be children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your
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  Speaker 1: former lusts, as in ignorance. But just as he who
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  Speaker 1: called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in
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  Speaker 1: all of your behavior, because it is written you shall
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  Speaker 1: be holy, for I am holy, and I apologize. It
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  Speaker 1: was actually to verse sixteen. Jesus calls us to be
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  Speaker 1: holy in all things because he himself is holy. And
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  Speaker 1: if we're gonna say that we believe in Jesus, then
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  Speaker 1: we better be obedient to what he says. If we
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  Speaker 1: tell Jesus God, we are going to serve you, then
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  Speaker 1: we better serve him. We better obey him, just as
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  Speaker 1: a servant obeys their master. So also we Christian servants
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  Speaker 1: must obey our master, otherwise we're not really servants. And
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  Speaker 1: that is what Peter's entire letter comes down to, is obedience.
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  Speaker 1: How do you truly follow Jesus in the truth. So
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  Speaker 1: in order to be ready for Jesus, we have to
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  Speaker 1: turn away from the previous sins and lusts that we
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  Speaker 1: used to do, and we have to follow after Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as he conforms our life as He molds us into
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  Speaker 1: something that looks more like him, and we allow him
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  Speaker 1: to do that in our lives, and that is how
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  Speaker 1: we are going to be ready for Jesus's second coming.
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  Speaker 1: It's really amazing how everything comes down to obedience, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially as we just finished up the Book of James,
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  Speaker 1: where James mentions that faith without works is dead, and
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  Speaker 1: he mentions the obedience that Abraham had and how that
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  Speaker 1: obedience was actually a work that Abraham performed. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not so much good works that we do for other people,
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  Speaker 1: but it's obedience to what God calls us to do.
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  Speaker 1: That is the good work that we are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do and the thing that goes hand in hand with faith.
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  Speaker 1: obedience go hand in hand. You know, we talked a
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  Speaker 1: little bit on Tuesday about how we need to be
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  Speaker 1: born again. Being born again, you know, that baby doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know when he or she is conceived in the womb,
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  Speaker 1: and that baby has to grow over time, and that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the same thing when it comes to us
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  Speaker 1: being born again. We have to learn to grow in
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  Speaker 1: faith and in obedience. Hence why Jesus told his disciples
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  Speaker 1: the Great Commission, which was to go into all the world,
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  Speaker 1: preach the Gospel to every creature, baptize them in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and also
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  Speaker 1: to teach them to obey all of My commandments. We
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  Speaker 1: have to learn obedience and faith over time. We have
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  Speaker 1: to learn faith and obedience over time, and it takes
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  Speaker 1: a while to learn these things. We don't automatically grow
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  Speaker 1: up to adult Christians, which is why it's important for
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  Speaker 1: each of us to constantly be learning about God, to
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  Speaker 1: constantly be in the Word, to be praying to God.
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  Speaker 1: It's important that all of us grow in our faith
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  Speaker 1: and in our obedience, which go hand in hand together.
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  Speaker 1: And what really ends up pleasing God is our faith
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  Speaker 1: also mixed with obedience to His commands. Faithful listeners, have
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