Can I Trust the Bible? - Theology for the Rest of Us Part 1

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Dude, thank you guys for being
in the house today.

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Oh man, well, that was a crazy
week.

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The Hope Center is right there
in the path of the tornado.

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And I just want to say on the
behalf of the church, if you

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know somebody needs help or may
need help with a clean up brush

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or moving stuff or anything at
all, we'd love to help you.

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How many guys were affected by a
tornado?

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Had some limbs down, weird stuff
going on.

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I know I'm connected to a few of
the homes that really got roofs

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ripped off, all sorts of stuff.
But Friday night they came right

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behind the Hope Center in that
movie theater that were on

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contract.
So I drove out there and I was

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like, well, they're still
standing, right?

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Just your pastor going.
Is it still here?

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I know Holly drove out too, but
there's so many people who need

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some help.
So I just want to make ourselves

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available as a church for
anybody who needs that.

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So if you know somebody, just
let us know.

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We'd love to send out e-mail,
get our team together.

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I know you guys got some
chainsaws.

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Amen.
This is Cass County, come on

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with somebody, right?
But we'll get out there and and

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do we can and make our budget
available, people available,

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just whatever we can do to help
there.

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I know there's like a tourist
thing going on yesterday.

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We're talking to people that are
back in behind the behind Hyvee

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and it's just endless cars every
just kind of looking and then

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it's just thankfully it's not
worse than it was. 0 injuries

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and 0 people, 0 fatalities.
So thank you, Jesus.

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Amen.
So, yeah, backyard.

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Who would have thought that
would be right in the backyard,

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right?
So anyway, I'm excited for what

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God's doing in our church right
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God's been on the move last
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Just an incredible, there was
some energy last Sunday, by the

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way, Amen.
Do you guys feel it?

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Just as we started entering a
contract with the Belt and

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Cinema Aid and we had people
come out that normally don't

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come.
I appreciate you guys being here

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and I know God's going to use
it.

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But last week I'm going to
celebrate the most important

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thing to celebrate.
We had three people commit their

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life to Jesus last week.
Amen.

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So good, that big.
That's why we do it.

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I love it, man, people going to
heaven.

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And I remember it was like not
knowing Jesus.

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I remember like taking that step
and you know what in the world I

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get into actually brought my
very first Bible today.

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And we're going to talk through
the Bible a little bit today,

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some history of the Bible and
what it is.

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But man, there's nothing more
significant.

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So thank you guys for bringing,
for inviting, for sharing, for

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welcoming.
There's a lady last week that

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came out and she said it's been
a really, really long time.

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So I've been to church and I've
never been more excited to go to

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church.
That's that's good.

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Amen.
I know if you're like me,

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there's some seasons where I
went to churches and it was

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like, just drag yourself to it.
And man, it is amazing to be a

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part of a life giving church, a
church that loves people, a

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church that welcomes people and
a church that preaches from the

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Bible, Amen.
And so excited for what God's

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doing.
Last week we had our youth group

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Wednesday night over at the Hope
Center, a couple nights for the

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tornado right there and they had
packed it out one of the largest

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nights ever.
Had they actually used all the

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chairs in the building with all
the teenagers?

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And I'll share with you a text
message that that Logan, he runs

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our youth sent to me.
They celebrated with Donuts.

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Remember we had a lot of Donuts
last week.

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They got the leftovers.
Come off somebody.

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It's a youth group.
That's how they roll their good

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for it.
They didn't complain.

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But here's what Logan said.
It's about 10:30 Wednesday

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night.
You're going to love this.

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He said the Donuts were a
success, but they certainly came

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at a cost.
Lol.

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Someone from the youth clogged
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I'm like plural.
This is interesting.

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Probably not the same person,
hopefully.

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Right.
It says the blockage is pretty

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deep.
So this is getting good.

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I'm laying in bed going perfect.
He said deep enough I can't

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plunge it.
This is great.

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When I plunge it, I hear the
water rise in the floor drain.

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So it's a good blockage
somewhere deep in the plumbing

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because I'm sorry, I tried to
take care of it.

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So he must have just walked out
of the building, right?

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But without a drain snake or or
something like that, I can't

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really do a whole lot more.
I'm worried if I mess with it

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much more water will overflow
out of the floor drain and only

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make things worse.
Oh man, I know that God is

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unlimited, but the the plumbing
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somebody right.
So Thursday morning, let's just

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say there was there.
We, we, we, yeah, we snaked it

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out.
We got it working.

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Amen.
Thank you.

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Jesus, it came at a cost, but we
did it.

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So oh, man.
So it was a crazy week all the

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way around.
Little update, Belton SIM 8.

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How many guys decide about the
Belton SIM 8 By the way, you

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guys excited about that?
It is a it is a crazy whirlwind

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of situation.
It's it's a miracle of God even

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at the table and having this
conversation just divine

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appointments all around it.
And so we're except to close

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September 15th.
We're in the middle really the

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said middle about 11 days in not
about we're 11 days in.

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I know these things right now
into inspections due diligence.

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And So what that means is we got
roofers, plumbers, HVAC parking

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lot.
I'm you guys been around the

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belt and some made at all little
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OK.
So you know, it needs a little

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bit of updates, right?
Bring it back to excellence, not

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extravagance, come on somebody,
but excellence.

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And so we're just diving through
infrastructure like crazy and I

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don't know how many people have
been involved in the contractors

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coming out and all different
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It is keeping us really, really
busy, but in a good way.

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Amen.
And so just be praying for

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divine appointments.
You know, we're looking at like

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there's so much that needs to be
fixed, but I just believe that

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this is a thing that God's put
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Amen And so we're just trusting
God, but we're we're like who,

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who, who loves Jesus that could
love us and jump in and help.

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And there's there's so many
pieces, but God's on moving.

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I got a huge vision for this
space that well exceeds our

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resources.
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I mean, it should I I mean, I
don't care how much resource you

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have.
Your vision always should go

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further right?
And it's really the job as a as

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a pastor, as a leader to really
see out in the future.

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And I'm just really excited.
I probably walked that building

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no less than a dozen times,
maybe more.

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I've been on the roof.
You drive by sometimes I'll be

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out there.
Hello world.

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You know, the roof needs some
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If you've been there, you know,
but just ask God for divine

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favor, divine appointment and
just the right conversations.

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You got a chance to talk to
Brian Mitchell last week.

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He is very excited what God's
doing and this the whole setup

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and it's just exciting season
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Amen And so we'll just be
praying we'll we'll just give

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some time to kind of get that
vision and what's going to cost

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and figure out what phases will
be and stuff like that, but just

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exciting stuff.
So today dive in the Bible.

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Amen.
I want to, I want to dive in the

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word of God today.
So theology for the rest of us,

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you know, you might see this
term like, man, this means we're

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done a dumb it down.
No, I don't, I don't think so at

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all.
Amen.

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I I think actually God wrote the
Bible to every ordinary people,

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everyday people.
Amen.

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I don't think the Bible is
written to theologians or

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scholars or 4 point O's or
people who can read Greek and

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Hebrew and Aramaic.
I don't think that's the point.

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I think God wrote for everyday
people and so on.

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Do is just help you guys along
the way.

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Maybe you're new to church.
Maybe you, you haven't read the

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Bible in a long time, or maybe
you never read the Bible.

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Some of y'all just our
relationship with Jesus.

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Some of you made me come for a
long time and you show up, you

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listen and you're like, oh,
that's really good pastor, but

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you're not in the Bible.
You just get a little confused

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like what's this about?
How does this work and what's

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going on?
And if you feel like me had all

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sorts of doubts when I first
became a Christian, I was like,

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how do you know this is true?
I started reading left to right.

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We'll talk about that.
And I was just confused.

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And I was like, I don't know,
this is is a sure thing, but I'm

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trusting you, Lord.
And so there's room for all

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that.
So what you want to do is just

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help you understand what the
Bible is and let it become alive

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today for you.
Amen.

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That's the goal.
So today, just big picture, what

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is the Bible?
And can I trust it?

