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Music.
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Three we're into tonight and i think this chapter is
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very appropriate that goes
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right along with those prefatory remarks from reverend
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martindale and dr werewell i'd like to go back to chapter two again uh and verse
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18 just to remind you because i thought about this this week as we We were into
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our discussions here at International Headquarters.
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It says the literal according to usage because that word not,
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you remember, is not in there.
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And the word intruding was to speculate about.
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It was used in the mystery religions where they would get into those things
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that they had seen, their visionary experiences.
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And I think sometimes people, even in the ministry, they shouldn't.
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And it happens more so in other parts of Christendom where they base what they
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believe on experience and on what they see, their visions, rather than on the
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integrity of God's word.
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And of course, this verse said, do not allow yourself to be disqualified from
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the competition and cheated of your reward by those who take pleasure in self-abasement
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and the bondage of the religious worship of angels.
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Speculating about their own visionary experiences with vainly inflated carnal egos.
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If we cannot find in God's Word what we believe, what we confess, then it just isn't true.
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What we believe has to be found in God's Word. It's the integrity of the word
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that our ministry is built on, not some visionary experience that I've had or Dr.
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Werewell or Reverend Martindale or Howard Allen or Don Werewell or someone else.
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It's the integrity of the word.
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And yet. From time to time, we'll hear of someone in a leadership position,
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even who has a certain visionary experience or he's seen this thing by his experiences.
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And so on, and he tries to put things together, and before you know it,
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people are way off on tangents.
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Some things that happened two,
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three, four years ago are still having thunderings in this day and time,
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still having effect upon people's lives, because somebody built and spoke and
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taught something based on their experience rather than on the integrity of the
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Word. And that verse was...
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Certainly central to this whole part of Colossians, where they were building
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what they believed on their experiences, their visionary experiences,
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so that they worshipped angels or worshipped devil spirits.
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Gods of various sorts, having different heads, instead of one head holding the
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head, which is Christ, from whom the whole body is joined together, and so on.
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And then in 23, these things, which appear to have a word of wisdom,
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are really self-prescribed religion and a facade of humility and harsh treatment of the body,
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all of which lack any value as a remedy against carnal indulgence.
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Now if you want a real remedy against any
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carnal indulgences it's chapter three if ye then be risen with christ seek those
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things which are where above and above is put it put for those things which
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are spiritual as opposed to the things on earth which are carnal of the flesh.
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Where christ sitteth on or
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at the right hand of god the right hand of
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god god doesn't have a right hand so
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it has to be the figure of speech condescencio and of
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course it employs that custom of the right hand of honor the right hand of blessing
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a position of high honor christ is seated at the right hand of god in that position
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of honor and we're to seek those those things which are above.
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The word seek is that word used in 1 Corinthians 12, 31 and in 14.1 where it says covet earnestly.
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It's to covet the best gifts.
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It's to desire earnestly.
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So we're to desire earnestly spiritual things, those things which are above.
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And to be risen with Christ is to be raised together with Him.
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That's our identification with Christ.
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And so we translated this verse. Therefore, since you were raised...
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From the dead, together with Christ, desire earnestly those things which are
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above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.
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You're raised from the dead together with Christ, then desire earnestly those
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things which are above, those spiritual things where Christ is sitting at the
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right hand of God, the hand of blessing.
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Verse 2 set your affection on things above,
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to set your affection in both the Greek and the Aramaic it literally means to
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think think it's related to that word for thoughts in Greek to set your thoughts
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on or to think things above,
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spiritual things,
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not on things where on the earth which would be the carnal things see verse
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one says we're to desire earnestly spiritual things and in verse two we're to
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think those things set our thoughts on those things,
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first you have to seek after it desire it earnestly and then secondly think it,
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you'll learn about it from desiring and then
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you think those thoughts not things on the earth for in verse 3 gives the reason
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for you are dead you died and your life is hid or has been hidden with christ
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in god and that again is a part of our um.
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Our identification with Christ.
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In chapter 2, thinking about this,
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verse 10 that we had last week, or a couple weeks ago, And you are absolutely
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complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power.
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You were circumcised in Him by the non-physical circumcision,
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by stripping off the sin nature by the circumcision
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of christ this is all a part of our identification with
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christ which is what made us complete in
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christ you were buried with him in baptism with whom you were also raised by
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believing in the energizing power of god who raised him from among the dead
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when you were dead in sins in the uncircumcision of your flesh he made you alive together with him,
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And then in verse 20 that we covered last week.
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Don't touch, don't taste, don't handle. You see, all of that's a part of our
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identification, which really takes you back to the book of Romans.
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When we were buried with christ
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we died with him we're buried with him we were raised with
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him so we've got everything we need you
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don't need those carnal ordinances yet they
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were setting their affections somebody there was setting their affections on
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things on the earth the carnal ordinances they were looking into angels and
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making different heads instead of having the one head who is christ and setting
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their affection on spiritual things well anyway.
