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The Revelation Knowledge in Christ (Part 1) · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is
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designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
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walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
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the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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right in. The way we respond to the things of
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God and to the things of the Spirit is subject
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to the level of revelation we have about God.
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So sometimes when you see yourself not responding
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well to the things of the Spirit or to the things
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that pertain to life and godliness, you should
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begin to perceive that you need to pay attention
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to the words that you have received. That those
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words, that you receive them as revelation, that
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you get into the revelation of every teaching
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that you have received. That our attitude towards
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God our attitude towards the things of God, our
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attitude towards prayer, our attitude towards
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studying the Word, tells us how much, I would
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say, it has become dawn on us who God is and
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what the Word of God is and what Christ did and
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what we have in Christ and what we can do and
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what is to come for us. Let's have our seats.
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This morning, the teaching is the revelation
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knowledge in Christ. Okay, it's revelation knowledge
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in Christ. The revelation knowledge in Christ.
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Now, from believers' meeting or believers' conference
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that we had, we taught many things about, you
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know, apologetics and... How we can become ready
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to give an answer for everyone who asks us, you
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know, the reason why we believe what and whom
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we have believed, right? So we talk about the
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reasons. We try to prepare us, right, to be people
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who are bold enough to answer questions when
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it comes to responding to other people. Who claim
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to name the name of the Lord? Are we together?
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So, that was what we did in Karatismos. And we
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talked about different belief systems and we
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tried to correct some things about them. But
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I realized that there is a level of revelation
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knowledge that we will have. That even with the
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little knowledge of God that you have, you know,
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I call it little, you will be bold to give an
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answer for those who come around you to ask you
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about your faith. You see, revelational knowledge
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gives us the boldness, right, to be able to stand
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and give an answer. concerning our faith in Christ.
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It gives us the boldness to be able to give an
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answer concerning why we believe what we believe.
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Now, apart from evangelism and apologia, one
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of the things that revelational knowledge does
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to us is it's I don't know how to describe it.
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It just gives you this, it gives you zeal. Zeal
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and passion for the things of God. Right? When
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you get into the revelation and when it becomes
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what is being preached to you, when the revelation
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is open to you, it gives you zeal and passion
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for God. Like you don't struggle to do the things
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of God. Like you don't struggle to do the things
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of God. You don't struggle to understand who
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God is. You don't struggle to understand what
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you have. In fact, when circumstances arise in
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your life, because of the revelational knowledge
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of Christ that you have, are we together? When
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circumstances arise, because of the revelational
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knowledge that you have, It is easy or easier
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to go through circumstances. So you might be
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passing through a lot, but people will not perceive
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it because you are working in the revelational
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knowledge of God because you know who God is.
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So you might be passing through circumstances,
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but the depth of God's revelation He said that
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we will know the love of God that passes all
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human understanding. When you understand the
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depths, you know, it's not emotional love. When
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we talk about the love of God, it's not emotional.
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It's not this love that goes and comes. This
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love that is unstable. Today, you like the person.
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Tomorrow, the person might provoke you and you
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would question, why did I love the person in
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the first place? Because that is the love of
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human. But when it comes to the revelational
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knowledge of God as pertaining the love of God,
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it is consistent, unchanging. It is stable. So
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what does such knowledge does to you? Such knowledge
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keeps you stable in circumstances. Right? It
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keeps you stable in circumstances. It keeps you
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very much stable. In circumstances. Because the
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revelational knowledge of God itself is consistent.
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Right? Today I'm just laying a foundation of
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what we are going to go through or what we are
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going to go with or to be taught in the next
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two weeks. So, when the revelation helps you
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to be stable because the revelational knowledge
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of God, it is consistent. It's consistent. So
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it means that the believer will become unshakable.
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So I have a brother in church and the brother
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offends me, right? In my heart, I might begin
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to doubt. Do I really love this brother? Or should
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this brother even come close to me? Right? So
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you doubt, you know, your expression of love.
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You begin to question it. But when you remember
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the depths of God's love, what do you do? You
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forgive. You let offense to pass. You rejoice.
