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Day 3: The Defense of the Gospel (Part 1) · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is
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  the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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  right in. So today, the teaching is actually
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  the defense of the gospel. What we want to talk
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  about this afternoon is the defense of the gospel
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  the defense of the gospel The defense of the
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  gospel And now I like a few things as before
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  progress writes before progress our light in
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  a few things The scriptures, okay can we write
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  that the scriptures answers to itself okay that
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  the scriptures answers to itself meaning that
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  scriptures are used to corroborate scriptures
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  so when you read a scripture and you have a question
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  is still the scriptures that will answer that
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  question If we have a scripture, we have questions,
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  it's still the scriptures that will answer that
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  question. And you can see that in several patterns
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  in Jesus' teaching, that scriptures will answer
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  questions that arise from scriptures. And that
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  is why when Jesus has been asked questions, as
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  I think Pastor Victor and many other pastors
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  that have been here that acknowledge their teaching,
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  Already point us to how Jesus was answering questions,
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  right? So they talk about marriage and Where
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  did Jesus go to answer the question of marriage
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  the scriptures? right, so Jesus did not stand
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  out to put up a defense to say that I'm the one
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  that have the revelation about marriage. She
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  does not say we in the beginning I was there
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  I was the one who did it who wrote it down that
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  they should not be they should be male and female
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  no he didn't say that right he said from the
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  beginning he referred to them he referred to
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  the scripture from the beginning the creation
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  that's the way made male and female so even jesus
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  in his answers to questions in his defense of
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  the scriptures right quoted the scriptures or
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  referred to the scriptures or more specifically
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  thoughts from the scriptures. So we can say that
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  it will be very unfair and unjust of us that
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  we want to answer scriptural questions and we
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  quote ourselves. Right? We quote ourselves. Now,
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  there's a reason why I'm saying that because
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  tomorrow we are going to deal with uh some theologies
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  in quotes I call them I mean we also write them
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  as theologies but they are not theologies because
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  there's no other gospel right but some certain
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  teachings when men refer to themselves even Jesus
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  did not refer to a revelation Jesus never said
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  I saw a revelation to answer a question but rather
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  always refer him back in his temptation refer
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  back to the scriptures in his encounter refers
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  back with the Pharisees refers back to the scriptures.
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  So the scriptures answers to itself. Now the
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  defense of the scripture, our case scripture
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  is 1 Peter chapter 3. Let's go to 1 Peter chapter
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  3, which is where we find that word defense of
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  the scripture. 1 Peter chapter 3 verse, I will
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  put it short. Verse 15. Verse 15. Verse 15, from
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  verse 15, let's start reading. It's a, but sanctify
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  the Lord in your hearts and be ready always to
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  give an answer, right? Which scripture are you
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  using? Always ready to give a defense. Okay,
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  good. NKJV. All right, that works. So this, but
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  sanctify the Lord in your hearts and always be
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  ready to give a defense. to everyone who asks
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  you a reason for the hope that is in you, with
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  meekness and fear. With what? With meekness and
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  fear. Having a good conscience that when they
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  defame you as evildoers, those who revile your
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  good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. We'll
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  come to this later. Next verse. For it is better
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  if it is the will of God sober for doing good
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  than for doing evil. Go back to verse 15 Go back
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  to verse 15. We'll come back to these other scriptures
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  verse 15 It's about sanctify the Lord in your
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  hearts and always be ready to give a defense
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  Always be ready to give a defense To everyone
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  who asks you a reason a reason so the defense
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  of the gospel requires a reason right a reason
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  the defense of the gospel requires a reason you
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  cannot just say you know there was one time to
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  say i'm apologize i'm unapologetic i just do
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  it you know you can't just do it right you can't
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  just do it whatever you do which is faith right
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  what will do is faith are we together so when
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  we do things there's an explanation in whichever
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  expression there's an explanation in the scriptures
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  why we do that so if someone asks you so that
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  you can't be able to answer this is the reason
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  this is the reason for the hope that is in me
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  with meekness and fear now the word reason is
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  the word apologia okay so we can write down the
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  word reason is the word apologia So what I want
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  to do is some levels of apologetics, right? Apologetics
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  to explain, right? We are not a faith that cannot
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  be explained by the scriptures. That's why I
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  say the scripture itself answers to itself. The
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  scriptures answer the questions that we have
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  regarding the scriptures. So the word there is
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  apology. Now, I've been studying faiths that
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  we're going to talk about tomorrow. One of the
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  major things that makes you know, right, that
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  you might be in a cult, right, is when what you
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  believe cannot be questioned and cannot be explained.
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  Okay? When what you believe is something that
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  is said, we just receive it, we don't question
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  it, and we don't explain it, you are already
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  in a cult. If you join them, you are in a cult.
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  But the faith of Christ, Right? The third of
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  Christ, we can question and receive explanations
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  from the scriptures. Okay? We can question, ask
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  questions, and receive explanations from the
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  scripture. So that word, Apologia, it's a reasoned
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  answer. It means a reasoned answer. Answer that
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  is not just shabu -shabu answer, not quick fix
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  answer, not Key points. It's not key point answer.
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  It's a reasoned answer. A verbal defense. This
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  is where we're going. This is what we will do.
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  We will give a reasoned answer, a verbal defense,
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  a reasoned explanation. As I said, in this kind
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  of explanation, you will explain, but you will
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  not be tired. You will explain and explain and
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  you keep explaining. This is what we are called
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  to do. As I said, we will preach the word until
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  the end of time. We'll keep doing it. We won't
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  get tired, because that is what we have been
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  called to do. So it's a reasoned answer, a verbal
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  defense, a reasoned explanation, right? It does
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  not mean apologizing for being a Christian. OK,
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  so you can write it out. It doesn't mean I'm
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  trying to apologize. No. If I'm giving an explanation,
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  I'm helping you to clear your confusion. So it
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  is not apologizing for being. It's not like you're
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  giving excuse. No, no, no, no, no, no. Apologia
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  is not excuse. It's reason understanding. You
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  are opening the minds of people to know why you
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  believe what you have believed. A reason explanation,
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  and it does not mean apologizing for being. Rather,
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  it is actually a thoughtful biblical explanation.
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  A thoughtful biblical explanation. All right.
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  So is it thoughtful biblical explanation? It
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  is given the reason for the faith that we have
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  in Christ. It is given a reason for the faith
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  that we have in Christ. Now, notice that Peter
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  will not, right? Peter will not assume, okay?
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  Peter will not, okay. All right, Peter will not
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  assume, right, to say that give a reason when
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  there will be nobody to ask you. So what it means
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  is that Peter knew that where these people are,
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  the context of first Peter, right? Okay, maybe
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  you should go to chapter one. You will see that
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  is a place where people would ask you for the
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  reason of the faiths that you have in Christ.
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  Now, first Peter. chapter 1 verse 1 Peter an
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  apostle of Jesus Christ to the stranger scattered
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  Right you see those who he's writing to right
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  to the stranger scattered through out Pontus,
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  Dalatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bethany Elect according
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  to the full knowledge of God the Father through
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  sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and
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  sprinkling of the blood of Christ Grace unto
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  you, and peace be multiplied. So, he's talking
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  about believers that are what? Scattered abroad.
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  Right? He's not talking about believers that
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  are in Jerusalem. Even in Jerusalem, people are
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  asking them questions. But he's not talking about
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  people that are scattered abroad. That people
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  that didn't know, people that are in places where
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  they've never probably heard about who Jesus
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  was. Places maybe they've never heard about the
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  faith of Christ. To Asia, to Brittany, to places.
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  that the message of the gospel might not have
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  been preached, right? So it therefore means that
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  you will be asked questions, right? So this is
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  the background. So therefore to say that they
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  should be ready to give an explanation means
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  that people will ask them questions, okay? So
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  we cannot be Christians that people cannot ask
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  questions. We cannot be believers that people,
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  people must ask you questions. They must ask
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  you questions about your faith. That is when
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  you know that you are in the faith. I mean, that's
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  a signal that it's obvious now, like in your
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  conduct, in your lifestyle and everything you
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  do, people are, this one is a believer. Let's
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  ask her about the kingdom of God. So at your
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  workplace, be excited, be ready for people to
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  say, ah, what do you think about death? What
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  do you think about heaven? What do you think
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  about, you know? Life after dates. I have a very
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  special person in school that always asks me
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  that question. Just comes lunchtime, just starts
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  asking those questions. And I'm excited to answer
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  him. And one thing I also do is I said, this
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  is what you believe, which we are going to come
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  there. We're going to come to that. I say, this
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  is what you believe. This is what you believe.
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  Thank you. All right. This is what you believe.
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  And I tell him, this is what we. Christian belief,
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  right? You see, drawing that boundary would help
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  us very well. Sometimes we are scared. What if
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  I tell him that is what I believe and his belief
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  is different? No, when it comes to apologia,
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  we're gonna teach us how to approach someone
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  and say, this is my stand, right? This is your
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  own stand. We are not standing on the same footing,
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  right? So people will ask the question. So in
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  this life, as a believer, always be ready that
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  people will ask you, don't hide. right don't
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  hide sometimes we used to hide right don't hide
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  in fact sometimes when we start reading the scripture
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  we will see that intentionally people call will
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  go to a place so that they were asking questions
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  why because he has an intention to give an explanation
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  of the scriptures it will intentionally start
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  the conversation that will lead to them asking
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  him questions and he will preach So every opportunity
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  we can be asked questions. So it therefore means
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  that we will be asked questions and we have to
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  give an explanation. We have to give an explanation.
