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The Authority and Ability of God’s Word | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Glorious worship. Would you agree?
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  Amen. Well, meet me in the word of God
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  as we continue to worship. Through the hearing and the
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  receiving of God's word and second Timothy chapter 3 and a
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  very well-known passage of scripture.
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  Beginning here in verse 16. Would you pray with me one more
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  time, please. Lord, this is a familiar passage
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  of scripture. And we are in danger of allowing
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  familiarity to breed a contempt, but we ask Lord that you would
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  give us fresh Revelation and that it would speak to our
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  hearts, our hearts would be moved.
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  And Lord May the goal made the result of such a time together
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  in your word cause us to love your word to reverence it to
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  stand in all of it. Oh God.
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  Lord help us not fall into the Trap that this word though.
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  It is common though, here, week after week though, it occupies
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  many of our shelves and our nightstands Lord.
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  May it be seen today as what it is, the Living Word of God?
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  Oh Lord. Speak to your people.
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  Speak to us, reveal yourself to us.
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  Touch us draws closer to the person of Jesus Christ and your
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  name. We ask these things humbly
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  desperately. Amen.
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  And amen. And amen.
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  Verse 16 of 2nd. Timothy chapter 3, reeds.
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  All scripture. Is breathed out by God.
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  And profitable for teaching, for reproof for correction, and for
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  training in righteousness. That the man of God, may be
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  complete equipped for every good work.
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  I think we should read these verses one more time.
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  All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching,
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  for reproof for correction, and for training in righteousness.
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  That the man Of God, may be complete equipped for every good
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  work. Our time in this precious
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  epistle, is coming to a near end, as we are approaching the
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  last chapter of Paul's final letter before his death.
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  But before we transition into his concluding thoughts, we are
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  going to focus, our attention and plant ourselves.
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  And one of the most familiar and often quoted passages of all the
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  Bible. These two short verses
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  powerfully described and defined for us, the authority of God's
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  word, its nature, its function and its ability to change lives.
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  Now remember the context. Remember what Timothy was facing
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  the challenges of his day. Let's look at what is happening
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  around. These verses to help us
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  understand exactly why Paul is saying these things.
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  Timothy was facing primarily false, Teachers who are emerging
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  and they are presenting new ideas and New Concepts and
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  twisted versions of the scripture or total dismissal the
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  word of God all together. Therefore, Paul is going to
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  remind this young disciple of the divine origins of his
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  beliefs and now because this is supremely given to us by God,
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  that it triumphs over every man-made concept.
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  No matter how persuasive or beneficial in might be.
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  He wants him to see how this word is above all else.
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  Secondly, as we hear look at verse 13 again, while evil
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  people and Impostors Will Go On from bad to worse.
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  Deceiving and being deceived there is going to be a new
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  effort now to rebel against God, and that's only going to grow as
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  we approach the return of Christ and sinning against one another.
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  So there is this corruption that will increase.
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  Therefore Paul is going to tell his young disciple how he can
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  Grow in the opposite direction. How he can go from glory to
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  glory from Faith to Faith from love to love and it is found,
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  he's going to be reminded. It is found in your engagement
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  your absorb, some your, your obedience to the written word of
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  God. This is going to be a little
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  different Sunday service than usual because it's going to
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  demand you to be more attentive with the references that are
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  going to be brought to you. I hope you have your Bibles
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  firmly in your hands because in this particular message, I'm
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  going to do a lot less talking explaining commentating and a
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  lot more pointing to versus and a lot more putting verses
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  together for you to see the two main points of this message and
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  that is this number one, the authority of the word of God.
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  The authority of the word of God.
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  Is this? Just another book?
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  Among many other books? No, you're going to discover
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  that this is in fact, the very word of the Living.
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  God number two, not just the authority but the ability.
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  What can this word do? It can do what no other book can
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  do. And that is transform lives
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  miraculously as we engage with him.
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  The authority of God's word. We read here.
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  All scripture is breathed out by God.
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  What is scripture? What is Paul referring to here?
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  Well, surely we heard last week in verse 15 that there are these
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  things called the sacred writings, and that is a
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  beautiful way of describing. The Old Testament library that
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  you have in your Bible and that the Jews share with us and they
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  would call it the Tanakh and though they have different
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  orders of the books, the content is still the same and this is
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  what is known as scripture. This is what is known as the
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  word of God. This is, what is known as the
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  sacred writings, but what's different between us and the As
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  you know, is that we have an additional Library.
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  It is the New Testament Library, it doesn't contradict the old.
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  It is built upon the old. It is the Revelation that God
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  further is from the old Covenant and fulfills So the question is
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  begged this morning. Well what about that?
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  What about the New Testament books?
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  Are those just as authoritative? Are they just as much breathed
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  out by God and the sacred writings?
