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All right, so God bless you guys today we're going to read a few
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like, you know, chapters, But before we start, obviously we
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we're going to begin with the prayer.
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So once we start, we pray. I don't mind starting.
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I'll start. Thank you, father, for just
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allowing us to be here. Guide us, control what you will
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teach us today, O Lord, and protect us, O Heavenly Father,
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and guard, guard our hearts and lead us to the absolute truth,
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for you are the one true living God.
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Amen. All right, so I remember last
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time we talked about like those shapes, what God like, you know,
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like has shown us. But today we're going to go over
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some chapters within the book of Luke.
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So first chapter that we're going to read is Luke 12, verses
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41 to 48. All right.
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So I mean, I don't know. I mean, I have the CSB.
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What do you guys have? Like the ESB, the ESBES.
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B. I have the Nas.
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Oh, the Nas, Yeah. So I have the CSB is does
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anybody want to read chapter 12 verse 41 Luke?
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1241, yeah. 41 to what? 41 all the way to 48.
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Peter said, Lord, are you telling this parable for us, for
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all? And the Lord said, Who then is
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the faithful and wise manager whom his master will set over
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his household to give them their portion of food at the proper
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time? Blessed is the servant whom his
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master will find so doing when he comes.
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Truly, I say to you, he will set him over his possessions.
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But if that servant says to himself, My master is delayed in
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coming, and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to
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eat and drink and get drunk, the master of the servant will come
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of the day when he does not expect him, and at the hour he
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does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the
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unfaithful. And the servant who knew his
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master will but did not get ready or act according to his
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will, will receive a severe beating.
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But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will
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receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given,
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of him much will be required, and from him to whom they
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entrusted much they will demand them more.
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So, OK, So what is like maybe like one thing that I stuck out
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with just this chapter itself like that that those verses.
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I think that, well, I don't think, but what Christ is
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talking about here is He's pretty much giving us, giving
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everybody some form of stewardship administration in
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regards to whatever is given in life or in your life, that being
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wisdom or God is entrusting something in your hands.
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If you do not administrate that well and you take his return
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very lightly and you're just like, oh, well, you know, seems
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like still needs more time or it's a sort of a, a form of
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fulfillment for, for, for him to come back.
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So that's when you start to like, all right, well, he's not
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coming right now. So, so he kind of gives like 4
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examples of of the people, how they stewardship their their
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business for God, if you will, you know what I'm saying?
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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That that's how I see I see that he's giving them, letting them
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know that there is a accountability for that what you
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were given the requirement for that and that what is entrusted
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unto you and what is expected of right versus the one who didn't
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know still received the light beating.
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Anyways, that's what he was saying there.
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So it seems like he is giving the believers he's referring to
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the believers here. I don't think he's referring to
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anybody who doesn't believe in him.
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A form of you're still going to have the blessing of being
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giving the chance to enter into his courts, right.
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If you think of it in in the form of of, of kingship.
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But because of that also there comes a sense of a righteous
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king giving righteous judgement and fairness.
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From what I see that's there's no other way to read this.
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Oh yeah, absolutely. I totally agree with you.
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And I mean, we're going to read another chapter.
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I will not. It's in the same chapter
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actually, but a few verses after that.
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But like before we we read that, I would like to know like maybe
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like what do you think about about this?
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I find it interesting that when he said and that servant who
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knew his master will masters will but did not get ready or
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act according to his will will severe will receive a severe
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beating but the one who did did not know and did what deserves a
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beating will receive a light beating.
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Like back to what he was saying, Like everyone's going to be held
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accountable no matter what, right?
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Right. Like even if you didn't know, I
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guess there was something deep inside of you where you knew.
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Oh, that's why. It's a good way to put it, yeah.
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Held accountable no matter what. Absolutely.
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So like basically what you're saying is like you knew what
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good was but you did not do anything.
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Even if maybe you didn't know about like like maybe if on
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paper then look like to everyone you should have known.
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But deep inside, everyone knows what good is and what what it
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what you have to do to cause good.
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Right. So like a question too, like, so
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like for the, let's say the people in church, they read
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about these things, but they gloss over it.
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You think the the accountability and the punishment will be a lot
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worse on those that like, for example, like a person that just
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goes on Sunday church and then they go and gloss over this.
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Do you think their punishment will be a lot worse it?
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Definitely compounds. So to what he was saying, one
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would think like, oh, well, and what's the point?
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I mean, if this is going to happen, then what's the point of
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salvation? I don't think that's what he's
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talking about here. Salvation is he's already
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offering salvation. It's in, in regards to his
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business. What business is that in which
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he's he's giving to you and he's entrusting into your hands that
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you wield it improperly? That's nothing in regards to
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salvation. Salvation is already a hand.
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Like I said, you go into the courts, but now the king has to
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judge like a righteous. Just think of it this way.
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If this is God's Kingdom, right, he's going to judge his Kingdom
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first before he then judges the other kingdoms that deserve
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judgement. He will then judge.
