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941. Bible Study: Psalm 26 (Integrity, Hypocrites, Sinners, Thank you Jesus/Yeshua!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 26 is our Psalm for the day from the book of Psalms.
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  First let's pray. Dear Lord, please speak to us
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  through this passage and I guess guide me in what I'm about to
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  say after having studied this and lead me with the right
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  words. I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So in Psalm 23, I read through it and looked up things as I
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  usually do. And then it, I don't know if it
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  was this Psalm exactly or if it was just something that I
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  actually woke up with this morning.
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  And and then there were, I did look at a few this morning and
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  it was Christians, different churches, you know, I guess not
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  even debating, but one criticizing another.
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  And I can say that I grew up in a particular religion and then I
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  didn't really put any of it into practice.
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  I went along and did what I was taught to do and my faith was
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  pretty distant. I always believed in God and
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  Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I always did.
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  So I wasn't in a religion that doesn't believe in God.
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  So I I definitely was in a religion that believed in God.
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  But my life was not changed and I didn't have a personal
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  relationship. I didn't have a personal
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  understanding like who God is to me.
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  I didn't read my Bible either. So, and that's what I think a
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  lot of people, that's the way a lot of people are.
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  I'm, I'm thinking that I'm probably like a lot of people in
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  this world, you have whatever, whatever religion your family
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  brings you up in and you go along with it because it's your
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  family that introduced you to it.
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  And I guess you could either accept it, not a guess.
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  You either accept that religion or you reject it.
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  And I accepted some things out of it, but not everything.
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  But here's here's The thing is just like when we talk about the
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  Bible, I believe and the Bible says it is and it proves to be
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  true over and over again. But the Bible, it's in Timothy,
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  in the book, one of the books of Timothy that says that all
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  Scripture is God breathed and inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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  So the authors of this Bible were inspired by God in what
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  they wrote. Now, I believe that, and so
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  that's going to be the foundation of what I say is that
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  I believe that the Bible is true.
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  And if we ever find a conflict in the Bible, it's not that the
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  Bible isn't true, it's that we haven't understood what the
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  Bible says and we just need to look into it more.
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  And there are some things that we're not going to fully
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  understand because they are complex topics that are of
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  another realm, quite honestly. And that's what Jesus even said
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  to Nicodemus. He's, he was trying to explain
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  earthly things to Nicodemus and then said, how can I explain the
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  heavenly things if you don't even get the earthly things?
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  And I think that's the way we are today too.
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  We're just like Nicodemus, not in every way, but you know,
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  we're just similar to him where we don't know and there are
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  going to be some things that we won't know until Jesus returns,
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  until we actually meet God in person and and then it'll be
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  revealed someday. So anyway, these things kind of
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  affected me this morning where I saw one faith talking about
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  another faith. And I actually, let's see, it
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  was in 2017 that I began seeking.
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  And so it's almost been wow, next year will be 10 years.
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  And, and I, like I said, I grew up in a religion and I
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  participated in it because of my family and I had some
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  reservations, but I just, I didn't know anything else.
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  And other people were introducing me to other places
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  or they said, why don't you go here and check this out?
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  And I was like, no, I don't think so.
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  I'm good. And I pushed away things.
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  And then finally, it was actually through a tragedy that
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  I was open to exploring again, not again, but for the first
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  time ever to actually seek God on my own because of me wanting
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  to know God, wanting to understand, wanting to know more
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  than I did. And I also went to a religious
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  school all from, you know, the beginning, kindergarten all the
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  way up to 8th grade. Actually, no, through high
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  school. So it's not like I was ignorant
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  of religion. I had religion classes that I
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  went to, so the I had that background, but I I wasn't
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  seeking on my own. And there is a difference.
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  There's a difference to being force fed something and not
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  saying that I was force fed. I'm just saying somebody else
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  giving it to you, but you not seeking it.
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  There's a different level of interest, I would say, in what
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  somebody has. Like even if I'm speaking to
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  somebody right now and they're not ready for it, they're going
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  to ignore everything I say because they're not ready for
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  it. There is a timing with people
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  and there's things in life that happened that cause us to seek
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  or cause us to question or we start evaluating our own life or
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  we, we're, you know, at a place in our life right where we look
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  at our lives and we're like, how did I get here?
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  And is this all there is? There's lots of things that
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  happen in somebody's life are a tragedy.
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  And like I said, a tragedy is what brought me back to church.
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  And when I went to church, I started questioning things,
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  actually questioning, you know, this was a really what I would
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  say as a very good person who was doing a lot of good in the
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  world that was taken very untimely very early in life at
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  the age of 16. And so I had a lot of questions.
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  So anyway, that's, that's really how my faith journey started.
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  That was almost 10 years ago that that happened.
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  And because of that tragedy that made me seek God.
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  And you know, God can use terrible things to accomplish
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  his ultimate purpose. And not that he made that
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  happen, that tragedy happened, but that tragedy happened
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  because of evil in the world and the spiritual realm.
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  I fully believe that right now. And after reading the Bible, I
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  fully believe that happened because of evil.
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  But God took that evil that was done and used it for His good.
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  I don't know if I was. I'm sure I wasn't the only
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  person who came to faith after that.
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  There were probably many more people that were impacted.
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  I have another similar story with my nephew.
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  My nephew only made it to 14 months old and the Lord brought
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  him home. And that was a tragedy for our
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  family. And I, I look at that and you,
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  you could ask God why it wasn't God who did that.
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  I mean, God ultimately allowed that to happen.
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  So we can't deny it. God is sovereign and we don't
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  know why he did that. I certainly believe it was the
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  enemy that caused it, and perhaps God just thought, you
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  know, this world is the way that it is and he's in a better place
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  with me, so I'm going to keep him here with me.
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  We don't know and we're never going to know.
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  But also in that tragedy, God has also used that tragedy where
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  it made people start thinking about life and reflecting on
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  their life and getting closer to Christ.
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  So God can use terrible things to bring us, draw us near to
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  Him. So I went a little bit off.