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  And the best way to answer that is to see what Jesus Christ said
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  about his own words and to see what the apostles were
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  commissioned by the Lord, Jesus Christ believed about their own
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  writings. And once we see that, we are
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  realize that there is a Harmony not The harmony, but there is
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  equal value, equal authority, to both Testaments.
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  We should comfort our souls. And so the first place, I would
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  encourage you to turn to in your Bibles is actually two places.
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  You're going to have one hand tucked in the Old Testament.
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  Another hand tucked in the new and the old you're going to turn
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  to Deuteronomy chapter 18 in the new, you're going to tuck your
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  hand into John chapter 5. beginning in verse 46, There's
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  all scripture include the New Testament or is it limited to
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  the prophets of old? Let's see what the Lord Jesus
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  Christ said in John chapter 5 verse 46 to 47.
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  John chapter 5. I always encourage you to bring
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  your Bible so that you can see the word for yourself.
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  And you can have a mental map of your own Bible.
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  You can get to the point where you read your Bible so much
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  where you may not know their reference be like, I know, it's
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  in this side of the page on that side.
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  Have anybody else relate to that?
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  Yeah, that's the beauty of God's word.
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  When you have a copy of it verse 46, for if you this is Jesus
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  speaking for. If you believed Moses, you would
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  believe me for he wrote of me, but if Do not believe his
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  writings. How will you believe my words?
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  The first thing to observe here is that Jesus Christ.
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  Testifies that Moses who is revered by the Jews.
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  Obviously, the mediator of their Covenant, Moses wrote of Jesus
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  Christ, and there are many references to that, some Shadows
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  some types, but there is the most famous the most known
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  prediction of the person of Jesus Christ, hundreds of years
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  before his Incarnation, and that is where your hand is in the Old
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  Testament and Deuteronomy chapter 18 and beginning.
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  In verse 15, we read Moses, speaking to the nation of Israel
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  saying, the Lord your God will raise up for you.
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  A prophet like me from among you.
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  From your brother's it is to him, you shall listen, the
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  Muslims love to use the scripture to say that it speaks
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  of Muhammad that he is that Prophet to come.
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  And you can just simply answer by saying, so, is he among the
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  Jews? I don't know.
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  Muhammad was a Jew because it says from among you from your
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  brother's it kind of closes the conversation very quickly.
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  But look at this part, it is to him.
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  You shall listen. That's important because this
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  future Prophet who will be like Moses will have something very
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  important to say and it will call for the people to pay
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  attention to what he has to say. Notice that Moses says that
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  there will be a prophet like me many prophets have come after
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  Moses but there's going to be a particular messenger from God
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  who be very much similar to this amazing man of God.
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  Who had a unique relationship with God.
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  What are the similarities between this future profit?
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  As we know fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ and Moses
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  will number one God himself testifies that he communicated
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  to Moses in a way that he didn't with others face to face
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  directly from God. He might say that God has done
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  that with other prophets, but what makes Moses even more
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  unique, are the Miracles that he performed the signs and the
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  Wonders? And we see Jesus performing,
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  very similar signs and wonders and miracles.
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  In fact, the most common one is when he multiplied the bread and
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  the fish, we're in the wilderness and the Jews,
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  understanding this prophecy and the Jews understanding what
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  Moses was able to do by the power of God.
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  Saw what Christ did in John chapter 6 and they made the
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  connection themselves. You don't have to turn there.
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  But in verse 14, look at the reaction has Jesus Made bread,
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  seemingly appear out of nowhere. Just like the Manna in the
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  wilderness. S.
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  When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said this
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  indeed is the prophet who is to come into the world, this is
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  him. This is whom Moses spoke about,
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  even they were convinced, but as you heard earlier, this Prophet,
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  who would be like, Moses would be similar.
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  Because Moses was this mediator. He was the liaison.
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  He was the communicator of the old Covenant at that mountain,
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  with the law being given. And yes, you know, this, that
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  the Lord Jesus Christ is the mediator.
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  Either of the New Covenant. And so, these things are plain
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  and obvious and it all makes sense with Jesus comment, when
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  he said, if you don't believe his writings, how will you
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  believe my my words? How will you believe my words?
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  Well, what do you have to say? Lord, that is so important.
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  Why do we have to believe your words?
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  Is there something that you have to say that we have to adhere to
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  and Listen and Obey? Well we don't have to, we don't
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  have to guess. Let Moses speak on behalf of the
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  Christ and the answer will come to us.
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  When you scroll down and Deuteronomy 18, look at Verse 18
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  God is speaking now and he's speaking to the people and he
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  was saying I will raise up for them.
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  A prophet like you from among their brothers and they'll give
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  this, I will put my words in his mouth.
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  And he shall speak to them all that.
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  I command him. And whoever will not listen to
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  my words that he shall speak, in my name, I myself will required
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  it of him. So the words of this future
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  Prophet who will be like, Moses will be the very words of God.