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He's going to judge his household Kingdom.
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If you will then go after the other ones and judge them
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because they will have nothing to say, right?
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So even his children are kept accountable to what he was
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saying. Even to the one who didn't know
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he's he's going to keep him accountable too, because how
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much can you not know? That's true?
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You know what I mean? There's a level of you do know.
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It's like what? Some level.
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Right. Yeah, right.
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It's like James said, if you know the good thing to do and
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you don't do it, to you it is a sin, right?
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Right. Absolutely.
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James says that in chapter 4. The last verse of chapter 4.
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Yeah. Absolutely.
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You know what I mean? So.
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Yes, So what you guys are implying is yes, the punishment.
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Well I was implying yes the punishment is worse for one who
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already knew, but they still did it and they still did wrong
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anyway, right? Absolutely.
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It makes sense why the punishment would be worse for
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those who who knew because you knew what you just refused.
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Right, right. No, absolutely.
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You disobeyed. Essentially, you you disobeyed
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knowing it was wrong, but I feel like we've all been there at
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some point. We've disobeyed in some form.
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No, absolutely we have. I mean, there are moments where
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like, I know it's good, but I don't do it.
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You know, I think there's just moments where you, I think you
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think something sounds very good in the moment, but then you, you
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do it, but then it doesn't bring anything good afterwards.
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So you're saying like misinterpretation?
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Sometimes it can be misinterpretation.
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Yeah, right, right. Sometimes.
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OK, no. Interesting.
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Very interesting. All right, so let's move on to
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verses 57 to 59. All right, I can read it, but if
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anybody else wants to read it, I don't mind either.
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Which one? Luke, we're still in the same
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chapter. So Luke 1257 to 59.
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OK, I. Can read it.
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OK, so it says on 57 verse 57. And why do you not even judge by
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yourselves what is right for when you were going with your
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accuser to appear before the magistrate on the way, make an
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effort to settle with him so that he does not drag you before
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the judge and the judge hand you over to the officer and the
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officer throw you into prison. I tell you, you will not get out
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of there until you have paid the very last leptin.
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Leptin and other translation would probably say penny or some
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form of transaction there. Right.
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No, you know, that verse, when I read it, you know, actually, and
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I shared it with you, you know, it was, we were like shocked,
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you know, actually I was, I was, you know, sitting down today and
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I was like, oh, wow, paid the last penny.
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Very interesting. Like would you say like like
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this is some form of purgatory or it's not?
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I mean you, I mean cause essentially purgatory, if I
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could be wrong here, and this is again, this is based on the
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knowledge I know based on other people who, who, who know about
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Catholicism. Purgatory is for the believer
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apparently in the in the doctrine of the the Catholic or
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it's for the believer who who didn't meet, who pretty much
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didn't go undergo his consequence of his decisions
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here in the temporal reality that when it dies, it continues
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that form of consequence and purgatory.
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Do you know what I mean? But that's not what it's saying
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here, right, right, right. So the person did he did settle.
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It's it sounds like purgatory. I mean, you could probably
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conclude that it is, but it's it's not.
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He's not saying that because you still have salvation.
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Apparently you have to settle with the he would he would have
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to settle with him. He's referring to himself here
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or some translation says adversary, which is Christ who
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would then you settle with him so that the Dutch doesn't grab
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you in and throw you away. Rather it just the judge will
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just pass you to the officer and the officer takes you to prison
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and you pay until you pay the last penny.
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I don't think that's anything to do with purgatory because, I
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mean, you believed, you settled everything with him, but you
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have to still, you know, pay the last penny, whatever.
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It sounds like purgatory. I'm not.
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I'm not denying that. I'm not denying that because I'm
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not. But yeah, yeah.
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Now, because The thing is now I'm just, I'm kind of thrown off
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now that now you guys are bringing the term purgatory into
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this. So why, how did how did that
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come across here? I'm just curious now.
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Because if you read this, it's. He's implying here that that
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settle, settle, settle all your efforts with your adversary
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crisis picked. He's depicting himself here as
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the adversary because to the world Christ is an enemy to the
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world. OK, right.
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Or in other what does your translation say?
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Well, let me let me look, I guess.
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Yes, accuser. So in my translation, as
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accuser, his says yeah, I read mine.
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Yeah, go for. It because I think mine is.
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I believe it's the it's the NIV version, yeah.
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OK, yeah, go for it. Read it.
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Yeah, I'll just read it and see how it interprets here.
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So why don't you judge for yourselves what is right as you
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are going with your advice Adversary to the to make to the
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mega St. Yeah, try hard to be reconciled
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on the way or your adversary may be may drag you off to the judge
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and the judge turn you over to the officer and the officer
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throws you into prison. I tell you, you will not get out
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until you have paid the last penny.
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So adversary is mine, right? Who's the adversary?
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Who's the adversary? Well, that would be us
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essentially, right? No, no, how, how?
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How can the adverse adversary? Adversary.