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  I didn't intend to talk about any of that to start, but that
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  just came. So I am going to now get into
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  Psalm 26. I want to read it through first,
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  so, and then I'll talk about it because I just want you to hear
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  it the way David said. So here's what David said.
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  Vindicate me, Lord, for I have led a blameless life.
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  I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.
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  Test me, Lord, and try me. Examine my heart and my mind,
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  for I have always been mindful of Your unfailing love and have
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  lived in reliance on Your faithfulness.
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  I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I associate with
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  hypocrites. I abhor the assembly of evil
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  doers and refuse to sit with the wicked.
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  I wash my hands in innocence and go about your altar, Lord,
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  proclaiming aloud your praise and telling of all your
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  wonderful deeds. Lord, I love the house where you
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  live, the place where Your glory dwells.
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  Do not take me, do not take away my soul along with the sinners,
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  my life with those who are bloodthirsty, in whose hands are
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  wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
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  I lead a blameless life. Deliver me and be merciful to
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  me. My feet stand on level ground in
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  the great congregation. I will praise the Lord.
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  That's the end of the Psalm. Now I will go through as I've
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  done before and every time where it says Lord David uses the
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  personal name of God, which we say is Yahweh or Yahweh.
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  I mean, it's more like a breath. There are no consonants or there
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  are no vowels in it. It's just all consonants.
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  So anyway, going back to maybe I'll do the study Bible
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  questions and answers and then I will get into what I researched
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  for this. So how could David have claimed
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  to be blameless? Though he was not perfect, David
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  was a man of integrity. He was not claiming that he had
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  never sinned. Rather, he was claiming to be
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  sincere in his attempts to honor and serve God.
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  How does God's glory dwell on earth in David's day, the ark of
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  the Covenant and the Tabernacle with physical signs of God's
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  presence. They were tangible structures
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  that help people visualize God's glory.
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  Even so, people knew that God could not be confined to a box
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  or a temple. Today, God's presence dwells in
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  a special way within His people. What does level ground signify?
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  This is a place of confidence and security where 1 does not
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  trip and fall over temptations or evil.
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  It may also refer literally to level courtyards where the godly
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  gathered to worship the Lord. What was the great congregation?
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  The congregation gathered to worship God.
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  Some suggest this anticipates a future gathering of all those
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  around the world who serve the Lord.
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  So that is the end of the questions and answers.
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  Now I have a lot to talk about and the topic is salvation,
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  righteousness, sin, belief, grace works and quote Jesus is
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  the boss. So all those topics are what I'm
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  going to talk about and I'm not talking about my opinion, but I
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  will talk about I will read from scripture When I I I will tell
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  kind of AI don't know if you'll think it's funny, but I did do
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  about Jesus being the boss. If we want to say that we are
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  saved, that means Jesus is our boss.
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  Simply put, like he is the Lord of our life.
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  He is the king of kings. He rules over us.
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  What he says is what we do. We are his servant.
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  We are not the boss of him. We don't make the rules and then
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  he works around them. He makes the rules and we obey
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  them. He's a ruler.
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  He will be a ruler, A literal ruler here on earth.
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  So in very basic human terms, Jesus is the boss.
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  And a lot of people that call themselves Christians, they love
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  the fact that Jesus died for us and made a way for us to get the
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  rewards of the Kingdom of God. But at the same time they there
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  are some who deny Jesus is the boss.
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  I mean, because of, I don't know, people use grace in that
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  way. Like I can do whatever I want to
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  do and I don't think the Bible supports that.
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  So anyway, Jesus, the boss of this funny story that I had
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  about that was when my child, I'll just keep it generic.
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  My child was just in before preschool and was in a daycare
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  center and the person who ran the center had a talk with me
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  one day when I came to pick him up and said we had to have a
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  talk today because your child and I were like having this
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  debate over who was the boss. And and so this my child would
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  say like I'd a boss, but the person there who is in charge of
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  the children was telling my child, no, you're not the boss.
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  And I don't know why that came up, but I didn't.
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  I don't have a really rebellious child and I don't know what
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  caused that to happen. But it, I think it's pretty true
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  of children at that age before they get into school, that they
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  kind of push the limits to see what they can get away with.
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  And they kind of treat everything as I'm the boss of my
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  own life and you're in my world. I mean, it's pretty much it
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  revolves around me. Like feed me, change my diaper,
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  all those kinds of things. Like the world revolves around
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  me. That's just a perfect indication
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  of how like sweet and cute little kids are.
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  But at the same time, how selfish we all are.
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  We all came from that. We all were that so to see.
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  I had a hard time seeing children as, quote, sinners.
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  But then when you look at that, you see that we all are.
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  As a young child, everything revolved around us.
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  And over time we Start learning that everything doesn't revolve
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  around us. Some people never learn that,
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  but most of, well, I'm not saying most.
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  I don't even know the quantity who believes that or who
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  doesn't. But at some point, people who
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  mature do recognize that we aren't the boss of everything.
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  We do have someone who is the boss over us.
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  And it was just kind of a funny story for me.
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  I thought it was hilarious because my child is what I would
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  have called a good person. And to think that my child had
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  that conversation with an instructor, that's not a good
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  thing. But it was kind of funny me
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  knowing the personality of the child and knowing that there,
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  you know, there wasn't any like intended, I don't know.
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  Well, I guess there was a little bit of a rebellion there, but
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  but just like in an innocent way, not in a premeditated way.
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  So I just thought it was kind of funny.
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  But yes, that we had to have a talk about who the boss is and
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  what things they are in charge of and what things they're not
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  in charge of because to an extent, you know, you have to
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  have a lot of protection with your children too.
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  So anyway, we all are in that same category.
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  We're all sinners, we're all selfish.
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  We think we're the boss of everything when we're really
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  little, but we're really not. And ultimately God is our boss.
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  Whether we want to admit it or not, God is our boss.
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  So that's going to, that was one of the topics going to the very
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  first statement that David makes about his blameless life.
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  That's a translation situation. And the NASB says it a lot
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  better because I think you could.
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  I mean, as soon as you read it and say I have a blameless life,
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  you start thinking, well, David counted as men.
