WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.140 Ian, I'll try to remember to end with a super Martin Luther quote, so don't let me forget, 00:00:06.259 --> 00:00:10.099 that's why my phone is right here. I'm not like checking my stocks, which I don't have anyway. 00:00:10.700 --> 00:00:14.019 So, none of those. 00:00:16.420 --> 00:00:18.580 Okay, oh thank you. Okay. 00:00:21.580 --> 00:00:26.879 Well, our topic this morning is the clarity of Scripture. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:32.240 We are, as you know, because you've all been coming faithfully in a series on Scripture, 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:35.859 so we take up the topic of the clarity of Scripture. 00:00:36.500 --> 00:00:43.359 And within the Reformation tradition, that is the tradition in which we would largely see ourselves in this church, 00:00:43.859 --> 00:00:48.060 the Reformation tradition, a belief in the clarity of Scripture, 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:54.359 has always been affirmed and considered important. 00:00:54.359 --> 00:01:02.879 And rightly so, for whatever allegiance that we might give to the authority of Scripture, 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:09.079 it could never really function as authority in our lives, 00:01:09.219 --> 00:01:17.379 if, due to its obscurity, its message were inaccessible or impenetrable. 00:01:17.379 --> 00:01:23.719 I mean, we might well be ready and willing to receive and act on the directives from the high command, 00:01:23.979 --> 00:01:28.799 but if the radio transmitter can't give us a clear signal, we're at a loss. 00:01:31.099 --> 00:01:37.239 Are we supposed to take the bridge or sit tight and wait for air support? 00:01:37.919 --> 00:01:39.340 You know, what are we supposed to do? 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:41.640 I don't know. I couldn't make it out. 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.980 Too much static, no clear reception. 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:46.799 Well, that will never work. 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:55.579 Few believers are willing to deny in principle the authority of the Bible, 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:01.120 but often Scriptures are functionally denied the final word 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:06.079 because it is alleged that its meaning is not plain. 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.400 Who's to know what it means? 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:15.740 The effect is to have its authority blunted, 00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:18.420 if not altogether abrogated. 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:24.599 And whether its supposed lack of clarity results in a confusion 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:29.599 that is lamented or perhaps even convenient, 00:02:30.500 --> 00:02:32.099 who knows? 00:02:32.099 --> 00:02:42.900 It's intriguing that the stratagem of the serpent was to raise in the mind of Eve doubt 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:45.159 as to what God had said. 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.159 Did God really say? 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:53.379 For confusion makes defection more likely, 00:02:54.060 --> 00:02:56.060 even seemingly legitimate. 00:02:56.060 --> 00:03:01.400 So, clarity, it would seem, 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:06.740 is vital for the effective functioning of God's authority. 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:14.460 But is the clarity of Scripture actually sustainable? 00:03:14.460 --> 00:03:20.080 It would seem to be a highly problematic claim. 00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:24.060 Some would even say utterly implausible. 00:03:24.379 --> 00:03:25.860 What? Scripture clear? 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:27.659 You must be joking. 00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:32.740 So, consider first what is typically alleged 00:03:32.740 --> 00:03:37.159 against the claim of clarity for Scripture. 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.620 So, the implausibility of clarity. 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.180 And while the presumption of the Bible's clarity 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:50.599 has been a functioning presupposition among the people of God, 00:03:50.819 --> 00:03:54.979 or at least as long as they have had Bibles or their precursors, 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:56.379 the writings of the apostles, 00:03:56.759 --> 00:04:00.000 it has often indeed regularly been challenged. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:07.580 What have been some of the arguments or observations against clarity? 00:04:07.979 --> 00:04:08.800 Against clarity. 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:13.439 So, first let's consider some of the traditional arguments. 00:04:14.780 --> 00:04:20.899 There is, for one, what we might call the challenge of mystery. 00:04:21.699 --> 00:04:23.040 The challenge of mystery. 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:29.660 That is to say that the claim of clarity fails to account 00:04:29.660 --> 00:04:35.000 for the mysterious transcendent subject matter of Scripture. 00:04:35.860 --> 00:04:40.360 This was Erasmus' objection against Luther. 00:04:40.700 --> 00:04:42.640 I should have had pictures of these folks. 00:04:43.140 --> 00:04:47.520 Erasmus is a great, we've got some great woodcuts of Erasmus. 00:04:47.960 --> 00:04:50.920 He's always wearing an enormous hat. 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:57.100 Because Erasmus, his head was so tiny relative to the rest of his body, 00:04:57.300 --> 00:04:58.640 he feared that in public, 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.640 that would make his high intelligence look unlikely. 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:05.020 So, he would buy these enormous stuffed hats 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:06.939 that would bring his head up to a normal... 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:08.040 I don't know why I said that. 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:11.180 This is completely off topic, but just an interesting historical thing. 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:13.000 Erasmus of Rotterdam. 00:05:13.960 --> 00:05:17.240 And this was Erasmus' objection against Luther. 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:22.600 However, inevitably, parts of the Bible will be opaque 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:28.199 because of the very grandeur of their subject matter. 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:30.680 There's so alleged Erasmus. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.019 God's ways and purposes are so exalted. 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:37.040 How could we hope to comprehend them? 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:43.259 And Erasmus appealed here to Romans 11.33 as an example. 00:05:43.259 --> 00:05:47.039 Oh, the depths of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God. 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.740 How unsearchable are his judgments. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:53.699 How inscrutable his ways. 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:54.560 See, Luther? 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:01.060 Or, again, he would appeal in the same vein to Isaiah 40, verse 13. 00:06:01.939 --> 00:06:04.339 Who has measured the spirit of the Lord? 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.159 Or what man shows him his counsel? 00:06:08.300 --> 00:06:11.139 You know, these things are inaccessible to us. 00:06:11.139 --> 00:06:17.659 The claim that we may have clarity on such matters is hubris. 00:06:18.819 --> 00:06:21.319 Who were we to scan the bosom of the Almighty? 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:26.639 Why, says Erasmus, as Deuteronomy 29.29 says, 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.779 the secret of the Lord remains with the Lord. 00:06:30.779 --> 00:06:38.779 To think we can have God unveiled, clearly disclosed before us, 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:45.219 is to reduce God to distorting dimensions of human comprehension. 00:06:47.599 --> 00:06:47.779 Okay? 00:06:48.579 --> 00:06:50.719 So, you see the force of that. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:52.299 See the force of that. 00:06:52.300 --> 00:06:56.139 So, there's the challenge from mystery. 00:06:57.620 --> 00:07:03.360 A second would be the challenge from multiplicity. 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:05.840 The challenge from multiplicity. 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:13.119 That is, the claim of clarity fails in practice. 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:20.939 Given the reality of the irreducible multiplicity of all of the interpretations that we have of Scripture. 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:23.620 I mean, surely it's self-evident. 00:07:23.620 --> 00:07:30.980 How can anyone have the chutzpah to claim the Scriptures are clear when nobody can agree on what they say? 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:35.019 This was Robert Bellarmine. 00:07:35.300 --> 00:07:37.780 You know, the great hammer of the Reformers. 00:07:38.860 --> 00:07:44.879 And he pointedly taunted the Reformers who claimed clarity for Scripture. 00:07:45.139 --> 00:07:49.100 You Protestants can't even agree amongst yourselves. 