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  God will place his words in his mouth.
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  He will command them exactly what to say and he will fulfill
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  what he's been told to say. In fact, the words of this
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  Prophet are so serious, So important, So Divine that those
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  who would refuse according to verse 19 to listen to what he
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  has to say, there will be consequences, I myself will
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  require it of him. And we know that Jesus, Jesus
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  Echoes exactly what Moses is saying here concerning his own
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  Ministry in his own message. How will you believe my words?
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  Because Moses said that there's going to be one like him and he
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  has something to say and what he has to say is in fact, the very
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  words of God, When you scroll back now go to John, chapter 12.
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  Look what Jesus says in verse 48 about his word.
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  John 12:48 Jesus is speaking about his words the one who
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  rejects me and does not receive. My words has a judge.
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  The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
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  We pause and say that, it's very dangerous to boast in biblical
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  knowledge, because the more light you get, the more
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  judgment, you will receive. So be very, very careful and
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  boasting about biblical knowledge.
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  Because according to this the word that we receive that we are
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  exposed to will be our judge verse 49.
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  For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the father who
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  sent me has himself given me a commandment what to say and what
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  to speak. It's right.
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  There is exactly what Moses said he's going to come and he's
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  going to speak. What has been commanded to him
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  and if you don't listen to what he says, God says I myself will
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  required it of you and here comes the Lord.
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  Jesus Christ. Saying, if you do not receive my
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  words, this word will judge you because everything that I am
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  saying to you has been given to me by the father who commanded
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  it to me. There's no denying that Jesus
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  Christ's words are the words of God.
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  And if they are the words of God and they are divine revelation,
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  If they are divine revelation, then they are scripture like
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  what Moses predicted he would be commanded and Jesus says I was
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  commanded Moses says he would have something to say and those
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  who refuse to listen will be judged Jesus.
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  If you don't listen to me, you will be judged.
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  No mere. Man, can say that.
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  This is the prophet of prophets, the Lord, Jesus Christ.
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  Now, you might not be convinced or maybe might satisfy some
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  skepticism. And there's so many places you
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  can go to. There's so many places to prove
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  this but I like this one. This one's neat.
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  It's found in the gospel of Mark. when you go to Mark
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  chapter 13 verse 31, it's going to be a little bit of a marathon
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  this afternoon. Look what Jesus after he
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  finishes teaching on the end times after he finishes talking
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  about the signs that will come before his return.
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  He concludes with this Divine stamp of approval.
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  He says something about his words that if the if the
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  Christian here's that they understand with ease.
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  If you believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, you can hear
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  what Jesus is about to say and say well, that makes sense, I
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  believe he is God. But to the Jewish mind, Who sees
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  a mere man and is challenged by this concept of God becoming man
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  though. They shouldn't because the
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  scriptures prove it over and over.
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  This would have been Blasphemous.
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  This would have been just shocking to hear, Mark, 1331
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  Jesus puts us exclamation mark to his teaching on the last days
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  and he says Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words
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  will not pass away my words. Do you eat it to us?
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  We say, Amen. But to the Jew.
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  They go. Who Do You Think You Are?
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  My words will not pass away. Why would this be so shocking?
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  Because he dared to take the prerogative that solely belongs
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  to God and His word alone, and applies it to himself.
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  Jesus Takes a perogative, a statement that God Alone makes
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  about his word. And he says, my word is equally
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  Eternal and equally reliable and equally permanent.
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  Because the prophet Isaiah said, in chapter 40 verse 8, the grass
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  withers, the flower Fades, but the word of our God will stand
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  forever. Are you saying your words are
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  the same as the word of our God? Are you saying that the humanity
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  is frail? Mankind will fade?
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  That your word will stand Until the End of the Age?
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  And Jesus without blushing, without hesitation says my word,
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  my word will never pass away because my words are the very
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  words of God that might help. I may settle the skeptical hard
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  and we can go on and on and on about what Jesus words mean and
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  the authority of his words. But I think the more debatable
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  area is well okay, that's fine. But what about the apostles
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  then, what about the apostles because you even some people who
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  innocently or Deceptively say, well, I I follow the letters of
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  red and that is becoming more and more common and I'll tell
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  you why in a moment. But these people fail to realize
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  that the very words of the Apostles, are the words of
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  Christ. And if the words of Christ are
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  the words of God, just do the math.
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  Jesus in John chapter 16. This is incredible.
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  And verse 12, he speaking to his own before his passion.
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  He speaking to those 12 that have fault him Faithfully for
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  years and he's about to speak now about his departure but he's
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  also going to give a comforting promise.
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  They've been chosen for this Apostolic Ministry and he's not
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  going to leave them behind without assistance and guidance
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  but he says something quite remarkable and verse 12 of
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  chapter 16, I still have many things to say to you.
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  But you cannot bear them now. You know, it's amazing after
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  three and a half years of ministry on Earth.