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  David slept with Bathsheba. David had Bathsheba's wife
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  killed. David was not a a didn't have a
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  blameless life. In fact, David couldn't even
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  build the temple for the Lord, even though he desired it
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  because of the people he had killed.
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  He had killed other people in wars and God said, no, I can't
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  have you do that. So there were a lot of things
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  that were documented in the Bible that shows us that David
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  didn't leave lead a blameless life, but he also was one after
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  God's own heart. He was somebody who did seek
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  God. And so like I said, the NASB
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  version is a little better than the NIB version in this
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  situation because it says here's what the NASB says.
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  Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity and I
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  have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
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  That's a little bit it kind of says the same thing, but it's a
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  little bit different It's saying like I trust in the Lord and I,
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  you know, I have integrity so I think someone could say they
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  have integrity but still mess up every once in a while.
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  Overall, I think it's kind of an overall thing and that's just my
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  opinion. You could look it up and that
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  might be wrong, but I would say that something about, you know,
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  having being a person of integrity doesn't mean that you
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  are always 100% that way, but that generally speaking you are.
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  So again, this is something that when you study Scripture, you
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  can see these kinds of things. And one of the main things was
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  he trusted in the Lord and has not failed in that.
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  Even when he was sinful, not was, but when he did sinful
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  things, then he did turn to the Lord when he recognized it or
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  when he was remorseful for it. Then the next verse says test me
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  Lord and try me examine my heart and my mind.
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  So he's this is where the Lord, you know, I don't know.
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  It's it's another one of those things where it does say examine
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  and test me so and try me so God will you know in this examine,
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  it really means to refine or purge.
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  This is what where God would do this and examine and testing are
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  a little bit different, obviously, because that first
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  word is examine me Lord and try me.
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  That's the testing part. So the NIV kind of the choice of
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  words makes it a little bit more confusing, but harder to
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  understand. When you say, well, examine and
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  test aren't the same things, they I guess they could because
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  we have an exam, which isn't a test, which is a test in school.
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  But if you examine something, you're looking for something.
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  So I guess it is testing. But I also see that a test is
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  different than examining because someone could examine someone
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  and then test them subsequent to that.
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  So anyway, these are just like minutiae details, but when you
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  really study the word. And like I said, I I love the
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  resource they provide at blueletterbible.org because you
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  can look up any part of Scripture and can see the
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  original Hebrew words, which really enlightens what we're
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  reading it. You know, it shows us that this
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  David's using, for example, the personal name of God every time
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  that he says Lord. So it could have been translated
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  better by putting Yahweh in there or even the letters YHWH.
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  So there's another part where verse 3 where it says that I
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  have always been mindful of your unfailing love and had lived in
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  reliance on your faithfulness. When I looked up the Hebrew in
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  that one and that verse for three, it said something similar
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  but different because so the NASB says for your loving
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  kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth.
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  So it kind of changes the way it's stated because in the NIV
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  version it says for I have always been mindful of your
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  failing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.
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  It's like he's talking about himself here.
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  But if you go to the NASB version, it says for your loving
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  kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth.
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  It puts the focus on God first and then our response or not
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  our, but David's response to God.
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  And so it says it much differently than it than the way
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  the NIV version says where it says I've always been mindful of
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  your unfailing love. It says the same thing, but it
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  speaks it differently. So I just found this when I was
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  looking at the Hebrew words again and the this loving
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  kindness. It's a special type of love.
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  And there are different translations of the word love.
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  But this is has said HESED and and I know there's supposed to
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  be a lot of more emphasis in it than what I just did with it,
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  but I'm not good at that and I'm kind of sick.
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  So I don't want to do that at the moment, but that kind of
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  love is a very distinguishable type of love.
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  And that's what is being used. And I think that's something
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  it's like, yeah, an unfailing love.
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  So it's something like higher than anything.
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  I mean, it's something really important.
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  Let's see. It says it's, it's mercy, it's
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  kindness, it's loving kindness, it's goodness, it's favor.
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  So it's all of those things. It says kindness by implication
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  towards God, piety, favor, good deed, kindness, merciful.
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  So mercy, I mean, that's like it encompasses much more than just
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  what we would call the what we would define the word love.
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  But this is from God and it's it.
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  They're just, there's so much that's said in the Hebrew words
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  that if we just read through this, we will miss out on.
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  Then he says, I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I
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  associate with the hypocrites. Well, that made me think about
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  other verses in Scripture where the deceitful, well, it's
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  talking about I do not sit with the deceitful being defined as
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  like falsehood, lying, being vain, being overly proud.
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  And what did I write down here? Overly proud and provide, but
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  providing no useful result are fruitless or pointless.
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  So the people that you know they're they're proud in that
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  way. It's not a deceitful like
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  there's a lot of different types of deceit, but this is a certain
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  kind of a deceit. It's it's a vanity like being
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  proud but having no useful result, being overly proud and
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  having no useful result. So that's what religion can do
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  to us. Religion.
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  If we abide by all of the religious things that we do,
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  then we can be overly proud about something.
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  But yet not fruitful, if that. Hopefully that makes sense
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  because I think that's what happens in a lot of people who
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  go to church and are perfectly religious, but yet they don't do
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  the things that are in Scripture.
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  They do what the church tells them to do, but not necessarily
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  what's in Scripture. And I guess I could talk more
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  about that. I will talk more about it as it
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  relates to the actual Scripture from the Bible.
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  And then it says, nor do I associate with hypocrites.
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  Well, hypocrites would be those kind of deceitful people.
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  What they look one way, but they're actually another and
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  David's saying I don't associate with them.
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  So they're pretenders. When I thought about that was
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  also how God had said about foreign wives too, and so I will
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  talk about that too. So first of all, let's talk
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  about what Scripture says about what's the kind of the
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  hypocrites that made me think about what Paul was saying.
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  Well, so Paul has a lot to say about this.