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:59.160 Look at all of your in-house squabbles over your understanding of even just those simplest words of institution. 00:07:59.580 --> 00:08:01.260 This is my body. 00:08:01.820 --> 00:08:03.020 Oh, come on. 00:08:03.900 --> 00:08:05.760 Lutherans say one thing. 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:07.439 The Zwinglians say another. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.200 Calvin offers a third option. 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:10.660 Ah! 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.700 The profusion of interpretations is dizzying. 00:08:16.379 --> 00:08:18.820 And who can deny that it is so? 00:08:19.100 --> 00:08:29.660 Look at the proliferation of denominations who understand the Scriptures sufficiently differently to warrant in their minds gathering up into their own group. 00:08:32.940 --> 00:08:38.800 And you tell me, who's the eye of Romans 7? 00:08:39.540 --> 00:08:44.899 Or who's the man of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2? 00:08:44.899 --> 00:08:50.379 Or what's meant by the baptism for the dead in 1 Corinthians 15? 00:08:51.379 --> 00:08:54.899 Or preaching to the spirits in prison in 1 Peter 3? 00:08:55.059 --> 00:08:57.539 And we could go on, as you well know. 00:08:58.439 --> 00:09:03.899 This is a real potent and puissant challenge. 00:09:03.899 --> 00:09:14.559 Finally, it would seem that the claim to clarity is simply misguided. 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:23.120 It fails by its own criterion, as Scripture itself confesses its own obscurity. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:30.039 To claim clarity for Scripture is not simply to claim more for Scripture than it does for itself. 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:35.960 But it is to claim what Scripture explicitly denies. 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:42.700 How is it that David in Psalm 119 prays for understanding? 00:09:43.560 --> 00:09:46.340 Verse 18, open my eyes. 00:09:47.019 --> 00:09:49.620 Verse 27, let me understand. 00:09:50.180 --> 00:09:52.560 Verse 34, give me understanding. 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:56.040 Verse 73, give me understanding again. 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:00.940 Verse 125, give me discernment that I might understand. 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:10.240 Again and again and again asking, I have to be granted some discernment or else it's impossible for me to understand. 00:10:10.420 --> 00:10:17.480 Or the disciples on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24, they were at a loss as to how to understand the Old Testament. 00:10:19.020 --> 00:10:24.460 Or the Ethiopian in his chariot was baffled by the Isaiahan scroll. 00:10:24.460 --> 00:10:32.379 In Acts 8, to Philip's question, remember Philip asked him, do you understand what you were reading? 00:10:32.980 --> 00:10:34.759 Do you remember what his answer was? 00:10:36.460 --> 00:10:38.060 I need somebody to... 00:10:38.060 --> 00:10:38.639 Exactly. 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:40.900 How can I? 00:10:41.139 --> 00:10:43.400 Unless there's somebody to explain it to me. 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.800 How could I possibly understand? 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:55.399 If Scripture's meaning were clear and accessible, such would be unnecessary, surely. 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:05.299 And then there's Peter's clear testimony that Paul's epistles contain, quote, 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.959 some things very hard to understand. 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:10.959 2 Peter 3.16. 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:17.019 So these are some of the longstanding challenges. 00:11:18.400 --> 00:11:20.540 And they're pretty forceful. 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:21.740 Pretty forceful. 00:11:22.340 --> 00:11:30.139 And supplementing these traditional arguments that we've kind of had going on for a long time against clarity 00:11:30.139 --> 00:11:37.019 are those of more recent pedigree, which seem merely to compound the problem 00:11:37.019 --> 00:11:40.560 for any who would make a claim to Scripture's clarity. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:44.280 So, the contemporary intensification. 00:11:46.340 --> 00:11:52.620 Consider the challenge of what we might call the limitations of language. 00:11:52.920 --> 00:11:54.460 The limitations of language. 00:11:55.680 --> 00:11:59.040 The claim that Scripture is clear stumbles and falls 00:11:59.040 --> 00:12:04.920 because the vehicle in which it's communicated, human language, 00:12:04.920 --> 00:12:09.600 is notoriously frail and feeble. 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.920 We all know how prone language is to misconvey intended meaning. 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:18.720 Just ask newlyweds. 00:12:20.060 --> 00:12:24.560 Is it not clear that communication is completely elusive? 00:12:25.460 --> 00:12:29.300 For that matter, ask those celebrating their diamond anniversary. 00:12:29.299 --> 00:12:34.219 Language is really easy to get garbled. 00:12:34.219 --> 00:12:45.839 To think that clarity is a possible attribute of language is to expect more than it can deliver. 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:50.399 As theologian Carl Barthes expresses it, 00:12:51.160 --> 00:12:58.580 human words need interpretation because, as such, as human words, they are ambiguous. 00:12:59.160 --> 00:13:03.340 Not usually, of course, in the intention of those who speak, 00:13:03.340 --> 00:13:08.160 but always for those who hear. 00:13:08.660 --> 00:13:14.139 So, human words are always ambiguous for those who hear. 00:13:14.139 --> 00:13:19.819 And then, when you throw in the vagaries of translation, 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:23.659 I mean, most of us are not reading out of the Greek or the Hebrew. 00:13:24.939 --> 00:13:28.899 Well, how much is invariably lost? 00:13:29.460 --> 00:13:31.460 As the Italian proverb insists, 00:13:32.740 --> 00:13:34.379 translation is treason. 00:13:34.379 --> 00:13:36.820 Easy for polyglots to say. 00:13:37.019 --> 00:13:38.879 What are we supposed to do, though? 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:47.620 And then, there is the darker, modern claim 00:13:47.620 --> 00:13:52.379 that assertion of clarity in language 00:13:52.939 --> 00:13:59.379 is to suppress inherent equivocation and ambiguity. 00:13:59.379 --> 00:14:00.179 Ambiguity. 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:06.120 It represents, quote, linguistic cleansing. 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.059 If you say there's just one clear meaning to this, 00:14:09.419 --> 00:14:13.139 ah, you're a linguistic cleanser. 00:14:14.439 --> 00:14:17.860 Akin to the ethnic cleansing of megalomaniacs 00:14:17.860 --> 00:14:19.679 who try to cleanse races. 00:14:19.939 --> 00:14:22.519 This is Derrida you're probably recognizing. 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:26.740 And reflects a neurotic fear of, quote, 00:14:26.740 --> 00:14:28.799 the proliferation of meaning. 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:32.099 This is Foucault, as you probably recognize. 00:14:32.219 --> 00:14:34.399 Are you talking about logical positivism? 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:36.879 No, no, no, that's another. 00:14:37.019 --> 00:14:40.179 This is the notion that language in itself 00:14:40.179 --> 00:14:45.279 is a playful, is a very, a playful dynamic thing. 00:14:45.620 --> 00:14:48.120 And if we try to fix meaning of language 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.439 to one, kind of tack it down like a dead butterfly, 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:52.639 you killed the thing. 00:14:53.219 --> 00:14:53.759 No, no, no, no, no. 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.059 So, there always need to be multiplicity of meanings, 00:14:57.500 --> 00:14:58.339 a playfulness. 00:14:59.359 --> 00:15:03.240 And if you are trying to reduce it to one 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.379 and insist that it just has one clear meaning, 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:07.919 you're a linguistic cleanser. 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:09.279 You're trying to cleanse that thing 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:10.859 and polish it up in a way, 00:15:11.199 --> 00:15:13.659 which, you know, it's an evocative term. 00:15:13.859 --> 00:15:15.659 Is it not a linguistic cleanser? 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:17.799 You don't want to, you know, good grief. 00:15:17.959 --> 00:15:19.359 You know, I'd be in the party of those, 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.679 you know, that's like ethnic cleansers linguistically. 00:15:22.839 --> 00:15:23.740 You don't want to do that. 00:15:23.740 --> 00:15:25.360 And, you know, who wants to fear, 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:27.799 kind of sounds exciting, the proliferation of meaning. 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.139 Who wants to be scaredy cat about that? 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:31.680 Well, maybe we do. 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:41.019 So, yeah, it's pretty, it doesn't just cast you, really, as ignorant. 00:15:41.019 --> 00:15:45.919 This sort of challenge casts you as an evil person. 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:48.779 What you're doing is dangerous. 00:15:49.379 --> 00:15:52.939 It's dangerous to insist that language is clear. 