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 So we talked last week about establishing the text, and we talked some about getting the right translation and it's God's word.

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 And so we want to take great care to understand it and to have the right text in front of us.

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 And we also talked about how it's the spirit of God from 1 Corinthians 1.

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 It's the spirit of God who gives us understanding.

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 The natural man cannot understand it.

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 And so today we're coming to how do we interpret the Bible?

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 How do we understand it?

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 And really the first thing we need to talk about and the most important thing you can do is to pray.

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 It's only the spirit of God can give us understanding.

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 It's the people, the greatest Greek and Hebrew scholars who have gone to the most renowned seminaries in the world can study the Bible if they don't have the spirit of God.

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 If they are not believers, they can't understand God's word in the right way, the way they're supposed to understand it.

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 And so you have something that they don't have.

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 The people with the PhDs who are studying the Bible their whole life, they don't have what you have if they don't have the spirit of God.

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 And you have the one thing that is necessary to understand God's word.

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 And so we need to ask the spirit of God for help.

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 And that's something that I've experienced time and time again.

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 And there will be times I'm stuck on a passage, trying to understand the passage.

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 One time it was Ephesians 3.

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 Like, God, what is the height and the breadth and the depth and the width?

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 Like, what is it?

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 What are you referring to?

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 And then translators disagree on that.

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 You do what I tell you guys to do last week and then you'll see it's different.

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 What is it referred to?

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 And I pray.

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 And God helps me.

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 Gives me understanding.

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 Ah, I had that.

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 Oh, and then all these connections, all these other passages come to mind.

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 And then you're able to put it together.

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 Same thing happened to me.

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 I think you guys remember the sermon I preached on the muster seat.

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 Right?

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 What is faith that moves mountains?

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 Right?

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 What is faith like a muster seat?

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 And I'm like, this doesn't, I'm not understanding it.

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 Like, it doesn't quite make sense.

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 Like, if Jesus just told the disciples that they have small faith.

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 And then now he's saying that all you need is small faith to move mountains.

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 Like, what in the world can that possibly mean?

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 And wrestle with it.

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 And I can't understand it.

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 So I pray.

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 God, help me.

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 Help me.

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 And then, boom.

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 1 Corinthians 13.

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 1.

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 If you have all faith, so let's remove mountains but have not love.

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 Right?

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 The faith that moves mountains is not a small faith.

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 It's a childlike faith.

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 It's the faith that moves mountains.

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 It's all faith.

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 Right?

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 So it's like a, that kind of understanding.

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 It's happened to me so many times.

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 I have a lot of confidence now that when I go to God and ask him for help, he'll help me.

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 How to understand it.

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 And so I think the, and so this is something that, a couple things that I've done is when I prepare for a sermon.

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 Before I read any commentaries, before I do any other external reading, I just pray.

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 I pray over the text.

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 I read through it.

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 Pray through the text.

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 Ask God, God, what is it that you want our church to hear?

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 What is it that you want them to learn from this text?

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 Because you're speaking in it and there's something you want them to get from that.

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 Right?

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 And so you're starting, starting with that.

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 And a good, we're going to look at Psalm 19 later.

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 That's a great Psalm to memorize and pray through before you read the word.

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 The law of the Lord is perfect.

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 Refreshing the soul.

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 Go through what, how precious is God's word?

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 And then it'll put you in the right frame of mind before you, before you study and interpret the word.

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 So I know I'm not really getting into the nuts and bolts of the stuff yet, but that's really, really important.

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 Just to ask God for help and know that you have the spirit of God who can help you with that.

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 And, oh, I mentioned, it's 1 Corinthians 2, the 10 to 16, but I only read a part of it.

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 A natural person does not accept the things of the spirit of God, for they are folly to him, for he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

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 You can only discern them by the spirit.

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 So read the scriptures prayerfully and try to read the scriptures personally too.

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 The, yes, the Bible was written for, you know, written for over thousands of years, right?

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 And it was written for people in the ancient world, for them to understand.

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 It was, and many of the books are occasional texts.

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 And what I mean by that is, like, some of the letters that were written were written for, with a specific audience in mind, right?

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 That are going through a specific set of circumstances, right?

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 And so you need to understand that original context, that historical context rightly before you can interpret and apply it to our context.

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 And so that's true.

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 So Revelation, for example, right?

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 It was written to those seven churches in Asia, right, that it names in Revelations chapters 2 and 3.

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 We need to understand that that was the original context.

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 However, because it's the living word, right?

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 Hebrews 4, right?

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 It says in verse 12 that scripture is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and the spirit of joints and of marrow and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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 Because it's not a dead word, something from the past, but it's a living word, God still speaks today.

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 And he speaks personally to you when you read the word.

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 And so come to the word.

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 Don't think of it as like a history book, you know, that you have to dust off and something.

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 Like, this is what happened a long time ago.

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 Come to it expecting God to speak to you today.

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 Like, what do you want me to hear right now?

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 What is it you're interested in my life?

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 You're invested in my life.

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 You see everything that I do and say, what is it that you want me to learn here right now?

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 And you're just going to, it's just going to be a much more fruitful reading if you do that.

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 So read prayerfully, read in a personal way, and then read patiently.

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 Like a, you know, cow chewing the cud, you know, read patiently, slowly and over and over again.