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  So the pretenders, let's go to 1st Corinthians chapter, First
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  Corinthians chapter 5, verse 9, because that's where I want to
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  kind of focus on for a moment when I, this is part of the
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  topic. So what Paul said, he said, I
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  wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral
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  people. So that would be an example of a
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  hypocrite. And so Paul is warning the
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  Corinthians, I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with
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  sexually immoral people. But then he clarifies that he
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  says in verse 10, not at all meaning the people of the world
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  who are immoral or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters.
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  In that case, you would have to leave the world.
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  You would have to leave this world.
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  And so that's almost, I mean, it's not funny, but it, it is.
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  I mean, it's just like Paul is just stating like how severe the
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  world was and is in regard to all the things that God warns US
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  against. And, and it's like if we said we
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  were not going to be hang around with any hypocrites in the
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  world, then we would have to leave the world because there
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  are hypocrites all over the world.
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  Essentially. That's what Paul is saying.
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  And he's writing to the Corinthians.
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  And first he said, you know, you wrote to them about sexual,
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  immoral, immorally sexually immoral people.
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  But then he wasn't referring to the people of the world.
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  He was read. He was talking about people
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  inside the church, not talking about those who are not saved,
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  but those who claim to be saved, the hypocrites.
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  So verse 11, he says, but now I am writing to you that you must
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  not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister
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  but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or
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  slanderer, A drunkard or swindler, do not even eat with
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  such people. That's pretty harsh, isn't it,
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  that he says that. So he's talking to the
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  Corinthians church. They were dealing with someone
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  who was, you know, what was, I think the situation was he was
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  having sex with his father's wife.
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  Now, who knows it, It didn't sound like it was his mother.
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  It sounded like it was his father's wife.
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  His father may have married a younger woman, and that was
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  happening, but he was in the church and people were not
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  saying anything about it. They were letting it go on.
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  And Paul was like, hey, no, don't do this.
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  And basically Paul told him, turn him.
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  Turn, you know, get him out of the church and hand him over to
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  Satan so that he can be, you know, hopefully be saved
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  someday. So obviously he wasn't saved,
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  but he was in the church and he was corrupting those and none of
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  the church was saying anything about it.
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  But Paul doesn't just talk about sexually immoral.
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  He lists a whole bunch of other things.
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  So they're greedy, idolater, slanderer or a liar, a drunkard
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  or swindler. Do not even eat with such
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  people. And why would Paul say that?
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  Probably because the same reason why God would say don't take
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  foreign wives, because you start hanging out with them, you start
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  doing what they're doing, and you get further and further away
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  from God. And Paul's trying to protect his
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  sheep, the ones he shepherded, He's trying to keep them on the
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  right path, keep them close to God.
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  And the more that you associate with people of the world,
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  depending on how strong you are, but the more you well, if you
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  connect with someone, That's why Paul was saying, you know, don't
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  take well, not Paul. God was saying not to marry
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  outside of the Israelites because the different tribes of
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  Israel to the original Israelites because they
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  worshipped foreign gods. It had nothing to do with any
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  kind of racism. There is no racism in the Bible,
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  but it had the IT had to do with where their allegiance was, who
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  they were serving, and the foreign wives were serving other
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  gods. In fact, that's actually what
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  led eventually to Solomon's downfall.
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  He took on all these wives. He didn't obey God.
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  He took on all these wives and they started building temples,
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  actually not God temples, but temples for their gods, like
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  false, fake gods. And he was doing this for his
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  wives. And think about that, how what
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  an insult or a slap in the face that was to God when Solomon
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  built the temple for God, God gave him that privilege to be
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  the the first one built. And then this guy goes out and
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  starts building temples to other gods.
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  I mean, God must have just thought, Oh my, can't believe
• 33:30
  you did that. But not it doesn't surprise God.
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  God knows what's in our hearts. And so God saw what was in
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  Solomon's heart. And there's a lot of interesting
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  things about Solomon in Scripture.
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  But anyway, so Paul here is talking to the Corinthians and
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  he's, and then he says in verse 12, what business is it of mine
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  to judge those outside the church?
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  Are you not to judge those inside?
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  God will judge those outside, expel the wicked person from
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  among you. So Paul's referring to this
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  person as wicked and he's saying get them out of here.
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  They weren't. They weren't taking over the
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  authority of the church and protecting the church.
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  They were allowing sin to enter into it.
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  And when that happens, it starts like God defines it, sin as
• 34:29
  yeast. A little yeast spreads through
• 34:33
  the whole loaf, all the dough. A little yeast will spread
• 34:37
  through that. That's what sin does.
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  It spreads through the whole congregation.
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  So God is God's trying to protect the rules that he makes
• 34:49
  are trying to protect our relationship with him.
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  Essentially, that's what when you when I started studying
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  scripture, I finally realized that they weren't things to
• 35:01
  limit us. They were things they, you know,
• 35:04
  they are things to limit us. But there's a purpose behind
• 35:07
  that. It's not to take away fun.
• 35:09
  It is to keep us protected from the evil 1.
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  That's what it's there for. That's what God's rules are
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  there for, to protect. And the only way that you'll see
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  that is by getting to know who God is through Scripture.
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  And that's what's happened to me over the last five years, I
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  guess, or I don't know how many years.
• 35:30
  It's been 2019. No, it's been longer than that.
• 35:32
  So seven years, I guess that I've been reading the Bible,
• 35:36
  studying the Bible, not just reading it, but my eyes have
• 35:40
  been open to that and I know it's true because I've seen it.
• 35:44
  There were so many questions that I had when I was reading
• 35:47
  the Bible and so many things I now understand that I was so
• 35:51
  confused about at the beginning of reading the Bible.
• 35:55
  So now I'm going to talk about the foreign wives situation.
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  So this is again, this is where Solomon if you want to read
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  about what he did in first Kings Chapter 11, verse 8.
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  He did the same for all his foreign wives who burned incense
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  and Oxford sacrifices to their gods.
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  This talking about Solomon and I'm not going to I could talk
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  forever when you go into these different subjects, but he just
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  what I was saying. He built temples for their the
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  gods they worshipped and it really led to his downfall.
