How Do You Actually Read The Bible - Theology for the Rest of Us

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Good morning.
Oh, man.

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Hey, do you guys confused all
you look at the band and

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everybody shuffled around to the
right.

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Do you guys notice at all?
Different drummer, different

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bass guy, new lead guy.
Can you guys go for these guys?

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Come on then.
Fantastic.

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I was talking to Joel.
I was like, man, you're doing

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pretty good on the bass.
And he he was like, well, I say

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you got no iPad or nothing for
the music.

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He goes, I I can't read the
music anyway, so I just played

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by ear.
I memorize it and wow,

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fantastic.
I'm looking over and going this

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is this is too good.
You make I can't I'm so sick of

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these guys talent, you know,
shouldn't have that much talent

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one person.
But anyway, we appreciate these

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guys.
So can you guys say rejoice

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always.
Now let's say it like we want to

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rejoice, rejoice always.
Come on somebody.

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You guys have just memorized the
verse today.

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Come on, somebody first lessons
516.

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You got it right there.
Rejoice always.

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And this verse we talked about
lately, but this is one of those

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seasons of just full of joy.
We get to choose joy, Amen.

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And then it goes on to we pray
continually.

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We could choose prayer.
We grateful for all

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circumstances for it's God's
will for you in Christ Jesus,

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Amen.
And as Christians, there's

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something different about us.
Even when the circumstances are

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difficult, it's not the way you
want to go.

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It's a season of uncertainty.
Even life or death, we can still

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choose joy, choose to pray, and
choose to be grateful.

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Amen.
And people sense that they walk

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in and it just, there's
something about the person who's

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been the presence of God and the
demeanor they have because they

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actually walk with Jesus.
And so today I was going to just

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celebrate a few things.
It's been just an exciting

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season at our church.
First of all, Mother's Day last

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week, largest middle day we ever
had.

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Fantastic preaching, by the way.
Come on, somebody, everybody's

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like, how's it feel to be the
second best preacher in the

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house?
I'm like, I'm probably like the

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10th.
There's there's so many great

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guys, dude, I'm telling you so
and ladies, but just fantastic.

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We had 421 people out.
Largest Mother's Day I've ever

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had.
Just amazing.

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Give it for everybody's new,
give it for moms.

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Just wow.
It's just, it's just insane.

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Like we don't know what really
to prepare for anymore.

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Like how many kids, I don't
know, we don't even know

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anymore.
We had three people.

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It's amazing on Mother's Day
day.

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I don't know all the time you're
like man pastor, like I just

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want to get more involved.
I want to jump on the team.

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I'm like sweet.
And they all came to set up

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today.
So we had three new people set

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up this morning.
Just jumped on in fantastic.

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It's just fun.
It's just be a part of what

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God's doing this whole thing.
There's a lady that came out.

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It's been coming for a season,
but mentioned the the bouquet

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bar and was just super excited.
Like I cannot believe you guys

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go all this extra difference
like this extra miles to

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celebrate moms and just open up
this it just if you come out of

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different churches, it's kind of
get a little stale, you know,

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and stagnant and it just I feel
like most people forget this,

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but one of the qualifications
for a pastor is actually fit for

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hospitality.
And I think when somebody comes

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into a church, this just no
automatic like these people love

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people.
Amen, because God loves us, we

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love everyone else.
Amen.

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And just a little tiny caveats
and fun things, but man, how

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exciting just to do that kind of
stuff and to give back and play

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difference.
And people notice those small

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things like if you love us this
much, I mean, what else do you

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love?
You know?

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And it's just amazing to play
part of that story.

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So I want to say thank you all
ladies, put that together.

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I will promise you there was
zero men behind that.

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Just saying I'll stop.
I can, I can do that.

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This is pretty cool.
Last week there, there was a mom

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who couldn't make it, but her
whole family came out.

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And it was one of those families
that had kind of been between

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churches for a season.
Her husband came out and her

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family came out, kids came out
and spouses and all the things.

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And it took about a whole row
plus some.

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And she talked to us this week
and she's I was so excited that

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even though I couldn't be there,
my entire family went to

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Mother's Day at church.
Who knows?

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That's a good Mother's Day.
Amen.

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Like my family was in church
even without me dragging me to

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church, you know, which is often
the case, right?

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One of the things exciting this
season, our belt and SIM 8

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project, It's like it's a
godsend, Amen.

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Like we, we prayed for an
opportunity to say yes.

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Like Lord, give us the
opportunity to say yes to, I'll

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be honest with you, this was,
was not the first opportunity

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that we thought we'd say yes to.
Although we're like, Lord, if

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you do it, but like, that's just
amazing what the Lord's done.

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Amen.
And so to walk in the season,

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just a quick update.
We're still in the due diligence

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phase.
We're still working on some

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things we kicked out to end of
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So they got some things to fix,
but they're going to Amen And so

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we're so excited for the season
and what God's doing and this is

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above and beyond.
We could ask or imagine, you

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know, this, this, this Ephesians
3/20/21 like Lord, you just

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doing more than than we even
dreamed of.

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And I think that's what Lord
does Amen.

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And so I encourage you guys just
be praying and just just we're,

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I know you guys are like, we're
going to see some drawings and I

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almost put like the, the their
drawings on the screen and like

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we're trying to turn this into a
church.

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You know, it's, it's crazy.
So, but it, it's so much fun and

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excited to just to run the
season.

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This is another crazy fun story.
So this week I got a call from

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you guys know Patti Gazelle, who
knows Patti full life.

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Patti.
She's she's she can't come as

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much her husband's struggle with
dementia and just come with the

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seasons.
And if you know Patti, she's

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just full life.
She is so bubbly.

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If she ever sends you a card,
man, my Lord is like, and it's a

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3D card.
I mean, she makes custom cards

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and she's like send cards to to
Charlie's 8th birthday.

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And I, I said, man, I'm probably
just going to disappoint you

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with whatever I send.
This is not going to be like

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this crazy thing.
But she called me or text me.

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She said, Hey, I've something
shipped my house.

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I think it's for you.
That's our thing is like, man, I

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did ship something to her a
while back and her address is in

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my Amazon.
Maybe I sent her some things

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that I shouldn't and has a
password that's kind of

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dangerous, you know, like what
did I ship her?

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You know, so I go back on
Amazon.

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I'm like, Nah, OK, we're I saw.
I don't think I shoot anything.

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She goes, you'll know when you
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They're like, OK, surprise.
And so I show up and she had

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this Amazon box and it was
actually full of all these

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heaven books.
And so she bought a case these

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books and she said, I heard you
need some of these to pass out

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to more people because this book
has played just played such a

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difference in my life.
But she said I was so afraid of

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dying.
I was so afraid of of of

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eternity.
I didn't know anything.

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I didn't know what was going to
be like.

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And so I was just definitely
afraid of holding everything.

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I was so sad and scared.
And now I get a chance like to

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share with other people.
And she told me she was I'm so

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excited for heaven.
Isn't it amazing and so on.

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Her heart is like, I just want
heaven to get in some other

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people.
Amen And so if you walk through

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a season where maybe there's
some of your family that's

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struggling with just kind of
life and death, or you're you're

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in the middle of it and you're
you're walking the season bad

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prognosis.
I get to send this book to a

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lady that was put on Hospice
last week, 51 years old and was

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given a month to a year to live.
And I was like, you got to get

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your mind and heart around
heaven right now because you

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man, I'm telling you, it is so
exciting.

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I know you're just scared to
death, but man, just scared to

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life.
Amen.

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And so I'll encourage you.
I've got an extra copy up here

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if somebody wants to just come
find me after.

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I don't want to throw it hurt
anybody like it did last time.