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And so we're just going to start
at the very beginning and we're

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just going to walk through like,
what exactly is the Bible?

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Here's the reality.
The Bible itself has survived

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empires.
It's it survived centuries, it

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survived critics, Amen.
It's it survived all sorts of

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leadership that hate it.
There's people who, who've

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burned every Bible in their
whole country and yet it still

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exists, Amen, because it, it's a
living word.

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And, and when you know this,
then I'm just going to skip

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ahead because I know this, this
is the only source of absolute

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truth.
Can we just start right there?

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And you may not believe that
that's a bold statement, Amen.

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You'll be like, hmm, that's,
that's pretty bold.

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And when I, when I first
started, became a Christian, I

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would have not made that
statement.

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I would have said, well, maybe.
But now that I know the Bible, I

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know the God of the Bible
instead of the Bible, There's

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not a shadow of the doubt that
this is the only source of

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absolute truth.
And there's not a shadow of

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doubt that my faith is fully put
into this.

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And for me personally, I'm just
going to share my story a little

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bit.
It would take more faith for me

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not to believe the Bible and to
believe the Bible.

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Like it would take more faith to
be an atheist.

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It would take more faith to
believe in all the I'm trying to

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think of a positive word that
the world is telling us, right?

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Counterfeits, we'll sum it up
like that it it takes more faith

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to believe in the string theory
and believe in evolution and

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believe in all the other things
we come up with to get God out

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of our culture.
It just take more faith for me.

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That's where I'm at personally,
but we'll say this, God loves

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your questions.
Amen.

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If you're doubting, you're like,
well, I'm not so sure about you

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have a thing in mind or like, I
can't believe this or how this

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came about or all these
questions or you think it's

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fabricated.
That's OK to just have an open

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mind and take it to God.
If your heart is open, you could

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be a skeptic.
God is good at taking critics

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and turn them into converts.
I'm one of them.

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Amen.
He's really good at taking

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people.
They're like, I'm not so sure.

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Like that's just made-up.
That's for weak people.

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That makes no sense.
Science and reasoning are

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against the Bible, which is
absolutely not true.

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I, I love it when science
finally catches up to the Bible,

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you know, Did you guys read the
story the, the, the captain that

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Artemis 2 that we talked about a
little bit last week?

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That's the spacecraft, right?
Remember, right.

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And the captain got back and he,
he's not a believer, but he

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actually met with a chaplain
because you're so moved.

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But what do you saw in space?
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saw he was doing DeVos and he
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thing.
And he got back in met with a

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chaplain because he said he saw
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moon and the sun go behind the
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And he's, he's just couldn't
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just happened by chance.
That's pretty good, Amen.

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I bet the science is always
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Like people try to say, oh, that
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It's like God did this in six
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out what happened.
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Amen, Amen.
So there's a verse we'll start

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with here, second Timothy 215.
How many guys went to Iwana

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growing up?
Ever heard of Iwana?

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Maybe a little bit.
OK, I'll know it's just maybe in

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the baddest circles on who runs
that thing, but approved workmen

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are not ashamed is what it
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It comes out of second team to
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I'll do NIV.
It's I struggle with this NIV

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because I didn't memorize NIV on
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So it's like man, you don't
anybody like that at all.

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I remember all my verses in KJV
and now it's like, all right,

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brother, you know, worker indeed
not be ashamed, right, but says

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this do your what help me out,
do your what?

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Do your what?
Somebody said worse.

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Somebody said worse.
I heard it out there, right?

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Do do do halfway, right?
I mean this, this is 1's worse.

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Like this is a full effort, full
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halfway, not just try until it's
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difficult or it's your first
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You don't follow through, but it
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yourself to God as one.
How approved?

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This verse kind of bothered me a
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what is he talking about?
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are approved in a position like
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Amen.
Like when he looks at you didn't

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see your sin, he is wiped away
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over hit each other.
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you're chosen by God and you're
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What does this mean that you're
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So then he explains it, and it's
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says, a worker who does not need
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Ashamed.
So it's the first part and the

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second.
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word of truth?
Be approved in your work and be

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approved in your handling of the
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And it's interesting because you
give an account for what we do

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in our life, like because God is
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our life, we should be changed
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we think, how we act, where we
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surrender to, what we dream
about, what we love should be

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different because of Jesus,
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And instead, the work you do
that your life should look

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different and God should approve
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And not only your life, but
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Bible.
It's interesting because if, if

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you're like me and I started out
like I, I didn't know this, I

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had a big family Bible at my
house when I was growing up and

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it sat in the long bookshelf as
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And I don't know why we had
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That's what we did back in 1990.
Big bookshelves.

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Remember the Encyclopedia
Britannica.

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You guys remember that?
You know, the first game I

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played online, we had a search
for answers in the encyclopedias

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so that we can answer the
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That was the game, you know what
I'm saying?

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It's like, yeah, we're living it
up, baby.

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Dial up.
You don't know what that is.

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That's great.
It was great, man.

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But I I opened the Bible.
I saw the pictures and I'm like,

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it was like a Precious moments
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And I'm like, dude, this is
weird, man.

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You know, like, what is this?
Pictures and stuff?

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But can you open the Bible and
understand like this is the Old

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Testament and you know what that
is like?

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You know the way that God worked
in the Old Testament or you open

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up and it's like New Testament,
like this is how God worked in

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the New Testament.
Or you open a book and it's like

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pasam.
I mean, you're like, man, I

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don't understand any of that,
right?

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Or Malachi, right.
I mean, no joke, when I first

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became a Christian, I opened the
book of Job and I thought it

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would help me get a job.
I'm not joking.

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Dead serious.
Come on, somebody, it's Job if

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you don't know, OK, They're just
like, oh, what are you talking

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about?
Right?

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I, I had no idea about anything
in the Bible and had to start,

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right, and had to start
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And so there's this desire,
like, can you correctly handle

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the word of God?
And it's not just, you know, the

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Bible, but OK, let's say you go
back here behind Hyvee and

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there's these roofs ripped off,
right?

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And you're, you're walking down
the street and you're talking to

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somebody and they're like, man,
my whole house is destroyed.

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My life's destroyed.
There's babies, there's kids,

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there's families being
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And they say, well, what's God
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Like, why, why is bad things
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That, that, that that's what it
means when you collected by the

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word, you, you have an answer to
people in need.

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Amen.
Like do you know how to answer

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somebody that's walking through
a miscarriage?

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Like do you know to help
somebody that's going through a

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season?
Like is it, is it deep enough to

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handle your pain or is just good
enough if it's comfortable?

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Like, because that's where
people like walk away because oh

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God, they're they're suffering
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It's like, yeah, in this life
there will be trouble.

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There's not a person place in
the Bible where it said, it's

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going to be easy until you go to
heaven, right?

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But, but sometimes the theology
of, of, of Christians is like,

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it's comfortable, it's easy,
it's good.

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And if not, then I'm walking
away and Satan is good at

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twisting that scripture.
But can you correctly divide the

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word of truth?
Like, and what does that look

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like?
And so I was going to walk

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through a day like, how can you
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And if you think about this and
this idea of not being ashamed

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and so being ashamed of, of, of
our works and our, our division

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of the Bible, there's
inspections in a, in about every

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trade, right?
Like in construction, there's an

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inspection.
Anybody hasn't built anything,

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had an inspector come out that
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We all love the building
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Amen.
Right.

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Like nobody wants the building
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But we do, we do like the food
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Come on, somebody you ever been
somewhere and it's like, you

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see, they have to post the
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Do you know this by the way,
every restaurant has to post

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their last violations on the
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Do you guys know that?
And and if you're standing in

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line, you start reading the
violations, you're like, hmm,

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not sure I want to drink that
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You know, the didn't clean that,
you know, and just you start

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reading it right.
There's inspections that come in

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and they see, is this work
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Does it meet expectation?
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And in one day our lives, we are
presented to God and our goal is

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to not be ashamed of our life.
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We lived a life worthy of Jesus
death.

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We lived a life worthy of the
call of God.

