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Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff - Q&A: Giving Attention to God, the Sabbath, and the Prosperity Gospel · WOAY Podcasts

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  Speaker 1: From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina, you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Bible Answer Man broadcast with Hank Hanegraaff.
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  Speaker 1: We're on the air because life and truth matter. The
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  Speaker 1: to equip.org. The following program was pre-recorded. And now, here's
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  Speaker 1: Bible Answer Man host, Hank Hanegraaff.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy. A lot of you hanging on.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go right to our phone callers. First up is Shiloh,
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  Speaker 2: listening in Denver, Colorado. Hi, Shiloh.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: And you have a question for me?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You're how old?
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  Speaker 4: I'm seven.
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  Speaker 2: Seven years old. Well, good having you on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: What's your question?
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  Speaker 4: My question is, why does God get all the attention?
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  Speaker 4: That means we have to pray to him every day.
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  Speaker 4: We have to worship him, love him. Why does God
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  Speaker 4: get that attention from people? I want to know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Shiloh, that's a good question. And of course, it's
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  Speaker 2: not that we have to, it's that we get to.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible that the one who created you, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible tells us that God created you, Shiloh, that he
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  Speaker 2: knit you together in your mother's womb, that you are
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  Speaker 2: fearfully and wonderfully made. So the one that created you
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  Speaker 2: and the one who died so that you could have
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  Speaker 2: eternal life, everlasting life, not only eternal life now, but
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  Speaker 2: eternal life forever, that is the very one that you
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  Speaker 2: get to talk to, that you get to develop a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with. So here's someone that loves you even more
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  Speaker 2: than your mom and your dad loves you, and someone
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  Speaker 2: who created you. You are here as a result of
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  Speaker 2: his love and his grace, and so you get to
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  Speaker 2: talk to him and have a relationship with him, In fact,
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  Speaker 2: you were born to have a relationship with God forever.
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  Speaker 2: So it's one of the greatest privileges of a human
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  Speaker 2: being like you, Shiloh, to be able to talk to
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  Speaker 2: your Creator and to the one that loves you and
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  Speaker 2: to the one that you will spend eternity with.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: That make sense to you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that God loves you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that God loves me.
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  Speaker 2: And that not a single hair can even fall from
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  Speaker 2: your head that God doesn't know or care about it.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, he cares about everything that's going on
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  Speaker 2: in your life. And so you get to have a
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  Speaker 2: conversation with him. All you have to do is talk
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  Speaker 2: to the Lord. You can go directly into his presence.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason you can do that is because Jesus
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  Speaker 2: made a way for you to have a relationship with God.
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  Speaker 2: How cool is that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good. And my second question is, why does
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  Speaker 4: God never ever answer our questions? He only talks to
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  Speaker 4: us in our heart, but he doesn't talk to us really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, God speaks to us through a still, small voice.
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  Speaker 2: So you're right that you can hear him in your heart,
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  Speaker 2: but you can also hear him as he speaks through
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  Speaker 2: his word. So when you read the Bible, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is God's word. He can speak directly to you through
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  Speaker 2: his word. So the Bible is not something that is dead.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that's alive. So as you read the word
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  Speaker 2: of God, God speaks to your heart through his word.
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  Speaker 2: He also speaks through other people and through circumstances. So
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  Speaker 2: he will lead you and direct you through his word,
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  Speaker 2: through your mom and dad, through people and circumstances that
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  Speaker 2: he brings along your path. So he speaks to you
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  Speaker 2: in many ways. And you always know the true word
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  Speaker 2: of God by knowing the word of God. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why all Christians teach their children the word of God
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  Speaker 2: so that they can fall in love with God.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, so God only talks to big people?
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  Speaker 2: No, he talks to you, Shiloh, just like he talks
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: So you can read the Word of God, and as
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  Speaker 2: you're reading the Bible, God speaks to you through His Word. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to know more about God.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Because I don't know more about God.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Shiloh, here's what I'm going to do for you.
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  Speaker 2: I have a book that I wrote about prayer, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to send that to you as a gift.
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  Speaker 2: So if you hang on, I'm going to send that
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  Speaker 2: book to you, and you'll be able to read it.