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So it was a bad thing.
So anyway, we're going to dive

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into this series.
So how do you actually read the

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Bible?
We're going to theology, but how

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do you read the Bible?
This is the best book you've

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ever read, by the way, Amen.
I mean, we we love Randy Alcorn,

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but dude, he got nothing on this
all came from that, Amen.

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And so I would encourage you
guys like, how do we actually

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read the Scripture?
Because for most people, as a

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pastor I meet, they're not
really against reading the

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Bible.
They just feel really

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overwhelmed by it, but like they
don't know where to start.

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If they have started, they
didn't finish, right?

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Like they're going to read the
Bible in the year and didn't do

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that.
Like you tried, like Lord, you

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made a commitment.
You start checking the boxes in

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about 5 days in.
You're like, man, I'm so

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confused, right?
Have you read the Bible and

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didn't get anything out of it?
I'll be real honest on the path,

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I've read the Bible and
sometimes I read like what in

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the world just happened, right?
And it could be confusing and

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then we kind of get discouraged.
I think Satan has a strategy to

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keep us away from the Bible.
I think it's way more spirits

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than we ever think or imagine.
But for most people, it's very

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overwhelming.
And then we get distracted and

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busy.
And so I want to encourage you

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guys.
How do we dive in the Bible?

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So today I'm just going to use
some simple things, some

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practical things, but I'm also
going to give you some really

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deep encouragement of why we
should dive in.

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So I think that's going to maybe
shift the needle for you to

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really, really spend some time
with the Lord.

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And so I'll just start with
this.

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It is actually very dangerous
not to read the Bible.

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It is very dangerous not to put
your head to Scripture.

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Even if it's confusing, you
don't know to start, I would

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encourage you that we got to
make time to get ourselves in

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the Bible.
It says this in Proverbs 1412.

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It says this.
There is a way that appears to

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be right, but in the end it
leads to death.

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There's a way it appears right
to a man, but in the end it

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bleeds to death.
And it's really scary because

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most people were doing were
confident in doing like the path

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looks good, the direction makes
sense.

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It feels good relationally, it
makes sense financially, and

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we're going through our life.
But the danger of the whole

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thing is we're not doing it with
the Lord, Amen.

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And it seems like it's like, why
is the path for destruction?

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It it seems good like this is it
like my life is built on these

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things?
And it's like the American dream

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or the pursuit of this American
dream, but has nothing to do

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about Jesus.
Like we're not following his

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will.
We're not hearing his voice.

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We don't know the direction
wants to go.

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Like it looks this is the right
way, but it's not from the Lord.

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And Satan is really good.
He didn't he didn't really come

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out to the front door right?
Like he, he distracts you and he

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keeps you busy and he puts all
these obstacles in your life and

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he just gets your heart and mind
focused on something else

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besides him.
Now this goes all the way back

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to the original sin in Genesis
chapter 3.

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And you guys remember what
happened when Ave. they ate the

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apple?
What was the first thing that

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happened?
You guys remember their eyes

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were open.
That's right.

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Good job over here.
That's really good.

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Their eyes were opened and they
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they recognized they were naked
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And what they do from God, they
hear from God, they reign from

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God.
And you know, we often think

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about the the curse and we
think, oh, well, this is what it

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is now.
And there's there's toil and

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there's pain and all these
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And that is true.
But what happens is we forget

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the very essence of what broke
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That was the very first time
that God, I'm going to say, got

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up in the morning, OK, right.
And he walks in the cool the

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morning and he looks for his son
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Where are you?
And they don't answer for a

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second.
And he cries like, where are you

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let go over here.
It is the first act of grace, by

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the way, Amen, That God still
pursued us even when we're

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broken and messed up and covered
the sin and shame and

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selfishness.
Our God still loves us, Amen.

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And you can't forget that.
That's just so foundational to

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walk with God because I think
Satan has just kept us broken

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and in shame and in combination.
But we forget the very essence

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is that there was a time where
we got every morning and we

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grabbed the hand of our Father
and said, we're going to play

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today.
What we're going to do today,

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what we're going to build today.
What kind of animals are going

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to name today?
What, what, what things are we

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going to discover today?
We're going to teach today.

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And we never knew it was like
not to actually walk with God,

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that his voice was preeminent,
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We were covered completely.
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And I think what happens is
sometimes we equate our broken

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relationship with God, that we
don't pursue him because we

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don't think God loves us.
And that's not part of the

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curse, Amen.
God, do not curses and say, get

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out of my presence.
I don't love you anymore, you

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are worthless.
Get away from me.

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I think Satan likes to teach us
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And So what happens is when we
don't get in the Bible, we're

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actually going back to the
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We're going back to the original
way that Satan was where our

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where our voice and God's voice
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And it's very dangerous.
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even deconstructive.
Like you will take your life and

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drive it to its furthest extent,
as far away from God as

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possible.
Even the point we don't believe

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in God anymore.
This is what Satan's strategy

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has been the entire time.
It's kind of interesting too,

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because, you know, people like
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Sometimes you get like a bad
Rep, you know, like, you see,

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these guys were kind of the top.
Sometimes we call them Bible

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thumpers.
I don't know, a group kind of

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church like that.
It was just like Hellfire.

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You got saved every Sunday.
Come on, somebody, right?

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Maybe it was just me, right?
That was a fundamental Baptist.

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We say it wasn't fun.
It was definitely mental.

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Come on, somebody.
If you come from that circle,

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you'll laugh harder than anybody
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But if you're not laughing, then
I might not see you next week.

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But it's all good.
I'll quote the great theologian.

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We, we come to being dangerous.
We're going to quote Alice

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Cooper.
Come on, somebody.

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Oh, man.
And if you know anything about

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Alice Cooper's music, I mean,
it's dark, right?

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I mean, there's got guillotines,
you got snakes, you got all this

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whore, all these things.
And his story is crazy.

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And I don't know all the bits of
the story, but he became

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obviously drugs, alcohol, all
the all the 9 yards.

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What's crazy is his wife,
Cheryl, She's actually a

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pastor's daughter.
And I started thinking like,

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man, Can you imagine that
conversation?

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Like you're going to marry who?
Like you're doing what?

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Like, I just like, man, you
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You know, there was like all
sorts of this drama dysfunction

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that happened.
But it's crazy.

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She actually came to Christ
later in her life.

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And through that, Alice saw the
difference that was made in her

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life.
And he was struggling with

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alcohol.
And he said, I cannot, I know I

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cannot defeat this on my own
because it's so destructive.

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And so he turned to Jesus, our
relationship with Christ.

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And it's been sober for decades.
And he had this quote and I saw

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it the other day and it's so
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He said drinking beer is easy,
trashy hotel room is easy.

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But being a Christian, that's a
tough call.

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He said that's real rebellion.
That's pretty good.

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Amen.
That's our thing about real

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rebellion.
Like when you pick up the Bible

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every time you read it, this is
the most rebellious act you

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could ever do.
You're, you're rebellion against

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original sin, you're you're
rebelling against Satan, you're

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rebelling against sin nature,
like you are turning back to God

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and fighting your world a real
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And it's pretty amazing.
There's a reason why the Bible

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calls this a sword, because you
actually have to be in rebellion

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to actually use it.
And so I think Satan just wants

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to keep us away from getting the
Bible.

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And for most people, sadly, they
don't read the Bible.

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Most people, it's just, it's
like literate but illiterate.

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They choose not to read and I
want to encourage you guys.

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If you could do one act as a
Christian, it'd begin your face

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before God and open his
scripture and just let God speak

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you through his word is a
foundational piece of your walk

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with God.
You know, I think about this

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sword called the Bible and I I
love my my boy Peter.

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He he's just so fiery in the
Bible.

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Some of you guys remind me of
Peter by the way, you just like

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you just go for it.
You don't care about the

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consequence.
You just going and Peter was

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that guy right?
And he he was so upset when

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Jesus was getting arrested.
What did he do?

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He pulled out his sword and
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Yeah, cough, Malchus's ear,
right?