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  So there was another situation about foreign wives in Ezra in
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  the book of Ezra chapter 10. I'm going to verse 11.
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  Now honor the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and do his will
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  separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from your
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  foreign wives. Again, these are these were
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  attempts to protect the people, to protect their relationship
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  with God. And in Ezra 1044, it says it
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  said all these had married foreign women and some of them
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  had children by these wives. So it was becoming very, I don't
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  know how you say it, it was mixed up in terms of what God or
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  plural gods were people worshipping.
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  And it was, it gets confusing when there's a lot of things in
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  the in our world today. It's very confusing not to, not
• 37:42
  to me necessarily, but to people who see like all these different
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  religions and they're like, well, how do we know which one's
• 37:50
  right? I mean, that's confusion.
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  And as Satan's the author of Confusion, why do you think
• 37:56
  there are so many different religions, Satan?
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  I mean, that's what my opinion is because there was one.
• 38:05
  There was, you know, there's just like the way what Jesus
• 38:08
  taught and then all these like splinters off.
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  I mean, some of this is, you know, for good reasons that some
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  had false doctrine or false doctrine creeped into original
• 38:19
  the original way that Jesus taught.
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  So that did that does explain, you know, it was a good thing
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  that some different religions departed from others because of,
• 38:34
  you know, corruption. So that is kind of necessary.
• 38:37
  But then there's ones that aren't even Christian that are
• 38:39
  out there. And then people start saying
• 38:42
  like, you know, well, I don't know.
• 38:45
  How do I know that, you know, Christian Christianity is the
• 38:49
  right way. There's also Islam, there's
• 38:52
  also, you know, Buddhism, there's also Hinduism.
• 38:57
  There's all these different things.
• 38:58
  How do I know what's right? Well, that's a good question
• 39:02
  because it depends on well, not a good question of what is right
• 39:06
  because there is only one way Jesus said that and and that you
• 39:10
  us actually have to believe in Jesus to I believe the truth
• 39:15
  that came from his mouth, but he is the way, the truth and the
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  life and no one comes to the Father except through him.
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  It's all through Jesus like our salvation is through Jesus.
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  Only anyone who doesn't know Jesus doesn't believe in Jesus
• 39:36
  will not enter God's Kingdom. People are free to choose
• 39:41
  whatever religion they want to, but not all religions are going
• 39:46
  to lead you to the Kingdom of God.
• 39:49
  If you want to be in the Kingdom of God, there's only one way,
• 39:53
  and that's by believing in Jesus.
• 39:57
  So you have to ask yourself, what do you believe about the
• 40:00
  afterlife and not what do you believe?
• 40:02
  What is the truth about the afterlife?
• 40:06
  God revealed it to us through scripture.
• 40:10
  We have access to the Bible. We can read it.
• 40:14
  We can find out. We have no excuse for not
• 40:20
  knowing except our own resistance to learning and
• 40:26
  seeking God. If we don't get it right, we
• 40:32
  only have ourselves to blame. We can't blame anyone else
• 40:35
  because it's up to us individually.
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  And if we call on God, God says if we seek him, we will find
• 40:43
  him. So if you are in a place of
• 40:46
  confusion about what religion is right, show me the way.
• 40:50
  People have prayed to God and and people have done things so
• 40:55
  simple as to say God, if you're real, make yourself known.
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  And when they were doing that with sincere heart, it has
• 41:03
  happened. If you truly with your heart,
• 41:07
  you really, really, really want to know him.
• 41:09
  Not because somebody said you should, but you want to know who
• 41:14
  is this one who created me? Why did you create me?
• 41:19
  What is my purpose? How do I get to know you?
• 41:23
  What things should I know about you When you start seeking that,
• 41:28
  that's when God will reveal himself to you.
• 41:30
  When you truly desire to know him, he will reveal himself to
• 41:35
  you because it's happened over and over again.
• 41:39
  People have had these experiences.
• 41:43
  So let's see there's I think I've made.
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  That's all I needed to say. Excuse me.
• 41:49
  I'm so sorry about this. OK, the next part that there's
• 41:58
  something else that I that stood out to me in this.
• 42:02
  It was verse 9 that says do not take away my soul along with
• 42:07
  sinners. And so people would might say,
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  well, sinners, all of us are sinners.
• 42:15
  So what does that mean? Do not take away my soul along
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  with the sinners. Well, all of us would be gone,
• 42:22
  right? Yes, that's true, because the
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  wages of sin, what we get paid for sin is death.
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  That's just eternal separation from God.
• 42:36
  It's a different place than God's Kingdom.
• 42:39
  And that's what we get paid. That's what the Bible tells us.
• 42:43
  When we read the Bible, the wages of sin is death.
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  So then people say, OK, well, I can't stop sinning.
• 42:52
  So does that mean that I'm going to not be in God's Kingdom?
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  No, it doesn't mean that because Jesus gave us the way it's
• 43:04
  through him, the only way through him.
• 43:08
  And it's we need to understand about sacrifices.
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  If we don't understand about sacrifices from the Old
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  Testament. And this is another interesting
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  thing when I studied that more was the Old Testament
• 43:20
  sacrifices, all the things that were done, they were for
• 43:25
  unintentional sin. Search that in Leviticus,
• 43:30
  because I was searching, I was like, well, OK, which ones were
• 43:34
  for unintentional and which ones were for like willful, like one
• 43:38
  of those decisions where you, you, you know, this isn't what
• 43:42
  I'm supposed to do, but you want to do it.
• 43:46
  And so you're like, God will forgive me.
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  I'll just do this because I want to.
• 43:52
  There is nothing in Leviticus that says that sacrifice gets
• 44:00
  rid of that sin that you just did.
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  When you do that, there is nothing, nothing at all.
• 44:08
  Those were for unintentional. That means like that kind of a
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  sin that I was just explaining was kind of a premeditated sin.
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  It's like when you had that conviction from the Holy Spirit.
• 44:19
  That's who I believe gives us those feelings of guilt, like I
• 44:22
  shouldn't really do this, but I want to.
• 44:25
  When we have that, that's us being at war with God.