00:15:52.940 --> 00:16:00.900 That's what dictators employ this as a stick to beat people with, 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:02.480 how language is always clear. 00:16:03.820 --> 00:16:07.600 And compounding these limitations of language 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.760 are certain realities of the reader. 00:16:13.760 --> 00:16:17.760 Any hope for a clear apprehension by the reader 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:24.600 is scuttled by the inevitable subjectivity of the reception. 00:16:25.899 --> 00:16:29.039 What we imagine to be a clarity 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:33.559 is nothing more than our own construal. 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:35.740 That's how I see it. 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:42.779 The meaning of any text is never simply and clearly given in the text. 00:16:42.779 --> 00:16:48.120 It is ever only and self-servingly graven. 00:16:48.659 --> 00:16:51.720 We make it out to what we want it to be. 00:16:51.959 --> 00:16:54.980 This you'll recognize, you know, this is the echoes of Nietzsche. 00:16:55.899 --> 00:16:59.620 Language is used as an instrument of power. 00:17:00.419 --> 00:17:02.759 Power over another. 00:17:04.059 --> 00:17:06.779 As Gadamer, the German philosopher, 00:17:07.700 --> 00:17:09.740 extremely influential in the universities, 00:17:09.740 --> 00:17:11.620 as Gadamer emphasizes, 00:17:12.819 --> 00:17:15.039 are our presuppositions 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:17.779 and the situatedness 00:17:17.779 --> 00:17:21.000 of our horizon as readers. 00:17:21.140 --> 00:17:22.059 In other words, where we are, 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:23.440 what we're like as people, 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.319 the concerns, the interests that we have, 00:17:26.620 --> 00:17:27.279 our abilities. 00:17:28.339 --> 00:17:31.519 These all shape the event 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:33.120 of understanding. 00:17:33.779 --> 00:17:35.559 You know, when you come to understand a text, 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.519 you're bringing all of this freight 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:39.819 from who you are 00:17:39.819 --> 00:17:40.940 and what you can do, 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:41.619 what you're interested in, 00:17:41.779 --> 00:17:43.859 and that's going to affect the interpretation 00:17:43.859 --> 00:17:45.279 that you give. 00:17:45.919 --> 00:17:48.279 To imagine we have access 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:49.980 to some pristine, 00:17:51.059 --> 00:17:52.700 clear, and distinct meaning 00:17:52.700 --> 00:17:53.599 in the text 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.200 is really to remain in the thrall 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:58.259 of an outdated 00:17:58.259 --> 00:17:59.240 and discredited 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:00.980 modernist model 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:02.380 that somehow 00:18:02.380 --> 00:18:03.700 our brains 00:18:03.700 --> 00:18:04.860 just can mirror 00:18:04.860 --> 00:18:06.759 the realities there. 00:18:07.099 --> 00:18:07.860 No, no, no, no. 00:18:07.900 --> 00:18:08.480 We're active 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.539 and we're constructionist 00:18:10.539 --> 00:18:12.079 in our engagement 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:12.860 with reality 00:18:12.860 --> 00:18:13.799 and in our engagement 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:14.500 with the text. 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:16.200 We're constructing it. 00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:18.039 We're not just absorbing it. 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:21.480 So, 00:18:22.140 --> 00:18:23.980 to make such a claim 00:18:23.980 --> 00:18:25.680 is to be in the strong grip 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:26.339 of an illusion 00:18:26.339 --> 00:18:27.480 as to realities. 00:18:28.180 --> 00:18:29.720 So, there you have it. 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:33.880 And these are strong currents, 00:18:34.460 --> 00:18:36.400 particularly in the academic sensibility 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.880 that if you're up at the university, 00:18:39.059 --> 00:18:40.240 you'll hear all these things. 00:18:42.120 --> 00:18:46.059 To insist upon the Bible's clarity 00:18:46.059 --> 00:18:49.500 in the teeth of these objections 00:18:49.500 --> 00:18:52.880 and in the temper of these times 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.039 seems either quaint, 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:56.639 insane, 00:18:56.639 --> 00:18:57.539 insane, 00:18:58.460 --> 00:18:59.740 or reactionary. 00:19:00.779 --> 00:19:02.339 An affirmation 00:19:02.339 --> 00:19:04.339 doomed to derision. 00:19:06.059 --> 00:19:06.859 But, 00:19:07.259 --> 00:19:09.839 before we consign clarity 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:10.899 to the dustbin 00:19:10.899 --> 00:19:12.899 of theological atavisms, 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:14.799 things going the way 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:15.539 of the dinosaur, 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:17.639 let's pause 00:19:17.639 --> 00:19:20.079 not for a moment 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:21.420 of respectful silence 00:19:21.420 --> 00:19:22.200 at its passing, 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:23.960 rather pause 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:24.680 for a moment 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:25.480 of reflection 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.059 and re-evaluation. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:28.920 For, 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:30.380 there are 00:19:30.380 --> 00:19:31.940 a few things 00:19:31.940 --> 00:19:33.240 to be said 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:34.880 on its behalf, 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:37.380 which may stay 00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:38.860 the executioner's hand. 00:19:39.860 --> 00:19:40.500 So, 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:42.299 in defense 00:19:42.299 --> 00:19:43.759 of clarity. 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:52.099 muse with me 00:19:52.099 --> 00:19:52.980 for a moment 00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:54.779 upon first, 00:19:55.779 --> 00:19:57.339 and perhaps decisively, 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:00.420 God's purpose 00:20:00.420 --> 00:20:01.900 and ability. 00:20:02.579 --> 00:20:04.079 God's purpose 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.059 and ability. 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:06.720 Consider 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:08.059 that the Bible 00:20:08.059 --> 00:20:11.059 is God's revelation 00:20:11.059 --> 00:20:13.079 and flows 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:14.079 from his, 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:15.000 God's, 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:15.799 determination 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.159 to disclose himself. 00:20:20.159 --> 00:20:22.679 It is God's desire 00:20:22.679 --> 00:20:23.819 to be known 00:20:23.819 --> 00:20:25.659 and responded 00:20:25.659 --> 00:20:26.399 to 00:20:26.399 --> 00:20:29.399 by his creatures 00:20:29.399 --> 00:20:31.200 and to do so 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:32.500 through the vehicle 00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:34.240 of his word, 00:20:34.980 --> 00:20:35.679 the Bible. 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:37.960 To claim 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:40.060 that his word 00:20:40.060 --> 00:20:41.820 is hopelessly 00:20:41.820 --> 00:20:42.640 obscure 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:45.200 is to assert 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:47.120 God's failure 00:20:47.120 --> 00:20:48.500 in attaining 00:20:48.500 --> 00:20:49.620 his object. 00:20:51.360 --> 00:20:53.580 It is to cast 00:20:53.580 --> 00:20:54.420 him, 00:20:54.740 --> 00:20:55.279 God, 00:20:55.660 --> 00:20:56.519 as an 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:57.920 ineffectual 00:20:57.920 --> 00:20:58.920 communicator. 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:01.700 But surely, 00:21:02.100 --> 00:21:03.340 this is absurd. 00:21:04.539 --> 00:21:05.120 Surely, 00:21:05.779 --> 00:21:06.659 God's word 00:21:06.659 --> 00:21:07.539 succeeds 00:21:07.539 --> 00:21:09.059 in its purpose. 00:21:10.339 --> 00:21:11.799 As God states, 00:21:12.219 --> 00:21:13.219 Isaiah 55, 00:21:14.059 --> 00:21:15.019 10 and 11, 00:21:15.459 --> 00:21:16.519 For as the rain 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:17.039 and snow 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:17.619 come down 00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:18.219 from heaven, 00:21:19.719 --> 00:21:20.500 and does not 00:21:20.500 --> 00:21:21.000 my, 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:22.859 and does not 00:21:22.859 --> 00:21:24.959 return there 00:21:24.959 --> 00:21:26.039 without watering 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:26.699 the earth, 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:28.019 and making it 00:21:28.019 --> 00:21:29.000 bare and sprout, 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:30.179 and furnishing 00:21:30.179 --> 00:21:31.639 seed to the sower, 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:33.159 and bread to the eater, 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:35.040 so shall 00:21:35.040 --> 00:21:36.120 my word 00:21:36.120 --> 00:21:36.560 be, 00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:37.680 which goes 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:38.300 forth from 00:21:38.300 --> 00:21:39.000 my mouth. 