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  Let's go to Jude 3. During the course of the
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  last three weeks of one month, the good driver,
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  Pastor Fred, started the foundation of this.
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  So Jude 3. Can I go to Jude 3? Jude 3. Beloved,
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  while I was very diligent to write to you concerning
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  our common salvation, I found it necessary to
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  write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly
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  for the fates, which was once all delivered to
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  the saints, right? To contend earnestly for the
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  faith that was once delivered to us, the saints.
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  So it therefore means that in these faiths that
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  we have, right? We are going to face people.
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  That is one thing we must know, right? We are
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  going to face people that will ask us questions
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  and we have to contend for the faiths. So we're
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  gonna face people they're gonna access series
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  of questions series of question series of question
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  Okay, all right so therefore means that we must
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  be ready right at all times to give an answer
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  To defend the faiths that we have to defend the
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  faith that we have. Now, please, can you tell
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  me which of the words that I translate to as
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  Apologia? The reason, right? Can you go back
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  to that scripture, please? Can you go back to
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  1 Peter 3 verse 15? 1 Peter 3 verse 15. Use KJV,
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  let me see. Okay, and be ready to always give
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  an answer. Okay, the word answer is actually
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  the apologia. So please, can you correct that,
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  right? The word answer is actually the word apologia,
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  right? The word answer is actually the one that
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  carries the word apologia. And the word reason
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  is logos, which is the word, right? Explanation,
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  right? So the word answer, please correct that,
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  is the apologia. The word reason is the logos.
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  So it means that the word answer, okay, is the
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  apologia. The word logos is the reason. Means
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  that it is something that is explained, spoken,
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  talked, okay? Means that something that is explained,
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  something that is spoken, something that is talked,
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  right? Something that is talked. So the answer
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  is the apologia that we are providing. for the
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  people the apologia there we are explaining and
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  we are using logos which is word to explain the
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  reason of our faith so it means like this altered
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  speech the logos is altered speech right what's
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  that is being said right the saints the saints
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  and we know that this same is the same that is
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  found in the word of god okay this logos is the
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  same the teachings the words that is found in
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  god all right so We can come together to say
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  that we should be ready to give an answer, Apologia,
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  to anyone who asks us to give an answer for the
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  reason why we believe what we believe. It means
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  that we have to give an explanation. So this
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  is what is expected in the life of every believer.
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  Now let's go to Acts 23. Acts 23. Acts 23, from
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  verse 1. Acts 23 from verse one. Okay, go to
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  26. Go to 26. I wanna show us an example. This
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  one, 23 will be very long. Go to 26. Because
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  if we go to 23, we have to read the long, little
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  bit long. Just go to 26. Then Agrippa said unto
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  Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself.
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  Then Paul stretched forth the hand and answered
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  for himself. Paul stretched forth his hand and
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  did what? And answered for himself. So Paul actually
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  has been arrested, right? The context of this
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  is that Apostle Paul has been arrested, right,
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  for preaching the gospel. And you know, the same
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  pattern. Jesus was arrested, right? Accusations
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  was placed before him, right? And they bring
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  him before Herod, okay? It's the same pattern.
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  Paul preached the gospel, was arrested, and they
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  brought him before Agrippa. Agrippa is also King
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  Herod, just having a title, Agrippa II. So the
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  same pattern, right, is what is happening here.
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  So he has been brought before two leaders, right?
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  It was before first two in verse... In chapter
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  25, right? In chapter 25, you go from verse 23.
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  And on the morning when Agrippa was come and
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  Bennis, the great Tom, and was entered into the
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  place of the hearing, the chief and the captains
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  and principal men of the city, at Fester's commandment,
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  Paul was brought forth, right? Paul was brought
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  forth. And Fester said, King Agrippa, all men
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  which are here present with us, And yet see this
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  man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews
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  have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem and also
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  here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
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  Does it sound like what he did to Jesus? Does
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  it sound like what he did to Jesus? Yes. So a
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  servant is not greater than his master. Example
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  in Paul's life. What he did to Jesus, he did
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  to Paul. So they said he ought not to leave the
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  Jews They said he ought not to leave from Jerusalem
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  and those that are here. But when I found that
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  He had committed nothing worthy of death. Does
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  he also sound a game like what's happened to
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  Jesus before Pontus Pilate? Are we together?
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  It's a pattern said I find nothing in the in
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  the in the life of this man that is worthy of
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  death He's about argument and debates about your
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  Jewish rights about what concerns you, and is
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  only stating his point of view, his position
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  on the matter of faith, why should it be put
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  to death? You know, Romans, they reason. Romans,
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  they reason. So they can't find anything. In
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  fact, from their own point of view, to debate
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  in theaters is a normal system of, you know,
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  whatever development they have, philosophies
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  and all of that. So for him to stay the position
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  is not a crime. So they couldn't find anything.
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  So the same thing here, after Festus has examined
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  him, of course it was from Felix, now Festus.
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  What I found out that he had committed not in
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  worthy of death, and that he himself had appealed
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  to Augustus, I have determined to send him, of
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  whom I have no certain thing to write on to my
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  Lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you,
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  especially before the old King Agrippa, that
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  after examination had, other examination had
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  I might have so much to write for it seemed to
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  me unreasonable to send a prisoner not and not
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  without to signify the crimes laid what against
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  him means there was no crime against him right
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  it means to defend the gospel to preach the gospel
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  there's no it's not a crime even in you know
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  the Roman system and now it's not a crime because
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  this is what Paul did. Then Agrippa said unto
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  Paul, thou art permitted to speak for thyself.
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  Then Paul straight forth the hand and answer
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  it for himself. I think myself happy, King Agrippa,
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  because I shall answer for this day before thee
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  touching all things, whereof I am accused of
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  the Jews. Right? So Paul was there to do what?
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  To give an answer. Now, do you think Paul was
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  there to give an answer pertaining himself? No,
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  Paul wasn't there to give an answer pertaining
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  himself. He was actually there to preach to them
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  again, to give an explanation of the gospel again.
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  Right? To give an explanation of the gospel.
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  Now observe, especially because I know you need
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  to be an expert in our customs and questions,
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  which are among the Jews. Right? So it's a matter
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  pertaining to questions and customs among the
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  Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
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  My manner of life from my youth, which was the
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  first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know
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  all the Jews. So they knew him, and the kind
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  of person he was, which knew me from the beginning,
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  which they would testify that after the most
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  strictest sets of our religion, I leave a Pharisee.
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  And now I stand and I'm judged for the hope of
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  the promise made of God unto our fathers. Started
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  explaining. I am being judged on the hope that
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  God made, on the hope of the promise that God
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  made to our Father. So Paul was standing there
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  and explaining to Agrippa an explanation he has
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  done in several places and giving an apology
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  of why he believed what he believed, right? Onto
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  which promise our 12 tribes and we're going to
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  speak and in verse 9 it says I've already taught
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  with myself that I ought to do many things I've
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  already told myself that I ought to do many things
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  contrary to the name of Jesus which thing I do
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  I also did in Jerusalem and many of the saints
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  did shut up in prison having received the authority
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  from Christ from chief priests and when they
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  put to death and they were put to death including
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  steven I gave my voice against them and I punished
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  them and he explained all of this now verse 14
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  and when uh no no from from verse 12 whereupon
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  as i went to damascus to continue the persecution
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  with authority and commission from the chief
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  priest at midday okay i saw the way a light from
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  heaven above the brightness of the sun shining
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  around me and then and we then we journeyed with
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  me and when we were all falling to the earth
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  i heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in
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  the hebrew language in the british Saul Saul,
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  why persecuted thou me? It is hard to kick against
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  the pricks, right? So we had that reading as
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  well. Now let's see, he quoted Jesus, let's look
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  to verse 19. Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was
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  not disobedient unto this heavenly vision, but
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  showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem,
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  and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then
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  to the Gentiles, that they should repent and
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  turn to God, and do works meets for repentance.
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  To do works meets for repentance. For these causes,
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  verse 21, the Jews caught me in the temple and
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  then they were about to what? To kill me. Right?
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  So he wasn't saying anything than the fact that
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  he had an encounter with Christ and that encounter
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  changed him. because this is what was promised.
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  That encounter changing and onto that, because
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  he's preaching in this name, that is why they
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  have found him. Now he started explaining that
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  long verses and the explanation continue. Now
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  let's see, let's see something that happened
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  in verse 24. Verse 24. I think I'd like to read
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  from verse number two, sorry. Having therefore
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  obtained help of God, I continued on to this
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  day, witnessing both to small and great, saying
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  none other things than those which the prophets
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  and Moses did say should come. Again, explaining
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  that this is what has been promised to the Father,
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  this is what the prophets said, this is what
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  I am saying. So the explanation of Paul was also
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  in accordance to what has been written. in the
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  scriptures. Are we together? So Paul's explanation
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  is also in alignment to what has been written
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  in the scriptures, right? So the apologia of
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  Paul is from what has been written in the scriptures.