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You encourage the brother. You tell the brother
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he's authentic. You bring him back. So, the revelation
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knowledge is beyond, right, how we feel, how
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the excitement goes, but is deeper. Now, in regards
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to evangelism, it gives you the zeal to tell
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someone about Jesus because over time, right,
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and some of us that have gone out to, you know,
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preach, you would see a believer, right? When
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you're preaching to some believers, you would
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wonder, your name is, maybe your name is John,
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and the person is asking you and trying to tell
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you to explain the resurrection of Jesus. Now,
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it's not that they don't know the story. They
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can tell you the story. They can tell you how
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Jesus was crucified, how he rose again, how he
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appeared to his disciples. But they will tell
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you to recount it like they don't even understand.
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In fact, they don't understand it. It means that
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while they know that information, the revelation
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of that knowledge is yet to appear to them. Now,
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I think it was me and Bra Prince that went to
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speak to a guy. The guy is Muslim, right? And
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we're speaking to him. And the guy seems to have
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here and there, here and there, here and there
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information about the Christian faith. And do
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you know what the guy told us? Right? The impression
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I got from the guy is that some believers don't
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even have this information. He does not believe
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it. He does not agree with it, but because I
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think in their scriptures, it's written that
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they should seek knowledge. So in the course
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of seeking knowledge, he encountered that knowledge.
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So he knows he could explain, right? Of course,
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he had some places where he's putting a question
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mark and we're trying to explain to him, you
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know, that question mark, we can help you remove
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it because there's an explanation to it. But
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the consistent thing in the statement is that
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I have not come into the revelation of this,
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so I can't accept it. Right? That was what he
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was saying. And consistently we meet people and
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they just show that the depth of the revelation
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of Christ is yet to be established in them. And
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when I mean people, I mean believers. So as believers,
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we must be so strong in the revelation of Christ.
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We must be so strong. We must be so rich in the
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revelation of Christ. You should have abundance.
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Right? of scriptures that you can explain. You
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know, you cannot just stay at John 3 .16. That's
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not good enough. In fact, you cannot be there
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because in John 3 .16, you will not be able to
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encapsulate all that the scriptures has talked
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about. So it should push a zeal for you that
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when pastor teaches something here, right, you
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are writing it down, going back home to study.
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You are hearing a sermon, you don't understand,
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you write it down, you go back home to study.
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Let it always trigger something in you. Don't
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let any knowledge of Christ pass you by. Let
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me say that again. Don't let any knowledge about
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Christ pass you by. It means that be zealous
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to receive the knowledge that you might walk
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in revelation. Now, I'm just saying all of these
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to tell us the importance of revelational knowledge,
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right? The revelational knowledge in Christ,
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the importance is so enormous in every area of
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our lives. But we teach it, right, with regards
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to interpretation of Scripture and other things.
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So let's open our Scriptures. Let's open our
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Scriptures. 2 Timothy 3, 15. 2 Timothy 3, 15.
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It said, and that from childhood, you have known
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the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you
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wise for salvation, true faith, which is in Christ
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Jesus. The next verse. All Scripture is given
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by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine,
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for reproof, for correction, for instruction
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in righteousness. That a man of God may be complete,
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thoroughly equipped for every good work. That
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a man of God is ready and thoroughly equipped
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for every good work. So let's start from this
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scripture. Because from this scripture, we would
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also understand the importance of the revelation
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knowledge in Christ. So let's start. Now he said,
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from a childhood thou hast known the Holy Scripture.
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Now that word, Holy Scripture, right? Because
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we know, some of us know it, is hero's grammar.
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And I'm going to explain it, right? I'm going
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to explain, take a little bit of time to explain
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it. Hero's grammar. Which involves the letters,
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the phrases and statements. The letters, the
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phrases, and statements that are sacred. Letters,
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phrases, and statements that are sacred. Letter,
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phrases, statements that are sacred. So, from
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a child of doubt known the Holy Scriptures. The
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word Holy Scriptures there is Heroes Grammar,
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which is H -I -E -R -O -S. Then grammar, G -R
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-A -M -M -A. The word holy scriptures there.
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H -I -E -R -O -S. That's holy. Then grammar,
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which is the scriptures, G -R -A -M -M -A. The
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letters, phrases, and statements that are sacred.
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Okay? That are sacred. So what does this reflect?
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Because Paul was writing to Timothy, right? Will
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you be expecting Timothy to have this kind of
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a Bible? Please look up. Will Timothy be carrying
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this kind of a scripture? No, right? It's impossible.
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He won't be carrying this. It means that he will
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be carrying probably scrolls, writings of the
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whole Testament, right? Timothy will be carrying
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scrolls. So it means that those writings, Timothy
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is, here he says, known the scriptures. Right?