00:21:39.259 --> 00:21:40.480 It shall not 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.540 return to me 00:21:41.540 --> 00:21:42.000 empty, 00:21:42.259 --> 00:21:44.000 without accomplishing 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.519 what I desire, 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:46.740 and without 00:21:46.740 --> 00:21:47.720 succeeding 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:49.279 in the matter 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:50.120 for which 00:21:50.120 --> 00:21:51.259 I sent it. 00:21:53.460 --> 00:21:54.180 Furthermore, 00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:56.180 it is the 00:21:56.180 --> 00:21:56.900 assumption 00:21:56.900 --> 00:21:58.080 throughout 00:21:58.080 --> 00:21:59.320 the Bible 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:00.419 that its 00:22:00.419 --> 00:22:00.859 words 00:22:00.859 --> 00:22:02.000 are 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:03.639 comprehensible, 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:04.419 and as 00:22:04.419 --> 00:22:05.159 such, 00:22:05.879 --> 00:22:06.639 entail 00:22:06.639 --> 00:22:08.119 the moral 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:09.019 responsibility 00:22:09.019 --> 00:22:09.939 to be 00:22:09.939 --> 00:22:10.480 heeded. 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:12.419 He doesn't 00:22:12.419 --> 00:22:13.359 just utter 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:14.659 to no point. 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:16.019 He expects 00:22:16.019 --> 00:22:17.079 that we hear 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:17.599 and heed 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:17.939 him. 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:19.740 Deuteronomy 00:22:19.740 --> 00:22:20.980 30, 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:29.579 Deuteronomy 00:22:29.579 --> 00:22:30.299 30, 00:22:30.660 --> 00:22:32.299 11-14. 00:22:36.299 --> 00:22:36.980 Deuteronomy 00:22:36.980 --> 00:22:37.620 30, 00:22:38.259 --> 00:22:41.019 11-14. 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:42.420 For this 00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:43.360 commandment 00:22:43.360 --> 00:22:43.940 that I 00:22:43.940 --> 00:22:44.720 command you 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.240 today 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:46.259 is not 00:22:46.259 --> 00:22:46.920 too hard 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:47.440 for you, 00:22:48.140 --> 00:22:48.599 neither 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:49.099 is it 00:22:49.099 --> 00:22:50.059 far off. 00:22:50.059 --> 00:22:51.059 It is 00:22:51.059 --> 00:22:51.399 not in 00:22:51.399 --> 00:22:51.679 heaven 00:22:51.679 --> 00:22:51.980 that you 00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:52.159 should 00:22:52.159 --> 00:22:52.379 say, 00:22:52.619 --> 00:22:52.899 who will 00:22:52.899 --> 00:22:53.319 ascend 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:53.779 to heaven 00:22:53.779 --> 00:22:54.220 for us 00:22:54.220 --> 00:22:54.519 to bring 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:55.179 it down 00:22:55.179 --> 00:22:55.599 to us, 00:22:55.740 --> 00:22:56.220 that we 00:22:56.220 --> 00:22:56.700 may hear 00:22:56.700 --> 00:22:57.000 it and 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:57.279 do it, 00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:58.059 neither is 00:22:58.059 --> 00:22:58.700 it beyond 00:22:58.700 --> 00:22:59.319 the sea, 00:22:59.559 --> 00:22:59.859 that you 00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:00.279 should say, 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:00.859 who will 00:23:00.859 --> 00:23:01.279 go over 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:01.720 the sea 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:02.299 for us 00:23:02.299 --> 00:23:02.839 and bring 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:03.119 it to 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:03.399 us, 00:23:03.460 --> 00:23:03.740 that we 00:23:03.740 --> 00:23:04.200 may hear 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:04.519 it and 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:04.940 do it. 00:23:05.579 --> 00:23:06.159 But the 00:23:06.159 --> 00:23:06.899 word is 00:23:06.899 --> 00:23:07.879 very near 00:23:07.879 --> 00:23:08.240 you. 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:09.379 It is 00:23:09.379 --> 00:23:09.679 in your 00:23:09.679 --> 00:23:10.299 mouth 00:23:10.299 --> 00:23:11.119 and in 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:11.639 your heart 00:23:11.639 --> 00:23:12.579 so that 00:23:12.579 --> 00:23:13.279 you can 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:13.859 do it. 00:23:20.059 --> 00:23:21.639 As Luther 00:23:21.639 --> 00:23:22.259 remarks, 00:23:23.899 --> 00:23:24.379 Christ 00:23:24.379 --> 00:23:25.759 has not 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:26.179 so 00:23:26.179 --> 00:23:26.859 enlightened 00:23:26.859 --> 00:23:27.879 us as 00:23:27.879 --> 00:23:28.579 deliberately 00:23:28.579 --> 00:23:29.700 to leave 00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:30.419 some part 00:23:30.419 --> 00:23:30.679 of his 00:23:30.679 --> 00:23:30.980 word 00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:31.960 obscure, 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:33.839 commanding 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:34.259 us to 00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:34.740 give heed 00:23:34.740 --> 00:23:35.259 to it, 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:36.019 for he 00:23:36.019 --> 00:23:36.559 commands 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:37.240 us in 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:38.059 vain to 00:23:38.059 --> 00:23:38.919 give heed 00:23:38.919 --> 00:23:40.379 if he 00:23:40.379 --> 00:23:41.099 does not 00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:41.940 give light. 00:23:43.659 --> 00:23:44.299 Get that? 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:45.460 That's from 00:23:45.460 --> 00:23:45.960 bondage of 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:46.299 the will. 00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:48.000 Again, 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:48.500 Luther 00:23:48.500 --> 00:23:49.480 provocatively 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:50.619 asks, 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:51.279 and he's 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:52.200 asking Erasmus 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:52.559 at this 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:52.799 point, 00:23:52.879 --> 00:23:53.139 who we 00:23:53.139 --> 00:23:53.839 cited for 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:54.500 obscurity, 00:23:56.019 --> 00:23:56.819 if 00:23:56.819 --> 00:23:57.799 scripture, 00:23:58.099 --> 00:23:58.839 Erasmus, 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:00.359 is obscure 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:01.399 and equivocal, 00:24:02.139 --> 00:24:03.059 why need 00:24:03.059 --> 00:24:03.339 it have 00:24:03.339 --> 00:24:03.899 been brought 00:24:03.899 --> 00:24:04.579 down to 00:24:04.579 --> 00:24:05.159 us by 00:24:05.159 --> 00:24:05.599 an act 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:06.279 of God? 00:24:06.779 --> 00:24:07.319 Surely 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:07.899 we have 00:24:07.899 --> 00:24:08.259 enough 00:24:08.259 --> 00:24:09.339 obscurity 00:24:09.339 --> 00:24:10.519 and uncertainty 00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:11.019 within 00:24:11.019 --> 00:24:11.859 ourselves 00:24:11.859 --> 00:24:12.919 without 00:24:12.919 --> 00:24:13.519 our 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:14.159 obscurity 00:24:14.159 --> 00:24:14.879 and uncertainty 00:24:14.879 --> 00:24:15.619 and darkness 00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:15.980 being 00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:16.680 augmented 00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:17.059 by 00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:17.559 heaven. 00:24:20.539 --> 00:24:21.019 Yeah, 00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:21.420 I mean, 00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:22.860 if the 00:24:22.860 --> 00:24:23.360 Bible's 00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:23.759 completely 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:24.240 obscure, 00:24:24.740 --> 00:24:25.220 how is 00:24:25.220 --> 00:24:25.559 that going 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:25.880 to help 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:26.200 us? 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:26.759 How is 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:27.099 that going 00:24:27.099 --> 00:24:27.480 to bring 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:28.039 redemption 00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:28.759 and salvation? 