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  What has been written in the scriptures. Verse
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  23, that Christ should suffer and that he should
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  be the first that should rise from the dead and
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  show and should show lights unto the people and
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  to who? The Gentiles. To show light on the people
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  and the Gentiles. And I suspect for himself in
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  an apologian explanation answer to why he's been
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  held. What did Fester said? Fester said with
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  a loud voice, Paul thou art beside thyself. Much
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  learning doth make thee mad. Now, This okay much
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  learning much may be mad now then restore faces,
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  but I said I am not mad most noble festers but
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  speak forth the words of truth and words and
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  Sobhan is for the king knoweth this things for
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  whom I speak freely Right and the students have
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  said King Agrippa believers believers now the
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  prophets. I know now believers So God give an
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  explanation that's made people that make festers
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  to say you are you are out of your mind like
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  you are out of your mind and he said no i'm not
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  out of my mind Agrippa think Agrippa can bear
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  witness to these things that it has been said
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  by the prophets right because don't forget he
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  said you are a man that knows about the customs
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  are we together so we are the man that knows
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  about the custom and Agrippa and he asked him
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  you see a very way to catch someone when you
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  are doing evangelism after you have said everything
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  don't wait for the person to say what now no
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  no no wait for the person to say what now you
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  cannot preach and you wait for the person to
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  say what now basically i tell you that's a good
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  speech you know i like that i like rito i've
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  seen people said that yes i'm telling you really
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  i've seen people say you do as a believer you
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  don't wait you ask them straight do you believe
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  do you believe right you don't wait Some people
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  say, wow, that was a good speech. In this environment,
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  it's quite common. They can come to your church,
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  and they will hear the sound. So you guys play
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  good music. I like the dance in church. I like
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  the way people clap in church. Please don't accept
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  those things. Ask the person, do you believe?
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  When the person tells you, I like the way you
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  guys dress on Sunday to church, you guys are,
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  that's an opportunity. So really, you like the
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  way we dress to church? Let me tell you why we
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  dress to church like that. Then you preach the
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  gospel. and you explain, you ask the person,
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  do you believe? Now let's see what Agrippa said,
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  Agrippa verse 27, King Agrippa, believers thou
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  the prophets and I know that thou believers,
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  and Agrippa said unto Paul, almost thou persuades
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  me to be a Christian, almost persuaded me to
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  be a Christian. It means that, this is what it
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  means, let me tell you what this means, it means
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  that Paul presented every evidence with doubts,
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  doubts. It means that beyond the reasonable doubts,
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  you know, beyond the reasonable doubts, Paul
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  presented that Christ is the Messiah and through
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  him, the penance, forgiveness of sins will be
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  given. He presented beyond the, but because of
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  the hardness of man, He said, you almost persuaded
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  me. I don't know why Agrippa didn't believe,
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  probably because Festus was there, probably because
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  of the culture and the people was. Sometimes,
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  you know, leaders, they don't want to believe
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  in a public place, right? They like to, you know,
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  it's pride. So what we see here is that beyond
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  reasonable doubts, two people, one said is mad.
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  Because for you to collect those things together,
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  your mind must really be beyond. You must have
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  a supernatural mind to bring that together. And
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  then, So what we see is that in our apologia,
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  people must be persuaded. They will not reach
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  halfway. You can say to yourself, in my explanation
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  of the gospel to someone, they will be persuaded.
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  They will be persuaded. They will come to believe.
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  They will come to believe. They will come to
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  believe. So, let's go to Acts chapter seven,
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  verse one. Acts chapter seven, verse one. Again,
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  then said the high priests, are these things
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  so? So they were asking Stephen, right? They
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  were asking Stephen, after all the accusations
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  around him, right? So, it is expected, you know,
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  Mbemfaba will still come there. Part of the things
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  that come with apologia, explaining the scripture,
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  is persecution. In these two cases, they are
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  calling them to explain. The expectation of the
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  Jews is that maybe they will change their mind
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  about what they believe, and then we will preserve
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  them. But Paul and Stephen did not change their
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  mind. And they said these things, and then the
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  hybrid said, are these things so? And he said,
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  men and brethren, fathers hacking the God of
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  glory appeared onto our father Abraham again
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  referring to what God has promised us for time.
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  He has promised a long time ago when he was in
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  Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Cairo. Now look
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  at those people they are not just quoting John
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  3 .16 like are you getting it? It's not just
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  one scripture they are coming from the Old Testament,
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  from the prophets, to begin to explain in detail
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  about the message of the gospel. So the Apologous
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  Gospel is the detailed explanation beyond reasonable
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  doubt. The detailed explanation beyond reasonable
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  doubt. So it says, God appeared unto our father
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  Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before he
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  dwelt in Corinth and said unto him, get the out
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  of their country now this explanation went okay
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  until verse 53 verse what 53 so they were listening
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  to a preaching an explanation a defense of the
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  gospel that was what they listened to a defense
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  of the gospel the answer of steven to what they
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  were asking him. So the defense of the gospel
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  is very long. You should be prepared. So if you
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  want to give up, it's not something you just
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  quickly, that's why we say, that's why we see
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  that. You see that in this church we pay attention
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  a lot to teachings. As much as we can do anything
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  on a Sunday service, on a Sunday service, the
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  teaching time remains what? At least one hour,
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  if you have observed. Because the explanation
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  of the gospel, has to be detailed. The reason
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  is because you don't want to leave the person
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  in confusion. And that's why Pastor Victor was
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  saying that such kind of an explanation or a
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  teaching that does not explain the gospel cannot
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  produce life, cannot produce eternal life, cannot
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  produce faith in someone. So you have to be detailed
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  in your explanation of the gospel, in the answer
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  that you give people. So we say that people will
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  ask us questions, right? People will ask us questions.
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  It might be for persecution. It might be for
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  people to know, right? But one thing that is
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  certain is that they will ask questions. Now
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  let's see some demonstrations of explanation
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  of the gospel in the Old Testament, right? So
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  it's like more or less tracing themes of apologetics
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  in the Old Testament. Answers where people are
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  being taught. or told, or there's a practice
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  of it in the Old Testament. So most of the time
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  we want to pick it from there because whatever
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  we are doing today that we found in the New Testament,
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  right, must have been found in the Old Testament
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  as well, what we call the Old Testament text.
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  So we can trace something in the Deuteronomy
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  6 verse 20 to 25. Deuteronomy 6 verse 20 to 25.
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  good and when thy son asketh thee in time to
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  come saying what mean the testimonies and the
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  statutes and the judgments which the Lord our
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  God at commanded you so it means that you they'll
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  wake up one day and begin to say why do we observe
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  the Passover what is the Passover for why do
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  we keep the showbread why do we have all of this
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  then thou shall say unto thy son we were once
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  pharaohs born men in egypt and the lord brought
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  us out of egypt with a mighty hand stop that's
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  that's that's a picture of god's salvation so
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  it is from here they'll begin to explain to them
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  this is what happened to us and this is the message
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  now go to verse 22 Verse 22 and the Lord show
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  signs and wonders great and so upon Egypt upon
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  Pharaoh and upon all the household before our
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  eyes next and it brought us out from this that
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  he might bring us in to give us the land which
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  is swore unto our fathers and the Lord commanded
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  us to do all the statues to fear the Lord our
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  God for our good always that he might preserve
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  us alive as it is at this day and five and he
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  shall be our righteousness if we observe all
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  to do all these commandments before the Lord
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  our God as he has commanded us so we see that
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  he said that a generation will come and you would
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  need to give an explanation of why you are doing
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  what you're doing right a generation will come
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  we'll come to that when we start picking why
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  we need apologetics we will come to that we'll
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  come back to this scripture again all right exodus
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  12 26 to 27 the same scriptures exodus 12 26
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  to 27 just write that down exodus 12 26 to 27
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  exodus 13 verse 14 so here verse 12 says, what
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  mean ye by this service? So it will be practices,
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  it will be service, it will be whatever they
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  do as a nation. 13 verse 14, Exodus 13 verse
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  14. And shall be when thy son access thee in
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  time to come, what is this? That thou shall see
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  unto them by the strength of the Lord, by the
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  strength of hand, the Lord brought us out of
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  Egypt from the house of bondage. Again. explaining
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  so you can just write those scriptures down the
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  scriptures down joshua 4 6 to 7 joshua 4 6 to
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  7 observe that observe that in this explanation
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  is like some things were set in place and those
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  things triggered a question okay some things
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  were set in place and those things triggered
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  a question So when it comes to apology, it might
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  be your lifestyle that somebody will just see
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  and will ask you, why are you living like this?
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  Why are you not the aggressive type? Why are
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  you not the one that just live without principle?
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  Why are you so kind? Why are you so loving? So
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  through that, you find the means by which you
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  can explain extensively why we believe. words
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  we believe so just four six to seven it tells
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  you that there were stones right uh that this
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  may be a sign among you that when a children
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  asks the same thing what's minutes these stones
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  in this case stones stones now some 78 verse
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  128 my people to my law and incline your ears
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  to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth
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  in a parable and I'll utter dark sayings of old
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  which we have heard and known and our fathers
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  have told us we will not hide them from their
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  children we will not hide them from their children
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  showing to the generation to come the praises
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  of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful
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  works that he had done wonderful works that he
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  had done for he established a testimony in Jacob
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  and appointed the law in Israel and he commanded
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  our father that we should make them what known
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  to our children right known to our children now
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  let's write these other scriptures Micah 6 1
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  to 5 Micah 6 1 to 5 I'm also going to give one
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  again these ones are teachings right This was
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  our teachings, teachings, teachings, teachings.