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We followed the Holy Spirit,
we're submitted to him and we

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walked with wisdom things of
God.

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It was yes, name in and then we
knew the Bible.

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We correctly divided the word of
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It's as if when you present
yourself to to God as you handle

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the Bible in your life, you're a
skilled Craftsman for Jesus.

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You guys ever met a skilled
Craftsman by the way, OK, a lot

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of guys are like rough end guys.
You know what I mean within 1/4

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inch.
They don't know what the the

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Latin lines mean on the tape
measure past 1/4 inch.

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You know what I'm talking about,
right?

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Just works and you need a lot of
roughing guys, right?

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But you got the Carpenter that
come in.

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Is Bruce in this room?
Bruce is up here, so he's going

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to bear some say this Bruce is a
true Carpenter, man when it

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comes to wood.
I'm telling come on, give it up

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for, you know, Bruce.
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I've just seen a handful of
projects and every time he does

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something it's like, wow, how
did you do that?

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You know, there's skills
involved, there's experience,

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there's time.
We did a little project up at

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church for corners years ago and
we built this wall and this half

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wall and all this stuff.
And he trimmed it out at the end

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and he put it together and I, I
wasn't there when he trimmed it

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out.
I missed that day and I came

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back.
I'm looking at staying like,

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man, where's the seam?
It's just like 40 feet.

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Like where?
How Bruce, you're so good, man.

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Yes, Bruce, man, it's it's just
amazing.

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That was probably like he's
like, oh, dude, that was that

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was bad work.
You know, see, see my best

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stuff, right.
But there's there's something to

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saying to get around a true
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It's just they're professional.
They do.

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I'm not saying we have to be at
that level with Scripture, but

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we should try.
We should try, we should try.

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We should we should open the
Bible and do our best.

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Amen.
Not like, well, I'm busy.

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It's too hard.
I don't understand it.

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Well, it's interesting.
If you don't try, you never

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will.
And I don't think God's trying

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to play a sick game, hide and
seek.

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By the way, I don't think he's
like, well, when you get

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spiritual enough, I'll I'll let
you know.

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I think he wants to reveal
himself.

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He the New Testament.
He reveals the messages of God,

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like if we just get, and Satan
is really good at keeping us

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away from Scripture.
He's good at keeping Scripture

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out of languages and out of
people.

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It's his goal.
But this Bible is not meant to

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sit on a shelf.
It's meant to live in our

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hearts.
It's with your newer minds and

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it's meant to transform our
lives.

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And so we're let's walk through
the Bible list.

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So we're just going to just big
overview.

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OK, you may not know this, but
but the Bible is not just one

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book, not one book.
OK, There's actually 66 books

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inside the Bible.
So Old Testament has 39 books.

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The New Testament has, who
knows, 27.

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That's word.
Man has 27 books.

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And so it's real interesting.
The word Bible, when you look,

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it says Holy Bible.
Every one of your Bibles

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probably says Bible on the
cover.

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There's a lot of different, you
know, versions, translations,

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different people have wrote
different things.

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But you all have the word Bible
on there, right?

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What's the word Bible even mean?
Everybody knows what the Bible

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means.
It comes from the word Biblia.

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You know what that means?
Yeah.

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So some people, well, it means
book.

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And for a long time I thought it
meant book.

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It actually means books means
books.

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So it means a collection of
writings.

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It means a library of writings.
So you're going to say open your

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Bible.
You're really saying open the

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books.
Come on, somebody open the

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collection of writings.
Open your God inspired library.

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Amen.
So, so if you open this, like

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when I first became a Christian,
I was like, this is all one book

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and I read it like everything
else.

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And I'm going to start in a left
and it's going to come to, you

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know, the, the tension, the
conflict, the, the, you know,

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the Dana Moi, you don't, you
don't talk about, right?

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00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:09,880
No writing classes for anybody
here.

452
00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,480
Perfect, right?
And you have the whole, you know

453
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,320
how it goes.
Now it's like, this is going to

454
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,880
make no sense to me, man.
But it's a collection of

455
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,120
writings.
Here's the thing.

456
00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,680
The Bible's not a random story.
It's even though it's 66

457
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,400
different books, it's one
unified story.

458
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,720
Amen.
So we're in #1400 years.

459
00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:28,760
There's approximately 40
authors.

460
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,360
We don't know.
All of the authors know, most of

461
00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:33,280
them approximately or 40 riders
I should say.

462
00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:34,720
And it's just about these
riders.

463
00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,920
They're like all over the place.
You've got kings and you've got

464
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,160
fishermen, Amen.
I mean, you've got prophets,

465
00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,560
someone who speaks to the people
on behalf of God.

466
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,040
You've got disciples, you've got
the half brother of Jesus you,

467
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,440
you've got all sorts of people.
You've got a man that has

468
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,160
suffered you.
You have so many different

469
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,720
leaders and people that makes no
sense how their stuff would ever

470
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,120
survive except for God.
Amen.

471
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,640
If you think about this, this
thing about authors in the

472
00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,520
Bible, that the first five books
of the Bible actually written by

473
00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,400
a murderer.
Did you guys know that Moses

474
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,680
murdered somebody?
You guys have heard that story.

475
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,600
If you don't know it, you've got
to read it, right?

476
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,840
And he, God used ten of the
first five books.

477
00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,200
Then you get the New Testament
and a third of the New Testament

478
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,480
over 1/3 is written by murderer
as well named Paul.

479
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,680
Isn't that crazy to think about?
It's like the law of God.

480
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,480
The Old Testament way was
written by murder in the New

481
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,200
Testament.
That that's moving force is it's

482
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,960
like God could use anybody.
Amen.

483
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,720
You'd be like, Oh, I'm
disqualified.

484
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,400
What did who did you kill last
week?

485
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,360
You know what I'm saying?
Like, and if you did, hello,

486
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,040
it's crazy, right?
But my original Bible, this

487
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,880
thing is, is, is just torn to
threads.

488
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,080
I mean, I got my tape on here,
all sorts of stuff and I made

489
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,680
the the just the air of like,
hmm, Genesis 1 one in the

490
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,480
beginning, God created the
heavens and the earth and I

491
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,600
started going right.
And I was so confused.

492
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,480
I got to the I got to the flood
and the tower of Babel and then

493
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,120
all the Huba got who and the
Shem, the ham, the all the

494
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,680
things, you know, and I was
like, what in the world?

495
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,240
And at 15 I was just confused.
So I want to just walk through

496
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,560
like a big picture, like how's
the Bible organized?

497
00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,960
Like what is actually happening?
What is the Bible?

498
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,320
So I got this got this picture,
which I guess is art on the

499
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,280
screen.
They beat me to it.

500
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,040
Just kidding.
It's so small.

501
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,520
Can't read it down here.
It's perfect.

502
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,280
But the the first five books.
All right now this is

503
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,360
interesting because the picture
is kind of deceptive because you

504
00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:37,400
lead it just Old Testament.
Come on somebody law and then it

505
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,240
goes to history, but didn't fill
in the shelf.

506
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,680
So they put poetry up top.
So this thing is confusing just

507
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:43,840
the way it is.
You know what I'm saying?

508
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,880
So it goes from law to history
to poetry and prophets.

509
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,440
But let's just talk through like
it's organized by what?

510
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:55,600
What what do you see in length?
No, no, but what genre?

511
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,760
Come on somebody type of
literature.

512
00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,800
So the Bible's organized by type
of literature.

513
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,520
So what type is it determines
where it's placed.

514
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,680
Now you're like, OK, this is
less confusing because now I

515
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,720
know there's some, some rhythm
to it.

516
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,680
And so this kind of walk through
what this looks like.

517
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,360
So the law, this is the very
beginning.

518
00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,000
So you got Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers and

519
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,200
Deuteronomy, first five books.
This is the murder, right?

520
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,200
This is Moses wrote these and
you go all the way through these

521
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,760
patriarchs.
You got Abraham, got Isaac, you

522
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,200
got Jacob, you got Joseph.
These are big names of the

523
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,440
Bible.
And you can read these, You can

524
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,880
go to Genesis and you can read
all these people and their

525
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,560
stories.
By the way, they're amazing.