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:30.539 So, 00:24:31.099 --> 00:24:32.160 consider again 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.019 the purpose 00:24:33.019 --> 00:24:33.380 and the 00:24:33.380 --> 00:24:34.059 ability of 00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:34.620 God. 00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:35.640 Think that 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:36.160 that has 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:36.740 decisive 00:24:36.740 --> 00:24:37.200 bearing 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:38.319 on this 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:38.680 topic. 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:39.460 At least 00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:40.079 help us 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:40.339 to try 00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:40.640 to work 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:40.779 through 00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:41.039 some of 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:41.120 the 00:24:41.120 --> 00:24:41.400 tension 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:41.720 here. 00:24:42.360 --> 00:24:42.740 Consider 00:24:42.740 --> 00:24:43.360 also 00:24:43.360 --> 00:24:43.860 the 00:24:43.860 --> 00:24:44.279 testimony 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:44.640 of 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:45.160 scripture. 00:24:45.980 --> 00:24:46.720 And of 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:46.960 course, 00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:47.180 the 00:24:47.180 --> 00:24:47.799 critical 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:48.299 test 00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:48.519 for 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:48.740 any 00:24:48.740 --> 00:24:49.140 doctrine 00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:49.360 is 00:24:49.360 --> 00:24:49.599 whether 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:49.819 it 00:24:49.819 --> 00:24:50.380 accords 00:24:50.380 --> 00:24:50.740 with 00:24:50.740 --> 00:24:50.960 or 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:51.440 better 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:51.740 is 00:24:51.740 --> 00:24:52.140 taught 00:24:52.140 --> 00:24:52.559 by 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:53.339 scripture. 00:24:54.539 --> 00:24:54.880 And 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:55.180 relevant 00:24:55.180 --> 00:24:55.620 here 00:24:55.620 --> 00:24:56.240 would be 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:57.039 numerous 00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:58.259 characterizations 00:24:58.259 --> 00:24:59.680 as the 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:00.180 scripture 00:25:00.180 --> 00:25:00.740 as 00:25:00.740 --> 00:25:01.480 light. 00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:02.740 Light. 00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:03.279 Think 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:03.700 of that 00:25:03.700 --> 00:25:04.220 metaphor. 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:05.779 Psalm 00:25:05.779 --> 00:25:06.599 119, 00:25:06.900 --> 00:25:07.460 105, 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:08.940 thy word 00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:09.700 is a 00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:10.180 lamp 00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:10.640 to my 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:11.240 feet 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:12.019 and a 00:25:12.019 --> 00:25:12.519 light 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:13.039 to my 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:13.559 path. 00:25:14.859 --> 00:25:15.420 Psalm 00:25:15.420 --> 00:25:16.000 119, 00:25:16.120 --> 00:25:16.579 verse 00:25:16.579 --> 00:25:17.279 130, 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:18.120 the 00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:18.920 unfolding 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:19.660 of 00:25:19.660 --> 00:25:19.900 thy 00:25:19.900 --> 00:25:20.599 words 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:20.940 give 00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:21.740 light. 00:25:22.740 --> 00:25:22.799 It 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:23.079 gives 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:24.079 understanding 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:24.559 to the 00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:25.019 simple. 00:25:26.299 --> 00:25:26.480 Psalm 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:26.940 36, 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:27.359 9, 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:28.000 in 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:28.400 thy 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:28.960 light 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:29.259 we 00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:29.680 see 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:30.440 light. 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:31.980 2 00:25:31.980 --> 00:25:32.380 Peter 00:25:32.380 --> 00:25:33.680 119 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:34.079 speaks 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:34.259 of 00:25:34.259 --> 00:25:34.559 scripture 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:35.220 as a 00:25:35.220 --> 00:25:35.839 lamp 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:36.779 shining 00:25:36.779 --> 00:25:37.880 in a 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:38.259 dark 00:25:38.259 --> 00:25:39.120 place. 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:40.619 And 00:25:40.619 --> 00:25:40.939 such 00:25:40.939 --> 00:25:42.119 characterizations 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:42.679 are 00:25:42.679 --> 00:25:43.579 impossible 00:25:43.579 --> 00:25:44.500 on the 00:25:44.500 --> 00:25:44.939 premise 00:25:44.939 --> 00:25:45.619 that the 00:25:45.619 --> 00:25:45.939 word 00:25:45.939 --> 00:25:46.439 itself 00:25:46.439 --> 00:25:46.639 is 00:25:46.639 --> 00:25:47.339 dark, 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:48.779 shadowy, 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:49.599 and 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:50.199 failing 00:25:50.199 --> 00:25:50.439 of 00:25:50.439 --> 00:25:51.139 illumination. 00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.339 Surely 00:25:53.339 --> 00:25:53.759 there can 00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:54.119 be no 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:54.559 better 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:55.099 image 00:25:55.099 --> 00:25:55.339 for 00:25:55.339 --> 00:25:55.979 clarity 00:25:55.979 --> 00:25:56.339 than 00:25:56.339 --> 00:25:57.139 light 00:25:57.139 --> 00:25:58.439 which 00:25:58.439 --> 00:25:59.519 illumines 00:25:59.519 --> 00:25:59.779 our 00:25:59.779 --> 00:26:00.579 darkness. 00:26:03.139 --> 00:26:03.459 At 00:26:03.459 --> 00:26:04.099 Deuteronomy 00:26:04.099 --> 00:26:05.199 29, 00:26:05.339 --> 00:26:05.779 29, 00:26:05.879 --> 00:26:06.539 that Erasmus 00:26:06.539 --> 00:26:07.359 had cited, 00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:07.819 the secret 00:26:07.819 --> 00:26:08.019 of the 00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:08.139 Lord 00:26:08.139 --> 00:26:08.819 remains 00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:09.299 with the 00:26:09.299 --> 00:26:09.599 Lord. 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:11.419 But 00:26:11.419 --> 00:26:13.200 notice 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:14.480 that the 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:14.939 secret of 00:26:14.939 --> 00:26:15.079 the 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:15.359 Lord 00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:15.799 is 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:17.220 contrasted 00:26:17.220 --> 00:26:17.759 with 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.220 the 00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:19.000 word 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:19.859 that 00:26:19.859 --> 00:26:20.019 he 00:26:20.019 --> 00:26:20.740 has 00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:21.159 given 00:26:21.159 --> 00:26:21.519 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00:48:37.599 the spirit 00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:38.019 will 00:48:38.019 --> 00:48:38.500 exactly 00:48:38.500 --> 00:48:39.500 exactly 00:48:39.500 --> 00:48:46.139 you have to be in tune with scripture to know what's in scripture so when you're thinking away from scripture it brings you back to the scripture 00:48:46.139 --> 00:48:47.039 absolutely 00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:47.719 yeah 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:49.599 doctrine reproof 00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:50.199 correction 00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:51.000 instruction 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:51.019 instruction 00:48:51.019 --> 00:48:51.619 of righteousness 00:48:51.619 --> 00:48:52.179 doctrine 00:48:52.179 --> 00:48:53.039 what the path 00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:53.539 is 00:48:53.539 --> 00:48:55.139 reproof 00:48:55.139 --> 00:48:56.079 showing you 00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:57.480 if you've gotten off it 00:48:57.480 --> 