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  Let's say one that the defense of the gospel,
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  right? You know, it's almost the only example
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  that it happened in a very practical way, right?
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  In a very practical way. Let's go to 1 Kings
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  18, 1 Kings 18 20 to 39, where the prophets who
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  has been preaching to them, right? 1 Kings 18
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  verse 32, 39. If you're there. Now, so here I've
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  sent all the children of Israel and gathered
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  the prophets, and they came onto Mount Camel.
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  And Elijah came onto all the people and said,
• 42:54
  how long holds here between two opinions? If
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  the Lord be God, follow him. But if bow, then
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  follow him. And the people answered him, not
• 43:04
  a word. Then Elijah said unto the people, I,
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  even I only remain a prophet of the Lord, but
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  Baal's prophets are 450 men. Let them therefore
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  give us two bullocks. Let them choose one bullock
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  for themselves and cut it into pieces and lay
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  it on the wood. And put no fire under it, and
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  I will dress the other bullock and lay it on
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  the wood and put no fire under it. next and call
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  you on the name of your gods and I will call
• 43:30
  you on the name of the Lord and the God that's
• 43:35
  answered by fire let him be God and all the people
• 43:37
  answered and say it is well spoken right in this
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  case there is no teaching right in that sense
• 43:44
  but what we observe is that he was providing
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  evidence to them by signs I want us to say that
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  God is God right God is God so that's a demonstration
• 43:57
  demonstration so we can say that in apologia
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  right in explaining the demonstration of the
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  spirits okay the demonstration of the spirits
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  can aid in our explanation of the gospel or will
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  aid us in our explanation of the gospel the demonstration
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  of the spirits so you are teaching someone about
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  jesus and you have preached to the person and
• 44:24
  you call the person and say, can I pray with
• 44:25
  you? You hold the person's hand and the person
• 44:28
  receives instant healing. So the demonstration
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  of the spirit comes with, can hear those or will
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  hear those in the explanation of the gospel,
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  in our prologue. Good. Now let's go back to 1
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  Peter 3, 15. Let's go back to that first Peter,
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  which is our key scripture. It says, was sanctifying
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  the Lord in your hearts. Now let's talk about
• 44:58
  sanctifying the Lord in our hearts, right? Santification,
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  I don't know. What does this mean? It is simply
• 45:05
  to set the Lord aside, is a form of a consecration,
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  right? So what this means is that above all,
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  right? There is a place. where you have a concentration
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  that's any time you are ready to give an apology,
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  an explanation, an answer about the gospel. So
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  again, let me say it. Being ready to give an
• 45:34
  answer about the gospel is concentration and
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  is sanctification. You are sanctifying yourself.
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  Being ready always to give an answer about the
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  message of the gospel is your concentration,
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  is your sanctification. It means you are set
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  aside. It means all the ideologies in this world.
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  You are set aside that when you are called, when
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  you are asked, you are ready to give. So that
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  is consecration. Because that is why I say, but
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  sanctify the Lord in your hearts. In today's
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  world, you say the Lord has a special place in
• 46:10
  my heart. He has a special place that if you
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  just touch any wrong doctrine, I would be kind
• 46:17
  to explain to you that you are not representing
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  God well in your teaching. So it means that you
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  are ready. You are ready. It's not being apprehensive,
• 46:29
  but being ready. You are just ready to teach
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  someone. You are ready for someone's knowledge
• 46:34
  to increase and come to faith. So that sanctification
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  there means when you are able to give an explanation,
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  It means you are putting yourself in a state
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  of consecration. Now, it matches with Isaiah
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  8, verse 13. So we can go to Isaiah 8, verse
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  13. Isaiah 8, verse 13. It says, sanctify the
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  Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your fear,
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  and let him be your dread. Sanctify the Lord
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  of hosts himself. Now, this is a situation. where
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  they were facing enemies. And it says, sanctify
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  the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your
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  dread. So it means that you hold on. Now go to
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  verse 20. Let me read them together. Verse 20.
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  It says, so the law unto the testimony, if they
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  speak not according to the words, it is because
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  there is no light in them. If we read it a little
• 47:38
  bit. me open them from my scriptures then we
• 47:41
  can get a little bit of a context of what is
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  happening there and then we can build on that
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  so it's like they're facing uh isa 8 sorry let's
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  open it quickly all right good so if you read
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  from verse Verse one, so the Lord said unto me,
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  take thee a great school, a great rule, and write
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  it in a man's pen, consigning Melchaleh as bash.
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  And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record
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  Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of, the
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  name is there, right? Verse three said, I went
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  unto the prophetess and she conceived. Now this
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  is in a situation of distress, actually, in Israel,
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  right? It's in a situation. of distress. Of course
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  we know Isaiah was talking about where they were
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  in distress. Now verse 7 says, now therefore
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  be you the Lord bring upon thee the waters of
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  the river and the waters of the river strong
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  and many even the king of Assyria and all is
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  glory and he shall come up over all the channels
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  and go over all the banks and he shall pass through
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  Judah he shall overflow and go over and go over
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  he shall reach even to the neck of the outstretched.
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  Right so the whole context here right is Israel
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  right being in distress Israel being in exile
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  and this is Isaiah prophesying and verse from
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  verse 11 says for the Lord spake thus to me with
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  a strong hand and instructed me that I should
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  not walk in the way of these people saying saying
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  not a confederacy to all them to whom these people
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  shall say a confederacy neither fear their fear
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  nor be afraid was sanctified the Lord right so
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  it's like holding on to the God's testimony in
• 49:35
  a circumstance right holding on to God's testimony
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  in a circumstance if you keep reading it says
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  and it shall be for a sanctuary but for I shall
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  be for a sanctuary but for a stone of stumbling
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  and a rock of offense to both the house of Israel
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  and for a jinn and for its net to the inhabitants
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  of Jerusalem and many among them shall stumble
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  and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken
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  bite of the testimonies to seal the law among
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  my disciples so it's mainly emphasizing if people
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  set aside right sanctify the Lord our voice himself
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  and letting be your fear so the fear here right
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  is talking about reverencing God in a circumstance
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  okay so reverencing God in a circumstance so
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  we can say that to be ready to give an account
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  of the gospel is actually a reverence to God
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  in that circumstance. So be ready to give an
• 50:34
  account and explain the teaching and say this
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  is what the scripture says is actually reverence
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  to God. So if you want to reverence God, if you
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  want to honor God, if you want to fear God in
• 50:47
  the words of Isaiah is that you are always willing
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  to give an account. Now let's now see, the next
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  thing is, why do we need apologetics? Is it just
• 51:00
  for the fun of it? Is it just to show that I
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  know Bible? No, definitely not. Definitely not.
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  Why do we need apologetics? That's the next subheading.
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  Why should I be so engrossed in the scriptures
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  that I can explain the scriptures from Genesis
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  to Malachi and to Revelation talking about the
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  message of God? Why? Why is it important? Why
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  is it important? The first thing is that a generation
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  would rise. A new generation would rise. Or I
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  think I wrote it there, a new generation will
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  always rise. A new generation will always rise.
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  Today you have, I mean, let's even use the scientific
• 51:46
  way of saying it. You have Gen Z, right? After
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  Gen Z will be done, you have Gen Alpha, right?
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  It means that new people would come. Right? And
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  they will come, a new generation will always
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  rise. Just like the children of Israel are the
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  new generation that knew not the law or what
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  God has done. And that is why they were instructed,
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  write it down. Let the stones be there. Let the
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  book be here. Let the statues be there. Why?
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  So that even before you say you want to teach,
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  your children will do what? They will ask, why
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  are we doing this? Right? Why are we doing this?
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  So a new generation will always rise. Now we
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  are a new generation. This generation is totally
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  different from mine. In my generation, I mean,
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  I'm still very young. I think the way I'm saying
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  it is looking as if I'm old. But being in, let's
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  say, in my 20s, let's wait. I think we can say
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  that now, right? Being in my 20s, you can say
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  that now, right? Sometimes I used to feel myself
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  still very young. Now, in my own 20s, Which,
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  of course, even before my 20s, the zeal and passion
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  we have for God, I beg to say that is different
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  from this generation. I really do beg to say
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  that the zeal that we have, this generation looks
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  a little bit cold. I'm sorry to say. Now we didn't
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  have all the revelation. We just had one thing.
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  Jesus followed. That's it. We were reading all
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  manner of books. We fell into the ones that are
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  good. We came out. We fell into the ones that
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  are good. We held on to it. So we fell into the
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  ones that are bad. We came out. The ones that
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  are dangerous. Then one thing we held on to this
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  one. Right? In my own time, they don't, they
• 53:53
  don't compare you to come to church. You want
• 53:55
  to be in church. Like they don't have to, you
• 53:59
  know, you have to save money. They don't tell
• 54:01
  you to save money. You trick. It's not a joke.
• 54:05
  We trick from Goyeli to Fuwa. They are here,
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  at least people that were here. And it's not
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  here we started. We started from far back home.
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  where you go and carry the speaker with your
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  head. I'm not saying that you should not desire
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  comfort in this time, but when it's not available,
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  then stretch. Stretch. So a generation will come.