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Timothy knows those writings. He knows those
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letters. He knows those statements from the Scriptures.
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Are we together? So, Timothy knows those scrolls.
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It's like saying Timothy knows the scrolls. He
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knows Isaiah. He knows those writings. Right?
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He knows those statements. Okay? So, Timothy
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will not have a Bible like this. He'll have scrolls.
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And the word to know the Scriptures in that statement
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is Eido. E -I -D -O. You can write it down. The
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word to know. Right? The word to know. The word
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to know, the scriptures, is the word Eido. And
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it is, it has some meaning, right? E -I -D -O.
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That was known, the scriptures. And it has some
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meaning. It means that he is well acquainted
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with the scriptures. Right? So, Those scriptures
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are not strange to him, right? The Bible or in
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its terms, the scrolls are not strange to Timothy.
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So he's well acquainted to these writings, to
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these scriptures. He has read them. He knows
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them. He can explain them. He knows the scriptures.
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So when they read Isaiah, he can know this is
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Isaiah. He can know this is the scripture. So
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he's well acquainted to... the scriptures. Now,
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that knowing is also related to skill. So it
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means that he has been examined. A skill of examination
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means checking the scriptures, checking the scrolls.
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So we can see that Timothy is someone that checks
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those scriptures, those writings. Right? The
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skill of examining, exploring the scriptures.
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So Timothy is someone that carries those materials
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and examines them. And we say that those materials
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are holy scriptures, sacred writings, phrases,
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and statements. Now, most of us are at this level,
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okay? Most of us, you read the Bible, you know
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the scriptures, you can quote. Some of us, when
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we were young, you go for Bible competition,
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right? And, you know, they call you out, you
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read a book, they ask you who did this, this,
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this. So you know the storyline, right? You know.
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Every part of the storyline. And you can answer
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questions. You do Bible sword. You are the first
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to open it. And all of that. Now, look at what
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it said following that. That you have known the
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scriptures. The holy scriptures. It says, which
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are able to make thee wise. Now, it means that
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those scriptures can make him wise. Now, that
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word wise is so feasible. Which, of course, we
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have taught before. So it involves, the word
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wise, isophizo. S -O -P -H -I -Z -O. Means to
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skillfully teach. Right? To skillfully teach.
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To skillfully teach. So which are able to make
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thee wise? So if we say wise is to skillfully
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teach, right? To be grounded, to be able to explain.
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That's the part of it. To be able to explain.
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Explain what? Explain salvation. So it means
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that from those scrolls, Timothy can pack them,
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right? And teach salvation from them. From those
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letters, from those writings. So it's not just
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going to pick only one scroll, right? It's going
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to pick a series of them across them in those
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writings. And then it would skillfully teach
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salvation. Are we together? So the question you
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ask yourself is, can I do that? So that's the
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first question you ask yourself. Can I pick the
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Bible and across the scriptures sufficiently?
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teach salvation or I will be stuck in the John
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3 system. Right? So, that's the question we begin
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to ask ourselves. Why? Because in the going through
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of those scriptures is revelation. The going
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through of those scrolls, all of those scrolls
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is revelation. It means that you cannot stay
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in one scripture and expect yourself to grow.
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To grow, you must be well acquainted with the
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scriptures and you must be able to teach salvation
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to start with, right? You must be able to teach
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salvation from the scriptures. So salvation and
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not just anyhow salvation because there are different
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salvations, right? There are different salvations.
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If you go out there, there are many salvations.
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Salvation by giving, right? If you give, you'll
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be saved. Salvation by cleansing. Washing your
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face, washing your hand. If you do that, you
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will be saved. Salvation by visiting some holy
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lands. If you do that, you will be saved. Right?
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There are different kinds of what? Of salvation.
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So the salvation that you must seek is that one
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that comes through faith in Christ Jesus. And
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that's the revelation of it. So, Come back. It
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means that Timothy would read the scriptures
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of the Old Testament and teach salvation in Christ,
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true faith in Christ, right? Do you know what
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that means? That is revelation. That is revelation,
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right? So, he would pick scriptures where the
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name Jesus Christ is not written. But the Messiah
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is identified. And it will from there bring us
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to point to Christ that He is the Messiah. If
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you believe in Him, you have eternal life. So
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that means that you must be very, very wise.