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  Struggling with God is when we know what we're supposed to do
• 44:34
  or what we shouldn't do, and we do it anyway.
• 44:39
  And that's intentional sin. And there were no sacrifices for
• 44:44
  intentional sin. They were, there were sacrifices
• 44:48
  for unintentional sin. So look that up if you don't
• 44:51
  believe me, because I I would only say that after having
• 44:56
  looked it up. So then we think about, well,
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  what about what about what Jesus did?
• 45:02
  Like, you know, Jesus was the only sacrifice that actually
• 45:10
  atoned for our sins, the one sacrifice on the cross when he
• 45:15
  died. That is the only way that we can
• 45:20
  be forgiven. It's through the Son of God's
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  obedience to the Father and his willingness to come here on
• 45:31
  earth because he was in eternity with God, but wasn't with God,
• 45:37
  with the Holy Spirit, but he came to earth in human form so
• 45:44
  that he could die for us. Because God one of the spiritual
• 45:49
  laws, and I'm not claiming to know all the spiritual laws or I
• 45:51
  don't even know if it's a spiritual law, but it's a law of
• 45:54
  God. This substitute life for life.
• 45:59
  So a human being had to die, but no human being was perfect, only
• 46:04
  God was perfect. No human on earth can save
• 46:08
  themselves. Only God could save us.
• 46:12
  That's why it's so important to know who Jesus is, because Jesus
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  was the Son of God and he is and was perfect or was and is
• 46:24
  perfect. He led a sinless life.
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  Humans cannot say that only God can say that only God is good.
• 46:34
  Jesus said that he kind of rhetorically said this to I
• 46:37
  think a Pharisee that said why you call me good?
• 46:40
  Only God is good. So every single person, we may
• 46:44
  call people good, but God doesn't.
• 46:46
  He sees their sin in every single person's life.
• 46:49
  So we are, we are doomed from the beginning.
• 46:52
  We cannot be in God's Kingdom except because of Jesus.
• 47:00
  He makes a way for us. His death on the cross took care
• 47:05
  of what needed to happen for us to enter the Kingdom of God.
• 47:11
  Now Jesus himself who died on the cross, he didn't tell
• 47:16
  people, when I die on the cross, it's all going to be good for
• 47:19
  you. First of all, I think he had to
• 47:20
  kind of keep it a secret, keep it hidden so that nobody
• 47:25
  ultimately knew why he was. I mean, he knew all along he was
• 47:28
  going to die in the cross, but he kind of, he told his closest
• 47:32
  people, I'm going to die. He knew ahead of time, he knew
• 47:37
  what was coming. He knew, I mean, the whole
• 47:39
  reason he was here was to accomplish this.
• 47:42
  But if he broadcast that everywhere and said, hey, I'm
• 47:44
  going to die in the cross and all you guys are going to be
• 47:46
  able to come into the Kingdom of God.
• 47:48
  Do you think people would probably protect Jesus's life
• 47:51
  with all they had, especially the enemy?
• 47:54
  The enemy would never let him get to the cross.
• 47:57
  If Jesus proclaimed I'm going to die on the cross and then all of
• 48:02
  you can come into my Father's Kingdom.
• 48:06
  I mean, that would be not a very intelligent thing to do.
• 48:09
  So of course Christ had to not claim that.
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  But he did tell. He didn't say exactly how it was
• 48:17
  going to happen. He just said he would have to
• 48:18
  die to his his closest people. Like he explained it as much as
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  he could without giving it away to the enemy.
• 48:26
  But that had to be somewhat of a guarded, known topic in order to
• 48:33
  accomplish God's will on the cross.
• 48:36
  Jesus had to be covert about this.
• 48:39
  He had to accomplish God's will by not broadcasting exactly what
• 48:44
  he was doing beforehand. But he did tell his closest
• 48:49
  people this is what's going to happen.
• 48:51
  And he spoke in metaphors so that when it all did happen,
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  they could look back and say, oh, wow, he was telling us this
• 49:00
  all along, but we didn't get it. And that's what's happened to us
• 49:04
  today. When we read the Bible, we see
• 49:06
  the things that Jesus said and then we, we know the end result.
• 49:10
  You know, we had that insight about what actually happened.
• 49:16
  And then we could say, wow, he was telling it all along in a
• 49:20
  very vague, descriptive way, but he was saying it.
• 49:24
  And he, his purpose of saying it was so that he could also prove
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  that he was God, that he knew this all ahead of time.
• 49:34
  So it was documented what he said.
• 49:37
  And then eventually after the fact, then everybody started
• 49:42
  looking at this again, like, what did he say about this?
• 49:45
  And you know, having the what was written down as a resource
• 49:50
  or something we could reflect on.
• 49:53
  But so let's talk about sin and just about how that.
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  So here's one thing, OK, I, I forgot I started to go there and
• 50:03
  then I got sidetracked. Jesus, the person, the one who
• 50:08
  died on the cross. Again, in John chapter 3, he
• 50:13
  said this to Nicodemus. He didn't say I'm going to dry
• 50:16
  in the cross and then you guys are all like, OK, so don't worry
• 50:21
  about anything. No, he said to Nicodemus that
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  this is the one he knew he was going to die on the cross.
• 50:30
  He didn't say, don't worry, I've got it taken care of.
• 50:32
  You don't have to worry about anything.
• 50:35
  I'm going to take care of it. He could have been that vague
• 50:37
  about it and nobody could know what it was that he was going to
• 50:41
  accomplish. And then just, you know, later
• 50:43
  on, say, see, I took care of it. You didn't have to know what it
• 50:46
  was, but I did take care of it. See, he didn't do that to
• 50:49
  Nicodemus. He said no one can enter the
• 50:53
  Kingdom of God unless they are born again.
• 51:00
  Born again, you must be born again.
• 51:04
  This is the person Jesus who said who died on the cross for
• 51:09
  our sins, is telling everybody you have to be born again.
• 51:13
  It means that there's something that is in response to Jesus's
• 51:20
  death on the cross. If Jesus didn't die on the
• 51:23
  cross, none of us could get into the Kingdom of God.