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  In fact, the way we did, you know, now we're
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  saying, okay, rich canonicals, we're trying to
• 54:34
  push each other. Some of us came here three months
• 54:38
  in Cyprus to down the Bible. I'm not kidding.
• 54:41
  What were you doing? You go to school, you go
• 54:44
  to church, you come back home. Where? No club,
• 54:47
  nothing. They don't do anything. No social activities.
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  We're sitting down. So sometimes I try to understand
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  the zeal. So it means that in this generation,
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  we need to do what? To teach the zeal of my father's
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  house. Right? We need to do what? We need to
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  teach the zeal of God's house. We need to teach
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  it again. I remember sometimes we were going
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  to meet in Pastor Frey's house. That time, now
• 55:15
  the transfer system is very good in Cyprus. right
• 55:17
  we have class now that time going early boss
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  will stop at seven seven thirty and we'll have
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  meeting in pacifist house in probably in other
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  coin or yenikent area and we are living in merits
• 55:30
  i know some of you two are doing that tricks
• 55:32
  now so we'll get bishop will carry a guitar we'll
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  be singing and be trekking till we get to merits
• 55:40
  but some people got started knowing us that these
• 55:41
  people always come back playing guitar and all
• 55:43
  of that and I'm saying that this thing did not
• 55:46
  started here what happened here in this is because
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  we already had the zeal and the truth about the
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  matter is another generation will rise truly
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  not maybe because it's not about zeal or maybe
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  because it's a generation where is the internet
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  generation every gospel everything is online
• 56:06
  right your short message is the someone that
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  works for you you know attention span all of
• 56:13
  the it therefore means that we need to explain
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  the zeal again of my father's house to us right
• 56:21
  so generations will come and things will change
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  but one thing that must be consistent that we
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  must keep emphasizing the importance of the gospel
• 56:32
  we must keep emphasizing now it's better i don't
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  know their generation i'm praying for them you
• 56:38
  know trusting god That is why it is not wrong
• 56:42
  for them to be praying now. So that when they
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  grow, they'll say, daddy, what is these tongues?
• 56:48
  Then we can teach, right? Why do we go to church?
• 56:52
  Then we can explain, right? Because that is the
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  way they will be preserved. So generations will
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  come. Generations will come. And things will
• 57:02
  change. Many systems will change. So we must
• 57:05
  be ready. Right, I think it was first was saying
• 57:09
  past I was asking about some questions that didn't
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  come out From the scriptures stretch on that.
• 57:15
  It is not a context of Paul or Peter But yet
• 57:20
  we have to from the wisdom of the scripture answer
• 57:22
  those questions is the same explain Just like
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  pastor Fred pastor Victor did The bunting or
• 57:30
  the feminist and all those ideologies and those
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  supremacists and all of that. We must be able
• 57:35
  from the scripture to explain what is the will
• 57:39
  of God. So, Apologia, therefore, is for us to
• 57:43
  be ready for energy. Now, the word of God, the
• 57:47
  scripture, is transgenerational. You must acknowledge
• 57:50
  that. So, whether you are A, B, C, D, E, F, depending
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  on the category they put you, or you are the
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  one that live wilderness and you are the one
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  that is entering Canaan, it doesn't matter. The
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  word of God is transgenerational. Therefore,
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  it will stand. So it is for any generation. Any
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  generation. Therefore, that's why we have to
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  repeat it. We don't have to update it. Those
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  ones that are trying to make it the language
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  of today, try to make it, the Lord is my friend.
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  We. They are putting in, the Lord is my shepherd.
• 58:26
  They are changing it to something else. There
• 58:30
  are translations, if you touch. Yes. They are
• 58:35
  giving things like that. So you have to avoid
• 58:38
  all of those things. You don't need to keep it
• 58:42
  the way it is. So we must keep it our soul. That
• 58:44
  is one. A new generation will come and they deserve
• 58:47
  thoughtful answers. Now you must know that you
• 58:50
  owe the generation to come a thoughtful answer
• 58:52
  about the scripture. You owe them that. We owe
• 58:55
  them because it's instruction from God. We owe
• 58:58
  them that. You will give back to children. That's
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  another thing. Your kids will come. They will
• 59:03
  ask you. they will tell you somebody told me
• 59:05
  outside that I can be a boy and a girl at the
• 59:08
  same time and you will need to explain that and
• 59:11
  you will tell me with scripture if you are not
• 59:13
  grounded in the scripture so we must know that
• 59:18
  generations will come will give back the children
• 59:20
  and we owe them one thing that the word of God
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  will not be scarce in our generation the word
• 59:27
  of God will not be scarce in our generation yeah
• 59:30
  so the next one is Reason why we need apologetic
• 59:33
  teacher, there are some sincere teachers that
• 59:37
  needs to be corrected. And I mean the word sincere
• 59:42
  teachers that mean to be corrected. Now, sincerity
• 59:45
  does not excuse wrong doctrine, okay? Sincerity
• 59:49
  does not excuse wrong doctrine. There are some
• 59:52
  sincere teachers that needs to be corrected.
• 59:55
  Sincerity does not excuse wrong doctrine at all.
• 59:59
  It doesn't. Wrong doctrine is wrong doctrine.
• 1:00:02
  Whether you know it, whether you don't know it,
• 1:00:03
  wrong doctrine is wrong doctrine. But accepting
• 1:00:07
  correction is honorable. Yes. But accepting correction
• 1:00:12
  is honorable. It's honorable. Accepting correction
• 1:00:19
  is honorable. For the first one, Deuteronomy
• 1:00:26
  6 .20 still stands for a new generation will
• 1:00:29
  rise. The 206 -20 still stands for that, for
• 1:00:32
  the first one. The second one, Acts 18, verse
• 1:00:35
  24 to 28, Galatians 2, 11 to 14. For the second
• 1:00:44
  one, some T, some synthesizers that needs to
• 1:00:46
  be corrected, Acts 18, verse 28 to 24, 24 to
• 1:00:51
  28, sorry, and Galatians 2, 11 to 14. Acts 2
• 1:01:01
  Timothy 3, 16. 2 Timothy 3, 16. Now in Acts 18,
• 1:01:08
  verse 24 to 28, you can see a sincere teacher,
• 1:01:12
  Apollos, okay? He was sincere, teaching, okay?
• 1:01:17
  Those are sincere. That's a sincere teacher.
• 1:01:21
  He was eloquent in the world. So eloquent is
• 1:01:23
  also not revelation, okay? Eloquent is not revelation.
• 1:01:26
  So he was sincere in what he was teaching. but
• 1:01:29
  it was not accurate it was sincere and it was
• 1:01:33
  eloquent yet not accurate sincere and eloquent
• 1:01:38
  yet not accurate we know the scripture so we're
• 1:01:40
  not going to read it and we'll move please don't
• 1:01:43
  let my time disappear and reduce just bring it
• 1:01:46
  back thank you all right so let's read peter's
• 1:01:50
  case calatians 2 verse 11 to 14 let's read peter's
• 1:01:53
  case and when peter was come to aunt george i
• 1:01:56
  was stood in to the face because it was to be
• 1:01:59
  blamed for before the starting before that starting
• 1:02:04
  came from James he did eat with the Gentiles
• 1:02:08
  but when they were calm he withdrew and separated
• 1:02:11
  himself fearing them which were of circumcision
• 1:02:14
  now go back go back to go back to uh that scripture
• 1:02:21
  let me see uh go back to the first verse that
• 1:02:26
  I that I mentioned, right? Galatians 2 .11. Now
• 1:02:29
  look at it. He said, I withstood him. It means
• 1:02:31
  that Paul, right, approached Peter. Why? Because
• 1:02:36
  he was to be blamed. What was to be blamed? I
• 1:02:38
  think some transitionists put it very well, that
• 1:02:41
  he stood condemned, right? What that means, we
• 1:02:45
  are going to dig deeper into it. It means that,
• 1:02:48
  let me tell you what that means, a four time.
• 1:02:50
  It means that Peter provided evidences that Gentiles,
• 1:03:01
  Peter, I'm saying Peter not Paul, are part of
• 1:03:04
  what God is doing. Peter practiced that, okay,
• 1:03:09
  and that is why he hurts with the Gentiles, and
• 1:03:11
  I'll say that with them. Do you get? Now, when
• 1:03:14
  someone else came, some circumcision party, Peter
• 1:03:20
  now stood before them. I saved the evidence of
• 1:03:25
  what he did is wrong. That is what it means.
• 1:03:29
  So Peter stood before them as if he did the wrong
• 1:03:32
  thing. Like I presented evidence to you. We're
• 1:03:35
  gonna see it when it comes to Apologia. This
• 1:03:37
  thing I'm teaching is very important for Apologia.
• 1:03:39
  You know why? Because one of the things that
• 1:03:43
  would happen is that Apologia is actually to
• 1:03:49
  make people, go back to the scripture. You just
• 1:03:51
  put that, I need that word blame there. Apology
• 1:03:54
  is actually to make people to stand blamed. Actually,
• 1:04:00
  it's also another word is ashamed. Now it is
• 1:04:03
  not to shame somebody. It is not to insult somebody
• 1:04:06
  because when I explain spiritual, I'm not saying
• 1:04:08
  to insult you, right? We're gonna see that is
• 1:04:11
  either blamed or ashamed. You can use either
• 1:04:13
  of the two because they refer to the same thing.
