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- 0:00Speaker 1: For unto us was the gospel preached as well as
- 0:03Speaker 1: one to them. But the world preached did not profit
- 0:06Speaker 1: them because they fit did not feed on the world.
- 0:09Speaker 1: The Word of God is the life support of our feet.
- 0:13Speaker 2: We live by the world of God.
- 0:16Speaker 1: God, Blessed be God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 0:24Speaker 1: titles Chapter three, verse nine. But foolish, avoid foolish questions
- 0:33Speaker 1: and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law, strivings
- 0:42Speaker 1: about the law for their unprofitable and vain. Welcome to
- 0:48Speaker 1: Faith Feed episode one hundred and ninety three. Strivings about
- 0:54Speaker 1: the law, strivings about the law. We live in the
- 0:58Speaker 1: world whereby category of people by default have decided to
- 1:03Speaker 1: go in the way of strife. Not that they really
- 1:07Speaker 1: want to find a prove the truth or is solutional
- 1:10Speaker 1: or an answer, but they just want to prove a point.
- 1:14Speaker 1: The only Spirit said to me that if you are
- 1:17Speaker 1: trying to prove a point with the Gospel, you will
- 1:21Speaker 1: not be able to make to succeed the people of
- 1:25Speaker 1: the Gospel. Don't try to prove a point. The point
- 1:28Speaker 1: the prove, and that proof that the point is Jesus Christ. Yes,
- 1:34Speaker 1: when you are trying to prove is an error. The
- 1:36Speaker 1: proof has already been handed over to us. The proof
- 1:39Speaker 1: is Jesus Christ. And that's why when you read verse
- 1:42Speaker 1: seven of these titles three, you will find out that
- 1:45Speaker 1: it tries to portray, it tries to point the proof.
- 1:48Speaker 1: The Bible says in verse okay, let's be from verse five.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Not by works, now, you see, not by works. We
- 1:55Speaker 1: are not justified by works, It says, not by works
- 1:57Speaker 1: of righteousness which we have done. What according to what
- 2:01Speaker 1: God's mercy he saved us by the washingal, regeneration and
- 2:06Speaker 1: renewing of Now mark that key world, because it's vital
- 2:10Speaker 1: to our conversation today, the renewing of what the Holy
- 2:13Speaker 1: goes in our says, which he shared abundantly through Jesus
- 2:16Speaker 1: specials now verse seven.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Listen, it says that being justified by his grace, not
- 2:23Speaker 2: by what his grace, we.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Should be made he according to the hope of eternal life.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Now mark something there, because the reason this is where
- 2:33Speaker 1: this is the root of the problem, the reason why
- 2:35Speaker 1: many people strive with the law is because this singularity
- 2:40Speaker 1: that we just talked about in verse seven is missing.
- 2:42Speaker 1: And what's that singularity? The hope of eternal life. The
- 2:45Speaker 1: world is in motion. The world is moving. That means
- 2:48Speaker 1: there is an eternal angle to the what movement. Of course,
- 2:52Speaker 1: the world will come to an end. But God tries
- 2:54Speaker 1: to show us an eternal movement. Everything around the orbit
- 2:57Speaker 1: of the song. We are all moving at a very
- 3:00Speaker 1: high speed, but we don't notice it, just like when
- 3:02Speaker 1: you're in the vehicle moving and it's infinite. So what
- 3:07Speaker 1: does this mean? God is trying to let us know
- 3:09Speaker 1: that there is something called eternity, the hope of eternal life.
- 3:15Speaker 1: So anybody who is looking for the truth, asking question
- 3:20Speaker 1: and this hope of eternity is more certainly persons something
- 3:24Speaker 1: is wrong.
- 3:24Speaker 2: But that is why the person will end up in contention.
- 3:28Speaker 2: And we strive.
- 3:29Speaker 1: If we go back to that title street, he says,
- 3:31Speaker 1: what after acting fulish questions? Foolish questions leads to genealogists,
- 3:36Speaker 1: then genealogist, that's going through timeline generations. It leads to contention. Contention,
- 3:42Speaker 1: of course brings about argument. Then after contention now talks
- 3:44Speaker 1: about the strivings of the law. The gospel is simple.
- 3:48Speaker 1: If you have a problem with it, you're in struggle. Yes,
- 3:51Speaker 1: you're in contention. And when we read the story of Abrahm,
- 3:53Speaker 1: you will see that God did not talk to Abraham
- 3:55Speaker 1: about the land until what stopped the content this strife
- 4:00Speaker 1: between him and Lot. Genesis Chapter tatain reading from verse seven.