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Yeah. Yeah, have that, that amount of
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power. You, you're the one who have to
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settle with the adversary. We have to settle with them.
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Who is that adversary? Oh, OK, now you get.
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OK, now I see. It's it's he's not talking about
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the enemy here. Yeah.
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He's talking about himself because the world sees him as
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the adversary. OK, yeah, 'cause you know, this,
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this section kind of just threw me off, you know, just just
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'cause you know, you guys mentioned the purgatory thing
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and then no purgatory the. Purgatory essentially is when
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you die, you didn't meet your quota, if you will, of your
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consequences. So you attention would be they
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call it limbo, border edge. Limbo is what limbus Latin word
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and they call it limbo, right? And so it's basically a this is
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their thought. I could be wrong, but if from
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what I've heard from several people who are well known in the
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in the Catholic apologetics, this is how they speak about it,
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that purgatory is a place that you didn't meet your quota of of
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your consequences, you're still saved.
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This only pertains to the believer.
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This is not, does not does not pertain to the unbeliever.
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You didn't meet your quota of your consequence.
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You then go over there and finish it.
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However, he's talking about this in a terminology in the moment
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of judging, meaning the last day of judgement seems like that
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it's a. He's painting a picture of us
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assimilating when we're getting where we all get judged on the
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because it's a. Great day, right, Because I know
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some like some people in the Catholic faith that's.
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The only thing that throws me off like it, it, it sort of
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paints the concept of, but he's saying the judge and the
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adversary is here and then the officer is here.
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That can only occur in in such a place when you're being judged,
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when the books are open and the book of life is open, right?
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Remember what he says and the revelations.
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Let the filthy be filthy. Let the righteous be righteous.
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Let the Holy 1 be holier and my recompense is mine to give them
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my reward to them according to their deeds, correct?
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So I don't know if that's where you were going.
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To go. No, actually, that was the last
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chapter that we're going to read.
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But I'm glad you mentioned that, though.
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Yeah, I'm just, I'm just saying like, do you think this might
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have been something to do with purgatory?
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I'm not saying it is. And the way, you know, our
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brother Oscar just put it right now, actually, like, remember,
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because this is in the same chapter, remember, like all the
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chapters correlate with each other.
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And in that same chapter, he says much more is given to you,
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much more is required of you. Yeah, I remember.
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So talking about. So you know what I'm saying?
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So like that means that that the consequences, let's say if God
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puts you at a high stand, you know, he sees you.
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And then and then afterwards, like you decide to be on the
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servant, like he talks about. And then you start like, I guess
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he's talked about like, you know, getting drunk, all these
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things. Like you start falling apart,
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then the consequences will be much greater on.
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You right, but I was going to say about the purgatory thing
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yes so some people I know within the Catholic faith, you know
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they say that essentially yeah, I guess it was it was kind of
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like the way Oscar was describing it in a sense when he
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heard from his I guess people he knows that are Catholic.
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But I guess the way people I have mentioned it is essentially
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it's a place where essentially you go for you, you pay your
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unpaid sins and unpaid deeds. And then essentially you're
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going to go through, you're going to go through temporary
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torment and suffering and pain. But they said the pain, they
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said the pain in purgatory is what cleanses you down there.
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But I thought your cleansing is done up here.
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Again, the purgatory they they actually take that from First
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Corinthians chapter 3 and so on. If you want to read but key
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point he made here. This is judgment according to
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what you were given and what was entrusted in your hands.
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If you read this is that judgment is in what in regards
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to how you stewardship his his business.
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His business means like his things, God's kings to his
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things. He's not referring to to to your
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sinful nature. He's referring to what that much
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for example, the more wisdom, the more you get to know, you
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start to have more responsibility for knowing that
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information versus someone who maybe not know that information
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and could pretty much continue living his life without knowing
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that information. But because you know it much
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more deeper. That is a responsibility upon
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you that He is given that it is is required for you and expected
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of you to stewardship that properly did you.
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Read 58 what it says to you. Again and put my glasses on was
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58 for when you were going to the accuser to appear before the
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magistrate on the way, make an effort to settle with him.
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Wait, so when it's saying when you go before the accuser,
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before the magistrate, right? Now the accuser is that is that
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someone who's accusing you, like in that instance, right.
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It's someone who's accusing you and you're appearing before the
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magistrate. Magistrate's God, right?
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Yeah, the judge, the judge, right.
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But that sounds like that the cute when you go before your
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accuser, I kind of took it as like, like your accuser, someone
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who has a problem with you. Like you have to settle that
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out. Like, like if you were to ignore
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that, like someone who has a problem with you, you don't know
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that's not my, that's not my issue.
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Like forget about them. You should ignore them.
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Well, you're still going to pay it up eventually.
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That's the way I took it. Like, don't put aside the
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problems you have with someone, even if they're accusing you for
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something that's. Deep so you're just you're just
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going so the the way you're describing is he's deeper now
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you know what I'm saying yeah, that's the way I took it it's so
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much more deeper now yeah. And so explain one more time.