• 1:04:15
  It means that you have provided all evidences
• 1:04:17
  that this is true. Someone now comes and begin
• 1:04:22
  to say something. And you now feel, ah, this
• 1:04:26
  thing is not true. You now felt this thing is
• 1:04:28
  not true for all the evidences that you provided.
• 1:04:33
  This is what happened to him here. So he felt
• 1:04:35
  like, ah, maybe all these things that I'm teaching
• 1:04:37
  is not true because some people came. That is
• 1:04:42
  why Paul had to stand before him and say, no,
• 1:04:45
  there is more than sufficient evidence. So the
• 1:04:48
  things that you did and you teach, there is more
• 1:04:52
  than sufficient evidence. So you should not stand
• 1:04:54
  blamed. Why should you stand blamed? Why should
• 1:04:56
  you stand as if the evidences and the life you
• 1:04:59
  live is not what Christ expected? So he said,
• 1:05:04
  no, you cannot stand blamed. You cannot stand
• 1:05:06
  condemned. But when we are preaching, right?
• 1:05:11
  We're going to come to that. When we are preaching
• 1:05:12
  and we are speaking to someone, What we want
• 1:05:15
  the person to do is to see that amidst all their
• 1:05:18
  evidences, the scripture supersedes. Right? And
• 1:05:24
  that will be that to show them that this evidence
• 1:05:28
  from the scripture supersedes so that they can
• 1:05:30
  discard their evidences. We're going to see that
• 1:05:31
  even from tomorrow. So what we'll see here is
• 1:05:34
  that they are sincere. Now, is Peter a sincere
• 1:05:36
  teacher? Yes. Is Apollo a sincere teacher? Yes.
• 1:05:39
  They are not doing it for their bellies. They're
• 1:05:42
  not doing it for their belly. That's what I mean
• 1:05:44
  by a sincere teacher. And they are also receiving
• 1:05:47
  what? Correction. They're also receiving correction.
• 1:05:50
  The next one, which I think for this one we will
• 1:05:52
  see it's correct. The next one is false teachers,
• 1:05:55
  mockers, and scoffers. Why we need apologetics?
• 1:05:59
  False teachers, scoffers, mockers. False teachers,
• 1:06:07
  mockers, and scoffers. must be answered so that
• 1:06:11
  others are not deceived. They must be answered
• 1:06:16
  so that other people will not be deceived. So
• 1:06:20
  you cannot allow somebody to just be saying something.
• 1:06:23
  Now, I'm not saying online. Please don't quote
• 1:06:25
  me. I'm still talking about in an environment.
• 1:06:28
  This has not gotten to that, right? So we are
• 1:06:30
  somewhere and someone is teaching what is not
• 1:06:32
  correct. I can approach them and correct them.
• 1:06:37
  I said again that false teachers, mockers, and
• 1:06:39
  scobards must be answered so that others are
• 1:06:41
  not deceived. Right? Romans 16, 17 to 20. Romans
• 1:06:49
  16, 17 to 20. Now I beseech you brethren, mark
• 1:06:54
  them which cause divisions and offence, contrite
• 1:06:57
  to the doctrine ye have received, and avoid them.
• 1:07:00
  Next. For they that are such serve not our Lord
• 1:07:03
  Jesus Christ. Did you see? This group is different
• 1:07:05
  from Peter and Apollos. Are we together? This
• 1:07:09
  group is different from Peter and Apollos. He
• 1:07:11
  said those, these ones, they are not serving
• 1:07:13
  our Lord Jesus Christ. Peter and Apollos, they
• 1:07:14
  are serving the Lord Jesus. But their own belly,
• 1:07:17
  you see, and by good words, words, hold on to
• 1:07:21
  that good words, and fresh pitches, they deceive
• 1:07:24
  the hearts of the simple. Verse 19. For your
• 1:07:30
  obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad
• 1:07:32
  therefore on your behalf But yet I would have
• 1:07:35
  you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning
• 1:07:38
  evil means talking to them about this people
• 1:07:41
  and God of peace shall bruise Satan under your
• 1:07:44
  feet shortly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
• 1:07:47
  be with you. Amen So the instruction is to these
• 1:07:50
  people that cause division. How do they cause
• 1:07:52
  division because division by first pitches first
• 1:07:57
  pitches, you know Let me use the word of Pasto.
• 1:08:04
  They use literature. Maybe, I don't know, I'm
• 1:08:10
  trying to find the word for it. You know, they
• 1:08:12
  put words together, right? They put words together.
• 1:08:15
  I don't want to say the very popular one so that
• 1:08:17
  it doesn't look like Aspire to Paspire, you know,
• 1:08:20
  those kind of a thing. Those kind of very sweet
• 1:08:23
  words, right? They bring it together. Now, again.
• 1:08:27
  They are using the scripture to do this thing.
• 1:08:31
  They are using the scripture to do this. So first
• 1:08:34
  speeches, speeches are very attractive, very
• 1:08:37
  attractive, right? This is what they are doing,
• 1:08:41
  good words to lure people away. So now go to
• 1:08:46
  1 Peter 3 verse, 1 Peter 3 verse 16, let's see
• 1:08:55
  what is there. Okay. He said having a good conscience.
• 1:09:03
  Now from verse 15, we already have established
• 1:09:05
  what is happening in verse 15, right? Good verse
• 1:09:08
  15, let's read it quickly then we'll come to
• 1:09:09
  16. But I'm sorry, the Lord, the God in your
• 1:09:12
  heart and be ready always to give an answer to
• 1:09:14
  every man that ask it, that ask get you a reason,
• 1:09:17
  right? Of the hope that is in you with meekness
• 1:09:20
  and fear. The next one, having a good conscience.
• 1:09:23
  Now see, having a good conscience that whereas
• 1:09:28
  they speak evil of you, as evildoers means that
• 1:09:32
  in their evidence you you are evildoer. Now what
• 1:09:36
  will happen to them? They may be ashamed that
• 1:09:39
  falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
• 1:09:45
  They may be ashamed that falsely accuse your
• 1:09:49
  good conversation in Christ. So don't forget
• 1:09:51
  the conversation is coming from sanctify the
• 1:09:54
  Lord to give an answer right? So your answer
• 1:09:58
  right that they may be ashamed that firstly accuse
• 1:10:01
  you of your answer in Christ's okay the answer
• 1:10:05
  you are giving them they will be ashamed now
• 1:10:07
  what is our shame our shame is able to put them
• 1:10:09
  to shame no it simply means that by evidences
• 1:10:13
  what I explained right all evidences that you
• 1:10:16
  will present they will see that this one that
• 1:10:20
  we are holding is not the evidence of Christ
• 1:10:24
  do we get it put more scriptures put more scriptures
• 1:10:28
  where we need to put them. Luke 3 .16, let's
• 1:10:33
  just write them down, then we'll read them. You
• 1:10:36
  will see the opposite of ashamed, right? This
• 1:10:40
  ashamed that they use here. You will see the
• 1:10:42
  opposite of it soon when we read the scriptures.
• 1:10:45
  Luke 3 .16, 2 Corinthians 10 verse 8, Philippians
• 1:10:50
  1 verse 20. Luke 3 verse 16, 2 Corinthians 10
• 1:10:55
  verse 8. Philippians 1 verse 20, sorry. So let's
• 1:11:01
  go to Luke 3 verse 16, please. Luke 3 verse Luke,
• 1:11:09
  not second, okay. All right, so in these scriptures
• 1:11:15
  you will see, and then as I send on to them,
• 1:11:18
  I did, sorry, is that a scripture I need? That's
• 1:11:26
  quite interesting. Where's the 2 Corinthians
• 1:11:28
  10 .8? Let's go to that one. Let's see. Luke
• 1:11:33
  3 .15. Use the hearts. Just go to 2 Corinthians
• 1:11:36
  10 verse 8. For though I should boast somewhat
• 1:11:41
  more of our authority, which the Lord had given
• 1:11:45
  us for edification, not for your destruction,
• 1:11:49
  I should not be ashamed, right? This is the same
• 1:11:53
  word there, right? Though I should boast somewhat
• 1:11:55
  of our authority, which he had given us for edification,
• 1:12:01
  right? And not for your destruction, I should
• 1:12:05
  not be ashamed. It means that by the evidence
• 1:12:08
  of knowing the authority God has given me, right,
• 1:12:12
  it is for your building, lest I will be ashamed.
• 1:12:17
  Let's be ashamed. The next scriptures are Philippians
• 1:12:20
  1 -20. That's the one that will give us this
• 1:12:24
  quickly. According to any expectation and my
• 1:12:33
  hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed. So really
• 1:12:38
  according to the ns expectation and my hope that's
• 1:12:41
  in nothing I shall be ashamed but with all boldness
• 1:12:45
  as always and so now also Christ shall be magnified
• 1:12:49
  in My body whether is be life or by dead. So
• 1:12:54
  look at it is it that's in nothing I shall be
• 1:12:57
  ashamed but what's What's that with all boldness?