- 4:06Speaker 1: And there was a strife between the headmen of Abraham's
- 4:09Speaker 1: cattle and Lots cattle. And Abraham said, onto Lot, come,
- 4:13Speaker 1: let's not let there be no strife. Can you see?
- 4:16Speaker 1: This is how Abraham handdod strife. This was strife about
- 4:20Speaker 1: the land. Abram's the come, there should not be strife
- 4:23Speaker 1: over this land. It now brings a different view in
- 4:26Speaker 1: that says, there's nine it's not the whole land before
- 4:29Speaker 1: the and that's the separate that itself. I pray thee
- 4:32Speaker 1: from me if that will take the left hand. Now
- 4:35Speaker 1: it's it's your choice. That is, you are giving people
- 4:38Speaker 1: the ability to believe what they will remember Jesus has prayed.
- 4:41Speaker 1: You are not trying to prove a point. You are
- 4:45Speaker 1: trying to point a proof Verse eleven. Then a Lot
- 4:49Speaker 1: jose in himself. All the plain of Jordan and Lord
- 4:52Speaker 1: Johnny is the separated themselves from one another. This separation
- 4:55Speaker 1: reminds me of Paulan Bannabas when the separate Polan Bannabas
- 4:59Speaker 1: for the work of the ministry. Not that they are
- 5:01Speaker 1: not doing ministry together, of course, but I bet you
- 5:04Speaker 1: there would be Even if they were able to fulfill
- 5:06Speaker 1: God's work, it may not be according to God's will,
- 5:09Speaker 1: because why there will.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Be an atom of strife.
- 5:12Speaker 1: The main purpose, the main ingredients of ministry is not
- 5:17Speaker 1: doing works, is doing will, and not your.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Will, the will of the Lord.
- 5:22Speaker 1: That's why the Bible tells us in addition chapter five,
- 5:24Speaker 1: what we should not work secondspectly as fools, but as wise,
- 5:29Speaker 1: because time is going. He says, understanding what the will.
- 5:34Speaker 1: That's how do you become wise? He says, understand what
- 5:36Speaker 1: the will of the Lord is. So you're working down
- 5:39Speaker 1: the path, taking the part you have to find out
- 5:42Speaker 1: the wisdom. Let's let's continu reading Genesis, the thin vest
- 5:45Speaker 1: goting and the Lord said onto it. Now, after this
- 5:47Speaker 1: separation came between Lord and Abraham. The Bible says, what
- 5:50Speaker 1: and the Lord said on to Abraham. So to show
- 5:53Speaker 1: you how intentional God God was waiting for that separation,
- 5:58Speaker 1: for that strife to be over. The way to handle
- 6:01Speaker 1: strife is by separation. Sapression, say preytion. And it's not
- 6:06Speaker 1: about black and white, not about good and evil, the
- 6:08Speaker 1: person being wrong and you've been right. No, it is
- 6:11Speaker 1: about time and season. The Bible says the men of
- 6:14Speaker 1: this I had understanding what in the times as to
- 6:17Speaker 1: know what, because the essays the expression of understanding the
- 6:21Speaker 1: times and season. That is when I say, understand God,
- 6:23Speaker 1: the will of God is that you know what to do.
- 6:25Speaker 1: That's the wisdom. Calling back to Abrahm, the Bible says
- 6:28Speaker 1: that God now spoke to Abraham. He says, now look
- 6:31Speaker 1: to do not look to the south, look to the east,
- 6:33Speaker 1: look to the west. For all the lands thou says
- 6:36Speaker 1: are given to It didn't just it goes it that says,
- 6:39Speaker 1: now walk to and fro because Abraham would not have
- 6:43Speaker 1: been able to do this because of strife. He said,
- 6:46Speaker 1: walk to and through the length and the breadth, for I.
- 6:48Speaker 3: Will give it on to the There are some pictures,
- 6:52Speaker 3: there are some revelations you will not catch until you
- 6:55Speaker 3: separate yourself from these strivings about the law. Yes, there
- 7:01Speaker 3: are God's wills that you will not fulfill until you
- 7:04Speaker 3: separate yourself from the strivings about the law.
- 7:07Speaker 1: So as why did God planted three in the garden?