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That gives the reason for setting your thoughts on things above.
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Because you're dead. Your life has been hid with Christ.
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And when Christ, who is our life, Christ is our life, when He shall appear,
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and to appear is to be made manifest or revealed.
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It's the opposite of being hidden.
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So when Christ, who is our life, appears
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right now our life is hidden with christ
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but when he appears then shall ye also appear or be revealed with him in glory
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that's the end of the hiding so we translated verses two three and four set
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your thoughts on things above not on things of the earth,
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For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
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When Christ, your life, shall be revealed, then you also shall be revealed with him in glory.
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Then verse 5. Mortify therefore.
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The word mortify means to put to death. It's a figure of speech.
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Metonymy, where one word is put for another one remotely associated with it.
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Metonymy, mortified to put to death, is put for removing it from you, removed from you.
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Your members, the word your is omitted in some of the Greek manuscripts and texts.
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If you are a faithful believer and this is addressed to the faithful in Christ,
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then you shouldn't be practicing the things that are in this verse.
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You might be off in verse 8, but if you're faithful, you're certainly not into these verses.
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The things that are in these verses.
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So you put off or remove, put to death,
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is like I said, metonymy, those members which are upon the earth,
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the carnal members those members of
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the body who were introducing this air that
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we read about back in colossians chapter 2
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like in verse 4 list this
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i say lest any man should beguile you with enticing
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words there were those that were beguiling them with enticing words and again
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in verse 8 beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit
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after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after christ and in verse 16,
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let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a holy day
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or the new moon or the sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come but
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the body is of christ see all the way through And then let no man beguile you or cheat you.
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Get disqualified from the competition. That tremendous verse we read.
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Because verse 19, they don't hold the head.
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In 1 Corinthians chapter 5.
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At Corinth, there were men and women practicing error.
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They were introducing things that were contrary to the Word of God.
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In Galatia, that area, you had this problem. Only it was a doctrinal issue.
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See, in Philippi, you know, you had some problems because of those that were
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introducing error from outside the body or some might have been inside the body,
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but they just weren't walking right.
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Well, in Corinthians, in chapter 5, verse 5, it says about some of these,
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to deliver such an one unto whom?
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Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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And in verse 11, it says it very clearly, Now I have written unto you not to keep company.
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Company that's how you cut them out of the fellowship mortify them deliver them to satan,
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uh not keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator covetous
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or idolater or railer or drunkard or extortioner with such in one no not to
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eat and at verse 13 but them that are without God judges.
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Put away from among you yourselves that wicked person. What do you do with them?
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Put them away from among you.
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Not to keep company with those.
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And in 2 Thessalonians 3, verse 6, Now we command you, brothers,
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in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourself.
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What does it mean to withdraw, remove,
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pull out from, not to keep company with, withdraw from every brother that walketh
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disorderly and not after the tradition which he received of us?
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To drink limit. Few other things. Pertaining to the earth. Worldly carnal things.
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Well look at verse 14. And if any man obey not our word.
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By this epistle. Note that man.
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And have no company with him. That he may be ashamed.
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Yet count him not as a what? Enemy. But admonish him as a what?
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And yet it says don't have any company with.
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1 Timothy chapter 1.
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And there are times when you have to draw that line where it's just not the
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best and not beneficial to have company with certain people because they'll pull you down.
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Tells us in Galatians to help one another but not to the end that they've dragged you down.
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You don't want to get pulled in, sucked in by their thing.
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1 Timothy 1, verse 20, Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander? These are those that
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have made shipwreck out of faith.
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Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan that they learn not to blaspheme.
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Philippians 3. These are rather pointed verses, verses, but it's sometimes necessary.
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Philippians 3, verse 18.
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For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping,
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that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
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Whose end is destruction, whose
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God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind what?
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Earthly things. Of course, we covered this in Philippians.
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But look, even in a tremendous epistle like Philippians, where they were faithful in Christ Jesus,
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yet he brings to their attention those that were in the fellowship that were
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serving their own bellies, serving themselves.
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That's where their God was. see they gloried
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in their own shame minding carnal
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earthly thing so in Colossians
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it tells you again very pointedly kill them
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that doesn't literally mean to kill people
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in the body that's why we didn't translate it that way but it's a figure to
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mortify to put them to death not literally but metonymy meaning you remove them.
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Look at how it's said it in Corinthians.
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Deliver to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.
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See? When you're cut out of the fellowship, you don't have fellowship with believers.
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You've got a hard time living.
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That's right. Very difficult. Your source of fellowship and life, the Word.
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Mortify. Remove. See? Therefore, your members, or the members,
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not yours, the members which are upon the earth, those that are carnal.
