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Welcome back, God bless everybody and.
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Amen. It's been a while, yeah.
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Yeah, no. And thanks to all those that
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have been listening and for those new people, thank you so
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much for joining us. And before we always start, we.
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Always pray so Amen. Do you want to pray or do you?
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No, I'll do you. OK.
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Thank you, Father, for this opportunity.
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Every time we read your word, you reveal to us greater wisdom
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and it's it shakes us, but in a good way because it's always on
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the pursuit to do the best that we can for you, having faith in
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you, right, because it's what it takes to believe.
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I know all those listening, tuning in also share the
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message, the wisdom that you hear here and you gather also
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share with do not be afraid, be bold.
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We're all brothers and sisters in Christ.
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And we thank you, father, for this opportunity.
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May your presence be here and what we speak about can be a
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notification to those listening to this podcast.
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Amen. Amen.
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All right, so I know last time we finished with the book of
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John. Yes, first John, all of it.
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All of it, yeah. Because we're doing like a
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series of of, of, of John now. The last time was of James.
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That's great, yeah. Nah, man, once I honestly, like,
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I think you've said it before, but I think just reading first
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John, like all the chapters, if someone were to just have that,
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just have that part, like just the book of John, like first
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John, dude, I think that's all you pretty much need.
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Yeah, in the aspect of like, like the fundament, like the
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foundation. Yeah, he does speak about.
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He keeps reminding them, right, Of certain things.
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Yeah. So it's implying that they will
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hear the words that they heard from Christ.
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Yeah. So like, there's nothing wrong
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with theology or none of that. You can study that or whatever
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you want to do, but the gospel itself is like more than enough.
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No, you're right. Absolutely.
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And and so reading all the parts of the book of the Bible is
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great. Yeah.
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You learn more, you understand the commandments more and a much
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greater, you know, understanding.
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So it is important. Yeah, you're right.
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You could literally just read this and and already believe.
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Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely.
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Because. It quite it requires belief, you
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know. Yes, faith, always faith.
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Faith is what helps us overcome everything.
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Exactly. So yeah.
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So today we're going to read Second John.
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I don't know how long this podcast is going to be, but it
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could be either short or long. But we're going to read because
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Second John is a very it's just one chapter, right?
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Yeah, it is 1 chapter but it's deep.
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It is very deep, so if you want I can read or you can read, it
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doesn't matter. Alright, so this is what it
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says. The elder to the elect lady and
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her children whom I love in the truth.
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And not only I, but also all who know the truth because of the
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truth that remains in US and will be with us forever.
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Grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God the Father and
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from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love.
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I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth
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and keeping with a command we have received from the Father.
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So now I ask you, dear lady, not as if I were writing you a new
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command, but one we have had from the beginning, that we love
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one another. This is love that we walk
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according to His commands. This is the command as you have
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heard it from the beginning, that you walk in love.
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Many deceivers have gone out into the world.
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They do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.
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This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
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Watch yourselves so that you don't lose what we have worked
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for, but that you may receive a full reward.
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Anyone who does not remain in Christ's teachings but goes
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beyond it does not have God the one who remains in that
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teaching. This one has both the Father and
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the Son. If anyone comes to you and does
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not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home, and
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do not greet him, for the one who greets him shares in his
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evil works. Though I have many things to
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write to you, I don't want to use paper and ink.
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Instead, I hope to come to you and talk face to face so that
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our joy may be complete. The children of your elect
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sister send you greetings. All right.
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Pretty much. Second John is like a summary of
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First John, right? Well.
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This, this is, this is it's tricky because second John,
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first John, there's just John, the letter of John.
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Right. Letters, yeah.
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I believe we're the ones who. Put numbers into it right?
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Second John, because there were letters, right?
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He literally says that I do not want to continue writing to you.
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I want to hope to be there face to face.
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Absolutely. So they speculate that it was
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the Church of Ephesus, the the pistol that Paul wrote to
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Ephesus. And so so, yeah, I mean, he, I
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would say that this is, this could even be first John and
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then the other one could be right.
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They're just put in order. First John, second John, third
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John. Yeah.