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  Speaker 2: And as you read that book, you'll find out how
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  Speaker 2: you can develop an intimate relationship with the Lord. So
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  Speaker 2: you hang on, and I'll send that, and that'll be
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  Speaker 2: coming out to you soon. So hang on. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: that book out to you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks for calling me, Shiloh.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome, Shiloh. Bless you. I want to go back
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  Speaker 2: to the phone lines. And we'll talk next to Andrea,
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  Speaker 2: listening in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Hi, Andrea.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Hank. Thank you for taking my call.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: My question for you comes from just difficulty that I
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  Speaker 3: have with my family, but what is to be done
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  Speaker 3: on the Sabbath day as far as what you can
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  Speaker 3: and cannot do? It's not so explicit in the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you set it apart as a day. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the big thing. You're celebrating something. And what you're
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  Speaker 2: celebrating ultimately is the rest you have in Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: who delivers you from the snare of sin and death
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  Speaker 2: and the grave. So you want to set it aside
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  Speaker 2: as a way of remembering that God owns all of
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  Speaker 2: your time. Certainly it's good to worship the Lord in
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  Speaker 2: community on the Lord's Day, which is to say, to
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  Speaker 2: get together with other believers, to have fellowship, to worship God,
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  Speaker 2: to have genuine oneness with his body, and then to
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  Speaker 2: be equipped to go out and impact the world. So
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the major things that you can do.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot is left up to your own discretion.
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  Speaker 2: If someone tells me to love my wife, they don't
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  Speaker 2: give me an instruction manual and tell me exactly what
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  Speaker 2: I have to do every single moment. so that I
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  Speaker 2: can properly love my wife, it's something that I do
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  Speaker 2: of my own accord. It's something that I do volitionally
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  Speaker 2: because I love her, I spend time with her, I
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  Speaker 2: think of ways in which I can please her, make
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  Speaker 2: her happy, make her joy complete. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the same way that you can celebrate the Lord's Day.
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  Speaker 2: You can start a tradition, a biblically-based tradition in which
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  Speaker 2: you have devotions in which you celebrate the rest you
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  Speaker 2: have with Christ in community. I mean, there are all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of things you can do, but what you do
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  Speaker 2: and how you do it may be different than what
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  Speaker 2: I do and how I do it. Although I think
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  Speaker 2: there is the one thing that we can't forget, and
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  Speaker 2: that is what I aim to underscore in my answer
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  Speaker 2: to you, and that is do not neglect the gathering
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  Speaker 2: of yourselves together, as is the custom of some. So
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  Speaker 2: make certain that the Lord has priority in terms of
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  Speaker 2: worship on the Lord's day.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: If I could just... ask another question to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: This is also another point of confliction, is the day
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  Speaker 3: that it's on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's a reason for that, and that
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  Speaker 2: reason is a wonderful reason. In remembrance of the resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: the early Christian church changed the day of worship from
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  Speaker 2: Saturday to Sunday. And within weeks, thousands of Jews, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got to think about this, these are Jews who
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  Speaker 2: willingly give up a theological tradition and And this is
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  Speaker 2: not just a tradition, but the very tradition that had
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  Speaker 2: given them their national identity. But God himself had provided
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  Speaker 2: the early Jewish Christian church with a new pattern of
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  Speaker 2: worship through Christ's resurrection on the first day of the week,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the Holy Spirit's descent on Pentecost Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Bible provides us with reasons behind the
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  Speaker 2: symbol of the Sabbath. In Genesis the Sabbath, was to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate God's work in creation. After the Exodus, the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: was to celebrate God's deliverance from oppression in Egypt. And
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  Speaker 2: then as a result of the resurrection that I mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath's emphasis shifted once again to be a celebration
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  Speaker 2: of the rest we have through Jesus Christ who delivers
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  Speaker 2: us from sin and the grave. So for the emerging
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  Speaker 2: Christian church, the most dangerous snare was always failure to
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  Speaker 2: recognize that Jesus was the substance that fulfilled the symbol
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  Speaker 2: of the Sabbath. Now there are a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that we don't do that were part of theocratic worship
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  Speaker 2: when God ruled directly over a people. For example, in
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  Speaker 2: a theocratic Old Testament legalistic system, you had to be
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  Speaker 2: slave bound to Sabbatarian laws. If you did any work
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  Speaker 2: on the Sabbath, you were to be put to death.
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  Speaker 2: But Paul explains in the New Testament that Christ redeemed
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  Speaker 2: us from the curse of the law.
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because he became a curse for us. It's instructive to
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  Speaker 2: read Galatians 3.13, cursed is everyone who is hung on
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  Speaker 2: a tree. So the Sabbath was a shadow of the
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  Speaker 2: things that were to come. The reality is found in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why the religious rite or the particular day
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  Speaker 2: bowed to the redemptive reality. And again, that's why we
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  Speaker 2: worship on the first day of the week as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to the last day of the week. It is an honor.