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They're carnal members who practice these things. Fornication.
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Fornication is spiritual fornication.
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Idolatry.
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Uncleanness is the opposite of purity.
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And it's used biblically of all forms of sexual perversion. including homosexuality.
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And of course it ties into idolatry, uncleanness in idolatry,
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and in possession, like devil spirits.
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It calls them unclean spirits.
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That's this word. So uncleanness is very descriptive of idolatry and all the
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perversion that goes with it.
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Inordinate affection. Perfection. The Aramaic word here means pain, grief.
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Or passion.
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The Greek word is a feeling which the mind suffers, the emotion.
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And it's related to things that the sufferings which accompany idolatrous practices,
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like a hangover or drug addiction.
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Those are sufferings consequences that are the result of using those things
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told you this was very timely to the preparatory remarks here this evening,
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basically it's uncontrollable cravings actions and the suffering that results from it.
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We translated it intemperate intemperate cravings then evil concupiscence evil
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is that word that means destructive evil it,
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exemplifies or amplifies the destructive nature of evil and concupiscence is
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an intense passion or craving a lust as for other gods and all the practices that go with it.
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So it's the destructive evil desires that they have.
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Because when you get into idolatry and into the drugs and the alcohol and the
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other things that go with it, and you start serving other gods,
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then it leads to more and more things of a destructive nature.
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The sexual practices, for example, the things you just seldom heard about or
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maybe never heard about back in the 60s, all of a sudden, it's running rampant.
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Masochism and a lot of other things because they just want more and more of a destructive nature.
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And then covetousness just means more and more.
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It's that greedy desire for more and more and more gods. Trinity.
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Then it says, which is idolatry?
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All those things are idolatry and practices of idolatry.
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For which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.
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Some of the manuscripts omit children of disobedience. If you leave it out,
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it doesn't make much sense.
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For which things sake the wrath of God comes.
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It's because it comes on the children of disobedience, not the believer.
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Although some believers fall into the practice of these things and they shouldn't
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but when they do you mortify it.
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That's why you need that phrase on the children of disobedience because those
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are the sons of the devil those born of the wrong seed the wrath of God will
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come on them in the future that's why this word comes which is present tense
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has to be a figure of speech,
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heterosis, H-E-T-E-R-O-S-I-S.
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Where the present is put for the future.
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The wrath of God is coming in the future on the children of disobedience, the sons of the devil.
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We translated these two verses five and three verses,
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now seven really ties into to six,
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in the which it's among whom it's masculine it can be masculine or neuter but
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it has to be masculine referring to those sons of disobedience among whom You
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also walked sometime when you lived among them.
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See, there was a time in the past you walked among those sons of disobedience.
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That comes to mind that verse in Proverbs that Reverend Martindale has covered
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that shows how those sons of Belial that are the ones who manipulate the society,
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they control the business dealings and so on that are going on.
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And you went right along with them.
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You were manipulating them by them like everybody else is.
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Then the word lived among them.
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The word lived is in the Aramaic had your dealings, to have your dealings like
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your business dealings.
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It ties very nicely into Proverbs 6. Now, look at the literal according to usage.
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Therefore, in verse 5, remove the carnal members who practice spiritual fornication,
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impurity, intemperate cravings, destructively evil passions and greedy desire,
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which are idolatrous practices.
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Because of these things, the wrath of God will come on the sons of disobedience
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among whom you also walked formerly when you had your dealings among them.
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I think it ties a very descriptive picture of how those sons of disobedience
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again manipulated the world and you had your dealings among them in time past.
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You were controlled. You were a part of the system,
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the culture and so on but not anymore and yet there are some believers who are
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being sucked in by that and when they are it says mortify them,
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remove them from among you I want you to look at Ephesians chapter 5,
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you can follow along there But what I want to read to you is Dr.
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Irwell's literal according to usage of verses 3 through 6.
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Because it's very close to this here in Colossians.
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But spiritual fornication and every impurity and also greed will surely not
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be named among you as becoming to saints,
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nor profanity nor senseless talk nor nonsensical fun which is unnecessary but instead thanksgiving,
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in the expanded of that verse he
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says to do something making him god a
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laughingstock which is literally the greatness
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of that verse five for you
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know that no idol worshiper nor unclean person
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nor defrauder who is an idolater has
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any inheritance in the kingdom of God
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no inheritance for those that are practicing those things for those born of
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the devil will terrify you by words devoid of truth and because of these men
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comes the wrath of God down upon upon the sons of disobedience.
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And see, those that fall back into that idolatry error, there is no reward for them.
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They're cutting their own spiritual throat, so to speak.
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Back to Colossians.
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See how that's what this is built on.
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This is correcting the error that crept into Colossae because they didn't adhere
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to the revelation that's given in the book of Ephesians.