00:48:59.019 correction 00:48:59.019 --> 00:49:00.319 putting you back 00:49:00.319 --> 00:49:01.420 on the path 00:49:01.420 --> 00:49:02.759 and instruction 00:49:02.759 --> 00:49:03.359 and righteousness 00:49:03.359 --> 00:49:05.139 how to stay on that path 00:49:05.139 --> 00:49:05.739 so 00:49:05.739 --> 00:49:06.319 excellent 00:49:06.319 --> 00:49:06.759 yeah 00:49:06.759 --> 00:49:07.480 excellent 00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:08.960 could you say john 00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:10.579 in the psalms 00:49:10.579 --> 00:49:11.380 david's 00:49:11.380 --> 00:49:12.679 imploring 00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:13.260 god 00:49:13.260 --> 00:49:13.699 to give 00:49:13.699 --> 00:49:14.440 understanding 00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:15.940 to give 00:49:15.940 --> 00:49:16.760 insight 00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:17.760 really more 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:19.320 not an intellectual 00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:19.960 quest 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:20.960 but a 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:21.740 desire 00:49:21.740 --> 00:49:22.300 for 00:49:22.300 --> 00:49:23.139 intimacy 00:49:23.139 --> 00:49:24.719 well i'm sure 00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:26.579 i'm sure that that's part of it 00:49:26.579 --> 00:49:26.780 and he 00:49:26.780 --> 00:49:28.320 and he realizes that 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:29.360 there's this 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:30.400 there's this wonderful 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:31.699 dialectic 00:49:31.699 --> 00:49:32.400 of 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:32.760 our 00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:33.559 longing 00:49:33.559 --> 00:49:34.440 to 00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:35.820 his longing 00:49:35.820 --> 00:49:36.880 to 00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:37.639 understand 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:38.360 god's word 00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:39.500 was 00:49:39.500 --> 00:49:41.079 not 00:49:41.079 --> 00:49:41.820 just 00:49:41.820 --> 00:49:43.539 to try to gather up 00:49:43.539 --> 00:49:45.059 and get his precepts 00:49:45.059 --> 00:49:46.139 so he can 00:49:46.139 --> 00:49:47.599 put more of a store away 00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:48.880 more of his precepts 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:50.579 it was the person 00:49:50.579 --> 00:49:52.480 behind the precepts 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:53.820 so you're right to connect 00:49:53.820 --> 00:49:54.559 some of our motive 00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:55.639 with a desire 00:49:55.639 --> 00:49:56.720 for intimacy 00:49:56.720 --> 00:49:57.519 with god 00:49:57.519 --> 00:49:59.139 who are you 00:49:59.139 --> 00:50:00.679 what are you like 00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:02.300 what do you want 00:50:02.300 --> 00:50:04.200 so yes 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:05.559 it very much does 00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:06.359 so we want 00:50:06.359 --> 00:50:07.119 to press 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:08.339 through the precepts 00:50:08.339 --> 00:50:09.559 to the person 00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:12.480 so 00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:13.599 absolutely 00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:14.599 absolutely 00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:19.279 so 00:50:19.279 --> 00:50:21.719 think hard 00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:22.299 timothy 00:50:22.299 --> 00:50:24.239 your understanding 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:25.039 will require 00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:26.279 hard work 00:50:26.279 --> 00:50:28.359 it's why he tells 00:50:28.359 --> 00:50:29.480 timothy a few verses 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:29.839 later 00:50:29.839 --> 00:50:31.239 be diligent 00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:33.339 that you may 00:50:33.339 --> 00:50:33.919 handle 00:50:33.919 --> 00:50:34.639 accurately 00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:35.199 the word 00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:35.939 of truth 00:50:35.939 --> 00:50:36.619 2nd 00:50:36.619 --> 00:50:36.819 timothy 00:50:36.819 --> 00:50:37.439 2 15 00:50:37.439 --> 00:50:39.219 so it's in this 00:50:39.219 --> 00:50:40.019 context 00:50:40.019 --> 00:50:41.139 that we might 00:50:41.139 --> 00:50:41.819 consider 00:50:41.819 --> 00:50:42.819 peter's 00:50:42.819 --> 00:50:43.319 remark 00:50:43.319 --> 00:50:44.559 about 00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:45.239 paul's 00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:45.659 writings 00:50:45.659 --> 00:50:46.599 remember in 00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:47.119 2nd 00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:47.419 peter 00:50:47.419 --> 00:50:48.399 3 16 00:50:48.399 --> 00:50:50.279 speaking of 00:50:50.279 --> 00:50:51.079 our good brother 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:52.099 paul's writings 00:50:52.099 --> 00:50:53.439 there are some 00:50:53.439 --> 00:50:54.359 things in them 00:50:54.359 --> 00:50:55.219 hard to 00:50:55.219 --> 00:50:56.039 understand 00:50:56.039 --> 00:50:58.119 peter says 00:50:58.119 --> 00:50:58.480 that paul 00:50:58.480 --> 00:50:59.599 now peter 00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:01.400 is not saying 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:02.039 that their meaning 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:02.739 cannot 00:51:02.739 --> 00:51:04.039 be discerned 00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:06.139 simply that at 00:51:06.139 --> 00:51:06.940 certain points 00:51:06.940 --> 00:51:07.779 it will take 00:51:07.779 --> 00:51:09.079 concentrated effort 00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:10.039 and i think that 00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:10.639 that's what some 00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:11.639 of us have found 00:51:11.639 --> 00:51:13.279 is that like the 00:51:13.279 --> 00:51:14.000 difference between 00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:14.960 a doctor who 00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:15.739 goes to 00:51:15.739 --> 00:51:16.739 high school 00:51:16.739 --> 00:51:17.539 college 00:51:17.539 --> 00:51:18.539 medical school 00:51:18.539 --> 00:51:19.519 a residency 00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:20.219 and a fellowship 00:51:20.219 --> 00:51:22.559 and a person 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:23.179 that just reads 00:51:23.179 --> 00:51:24.139 a first aid book 00:51:24.139 --> 00:51:25.759 yeah you know a lot 00:51:25.759 --> 00:51:26.759 of times and you're 00:51:26.759 --> 00:51:27.539 you're going to 00:51:27.539 --> 00:51:28.039 realize 00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.099 that's right 00:51:30.099 --> 00:51:31.359 and the expectation 00:51:31.359 --> 00:51:32.199 that he would be 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:32.940 able to arrive at 00:51:32.940 --> 00:51:34.359 insight in his 00:51:34.359 --> 00:51:34.980 diagnosis 00:51:34.980 --> 00:51:37.299 or skill in his 00:51:37.299 --> 00:51:37.900 operation 00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:38.920 is going to be 00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:40.000 much more 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:40.659 than you know 00:51:40.659 --> 00:51:41.359 a walk on 00:51:41.359 --> 00:51:42.299 you know i don't 00:51:42.299 --> 00:51:43.059 want to walk on 00:51:43.059 --> 00:51:44.000 doing my heart 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:45.139 open heart surgery 00:51:45.139 --> 00:51:45.920 you know it's just 00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:47.619 not absolute 00:51:47.619 --> 00:51:49.239 there you go 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:49.939 you didn't act 00:51:49.939 --> 00:51:50.739 that think that 00:51:50.739 --> 00:51:52.599 way for a doctor 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.399 now think about 00:51:54.399 --> 00:51:55.619 eternal things 00:51:55.619 --> 00:51:56.199 yeah 00:51:56.199 --> 00:51:57.039 your pastor 00:51:57.039 --> 00:51:57.899 your teachers 00:51:57.899 --> 00:51:58.559 your elders 00:51:58.559 --> 00:51:59.979 i mean they 00:51:59.979 --> 00:52:01.579 give us really 00:52:01.579 --> 00:52:02.859 important information 00:52:02.859 --> 00:52:04.399 it has to do with 00:52:04.399 --> 00:52:05.199 eternal life 00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:05.619 yeah 00:52:05.619 --> 00:52:06.079 yeah 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:06.939 and not just 00:52:06.939 --> 00:52:07.419 you know 00:52:07.419 --> 00:52:07.779 yeah 00:52:07.779 --> 00:52:09.399 that that's i think 00:52:09.399 --> 00:52:10.059 why some of the 00:52:10.059 --> 00:52:10.719 qualifications 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:12.719 for these offices 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:13.319 like elder 00:52:13.319 --> 00:52:14.239 aren't flippant 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:14.779 flip it 00:52:14.779 --> 00:52:15.939 they're they're 00:52:15.939 --> 00:52:16.419 they're pretty 00:52:16.419 --> 00:52:17.479 they're pretty