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  Jesus, admits here that there are still many other things that
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  he had to teach concerning. His person concerning his work,
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  concerning his will for the church, but he tells them why he
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  did not teach them up to this point because they could not
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  bear them now, You can't handle this.
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  Now it'll be too overwhelming for you.
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  It will be confusing and that makes total sense.
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  And so what are what are one of the reasons why he does not
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  teach them what he says he wanted to, but he couldn't.
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  I believe it's because he had to First died.
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  He had the first be buried. He had to First resurrect and
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  ascend before the further Revelations would even make
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  sense to the minds of the disciples.
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  Because we see over and over that when Jesus even tells them,
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  blatantly I'm going to be surrendered, I am going to die
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  and I'm going to rise. They were confused.
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  They could not accept it. They could not understand it.
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  And if they couldn't understand the beginning of his Redemptive
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  purposes, how would they understand the things that it
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  would accomplish, how it to understand the things?
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  I would be as a result of his death and Resurrection when they
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  couldn't even understand him dying and resurrecting?
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  So he puts a limit to what he teaches them because they could
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  not understand it. They could not bear it.
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  Yes, they were sorrowful. That's one part.
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  But I believe they were limited in their understanding and the
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  things that he would want to teach would only make sense
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  after the events of his Redemptive purposes being
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  accomplished after his sacrificial atonement, then
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  these teachings would make sense to the Mind Into the Heart.
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  But it gives him a promise in verse 13.
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  When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the
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  truth for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever.
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  He hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things
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  that are to come. He will glorify me for.
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  He will take. What is mine and declare it to
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  you? You are my Apostles, you will be
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  the foundation of the church through your teaching and I want
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  to promise you now, this is what Christ is saying that the agent
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  will deliver these further, Revelations will be the person
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  of the Holy Spirit. He will be given to you and he
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  will tell you exactly what you need to know.
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  He will guide you into all truth and the primary application of
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  that deals with the New Testament.
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  Writers who will Who will give us this Library?
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  The promise is you are going to receive the revelation.
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  To complete, what I want to say to the world and to my people.
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  You don't have to turn there but early on he says about the Holy
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  Spirit. He will teach you all things and
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  John 14:26. He will teach you all things and
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  bring all the things that I've said to you to remembrance.
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  And if you ever met somebody who said, and I've heard this from
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  somebody wants many, many years ago.
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  You know, if I'm in doubt of the New Testament, I just go to the
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  words of Jesus. Paul John Peter.
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  Yeah. But they're like, you know, But
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  the letters in red, that's where I go to.
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  And if anybody ever says that or maybe you believe that I would
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  say, well what do you do with the scripture like this?
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  Because Jesus said that the holy spirit will not speak on his own
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  authority. The Holy Spirit who work through
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  the apostles was not giving something additional or less
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  than what does it say here? That he will take.
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  What is mine? Jesus said he will take.
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  What is mine? And make it known to you?
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  So you go to First Corinthians and you see Paul writing to a
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  church, and immediate context has is the troubles that they
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  have. And if people that he's
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  communicating to that, he's minutes or to Paul's writings.
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  Yeah, but Jesus is words, John, same thing.
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  Why is this crucial? Because we're coming to a day
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  where people are saying, well, Jesus didn't speak about
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  homosexuality, so it must be okay.
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  Jesus wasn't very clear about gender roles within the local
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  church and the home. So we will pop.
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  Well, yeah, but that's Paul. That was Peter.
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  Jesus said that what they would receive from the spirit would be
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  from him. So they're actually Jesus's
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  words. So, what you gonna do with that?
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  They are his words through the apostles and these chosen men
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  who received the promise of the Holy Spirit to experience a
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  supernatural work of being inspired in a specific moment.
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  To write holy writ, they themselves knew they themselves
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  were convinced that their content at certain times were in
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  fact given by Jesus Christ. By the spirit, they knew that if
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  you believe that the New Testament was just compiled
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  accidentally and that the apostles did not know what they
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  were writing, would be inspired and we come to this point where
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  we would have the scriptures. No, no.
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  They in fact, knew it though, they were not in control of when
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  they would be inspired. They knew that they were by the
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  Holy Spirit carrying them along. Proof of that is in second Peter
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  in chapter 3. in verse 1, Peter says this is now the second
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  letter that I am writing to you Beloved in both of them, I am
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  stirring up, your sincere Mind by way of reminder that you
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  should remember. Now look at this verse to that
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  you should remember the predictions of the Holy prophets
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  and the Commandment of the Lord and Savior through your
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  apostles. You should remember the
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  predictions of the Holy prophets.
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  And we know that those prophets were the men who spoke and
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  Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and Mayhem, and Malachi
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  and Deuteronomy, remember their predictions and look where he
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  places his own writings with the other 11.
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  In the same category equal and worth equal in authority and the
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  Commandment of who the Lord and Savior through your apostles.