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And in Jesus, he picks up the
ear and he heals them.

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He tells Peter, whoever lives by
a sword what dies by a sword.

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And it's the last time you see
Peter ever pick up a physical

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sword.
Every time.

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The last time you see him be a
brawler.

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And some of you guys come out of
the world like if you ain't

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fighting, you're not getting
anything communicated.

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Like there's a line.
I'm just going to just going to

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punch your lights out, right.
And that that was Peter.

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But when Jesus told me if you
live by the sword, died by the

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sword, it's really interesting
because we always think we

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aren't supposed to fight.
But what what Peter learned that

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he was restored.
And anyway, what did Jesus tell

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him?
If you love me, what?

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Feed my sheep.
If you love me, feed my lambs.

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If you love me, feed my sheep.
And for the rest of Piers life,

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what do you do?
Yeah, he picked up the sword.

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Amen.
He he, he exchanged a physical

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weapon for the most spiritual
weapon you can have and he

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preached the Bible, Amen to the
point of death.

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Matter of fact, he was so
passionate about the word of

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God, he proclaimed it evenly
when he was in Rome and in

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preaching to these people that
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And this is the way he says
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And second Peter, this very last
thing he's writing, second Peter

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chapter one, verse 3.
This is what you're reading by

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the way, when you pick the Bible
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Talk about God himself has given
us what everything, not just

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some things, but every single
thing we need for what a godly

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life.
So God's power gives us

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everything we need for a godly
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And you know, sometimes you want
to like live somebody else's

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life, like, oh man, it'd be
great and this and that.

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No, no, you just want to live
the life that God has for you,

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Amen.
Be content with where God has

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put you.
Live a God life through how our

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knowledge of him like so we know
about God, God's divine power,

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because we know about our
knowledge of God.

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How do we get knowledge of God
through the Scripture, Amen.

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And so because we know about his
power through the Scripture, it

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says who has called us, I love
this by his own glory and his

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own goodness.
You sing about that a little bit

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ago.
Like I want to come into your

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goodness.
I want to come into your glory

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on the talk of what you're
doing.

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It's not our glory and our
goodness, it's his, Amen,

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through his power and says
there's first force that through

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these he has given us his very
great and precious promises.

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So, so when God's power, which
is comes through God's word and

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knowing him, and we experience
God's goodness and God's grace

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and God's plan, he gives us this
amazing promises and great

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promises you find in Scripture.
I live my life by those, by the

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way, Amen.
They're like the voices of

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people just kind of keep fading
farther away as the voice of God

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is lifted up.
It says so through them You may

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what participate in his divine
nature like so so we get a part

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of our lives.
This resurrected Mike's over

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here laughing to make me finish
what I started earlier.

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Mike and then sat up out a lot.
I gave him the list and he's

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like he was dying and it's great
whatever, but we get to

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participate in his divine
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That means when we came to
Christ as a part of us that was

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resurrected because the power of
Jesus and we could participate

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in the resurrection power of
Christ, our soul spirit is

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already resurrected just like
Christ.

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There's a part of us that looks
just like heaven.

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This is the grace of God, Amen.
And having escaped the

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corruption.
So by being resurrected, we've

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escaped the corruption in the
world caused by evil desires.

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Does that sound like a war to
you?

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Sounds just like a war.
And Peter is so excited to tell

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those people you no longer have
to live by the things of man, by

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the evil that's done because we
know Jesus, because of his power

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through knowledge of Christ,
through the Scripture.

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He boldly proclaimed through
Scripture.

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That's what his whole life was
built on and ultimately appeared

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into this.
That's through the Scripture

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that you are saved.
You're saved because you know

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who God is because of Scripture.
It's not because you grew up in

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a Christian home or you are a
good person.

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It's because you know who Jesus
is, because we have the Bible,

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Amen.
And Peter knew, if there's one

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thing I'm going to die for, I'm
going to die making sure that

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you know the Scripture, Amen.
And there's people in this world

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that are being arrested and
killed because they preach the

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Bible every single day and not
just because they're on the

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pulpit, OK?
They're living it out every

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single day.
You think about this knowledge

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of Jesus that were saved and
resurrected like Christ.

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Here's the thing you get about
the Bible.

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And and this would be people
disagree, hopefully not in this

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room, but maybe.
But the Bible is absolute truth,

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like every part of the Bible.
And what what Peter is actually

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saying, this is your first and
final authority.

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That's what he says, is it?
He says everything to the

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knowledge of Christ.
You have everything to live a

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godly life.
So what that means is our life

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is best put under Scripture.
Amen.

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Now the world's going to tell
you a lot different, like, oh,

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there's no absolute truth, which
which is an absolute truth, by

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the way, just throw it out
there.

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I guess you're wondering, but
the Scripture is everything we

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need.
And imagine if God gave us a

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playbook that told everything
about the enemy schemes.

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Like what?
What?

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What if we had like a way to
break the code and understand

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the strategy and know the plan
and the ways that our enemy

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thought?
It's pretty crazy to think about

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it, isn't it?
You go back to World War 2, it's

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pretty amazing.
You guys ever heard a, a band

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named Alan Turney?
You know that is he, he, he, he,

451
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he was the one that decoded the
enigma.

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You guys remember the Enigma, OK
and all that they changed every

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day and it was this dial had
different dials on it and nobody

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could figure it out.
And he made the first computer

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that was like a manual computer,
but it he got electronic all

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these solenoids.
And every day they figured out

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they'd say how Hitler at the
end.

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And so he put new the last
letters of every message and he

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00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,560
used it to decode every day.
And so the last part of the war,

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they knew every single message
from the Germans, but nobody

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00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,920
knew that we knew what they were
saying till decades later was

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00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,160
classified.
But what's really cool that most

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00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,240
people understand is that when
they broke the enemy's code,

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they believe it saved.
At minimum, this is a low number

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saved two years of World War 2
fighting, which would actually

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be interpreted into if you took
like actual people, they believe

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it saved 14,000,000 lives by
decoding the enemy's code.

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And I started thinking about
that, and I started thinking,

469
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man, how many lives have we
saved if people can start coding

470
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,480
the enemy's real code?
Like how many people know Jesus

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if they get to see the way that
God made it, if they just

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understood, like there's a
scheme that you're playing into

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and we're too busy fighting
other people to recognize that

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we're all enemy.
You cannot be seen.

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And he has a scheme and a plan
to distract you from the love of

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God, that that God has a plan
for you, that he's pursued us

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from day one.
Our sin.

478
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,000
God has chased us down this
stuff that people say, well, God

479
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doesn't exist and he spun atop
and walked away and God doesn't

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00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,600
love us.
That is so far from Scripture it

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is unreal because God is
pursuing us.

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When I share the Gospel, the
first thing I want to start with

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is the the first thing that man
opens eyes to was the face of

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God because God has always
chosen to love us.

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It's a great place to start.
By the way, if you like one of

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those Romans 323 guys, I love
you.

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Just go back one step.
Amen.

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If you don't know I'm talking
about, it's OK, He'll get there.

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But how do you read the Bible?
So let's just walk through some

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like real practical pieces.
The the first thing you want to

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look for when you open the Bible
and by the way, the Bible, the

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00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,200
Bible means what you guys
remember.

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00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,600
The Bible means books.
That's right.

494
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,480
It doesn't mean just a book.
It means books, a library, a

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00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,320
collection.
And so when you open the Bible,

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00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,160
what you want to do is you want
to figure out the writer of the

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00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,960
book you're reading because
there's 66 books.

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00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,880
You want to figure out the
author's intention.

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00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:34,400
Somebody say all thorough
intent.

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00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,240
It's kind of weird.
Like you don't usually have to

501
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,680
think about that because you're
so used to.

502
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,280
You'll read whatever you're
writing, reading.