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And it was doctrinal error because they were not holding Christ as the head.
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When you don't hold Christ as the head, you've got to get into idolatry,
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which means worshiping other gods and all the shenanigans that go with it.
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Namely inordinate affection and all these other things intemperate cravings
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destructively evil passions greedy desire,
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and you formerly had your dealings among those sons of disobedience that cause
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all these things now verse 8.
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But now but now here's what you as the believer must do,
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if you're going to continue and maintain that spiritual unity,
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unity of the Spirit in the one body with Christ as the head of that one body.
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You also, the word also is omitted in the Aramaic. Put off.
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To put off is to lay aside or to put away.
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All these.
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Anger. that's the
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greek word or gay o-r-g long
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e and it means venom
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or an indignation that arises gradually and becomes more settled or long lasting
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it's a an anger that just you know it gets to you and it grows and it grows
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and pretty soon you're really teed off and you hold on to it forever. It's a venomous anger.
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And wrath is thumos in Greek. T-H-U-M-O-S.
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That's the kind of anger that boils up quickly and then subsides again.
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It's where you get, you know, it's your emotions getting in the way where you
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just, somebody says or does something and all of a sudden you boil up and you're
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ready to clobber them over the head.
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But then you cool off again well those are a couple things to put away both
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the venomous anger and that short term anger.
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An impulsive anger, as we call it.
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And malice. That's the word that means evil and it emphasizes the destructive nature of evil.
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In other words, a destructive evil with the intent to hurt.
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Blasphemy is evil speaking.
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Any type of blasphemous speech or evil speaking.
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Filthy communication out of your mouth. That's profane words or filthy abrasive
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language out of your mouth.
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Again, a lot of these things you read here, you find the great doctrine back
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in the book of Ephesians.
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This one, of course, in 429. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
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mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace under the ears.
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See, anything that tears down, doesn't build up, would be in that category, profane words.
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So, we translated that verse. But now, put away all these things.
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Venomous anger, impulsive anger,
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hurtful evil. See, you don't want to be hurtful to someone in the body.
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And, you know, you don't want to have this type of anger Anger where,
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boy, you get ticked off at somebody and then the next day you just sort of incubate it.
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And then two weeks later, you're still in. And, you know, it just goes on and on.
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Or your impulsive anger, you know, those things happen, too.
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The difference between that and spiritual anger, because God gets angry too
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sometimes. But that's when something's not according to the Word.
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Usually what happens in the body, it's personality things.
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You get angry about somebody leaving their socks on the floor. Hurtful evil.
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When you get angry at somebody, you don't like something, then the next thing
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you want to do is destroy.
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Blasphemous speech, profane words out of your mouth, anything that tears down, doesn't edify.
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Then verse 9, lie not one to another, seeing you have put off the old man with his deeds.
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The word put off means to take off like you're clothed, to unclothe.
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That's the word put off. You unclothe yourself of that old man.
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Now old man is a figure of speech hypokatastasis that you've had before where
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you have an implied comparison you're comparing,
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your carnal fleshly walk the deeds of the old man or deeds of the flesh with
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an old man that's the comparison it's an implied comparison.
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With his deeds now Now, it can mean deeds or acts in Greek.
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However, the Aramaic word, hupaka, H-U-P-A-K-A, means conduct or manner of life.
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And it's real interesting because it's related to that word that I told you
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was dealings up in verse 7.
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When you had your dealings among them. Remember that?
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You had your dealings among the sons of disobedience.
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Well, where does the old man get his dealings from?
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From God? No. From the world, which ultimately comes from the devil and his hordes.
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So you're to put off that old man with his dealings, his conduct,
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his manner of life, his associations with the world.
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And have put on the new man.
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Now man is supplied there by ellipsis. It's the figure ellipsis because it's
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not there, but it's talking about the new what?
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Fingernails? No, the new man.
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See, you get that from the previous verse.
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Put off the old man. Put on the new what?
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Man. Which is renewed.
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Of course, that's the word used in Romans 10 too where you renew your mind.
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But that new man is renewed in knowledge.
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Gnosis? No.
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It's epigenosis. E-P-I-G-N-O-S-I-S.
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Epigenosis. That full, exact, complete knowledge.
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Not just knowledge, but that new man is renewed in the full,
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exact, complete knowledge.
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The knowledge of the mystery. Everything you need.
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After the image of him that created it.
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Renewed after God. It's a great principle. God's Spirit teaches His creation
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in you, which is now your spirit, and then it becomes manifest in the sense of the world as you act.
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Okay, there it is in verse 10. So we translated 9 and 10 on your sheets.
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Do not lie to one another, but put off the old man with his conduct and put on the new man,
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which is renewed in perfect knowledge after the image of its creator.
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