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Which is to be able to skillfully teach Christ
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from the Old Testament. Now, it's not just salvation
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alone. But here the context says what? Salvation,
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right? It's not just salvation alone. Any doctrine,
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we're going to see that in the next verse 16.
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Any doctrine is established much more from the
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Holy Scriptures, from these writings. Right?
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From these writings. So you should be able to
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teach everything that pertains to Christ. And
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it's salvation, the love of God, right? Giving
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service. To serve in the church. You should be
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able to teach that from the Holy Scriptures.
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Maybe we should teach that so that we can have
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more zeal and more passion for the things of
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God. And you can see it consistently across the
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Scriptures. Now go to verse 16. So salvation
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through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Salvation
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through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Now this
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statement, salvation through faith which is in
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Christ Jesus, you will not find it anywhere in...
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The Old Testament. But it is across the scripture.
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So you have to carefully pick it out. Pick it
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out. Because it has been encoded there. And that
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is the job of the believer. That is the job of
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someone who calls himself a Christian. Right?
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To have sufficiency. Now let's go to verse 16.
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Verse 16. I'll skip other information from that.
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Verse 15. Now, it says, all scripture, right?
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All scripture. Now, this one is graphe, right?
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Which is G -R -A -P -H -E. All scriptures, right?
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All scriptures. Here, he's talking about all
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scriptures, which is graphe. G -R -A -P -H -E.
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G -R -A -P -H -E. So, This one is talking about
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all scriptures. It involves the entire book,
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actually, right? The entire writing, right? In
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fact, sometimes it reflects the entire theme
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of that writing. Sometimes it refers to the entire
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message of that book. It refers to the entire
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message where it is used when you say, you know
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the scriptures. It refers to the entire... of
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that. I know we've learned this, but, you know,
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we need to hit it very well so that we can. So
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it's graphe, G -R -A -P -H -E. G -R -A -P -H
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-E. So the entire scriptures taken together,
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right? The entire scriptures taken together is
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profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for instruction.
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For correction and for instruction in righteousness.
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Right? So, the entire scriptures that Timothy
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will be reading, right, is inspired by God. And
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it has its own theme. It has its own message.
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It has its own message. So, it says doctrine.
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So, the word doctrine here is didaskalia, right?
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We can write it down. The word doctrine there
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is didaskalia. I think we've written this and
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we have to write it again and again. Didaskalia,
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D -I -D -A -S -K -A -L -I -A, didaskalia. That's
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where we are going with this. That's actually
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where we are going with this. I'm going to use
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this part to explain some things to us and how
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people do not sufficiently use the scripture.
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Now, didaskalia, teachings or instruction. The
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word reproof, so we have doctrine, didaskalia.
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To bring sufficient evidence, right? To bring
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sufficient evidence. I always say to prove it
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over and over and over and over and again, right?
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To prove it over and over and over and over and
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again. Means that from Genesis to Malachi, right?
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Over and over and over and over and over and
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again, right? That is what the scriptures will
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show. what the message of the scripture is. The
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third one is correction. Correction. Epianotosis,
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which is E -P -A correction. E -P -A -N -O -R
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E -P -A -N -O -R C -H -O -S -I -S Epianotosis.
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Correction. To set things straight. To set things
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straight. So it means that I should expect things
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that are not straight, but when I come to the
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scripture, I should be able to set things straight.
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Set the teaching of salvation straight. Set the
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teaching of giving straight. Set the conduct
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of the believer straight by reading from the
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scriptures. Set the lifestyle of a believer straight
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by reading from the scriptures. And the last
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one is instruction in righteousness, right? Instruction
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is righteousness. It means training the believer
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to live right, right? Training the believer in
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righteousness. Training believer in righteousness.
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So it means that all of these must be done by
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examining all the scriptures. When we examine
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all the scriptures and we are able to see how
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Christ is established through salvation and we
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see doctrine. A particular doctrine, for example,
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it means that we have come into revelation of
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what that is. We have come into revelation of
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what that is. We are coming to revelation of
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what that is. Now, if someone pick, let me now
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ask a question now. If someone pick a part of
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the scripture, okay? If someone pick a part of
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the scripture, for example, Leviticus, and it
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says, Leviticus says, do not eat animals. that
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have, how do they put it? That chew cords, okay?