503
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,160
It'll make perfect sense.
Like, I went back to like 1997,

504
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:45,960
maybe 98.
I'm not quite sure the whole

505
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,280
love story here.
But if I were to pick up a note

506
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,960
from Barry to Christie, Come on,
somebody, where's Barry at?

507
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:58,120
By the way, I believe you
skipped that step, Right, Barry?

508
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,280
Oh, man, I'm sure he's been all
sappy and lovey and gooey.

509
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,320
I mean, we we all know Barry
didn't write anything.

510
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,600
I know you're right, Barry.
I was going to ask Christy,

511
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,000
like, what?
What do you do to woo you?

512
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:09,920
What did you do?
Barry?

513
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,800
There's so much I want to say,
but I won't just to protect him.

514
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,040
But.
But if you read the note, if you

515
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,280
had a note and you read it,
you'd be like, Oh yeah, this is

516
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,400
a love note, you know, And that
that would be the context, like

517
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,160
the intention of this and that
he's wooing her heart as hard as

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that, as I believe.
But then you you know that,

519
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,360
right?
And if you pick up the Bible and

520
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:36,600
you read it like, what is this
is, is this like a history book?

521
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,360
Is this trying to describe the
facts that happened?

522
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,080
Is this stuff that's written for
like a command from God?

523
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,280
Is this poetry?
And there's like imagery?

524
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,120
Like what's the imagery?
What's happening?

525
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:47,920
Like, is it, is this a letter of
somebody?

526
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:49,400
Like what's The Who, who wrote
the letter?

527
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,840
What's the point of the letter?
Like, who's the letter written

528
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,800
to?
Like, was he trying to correct?

529
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,320
Nobody writes something for no
reason.

530
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,400
Like what?
What's the, the big theme like

531
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,120
what's he trying to accomplish
and what direction is it going?

532
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,200
Prophecy, What's what's the
warning?

533
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,800
There's always a warning in
prophecy, by the way.

534
00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,720
And it was very, it was never
like you guys doing great.

535
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,040
Keep up the good work.
I don't think God sent many

536
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,880
prophets as clear that message
to anybody.

537
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,200
It was like, get back on track.
You're going to be have some

538
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,080
judgment, right?
And it's just you.

539
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,280
What's the intention?
What's the author intent?

540
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,480
And I was going to say the Bible
does not mean whatever you want

541
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,880
it to mean.
I see this so often, like people

542
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,480
take scripture and they just
take a verse and whatever they

543
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,400
come up with and it has to fit
their preference, which is a lot

544
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,400
of Christians do this by the
way, they put personal

545
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,280
preferences into Scripture,
which is very interesting.

546
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,720
And then they die on the hill, a
personal preference.

547
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,720
I'm like that that that's crazy,
right.

548
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,880
And you got the world.
They'll put their own

549
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,120
preferences and like deny that
Scripture isn't real.

550
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,360
And so it's always coming with
their own way of reading it.

551
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,080
And I've seen Bibles that take
masculine of the Bible.

552
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,640
I've seen Bible.
It's just weird.

553
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,800
There's certain things where
people are like, Oh, God's not a

554
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,880
man.
He's he's this, I'm like, where,

555
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,000
where, where did you?
Where are you getting that from?

556
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,920
There was a man that came for to
our church for a short time and

557
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,920
at one point it wasn't at the
time it was it was like trying

558
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,680
to justify polygamy from
Scripture.

559
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,000
I was like, that's interesting.
I've never seen somebody with so

560
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,560
much balls to go there to
scripture and Lily say that's OK

561
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,640
to have multiple spouses from
Scripture.

562
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,080
Is that crazy?
It's crazy to me.

563
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:23,640
I was like, are you reading the
same Bible I'm reading?

564
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:28,600
And I look at this, I think, is
this prescriptive or descriptive

565
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,320
when you read this?
I mean, just because people did

566
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,360
in the Bible doesn't mean we
should do it.

567
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,600
People ate an apple and
disobeyed God or a fruit and

568
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,640
walk.
It doesn't mean you should do

569
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,000
it.
Just because it's written there

570
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,040
that it wasn't prescriptive for
us.

571
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,720
It wasn't a command from God
just because people were like,

572
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,280
yes, they were selfish and did
what they wanted to do, but I

573
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:49,680
don't know.
That's just that was just me.

574
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:50,960
And yes, I said balls from the
stage.

575
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,360
You can quote it.
So it's a salty church.

576
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,880
It's a salty guy.
I mean, you're trying to justify

577
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,360
sin from the Bible.
It's just like, man, Oh, that's

578
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,960
great, man.
And you see this on so many

579
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,440
levels, man sexuality or any
other pieces like it's OK to be

580
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,760
drunk or all these, I don't live
my party life.

581
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,480
You see all the time.
It's like, are you going to

582
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,920
scripture, putting yourself
under authority of scripture or

583
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,800
you going to scripture because
you want to make it say what you

584
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,560
want to make it say?
And it's like you just can't

585
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,640
twist it.
And like, I just think you just

586
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,960
got to put that to a stop, man.
And why, why didn't do that

587
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,440
anyway?
I, I was, if I can go to

588
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,000
scripture and make it say
whatever I want to say, I'm

589
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,880
going to resign as a pastor.
I'm going to go to my lake house

590
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:37,360
and I'm never coming back.
And what's the point?

591
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,040
I mean, if, if, if, if the
authority, if, if the God I

592
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,960
serve is so manipulated by my
way of thinking that he's no God

593
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,480
at all, just going to say it.
And so if you can just make it

594
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,520
what you want to say, like, I
don't know if you really love

595
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,960
God as much.
You just love yourself because

596
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,720
there's no honor in that.
Anyway, that was a, the proof of

597
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,960
thought.
Put that out there so we don't

598
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,360
bring meaning into Scripture.
We discover meaning from

599
00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:06,240
Scripture.
We go to Scripture and we say,

600
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,120
what is the authority?
God, What are you saying through

601
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,840
this writer to these people?
And we pull out the meaning from

602
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,720
the texts.
Acts 1711.

603
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,200
There's a church that was really
good doing this.

604
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,960
It says now the Berean Jews were
of more noble character than

605
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,400
those in Thessalonica.
Man be bummed to be in

606
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,360
Thesalonica right there.
Right.

607
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,200
Like all alternatives.
Yeah, they were more spiritual.

608
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,560
Yeah, they had better character.
And why?

609
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,200
Why?
It says for they received the

610
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,840
message, some of the Scripture
and of Jesus with great

611
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,680
eagerness.
They were excited for the things

612
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:42,080
of God and they what, examine
the Scriptures, how often?

613
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:47,720
Help me out every day, every
Sunday, every life group, every

614
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,880
Bible study, every day, they
examine the Scripture.

615
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,200
That's good.
By the way, Amen.

616
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,920
This is a noble character to see
it not not just because it was

617
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,920
like, man, I'm just curious to
see the Bible says they're

618
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,560
actually questioning if what
Paul is saying is actually true.

619
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,000
Isn't that amazing to think like
who would question Paul?

620
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,640
The Berean church, Amen.
And if you're like, go to church

621
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,440
like, well, Pastor Sean said, so
I hope you know better than

622
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,160
that, Amen.
I hope, I hope you don't quote

623
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,360
me when you're sharing the
gospel with somebody.

624
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:21,400
You know, My pastor told me the
Bible says Amen.

625
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,600
And the best way to know truth
in any regard of truth, I don't

626
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,000
care if it's science, it's
reason, it's history, whatever

627
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,800
is the best way to know truth is
to filter it through Scripture.

628
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,880
You take what you hear through
any area and you put it through

629
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,520
Scripture.
If you know the truth about

630
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,920
marriage, take it through
Scripture and you know the truth

631
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,240
of all the things that culture
is doing, just go back to

632
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,600
scripture and that fact.
The best way to know Scripture

633
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,040
is actually to filter through
more Scripture.