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  Speaker 2: It is in celebration of the rest we have in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, which is, by the way, the capstone in
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phone lines. Talk to Kirk, Nashville, Tennessee. Hi, Kirk.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Hank.
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  Speaker 1: Good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for taking my call.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasure.
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  Speaker 7: I've got a question here I'm actually reading from someone
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  Speaker 7: else's notes. They have a question about 2 Samuel chapter 7.
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  Speaker 7: I believe the primary verse is verse 14. And I
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  Speaker 7: believe you're familiar with the passage, so I'm just going
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  Speaker 7: to read what I believe their actual question is. It
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  Speaker 7: says here, if I stay within the context of all
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  Speaker 7: four verses, they seem to point to a singularity, which
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  Speaker 7: to me means the Son. But how, if verses 14
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  Speaker 7: puts him in company with sin, can you clarify and elaborate?
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  Speaker 7: Is this verse talking about the Son, namely Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately, yes. I mean, it is a prophecy given by
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  Speaker 2: Nathan to David. Therefore, it is directly a prophecy about David,
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  Speaker 2: but beyond David, who is the quintessential king of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and how he would ultimately have an heir. And that
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  Speaker 2: heir would forever sit upon his throne. And while David's
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  Speaker 2: kingdom would end, the kingdom of the heir would never end.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, the New Testament writers refer back to
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  Speaker 2: 2 Samuel chapter 7 in this regard. For example, Luke,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of Jesus Christ, writes, He will be great. He
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  Speaker 2: will be called the Son of the Most High. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
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  Speaker 2: and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
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  Speaker 2: His kingdom will never end. And then, In Acts 1,
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  Speaker 2: we're told that David was a prophet and knew that
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  Speaker 2: God had promised him on oath that he would place
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  Speaker 2: one of his descendants on his throne. So Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: comes from the house and the lineage of David. And
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  Speaker 2: this is explicitly laid out for us by Matthew, who's
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  Speaker 2: writing primarily to a Jewish audience, and he emphasizes that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is the seed of Abraham and the legal
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  Speaker 2: heir of David. who was the long-awaited king of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: who would ultimately restore his people from exile. And in
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  Speaker 2: that regard, Matthew records 14 generations from Abraham to David,
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  Speaker 2: and then 14 generations from David to the exile, and
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  Speaker 2: then 14 from the exile to Christ. And he's doing
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  Speaker 2: this purposely. He's a former tax collector, and he's skillfully
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  Speaker 2: organizing the genealogy of Jesus Christ into three groups of 14,
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  Speaker 2: which happen to be the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew
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  Speaker 2: letters and David's name.
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  Speaker 7: And I think specifically what he's asking here is, in
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  Speaker 7: verse 14 where it says, God says I will be
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  Speaker 7: his father and he will be my son, but if
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  Speaker 7: he sins, I will discipline him. In that part of
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  Speaker 7: the verse, if he sins, I will discipline him. Does
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  Speaker 7: this relate Jesus to sin? You see what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 7: I think what is.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all, because the immediate context refers to
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  Speaker 2: Solomon and then Solomon is the son of David. And
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  Speaker 2: in the context as well, you have Saul. Saul has
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  Speaker 2: lost his throne. David has been given the throne. And
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  Speaker 2: David is not going to be like Saul. God's favor
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  Speaker 2: will rest on David forever. And while Saul and David
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  Speaker 2: and Solomon will sin, Jesus Christ, the ultimate heir, will
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  Speaker 2: do what they could not do. He will live the
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  Speaker 2: perfect life, and therefore he will provide redemption not only
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  Speaker 2: to his people, in an ancient theocratic system that evolves
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  Speaker 2: into a monarchy, but also for us today. So he
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  Speaker 2: becomes the quintessential king of Israel. He becomes the tie
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  Speaker 2: from the theocratic law to the coming of Jesus Christ. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, through types and shadows, we look
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  Speaker 2: forward to Jesus Christ. Through imperfect people, we look forward
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus Christ. But once Christ has come, he is
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  Speaker 2: the unblemished lamb upon whom the sins of the world
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  Speaker 2: are laid.
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  Speaker 4: Agreed.
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  Speaker 7: In verse 13, it just says, you know, he should
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  Speaker 7: build a house for my name, and I will establish
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  Speaker 7: the throne of his kingdom forever. I'll be a father
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  Speaker 7: to him, and he will be a son to me.
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  Speaker 7: this is reading from the Nazarene, when he commits iniquity,
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  Speaker 7: I will correct him and the wrong of men and
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  Speaker 7: the strokes of the sons of men, but, and goes on.