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So so. He says, he says, my version
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says as you go with the accuser before the magistrate, so as you
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go before the person accusing you before God, the magistrate,
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it says make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he
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drag you to the judge and the judge hand you over to the
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officer and officer put you in prison.
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I tell you, you will never get out until you pay the very last
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penny. So you're basically saying it's
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interesting the way it's put there.
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Like, so basically what you're saying is like an adversary is
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going to be against you in that court and you have to present
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yourself to prove right. Now, I know that there is a
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scripture that says my people perish because of lack of
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wisdom. Does that have something to do
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with that verse? Well, if if my people perish
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because of lack of wisdom, that's where he's talking about
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what? What's given to you, wisdom
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essentially is given to you. That's knowledge from above
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heaven. So that knowledge that you have
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and do not stewardship that properly in your life and to
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others, whose responsibility, who does that fall on to?
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Is it to the one who didn't know or the one who knew?
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Yeah, 100% right. Because it's like saying like,
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it's like saying God gives you this existential amount of
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wisdom and just like you don't care and you don't want to share
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it, you don't want. And that's what it, that's what
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I'm saying when it says like, as you go along with your accuser,
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it's like you're a child of God. You should know how to settle
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this, and yet you're not settling it.
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So if you let it be, you're going to pay for it eventually.
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Yeah. And that's again that is that it
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might, it might be depicted as purgatory, but again, the way
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they see purgatory or the way their doctrine is over here
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seems to be that something that you get add towards the end of
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all form of judgment, right, Because otherwise then Christ
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then says, you know, let the ones who are filthy are filthy,
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righteous or righteous. I will I will reward them
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according to their deeds. Now this has personally, it does
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not paint anything here to do with salvation.
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He's talking to the believers, people who don't stewardship
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God's business properly, the ones who, well, he's not coming
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yet. So I have time like that.
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What He was just saying you need to settle this.
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Oh, well, you know, he's not. He's not around the corner yet
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when he literally said no one knows the hour, no one knows
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when I'm coming, not even the Son of Man.
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But that's up for debate. You know, the Son of Man?
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Jesus. Yeah.
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In that moment. In that moment, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, in that moment. Correct.
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Yeah, absolutely. So, Brian, explain that one more
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time what Wilmer was talking about in regards to the the
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magistrate. Oh, I know your translation says
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it. Different, oh I mean my says why
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don't you judge for yourselves what is right as you are going
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with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle
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with him on the way. Then he won't drag you before
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the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff and the
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bailiff throw you into prison. I tell you, you will never get
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out of there until you have paid the last penny.
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So always a question like that. It's for.
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The listeners, oh for the listeners what he was reading.
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About Oh yeah, no, he, he's basically saying like this is
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what this is, right guy, I might, I might have misheard
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you, but like, like when you're, when you're battling against
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that adversary, you're in front of the judge and you have to
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like present yourself approved basically so you won't be thrown
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into that prison. So essentially you won't have to
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pay that last penny that what he talks about is that what you're
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saying right. I'm.
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Pretty much saying that like, you're supposed to present
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yourself accordingly, right? Right.
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Like, not just like something presents itself, just turn away,
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right, Even though that, yeah, settle it, settle it, yeah,
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settle it and right, do what you got to do in that situation.
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No, absolutely, absolutely. And you know what, we're going
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to move on to to the next chapter because this has this is
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actually Luke 16. And it talks about how the
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master gives to the servants. And then when one of that
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servant doesn't come back with anything, he literally says, do
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you not know that I'm like a really tough like ruler, You
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know what I mean? So we're going to have to read
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that. Now.
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Are we heading now Luke 16? And we're going to read verse 1
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all the way to 13. So if you want, I can read this
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no problems. It says now, he said to the
25:40
disciples. There was a rich man who
25:42
received an accusation that his manager was squandering right
25:51
his possessions. So he called the manager and
25:53
asked, What is this I hear about you give an account of your
25:56
manager because you can no longer be my manager.
25:59
Then the manager said to himself, what will I do since my
26:02
master is taking the manager away from me?
26:05
I'm not strong enough to dig. I'm ashamed to beg.
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I know what I'll do so that when I'm removed from the management,
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people will welcome me into their homes.
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So he summoned each one of the masters debtors.
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How much do I owe? Do I owe my master?
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He asked the first one 100 measures of olive.
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He said take your invoice. He told him.
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Sit down quickly and write 50. Next he said he asked another
26:32
how much do I owe 100 measures of wheat?
26:35
He said, take your invoice, he told him, and write 80 The
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Master praised the unrighteous manager because he acted
26:44
shrewdly right for the children of this age, for more shrewd
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than the children of light in dealing with their own people.
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And I tell you, make friends of yourselves by means of worldly
26:56
wealth, so that when it fails they may welcome you into
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eternal dwelling. Whoever is faithful and very
27:03
little also is faithful and much, and whoever is unrighteous
27:06
and very little is also unrighteous and and much.