634
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,040
Amen.
You can't take one idea from one

635
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,560
area that's not even a command
of God and then say it applies

636
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,600
to everything in the world.
If you the Bible is, by the way,

637
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,400
does not contradict itself, it
completes itself.

638
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,560
Amen.
If you think it's a

639
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,560
contradiction, you have to do
some more studying or change

640
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,240
your heart because you can find
what you're looking for, I

641
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,120
guess.
But with the best filter of

642
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:13,560
scripture is scripture itself.
The the Bible, The God of the

643
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,720
Bible is consistent and pure and
never changing.

644
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,160
And the Bible is written by God.
He is the author of the Bible.

645
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,000
And it's not even a dead book,
it's the living book, Amen.

646
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,880
And so you can go to it and it
will show you the things in your

647
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,000
life that it be shifted.
It's not going to give you 2

648
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,440
different answers for the same
thing.

649
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,600
So you can test your preachers,
Amen.

650
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,400
You can test your leaders.
You can test what everybody's

651
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,080
saying in the world.
Is this really what the Bible

652
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,080
says?
Now?

653
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,440
It's kind of crazy because
there's a lot of loving, well

654
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,200
meaning people that will give
you half or three quarter of the

655
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,120
truth.
They don't want to offend you

656
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,080
and so they tell you the easy
answer or half the answer.

657
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,080
It looks like a lot of great
ways, like a person struggling

658
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,160
financially and a good hearted
Christian will say that's OK,

659
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,720
you don't need to give to God
right now.

660
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,280
Save your money and take care of
yourself and then give back to

661
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,880
God when you can.
That makes no sense to me as a

662
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,520
Christian.
Like, I don't say you have to

663
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,400
give it to church, but returning
to God was given to you is

664
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,320
actually command of God.
It's in the heart of God.

665
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,760
So I, I know you feel for this,
this widowed young lady or

666
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,720
whatever the situation is, but
that's not scripture, Amen.

667
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,120
That's just like your way of
like placating the scripture.

668
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,080
And there's a lot of people that
will down the hill, personal

669
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:35,360
preference, which may be like
90% truth or 50% truth, or they

670
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,560
down the hill, they'll, they'll,
they'll use the name of, of

671
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,720
personal preference or they'll
use the name of tolerance.

672
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,360
In the name of tolerance, I'll
preach the message that's pal of

673
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,600
people's ear that people will
come and hear this message.

674
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,640
There's a lot of churches like
that.

675
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,760
And I don't, I don't, I just
don't understand it.

676
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,440
I, I really don't like, I, I, I
don't serve like a made-up God,

677
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,920
like I sort of living act of God
that's in Scripture.

678
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,920
And so the under the call of any
person is to tickle people's

679
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,880
ear.
Yes, I do think you should be

680
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,440
cognizant and you should care,
and you have something hard to

681
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:06,800
say.
You should say it with grace and

682
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,240
mercy and love, truth and love,
Amen.

683
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,560
But I don't think you you forego
truth because you really love

684
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,960
people more than Jesus, because
you don't love them more than

685
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,280
Jesus, Amen.
But the ultimate we preach the

686
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,880
name of Jesus.
And by the way, the name of

687
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,960
Jesus does offend.
It is offensive.

688
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,320
The first time I had a chance to
preach the gospel to A to a

689
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,040
crowd of people, it was just
soccer ministry that put

690
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,120
together when I was in college
and had a kids camp and you

691
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,480
know, all those things.
There's a group of parents,

692
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,000
there's probably 40-50 people.
And I remember preparing for

693
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,440
this and I was like, I don't
know who's going to be there,

694
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:40,920
but it's kind of weird.
It's a bunch of people in the

695
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,160
community.
I was like, man, I don't want to

696
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,640
share the gospel.
I don't want offend anybody.

697
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,600
Is that the dumbest thing ever?
But like my insecurity, my name

698
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,800
of tolerance was like so great.
I don't want to offend anybody.

699
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,640
And this man told me he's like a
fourth generation church

700
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,000
planner.
He said, Sean, look me in the

701
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,880
eyes, the gospel is going to
offend.

702
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,840
Get over it.
I was like, oh, OK, guess I'm

703
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,800
preaching the gospel, you know,
but but it's like, where is your

704
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,240
faith hung on?
You know, like we can't let our

705
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,920
insecurity and our personal
preferences and our our worries,

706
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,560
like supersede the name of
Jesus.

707
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,160
And I think a lot of people do
it in this culture because it's

708
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,600
it's if you notice, politics
become more spiritual.

709
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,080
I think the church become less
spiritual.

710
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,280
And so politics is coming into
the church.

711
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,360
And so I think it's time the
church just has to do.

712
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,560
We always done just stand up and
just speak and share the truth

713
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,720
in love.
Amen, I'm watching social media.

714
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:29,960
I know truth and hate Anyway, so
how do the Bible?

715
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,920
I think you guys start out and
you got to ask yourself what's

716
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,440
the authors intention?
And I think dive deep into the

717
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,120
context that your second thing,
look at the context and so

718
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,960
context, everything.
Context is what's around the

719
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,080
text.
Like who wrote it?

720
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,720
That's like if you didn't know
that was Berry right in that

721
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,560
note, that'd be a little kind of
weird, right?

722
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,480
If you read the scripture, it's
like, is this Paul?

723
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,240
Like what's what's Paul's story
is, is is this Joshua?

724
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,560
What's Joshua's story?
Moses, you just got to who

725
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,360
wrote, what's the context, this
big context?

726
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,560
Who wrote this?
Who are they writing to?

727
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,280
Why is this happening?
Like what's this past about?

728
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,480
I'll give you an illustration of
this.

729
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,600
How many guys memorize the verse
lately?

730
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,200
Show of hands by lately.
OK, yeah.

731
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,440
Good, awesome.
A lot of you guys, right.

732
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,320
If you memorize the verse, I
will encourage you to always

733
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,800
memorize the context of the
verse.

734
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,800
Can I encourage you that it
would be like owning a shovel

735
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,400
and don't know what a shovel's
for?

736
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,440
If you memorize a verse without
context, you like, I have this

737
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,680
awesome shovel.
I don't know what it does

738
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,960
because I don't know what it's
made to do.

739
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,040
And I would encourage you when
you memorize a scripture, know

740
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,240
the context of Scripture.
I'll give you an illustration.

741
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,680
There's this awesome thing out
front.

742
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,680
You guys see the kids store out
there by the way, you guys see

743
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,080
the you know what that is?
These are our biggest rewards.

744
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,360
You know, we're incentivizing,
just encouraging all these kids

745
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,840
like, hey, memorize the
scripture, like show up with

746
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:48,120
your Bible, Amen.
Bring a friend, like be nice in

747
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,760
the groups and they give them
kids cash and they can buy stuff

748
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,720
from the store.
Amen, Hallelujah, praise God.

749
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,400
And one of the ways that they
can get some kids cash is by

750
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,480
memorizing a scripture.
And so this last week's

751
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,640
scripture, I believe it was
elementary was Ruth and they

752
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,000
know this one.
They may teach those kids yet.

753
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,120
All right, just me.
All right, some of you guys.

754
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:14,840
Good job, Diane Ruth 116 And so
I see the verse.

755
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,080
I'm like, all right, kids, let's
go for it.

756
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,360
You know, and it says where
where you go, I'll go.

757
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,600
And they they skipped the part
which I was like, put it in

758
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,760
there where you stand, I'll
stand your people will be my

759
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,360
people.
Was they stay man, I messed it

760
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,200
up already.
Will you stay on stay your

761
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,000
people become my people and your
God, my God.