526
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,360
Amen.
You, you should teach these to

527
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:35,520
your kids.
You should internalize them.

528
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:36,600
This is where the Bible becomes
real.

529
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,960
When you start seeing these
amazing stories, you go from

530
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,040
creation to them being nomadic
to a, to a, to a nation being

531
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,760
created that doesn't have a
king.

532
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,920
It's just a group that God's
create a nation.

533
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,040
And then then they they go into
Egypt and slavery and they're

534
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,800
set free.
You have all these stories.

535
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,480
They're so foundational to our
faith.

536
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,760
The law is given to Moses.
And so this is how it's put

537
00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:58,760
together.
The first five books.

538
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,640
Then you go to history boring
those kids.

539
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,480
It's amazing, Amen.
These history books are awesome

540
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,800
and it really is.
This is the chronology putting

541
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,640
together the the acts of God
through through the nation of

542
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,760
Israel and God's power.
And you start out and you got

543
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,280
Joshua.
And by the way, I did went to

544
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,040
that second show.
If you saw that, I don't know

545
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,720
why it's put that on that
whatever.

546
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,240
So Joshua Joshua's an animal, by
the way, Amen.

547
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,440
He wasn't perfect.
You're going to see some of that

548
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,400
later.
But but Josh was just just a

549
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,320
man.
Just the bold confidence, be

550
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,160
strong and very courageous and
just stepped out in faith and I

551
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,640
just live on that.
Judges, how many guys read the

552
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,160
book of judges by the way, book
of Amy read the book of judges.

553
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,840
Oh man, dude, this is awesome,
right?

554
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,280
I mean, Judges is this amazing
book where they they have

555
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,520
freedom and then they have
excess and they they walk away

556
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,840
from God, they start worshiping
other things and they go into

557
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,080
captivity and they're just
persecuted and oppressed and the

558
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,240
God raised up a judge.
And then then there's a miracle

559
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,640
that happens.
And then God sets them free and

560
00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,680
they all worship.
And then a cycle repeats over

561
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,880
and over and over.
Any of these judges, right?

562
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,200
Yeah.
Deborah, you, you've got Gideon,

563
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,440
you know.
Oh, you warrior.

564
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,760
He's in a threshing floor,
right?

565
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,360
You got Barrack, You got Samson,
You got the Lady Yael.

566
00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,560
You guys remember Yael?
The steak?

567
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,360
You don't talk.
Anybody know what talking about?

568
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,000
Do what?
Yeah, right.

569
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,320
She she in the temple.
Holly knew where to put the

570
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,120
steak.
He's sleeping.

571
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,160
Drew.
Better watch out where you're

572
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:31,600
sleeping, brother.
There's some awesome bug with

573
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:32,960
her on there.
If you've seen the mug.

574
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,080
We need to pass those out on
Sunday, Right.

575
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,080
But anyway, just to make Ruth.
First and Second Samuel. 1st St.

576
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,680
Kings, 1st St.
Chronicles Yeah, Ezra and

577
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,560
Nehemiah, Esther.
These are all like history, but

578
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,160
they're infinite purposes,
right?

579
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,520
I mean first take Samuel, you
get this prophet that arises

580
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,400
hands and praying Samuels born
he annoyance David.

581
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,280
If you hear the stories of
David, just start bringing

582
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,840
through Samuel.
Absolutely amazing.

583
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,080
First thing, Kings are Chronicle
chronologically putting together

584
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,000
the kings and all the stories of
the kings.

585
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,200
And then Chronicles is written
way out by Ezra, and he's

586
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,080
looking back because they've
lost their way.

587
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,360
And so he rewrites the history
of Israel so they could actually

588
00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:09,480
follow it.
And here it is put back.

589
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,800
So you read Chronicles, you got
to know where it's written.

590
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,360
And Ezra, Ezra's a priest, he
came to 2nd remnant back from

591
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,080
Babylon and he re established
the temple.

592
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,400
And he said, man, I can't sit
here.

593
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,360
Your walls are built.
But this temple's in the ruins,

594
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,440
right?
And I want this to be rebuilt

595
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,480
and brought back to his full
glory.

596
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,600
Not just the temple, but the
practice of the temple.

597
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,760
Nehemiah all know Nehemiah,
right, built the walls.

598
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,920
We all love to hear the stories,
you know, stored in one hand,

599
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,520
you know, laying bricks and the
other kind of thing.

600
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,880
Esther saves the nation with
Mordecai.

601
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,320
I mean, these are all great
stories.

602
00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:40,280
Amen.
And they're true.

603
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,320
And these are kind of stories.
You can pick one of these books

604
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,800
up and be like, Lord, just show
me, and you can study why it's

605
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,400
written.
I'm not saying you use ChatGPT,

606
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,920
but you can right now, it seems
to work decently.

607
00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:51,240
You can be like, what's the
story?

608
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,600
How does this work?
Who wrote it, blah, blah, blah.

609
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,000
You're going to get some decent
answers.

610
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,520
I'm not saying you should always
trust it.

611
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,760
Amen.
It's kind of weird sometimes,

612
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,280
right?
But with the rise and fall, the

613
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,520
struggles of God's people, then
you got poetry, which at the

614
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,200
end, OK, it's top shelf, top
shelf poetry right here, right?

615
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,280
Perfect poetry and wisdom.
So you got Job, Psalms,

616
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,320
Proverbs, you got Ecclesiastes
and Psalm, Solomon Job.

617
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,560
OK, man.
I mean, you guys read Job.

618
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,000
By the way, this is what if
you're, if you're going to see

619
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,440
the South Korea man, Job is for
you.

620
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:24,000
But this, this job is probably
the oldest piece of literature

621
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,800
that we have in humanity right
now.

622
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,800
So it's it's worth the read.
Amen.

623
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,200
I mean, I think they should
teach it in school.

624
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,760
I think they should teach the
Bible in school because it's

625
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,600
true.
Need no, nothing else to know.

626
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,520
I mean, even if you thought of
history, these are writings of

627
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,080
history.
They're more proof for this

628
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,720
existence than Alexander the
Great.

629
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,520
So it's incredible.
But Job would have written

630
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,440
before Moses wrote the
Pentateuch.

631
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,800
The first five books of the
Bible, Job would have been

632
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,800
written.
So this makes it the oldest

633
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,040
piece of literature we have.
So we're three.

634
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,320
See, now I've got to read Job
when you get home.

635
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,520
Amen.
Like I read the oldest piece of

636
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,120
literature in the history of
humanity today.

637
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,800
That's pretty cool.
It's pretty amazing.

638
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,400
But Job's story, you get into
it, but it's amazing.

639
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,920
Psalms.
Psalms is like the hymn book of

640
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,560
the Old Testament.
They're meant to be sung.

641
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,440
So when you read it, like
there's a meter and a rhythm and

642
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,560
there's certain pieces, a lot of
them written by, most of them

643
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,680
written by David, sons of Kora.
There's this dude that turned

644
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,960
his back on Moses.
It was a crazy deal and

645
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,560
eventually got some things right
down the road and they wrote

646
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,320
some psalms.
You'll see Correlator in Jude.

647
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,280
They got some punishment there,
but Moses wrote some of the

648
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,840
Psalms when they crossed the Red
Sea.

649
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:34,400
It's just pretty amazing.
So it's worth reading some of

650
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,360
you guys.
How many guys are in the way

651
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,840
right now?
The way groups, the Salman

652
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,560
groups, some of y'all reading
Psalms right now walking

653
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,920
through, if you're in that, it's
just amazing, right?

654
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,080
Proverbs, book of wisdom written
by the wisest person ever lived.

655
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,280
God give a gift to Solomon,
David's son, Ecclesiastes,

656
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,680
Vandy, Vandy, all is Vandy,
right?

657
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,800
At the end of the day, it's like
know God and follow him, follow

658
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,000
his wisdom.
Song of Songs.

659
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,880
That's a good devotion with your
spouse every night.