• 1:13:02
  So it means that when I come to teach and I explain
• 1:13:07
  and I give an answer pertaining the power and
• 1:13:11
  demonstration of God and the suffering of Christ
• 1:13:13
  and his glory and his ascension in me, when I
• 1:13:17
  give evidences to it, those false teachers will
• 1:13:19
  lose their boldness. Do you get it? It is Sean
• 1:13:24
  profane babbling, right? You know there are scriptures,
• 1:13:28
  Sean profane, that is it. So we would not, they
• 1:13:30
  will be shut up, right? They will lose their
• 1:13:34
  boldness. So it's not like, you know, they'll
• 1:13:37
  come out, they have boldness to teach, right?
• 1:13:40
  But when they see sufficient evidence, like Elimas
• 1:13:45
  saw the teachings and the miracles, right? I
• 1:13:49
  feel it did, right? And what happened? It dropped.
• 1:13:54
  It dropped, right? So what happened is that when
• 1:13:56
  sufficient evidence is presented, people who
• 1:13:59
  are false prophets will lose their boldness.
• 1:14:03
  Muckers and scoffers will lose their boldness
• 1:14:06
  when evidence is beyond reasonable that as we
• 1:14:09
  teach so of course uh the scripture we put there
• 1:14:14
  is sufficient right to take now first emotive
• 1:14:17
  four verse 16 you can add it you can add that
• 1:14:19
  to it first emotive four verses said take heed
• 1:14:22
  unto thyself and unto thy doctrine continuing
• 1:14:25
  them for in doing this thou shall save thyself
• 1:14:28
  and them that hear thee so one of the things
• 1:14:32
  why we have to teach and explain scripture apologetically
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  is that we will save people we will save people
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  we will snatch people from the hands of the enemy
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  right we will snatch people from the hands of
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  the enemy so that's one of the reasons why we
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  have to explain so that we can save you know
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  the people from wrong doctrine Good, the first
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  one is that there will be persecution and you
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  need boldness to speak. Okay, there will be persecution
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  and you need boldness to speak. Now we've seen
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  that in the case of Stephen, we've seen that
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  in the case of Apostle Paul, right? We've seen
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  that in both cases and in all the lives of the
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  disciples, we've realized that when there is
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  persecution, there is always an answer. for the
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  gospel so you cannot be persecuted and they ask
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  you why are you being persecuted and you cannot
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  give a comprehensive answer of why you have been
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  persecuted so persecution will come and you must
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  give an answer right you must give an answer
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  first Peter 3 17 the first Peter just go to verse
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  17 first Peter just go to the verse 17 of that
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  first Peter he said it is better if the will
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  of God be so that you suffer for well doing than
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  for evil doing. What is well doing here? To give
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  an answer for the gospel, right? Well doing here
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  is to give an explanation for the gospel and
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  if you suffer for that you say let it be so.
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  It therefore means that persecution or giving
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  an answer for the gospel would come with that
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  or persecution will require you to explain further.
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  what Christ has done. So you need boldness. You
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  need boldness to teach, to explain why you have
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  been, you know, some will say, at least in the
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  course of it, a number of people will be saved.
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  But you have to preach the right message. In
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  the course of being persecuted, a number of people
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  will be saved. I think Masfredo was telling me
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  that someone went to debunk, you know, some religious,
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  you know, false teachings and in the place of
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  having a conversation over the doctrine of a
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  particular religion and our religion and our
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  faiths rather two people give their lives means
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  two people believed and they followed Christ
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  on the sports and within that confinement that
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  environment they killed the person who gave the
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  defense right that's a game painful but again
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  right that's a game Paul was saying, for me to
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  leave is Christ, right, to die is gain. That
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  is how much painful is it? Two people on the
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  spot. That is great, right? But how did he do
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  it? Sufficient evidence so that these people
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  became ashamed and they didn't know how to respond
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  than to kill. Sufficient evidence. If you tell
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  that man if he was alive I asked him would you
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  like this kind of story I bet you he will say
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  no matter how painful I think is a good one so
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  persecution will come and it is the reason why
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  we need sufficient evidence right sufficient
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  evidence you know let me let me put it funny
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  if you want to die for the gospel die for the
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  correct one like make sure what you are teaching
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  is the correct one is what dying for right so
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  be sure So that's why we need to pay attention
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  to these. So just put scriptures, Acts 7, Stephen's
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  story again, is another one, Acts 7 in that context.
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  Acts 4, 29 to 30, Acts 4, 7, just put chapter
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  7, chapter 7 is fine, across all chapter 7. Then
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  Acts 4, 29 to 30, that you will grind unto thy
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  servant, with all boldness they might be able
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  to do. That is why it's apologia when you say,
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  should we listen to God or we should obey man?
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  They cannot say obey man. They cannot say obey
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  man. They know that you should listen to God.
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  You should do what God requires you to do. So
• 1:19:09
  that's an apologetic approach to approach people
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  who are hard -hearted. Now, the fifth one, which
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  is the one we are going to deal with tomorrow.
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  very well, we're going to deal with this tomorrow
• 1:19:21
  very well, is we need apologetics because of
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  groups that are misrepresenting the Bible. Put
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  it that way. We need apologetics because of groups
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  that are misrepresenting the Bible. Now, it is
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  different from, you see, if you are false prophets,
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  right, it's okay. One here, there. But when they
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  become an organization, it's more deadly. If
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  you have one or two prophets, one by one, we
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  can hold them, right? We can just share ourselves
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  here and we can go and teach. But when it becomes
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  an organization, it becomes a very deep problem,
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  right? So, and the influence is spreading. So
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  we need this, right? Because of this group that
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  represents the... the scriptures now the interesting
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  thing is that most groups want to found a foundation
• 1:20:19
  in the bible like everybody wants to use the
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  foundation as the bible like you want to start
• 1:20:24
  your conversation your story is from the bible
• 1:20:27
  your it's either you say oh the bible is corrupt
• 1:20:31
  then you build your own or you say after the
• 1:20:33
  bible we collect another revelation why is it
• 1:20:37
  the bible it shows the that shows the authenticity
• 1:20:39
  of the bible if it's not authentic if you use
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  or roomil as book, it will not be a problem.
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  We're not even gonna discuss anybody that did
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  not touch the Bible here. But if you touch the
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  Bible, we will discuss you. Yes, that is it.
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  Because you pick the Bible as the authenticity,
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  and we all know the authenticity of the Bible,
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  and you build a wrong doctrine on it. So as a
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  result, those groups needs to be touched upon
• 1:21:06
  gradually, because when you go out, those are
• 1:21:09
  the people you meet. Now, if you meet, if you
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  meet, a nominal person, right? The person doesn't
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  have arguments. They don't have much, right?
• 1:21:19
  You are too loaded, right? So even you, you're
• 1:21:23
  trying to just put them within Romans 10 and
• 1:21:25
  John 3 .16, right? You're not going to bend hell
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  to him, you know? The uniqueness and the appearance
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  of, you're not going there. You're just giving
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  them, you're giving them little. But you see
• 1:21:37
  this group. They went to study that Ben Elohim
• 1:21:41
  and interpreted it wrongly. And they gave it
• 1:21:44
  to people to swallow. That is unfaithfulness.
• 1:21:49
  Okay? So these people that are unfaithful with
• 1:21:52
  the Bible, they are unfaithful. That one we cannot
• 1:21:55
  condone, right? We need apologetics for those
• 1:21:57
  ones because they are not propagating the Bible.
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  Now under them, let's quickly touch to... We'll
• 1:22:05
  touch one or two there about... So under this
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  five, can you just put A, right? Just put A.
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  Those who assume we are same. Those that assume
• 1:22:13
  that we are same, right? There are people who
• 1:22:15
  assume that we are same, we are the same. You
• 1:22:17
  know, we serve the same God. And this one is
• 1:22:20
  common in this environment. Put at 14 .11. At
• 1:22:25
  14 .11, let me show you. People who thought apostles
• 1:22:29
  were same with them. And when the people saw
• 1:22:32
  what Paul had done, They lifted up their voices
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  saying, in the speech of Laconia, the gods are
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  come down to us in the likeness of men. They
• 1:22:44
  assume that it is the God that they have been
• 1:22:46
  serving, right? That appear to them in the person
• 1:22:52
  of Apostle Paul. Right? So there are people who,
• 1:22:58
  when you manifest or you do something, they'll
• 1:23:00
  say, oh, we are the same. We are serving. Now
• 1:23:03
  look at verse 12. Go to verse 12. And they called
• 1:23:05
  Barnabas Jupiter. And they called Paul's Macurius.