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  The apostles writings were just as relevant and reliable and
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  authoritative as those of the ancient prophets in the Old
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  Testament. And so even the early church
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  learned to submit to the words of the Apostles, as though, they
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  were divine in origin. And that's clear here.
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  And this should excite us to a certain degree.
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  Because Jesus is telling telling them that this is going to
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  happen in Peters experiencing and he's what he's saying to his
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  people is that you should be reminded what we're saying comes
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  from Christ. Comes from the Lord himself your
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  savior and our savior. What about Paul?
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  Paul was additional Paul was in among the twelve.
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  So many Paul. I mean, I know this sounds crazy
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  but you have to understand, this is how people think.
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  This is a people actually think they chop it up in such a way
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  and they really believe that not all scripture is breathed out by
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  God. Now you believe that, but there
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  is a world increasing and even an academic settings that will
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  say otherwise So narrow it down. We go from all scripture Old
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  Testament. Now we come to the words of
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  Jesus, they're Divine, okay, there's no much argument there.
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  Okay, the 12 there. Well, what about Paul then?
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  Paul was Paul's third number 13, the same chapter, you scroll
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  down to verse 16 of second, Peter He's speaking about Paul's
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  writings, you can go to verse 15 actually and count the patience
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  of Our Lord as salvation. Just as our beloved brother
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  Paul. I love how Peter speaks about
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  Paul our beloved brother. Tenderness and compassion our
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  beloved brother Paul, also wrote to you to the wisdom, given him.
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  Now, look at this, as he does in all his letters.
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  When he speaks in them of these matters, there are some things
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  in them that are hard to understand, that comforts me,
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  There are some things in them that are hard to understand,
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  which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction,
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  as they do the other scriptures. so, even Peter Speaking about
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  Paul's letters is saying that they're scripture as they do
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  implying. What that Paul's writings are
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  just as much scripture as Moses writings.
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  And people twist them. And I, as I said earlier, I'm
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  comforted to know that some parts are hard to understand.
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  So if you have difficulty, reading some, postures of
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  scripture, you don't understand what's being said, it's okay.
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  Even Peter did Notice this incredible connection and I hope
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  that this brief time but at least settle your soul to
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  realize that when God through Paul says all scripture, he
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  really meant all scripture. Now, if you want to know how the
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  Bible has been developed and how why we have these particular
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  books in our library, you can come ask us after the service,
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  that's a whole another session on its own.
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  But within the testimony of the word of God itself, we know that
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  from the sacred writings to the words of Jesus.
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  To the words of the Apostles it is considered as the very truth
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  of God from God's heart and mind himself.
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  And this is encouraging, because we go on to read here.
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  That all scripture, all scripture is breathed out by
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  God. Sounds, poetic sounds profound
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  sounds powerful. What does it mean?
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  What does it mean? Breathe out by God?
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  It's an expression only found in this verse in all of the Bible
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  though, the meaning is expressed in different ways at different
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  portions of the Bible. This phrase itself is unique to
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  this text and the purpose of this claim is to make sure that,
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  although you and I believe that the Bible has been written by
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  individual writers with their respective personalities.
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  The origin, the origin is God, It's God.
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  And now, God in his wisdom, does not give us the mechanics.
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  Does that give us a step-by-step process of how that
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  inspirational work happened? Did they go into a trance and
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  start writing? I don't think so.
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  But we don't have that we not given that.
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  All God believes is sufficient for his people.
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  And for a world who is skeptical to know is that at certain times
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  with certain men, God used them to say exactly what he wanted to
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  say and it is found in our Bibles today.
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  Breathe out the same way that your words are accompanied by
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  your breath. You breathe out your words.
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  This written word are the very words of God does not Inspire
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  reverence in US. That this book that we are
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  hearing from today. It's not Paul's thoughts, not
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  Peters thoughts? Yes, God work through them.
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  It's ultimately the Lord himself.
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  These are his commands. These are his instructions.
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  This is his counsel. This is his revelation.
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  All from time to time. We need to be reminded of that
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  so that we can tremble. When we come to this word, and
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  I'm afraid that with, with such availability, we are losing that
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  sense of reverence because you can download God's word, it's
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  just an app, right? Beside Instagram and Facebook.
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  There's God's word. Be reminded today that are no
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  matter what platform. It's found its still God
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  speaking. It's God speaking.
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  And in order to even show how connected God's word is to him,
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  you may have never heard this before but I hope it inspires
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  some excitement in you this afternoon in order to show just
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  how connected God is to his word.
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  The holy spirit in the Bible sometimes listen to this uses
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  the word God and scripture interchangeably.
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  In other words, when God has said something, sometimes the
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  New Testament will just say and scripture said, when it was in
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  fact, God who said it. And there are other times that
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  when there is a clear scripture given by specific author, The
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  New Testament was say, God said that God said that and I want to
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  show you just two examples of that.