deliberate 00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:18.199 and thoughtful 00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:20.119 and a lot of it 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.019 has to do with that 00:52:22.019 --> 00:52:23.400 what is distinct 00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:24.539 of the qualification 00:52:24.539 --> 00:52:25.480 of the elder 00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:26.740 versus say a deacon 00:52:26.740 --> 00:52:28.659 you know isn't 00:52:28.659 --> 00:52:29.719 well the deacon 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:31.480 can get drunk a few 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:32.360 times and the elder 00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:33.099 just a little bit 00:52:33.099 --> 00:52:33.840 less you know 00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:34.740 you know but 00:52:34.740 --> 00:52:36.880 capable as titus 00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:37.960 says capable of 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:39.159 exhorting in sound 00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:40.480 doctrine and 00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:41.460 refuting those who 00:52:41.460 --> 00:52:42.139 contradict 00:52:42.139 --> 00:52:43.980 having a firm 00:52:43.980 --> 00:52:45.500 grasp of the 00:52:45.500 --> 00:52:45.980 mysteries 00:52:45.980 --> 00:52:47.800 firm grasp 00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:48.940 so that's yes 00:52:48.940 --> 00:52:49.519 you're absolutely 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:49.860 right 00:52:49.860 --> 00:52:50.679 those those are 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:51.920 the qualifications 00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:55.480 notice that 00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:56.320 peter's remarks 00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:57.280 here also assume 00:52:57.280 --> 00:52:58.480 that a proper 00:52:58.480 --> 00:52:59.480 meaning 00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:00.760 can be 00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:01.519 identified 00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:03.360 and contrasted 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:05.019 with distortions 00:53:05.019 --> 00:53:06.280 put forward 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:07.280 by the untaught 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:07.940 and the unstable 00:53:07.940 --> 00:53:08.420 because in this 00:53:08.420 --> 00:53:08.960 very passage 00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:09.980 some things are 00:53:09.980 --> 00:53:10.760 difficult to 00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:11.320 understand 00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:12.240 of paul's 00:53:12.240 --> 00:53:12.559 writings 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:15.039 which perverse 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:16.179 men distort 00:53:16.179 --> 00:53:16.900 to their own 00:53:16.900 --> 00:53:17.480 destruction 00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:19.440 there'd be no 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:20.900 meaningful way 00:53:20.900 --> 00:53:22.119 to define or 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:22.599 distinguish 00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:23.500 distortion 00:53:23.500 --> 00:53:25.420 from understanding 00:53:25.420 --> 00:53:26.739 if there were 00:53:26.739 --> 00:53:27.619 not some sort 00:53:27.619 --> 00:53:28.159 of clarity 00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:29.000 about understanding 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:30.440 you know you 00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:31.099 you couldn't 00:53:31.099 --> 00:53:31.480 you couldn't 00:53:31.480 --> 00:53:31.960 have that 00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:33.880 so 00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:35.940 the fact is 00:53:35.940 --> 00:53:36.779 that clarity 00:53:36.779 --> 00:53:37.440 is often 00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:38.400 hard won 00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:39.179 through diligence 00:53:39.179 --> 00:53:41.019 and that 00:53:41.019 --> 00:53:41.559 doesn't mean 00:53:41.559 --> 00:53:41.879 that there's 00:53:41.879 --> 00:53:42.460 no clarity 00:53:42.460 --> 00:53:43.299 doesn't mean 00:53:43.299 --> 00:53:43.579 that there's 00:53:43.579 --> 00:53:44.079 no clarity 00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:45.000 and you know 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.339 think about 00:53:46.339 --> 00:53:47.879 Jesus's 00:53:47.879 --> 00:53:48.819 you know 00:53:48.819 --> 00:53:49.339 when he tells 00:53:49.339 --> 00:53:50.039 the Pharisees 00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:50.480 maybe there was 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:50.679 somebody 00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:52.539 in Matthew 00:53:52.539 --> 00:53:53.199 9 00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:53.839 yeah 00:53:53.839 --> 00:53:55.779 where he says 00:53:55.779 --> 00:53:57.059 go 00:53:57.059 --> 00:53:58.779 and learn 00:53:58.779 --> 00:53:59.719 what this 00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:00.279 means 00:54:00.279 --> 00:54:01.819 I desire 00:54:01.819 --> 00:54:02.359 mercy 00:54:02.359 --> 00:54:03.419 not sacrifice 00:54:03.420 --> 00:54:04.700 so 00:54:04.700 --> 00:54:05.700 they knew 00:54:05.700 --> 00:54:06.460 that stuff 00:54:06.460 --> 00:54:07.500 he said 00:54:07.500 --> 00:54:08.240 go 00:54:08.240 --> 00:54:09.119 and learn 00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:09.619 in other words 00:54:09.619 --> 00:54:10.599 think about it 00:54:10.599 --> 00:54:11.860 work through 00:54:11.860 --> 00:54:12.420 this 00:54:12.420 --> 00:54:13.200 you haven't 00:54:13.200 --> 00:54:13.960 got it yet 00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:14.980 something missing 00:54:14.980 --> 00:54:15.639 go think 00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:16.340 about this 00:54:16.340 --> 00:54:18.579 and sometimes 00:54:18.579 --> 00:54:19.659 in the scripture 00:54:19.659 --> 00:54:20.260 this is 00:54:20.260 --> 00:54:20.860 this is a 00:54:20.860 --> 00:54:21.500 heuristic 00:54:21.500 --> 00:54:22.920 device 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:23.180 where 00:54:23.180 --> 00:54:25.960 a device 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:26.579 that helps 00:54:26.579 --> 00:54:27.240 us to actually 00:54:27.240 --> 00:54:28.680 gain understanding 00:54:28.680 --> 00:54:29.760 okay 00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:30.579 sometimes 00:54:30.579 --> 00:54:31.980 things are put 00:54:31.980 --> 00:54:32.480 forward 00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:33.199 that 00:54:33.199 --> 00:54:34.179 just 00:54:34.179 --> 00:54:35.039 right on the 00:54:35.039 --> 00:54:35.320 surface 00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:36.079 they seem 00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:37.019 to be 00:54:37.019 --> 00:54:38.059 incompatible 00:54:38.059 --> 00:54:39.159 how did 00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:39.639 how could 00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:40.079 this 00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:40.760 work 00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:41.740 okay 00:54:41.740 --> 00:54:42.579 it 00:54:42.579 --> 00:54:43.360 their clarity 00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:43.860 is not 00:54:43.860 --> 00:54:44.420 immediately 00:54:44.420 --> 00:54:44.940 evident 00:54:44.940 --> 00:54:45.559 but that's 00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:45.880 the whole 00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:46.519 point 00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:48.099 to get 00:54:48.099 --> 00:54:48.420 you 00:54:48.420 --> 00:54:49.420 to puzzle 00:54:49.420 --> 00:54:50.280 and 00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:51.360 go 00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:52.219 deeper 00:54:52.219 --> 00:54:52.860 so for 00:54:52.860 --> 00:54:53.219 example 00:54:53.219 --> 00:54:53.860 wisdom 00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:54.219 literature 00:54:54.219 --> 00:54:54.659 does this 00:54:54.659 --> 00:54:54.940 all the 00:54:54.940 --> 00:54:55.320 time 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:56.260 in 00:54:56.260 --> 00:54:57.920 Proverbs 00:54:57.920 --> 00:54:58.719 26 00:54:58.719 --> 00:54:59.639 verses 4 00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:00.139 and 5 00:55:00.139 --> 00:55:01.019 you know 00:55:01.019 --> 00:55:01.679 answer 00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:02.380 not 00:55:02.380 --> 00:55:03.599 a fool 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:04.140 according 00:55:04.140 --> 00:55:04.660 to his 00:55:04.660 --> 00:55:05.099 folly 00:55:05.099 --> 00:55:06.059 lest 00:55:06.059 --> 00:55:07.059 you be 00:55:07.059 --> 00:55:07.619 like him 00:55:07.619 --> 00:55:08.300 yourself 00:55:08.300 --> 00:55:09.740 and then 00:55:09.740 --> 00:55:10.140 in the very 00:55:10.140 --> 00:55:10.720 next verse 00:55:10.720 --> 00:55:12.019 answer a fool 00:55:12.019 --> 00:55:12.640 according to 00:55:12.640 --> 00:55:13.200 his folly 00:55:13.200 --> 00:55:14.420 lest he be 00:55:14.420 --> 00:55:15.039 wise in his 00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:15.720 own eyes 