• 51:26
  So don't ever let anybody tell you anything differently than
• 51:30
  that. Jesus is the only way.
• 51:33
  But after he did that for everybody, even the people from
• 51:36
  as far back as Genesis, all those who had died before him.
• 51:41
  His death on the cross did this for all mankind and for all who
• 51:47
  came after him, which would be us.
• 51:49
  This was done for all of us, everyone, every human being.
• 51:54
  So he covers everyone. But just because Jesus died on
• 51:59
  the cross doesn't mean that every single person is going
• 52:01
  into God's Kingdom, does it? And then people say, well, all
• 52:06
  you have to do is say you believe in Jesus and then you're
• 52:08
  going to be in the Kingdom. Well, yes, but believe means
• 52:14
  something a lot more than what some people think, believe
• 52:20
  means. And if we confess with our mouth
• 52:22
  that Jesus is Lord, I mean, people will say that, yes.
• 52:27
  But if you confess that with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, I
• 52:31
  mean, that's probably true. If you do say that and you mean
• 52:36
  it and you know that he's the Son of God, that is the Holy
• 52:40
  Spirit. Because Jesus said that to
• 52:43
  Peter. He said you couldn't even have.
• 52:46
  Well, he said, who am I to Peter?
• 52:49
  And he said you're the Messiah. And he said you could have known
• 52:52
  that except for that God enabled you to know that.
• 52:55
  So if someone has the Holy Spirit, they will truly believe.
• 53:00
  But again, like I said, believe is something really important
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  because there's this verse that we'll get to later and it's with
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  I think it's, I think it might be Jude or James, I can't
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  remember which one. James maybe where he says even
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  the demons believe and shudder. So you have to think about that.
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  Are the demons going to be in God's Kingdom?
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  No, so we have to know what believe means.
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  Believe is a critical word, so we have to know about sin.
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  What does it mean? Like all of us are sinners,
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  Jesus made the way. But what happens when we're born
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  again? When we're born again, Jesus
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  asked the Father for the Holy Spirit and gives the Holy Spirit
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  to us. And when we believe the things
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  that Jesus taught, when we believe what's in the Bible, you
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  have to also remember, and I'm going to get to this verse 2,
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  that Jesus said repent and believe.
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  He didn't say just believe, He said repent and believe.
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  Repent means to change, to feel remorse about something that
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  you've done and then become a different person.
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  Repent and believe. That's what Jesus said.
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  And a lot of churches haven't been talking about repentance.
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  They talk about all the good things.
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  I described it before, like they give you the dessert, all the
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  good stuff, but they don't give you the meat and the vegetables
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  are the protein and the vegetables.
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  This the sustenance they give you the the good stuff that's
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  not actually like good for you all alone.
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  Like dessert full of sugar. Sugar causes diseases.
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  So let's think about that too. But something sweet, you know,
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  they give you the sweet part, but not the part that kind of
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  makes you uncomfortable. And that's a another reason why
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  I actually do this podcast, because the Bible tells us
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  differently. So if you're in a church that
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  just gives you all of the the good stuff and you never hear
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  anything that calls you into taking a look at your life and
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  living out what Christ said and being in the word and repenting,
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  repenting. It's something that we have to
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  do, you know, regularly. Not to say that we're going to
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  be like sinning every second, but there are times where even
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  somebody who has the Holy Spirit, because we have not yet
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  been perfected, we're going to be perfected once Jesus returns
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  and gives us our immortal bodies.
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  Right now we are in mortal bodies, meaning we will die
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  someday. Except for those who are alive
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  and remain when Christ returns, those people are not going to
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  experience death. They will be gathered to him
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  without dying and they will be changed in an instant.
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  That's going to be remarkable. So like if Jesus comes in our
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  lifetime, that would be so wonderful to be in that group of
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  people. But but on the other hand,
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  people who have had near death experiences have said that when
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  they actually died, they didn't feel it.
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  So that's also it's probably, you know, either way would be
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  good because to be absent from our bodies is to be pertinent
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  with Christ. That's what Paul tells us.
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  So anyway, kind of going a little bit sidetracked there,
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  but believing and being saved and righteousness and sin, those
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  are and and grace and works. Those are all like very, very
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  important topics to know the truth, not to just accept
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  whatever the church you go to says, compare it to the Bible.
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  Check out the Bible. Because my concern is that
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  people are not being prepared. And if Jesus returns soon, you
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  want to be prepared because it says that when He returns, if
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  you're not prepared, the door is going to be shut and you're not
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  coming in to the Kingdom. So it's important to be
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  prepared. And that's another reason why I
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  say the things that I talk about.
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  So I'm going to read a couple things about sinning and topic
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  that nobody likes, and you might turn me off at this point.
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  But it's important, like I said, because it's not to condemn
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  anybody. It's so that you know the truth
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  and so that you can prepare yourself for when Jesus returns
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  because you cannot keep on sinning and be in God's Kingdom.
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  And don't let anybody tell you that grace covers that.
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  Grace does not cover intentional sin.
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  And I will read you a verse that's in Hebrews chapter 10, I
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  think. I think it's verse 26 maybe.
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  But oh, actually I have it here. OK.
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  So I want to make that clear. And there's a lot of people that
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  are deceived by what grace is and what they can do.
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  And that's that's just something that concerns me about a lot of
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  people who grew up in the church and were taught this.
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  So in first of all, in Exodus 2020, this is kind of
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  interesting because it's 2020, just like perfect vision.
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  Moses said to his people, do not be afraid.
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  God has come to test you so that the fear of God will be with you
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  to keep you from sinning. Isn't that interesting?
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  Like the first of all other places in the Bible says the
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  fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
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  So let's let's think about that for a minute.
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  And Moses is saying God has come to test you so that the fear of
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  God will be with you to keep you from sinning.
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  So this fear is, yes, there's a reverence about God, but it's
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  also like, let's see, when the people saw the Thunder and
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  lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke,
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  they trembled with fear. Do you think that's a fear?