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So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will
27:15
trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been
27:19
faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you
27:23
what is your own? No servant can serve 2 masters,
27:26
since either he will hate 1 and love the other, or he will be he
27:31
will be devoted to 1 despise the other.
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You cannot serve both God and money.
27:40
Sorry, guys. I said it was the, the, the the
27:44
guy that gives the the talents. Yeah, yeah, my bad.
27:47
Yeah. But you know what?
27:48
Actually like, No, no, I meant to read that.
27:51
But you know what? I'm glad we read this one.
27:52
Now. What do you guys think about
27:54
this one? Or maybe how it can kind of
27:56
correlate to to what we read before?
27:59
I think he says it's super straightforward, honestly, right
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at the end. You can't love God and money.
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You know, Brian and I were just talking about that like, you
28:16
know, we were before we even started this this session.
28:20
You know, we're talking about, you know, how I'm looking into
28:23
a, you know, I am in the process of a potential career change.
28:26
But. But that's not the point.
28:28
The point is, yeah, it's like it's about money here.
28:31
So yeah, money. I think I was talking and hit
28:35
Brian saying, I don't know. I mean, I think money is just,
28:38
it can be evil if you let it control you.
28:41
It doesn't matter who you are. You could be a believer, non
28:45
believer, definitely worse if you're a believer.
28:51
And you know, if you, I feel like there are definitely plenty
28:56
of people in the faith who have been controlled over money and
28:59
still are. I don't know, maybe it's a topic
29:03
that's not talked about enough. I feel control and the and the
29:06
lust for money. I don't know if you guys agree.
29:11
Yeah, it's a topic that I feel like is not talked about a lot.
29:13
Whoever. Wants to go.
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What do I think about money? I mean.
29:18
You anybody can say anything I guess about the like, about me
29:21
saying I feel. Like it's a topic that's not
29:25
talked about. Enough.
29:26
Yeah, for sure. And like something I feel like I
29:29
just noticed about money reading this parable was how in the
29:35
beginning it doesn't even say that he was actually stealing.
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It just says he was accused and the guy happened to also be it
29:46
seems like handicapped or something.
29:47
He said I can't dig. And for he said something else
29:50
he can't do pretty much you can't work.
29:52
So he, we don't really know if he actually did what he was
29:56
being accused of, but what we do know is in the moment he freaked
30:00
out, they didn't have faith in God that he would be OK.
30:03
And he acted on on his own and started actually acting
30:06
unfaithful. So like, even like in those time
30:10
crunch situations, the money can get to you.
30:15
So if I, if I might add on that aches the fact that you said
30:20
that that's true because reading it, I was like, interesting
30:23
preachers have painted it a different a different way.
30:26
But when you read it, it's entirely different from what
30:28
they how they preach it. It's true because he knows
30:33
obviously when you find your moment of desperation, dude, you
30:38
make some wrong decisions and that they end up being somewhat
30:43
wicked along the way. And then you can't even go back
30:47
from that And you don't even you succumb to it.
30:50
You don't even like then you recognize, you recognize it, but
30:54
it's almost like, well, it had to be done kind of thing, right?
30:58
You know exactly what I'm talking about, right?
31:00
And and then you don't even repent from it or even recognize
31:04
the God. I'm so sorry.
31:06
Just it went over your head. Yeah, it's just like literally
31:09
went over your head when the essentially the smartest thing
31:13
that should have happened is I'm stopped.
31:17
I'm just going to let God take this and whatever happens
31:21
happens and let the true faith really rule over and that's
31:28
funny that you said that he because he freaked out because
31:32
of that, it made him unfaithful that.
31:35
And he started stealing. And he started stealing because
31:37
of that. We.
31:37
Don't really know if he was stealing before, that's the
31:40
crazy part. That's it.
31:41
So it shows that of the desperation of the unbelief,
31:45
what you start to do on your own means rather than trusting in
31:48
God to think straight and do things.
31:52
This blew my mind that that does correlate until we were just
31:57
reading because that's that guy literally didn't he didn't
32:01
administrate his thoughts properly.
32:04
He's like, wait, hold on, let me, let me, let me gather my
32:06
thoughts. You didn't do that.
32:07
It was. Just in.
32:11
Desperation and and just follow the path of destruction after
32:15
that, right? Right.
32:16
So yeah, it definitely has something to do with the.
32:18
Photograph before Yeah, yeah, 100% yeah.
32:20
He might have. He probably felt accused.
32:22
Yeah. So he was just like, absolutely.
32:25
He went off the rails after that.
32:28
Yeah, actually, yeah, he was. Says he was accused and we just
32:32
read Settle figure out with the accused.
32:35
Yeah, yeah. Settle it with your accuser
32:39
with. Your accuser, yeah, absolutely.
32:41
No, you see, like that's why bro.
32:42
He didn't settle it. He tried to take it to his own
32:45
hands. Dude, he the crazy, he said, he
32:47
said. And I tell you so he, he
32:51
correlates it with with the children of light too, he says,
32:53
for the children of this age are more shrewd.