660
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,400
Come on, somebody.
If you know what it is, it's

661
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,760
like a romantic book put
together.

662
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,280
Her teeth are like the teeth of
goats.

663
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,080
Come on, somebody.
Her hair is like the hair of

664
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,600
sheeps, right?
Her breasts are like coconuts

665
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,360
and her necks are like palm
trees.

666
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,560
I mean, nothing more sensual
than this book.

667
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,160
It's amazing.
Quite the devotion.

668
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,800
Well, we'll move on.
Let's go to the prophets.

669
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,080
All right, so you got major
prophets and minor prophets.

670
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,520
This is interesting.
It's not about like, are they

671
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,280
important or not?
Like it's not major because

672
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,240
they're like these guys made a
huge difference and they're

673
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,000
minor because it's leftovers.
It's the length of the books.

674
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,240
The major prophets are the
longer prophets.

675
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,560
OK.
And it's amazing about the major

676
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,240
prophets.
They're actually in order of

677
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,280
length.
So if so, if you start reading

678
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,320
it like Isaiah is the longest
major prophet.

679
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,760
So you got Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Lamentations, Ezekiel, the

680
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,760
missing 1, Daniel, Ezekiel,
Daniel.

681
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,760
So these are the so these are
just major problems that they're

682
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,160
long and they're over in a
different reason.

683
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,560
So a prophet is somebody that
God gives to speak on behalf of

684
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,680
God to people.
And oh, that was close.

685
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,520
Jordan, what are you doing, man?
Our compass monitors like this.

686
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,960
It's brand new.
By the way, Logan, I love you.

687
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:20,880
He dropped it the day it was
great.

688
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,160
Anyway, that'll been a that'll
been a minor problem.

689
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,800
Not a minute.
I'll stop anyway.

690
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,480
So the, the, the, the major
profits, they're written to

691
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,640
specific groups of people at
different times.

692
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:33,880
So you got to study on a little
bit.

693
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,880
Once you know the history and
who it's written to and when it

694
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,080
becomes alive.
Amen.

695
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,080
You do a little bit of study and
all of a sudden, like the, the

696
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,000
the book of Isaiah is, is
probably the greatest

697
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,800
masterpiece of writing maybe in
the history of the world, like

698
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,400
Isaiah itself.
It, it's just so well put

699
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,640
together and there's so much
prophecy.

700
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,440
It, it, it's just one of the
things like if you're going to

701
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:57,800
start somewhere, just study this
book.

702
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,080
It is so good.
Everything kind of hangs on

703
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,240
Isaiah.
But anyway, there's reasons that

704
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,600
they they're right, each of
these and there's full of

705
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,160
amazing stories, minor profits,
like I said this, because

706
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,640
they're shorter and they're
they're not organized by length,

707
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,960
although they're kind of close.
They're actually organized by

708
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,120
pre exile.
I'll talk about in a second

709
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,960
exile and post exile.
So let me explain what that is

710
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,520
just a little bit.
So when you read these books,

711
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,800
you can understand when when
David Saul was the first king

712
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,760
and he got all selfish and
started touching glory.

713
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,680
And then and then David stepped
in and then he had too much

714
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,760
blood on his hands and he
couldn't build the temple, but

715
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,200
he designed it.
And then he had his son Solomon,

716
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,640
who took over for him.
And then his Solomon had two

717
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,960
sons, Jeroboam, Rehoboam.
And this they could, they're

718
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,080
fighting.
And so the Kingdom was split

719
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,240
between two groups of people,
OK.

720
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,720
And so these prophets, they're
speaking to the northern Kingdom

721
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,440
or southern Kingdom primarily.
And you got to know who they're

722
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,080
talking to because they're
different histories.

723
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,120
Amen.
Anybody, anybody have a Johnny

724
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,000
Mack Bible?
John MacArthur, Johnny Mack, all

725
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,680
right back in the he's got an
amazing he's got an amazing

726
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,080
timeline if you can look this
up.

727
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,320
But like, here's the Pharaohs,
here's the kingdoms, Reboam,

728
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,120
Jeroboam.
Here's the prophets are talking

729
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,160
to who and when, but they're
lined up both these kingdoms,

730
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,960
they follow God.
They have good kings and bad

731
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,880
kings and God sends prophets to
them.

732
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,080
They're telling them like you
need to turn from your sin.

733
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,640
They don't Northern Kingdom goes
Assyria and the southern Kingdom

734
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,880
goes the Babylon in captivity.
So then there's prophets that

735
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,880
line up with them in captivity
and then they come back from

736
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,200
captivity and there's more
prophets that are written to

737
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,560
each of these kingdoms after
that.

738
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,360
That makes sense.
That was like a 30,000 foot

739
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,200
view.
But you have to kind of put your

740
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,640
head around that when you pick
the book up.

741
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,760
You can't be like, this isn't
making any sense for me today.

742
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,160
Like you got to know what you're
reading.

743
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,640
So the in the Old Testament ends
with Malachi.

744
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,480
I said Malachi earlier, but it's
Malachi.

745
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,520
And after Malachi, there's 400
years of what they say is

746
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,680
silence, but God is not silent.
He is definitely not silent.

747
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,760
Matter of fact says in
Galatians, when the fullest of

748
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,800
time has come, God set forth his
son like he's weaving together

749
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,400
kingdoms right now of the Greek
Empire at the end of the Old

750
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Testament, Alexander the Great
has just conquered the world.

751
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,680
The Roman Empire is coming in
and the perfecting crucifixion

752
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,040
and all the different kings.
And when since this is are

753
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,200
happening, prophecies are coming
true, God's moving.

754
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,160
But there's something really
special that happens in this

755
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,720
silent period, this
intertestinal period that God

756
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,920
does, and he puts together
something called the Septuagint.

757
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,280
So somebody say Septuagint.
All right, it's a big word that

758
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:31,760
means 70.
OK.

759
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,320
And I'll, I'll explain what it
means, what it is.

760
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,720
But Alison the Great took over
his conquest and the language

761
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,240
changed from really Hebrew was
the main spoken language for

762
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,720
those lights, and it changed to
Greek.

763
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,880
And so with these 70s scholars
set out that they would

764
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,280
translate all the Hebrew and
some of the Aramaic, because

765
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,880
Daniel's written Aramaic and
they translate it into the

766
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,280
common language of the people of
Coen Greek.

767
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,760
And they would take that and
they wrote it and they put

768
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,480
together into the Septuagint,
which is the complete Old

769
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,960
Testament.
And what's really cool about

770
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,280
this is that when Jesus shows up
on earth as a as a, as a baby,

771
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,760
OK, because you understand,
Jesus already existed, Amen.

772
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,080
He's eternal.
He wasn't just born and there

773
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,840
was Jesus, OK, he came to earth.
But when Jesus shows up to

774
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,800
earth, he shows up and he has
the entire Old Testament put

775
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,800
together.
Did you guys know that?

776
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Like he literally, he's like the
MOT baby, right?

777
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,360
He's got the Septuagint, Amen.
Then you might say, well, why is

778
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,880
that significant?
It is so, so significant.

779
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,360
By the way, I'll say it's
significant that that God

780
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,120
translated all this into Greek
because we're talking about

781
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,360
theology for the rest of us.
It actually started about 200 BC

782
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,720
when they said, you know what?
We need to get the Bible into

783
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,120
everybody's language.
That's theology for the rest of

784
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,240
us, Amen.
Like, why would I show up when

785
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,880
they're speaking Hebrew, but I
only speak Greek?

786
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,800
I get tickled to death when I
show up to some masses and

787
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,040
random places and nobody speaks
Latin, but they do it in Latin.

788
00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,760
I'm like, you do not care about
people.

789
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,120
That's all it tells me, Amen.
I mean, why in the world would

790
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,040
you not just tell them what the
Bible says?

791
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,440
And there's been so many people
have been killed for getting the

792
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,880
Bible into every person's
language over all the centuries.

793
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,320
But thank you, Jesus, we have
it, Amen.