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  This is this is exciting. One is found in the book of
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  Galatians. Galatians chapter 3 They're the
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  rustling of the leaves. Galatians chapter 3.
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  Look what look what Paul says, look at this.
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  Masterful statement in verse 8 of Galatians chapter 3, And the
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  scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by
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  faith. Preached the gospel beforehand
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  to Abraham saying in you shall all the nations be blessed.
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  Hold on, read that slowly. Who's foreseeing?
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  Who's preaching the gospel to Abraham?
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  who's saying it's not a who it's a, what the scripture, the
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  scripture foreseeing, the scripture preaching, the
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  scripture saying but you go back to Genesis 12 where this quote
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  is taken from and you realize that it's God who's speaking to
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  Abraham God is the one who said in you shall all the nations be
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  blessed. And yet Paul, by the spirit goes
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  on to say, actually it was scripture who said it Paul
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  personifies scripture. As a scripture, can see, as
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  though, scripture can preach as a scripture, can say because
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  what's credited to God, he actually credits it to
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  scripture. For what reason to show, just
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  how connected scripture is to the heart and mind of God.
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  He does the same in Romans 9 verse 17, you don't have to turn
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  there. he says, and the scripture said to pharaoh, And
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  then he quotes what God said about pharaoh and exodus.
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  Well God said it. Yeah but scripture said it
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  because whatever God says is scripture.
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  So Paul even personifies the written word of God, to a
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  certain extent, by saying when God said it, it's divine
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  revelation. And he does the opposite, he
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  does the opposite when a human writer wrote something.
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  He says God said it and that's found in Hebrews as an example.
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  And Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7 I told you were going to a lot of
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  verses today and Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7.
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  We read this Therefore as the holy spirit says, today if you
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  hear his voice, do not Harden. Your hearts as in the Rebellion
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  on the day of testing, in the wilderness, he quotes Psalm, 95
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  7 to 11. And it's clear that a psalmist
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  wrote this. It's a psalmist, in fact, giving
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  instruction to the people of how to respond to God.
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  Don't Harden your hearts. That's a preaching thing.
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  That's an instruction think today, if you hear his voice, do
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  not Harden your hearts, some would say that's David.
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  And actually David, when you go down later on, we're told it's
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  David. But he doesn't say the psalmist.
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  He doesn't say. As David says, he says who as
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  the holy spirit says, The holy spirit.
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  Is God, what does that mean? What, when you read the Psalms,
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  you're not just reading David, you're not just reading asaph,
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  you're not just reading, Moses. You're reading God.
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  Speaking to you. And in fact, in the next chapter
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  in chapter 4 verse 7, we are told with the same Psalm that
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  God spoke through David through. David the holy spirit says today
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  if you hear his voice. Not David.
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  Yes, David was the instrument. Yes, David was speaking with his
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  personality, his poetic ability but it was God who said he was
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  God, who said it. And so you see how God even in
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  the word, conjoins his word with who he is, they're inseparable.
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  These things reveal him, they speak of him the same way, your
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  words reveal who you are, God's word reveals who he is and I
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  hope we understand that. I hope we see that this is
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  Supernatural that it's Inseparable from who he is but
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  you might be in an honest way asking.
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  Well how How does this ancient Spirit woven series of tax
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  applied to my Martin life? You've proved it.
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  I hope all scripture means all scripture, including the words
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  of Jesus, including the words and the writings of the Apostles
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  that when they spoke God spoke, but what does that mean for me?
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  What does that do for me? Oh you ask the wonderful
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  question and Paul. After speaking about the
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  authority of God's word, this Breathe Out book goes on to
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  speak about the ability of God's word and you heard it its
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  profitable for teaching. It's Trouble for reproof for
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  correction for training in righteousness.
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  So that the man of God, may be complete equipped for every good
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  work. Now we read in verse 15 of
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  second. Timothy chapter 3 that these
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  sacred writings make us wise for salvation.
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  When you come to this book even the Old Testament you can be led
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  to saving faith. But he goes on beyond that.
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  It's more than just that it's more than just bringing you to
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  the place. Where your soul is secure in the
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  hands of a merciful god by Faith by repentance it is adequate
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  enough from that place. It is adequate enough to make
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  you healthy spiritually to make you whole to make you pure, to
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  make you strong, to make you fruitful to make you effective
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  to make you discerning. To be complete.
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  Complete this and speak about moral perfection.
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  It speaks about being mature in the things of God, and we do
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  strive on to Perfection, but complete in the sense that you
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  are furnished with all that, God would want to furnish you with.
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  And what do we need? Do we need 10 texts?
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  Do we need the Book of Mormon, do we need?
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  No, no just the Scripture. It is sufficient.