00:55:15.720 --> 00:55:16.340 you think 00:55:16.340 --> 00:55:17.820 oh good 00:55:17.820 --> 00:55:18.000 good 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:19.599 far from it 00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:20.440 being clear 00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:21.539 this is 00:55:21.539 --> 00:55:22.180 this is 00:55:22.180 --> 00:55:22.920 manifestly 00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:23.800 contradictory 00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:24.700 look the 00:55:24.700 --> 00:55:25.160 bible's not 00:55:25.160 --> 00:55:25.960 no no 00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:27.000 the point 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:27.760 is to not 00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:28.340 just glide 00:55:28.340 --> 00:55:28.820 over this 00:55:28.820 --> 00:55:29.160 thing 00:55:29.160 --> 00:55:29.860 at 30 00:55:29.860 --> 00:55:30.200 thousand 00:55:30.200 --> 00:55:30.559 feet 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:31.620 what's 00:55:31.620 --> 00:55:32.140 going on 00:55:32.140 --> 00:55:32.500 here 00:55:32.500 --> 00:55:33.440 ah 00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:34.240 then you're 00:55:34.240 --> 00:55:34.559 actually 00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:35.460 really engaging 00:55:35.460 --> 00:55:35.780 with the 00:55:35.780 --> 00:55:35.960 word 00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:36.380 yeah yeah 00:55:36.380 --> 00:55:36.740 Tyler 00:55:36.740 --> 00:55:37.600 I think 00:55:37.600 --> 00:55:38.480 about God's 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:39.480 transcendence 00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:40.000 in the 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:40.300 scripture 00:55:40.300 --> 00:55:40.820 like he's 00:55:40.820 --> 00:55:41.360 a king 00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:42.240 above all 00:55:42.240 --> 00:55:42.800 authority 00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:43.500 and exalted 00:55:43.500 --> 00:55:44.080 but then he 00:55:44.080 --> 00:55:44.519 says God 00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:45.019 is near 00:55:45.019 --> 00:55:45.559 to the broken 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:45.840 heart 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:46.660 wonderful 00:55:46.659 --> 00:55:47.059 flight 00:55:47.059 --> 00:55:54.099 great example 00:55:54.099 --> 00:55:56.139 yeah 00:55:56.139 --> 00:55:58.719 yeah 00:55:58.719 --> 00:56:00.799 there you 00:56:00.799 --> 00:56:01.119 go 00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:01.500 that's 00:56:01.500 --> 00:56:02.219 by definition 00:56:02.219 --> 00:56:02.619 that is 00:56:02.619 --> 00:56:03.039 absolutely 00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:03.420 true 00:56:03.420 --> 00:56:05.619 that's 00:56:05.619 --> 00:56:05.940 right 00:56:05.940 --> 00:56:06.839 and yet 00:56:06.839 --> 00:56:07.339 isn't it 00:56:07.339 --> 00:56:07.859 it's an 00:56:07.859 --> 00:56:08.519 invitation 00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:09.079 some of 00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:09.679 these things 00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:10.460 don't throw 00:56:10.460 --> 00:56:10.719 up your 00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:10.940 hands 00:56:10.940 --> 00:56:12.099 this is 00:56:12.099 --> 00:56:12.759 impenetrable 00:56:12.759 --> 00:56:13.679 no it's 00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:14.500 an invitation 00:56:14.500 --> 00:56:16.079 come 00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:16.599 come 00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:17.380 in deeper 00:56:17.380 --> 00:56:18.339 come up 00:56:18.339 --> 00:56:18.920 higher 00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:20.179 it's an 00:56:20.179 --> 00:56:20.880 invitation 00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:26.139 third 00:56:26.139 --> 00:56:27.559 clarity 00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:28.940 does not 00:56:28.940 --> 00:56:29.519 imply 00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:30.119 that 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:31.539 every text 00:56:31.539 --> 00:56:32.039 will always 00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:32.920 be familiar 00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:33.880 to us 00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:35.519 that will 00:56:35.519 --> 00:56:35.920 immediately 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:36.460 go I 00:56:36.460 --> 00:56:37.319 I get 00:56:37.319 --> 00:56:37.539 what's 00:56:37.539 --> 00:56:37.940 going on 00:56:37.940 --> 00:56:38.239 here 00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:38.940 there 00:56:38.940 --> 00:56:39.319 there 00:56:39.319 --> 00:56:39.699 there 00:56:39.699 --> 00:56:40.039 there's 00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:40.219 some 00:56:40.219 --> 00:56:40.559 things 00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:40.839 that 00:56:40.839 --> 00:56:41.440 just 00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:42.599 may seem 00:56:42.599 --> 00:56:42.819 really 00:56:42.819 --> 00:56:43.019 really 00:56:43.019 --> 00:56:43.860 strange 00:56:43.860 --> 00:56:44.639 I remember 00:56:44.639 --> 00:56:45.019 as a little 00:56:45.019 --> 00:56:45.400 boy 00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:46.119 you know 00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:46.380 reading 00:56:46.380 --> 00:56:46.739 through 00:56:46.739 --> 00:56:47.319 acts 00:56:47.319 --> 00:56:48.079 and 00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:49.199 you know 00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:49.460 Paul 00:56:49.460 --> 00:56:49.819 cutting 00:56:49.819 --> 00:56:50.359 his hair 00:56:50.359 --> 00:56:51.219 and taking 00:56:51.219 --> 00:56:51.799 a vow 00:56:51.799 --> 00:56:52.579 thinking 00:56:52.579 --> 00:56:53.059 what's 00:56:53.059 --> 00:56:53.380 up with 00:56:53.380 --> 00:56:53.839 that 00:56:53.839 --> 00:56:55.019 I was 00:56:55.019 --> 00:56:55.440 puzzling 00:56:55.440 --> 00:56:55.920 over that 00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:56.239 for a 00:56:56.239 --> 00:56:56.559 while 00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:56.940 I think 00:56:56.940 --> 00:56:57.179 I had 00:56:57.179 --> 00:56:57.559 to ask 00:56:57.559 --> 00:56:58.159 my dad 00:56:58.159 --> 00:56:59.420 it just 00:56:59.420 --> 00:56:59.639 seemed 00:56:59.639 --> 00:56:59.839 really 00:56:59.839 --> 00:57:00.420 strange 00:57:00.420 --> 00:57:00.679 I didn't 00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:00.859 know 00:57:00.859 --> 00:57:01.139 what the 00:57:01.139 --> 00:57:01.380 custom 00:57:01.380 --> 00:57:01.559 was 00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:02.359 what he 00:57:02.359 --> 00:57:02.799 was doing 00:57:02.799 --> 00:57:03.059 you know 00:57:03.059 --> 00:57:03.579 you take 00:57:03.579 --> 00:57:03.960 a vow 00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:04.199 when you 00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:04.539 cut your 00:57:04.539 --> 00:57:04.759 hair 00:57:04.759 --> 00:57:05.779 should have 00:57:05.779 --> 00:57:06.119 gone back 00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:06.319 to the 00:57:06.319 --> 00:57:06.819 Nazarenes 00:57:06.819 --> 00:57:07.380 I could 00:57:07.380 --> 00:57:07.599 have done 00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:07.679 it 00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:07.859 if I 00:57:07.859 --> 00:57:08.059 would have 00:57:08.059 --> 00:57:08.239 stuck 00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:09.000 with 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:09.219 scripture 00:57:09.219 --> 00:57:09.440 a little 00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:09.779 bit more 00:57:09.779 --> 00:57:10.019 I could 00:57:10.019 --> 00:57:10.119 have 00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:10.319 probably 00:57:10.319 --> 00:57:10.719 clarified 00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:11.000 some 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:11.219 of these 00:57:11.219 --> 00:57:11.539 things 00:57:11.539 --> 00:57:12.039 but yeah 00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:12.279 a lot 00:57:12.279 --> 00:57:12.559 of it's 00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:13.000 strange 00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:13.679 and 00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:14.420 God's 00:57:14.420 --> 00:57:14.960 word 00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:15.739 will not 00:57:15.739 --> 00:57:16.259 simply 00:57:16.259 --> 00:57:16.940 affirm 00:57:16.940 --> 00:57:17.940 or confirm 00:57:17.940 --> 00:57:18.920 all that 00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:19.820 we already 00:57:19.820 --> 00:57:20.719 intuitively 00:57:20.719 --> 00:57:21.480 know 00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:22.440 and feel 00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:24.440 it will 00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:25.059 radically 00:57:25.059 --> 00:57:25.900 change 00:57:25.900 --> 00:57:26.639 and challenge 00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:27.440 our perspectives 00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:28.920 and so 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:29.340 it may 00:57:29.340 --> 00:57:29.820 at first 00:57:29.820 --> 00:57:30.380 strike 00:57:30.380 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