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  Well, I mean, it's kind of like awesomeness, but they stayed as
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  at a distance. If something was that awesome to
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  me, I would want to go to it. That kind of fear that I think
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  Moses was talking about was like, oh, I better stay away
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  from that. That's kind of pretty powerful.
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  And if that doesn't like me or if that goes against me, I am
• 1:00:00
  nothing. I am squished, I am gone.
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  I am never exists again. And and that's the kind of fear
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  not that God is looking to punish any of us.
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  He doesn't want to. He loves us.
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  He's he's seeking. I mean, he, he's trying to get
• 1:00:18
  our attention. And and trying to reveal himself
• 1:00:22
  to us, but we are so obstinate from him and, and so this, this
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  fear of God. Can you imagine standing there
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  seeing all this Thunder and lightning and this trumpet and
• 1:00:34
  smoke in the mountain? I mean, that kind of an image at
• 1:00:38
  the base of the mountain when you're when Moses is giving the
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  10 commandments, this is and then Moses says don't be afraid.
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  He's saying don't be afraid, but he's showing how great he is.
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  God is showing how great he is. God has come to test you so that
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  the fear of God will be with you.
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  Why? To keep you from sinning.
• 1:01:05
  So that wrath of God, that potential that's there, that'll
• 1:01:10
  keep you away from sinning. So when we know who God is and
• 1:01:13
  what he can do and what he does, because he's a just God, he will
• 1:01:17
  punish on or he will punish intentional sin.
• 1:01:23
  Do we want to be punished? Do we want to be destroyed?
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  Because if we keep on doing that, that will happen.
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  Don't think that grace is going to cover you.
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  And here's that verse about not that verse, but that chapter,
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  Hebrews 10/26. I'm going to read this to you
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  because it's so important to know this.
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  If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received
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  the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but
• 1:01:55
  only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that
• 1:02:02
  will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of
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  Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three
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  witnesses. How much more severely do you
• 1:02:16
  think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the
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  Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the
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  blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has
• 1:02:33
  insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said it is
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  mine to avenge. I will repay, and again the Lord
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  will judge his people. It is a dreadful thing to fall
• 1:02:49
  into the hands of the living God.
• 1:02:52
  So this talks about in Hebrews 10/29 talks about that would be
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  an insult to the spirit of grace.
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  That would be insult to grace. You are trampling on the blood
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  of the Son of God who gave up his life to rescue you from
• 1:03:12
  darkness. When we intentionally sin, that
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  is what we're after, having the knowledge of the truth.
• 1:03:21
  So again, this doesn't apply to all the world.
• 1:03:23
  This applies to us who call ourselves Christians.
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  Don't do that. And and then there is a verse in
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  here and I probably will get to it also.
• 1:03:34
  It says like if you are Christian and you see another
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  Christian doing that, pray for them.
• 1:03:41
  And because our prayers matter to pray for another Christian so
• 1:03:45
  that they don't die from that. But there's like one sin that's
• 1:03:51
  unforgivable, forgivable, and that's blasphemy of the Holy
• 1:03:54
  Spirit and that's a pure and outright rejection of God.
• 1:03:59
  Don't that because everybody gets their free will.
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  But if there's something else besides that that somebody does
• 1:04:08
  pray for them. That's why I also think that the
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  taking the mark of the beast is also blasphemy.
• 1:04:14
  It's when that happens, people, if they're not going to do this
• 1:04:19
  unknowingly, the person who accepts the mark of the beast is
• 1:04:24
  pledging allegiance to this entity.
• 1:04:27
  So they are saying that instead of trusting in God, they're
• 1:04:31
  trusting in whatever this mark is.
• 1:04:34
  So at that point, if people are around, because there will still
• 1:04:38
  be people who claim Jesus around at that time.
• 1:04:41
  So if when that happens, there's actually an Angel that goes out
• 1:04:48
  and warns people don't take the mark of the beast, and that is
• 1:04:52
  an unforgivable sin. And so we know there's only one
• 1:04:56
  unforgivable sin and that's blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:04:59
  So that's why I say that Mark of the Beast is pledging an
• 1:05:02
  allegiance to something that is not a God out of your own, You
• 1:05:07
  know, not having the fear of God, like don't fear anything.
• 1:05:12
  But our creator, our creator has the power to send us away from
• 1:05:16
  him or to bring us into his Kingdom.
• 1:05:19
  So that's who we should have fear about is a reverence
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  towards, not anybody else. We shouldn't fear anything else,
• 1:05:26
  even death, because if we die saying, no, I'm not going to
• 1:05:31
  take that mark, then we're going to be in the presence of God.
• 1:05:36
  And you have to actually believe it to be willing to let your
• 1:05:40
  life go for that. But that's where it really
• 1:05:44
  separates us who believe. Or if we don't believe the true
• 1:05:48
  test is going to happen, then that's probably going to be the
• 1:05:51
  final Test that God's going to bring about.
• 1:05:54
  Like who's going to really believe and who's not going to
• 1:05:57
  believe? Who's going to hold true to what
• 1:05:59
  they claim? Because there are people who
• 1:06:02
  claim Jesus who are going to be faced with the mark of the
• 1:06:06
  beast. So that's in Scripture, all
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  right, believe. What the heck does believe mean?
• 1:06:15
  So I wanted to go through some things I don't know.
• 1:06:20
  This is probably going to be a long.
• 1:06:21
  Maybe I should stop this podcast right now and talk about believe
• 1:06:29
  because I think this is like just a topic all on its own.
• 1:06:32
  It's already an hour that I've been on this, so I think who
• 1:06:36
  knows how long this topic about believe is going to be.
• 1:06:38
  So I think I'm going to end this right now and start a new
• 1:06:41
  podcast and just talk about what does believe mean from the Bible
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  reading scripture. So I am going to end this now.
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  If you found this beneficial, I really hope you did find it
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  beneficial. But if you think anybody else
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  would be blessed by hearing this, please send this to
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  somebody else because I want all people to be in God's Kingdom.
• 1:07:07
  I want people's eyes to be opened.
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  I want them to know God and I know.
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  Thank you very much.