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But real order I, I would say this would be, this would be it
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to be first, if you will. But I think the interesting part
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here, it's a small chapter, but really the the beginning is just
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he's speaking to the leader of the church or the church, right?
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He's referred as a lady as he does at the end here.
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But I think the the good stuff here really starts on verse 7.
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Many deceivers, right? Because what he speaks about in
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the beginning from one through 6 is pretty much like a recall,
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yeah, of the first John or, you know, but I think the, no, I
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don't think I know it's right there.
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It starts at 7, verse 7. That's where he then gets really
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specific to certain things that is happening to some believers
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at the church, in the church. Yeah.
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Yeah, so it seems like this is the deceiver and the Antichrist,
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so the one. So I'm guessing that not many
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people within the churches were talking about Christ, right?
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Like the return of him, right? They do believe in him, right?
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It's like it was a it was a weird time because like here,
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let me give you perspective. Christ had just died a couple
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years ago, right? And so the word has been
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spreading out that, you know, he resurrected, right?
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That was becoming an issue for the Roman Empire, right?
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And so there are a lot of believers who believed in, in,
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in Christ, but they didn't believe that he would return.
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They also had a hard time believing in God, but they they
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had a hard time believing that he was fully man and fully.
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Fully divine. Divine guy, right?
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Yeah. And so they were having all
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these issues. And so John and and some of the
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like, also the apostles would always have to write and do a
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reminder and let them know, right?
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The thing, The thing is that he was here on Earth in flesh,
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right? But he wasn't like 100% all the
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time in divine mode, if you will, right?
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Right. He tapped into those moments
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when he revealed his power when he was in the Transfiguration.
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All these moments, those were the divine moments, right?
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But if truly he had to achieve this in the flesh, he also had
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to separate from his throne. By separating from his throne,
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meaning there not all the time was he tapping into the divine
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divinity, Right? Yeah.
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But he knew that he was one with God.
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They were one with God, obviously.
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Right, right, right. Just because he was detached
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from divinity didn't mean he didn't have recall in in the
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brain that memory. He knew it, right?
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So then that's why he talks about this here, tackling all
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those ideas, deceivers and people who've got into the world
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that that's implying that they were in the church.
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Now they're into the. World.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, absolutely.
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They do not confess that Jesus Christ is coming, right?
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So they believe in Christ. They don't.
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They are not confessing that He is coming back right now.
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Why did they do they touch that topic?
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Because at this point they were losing kind of hope.
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Yeah, right. Because that was the essence of
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the message that he's coming back soon.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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At this point, a couple years had already passed.
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Good. 4050 years, maybe even 60 years have passed.
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It's like, is he not coming back?
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Yeah. And they're being persecuted,
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Right. So.
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So deceivers were like, no, he's not coming back.
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Right. And why does he say that?
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Because look, with this is the deceiver and the Antichrist,
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look at yourselves, that you may not lose the things that we
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worked. So for that, we may receive the
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full reward. John at this point is very old.
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Yeah, right. He must be very old.
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Yeah, no. No, he's old.
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Yeah. And whoever transgresses and
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does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God.
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He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and
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the Son. Anyone comes to you and does not
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bring the doctrine, do not receive him in your so.
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So this was an issue that was happening.
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There's a lot of people coming with a different way of thinking
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of the message and by doctrine it means the message of God, the
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teaching, right? And so I think that was very
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interesting that he tackles that and we would also have to
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conclude like, OK, well are there people in our time now
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2025 that are coming with a different message?
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It sounds. It might sound the same, but
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it's different. Yeah, yeah, No, exactly like
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you're saying like they grab like a maybe like a chapter of a
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book and they make it about themselves, Right, Exactly
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right. Because it says anyone who does
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not remain. OK, So it says watch yourselves
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so that you don't lose what we have worked for, but the one who
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may receive a full reward. Anyone who does not remain in
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Christ is teachings but goes beyond.
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It does not have God. What verse is that?
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That is actually verse 9. Anyone who does not remain in
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Christ is teachings but goes beyond.
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It does not have God. Well, that's crazy, right?
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And mine says whoever transgresses it does not abide
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in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God.