762
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,440
And so I taught this to my older
two kids and I was like, OK,

763
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,680
let's we've kept working it and
they were just all the place and

764
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,640
I kept working it.
I was like, OK, I'm like, what

765
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,120
does this even mean?
So I'm like as a passion, I'm

766
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,320
like, I better make sure.
So I have to read chapter 1,

767
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,800
right?
I'm like, who is saying this?

768
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,400
I know there's like other
characters besides Ruth.

769
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,240
Well, it turns out who wrote
this?

770
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,120
Ruth wrote this.
I was like, OK, she's talking.

771
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,760
OK, what's going on?
If you know the story?

772
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,120
So who's who's Ruth talking to
you?

773
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,800
She's talking to owe me.
OK, who's Naomi?

774
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,360
I know me.
She came from some Bethlehem and

775
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,760
it was a famine.
So she went to the Moabites and

776
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,360
she married this Moabite man and
she had kids.

777
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,960
She had two sons, and each of
those sons got married.

778
00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:12,520
And then for whatever crazy
reason, her husband passed away

779
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,920
and her twin sons passed away.
And she's left with Ruth, her

780
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,000
daughter-in-law.
And then she has another

781
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,600
daughter-in-law.
And she's telling them right

782
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,239
before that she says, hey, Ruth
and other daughter Law can't

783
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,440
remember her name.
She says, you guys just stay

784
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,280
here, go back to your family
with the Moabites.

785
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,239
Just go be a mom's house and
just stay and this is like

786
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,560
Ruth's declaration that I'm not
going to stay here with these

787
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,639
other gods.
I'm actually going to go with

788
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,480
you.
So over you go, I go and

789
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:41,040
wherever you stay, I'll stay and
your people, my people and your

790
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,800
God because my God Amen.
Now you got to know all that for

791
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,880
that, that verse that makes
sense, Amen.

792
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:48,679
We do this all the time in
different ways.

793
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,800
How do you know like Philippians
413.

794
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,040
How many all know that, right?
I could do all things through

795
00:34:54,040 --> 00:35:00,480
Christ, who and a lot of guys,
it's like I can accomplish great

796
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,160
things for a Lord.
And you see this all the time.

797
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:04,960
Like you get the tattoo, which
is cool, right?

798
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,560
We love the tattoo.
It's amazing.

799
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,960
Hope you put it in context,
otherwise you're going to be

800
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,840
real bummed out today when you
find out what this really means.

801
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,520
Anybody have a tattoo of this,
by the way?

802
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,520
They're so ashamed they won't
raise their hand right now and

803
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,360
you get the tattoo right?
And you're like, this is what it

804
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,720
means.
What does it really mean?

805
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:23,440
You gotta look at the context.
I mean, it's a great verse out

806
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,240
of context, you know, I mean,
because it stands alone.

807
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,960
So you can just kind of use it,
But it's it's not talking about

808
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,080
accomplishment.
It's not talking about like, I

809
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,240
can accomplish great things.
Go forth college student and do

810
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:37,080
great things, go win the game.
Like that's not what it's

811
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,520
saying.
It's not the the absolute

812
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:40,760
meaning.
Like that's not what he's trying

813
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,320
to accomplish.
So let's just read the context.

814
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,600
Philippians 410, look at that.
So I rejoice greatly in the Lord

815
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,080
that you at last renewed your
concern for me.

816
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,920
Who's who, who who's you talking
to?

817
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,800
I resource greatly, Lord, that
that you, who's you Church of

818
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,920
Philippi.
Thank you that you renewed.

819
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,680
I want to make sure you're
right.

820
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,360
You're concerned for me.
But what are you saying?

821
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,480
OK.
They they, they have been giving

822
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,240
gifts to him.
They're they're a church plant.

823
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,200
They don't have a lot and they
haven't been doing anything in

824
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,720
the moment, but something
happened and they gave a gift to

825
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,080
Paul and he's writing us back to
him.

826
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280
I'm so glad at last you were new
to concern me.

827
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,200
Indeed, you were concerned.
I'm not saying you weren't

828
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,400
concerned, but you had no
opportunity to show it.

829
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,560
You'd have the money, the
resources, the people to show

830
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,160
your concern.
How will we praise God?

831
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,080
I've been in that spot a lot.
Amen.

832
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,520
Like I want to help a missionary
out and I'm like, brother, like

833
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,480
I'll pray for you, which is
still great, but I don't have a

834
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,640
lot to give you.
You guys follow me.

835
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,840
Like you want to help, but you
can't because you're not on the

836
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,560
spot to help him.
And verse 11 says I'm not saying

837
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,720
this because I'm in need where I
have learned to be what help me

838
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,920
out content, whatever the
circumstance.

839
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,000
I'm not.
I'm not saying thank you because

840
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,840
I was broken.
I couldn't do my own without

841
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,360
God.
I'm just telling you I've been

842
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,320
content to whatever the
circumstances, you can go on to

843
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,760
talk.
I know what is to be in need.

844
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,600
I know what it is to to lack.
I know what it is to have

845
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,080
plenty.
I've learned the secret of being

846
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,680
what content in any and every
situation.

847
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,640
So there's a secret whether he's
well fed or he's starving to

848
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,680
death.
He says when I'm fed or hungry,

849
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,840
we're living in plenty or want,
whether I'm on a castle, when

850
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:21,160
I'm in a mansion or I'm in a pit
and I'm being beaten and I'm

851
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,320
just left for dead, which these
things happen to Paul because I

852
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:25,640
learned the secret.
Come on.

853
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,040
So what's the secret?
I can do all things through

854
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,040
Christ who strengthens me.
So this isn't about achievement.

855
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,560
It, it, it, it's actually about
resilience.

856
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,080
It's it's about being content.
It it, it it's being OK to

857
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,200
suffer.
So when you say I do all things

858
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,240
in Christ to me, that means
you're OK, whatever the

859
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,480
circumstances are that this is
God's will for your life right

860
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,400
there.
That's what that means, Amen.

861
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,680
But if you take the verse,
you're like, I'll just, you can

862
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,240
do all things like if that's
what it's saying.

863
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,720
How many guys knew that this was
a missionary passage?

864
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,720
By the way, how many guys knew
that this there's a missionary

865
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,520
passage that was written to a
church that then gave to Paul

866
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:01,920
and Paul's like, man, thank you
for the gift.

867
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,600
But I want you to know with or
without it, that was content

868
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,360
because God had me right where I
should be.

869
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,880
That's pretty good, Amen, and we
can learn a lot from that verse

870
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,320
that I can endure all things is
a better maybe the best

871
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,400
translation.
I can do all things through

872
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,200
Christ.
And so if you don't know the

873
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,280
context and there's a lot to say
about context, but if you know

874
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,080
the context, I would encourage
you first of all, to get a style

875
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,600
of study Bible, Amen.
Like, yes, how many guys have a

876
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,440
study Bible show of hands.
All right, read the study Bible

877
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,760
at the beginning of every book
and study Bible is going to be a

878
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,640
synopsis of the book.
I know you're going to talk

879
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,200
about the author and then
history and when it was written

880
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,400
and who was written to and the
the theological themes and all

881
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,720
these little pieces.
You have to read that, Amen.

882
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,720
Like, don't you?
You'll be of course, you're

883
00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,080
confused.
You pick the Bible up and you

884
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,240
don't know who it's written to
and why it's written.

885
00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:47,960
You'd be like, huh, you have to
study, Amen.

886
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,800
Study.
All right, sorry, I'll stop but

887
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,960
and study by was also notes at
the bottom of the different

888
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,400
pieces and I usually highlight
things that be about different

889
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,320
pins on or things are really
important.

890
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:03,560
I would encourage you to do
that.

891
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,560
Amen.
You can study the words there's

892
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,360
in in America.
There's an endless amount of

893
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:08,880
study tools.
There.

894
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,160
There is there you go.
There is more journaling.

895
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,240
Oh, he's tried them out there
you go.