• 1:23:10
  Because he was the chief speaker, next, then
• 1:23:13
  the priest of Jupiter. Can you see? They called
• 1:23:16
  a service immediately, which was before the acidity,
• 1:23:20
  brought oxen and gallants onto. We are not the
• 1:23:23
  same. It's something else. Let's see how the
• 1:23:25
  apostles responded. no no come back to the previous
• 1:23:28
  scriptures and brought garlands onto the gates
• 1:23:30
  and would have done sacrifice to the people right
• 1:23:34
  with the people rather next which when the apostles
• 1:23:37
  them when the apostles brother buds and poor
• 1:23:40
  head of they rent their clothes and ran in among
• 1:23:44
  the people crying out go to the next verse now
• 1:23:47
  that rents in and they just are they just like
• 1:23:50
  they what would i say they just spoil the show
• 1:23:51
  there you know if is a if they were not believers
• 1:23:54
  let's say they were not apostles right the moment
• 1:23:58
  you see that they have made you influencer right
• 1:24:01
  what will you do you're gonna follow us right
• 1:24:04
  you gotta follow us and before you know everywhere
• 1:24:08
  the city they've made you the king jupiter and
• 1:24:10
  more mercurius but look at their response and
• 1:24:13
  saying sas why do you these things why do you
• 1:24:17
  these things we are also men we are also a man
• 1:24:21
  of light passions with you and preach unto you,
• 1:24:25
  that ye should turn from this thing, this same
• 1:24:28
  thing that you are doing, that you want to do
• 1:24:29
  unto us, unto the living God, which made the
• 1:24:32
  heaven and the earth and the sea and all the
• 1:24:34
  things that are therein. Who in the past suffered
• 1:24:37
  all nations to walk in their ways, nevertheless
• 1:24:40
  he left not himself without weakness, in that
• 1:24:43
  he did good and gave us rain from heaven and
• 1:24:46
  full seasons, filling our hearts with food and
• 1:24:50
  gladness. And with this saying, Scarce restrained
• 1:24:55
  they the people, that they had not done sacrifice
• 1:24:58
  unto them. And there came Tita, certain words,
• 1:25:03
  Jews, from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded
• 1:25:05
  the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him
• 1:25:10
  out of the city, supposing he was dead. So, of
• 1:25:13
  course, you know what the Jews do, right? This
• 1:25:14
  is their style. They look for a crowd, right?
• 1:25:18
  They look for a crowd, and within the crowd,
• 1:25:21
  right, they create a rebellion. They create a
• 1:25:25
  rebellion. They create a rebellion that creates
• 1:25:29
  a problem for the apostles. So they couldn't
• 1:25:32
  preach. Now if those Jews were not there, maybe
• 1:25:34
  they would have sat down and they would have
• 1:25:36
  taught them continuously. We have the ones that
• 1:25:39
  they were saying to the unknown God. And from
• 1:25:42
  there, we're going to see that much more. I think
• 1:25:44
  very closely now we might have to see that. So
• 1:25:47
  we have people who might find unifiers, but there
• 1:25:51
  are no unifiers. Is it that you're here or you're
• 1:25:54
  not here? So we have that. Now one of the things
• 1:25:57
  we must convince them of, convince them, one
• 1:26:00
  of the things we must convince them of is that
• 1:26:03
  although, right, humanity is the handwork of
• 1:26:14
  God, right? Humanity, all of us being humans,
• 1:26:17
  right? We are created, right? Humanity is the
• 1:26:20
  handwork of God, right? Means God created humans,
• 1:26:23
  means created Adam and from Adam we are procreated
• 1:26:26
  and as a result we say God created humanity,
• 1:26:30
  right? God is not the father of all. God is not
• 1:26:38
  the father of all. Although God creates humanity,
• 1:26:43
  right, without whom there will be no breath of
• 1:26:46
  life in any man. God is not the father of all.
• 1:26:54
  God is not the father of all. Acts 17, 24 to
• 1:26:59
  27. Acts 17, 24 to 27. Now you see here, it says,
• 1:27:09
  God that made the world and all things therein,
• 1:27:13
  seeing that his Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth
• 1:27:15
  not in temples made with hands, neither is neither
• 1:27:19
  is worshipped with man's hand as though he needed
• 1:27:23
  anything seeing that he give it to all life and
• 1:27:27
  breath and all things and had made of one blood
• 1:27:32
  all nations of men for to dwell on all the face
• 1:27:35
  of the earth at the time in their times before
• 1:27:39
  appointed and bounds of their habitation right
• 1:27:43
  that they may seek the lord if aptly they might
• 1:27:46
  feel after him and finding though he be not far
• 1:27:51
  from every one of us. So it's talking about God
• 1:27:53
  creating a people within this earth, okay? It's
• 1:27:58
  not saying that he's the father of all. So God
• 1:28:02
  creates, that's why saying that they should seek
• 1:28:04
  the Lord that they might find him. Okay, that
• 1:28:11
  they should seek the Lord that if he's talking
• 1:28:13
  to, if he's talking about that those people that
• 1:28:15
  God created are believers and he's talking about
• 1:28:18
  the creation in Christ, he would not be saying
• 1:28:20
  they should seek the Lord and find him because
• 1:28:23
  they found God. So it was coming from explanation
• 1:28:28
  of a general creation, right? Explaining to those
• 1:28:32
  who say to the unknown God. From that point,
• 1:28:36
  it was coming to explain the gospel to them.
• 1:28:39
  Right? So we can acknowledge that, well, we did
• 1:28:44
  not exist. No man, no person created any man.
• 1:28:46
  God created Adam, and from there, we exist. So
• 1:28:50
  we can agree. But to say that he's the father
• 1:28:53
  of all, no. So he's not the father of all. Neither
• 1:28:56
  is he the God of all. Hallelujah. Neither is
• 1:28:59
  he what? The God of all. He's not the father
• 1:29:01
  of all. He's not the God of all. Everybody knows
• 1:29:05
  their father. Ephesians 2. Ephesians two. Ephesians
• 1:29:13
  two. From verse one. And you hear at quick in
• 1:29:26
  who we are dead in trespasses and sin. When in
• 1:29:29
  the past year worked according to the course
• 1:29:32
  of this world, according to the prince of the
• 1:29:35
  power of air, the spirit that is at work in the
• 1:29:38
  children of disobedience right the spirit that
• 1:29:43
  is at work in children of disobedience so it
• 1:29:47
  means that the children of disobedience in this
• 1:29:49
  world there are people now is this one talking
• 1:29:52
  about believers that have come to believe right
• 1:29:54
  but it simply refers to people who are working
• 1:29:57
  according to a spirit that is not a spirit of
• 1:29:59
  god and therefore god cannot be their father
• 1:30:04
  and neither will he be their God. Now if you
• 1:30:07
  read when Jesus is talking to the Pharisees,
• 1:30:11
  right, it tells them, it says, you know your
• 1:30:14
  father, right, it talks about your father the
• 1:30:15
  devil and his activities from the beginning.
• 1:30:19
  So it means that the source of what they are
• 1:30:21
  doing is from the devil. So when people see us
• 1:30:25
  and say, oh we serve the same God, we serve,
• 1:30:27
  you have to ask them, what do you mean? Tomorrow
• 1:30:30
  we are going to see that. The way people have
• 1:30:31
  used terminology, even salvation, It's worse
• 1:30:35
  these days because even in movies, you'll be
• 1:30:37
  seeing atonement. You'll be seeing salvation.
• 1:30:42
  You'll be seeing deliverance in movies. And this
• 1:30:46
  has become the order of the day. And people are
• 1:30:49
  believing this thing. So we must know that we
• 1:30:52
  are not the same. Now let's look at the second
• 1:30:54
  one. The second group on that is five. Those
• 1:30:59
  who believe Christianity is perverted, right?
• 1:31:03
  or the Christendom is perverted. Those who believe
• 1:31:05
  Christendom is perverted. They literally go after
• 1:31:08
  it and say, in fact, some of them refuse to call
• 1:31:12
  themselves Christians, or they say the Christendom
• 1:31:15
  that we practice, Christianity is perverted.
• 1:31:18
  And the third one is those who believe they are
• 1:31:20
  totally different from us. Those who believe
• 1:31:23
  they are totally different from us. Now, what
• 1:31:29
  is As we close, what is our responsibility? We're
• 1:31:35
  gonna see more of it tomorrow. Our responsibility,
• 1:31:39
  right, towards them. First, it's still love,
• 1:31:42
  right? It's still love, but much more. Much more.
• 1:31:49
  Holding on to the faithfulness and integrity
• 1:31:52
  of God's word in our explanation to them. Holding
• 1:31:57
  on to the... faithfulness and the integrity of
• 1:32:00
  God's Word in our explanation to them. Why did
• 1:32:05
  I say love? Because most of these groups, right,
• 1:32:10
  they actually, they're actually anti or antagonistic
• 1:32:17
  towards the gospel. Clearly antagonistic towards
• 1:32:20
  the gospel. Clearly, what I mean clearly, they
• 1:32:22
  go, I mean, they come and say, this is, you know,
• 1:32:25
  this is not a faith. right so so our job to them
• 1:32:29
  is clearly love and faithfulness in or to the
• 1:32:33
  integrity of God's word so the integrity of God's
• 1:32:38
  word so we'll stop here for today so that we
• 1:32:42
  can continue tomorrow we still have a whole lot
• 1:32:44
  to cover but as we go one thing i want us to
• 1:32:47
  go is to have a mindset that you will study the
• 1:32:51
  scripture sufficiently enough to be able to explain
• 1:32:56
  the message of salvation, that there will be
• 1:32:58
  no subjects, there will be no question, right?
• 1:33:02
  I'm trusting that after this meeting we are going
• 1:33:04
  to prepare a material, I think that's a question
• 1:33:06
  raised that matter at some point in time, that
• 1:33:08
  we're going to prepare materials, right, for
• 1:33:10
  us, that you will have those materials and when
• 1:33:12
  you go out before the person says anything you
• 1:33:16
  know where the person is coming from and in love
• 1:33:19
  you will explain to the person and bring the
• 1:33:22
  person out of darkness into the marvelous line
• 1:33:25
  of price. Hallelujah. Can we begin to pray? We
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  appreciate you being here today. We hope you
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  carry this word with you throughout your week.
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