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He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has pulled the fathers.
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So yours says is excite the this is something different.
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There you read yours again. It says anyone who does not
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remain in Christ's teachings but goes beyond it does not have
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God. 9 doesn't say that. What's your say is this verse 9?
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Yeah, whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine
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of Christ does not have God. Transgresses so.
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No, no, no, that's fine. Yours says are fine.
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Yours says who goes beyond it. Yeah, beyond it, this.
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One doesn't say that this one says who does not abide in it.
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And wait, isn't it? What does transgress mean?
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What does it mean Like? Doesn't it mean like you've?
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Committed it like you've broken something.
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Oh. OK, I see what you're saying.
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So if you read yours, read yours again it.
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Says anyone who does not remain in crisis teachings.
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OK. So anyone who does not remain
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and by remaining meaning you're not steady it, right?
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But but goes beyond it. Goes beyond it, meaning now you
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from that what you supposed to remain you are adding to it,
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meaning going beyond the teaching of this center goal of
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it. You're not right, but in my
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translation says whoever transgresses does not abide in
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the doctrine of Christ. Does not have God right.
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So it says a different in this case.
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It says here that whatever you break, whatever that is where
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the sacred and you break it, that means you do not abide in
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Christ. So it says a little bit more
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heavier, but yours is implying that if that where you don't
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remain and you go beyond it, right?
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Yeah. And by beyond it meaning you're
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changing. It yeah, changing it over.
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Here it's if you transgress it, you do not abide in it.
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So it's it's basically saying the same thing.
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Yeah. Meaning that teaching you start
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to transgress it. Meaning you try to change it.
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Like going away from the core of it, not in it.
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Exactly. Right.
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And so we must wonder also, like, what does that mean in our
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time? In our time, seems like.
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If we're changing the core of his message.
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In our time, well, it definitely has to do with the world once
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again. I'll tell you one thing, nothing
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has really changed like this is this is what I'm trying.
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This is very intense. I'm about to say.
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Yeah, yeah. God gave Moses the 10
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commandments, right? And he obviously gave them a, a
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other things of way of living. They were in the desert.
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He needed them to be clean, obviously, to survive the
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desert. So they had to eat clean and
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then try to try to stay, have good hygiene.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they were always
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camping. So there was a, you could have
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caught diseases. So of course he needed them to
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be pure and clean, obviously. But they had this high priest
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who would once a year go to the Holy of Holies, bring this blood
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to the covenant and everybody would receive forgiveness, the
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forgiveness of God. Yeah, Yeah, everybody would once
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a year. You see what I'm saying, right.
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So when Christ came, he didn't, he didn't come.
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He he didn't do anything different.
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It was the same thing, right? The only difference here in
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regards to the new covenant is he is the sacrifice.
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Yeah, absolutely. For all of humanity.
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Yeah, for all of humanity. Yeah, at that moment, present
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and future. Yep.
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No one from the past. He did that job.
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When he died, he went under. Yeah.
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OK, that's a different conversation.
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The only difference here, he did.
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Now he is the high priest. Yeah.
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Yeah, the same high priest also giving his own life for the
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forgiveness of sin, not for the sin.
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The forgiveness, yeah, it doesn't disappear.
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Exactly, exactly right. It does not disappear.
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I agree. And so John talks about these
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things, right? Remember the same commandment.
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He's, you know, he's just reminded just the first few
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verses. Yeah, yeah.
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Reminding. Uh huh.
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And then he says whoever in your translation, right.
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It says whoever does not remain and goes beyond, right, Yeah,
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Christ and the Father are not in them exactly here.
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It says whoever transgresses it, you do not abide in Christ
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period, right, absolutely. And so your translation, this
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one, they're they're pretty much saying the same thing.
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It's like if you you're by not remaining is like you grab this
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teaching and you add upon it or take away or go.
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Beyond it, exactly and right. Yeah, what is that?
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He he literally came. For to do basically, yeah, what
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you. Just he came to abolish the the
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commandments, no. He didn't.
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No, even Paul says like like he. Talks about in Romans.
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It's not that hard. Yeah.
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Like we make it more complicated than we have to.