896
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,360
There's a lot of them, right?
And in in America, there's more

897
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,920
content created for Christian
writing than any other society

898
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,280
in the history of the world.
And it doesn't look like it

899
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,000
affected our culture very much.
Isn't it interesting because you

900
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,280
actually have to do something
with it.

901
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,280
Amen.
And so don't let the Bible sit

902
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,200
on the shelf.
Just read it.

903
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,080
I would encourage you, if you
don't know where to start, you

904
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,000
don't study Bible.
You can Google some things.

905
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,960
It's dangerous a little bit.
I'll say that you can use

906
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,960
ChatGPT.
You can just get who wrote this.

907
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,760
You can find something out.
But again, you have to weigh

908
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:41,880
things and get a scripture,
Amen.

909
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:43,920
Like just don't take its word
for it.

910
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,400
I don't care who it is.
You have to study and learn.

911
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:47,920
And if you want to learn, it's
amazing.

912
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,200
You can often find you will find
the answers.

913
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,560
Amen.
There's a good website

914
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,200
calledgotquestions.org.
If you're just looking for like

915
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,800
just like where to go and you
ask any question, it would kind

916
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,240
of pop out like an amazing
answer.

917
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,480
I will say ChatGPT still seems
to be like, you know,

918
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,560
evangelical like it's still like
we believe the Bible, which is

919
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,880
probably will change at some
point in the future.

920
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,960
But at the moment you got some
answers there.

921
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,040
You can ask, you can phone a
friend.

922
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,920
Come on somebody.
Hey, Rick Lilly, what's going on

923
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,320
with this scripture 10 hours
later.

924
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,600
Thank you, Rick.
Come on, somebody, right.

925
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,280
But you got to have friends like
that, Amen.

926
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,600
You don't.
You got to follow a rabbi.

927
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,400
You know what I'm saying?
Rabbi Rick, Come on, somebody

928
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:28,880
you know.
Oh, I just love it.

929
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,280
But there's godly men and women
in the church you could ask and

930
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,200
they would love to give an
answer.

931
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,200
Amen.
Like, you know, ignorance is

932
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,240
sometimes a choice.
And so we can ask, right?

933
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,160
Ultimately, this is what it
looks like.

934
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,680
So there's a man I met with last
week, which kind of like

935
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,280
recovery group, like a men's
Bible study Monday night over

936
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,080
elite Total fitness plug.
Bucky.

937
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,840
Bucky, there you go.
Bucky's right here in the back.

938
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:52,960
Give it up for a buck.
He don't know it.

939
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:53,960
You know the why you're
clapping.

940
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,840
We give it Bucky and Bucky man,
he's fired for Jesus.

941
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,520
Amen.
And he's telling them about

942
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,120
Christ and it we just the whole
conversation is amazing and just

943
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,520
all built on scripture, which I
applaud and I thank you because

944
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,040
so many people just Foo Foo
stuff and it's like built on

945
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,760
human wisdom and human ideals.
That's not built on God.

946
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,800
And that's what lasts when we
get done.

947
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,320
There's a man who's really
curious and he has some

948
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:15,840
questions and there's about
marriage and all that stuff.

949
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,320
And you can tell he's like
discontent.

950
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,920
And Bucky just says, hey, dude,
I got a verse for you.

951
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:24,560
He pulls up Second Corinthians
4, I believe, and he talks about

952
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,840
this present temporary
affliction, momentary

953
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,320
affliction.
And he quotes the verse like

954
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,800
opens it up and says, hey, guy,
I got this verse.

955
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,240
I was going to say, Bucky
memorized that verse.

956
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,160
You internalize the verse.
You knew the context of the

957
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,120
verse.
And when he needed to use the

958
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,080
verse, he brought it up because
he had it in his heart already.

959
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,240
Amen.
That's going to encourage you.

960
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,600
You cannot share something or
apply something if you don't

961
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,280
know what it means.
You have to know the context.

962
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,720
You have to know why it's
written and who it's written to.

963
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,720
And then you can take a word.
The Bible says in Proverbs that

964
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,480
a word fitly spoken is like an
apple gold and frame silver,

965
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,600
that you can take a moment, you
can bring it right to Jesus

966
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:04,920
because you have a word from the
word.

967
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,400
You actually have a word from
God because you actually walk

968
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,600
with God.
I keep saying if you want to be

969
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,920
spiritual, you actually have to
be spiritual, but that means the

970
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,560
point of the Bible, by the way,
is not to check off the point.

971
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,960
You read the Bible.
The point of the Bible, you

972
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,560
don't get extra credit because
you read left to right and you

973
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,440
didn't apply anything or obey.
It actually may be worse for

974
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,040
you, but you have to read the
Bible.

975
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,920
You read it to be transformed,
Amen.

976
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,240
And we let God transform you and
not just transform you because

977
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:34,760
you're trying to be obedient,
earn God's love.

978
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,200
You just be transformed because
you in the presence of God and

979
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,720
when you read the Bible, it's
like you're reaching your hand

980
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:42,040
out to God and saying, Dad, just
show me the way.

981
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,560
It's like, it's like breaking
original curse by original

982
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,800
purpose.
You're open the Bible and you're

983
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,920
walking with God.
And so I encourage you just if

984
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,840
you don't know what it means,
like slow down, ask questions

985
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,600
like fight for it.
Like I have to do as a pastor, I

986
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,240
have to wrestle things.
The the ladies actually asked me

987
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:01,880
this question, like, what's the
interesting of soul and the

988
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,080
spirit?
Hebrews 412.

989
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,560
I'm like, that's complicated.
Like let me give you that

990
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,280
dichotomy trichotomy man's
speech with the context of

991
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,760
Hebrews 412 and keep on a text
message for you guys.

992
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,240
You know what I'm saying?
Like, thank you for asking, you

993
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:17,800
know, and she's in the front row
right here.

994
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,720
And she replied back, that's
really good stuff.

995
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:21,040
Thank you.
I was like, that took me an

996
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,400
hour.
You know, there's so many lines

997
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,200
and now it's quotable.
You can just like share it.

998
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,920
Like Pastor said, Pastor Sean
said, like, well, there's a lot

999
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,880
there, right, But I would tell
you about the Bible.

1000
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,600
Confusion is not failure.
When you read the Bible and

1001
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:37,600
you're confused, that's not
failure.

1002
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,680
That's an opportunity to go
deeper.

1003
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,280
And that's that's how I know so
much about Scripture.

1004
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,200
It's not because I just
downloaded it.

1005
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,000
It's just when I have a
question, I try to find an

1006
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,240
answer like I'm confused.
I'm like, I want to out educate

1007
00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:52,360
myself from this problem and I
recognize there's some questions

1008
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:53,400
I ask.
They're not going to find an

1009
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,400
answer to like why God?
That's you get some things

1010
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,800
around it, right.
But when you ask questions about

1011
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,120
Scripture, it's amazing how many
often that God show you can find

1012
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:03,600
it and it's searching and
studying.

1013
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,040
But the goal of reading the
Bible is to find God's voice

1014
00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:10,000
again, to find significance from
the Scripture.

1015
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,800
What does this look like for me
today, Paul, you are so grateful

1016
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,240
that no matter how hard it got,
you can do all things through

1017
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:17,840
Christ.
And so when life doesn't go my

1018
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,720
way or it's uncertain on between
jobs or my kids are acting like

1019
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,200
lunatics because that just
happens at times, all these

1020
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:25,680
things happen.
Lord, I'm just going to trust

1021
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,920
you, Amen.
Like I'm finding the significant

1022
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,600
from that scripture and applying
to myself immediately.

1023
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,280
This one says to James about the
Bible, James 123 Anyone who

1024
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,720
listens to the word but does not
do what it says, like someone

1025
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:40,240
who looks at a face in the
mirror, his own face in the

1026
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,600
mirror, and after looking
himself goes away and it

1027
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:44,680
immediately forgets what it
looks like.