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  It is enough. It is it is God's necessary and
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  sufficient truth to tell you exactly what he wants you to
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  know about him. It is exactly what God wants to
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  say to you about. Who you are with him or without
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  him. What this world is, what this
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  world will become. Is enough for you to know how to
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  act, not to act. There's nothing more that you
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  need that I need. And this written word and that
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  will only be exciting, really to the person who would strive to
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  be, what he tells him that he is to Timothy a man of God.
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  You men of God listen you want to be a man of God.
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  This will equip you to be a man. If you don't care about being a
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  man of God, this Bible will not be attractive to you.
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  If you don't want to be a woman of God, you will not be
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  attracted to this book. But if you strive after coming
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  to Salvation to the wisdom of God's word to say now, Lord make
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  me into a man of God. And this is the place to be.
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  This is where you draw that wisdom from.
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  And as you hear it, as you receive it as you engage with
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  it. It's super naturally Works in
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  you and begins to shape you and change you from glory to glory
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  to glory. You do not read this book every
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  morning because that's what a good little Christian does.
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  You come to this word because it is God's way of speaking into
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  your life. As he spoke into creation, let
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  life come Let order come. Like chaos be calmed in your
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  heart and your mind and your behavior.
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  But the difference between you and the trees and you and I and
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  the planets, and the water is that they do not have the
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  ability. To say, no.
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  When God said trees come up. Yes.
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  Sand, come up, yes, mountains, come up.
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  Yes. But when it comes to you and I
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  when God's word is exposed, as you have to submit to it, in
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  order for it to work in you What I love about this truth is that
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  if this is the source that brings about a certain kind of
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  person, a man of God or woman of God, then as a local church, as
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  we make this word central, then we can know what to expect from
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  our people. And that is to be trained in
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  righteousness. That is to be quit.
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  That is to be complete. The only way that you can have
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  such caliber of people in a local church is when you elevate
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  the word of God and you, Teach it, you use it to reprove, you
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  use it to preach and teach and instruct and then only then will
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  you see a people arise to be Mighty Warriors for the kingdom
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  of God? Only then nothing apart from the
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  word of God. And yet, here we are hearing a
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  different methods to draw. I am not interested in drawing
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  people in and neither is the Bible.
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  The Bible is interested in creating certain type of people.
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  That can only happen from the word when the word is sung, when
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  the word is converse, when the word is declared only, then will
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  we see like, Timothy men and women of God, and when this word
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  is Central, you know what happens, it weeds out, the
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  people who don't want it. It weeds out those who think
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  that they can live in sin and worldliness and come and take
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  refuge among God's people. This word is so sharp that when
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  it is declared by the power of the Holy Spirit, the person who
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  does not want Sin, Cara their lives while For his life from
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  such a place. But to those who say, oh God, do
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  what he need to do, whatever surgery you need to do, cut it
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  out, mold me shape me. Put me in the fire melt me so
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  that you can create something beautiful, and me, a local
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  church. That puts the word of God is
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  supreme and primary will be an oasis in a Wilderness for such a
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  person. They will come and drink, they
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  will sit and they will receive. Even if they have to go
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  Coast-to-Coast to receive the word from the Lord.
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  You want to be a man of God. Come to the word.
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  God, wrote a book. God wrote a book and God has
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  ordained it. Since he has made Covenant with
• 41:53
  a people. That they would hear from him
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  through a book. And if you have a copy of his
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  book, It means that in his good Providence.
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  God longs to speak to you. I know we pray say God speak to
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  me and we want the Mount Sinai experience.
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  Not realizing that the Mount Sinai experience was to create
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  the very word that he would communicate his people with God
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  spoke and God still wants to speak.
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  Notice? I didn't say, God wants you to
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  come to his word to learn something about him.
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  I didn't say that. I said, God wants to speak
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  currently to you, and I want to prove that to you in our final
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  text as we close in a moment and the gospel of Matthew chapter
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  22, I want you to see how Jesus believe how this word spoke, and
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  still speaks. And the gospel of Matthew
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  chapter 22. He speaking to.
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  The Sadducees. They didn't believe in the
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  Supernatural. They didn't believe in the
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  resurrection. They didn't believe in angels
• 43:05
  and somebody jokingly said well no wonder they were called the
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  Sadducees sad you see? They don't believe in things.
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  I should make you rejoice. In Matthew, 22 verse 31.
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  Jesus speaks to them because they try to Corner him with a
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  question about the resurrection. They thought they were clever
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  and look what he does. So masterfully.
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  And as for the resurrection of the Dead, have you not read?
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  What was said to you by God, I am the god of Abraham and the
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  god of Isaac and the god of Jacob.
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  He is not God of the dead but of the living.
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  Jesus is a master apologists. Evangelist knew that the
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  Sadducees only held to the first five books of the Bible, didn't
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  hold to the prophets then hold to the historical narratives,
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  they held to the first five books.