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Absolutely. Even a simple thing can
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understand this. OK, absolutely.
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That he literally came to to fulfil it.
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Mm hmm, to fulfill it by. Fulfilling it meaning like the
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law is what exposes sin and that causes you death.
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Yeah. He actually comes to fulfill it,
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meaning now that you know what? What makes you a prisoner?
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By believing in him, it rewrites it in your heart.
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Yeah, right. Isn't that what he says in
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Isaiah where he says I'm gonna put it?
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A new heart. A heart.
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A heart of flesh, Yeah. That will cause him to what I.
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Think it was like to cause him to worship?
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Him that will cause him to do his.
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Commandments. His commandments that's.
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The Holy Spirit. Rewriting it exactly.
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Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
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Yeah, it all, it all correlates with each other absolutely.
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So. So Christ didn't really come to
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like change anything. He says you love your God with
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all your heart, mind and soul. Love your neighbor as you love
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yourself. This holds the law and the
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prophets. Boom, that's it.
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Yep, right, the. Only difference is Christ dying
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so that you have access to the Father.
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For the forgiveness of sin? Absolutely.
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For the forgiveness of sin? Yeah.
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That your sin is being wiped away.
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What are you talking about? Yeah, no, absolutely.
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Because if I believe in Christ by faith, why then do I?
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Why then does there a mystery remains in the flesh like Paul
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says? Yeah, Paul does say that.
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He says that there's a law. If I believe in Christ,
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essentially this new teaching of our time, which is you're saved,
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your sins don't matter. You can essentially be addicted
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to pornography and still, or it could be anything.
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I'm just using that one because it's common, right, right.
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In our time, in generation, right doesn't matter.
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It that that makes no sense if anything.
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Essentially, that's what they're teaching.
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That. Yeah, that.
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Like your sin is wiped, it's done.
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Doesn't exist. Yeah, that's just adding to it.
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Sin just doesn't exist, right? That's just adding to it.
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Yeah. Because what Paul speaks about
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is completely different. He says that sin was death,
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right? Like let's say if I don't follow
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God's commandments, you know, sin to me is dead because like,
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I'm just doing it and, you know, I don't see it.
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There's no light shining on it. So it's like, it's like.
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Yeah, just because he says that like the law is what makes sin
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alive. Yeah, causes you to be dead.
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Exactly. Because you know the effect it
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has. Yeah, but if you don't pay
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attention to the law, you don't care about it.
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Sin is dead. That doesn't mean it's like it
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doesn't exist. No, it's just.
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It's just it's not visible. It's not visible, yeah.
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So you are. Alive.
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Yeah, you're alive, but sin is dead.
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Yeah, but the moment you start. Paying attention to the law
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because it points and exposes sin because it exposes it, by
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the way, whoever is listening, this is in Chapter 7 of Romans.
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Yeah, we can read chapter 5678, which is just pretty much all of
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that, if you're interested. Because the law exposes sin is
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the law of sin. You, you are a prisoner of it,
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meaning you, you feel death. Yeah.
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Because now you know that. Absolutely, because.
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Now sin is is visible. It's visible, it's alive
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because. The law.
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Makes it? Yes, exactly.
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When you commit an infraction. Uh huh.
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It's actually doing and you feel and you feel death.
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It's that's the cause of the law.
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Yeah, exposing sin, right, Right.
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It's the reason why Christ had to come.
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Yes, that's why in the towards the end of Chapter 7 of Romans,
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he says what a wretched man I am who shall deliver me from this.
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Then the last verse he says so then through Christ, yes, I'm
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able to serve God in one hand, the law of God and in the other.
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The Law of. Christ, Christ.
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And then Christ asked him about to send a counselor.
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The Spirit within. Yeah, that willingness now
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becomes alive. Exactly.
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Ties in the law of God, Yeah. And the law of the flesh?
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Yep. By what?
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By faith. Amen.
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Do not forget, remember and remain and by to remain
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requires. To requires faith exactly what
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John. Sebastian changing anything?
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Exactly. And he's just pointing out the
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deceiver who are adding or going beyond are transgressing the the
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essential of this faith. Yeah.