1028
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,800
I I, I, I love these type of
Christians, man.

1029
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,200
They think their poop don't
stink.

1030
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,120
You know, they're like perfect,
everything's great.

1031
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:52,440
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
no.

1032
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,760
Like you look in the mirror,
you, you find the flaws.

1033
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,960
Amen.
You, you see the goodness,

1034
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,560
right?
But you also see like there's

1035
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,040
some room to grow and you
change.

1036
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:06,560
But says whoever looks intently
into the what help me out that

1037
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,560
is on the screen.
Yet there it is.

1038
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,400
There it is, there it is.
Who looks in to help me out.

1039
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,400
The perfect law that gives
freedom.

1040
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:19,240
Who knows?
That's an oxymoron.

1041
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,920
A law that produces freedom.
That's pretty good.

1042
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,000
That's pretty good and continues
in it, not forgetting what they

1043
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,920
have heard, but doing it.
They'll be blessed in what they

1044
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,520
do.
And the people want the blessed

1045
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:36,480
life, but they don't want the
obedient life like they want the

1046
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,800
life that a Christian has.
They want the joy and and the

1047
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,200
contentment like that Paul had,
but they don't put themselves

1048
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,640
under the scripture.
And we say is when you open the

1049
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,320
Bible, it's like you're like,
Oh, OK, I man, that's going

1050
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,840
great.
Oh, and you make a choice to

1051
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:50,480
change.
Amen.

1052
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:56,560
And this law, it's amazing, you,
you obey the law of God and you

1053
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,720
have ultimate freedom.
It's amazing.

1054
00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:01,920
The most freedom is actually
found under the authority of

1055
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:03,640
scripture.
And if you're like, well, I

1056
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,360
don't want my, I want my
marriage to be successful.

1057
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,920
I want my kids to be godly.
I don't know how to apply to all

1058
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:09,840
these things that you're going
through.

1059
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,560
I feel overwhelmed and defeated,
like you have to put yourself

1060
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:13,400
under Scripture.
Amen.

1061
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,600
And if you're not willing to
chase that down, ain't nobody

1062
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,040
going to chase it down for you.
Nobody's going to be like, did

1063
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,760
you read your Bible today and
God spoke to you?

1064
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,560
It's not very often you have the
life you have to do that, Amen.

1065
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,840
We call it a culture of self
feeders.

1066
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,840
Before I planted this church,
there's a man that was training

1067
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,760
me and he's he told me, he said
babies cry when they're hungry.

1068
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,120
Grown men get up and make a
sandwich.

1069
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,120
It's pretty good, Amen.
Like I don't get anything from

1070
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,720
the Bible just because you're
probably not reading hard enough

1071
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:42,440
like you.
I promise you, when, when I read

1072
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,400
scripture, I, I, I want to read
scripture where I don't leave

1073
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,600
until I hear something from God.
I don't leave scripture until I,

1074
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,440
I, I've got some, some nugget of
truth that no, God is there.

1075
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,560
And I sense that I need to be
obedient to something.

1076
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,720
Like I want to do a direction.
I want some wisdom.

1077
00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:59,000
I want, I want something for my
life when it opened the Bible.

1078
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,640
Amen.
I don't want to do this like,

1079
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,640
well, I, I signed for a Bible
from the year plan.

1080
00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:04,040
There's a ones going on right
now.

1081
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,440
People are loving it, which is
awesome, right, But I just want

1082
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,320
to go through the motions like,
well, look how far I've made and

1083
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,240
not be transformed.
I, I would say it's quality over

1084
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:15,640
quantity every single time.
And at the end of the day, I

1085
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,960
would say it this way, it's not
how much you read the Bible,

1086
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,800
it's how much let the Bible read
you.

1087
00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:22,960
If you don't leave transformed
because of Scripture, it's not

1088
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,280
because God's not willing.
Amen.

1089
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,400
And then we just, you just live
that out.

1090
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,000
And I tell you, this sounds so
basic, but this is like the

1091
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,160
turning point for some of you
guys's lives, like just to read

1092
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:37,600
the Bible and let the Bible read
you fighting against and

1093
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,760
rebellion against all the Wiles
of schemes, the devil, the fiery

1094
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,200
arrows.
We talk about Ephesians chapter

1095
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,920
6 about the original design that
we have and that we walk wisely

1096
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,800
in this world because we know
exactly who we are, exactly

1097
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,280
where we came from, exactly what
God's called us to do, because

1098
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,640
we can know God's will, because
we actually know God himself.

1099
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,880
Amen.
So Father, come before you God.

1100
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,040
I pray God, we just elevate the
Bible in our lives today.

1101
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,480
I pray for those that are Jesus
followers today that would just

1102
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,120
say today I need to get in my
Bible.

1103
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:12,680
I need to have not just a habit,
but I need a deep desire to get

1104
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,640
in the race, to get in the
rebellion, to step out against

1105
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,440
all the things that are
attacking me that I've given so

1106
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,560
much ground to and get my nose
into scripture and know who you

1107
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:22,960
are.
How many guys would say today's

1108
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,400
the day you just need to turn
back to Scripture?

1109
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:25,640
How many guys show your hands
today?

1110
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,440
That's you?
Like it's been a long time since

1111
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,760
that has been the prominent
feature, the priority of your

1112
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,080
life.
I'm going to follow you, God,

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not because I have to, because
I'm going to know you be

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equipped and all things got to
serve you.

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And so God, you see the hands.
God, I pray for repentance on

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our church.
Pray repentance in their hearts

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or those who may be just gone
through the motions and forgot

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that this is a real war, that
this isn't a peacetime movement.

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And so God help us to step into
your presence and to feel your

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love.
And then we simply just dine

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with you, even the presence of
our enemies.

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God, you set a table before us
and that you were enough, just

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like Paul talked about, that we
can do all things because you

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are with us.
I'll pray for one group of

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people specifically today as
those you'd say today.

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I needed the Bible to read me
like baby day.

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You recognize that there's a God
who loves you.

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We talked about that in Genesis.
And the Bible says in John that

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the Word of God himself is Jesus
and that he became flesh and

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dwelt among us, that we beheld
the glory, the glory, the only

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Godfather full of grace and
truth.

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And Jesus, the actual word of
God is trying to come into your

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life today.
The Bible says if it calls on

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Jesus be saved, forgiven and
made new that Jesus went to the

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cross and died for you and
exchanged all your sins for all

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his rights, his righteousness,
because he loves you.

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It's never stopped pursuing you
in the store of redemption.

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And so today if you need Jesus
to come into your life and save

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your sin for the very first
time, that ain't be looking

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around.
Not going to call it.

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Make it weird be a humble
yourself before God today and

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say yes to Jesus and have to do
life in Jesus be forgiven today.

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If that's you just raise your
own highest place.

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I need Jesus today and to walk
out here with a relationship

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with Christ forgiven and made
new for the very first time when

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we do prayer.
If that's you, the prayer does

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not save you, but set your heart
towards him and say father God

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thanks so much for loving me
enough that you'd give me a word

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named Jesus to die on the cross
for me.

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There's a sinless Son of God
because you care enough about

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me.
Even though I was still strained

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in my sin, I was yet helpless.
You died for me and God, Your

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eyes were on me.
There's a joy be set before you

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adored the cross.
Thank you so much for loving me,

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God.
I humble myself.

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God be coming alive today.
These are idle words.

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This isn't dead ink.
So thank you Jesus for this

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living word that you've given
me, that you have life today.

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Just like Peter talked about the
knowledge of you that I've been

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partaking in the aspect of the
divine nature of God.

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So thank you Jesus, I pray this
in Jesus name.

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The church said Amen.
Come on, give some glory to God

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today.
Amen.