794
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,520
We have in our language.
There's people today that still

795
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:17,800
don't have the Bible in
language.

796
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,520
There's still people who cannot
read the Bible in a native

797
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,040
tongue.
And, and, and, and Satan has

798
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,239
been really, really good at
keeping people illiterate or in

799
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,040
the dark ages.
Satan is really good at keeping

800
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,600
the Bible away from people.
And that's maybe just the only

801
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,520
reason why you should read it,
because your enemy doesn't want

802
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,199
you to.
Amen.

803
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,679
And so the silence, right?
There's this Septuagint that God

804
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:43,199
put together and Jesus had it.
And this is what Jesus says

805
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,120
about this Septuagint, about the
Old Testament.

806
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,080
You find this in Matthew 518
says for truly I tell you, until

807
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:54,239
heaven and earth disappear, not
the smallest letter and not a

808
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:59,080
stroke, not the least stroke of
a pen will by any means

809
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,440
disappear from the law until
everything is accomplished.

810
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:06,800
Now, if you go back like, you
know, on this verse, right, but

811
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:13,280
not a jot or title, that's a
weird word, but but not a jot or

812
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,480
title will pass the law until
all of this is accomplished.

813
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,640
And this is really interesting.
Like, what does that even mean?

814
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,960
And so if you think about what
what a jot is and it says the

815
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,960
smallest letter.
And so a jot is in reference to

816
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,000
an iota.
An iota is the smallest letter

817
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,720
in the Greek alphabet.
So what you're saying is even

818
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,760
the smallest letter is inspired
by God and put an exact place

819
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,360
where it should be.
So so when Jesus came, he's

820
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,560
like, well, you guys are pretty
close on this Old Testament

821
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,720
here, but there are some issues.
Come on, somebody, somebody

822
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,640
asked me a few weeks ago, how do
you know the Bible, Bible's

823
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:46,800
true?
Like, how do you know, like

824
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,160
people didn't change it and
stuff like that?

825
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,800
Do you think the God, the
universe has the ability to

826
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,200
preserve his word?
Do you think he can do that?

827
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,840
Do you think he's like, oh,
these people mess it up?

828
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,200
Are you crazy?
He can split the Red Sea, but he

829
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,920
can't make his word, his word.
This isn't a man's word.

830
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,560
So he even goes back.
So he's got the Septuagint and

831
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,680
he's got hey, every every iota
of this Septuagint, every time

832
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,520
you see the letter I the
smallest letter in the Greek

833
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,880
alphabet, every iota I put
there.

834
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,720
That's amazing.
And he says title.

835
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,640
This is an interesting like
what's a title, right?

836
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,600
And in Hebrew, it's like the
you'd have AI don't know, like

837
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:29,360
the the little accent mark on
the words in in Hebrew, that's a

838
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,200
title.
Matter of fact, even in the

839
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,080
English language today, you
still have a title is a dot of

840
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,400
an I is a title.
The dot of AJ is called a title.

841
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,920
Isn't that crazy?
And So what Jesus saying is not

842
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,560
every, not just the smallest
letter is an exact place, but

843
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,680
the exact stroke of the pen is
an exact place.

844
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,720
Amen.
It just was crazy to me.

845
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,360
There's something like people
like, well, I don't know if I

846
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:52,480
believe all this Old Testament
stories.

847
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,840
There's some crazy stories.
I'm like, brother, if you

848
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,640
believe in Jesus, you have no
choice but to believe everything

849
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,920
that is said in the Old
Testament because he did not

850
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,120
correct it.
He matter of fact, he confirmed

851
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,560
it, Amen.
And then just confirm it.

852
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,880
He actually fulfills it because
he's not going to.

853
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,480
Nothing's going to disappear
until Jesus fulfills every

854
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,600
single part of this.
And So what he's saying is every

855
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,560
detail of God word actually
matters.

856
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,080
And then you start thinking
about what Jesus didn't correct

857
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,000
in the Old Testament because
there's some crazy stuff in the

858
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,080
Old Testament.
I know people don't follow Jesus

859
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,320
because the story's Old
Testament.

860
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,440
I'm like everything hangs hinges
on the resurrection of Jesus, By

861
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,240
the way, like if you believe
that a man could have raised

862
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:36,680
from the dead, you have nothing
else to say about creation.

863
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,680
Like when it when it when it
says that God created 6 days and

864
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,680
then he rested on the 7th.
We should take no further

865
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,680
thought to say, well, we'll put
evolution into that or, or these

866
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,600
are eras.
Is your God so small?

867
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,840
You have to come up with human
reasons for God's doing his

868
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,240
work.
I'm just going to say it.

869
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,000
It's it's like, what are you
trying to do here?

870
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,360
Like he he's not rewriting the
word of God because we think we

871
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,040
know something or he created
male and female.

872
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,840
There's 2026 in a nutshell.
So we put that in the clip so we

873
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,280
can be blacklisted somehow,
right?

874
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,360
Like male and female.
Do we have to create that

875
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,400
differently?
There was God like, oh man, I

876
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:13,680
forgot to wall that down for
you.

877
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,880
Let's get rid of all the you've
just versions of the Bible.

878
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,360
You're a God being he.
This is like a neutral Bible,

879
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,200
right?
That is so weak.

880
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,760
You know, like the word's the
word, Amen.

881
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,000
He just put together or says he
should leave his mother and

882
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,600
father and cleave to his wife.
Like, are we going to redefine

883
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,440
marriage in, in 2026?
Because the culture and I'm, I'm

884
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,720
sorry, like, I know there's a
lot of struggles.

885
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:38,080
I know the world's putting a lot
of counterfeits out there.

886
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,880
I know a lot of people run a lot
of directions.

887
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,920
We love you, Amen.
But like, I'm not going to like

888
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,080
if, if, if I don't have this to
stand on, I'm going to go do

889
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,800
something else in my life.
Amen.

890
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,760
I can find a lot of ways to have
fun, brother, right?

891
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,680
I, I can find a lot of things to
do with my Sundays.

892
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,040
I can do a lot of things.
But if this is real, it, it

893
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,840
comes at a, at a, at a price.
Amen.

894
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,400
Is it comes with obedience or
you think about the wars and

895
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,120
the, and if you, the death and
the fighting and all these

896
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,040
people being killed, like, oh
man, it's just crazy.

897
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,000
And it's like, it is crazy.
Like you see the power of God

898
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,640
and, and then the darkness of
sin, like you see the all of God

899
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,840
and all these different pieces.
How about Jonah?

900
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,400
Maybe some people actually can't
believe in Jonah.

901
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,920
I believe about the Bible.
I can't believe in Jonah.

902
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,400
It's like how many guys know
that Jonah's actually a type of

903
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,360
Christ?
Do you guys know that?

904
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,240
Like when Jesus in the New
Testament, he goes, I'm going to

905
00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:32,600
race him dead in three days,
just like Jonah come out of the

906
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,160
belly of the whale.
What he's saying is just as

907
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,120
Jonah, and it might be an
argument that Jonah died just

908
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,200
going to put out there, but just
as Jonah was in the whale, I'm

909
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,720
going to be in the dirt for
three days.

910
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,000
So if you want to delete Jonah,
you could just delete Jesus

911
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,800
because that's just what you
did.

912
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:49,440
Amen.
But like there's all these

913
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,920
stories like all can't be true.
It's like, no, it's true every,

914
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,800
every jot, every title, every
stroke, every letter was

915
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,560
perfectly placed by Jesus.
Jesus in the New Testament, he

916
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,280
quotes the Old Testament over 60
times.

917
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,160
It's it's quoted so much and
then he confirms it.

918
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,840
He actually relates to it, if
you want to call it references

919
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,800
it more than 100 times.
Matter of fact, the first thing

920
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,400
Jesus did when he opened his
public ministry, this is the

921
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,600
very first thing he did.
Luke chapter 4 verse 16.

922
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,120
Look at this.
He went being Jesus to Nazareth.

923
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,160
When he had been brought up, so
he gets to the where he'd been

924
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,040
brought up, so his hometown.
And on the Sabbath day, so this

925
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,640
is Saturday, it's when they had
the synagogues and they met.