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And to just to give people a little bit of history.
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It's like in the beginning they didn't even call themselves
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Christians. They actually they go much
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earlier. Scholars have found, or
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archaeologists have found much earlier, did they actually call?
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They were calling themselves the Way.
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No way. The way.
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Oh yeah, we've talked about this before.
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They never called themselves Christians.
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Sorry about that. They didn't call themselves
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Christians. They were called Christians by
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some people in Antioch. Yeah.
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And essentially the first time they were called that, it was
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out of mockery. Oh, yeah.
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It wasn't even because they were.
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They were mocking them out, these little Christians.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting.
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And then it was mentioned again second time in the book of Acts.
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Yeah, they now started to take that upon that name as a
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Christian. Right, right.
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But they were actually called. They were being called the way
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they were calling themselves, the way it was a subsection of
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Judaism, if you will. Oh.
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OK, OK, I got you. Right.
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The only thing is that Paul was identifying is that the Gentiles
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don't need to do the traditional keeping the Saturday or not
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eating pork, or that they came into an agreement when they met
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into Jerusalem and spoke about what not for them to do.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Were like couple things, like 3
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or 4 things that that they shouldn't do that that they
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shouldn't do because that was the basis of commandments,
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right? That was universal around the
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whole. They understood that, yeah, but
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not like eating pork this or that.
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Right, right. Right.
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No. Absolutely.
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So that's what Paul was talking about.
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Paul dealt with the most complicated things, talking to
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them about works in regards to the Jewish tradition.
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Yeah. But also, he said, Putt, that
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doesn't mean to abolish the law, which is the basic commands,
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yeah, that they spoke about in Jerusalem.
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Because he says that the God's commandments are holy.
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They're just, they're pure. Yeah, right.
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Absolutely. And so yeah, that's why he
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tackles this in verse 7. He starts like telling them the
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deceivers who are the Antichrist.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. All right.
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And so and why? Why?
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Because bro, the time passes, right?
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There's songs that are being ring God, we're ready for you.
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Come now. Are you that exhausted?
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You know, I'm not trying to be mean, but like, are you
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exhausted? Yeah, yeah.
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Is following Christ a burdensome literally.
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John says that in in in one of the chapters in first John, like
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the commandments, should not be a burdensome.
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Yeah, I think it's in chapter 5, the last chapter where he talks
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about that. He says that God's commandments
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are not a burdensome. Yeah, they shouldn't.
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And then I'm pretty sure he he he ends with that paragraph.
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But like in Chapter 4, he he talks about like the victory
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that has conquered the world, our faith, our faith.
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Yeah, I think another one that's a little bit challenging and I
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don't know, I'm asking what you think.
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So he identifies verse verse 7-8 and nine.
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But then look what he says as a result of these kind of people,
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whatever category you want to put them on.
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He says if anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching
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or message doctrine, whatever you want to call it, by doctrine
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it means teaching. Right, right.
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Sound teaching, good teaching, the teaching of Jesus.
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He didn't change anything. He literally taught Nicodemus.
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You're a teacher and you don't understand this.
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So what was Christ implying there?
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That like you should have known this by now.
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You should have already known this by now if you really truly
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like man. If Christ would have come or
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not, he should. Have known.
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He should have known this already.
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Yeah, because some of them understood.
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Why would Christ say love your God with all your heart, mind
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and soul? Love your neighbor as you love
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yourself? This holds the commandments, the
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Law and the Prophets. Right, exactly.
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He wasn't saying anything different.
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Nope, he was not. He was The Pharisees were asking
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him to trick him. They wanted to.
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They wanted him to say which one was the important commandment.
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God was like, if you love God with all your heart, mind and
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soul, you love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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This holds the Law and the prophets.
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Right. Yeah.
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That means all of it is important.
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Yes, Amen. You know it's also this is where
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verse 10 he then categorizes them.
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Whoever then comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do
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not receive him into your house angry.
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For the one yeah, if anyone come.
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Damn, dude, is that love? Is that love?
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Well. Or is it not love?
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I think it's keeping the first commandment.