- 7:10Speaker 1: Either when he knows that Adam and if it is
- 7:12Speaker 1: those are questions that bring strife. If you do not
- 7:16Speaker 1: want to believe, don't believe, Why do you want to
- 7:19Speaker 1: bring contention? Why do you want to because contention brings me?
- 7:22Speaker 1: And we just shared the story of Abram and Lot.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Abram was limited until Lot was sprayer for him. Provaps ten,
- 7:29Speaker 1: verse twelve. It says hatred stirred up strife. There is
- 7:33Speaker 1: things the same way I would say strife scaret up hatred.
- 7:37Speaker 1: It's works hand in hand. It says, got love convert
- 7:40Speaker 1: all things. This is where the expression of where we
- 7:43Speaker 1: are reading that we are not justified by works and
- 7:45Speaker 1: righteousness coming to pil This is where it comes. It says,
- 7:49Speaker 1: what love convert all scenes? See see the end product
- 7:54Speaker 1: of strife is hatred.
- 7:56Speaker 2: That is what if produces.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Because in striving, you are trying to prove point, you
- 8:00Speaker 1: are trying to be right. You are trying so hard
- 8:04Speaker 1: that you do not see cannot catch any revelation from God.
- 8:08Speaker 1: You cannot see or do the will of God. Striving
- 8:12Speaker 1: ends up bringing out hatred. That's why David say that
- 8:15Speaker 1: the Lord said something to into footall the Lord has
- 8:17Speaker 1: delivered me from the.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Strivings of the people.
- 8:21Speaker 1: That mean there are people in nations, people in cities
- 8:24Speaker 1: that are in strife, that are striving in the law,
- 8:27Speaker 1: that are finding it difficult. And the problem is, like
- 8:30Speaker 1: I stated, is that they do not have the hope
- 8:34Speaker 1: of eternity.
- 8:35Speaker 2: Once you can grasp.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Once you can grasp, because that's the beginning of this thing,
- 8:39Speaker 1: the reason why God wants to redeem you as a
- 8:42Speaker 1: man in start hope.
- 8:43Speaker 2: If I want to convert somebody, I have.
- 8:46Speaker 1: To bring the person to understand that eternity exists. That
- 8:49Speaker 1: means there is a hope of eternal life, there is
- 8:51Speaker 1: a life after this. Once I can bring somebody to
- 8:55Speaker 1: that reality, that's when Jesus begin to make sense to
- 8:57Speaker 1: the person. Okay, but when they root is broken, when
- 9:01Speaker 1: there is no picture of eternal ethality, strivings come and
- 9:06Speaker 1: it becomes difficult to grasp the reality and truth of
- 9:10Speaker 1: what Jesus came to her to do for us.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Believe us.
- 9:14Speaker 1: We are talking about the fact that see, even if
- 9:16Speaker 1: we make mistakes, as long as there.
- 9:19Speaker 4: Is no strife found in our environment in our hearts,
- 9:24Speaker 4: love cover it or things But when strife, that's where
- 9:28Speaker 4: the power thing comes in.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Because the power thing comes to make you double minded.
- 9:32Speaker 1: And once you are double minded, strife that is it.
- 9:35Speaker 1: That's the share. Once there is two, there is strife
- 9:37Speaker 1: when there's contention. The Bible says in James that a
- 9:40Speaker 1: double minded man is unstable.
- 9:42Speaker 2: In all these ways. You say you cannot receive anything
- 9:45Speaker 2: from God. You can't. You can't receive, that is it.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Strivings about the love will make you not to receive
- 9:51Speaker 1: anything from God.
- 9:52Speaker 2: It's as simple as that.
- 9:54Speaker 1: So you have to deliberately avoid anything, whether there's genealogies,
- 9:58Speaker 1: whether it's foolish, when you must avoid, tactically avoid those
- 10:04Speaker 1: things which brings the strivings about the law in your heart. Remember,
- 10:10Speaker 1: God has written the law on the tablets of hearts.
- 10:13Speaker 1: I remain the faith campaign of Christ. Remember, be godfident,
- 10:17Speaker 1: Be godfident. The Lord commands the angels of your waders
- 10:19Speaker 1: to be dead. The Lord lived up the light of
- 10:21Speaker 1: his campions upon you. Blessed the God and Father of
- 10:25Speaker 1: our Lord, Jesus Christ, King and King brought to you
- 10:51Speaker 1: by the faith campaign of Christ.
- 10:52Speaker 3: Keeping the faith of Christ in the community of believers, global,
- 10:56Speaker 3: Global