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Do not eat animal that chew cords. And today,
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someone approaches you and sees you eating maybe
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pork, you know, for the sake of, you know, you
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just wanted to have a taste of it. And the person
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reads that particular scripture to you. Or makes
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that statement, in fact, quoting it from the
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Bible and present it to you. What do you think
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the person has done? Do you think the person
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has been able to establish a doctrine from that?
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Or do you think the person is able to establish
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a doctrine from that? Or do you think the person
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is able to sufficiently, are we together, explain
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from just that one text? What I'm trying to tell
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us is that when someone takes such a scripture
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without examining all scriptures, first, we can
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say that they did what Timothy did, which is
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to be acquainted to the scriptures, right? Because
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you have to be acquainted to the scriptures before,
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you know, you can know that there's a part of
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the scripture that says that someone should not
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epoch. It means that you probably had read Leviticus
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and Exodus sufficiently, right? And somehow you
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have picked something there. So you have read
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it. The question is, when it pertains to what
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the believer can eat or not eat, can that person
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establish a ground using only that text? No.
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Do you get it? No. Right? It is impossible to
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pay. So what we call that action, when somebody
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does it to you, you tell the person you have
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heard. So they have heard from the scriptures.
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Okay? So erring means that you pick one part
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of the scripture, right? Without examining it
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across other scriptures, Genesis to Malachi sufficiently,
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then you give an instruction to a believer. Right?
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When you do that, you will be misleading the
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believer. So we can say that no doctrine, no
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reproof, no correction. or instruction in righteousness
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can come from just one verse. No doctrine, no
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reproof, no correction, no instruction in righteousness
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can come from a single verse quoted out of the
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Bible. But rather, they must be taken all together.
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When we do that, they err. And therefore, people
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miss the message of Christ. This is it. The end
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point is they miss the message of Christ. They
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heard. They heard. So when somebody picks up
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a scripture without explaining it sufficiently
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to you, and judges you, let me put that, let
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me use that word here, right? The person might
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have heard in the scriptures. Now let's go to
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Matthew. Let's go to Matthew. Let's go to Matthew.
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Let's establish this Aaron. Matthew 22. Matthew
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22, verse 29. Matthew 22, verse 29. They say,
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yea, do err. Jesus answered and said to them,
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you are missed. Please give me erred. Give me
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my word. This is saying mistaken. Put the one
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that says erred there, please. I need that word.
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Yes. Jesus answered and said, you do err not
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knowing the scripture nor the power of God. Right?
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He said they erred not knowing. Why did they
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err? Move to the previous verse, 28. Take it
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back a little bit. I don't want to reach much
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of the stories. Take it back a little bit. Now,
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stop here. From here, it's fine. Now, there were
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seven wits, or seven brethren, and the first,
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when he had married a wife, deceased, and having
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no issue, left his wife onto his brother. Likewise,
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the second also, and the third, and the seventh.
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Next. And the last of all, the woman also died.
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So, seven men married a woman, success, success,
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succeeding there, I don't know how to put it
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right. Successively, right? After the other.
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So, when the human died, they all died. Now,
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look at their question. Therefore, in the day
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of resurrection, whose wife shall be of the seven?
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For they all had her. Right? So, this is kind
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of a mockery of resurrection. Right? They want
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to mock resurrection. Now, to mock resurrection,
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they now pick a verse. Now, if you go to verse
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26, let's see where verse 24, where they were
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coming from. Saying, Master, Moses said, if a
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man die and have no children, his brother shall
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marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
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This is where they pick their own grammar from.
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So they pick this grammar, right? And they use
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it to, I mean, they use it to want to explain
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that resurrection is not. something attainable.
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Because maybe confusion will happen. Maybe the
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seven brothers will begin to fight each other.
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That I had that from this year to this year.
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Right? So they want to show, they want to make
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resurrection look stupid. But they were actually
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one that were stupid because they didn't know
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the scriptures. Now go back to verse 28. Therefore
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at resurrection, now 29, let's see Jesus answer.
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Jesus answered and said, you do err. You just
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erred because you picked a scripture. You picked
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some statements. And from there, you want to
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disconnect or you want to say that the doctrine
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of resurrection established from Genesis to Malachi
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is not true. So that's what they wanted to do.
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You want to pick some statements. I think we
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need to stay a little bit on this part. So pick
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a statement and use that statement to disqualify
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all established thoughts until Malachi is erring.