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It's still love. Yeah, love you God with all your
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heart and my soul. So that means like you're.
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I'll give you a testimony. All right, God, God, God.
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It can correlate to this in retrospect it was a while back
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but not really for one is a while back, but for God it's
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always the same. God was setting up a blessing
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for me. This is specifically designed
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and I'm just giving you perspective of what how God see
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things at that moment. Obviously it was presented for
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me to me, you know, well then I didn't reject it or I didn't
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intentionally like that wasn't my intention to reject it,
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right, right. It was, I just wanted to help
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someone else gave it to them before me.
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Yeah. But the blessing was designed
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because obviously it was to for the betterment of his will and
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the what he, you know, wants me, wanted me to do, right, Right.
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So one would be like, well is my caring for that person greater
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than what his will is? Oh, I see what you're saying.
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So it's almost like that very moment you're idolizing the
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person. I wouldn't say idolize.
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Idolizing to help. Help like helping them No or no?
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I don't think it has nothing to do with idolization.
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I'm bringing this is because God's God was expecting my
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reaction to hold His will superior to everything else,
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right? Right.
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Yeah. That was a blessing that was
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designed for me to do so that I can execute it more right with
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precision, but not because I not that I, I didn't intentionally
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reject it. Like it wasn't on purpose that I
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was rejecting it. It just happened because I was,
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you know, I was putting that person first before myself.
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Yeah. Not realizing that I was
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actually subconsciously not paying attention to the hand at
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task, the task at hand. Right, Right.
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Do you know what I mean? No, I totally.
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Understand what you're saying. It's the same.
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It's true here, right? Everybody.
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You receive someone because of the love of God.
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You receive someone. Or how much do you love your God
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with all your heart, mind and soul?
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You love your neighbor as you love yourself, but which one
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remains higher? God, of course.
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Right. So in this case, he's saying if
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anyone who comes to you, he's implying that if anyone comes to
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you, he's he's also letting you know that if you love God first
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above everything, if anyone comes to you, you're going to
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reject this. You're not going to, right?
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I'm not saying I was supposed to reject that person, obviously
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not, but what I was supposed to do.
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It's different situation but I'm trying to.
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Yeah, no, I see. What?
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What is more important? Yeah, he's expecting this,
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parent this. This person to to someone that
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that comes like this, whose will is to be held first, Right,
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Right. His will.
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Amen. Right.
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Yeah, absolutely. So This is why this wasn't.
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Is that not love? No, it's definitely keeping the
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commandment. Love your God with all your
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heart, mind and soul, exactly because you're keeping God above
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everything. Is that hatred?
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No, it's just say you love God with all your heart, mind and
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soul that you wouldn't want anyone to ruin.
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It But is it hatred? If someone comes to you and does
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not bring the doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor
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greet him, for who greets him shares the Saint, his evils
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evil. So basically.
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Is that hatred? No, you're just not tolerating
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what is evil. But it's that hatred.
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Absolutely not, because even God in the where's that love?
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No, that's love because even in the even in the churches, God
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was against how some of the churches tolerated certain
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people within the churches. But for someone in our time, in
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our modern church, someone comes with something different that is
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not the same. Exactly.
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We now become the aggressive, if we call it, I'll be like, Nah,
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man, right? That's not the love of God.
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No, that is the love of God. Absolutely, because you love God
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with all your heart, mind so His will.
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The other what the other person is doing?
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No, that's right. What the other person is doing
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is loving the hospitality more than Jesus teaching.
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Exactly. That's true.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Because God. And like I said, in the seven
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churches. Read that.
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Read verse 10. No, yeah, exactly like he says,
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if anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, this
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teaching, do not receive him into your home and do not greet
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him, for the one who greets him shares in his evil.
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Works. Where would this church meet up?
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In caves, right? Cave homes, right?
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Whatever they can, right? Yeah bro, he's.
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No, he's. For he who greets him shares
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his, that means you're sharing with him.
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Right, his evil works. Yeah, bro, it's tough.
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Absolutely. And you know what?
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And don't a lot of people say that John is the one that writes
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a lot about love? Right.
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Is that love there? It is love now.