32:56
What does shrewd mean? What does shrewd mean?
32:58
Shrewd. What does it mean?
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Shrewd is like, where are we reading this from again?
33:04
So I can have perspective of 16 of 16, Yes.
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Verse eight. Yeah, here we go.
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And his master complimented the unrighteous manager because he
33:19
had acted shrewdly also. Basically that means like,
33:25
disrespectfully. Oh, disrespect.
33:27
Yeah. Improper.
33:28
Yeah. Oh wow.
33:29
Interesting. That was the same.
33:32
It's interesting enough that mine says the master commended
33:35
the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly.
33:38
I know, different wording, different version of.
33:40
Yeah, that's interesting. I said dishonest.
33:43
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, being disrespectful,
33:48
right. It's basically saying it's play
33:53
on words because they don't want to repeat the in Greek.
33:56
It's much more clear if you were to read in Greek.
33:58
If you read Greek, dude, it's so much clearer because English is
34:02
weird, right? So many play on words because
34:05
the Greek is just one word. That one word can mean literally
34:09
many things. So yeah, it means like
34:12
dishonest, disrespectful, dishonorable.
34:15
It means all those things. All right, that being said, all
34:20
let's move on to Luke 13 verses 22 to 30.
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My bad. Not yeah, Luke 13.
34:29
That's right, 22 to 3020. 2 to 30.
34:32
Yep. So if you want, I can read it
34:37
again. I don't mind.
34:39
So actually we're going to start in verse 24.
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Actually make every effort to enter through the narrow door
34:48
because I tell you, many will try to enter and won't be able.
34:52
Once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door, then you will
34:55
stand outside and knock on the door saying, Lord open up for
35:00
us. He will answer you, I don't know
35:03
you or where you're from. Then you will say, We ate and
35:07
drank in your presence and you taught in our streets.
35:11
But he will say, I tell you, I don't know you or where you're
35:14
from. Get away from me, all you evil
35:17
doers. There will be weeping and
35:19
gnashing of teeth in that place when you see Abraham, Isaac,
35:24
Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God.
35:28
But yourselves thrown out. They will come from east and
35:32
West, from North and South to to share the banquet in the Kingdom
35:38
of God. Note this, some who are last
35:42
will be first, and some who are first will be last.
35:45
That was very interesting. Right.
35:49
Well, yeah, that's tying everything to what he was
35:51
reading in Luke 12. Those will be last.
35:54
Those will be first. I remember we were talking about
35:56
this with Wilmer a couple months ago.
35:59
Remember that we just like you had an epiphany.
36:02
He just like, Oh my God, and I was thinking of something to it
36:06
that during that time and it was just crazy.
36:08
But that correlates all to chapter to 12 and in regards to
36:13
settling that. But you know, it's crazy if you
36:18
know the right thing to do, do. It do the right thing.
36:22
Do it right. Do the right thing, yeah.
36:25
Because if you know, if you know the right, you have now the
36:27
wisdom to know what to do. The good thing you don't do it,
36:31
James says. For you, it is a sin.
36:34
That means you're disobeying. The sin is the disobedience for
36:37
not doing the right thing. No, but I'm actually going to
36:39
say right now, the part that really just just got me, like it
36:43
just really got me thinking. It said once the owner of the
36:46
house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside
36:49
knocking and pleading, Sir, open the door for us.
36:53
But he will answer. I don't know you or where you
36:55
came from like that. That's tough right there.
36:59
It's like you know the owner, you know someone and only her
37:02
Lord, you know, he gets up and shuts the door.
37:06
It's there's no coming back. There's no, there's no solution
37:10
at that point, pretty much you're cooked.
37:12
If he closes the door on you. It's like, like it reminds me
37:16
of, kind of reminds me of Noah's ark a little or a lot.
37:20
No, no, Yeah, yeah, of course. And if you really, if you, if
37:23
you, if you try to have perspective on verse 1213141516,
37:28
he's pretty much speaking and future tense.
37:31
It's weird because these are for the people listening when Christ
37:36
was speaking for them it was like parables but from Jesus
37:40
perspective. It's a future tense thing that's
37:44
happening. In other words it seems like
37:46
from his wisdom that he has he was taking information from a
37:51
Kingdom that was playing out itself already in a future of
37:56
form of ruling. Which scripture does say that
37:59
Christ will rule for 1000 years so he could be taking parables
38:05
from examples that are to him had had already happened in the
38:10
future taking those examples how the gospel of in the Kingdom of
38:16
heaven is when he rules how it will work because let me let's
38:22
just be clear that the thousand rule reign.
38:26
There will be people here still, still not believing the fact
38:30
that he just came from like from heaven.
38:33
And people are still going to like, not like.
38:36
That's actually a really good point that you pointed out there
38:38
because in in this like book of Luke, he uses the rich man and
38:43
Lazarus. And at the end of that, he says,
38:45
not even if someone comes back to life, they will believe.