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Do you get me? So if you find any statement that
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looks contradictory in the Bible, okay, we are
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entering revelational knowledge. When you find
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a statement that is contradictory in the Bible,
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consistently you have seen that a thought, That
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God saves by faith. He saves people through faith
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in Christ Jesus. And you check it from Genesis
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to Malachi and you can establish it. Now, you
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find one verse that says the works are required.
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Right? And you bring out one verse to challenge
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verses across. You are erring. So what do we
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do? It means that As believers, we hold on much
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more to what is established consistently from
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Genesis to Malachi. Do we get it? We hold on
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much more. Our stability is in what is consistently
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established and what is being questioned or what
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we put question mark to. It means that we need
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to do what? Go and study it. It means that there
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is need for more studies. So there is need for
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a lot of studies in our life. So this is what
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they do. They heard. He said not knowing the
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scriptures. Now, if you translate this knowing
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as what is written in the scriptures, just knowing
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the letters, it means that Jesus is not correct
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because they know what the scriptures wrote.
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They know those letters. They know those statements.
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But are they wise? Are they skillful in teaching
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about resurrection from those statements? No.
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They are not. So knowing the statements in the
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Bible is not sufficient. Being able to teach
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across the Bible the doctrine of Christ is revelation.
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So you do err not knowing. It means not comprehending
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the scriptures nor the power of God. Now let's
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put it together. It means that the scripture
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is what? The power of God. Romans 1 verse 16.
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Romans 1 verse 16. Romans 1, verse 16. Say, for
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I am not ashamed of the gospel. Where is it?
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Romans 1, verse 16, please. It said, for I am
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not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is
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the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
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believe, not to the Jew first and also to the
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Greek. So it means that when we say you have
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power, it means that you understand the scriptures.
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You can teach from the scriptures. That is the
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strength of the Bible. You'll err because you
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don't know the scriptures, nor the power of God.
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Right? So the scriptures reveals the power of
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God. The scriptures reveal the power of God.
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From Genesis, right, to Malachi, reveals the
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power of God. We cannot separate the power of
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God from God's revelation in the scriptures.
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We cannot separate the power of God from God's
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revelation in the scriptures. So they erred.
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They picked some things, you know, and they tried
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to use that to counter a well -established expectation.
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Now, what would they do? What people do in such
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circumstances is that they make people stray
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from faith. Stray from faith means they stray
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from the knowledge of Christ. They stray from
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established doctrine, teaching. They stray from
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established doctrine and teaching. So, we cannot
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separate God's power from God's revelation. Now,
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let me put you an example. Okay? And I want to
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apply this to the manifestation, or the things
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of the spirits. When somebody gives you a word
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that does not edify you, right? Gives you a word
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that does not edify you and leads you, for example,
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someone sees you and say, well, I see that and
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this is what is going to happen to you. And,
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you know, this is the person that is causing
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your problem. And the person throws you in a
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conundrum of confusion. Right? In the word they
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are given. It means that such persons are void
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of the understanding, excuse me, of the understanding
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that comes from the scripture. Therefore, they
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cannot give expression to the power of God. Are
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you with me? So there should be no prophecy towards
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you that is coming from the word of God, established
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by the word of God and the things of the spirit
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giving expression that should produce worry,
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fear and concern. But rather, it should bring
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you to a place of encouragement, strength and
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faith in God. It should bring you to a place
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of what? Encouragement, strength and faith. in
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God so when you are filled with the scriptures
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right for those of us that we are encouraging
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give a word give a word right when you are filled
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with the scriptures what you perceive and the
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way you deliver it gives an encouragement to
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the believer okay It gives an encouragement to
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do. So when you are given a word, right? When
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you're walking in that manifestation, you should
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know that you know the power of God and you know
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the scriptures, right? That's why most of the
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time we teach and teach and teach and teach and
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teach again about the things of the spirits,
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right? So that people are acquainted with how
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the scriptures are written. So if you perceive
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the word and the word contradicts the scriptures,
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right? You say what the scripture says. That's
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it. Okay? You perceive a word. No, no. You say
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what the scripture says. Because what the scripture
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says gives an encouragement to that person. Are
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we together? Because you know the power of God.
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So, these people, they heard because they don't
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know the power of God. Now, let's write the statement
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down. We do not define the power of God by imagination
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and experiences. We do not define the power of
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God by imaginations and experiences. We do not
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define the power of God by imagination and experiences.
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Because your experience would fail. Your experience
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would cause you to doubt God sometimes. Your
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experience will make you begin to think, am I
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in the right place? You know? Yes, the experience
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will make you to doubt where God is leading you.