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  Speaker 7: With all those hymns in there, I mean, do we
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  Speaker 7: have any idea who specifically this word from the Lord
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  Speaker 7: through Nathan is referring to? Who's the he?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's first and foremost to David. If you look
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  Speaker 2: at the context of the word of the Lord comes
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  Speaker 2: to Nathan saying, go and tell my servant David, this
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  Speaker 2: is what the Lord says. So ultimately, this is a
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  Speaker 2: message from the prophet Nathan to David, and it is
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  Speaker 2: promising David that he will have an heir, and that
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  Speaker 2: heir will establish an everlasting and a righteous kingdom, an
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  Speaker 2: everlasting and righteous kingdom that will see no end. So
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  Speaker 2: through the imperfect type and shadow, through the type that
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  Speaker 2: points to the antitype, the message comes. So it is
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  Speaker 2: a message from Nathan directly to David. The imperfection, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: does not in any way have anything to do with
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ will be the unblemished lamb
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  Speaker 2: that comes from those who are sinful through an unfolding
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  Speaker 2: plan of redemption starting with Abraham going through the house
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  Speaker 2: and lineage of David and ultimately to Israel's King Jesus
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  Speaker 2: who builds a kingdom that will last forever unlike the
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  Speaker 2: kingdoms of this world. Again, we have written about this
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  Speaker 2: in various places. If you want further elucidation, be happy
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  Speaker 2: to give it to you. I want to go back
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  Speaker 2: to the phone lines. Talk to John in Greenville, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: listening on the web. Hi, John.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Hank. Thanks for taking my call. Yes, I'm in
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  Speaker 5: some dialogue right now with some Joe Osteen supporters. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I've watched this guy, and I think he's a complete
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  Speaker 5: false teacher, and I don't even know if the guy
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  Speaker 5: is saved. But when these people defend the prosperity gospel,
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  Speaker 5: They'll use passages like 3 John 2, which says, in
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  Speaker 5: the King James Version, Beloved, I wish above all things
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  Speaker 5: that thou mayest prosper and be in health. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 5: King James uses prosper, but ESV and NIV do not. Now,
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  Speaker 5: when I look at the word prosper, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: times I hear the word prosper, I always think of
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  Speaker 5: wealth and health. Now, if God wants you to prosper,
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  Speaker 5: is it always going to be wealthy? and health, or
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  Speaker 5: does God want me to prosper in other areas? Like,
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  Speaker 5: can you, like, expand the definition of prosper? Because maybe,
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  Speaker 5: as I heard James McDonald say in a sermon recently,
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  Speaker 5: the prosperity gospel is not 100% false. It is false
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  Speaker 5: when it assumes that prosperity is only going to be
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  Speaker 5: in a better job and paying off my debts and
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  Speaker 5: this and that. Would you expand it a little more?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, the prosperity gospel is false for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of reasons. I mean, the quintessential reason is
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  Speaker 2: that the prosperity gospel has a false concept of faith.
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  Speaker 2: So in a word of faith context, faith is a force,
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  Speaker 2: words are the containers of the force, and through the
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  Speaker 2: force of faith one creates their own reality. But you're
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  Speaker 2: absolutely right to highlight 3 John 2. The King James Version,
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  Speaker 2: which is often quoted by prosperity teachers, reads, Beloved, I
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  Speaker 2: wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be
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  Speaker 2: in health, even as thy soul prospereth. When Oral Roberts
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  Speaker 2: first came across the text, he told his wife, Evelyn,
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  Speaker 2: now this means that we're supposed to prosper. And then
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  Speaker 2: he went on to recount how, after discovering the verse,
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  Speaker 2: God gave him all kinds of prosperity. Well, the fact
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  Speaker 2: of the matter is, they have taken this text out
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  Speaker 2: of context and used it as a pretext. We always
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  Speaker 2: take into consideration the passage's historical context. This was an
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  Speaker 2: opening remark in John's letter to a friend named Gaius.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a standard form of greeting in a
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  Speaker 2: personal letter in antiquity. And to the extent John's wish
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  Speaker 2: for Gaius was for him and not for everyone in
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  Speaker 2: all times, you are recognizing once again context. And it's
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  Speaker 2: also instructive to note that the Greek word translated prosper
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  Speaker 2: means to go well with someone. So when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to context and customs, there's no need to be led
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  Speaker 2: astray by false faith teachers today. I've written about this
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  Speaker 2: in various places, but the most prominent place I've addressed
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  Speaker 2: this subject is Christianity in Crisis, 21st Century, which is
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