38:51
So exactly, that's implying who came back to life.
38:54
Exactly. So, so.
38:58
So he's speaking in like very kingship terminology in regards
39:02
to ruling, right. So it's interesting how he's
39:05
painting it here to the listeners during that time and
39:08
for us as readers as parables. Right.
39:12
And not only does he paint that, for example, he took it's like
39:17
Diego, you like the accuser is like you owe him something.
39:21
Yeah. Right.
39:23
Yeah, right. And you won't be able to, you
39:26
won't meet that. Therefore Christ paid that
39:29
penalty, right? You have now access to settle.
39:34
What is to settle? God forgive me for my what?
39:37
My sins for my sins when before you can say forgive me, it
39:41
doesn't even matter. You can't.
39:43
It wouldn't matter at. That you can't but Christ paid
39:47
the penalty. You have access to say God, I'm
39:48
sorry, you can settle. You can settle this this while
39:53
you're alive. So like I said, a paint an idea
39:58
of purgatory, but it seems like it's he's speaking in forms of
40:02
when it's of ruling, when he's ruling.
40:06
That's how I see it. You know what I'm saying?
40:08
And now that we're here on earth, we can settle that
40:11
because he's allowed that for us to settle.
40:15
I don't know if any of you guys have anything.
40:16
To I think that part was just very deep, you know, that last,
40:18
that last part we just read, you know, No, no, no, I'm done.
40:24
I'm done. All right, you have anything to
40:28
say? No, nothing else.
40:30
All right, so now we're going to the last chapter in the Book of
40:36
Revelation, chapter 22, verses 12 to 1620. 2 to 22 what?
40:46
Which? Chapter 22, verses 12 to 1612
40:51
to. 16. No, chapter 22, sorry, verses 12
41:01
to 16, one of the most interesting.
41:05
Well, actually the last, the last chapter of the Bible,
41:10
Revelation. Let me know when you guys are
41:14
there you. Made it.
41:23
I mean, I'm. There.
41:24
OK, OK, so I'll start reading. So look, it says, look, I am
41:29
coming soon and my reward is with me to repay each person
41:34
according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
41:40
the 1st and the last, the beginning and the end.
41:45
Blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may have the
41:50
right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.
41:55
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexual immorals,
42:00
the murders, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices
42:05
falsehood. I, Jesus, have sent my angels to
42:08
attest these things to you for the churches.
42:13
I am the root and descendant of David, the bright morning star.
42:20
And this verse. I mean, these verses have a lot
42:25
to do with what we just read. It's like how it just all
42:28
connects to each other. You know, everything we just
42:31
everything we just went over tonight, it all, it all links
42:34
together. It's like, it's almost like the
42:36
pieces are being put together, right, Right.
42:38
Absolutely. Absolutely.
42:43
It's interesting. I mean, I mean, if you were to,
42:46
if you read Luke chapter 1257, it's just just a thought.
42:53
I'm not, I'm not a theologist. I don't right?
42:58
It's so funny. We could be so divided as a, as
43:02
a body of Christ, you know, the Protestant, the Catholic and the
43:05
Christian. We can be so divided, but
43:08
there's one thing that's inevitable.
43:10
It's just inevitable and we all know it within the community,
43:15
the Protestant, the Catholic and the Christian of is that I'm
43:18
just going to be judging though. It's just, it's inevitable.
43:21
It's just straight up inevitable.
43:23
You know, you can come to so many other conclusions, you know
43:27
what I mean? And, and if you read 12 very
43:31
carefully over and over, it's almost like you see a play on
43:34
between the deity of God, like the ruler, the judge, the
43:39
accuser, the majesty. Like, it's almost like, it's
43:42
almost like they're all in there.
43:44
Interesting. It's just, I don't even know.
43:45
That's actually interesting. Yeah.
43:47
I don't know. Because like, the reason why
43:49
Christ come came to die is because we couldn't meet those
43:53
standards. We can never, ever.
43:56
Right. Like settle that account, if you
43:59
will. You know what I mean?
44:01
Yeah. Absolutely.
44:02
And so then he then comes, dies, takes a penalty, then we can now
44:06
settle, right? He's basically, he's basically
44:10
saying you can now settle. He's being more than fair, like
44:14
straight up fair, fair. And so, yeah, I, I, it's
44:17
interesting how you tied it up to that.
44:20
And I just, I just in my mind came to an inevitable
44:22
conclusion, like, yeah, we'll be saved.
44:24
All those who believe in Christ will be saved if their faith has
44:30
a true evidence, their fruits show true evidence of their
44:33
faith. But also we need to keep in
44:35
mind, like his children and like in his Kingdom, he will also be
44:39
a fair judge, 100% without a shadow of a doubt.
44:44
Yeah, that's those are my thoughts.
44:49
Yeah, no dude, it just it all correlates all together.