926
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,480
He went to the synagogue as was
his custom.

927
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,400
So every Saturday, Jesus didn't
skip.

928
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:37,560
Come on, somebody just saying he
stood up to read because that's

929
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,000
what you did in the scroll of
the prophet who?

930
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,080
Yeah, I remember.
It's still up there.

931
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,280
Oh, no, we got the screen.
But the prophet Isaiah.

932
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,280
So he finds that major prophet
Isaiah told you so much on

933
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,920
Isaiah was handed to him.
You think that's an accident?

934
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,920
Nope.
Unrolling the scroll, he found

935
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,120
the place where it was written.
It's you know, he's like, where

936
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,800
did I write this at?
You know, verse 18.

937
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,240
This is a direct quote.
He said the spirit of the Lord

938
00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:03,200
is on me and I don't know what
he's doing.

939
00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:06,000
Maybe he's doing this the spirit
of the Lord's on me because he's

940
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,440
annoying me to play him good
news to the poor.

941
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,240
He has sent me to proclaim
freedom to the prisoners, to

942
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,080
recover sights of the blind, to
set the oppressed free and to

943
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,400
proclaim the year of the Lord's
favor.

944
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,240
And they took the he rolled up
the scroll.

945
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:23,480
I just see him like, you know,
just I'm in charge here, right?

946
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:25,480
And he gave it back to the
attendant.

947
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,960
And then he walked through
whatever he sat at the front and

948
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,040
all the eyes, the eyes of
everyone that's saying God was

949
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,640
fastened on him.
That's how he knows a good

950
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,880
sermon.
By the way, they're like, what

951
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,400
did this guy just say?
And he began by saying to them,

952
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:46,400
today, this scripture is
fulfilled in your hearing.

953
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,240
Is that crazy?
And so you look at the Old

954
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:51,720
Testament like, oh, it can't be
true.

955
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:57,040
Jesus confirmed and fulfilled
the Old Testament, the beginning

956
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,400
of his public ministry.
He just quotes what he already

957
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,000
wrote in the future or in the
past about the future.

958
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,680
He's writing about himself.
And then he repeats like, and

959
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:08,160
again, just so you know, I'm
doing what I already told you is

960
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,720
going to do.
And so that's the Old Testament,

961
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:13,920
Amen.
And I'm going to run out of

962
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:19,520
time, so I'm just going to make
this this take good notes.

963
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:24,400
Come on somebody New Testament,
we're going to roll gospels.

964
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,400
So the Gospel means story.
OK, So you got Matthew, Mark,

965
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,720
Luke and John.
The three early ones, Matthew,

966
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:32,320
Mark and Luke, they're written
early on close to when Jesus

967
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,920
resurrected, like with within 20
years.

968
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,480
Now you've got John, which is
written 900 or 90 AD.

969
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,520
So you've got, you know, 6055
years after.

970
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,920
So, so the first they're called
the Synoptic Gospels and the

971
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,400
last one kind of stands on its
own.

972
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:48,160
And John is writing to make sure
everybody knows that Jesus was

973
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:49,360
God.
He's writing by the deity.

974
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,360
He has like 7 or 8 I am
statements, you know, and he

975
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,520
just nails it out.
And so master of Gospel story,

976
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,360
it's the story of Jesus, Amen.
But it's not just the story,

977
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,080
It's the story of Jesus on earth
in the story of Jesus

978
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:06,600
resurrection in almost a third
or a fourth of those 4 gospels

979
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,960
is dedicated to Jesus last week,
his death, burial, resurrection,

980
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,560
sighting, because it wanted you
to know that for sure.

981
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,200
So if you know who Jesus is, I
was starting the book of John.

982
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,360
I just read the book of John.
If you're like, I'm not sure.

983
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,120
I don't believe any of this.
Read the book of John.

984
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,840
And then Matthew, Mark and Luke.
They, they, they're different

985
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,640
written, different people and
different types of groups, but

986
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,320
they all have the same story of
Jesus.

987
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,920
Now Jesus existed before the
gospels.

988
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,320
Amen.
In the Old Testament, this was

989
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,120
somebody told me a few weeks
ago, man, you know, Jesus was in

990
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,360
the Old Testament.
Like, Yep, Yep, he's eternal.

991
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,600
Before there was time, there was
Jesus.

992
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:43,240
He's always been and always will
be the alpha, the Omega, the

993
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:44,880
beginning, the end.
He's timeless.

994
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,680
He's not bound by time, space
and matter.

995
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,400
He's not bind by the Trinity of
our, our world, time, space that

996
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:51,560
matter.
He's bound by something else.

997
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,520
And so, so Jesus seem boundless,
I should say, but there's

998
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,000
Christophany.
He's like when Christ in the Old

999
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,360
Testament, you heard another in
the fire, you sing the song,

1000
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:00,760
right?
And there's no other fire.

1001
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,720
That's Jesus, right?
When you see in the Old

1002
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:05,560
Testament when somebody worships
somebody and they take their

1003
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,000
shoes off, that's Jesus.
There's Christophanes, there's

1004
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,800
somebody who wrestled somebody
named Jacob, that's called

1005
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,640
Jesus.
Amen.

1006
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,880
So when you read the stories,
you're about the stories of

1007
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,840
Jesus when he came as a human,
the incarnation to earth.

1008
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,720
All right, I'm moving faster
history.

1009
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,360
This is the book of Acts.
OK, we got the it's back up.

1010
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:25,800
Perfect.
They did a better job on this

1011
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:26,400
one.
Perfect.

1012
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,040
So the book of Acts, it's just
history.

1013
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,480
It's really called like Acts of
the Holy Spirit, Acts of the

1014
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:32,960
early disciples.
I like the acts of the Holy

1015
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,680
Spirit, just what God was doing.
And it moved from like just a,

1016
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,600
a, a, a little movement in the
upper room.

1017
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,600
Jesus sins and and the, the
Pentecost comes a few days

1018
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,160
later.
They speak in tongues.

1019
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,440
It appears on language and the
gospels preached and many come

1020
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,120
to Christ and there's missionary
journeys.

1021
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,440
Paul goes on three of them.
He brings the gospel to all

1022
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,640
these places.
You're going to see the letters

1023
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,120
in a second and the gospel goes
out into the world.

1024
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,560
That's the story of Acts.
Great book.

1025
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:56,560
By the way.
Haven't you read the book of

1026
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,120
Acts before?
I mean that'll, that will change

1027
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,320
your faith right there.
Amen.

1028
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,600
Then you got these letters.
Some people call them epistles.

1029
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,560
That's the old name for it.
But letters, and all these

1030
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,520
letters right here, Paul's
letters and the general letters,

1031
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,800
those are all letters written to
either churches or to groups of

1032
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,720
people or to individual people.
And it was really cool in the

1033
00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:15,960
New Testament, all of Paul's
letters are actually put

1034
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,080
together.
How many guys knew that?

1035
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,960
Right?
And they're back-to-back to

1036
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,040
back-to-back.
And so Paul, he starts out with

1037
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,920
Romans.
So he's writing the Church of

1038
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,480
yeah, Church of Rome, Right.
And then first St.

1039
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,600
Corinthians Church of Corinth
and then and then he has

1040
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,440
Galatians, the Church of Galatia
and the and then the letter to

1041
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,440
Ephesians written to Ephesus.
And then Colossians is written

1042
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,680
to Colossae, and then
Philippians are written to

1043
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,440
Philippi.
And then he goes into the First

1044
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,480
Thessalonians, which is written
to the Church of Thessalonica.

1045
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:48,960
And then he changes gears a
little bit.

1046
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,400
He starts writing individuals.
So he writes to his protege

1047
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,360
Timothy first, Second Timothy.
And then he writes to Titus.

1048
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,920
And then he writes to a guy that
he's appealing to him to take

1049
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,440
back somebody that once was his
slave but adopted with his son.

1050
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,320
And he writes to Philemon.
This is good news, Amen.