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Are we supposed to act like that?
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We should not with hatred. It's not hatred.
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Someone that's mature in God, with God will understand that
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that's love. But someone that's immature will
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understand that. No way.
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Having many things to write to you, I do not wish to do so with
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paper and ink, but I hope to come to you and speak face to
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face that our joy may be full. So is implying that he wasn't
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with them and it was difficult to get to them.
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So he could be in prison, right? And he hopes it, because perhaps
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he would have been released. The children of your elect
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sister greets you. Amen.
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That the core of this second John is really 7 all the way
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through 11. Absolutely, Absolutely.
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Because now in today's time, a lot of people, they, they, they
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present themselves so alive, you know, but they twist what it
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truly means to love God, bro, You know what I mean?
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It's almost, I don't know, bro, but John was clear.
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And what he says is, is so true. I see it as as love because God
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is love, right? And you don't want to tolerate
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something that's that's evil. Yeah, you can pray for them
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because Christ did say pray for your enemies, but it doesn't
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mean you have to tolerate what they do.
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And I think that's where we, we get it mixed up.
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Yep. Yep, I just want to read it one
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more time just so that they know the gravity of this.
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Why do I say this again? I don't if we live in a modern
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time where like we tolerate way too many things.
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Yeah, absolutely. We tolerate things that it just.
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It blows my mind it. Doesn't make sense.
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Yeah. But if anyone comes to you and
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does not bring this doctrine, so like sometimes we receive people
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who come with different ideas and we're like, oh, yeah, we can
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talk about it. Come in.
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What do you mean come in? Right.
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Do not receive him into your house or greet or even greet
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him. Oh dear.
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Interesting bro. No, because you love your How do
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you love yourself bro? So this is tricky.
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This is going to sound very weird, but I'm only going to say
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according to how Christ said it, I hate my life enough for the
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sake of Christ, Right? Because that's literally what
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Christ says. Whatever denies their life for
35:29
the sake of me has life. In order to deny my life, I have
35:32
to hate it. I don't care.
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Yeah, no, he does say. If you want to be my disciple,
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you got to hate your life. Right.
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Yeah. Or deny or deny yourself.
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You have to just hate it like that so much that you don't care
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about it, right? For his sake.
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So. But simultaneously, in order to
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do that, I have to love myself in order to do that.
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Why? Because enough to deny myself to
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God. Right, like you love yourself to
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the point where you're. Like, it's not hatred of like,
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I'm going to go commit suicide. No, no, no.
36:02
It's almost like, yeah, this life is nothing.
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I hate it. Yeah, meaning I don't like, I
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don't want. It yeah, like Christ is
36:08
everything. Exactly.
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Yeah, yeah, I totally get what you're saying.
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So in that same way, if someone comes with a different like, I
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can tell it's different. I'm being like, either I correct
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them at that moment and be like, hey, listen, no.
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If he's like no, no, no, then I was like, hey, listen, I can't.
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Yeah, Christ did say wipe the dust off your feet and move on.
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Yeah, if they don't accept. That that's what he's saying,
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right? Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely.
36:37
Because you love your, you love yourself to the point where you
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deny yourself, right. So in that same way, when you
36:42
love your neighbor, you also display that love to them to
36:44
deny themselves. And obviously this phrase is
36:47
very, very Middle Eastern culture phrase does not practice
36:53
in American culture over here. We'll tolerate anything.
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We'll, we'll, for the sake of his soul that he'll come in and
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and start speaking about manifestation, higher power, all
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this and that and and they have them there.
37:04
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, possibly even in the
37:07
altar. Yeah, exactly.
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Like I. When what you should be doing is
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being like, hey brother, this is what Christ teaches.
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Yes, this is it. That's love bro.
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Like you're going to tell me that's not love?
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But we're afraid, or I don't know.
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Yeah, because John's, John's very clear and specific did not
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accept him into your home. Yep, Yep.
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Yeah, it's not like saying that you're going to bash on them
37:29
now, but you're going to tell them the truth.
37:31
Like, hey man, this we teach Christ's teachings here.
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Yeah, if you don't like it, it's OK.
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Exactly. But we're not going to.