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So we do not define the power of God by imagination,
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experience, traditions or assumptions. We do
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not define the power of God by experience, traditions
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or assumptions. Or assumptions. Even if they
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are rightly stated. Because what the Pharisees
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quoted was rightly stated. We do not define the
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power of God through imaginations, experience,
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traditions, or assumption, even if they are rightly
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stated. It means that it is written. Did Moses
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not say that? Moses said that. Moses said that.
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It was written there. Even if they are rightly
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said as how they have occurred. Even if they
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are rightly said as to how they have occurred.
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Because in the scriptures, this happens so much.
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I'll show us another example. I'll show. People
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use like sequence. So this happened, then this
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happened. So let's finish the statement, then
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I will explain. Even if they are rightly stated
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as to how they occurred, they might not be truly
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stated. They might not be truthfully stated.
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Yes. They might not be truthfully stated. Right?
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They might not be truthfully stated. So it means
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that there's a truth that guides what is rightly
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stated. There is a truth that guides what is
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rightly stated. There is a truth that guides
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what is rightly stated. When it's rightly stated,
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there is a truth in the scriptures, across the
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scriptures, that guides what is rightly stated.
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So let me say this as well. Though your experience
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is rightly stated, What you are going through
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is rightly stated. There is a truth that guides
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what you are going through. Okay? What you are
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going through is rightly stated. That is why
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we say, well, we recognize what you're going
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through. We recognize the challenges life brings
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to us. We recognize, you know, all the things
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that is happening to you. Right? We see them.
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We are not ignorant of these challenges. And
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they are rightly stated and they are rightly
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there. But the truth, there's a truth that guides
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what you are going through. So the truth should
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prevail over what is rightly stated. The truth
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should prevail over what is rightly stated. Now
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let's check two examples. Two examples of scenarios
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where people actually use the scripture uh in
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such a way let's check some examples rightly
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stated this is one example but let's let's just
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minutes we'll scroll through some examples let's
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pick first corinthians first uh go to first corinthians
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for me 1 Corinthians 15, 3 to 4. Can you just
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put that first? Then I'll bring up the scripture
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I want to explain. The scriptures, right? According
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to the scriptures. Now, the scriptures here is
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referring, right, to graphy, right? It's referring
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to graphy, means that what Jesus did, okay? What
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Jesus did is explained in Genesis to Malachi,
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okay? It's explained in Genesis to Malachi. What
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Jesus did is explain in Genesis to Malachi. And
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this scripture is parallel to Luke 24, verse
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44. So you can just put Luke 24, verse 44 there
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as a parallel scripture. Just put Luke 24, verse
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44. And it said unto them, these are words which
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I speak unto you. While I was yet with you, that
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all things must be fulfilled, which were written
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in the law of Moses and the prophets and the
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Psalms concerning me. So across the scriptures,
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right? All what Jesus did was to fulfill what
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the scriptures are talked about. Now let's go
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to John 9, John chapter 9 from verse 1. John
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chapter 9 from verse 1. And as Jesus passed by,
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he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
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And his disciples asked him, saying, Master,
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who did sin, this man or his parents, that he
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was born blind? And Jesus answered, Neither had
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this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the
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works of God. Should be made manifest. In him.
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Right. That the works of God. Should be made.
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Manifest. In him. Now. The pattern. Okay. Go
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back to verse 2. Where they made that statement.
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So the disciples asked. So the disciples. Not
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even just the crown. The disciples. Who did sin?
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This man. Or. His parents. That. He was born.
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So the understanding here is that when you sin
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against God, certain things as such would come
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to you. Okay? When you sin against God, certain
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things as such would come to you. Now, this kind
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of understanding, believe me, is rightly stated
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across the Old Testament. For example, Israel
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sinned against God. And all of a sudden, you
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see the king of Assyria attacking them, right?
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You see this thing as a pattern in the scriptures,
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right? So, consistently when they sin and evil
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happens, right? They accrue it to, because we
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have sinned against God, right? Therefore, we
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have been punished. So, the understanding here
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is, who sinned? The child, look at this, this
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man or his, how can the man that has not, you
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know, it means that it's possible to sin from
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the womb. Because it said this man or his parent
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that he was born blind. So they knew he was born
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blind. So how can he sin if he was born blind?