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  So what he does to prove his case as he goes to the first
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  five books to prove the resurrection And he goes to the
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  Book of Exodus. But more than that, he says,
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  have you not read? And then he finishes that
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  statement with what was said to you.
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  By God. Have you not read?
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  What was said to you. Well, that's interesting because
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  he quotes Exodus and that burning bush scene where Moses
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  approaches this Burning Bush and God speaks to Moses.
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  And when you go to Acts chapter 7 and you don't have to turn
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  there, Stephen goes to this incident as well in his last
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  message, before he is executed. And he clearly says, in Acts 7.
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  What the Lord said to him being Moses and he engages with the
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  same reference, Stephen says, what the Lord said to him?
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  Jesus says what the Lord said to you, What do you mean to you?
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  God spoke to Moses that was the immediate context.
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  And yet Jesus still says in this text that even though in the
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  immediate context God spoke to Moses God was actually having in
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  mind something for you to hear. God in his mind, obviously,
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  wrote it and recorded it for Moses, but he also had in mind
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  that for future Generations. When they would read that
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  portion of scripture among all of it, they would understand
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  that God was actually saying something to them as well.
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  You Sadducees hundreds of years after what this happened, where
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  this happened, God actually was saying something to you.
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  Did you hear it? Did you hear what God Said in
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  Exodus? When he spoke to Moses he was
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  in. Just speaking to Moses he was
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  speaking to you and he's still speaking to us in 2021 2022 2023
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  2024 T he's still speaking. What does that mean?
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  This phrase proves to me in essence then when I come to his
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  word Not just the, the obvious instructions given to me and you
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  as Christians and Philippians and Ephesians do this, don't do
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  this. Even when I come to Exodus, God
• 45:54
  has something to say to me. From Genesis to Malachi although
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  its historical. As ancient its narrative, it's
• 46:03
  descriptive and yet still according to the words of Jesus,
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  God wants to speak to me through those stories.
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  He wants to speak to me through Leviticus.
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  He wants to speak to me in Malachi and Zechariah.
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  That will make all the difference in your approach to
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  the word of God. That will make all the
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  difference. It will be much more exciting to
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  come to something like the Old Testament.
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  And not think that the ultimate motivation is.
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  So I can memorize certain truth, so that when I'm quizzed, I can
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  show that I'm sharp. Who cares.
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  What, what are we seeing here? Come to the word of God because
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  God wants to say something. You should get giddy my brother.
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  And my sister, when you finish a book in the Old Testament,
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  you're ready to come to a new one.
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  You should prepare yourself old God, what are you going to say
• 46:51
  to me? What are you going to speak?
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  To me? What are you going to reveal
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  yourself to me through this text because God had in mind through?
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  Jesus Christ, that when you see these things and read these
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  things, he would say something. and I hope you would feel that
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  way when you read God's word, because as you come with that
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  kind of an attitude, You will go deeper in your knowledge of him
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  in a way that would be so rich and so real.
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  And so transformative that you will not be the same as you
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  discipline yourself to have a conversation with god.
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  When God speaks to a heart, that's willing to receive what
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  he wants to say. That heart cannot remain the
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  same. It cannot.
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  Now if you come to this book to receive data and information,
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  then that can only go so far when you are disconnected from
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  this book and you don't realize that it's actually God's means
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  of speaking and communicating to you won't go very far and being
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  equipped as a man of God. But when you come from cover, to
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  cover ready for the Lord to speak to you, although you will
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  be furnished. You'll be molded, you will be
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  transformed. Something will happen to your
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  conversation style, will change your outlook will change victory
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  over sin becomes more available and more experienced something
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  happens. But you have to believe that
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  it's God's voice first. Jesus said it and I hope today
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  this afternoon that you would leave here with a greater itch
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  and a holy way a greater appetite.
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  When you fail to feel the motivation to come to God's word
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  realize what Jesus said to these Sadducees, he wants to say
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  something to you. He wants to say something to
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  you. But we thank you for your word
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  this afternoon. Thank you that all scripture is
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  breathed out by God. And this world will be held
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  accountable to the word. Thank you that we have.
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  Received the wisdom from this word for salvation.
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  But Lord, we don't want your salvation.
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  We want to be Sanctified, we want to be a man of God, a woman
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  of God. What help us believe, what?
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  Christ himself said of his word that it speaks to us, you speak
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  to us. Even in this day you had in mind
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  from eternity past that Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers
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  Deuteronomy and everything after that.
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  Would be your way of speaking. Revealing.
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  Communicating to us. Lord.
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  We just ask in this moment that there would be a renewed love
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  for the word and in this moment we in response to his show you
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  reverence As we sing to the Living God with his living book.
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  Breathing us, Breath of God, Fresh Life, fresh hope, and
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  fresh Faith to continue in this walk Faithfully, as we walk in
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  the word, in Jesus name, we pray.
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  Amen, let's stand and Worship the Lord together, shall we?