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Tolerate that exactly. All because we love God with all
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of our heart, mind and soul. Exactly.
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And for that? Reason.
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That's where John wrote that. And yeah, a mature Christian
37:52
would understand. Yeah, 100.
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Percent an immature Christian they would never understand.
37:57
No, they'll try to like come up with different interpretation,
38:00
conclusions, justifying. All that stuff.
38:02
All that stuff. No, no, no, no.
38:05
Either we love God and we we care about our relationship with
38:08
him or we tolerate the world. Yeah, yeah.
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There's no middle ground here. It's either black or white.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. And he says this because this
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was happening. Yeah, this was happening.
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Exactly. And he this is almost like a
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like he's quoting revelations. Oh yeah, when the seven
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churches. Oh yes, she's.
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Going to tell them, hey, listen, I see that you're tolerating
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this. Yeah.
38:29
And by tolerating this because they've received them.
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Yep, exactly. They were receiving, they were
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receiving this what Jezebel and spirit of Jezebel and people
38:39
were doing like some witchcraft rituals, right?
38:41
The teachings of Baal, lots of stuff there, bro.
38:44
Yeah, man. And that's like you said, that's
38:46
happening today in the churches. People will say this higher
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power, don't correct them. Be like that higher power that
38:52
you are seeking is God. That you want to seek is called
38:55
He is called God. Jesus.
38:57
Christ, the one and only, the Lord and Savior.
38:59
But they'll be like, yeah, but like, no, no, no, no.
39:02
The other type of higher power, you're seeking for something
39:04
completely different, right? And it's real, and it's wicked.
39:08
Wicked. Exactly.
39:10
It's the Prince of Air. Yeah, if you want to call it
39:13
that or something. Yeah, way worse.
39:15
Yeah, it's worse. Yeah, that's a friend of the
39:17
topic. But now, dude, yeah, I think
39:20
it's time that like, you know, we call people out, but with
39:24
love, obviously not like in a barbaric way.
39:27
And yeah, bro, I, I've, I've gone to that point where say
39:33
when I go to Bible studies or anything like that, right?
39:36
And I see some someone say something that completely does
39:39
not line up with what God's teachings.
39:41
I don't mind speaking out. So if in and if they they don't
39:47
want to associate with me, that's fine.
39:49
But what John is saying is did not accept them into your home
39:53
meaning like like do not swayed away from what our from the
39:57
teachings of Christ and he he also says this too.
40:00
He says watch yourselves so that you do not lose what we have
40:05
worked for. So clearly they were they were
40:09
staying strong. Some of them were staying strong
40:12
to what they have been taught. Yeah.
40:14
And so he's always saying like what we have worked for.
40:17
So whatever their work they have worked for also feel like it's
40:20
been it's you're doing it too with us.
40:22
Exactly. Exactly.
40:24
So. Yeah.
40:25
Exactly So, yeah. So anyone like listening, Like
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do not be afraid. If you know the truth, say it.
40:32
Don't be afraid. Say it with love.
40:34
Obviously. Don't be barbaric.
40:37
My ends. God will be with you, yeah.
40:39
Yeah. Yeah, truly, you really are
40:41
walking with God. Absolutely.
40:42
Yeah. So to wrap it up guys, I believe
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the next one is third John, right?
40:48
Yeah, third John. There's 1 chapter there's.
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Only one chapter. Yeah, yeah.
40:52
And then that should pretty much wrap it up and then we'll see
40:56
what other book God wants us to dive in or what what else he
41:00
has. If anyone has any questions,
41:03
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41:21
And so all those who are, stay tuned.
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May God bless you guys. We'll close up with a prayer.
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All right. Thank you, Lord, so much for
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just allowing us to be here, guide us and lead us into the
41:34
absolute truth, for you are the one true living God.
41:37
I just want to say thank you so much, a lot for this freedom of
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just being able to read your word and peace.
41:43
And I pray for my brothers and sisters out there.
41:46
I probably don't have this freedom, but I pray that you
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protect them and they be with them so that they may continue
41:53
and give them the strength in Your holy mighty name.
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Amen. All right, till next guys.