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Right? So it's, there are unexplainable circumstances,
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right? There are unexplainable circumstances.
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And when those unexplainable circumstances comes,
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The most, you know, visible or logical, let me
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not say logical, easy explanation is to accrue
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evil to sin and sin against God. So men find
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it easy. It's a shortcut to life. Shortcut to
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peace. Shortcut to finding a closure. You see,
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it came from God. Right? Even if you have humans
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in those contexts, government mistakes, people
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not taking precautions, and people doing things
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in the wrong way, trying to make more money,
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greed and all of that, they will say, no, it's
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God, right? So here, they were trying to walk
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in that kind of a light. That's who did sin.
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Now, the next verse now says, Neither had this
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man sinned nor his parents. Right? So, Jesus
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is saying it's not about their sin or whether
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they sin or not, but the works of God should
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be made manifest in him. Now, the wrong way to
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explain this is to say that he was born blind
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so that God would show up. Like, I mean, God
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made him blind. That's another explanation. That
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God made him blind so that he would show his
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power that, you know, I'm here. Right? God does
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not need to make somebody blind to show his power.
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Are we together? Don't forget, the power of God
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is what? The scriptures. We are coming from somewhere,
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okay? We are coming from somewhere. The works
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of God, the power of God, the scriptures. So
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for him to manifest the things written in the
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scriptures, does he need to produce such, I mean,
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does he need to inflict such a thing to a person?
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No. Okay? He doesn't need to inflict such a thing
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to anybody. Right? That's why I think that I
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said that sometimes your enemy will be there
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and God will still make a way for you where your
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enemy is beside you. I mean enemy and opposition.
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Someone who is directly opposing you. It might
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be in your workplace. It might be in your class.
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It might be in your environment. The person is
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just a stress to you. And you, you are praying,
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Lord, take him away. Shift their move. Move their
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shift so that they can have space for me. Lord,
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make a way. Anyhow, let them fire the person.
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You don't need to do all of that. I think I realized
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that over time, studying the word, and that's
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a revelation for me. That in that same place,
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you will have peace. In that same place, room
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will be made available for you. In that same
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place, opportunities will be open and the person
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will be looking at you like this. In that same
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place, while the opposition is taking place,
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you are growing. You are growing. Despite the
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opposition. So God does not need to harm, inflict,
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kill. He doesn't do that to lift you up. That's
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not revelation. So your prayer now, if you find
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opposition, things around you, right? Say, Lord,
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I grow in this place. Opportunities are open
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for me in this place. I manifest God in this
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place. Maybe we should explain something to us.
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Do you know that before evil was God, evil did
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not come, then God now appeared. Before the concept
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of evil and sin and wickedness, God existed.
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So God is not always an aftermath to come and
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do evil. That's another thing we need to understand.
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God existed before all of these things. So they
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don't come from him. Right? They don't come from.
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So he was teaching and he said, neither others
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man sin nor the parent, but that the works of
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God should be made manifest. It means that everywhere
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there is evil, whether it's sin or not sin related,
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the manifestation of God will take place. So
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the works of God will be made manifest. Everywhere
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there is evil. So God is not the one producing
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the evil. Right? But rather, where God moves,
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the evil, the blindness, and the sickness, they
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disappear. So God is not doing it so that it
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can manifest, but rather the presence of God
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in such arenas takes away the evil, takes away
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the blindness, takes away the problem. So the
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presence of God in such arenas takes away. Now
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move to the next verse 4. He said, I must walk
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the walks of him that sent me while it is day,
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the night coming when no man can walk. And as
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long as I am in the world, I am what? The light
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of the world. So it is not going about looking
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for those people that God has inflicted, then
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it will not make it. No, as long as I am present.
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As long as I am present, right? I am the light
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of the world. Praise God. I hope you have received
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revelation today. I hope we are growing in revelation.
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On Wednesday, we will continue. But go with these
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thoughts in you. Right? Knowing fully well that
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God is ever present with you. Knowing fully well
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that the scriptures are the power of God. They
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are the revelation. They shape the rightly stated
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circumstances you face because they are the truth
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of God's word. Can you just pray? Can you pray?
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Can you pray for yourself? Say, Lord, as I go
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daily in my life, I walk in the revelation of
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who God is. No matter what is rightly stated
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in my life, I walk in the revelation of who God
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is. We appreciate you being here today. We hope
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you carry this word with you throughout your
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week. Don't forget to check the show notes for
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