1051
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,840
So why are they there?
Well, these are churches that

1052
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,080
he's established on his
missionary journeys and you can

1053
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,280
read the history between Acts
and those you put them together.

1054
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,080
You got amazing little piece of
text going there and then you

1055
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,480
got journal letters.
OK, so Hebrews, we do not know

1056
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,840
really what Hebrews.
I don't think it's Paul, but

1057
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:22,080
yeah, James.
James half wrote to Jesus.

1058
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,240
He's very practical.
It's a great practical book.

1059
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,280
First time.
Peter's written by Peter himself

1060
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,920
to the Church of Rome.
It's an underground church.

1061
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,440
His name is Babylon.
So don't know who's writing to

1062
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,120
make sure you get this next one
right.

1063
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,040
Oh, yeah.
First, second and third John and

1064
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,600
then Jude.
So first, second, third John.

1065
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,680
If you don't know, they're
written by the same John who

1066
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,120
wrote the book of John, the
Gospel of John, and also the

1067
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,040
person who wrote Revelation.
But we had this happen a few

1068
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,920
weeks ago.
We got some some guys can do to

1069
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,280
their faith in our way groups.
And remember, I was in Scripture

1070
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,320
and it was first John 19 and
they memorized John 19.

1071
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,440
They didn't know there were
different books, but now you

1072
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,680
know.
Amen So the basics here, right?

1073
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,720
And then and then Jude and
Jude's a fire fire book, right?

1074
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,560
And then Revelation, different
type.

1075
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,000
It's not a letter.
It's really a kind of

1076
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,360
apocalyptic.
John is getting this, he's

1077
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,800
getting this vision from heaven
and he's with Jesus and he sees

1078
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,040
these churches and all these
beasts and it's end times.

1079
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,440
It become really relevant one
day.

1080
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,960
Amen.
But this is called the

1081
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,680
collection.
So you say open your Bible.

1082
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,200
This is the collection.
Amen And you got to get really

1083
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,560
good.
Like you open it like do you

1084
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,400
know what you're reading?
And I'll just say this is in

1085
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,800
with this verse.
But Hebrews 412.

1086
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:37,440
It says for the word of God is
what living and active.

1087
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:42,240
The Bible is not an A book with
old writings and fables and good

1088
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:46,240
teaching.
It is an active living book.

1089
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,920
Amen.
It says sharper than any double

1090
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:53,920
edged sword.
It is an offensive weapon, like

1091
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,640
when when Peter put away his
physical sword, he actually

1092
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,960
picked up the real sword.
You know what talking about?

1093
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:05,200
And he preached this because
this is life and it's so sharp.

1094
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,560
It says it pierces into the
dividing soul and spirit joints

1095
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,480
and marrow.
How how deep and how sharp is

1096
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,320
the word of God?
That would actually divide

1097
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:19,280
marrow from joint like the very
fabric of your soul to actually

1098
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,400
dichotomize and split your soul
from spirit.

1099
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:22,880
It's only the word of God can do
that.

1100
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,840
Amen.
Like, yeah, that's how deep it

1101
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,880
penetrates.
And so when you're like giving

1102
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,120
somebody advice and to me
struggling or whatever The thing

1103
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,480
is, you share the word of God,
Amen, Because it's what they

1104
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:34,800
need.
And it's it divides.

1105
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,560
And what's a dividing good, bad
and ugly?

1106
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:42,000
Amen, old man Newman, Sean.
And God, it's it's dividing

1107
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,600
those pieces every time you hear
it and it says it judges the

1108
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,480
thoughts and intentions of the
heart.

1109
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,560
It doesn't even judges your
thoughts, it judges the motives

1110
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,120
of your thoughts.
Is that incredible?

1111
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,200
And you go back to Genesis
chapter 6.

1112
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,160
And the flood came because every
thought and intention of the

1113
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,000
heart was wicked beyond all
deceit.

1114
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:04,400
And it goes on to say nothing in
all creation is hidden from

1115
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,040
God's sight.
Everything is uncovered and

1116
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:12,920
exposed before the eyes of him
being Jesus, to whom we must

1117
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:17,680
give what an account.
Yes, we know Jesus.

1118
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,280
Yes, we love Jesus.
Yes, we're forgiven.

1119
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,320
But we should be careful how we
live because one day you have to

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give an account.
Did you live the way I asked you

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to live?
Was your life full of yes and

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Amen?
Was your life a position of

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surrender?
You guys saying today I'm

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available, do what you want,
take what you want.

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Like everything I have is yours.
You saying this earlier and is

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built on the word of God.
I was 18 years old, I had this

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Bible and I knelt down by this
tree at a youth camp and I

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surrendered my life to Jesus.
It was like a blank sheet of

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paper.
And I just signed it and said,

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God, whatever you write,
wherever you ask me to go,

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wherever you lead me, it is just
already a yes, Amen.

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It's built on the word of God.
And so this Bible isn't just any

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book.
It's not there to collect dust.

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It's there because it's living
and active and transformative

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and pierces our soul and divides
our thoughts.

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And when you look into it, you
have nothing left but to be

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transformed because the Holy
Spirit working in you, Amen.

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And so my challenge today is how
many guys need to get into the

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Bible, Like how many need to
make this a daily habit?

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I mean, you don't have to know
everything.

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Come on somebody, you just learn
one thing a day, just learn the

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next thing.
You open the toolbox, You're

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like, man, that's a Phillips.
OK, cool, that's a Phillips.

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Some of you are going to learn
some advanced tools, somebody

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going to learn some new tools,
but you're all learning.

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Amen.
And you have to get the word of

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God into your life every single
day.

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That's the challenge, that's the
goal.

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And that's not for the next
week.

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It's for your whole life is
built on this.

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And so Father, we come before
you God, we ask God, you just

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give us the confidence.
God give us the courage to do

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drastic things and as simple as
just picking the Bible up and

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your word would just strip us of
ourselves.

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We grow into the image of your
son.

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You'll be transformed.
You got to renew our minds.

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We studied the real thing.
So we know when we see a

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counterfeit hope.
Our church should be so counter

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cultural because it's just built
on you.

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The culture is not going to
understand to God your word is

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true.
We trust it.

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We trust every single word,
every single letter is perfectly

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placed, every stroke of the pen,
every dot of the I and so God,

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we trust you.
I'll pray for one more group of

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people in the house and that's
those you say I just don't not

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only need to get in the word of
God, I need the word of God to

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get in me.
The Bible says that in the

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beginning was the word and word.
Word was with God and the word

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was with God and the word is God
because on verse 14 says the

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word became flesh and dwelt
among us be on the glory, the

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glory of the only God of the
Father, all of grace and truth.

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It's about Jesus and some of you
guys need the word himself,

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00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,520
Jesus to come into your life to
save you from your sin, to

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recognize you're a Sinner and
need of a savior that this book

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is not just some fable, but
today you surrender your life

1176
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:02,520
just like we sang already and
said Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I need

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you God for the first time in
life, I surrender myself.

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I surrender to your way.
I believe you died on the cross,

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my sin 2000.
You got resurrected for me and

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so today if you need Jesus, the
Bible says today is the day of

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salvation.
If you call on him and confetch

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him out that he is the Son of
God and raise him dead and

1183
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believe in your heart that
you'll be saved.

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So today if you need Jesus, they
might get weird then call you

1185
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out, but if you need Jesus, we
just raise your united place.

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I need Jesus.
I think the word of God to get

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in me for the very first time to
be transformed by the power of

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the Holy Spirit.
If you raise your hand, just

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praise prayer.
The prayer is not save you but

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your belief in him and say
Father God thanks so much to

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Jesus at your word I am changed
the word of Jesus.

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You died on the cross through my
sins.

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Lord, I surrender myself.
God, I trust you God, I obey

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from now on.
God, it's yesterday, Amen.

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God draw close to me.
I draw close to you, Father,

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forgive me God make me whole.
That's through my life God use

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00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:58,880
it how you see fit.
I'm available for you.

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I pray this and the church said
Amen.

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Give some glory to God today.
Amen.