44:55
He goes off with saying like I'm coming to repeat each according
44:58
and then he says I'm the alpha and the Omega, the beginning and
45:01
the end. And then he mentions, blessed
45:04
are those that wash your robes daily for they will have the
45:06
tree of life, right? And then he goes outside of
45:09
those gates. Remember what we read in I think
45:12
it was in chapter 13 of Luke, the narrow way he, you know, he
45:17
shuts the door on them says Lord, Lord, you know, but he you
45:20
know, he says outside of the gates are the sexual immorals
45:24
that adulterers all those people, right?
45:27
And it just all correlates all together.
45:30
So like, and that's amazing that you you said like that you see
45:34
the deity of God working it, it it almost does look, Yeah.
45:38
Like now that now that you mentioned that I can, I can see
45:41
that, yeah. Because, I mean, I kept reading.
45:47
I was like, well, we we could, we can come to a conclusion that
45:51
the enemy, the devil can be an accuser, But what is he?
45:53
What is he to us? What do we owe him?
45:56
We don't owe him anything. I don't owe him anything.
45:59
He has his own judgement just as much as I do.
46:01
So why? Why do I have to settle
46:03
anything? Right.
46:05
So if you keep reading it carefully, Christ, it's like
46:09
literally using play on words of his deity.
46:13
It's so weird. If you read it carefully, like
46:17
over nor just like, it's amazing.
46:19
But that's besides the point. What I'm trying to say is we
46:23
could be all divided all we can and we can probably like I
46:27
respect the Catholic, devout Catholic people.
46:31
There's some people don't care cultural and the Orthodox, and I
46:35
obviously in the Protestant community.
46:38
But the end it's inevitable. Like those who believe in his
46:41
children, you know, a father has to correct his children, does he
46:45
not? Right.
46:47
Obviously, if you're not my child, I don't.
46:49
I don't know. You stay out there.
46:51
Like, I don't know who you are. You stay out there.
46:52
Yeah. Yeah.
46:53
But he will. He will.
46:54
He has the right to to be like, all right, all of you.
46:57
All right. Well, you know, absolutely.
47:00
Absolutely. So I don't know if you guys have
47:02
any thoughts on that. Any more thoughts?
47:06
No, no thoughts. Yeah.
47:08
So no. Awesome.
47:11
And you know what? These were all like Christ's
47:14
words, you know, because all these letters are in red.
47:18
But I thought it was amazing how they all correlate.
47:21
And for for a while, I mean, growing up in in in church, I,
47:26
it was mostly because I never really got into it.
47:28
I know if I would have gotten into it, you know, a guy would
47:31
have, you know, gave me more wisdom.
47:33
But I used to think it was just either heaven or hell, right?
47:38
Which I mean, yeah, those those are like, you know, the
47:40
punishments, right? But it seems like it's much
47:43
deeper than what we think. And like you said at the end,
47:48
like, what I'm getting out of all this is that God is more
47:52
than fair to all his children and even to the ones outside the
47:56
gates, too. He's more than fair to all
47:58
we're. Just not fair to ourselves.
48:02
What do you mean by? Let's say we're just not fair to
48:03
ourselves. Oh.
48:04
Like, like we put ourselves down too much.
48:05
Yeah, we put ourselves in that position.
48:07
And and you know what, like one thing, I came to a conclusion,
48:11
right? Like whenever we, we like fall
48:12
short and we're like, no, God, I'm so pathetic.
48:15
I'm not going to go to actually that within itself.
48:18
You're already showing some pride because you're making it
48:20
about yourself. You, you, why not go to God and
48:23
ask God, God forgive me and give me strength so I may keep going.
48:27
That is denying yourself right there and then, you know what I
48:31
mean? So yeah, any more thoughts?
48:36
All right, so I'm going to close this up with the prayer.
48:40
Those that are listening, subscribe, keep tuning in.
48:44
This is our first Bible study, Bible study recording that that,
48:50
you know, we were just testing it out basically.
48:53
But like, actually this was nice.
48:56
And the the chapters that I love how they all correlate to each
48:59
other. And I think as a body of Christ,
49:02
we need to stop like reading chapters like if they're like
49:06
separate from each other. And that's the reason why we
49:08
have so much like division and so much twisted gospel, so much
49:13
cunary for in other words. But yeah, we all need to
49:20
actually read the things in context.
49:22
And I know they're a lot deeper than what we just read right
49:24
now, like, like they get deeper and deeper.
49:26
But that's, that's it for today. And we're going to close with
49:30
the prayer. So any more thoughts before?
49:35
Thank you, Father, for just allowing us just to be here.
49:38
And I just pray, O Lord, that you continue to guide us and all
49:43
this wisdom that you have given us, O Lord, I know that much
49:46
more will be required of us. And I just pray, O Lord, that
49:51
you help us with our faith, You help us with our unbelief, and
49:55
that so that we may grow more and more in your holy name.
49:59
For I know at the end, O Lord, we're here for your glory, not
50:02
our own. So thank you for everything, O
50:05
Heavenly Father, your will be done for.
50:08
You are the one true living God. Amen.