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 And then it's, how many, I mean, I won't ask for a raise of hands, but if you guys, many of you guys do your, you know, devotionals, you know, read the Bible, pray and stuff in the morning, right?

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 And then, and how, if, when you have to rush through that in the morning, I assure you, you're not having a quality time with the Lord, right?

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 It's, when you're, when you have the time and space to really sit and relish what you're reading, the things, things just jump off the pages and the Lord speaks.

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 And so I think that just try to give it the space so that you could read and study the scriptures in an unhurried way and read it again and again, meditate on it, memorize it.

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 And then, if you, even if you don't learn any like skills, I am going to, we're going to talk about some of those things now, but in exegesis, hermeneutics, if you prepare yourself spiritually and engage in the way I'm talking about, you're going to get so much from your scripture reading and learn and understand so much more.

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 And in terms of actually getting down to interpretation and understanding the text, the most important thing to remember in the Bible interpretation is the importance of context.

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 And it's a, it's a famous saying, a popular saying among preachers and interpreters, pastors, that a text without a context, without its context is a pretext, right?

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 You're, you're, you're, you're, when you, when someone, you know, tells you, it takes a verse, an isolated verse out of context and says, oh, here, look at this first.

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 And therefore you should do this, or therefore you should leave this.

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 It's often a pretext for what they want you to believe, not what the scriptures actually says.

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 Because when you examine the word in light of its context, often means something very different from what you, what you think it means.

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 And there's a word, so exegesis is a word that we use for interpreting the text.

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 When, when someone, instead of extrapolating or kind of exegeting or interpreting what's in the text, they import into it their own meaning, what they want the text to mean.

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 The, the preconceptions that they already bring to the text, we call that eisegesis.

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 It's a, and we don't want to engage in eisegesis.

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 We want to engage in exegesis.

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 And, and hermeneutics is just a study of exegesis, study of how to do interpretation.

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 And there are, we have a lot of exercises to do this, so I'm just going to skip this part.

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 And, and there's a, there's a helpful quote from Bible scholars.

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 One of them was my professor, Gordon Commonwealth, Douglas, Gordon Fee and Douglas Stewart.

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 And they were, they said this one time.

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 He said, the single most serious problem people have with the Bible is not with the lack of understanding, but with the fact that they understand most things too well.

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 And of course, it's not a problem to understand the Bible too well.

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 Uh, that what they're referring to is that people think mistakenly that they understand the Bible too well.

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 And because of that, when they come to a text, they already know, oh, I know, I know what this means.

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 Oh, okay.

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 I, this is what it says.

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 And then they kind of skim through it or they, uh, kind of, uh, force the text and mold it and to, to fit their, the meaning that they're bringing, that they're expecting.

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 Uh, so don't, don't, don't do that.

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 That's how you end up in, in eisegesis.

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 So let's, we're going to do, I've done this before, uh, but we're going to only do a few.

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 Uh, if someone could read, uh, sorry, I didn't show you guys these slides.

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 Oh, this is a great quote from, uh, Harold Sankbiel.

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 It says, to link the person and work of Jesus to every shifting era by means of his unchanging word, not to contextualize the message, but to textualize people into the text of scripture.

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 That's how he defines controversially exegesis.

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 Um, now, uh, it's not the case that you don't need to contextualize.

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 You do need to contextualize the Bible so that people in the modern times can understand it.

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 When, when we use illustrations, examples, things from the modern times to make the text come alive for people, that's all contextualization.

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 Uh, but what the, but he is making an important point that contextualization is not the only thing we need.

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 We also need to textualize the people.

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 Um, you can't expect people to stay always in their own culture and time, uh, and never make the jump to the biblical context.

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 You need to know the biblical context.

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 You need to know the historical background.

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 We need to textualize the people into the text so that they are in a biblical world and they become more Biblian people in a way.

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 Uh, and, and that's going to help them to understand and appreciate scripture more too.

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 So that's a, um, I had all of these helpful slides that I just, uh, uh, didn't, uh,

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 all right, context exercise.

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 Someone look up Jeremiah 29, 11.

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 If you've done this already with me, uh, don't, uh, don't blurt out the answer right now.

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 Yeah.

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 Um, someone just read it for, for us out loud.

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 Jeremiah 29, 11.

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 Or another place I have for you.

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 You said Rebella, right?

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 Yeah.

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 Okay.

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 It was quite good.

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 Okay.

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 Another place I have for you declares the Lord plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a hope and a future.

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 Yeah.

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 How have you seen this verse used before?

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 How have you used it before?

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 Yeah.

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 When someone's about to do a new journey, like graduate and then, you know, the next step.

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 Yeah.

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 Something like that.

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 God has good plans for you.

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 Yeah.

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 Right.

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 Yeah.

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 He's going to prosper you, not harm you.

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 Right.

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 When somebody's in a difficult situation, it's really hard.

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 Yeah.

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 Making themselves feel better.

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 Yeah.

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 God has good plans for you.

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 Well, there's some truth to that, right?

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 Romans 8.

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 Right.

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 God does work all things out for our good, for the, for the, for the good of those who love him.

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 Of course, that good is not what we think necessarily.

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 It's to conform us to the image of his son.

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 But, uh, so here, uh, let's look at the context.

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 Look at the surrounding context in, in Jeremiah 29, 11.

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 Particularly starting in verse four.

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 To 14.

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 You know, I can read that first.

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 It says,

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 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,

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 To all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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 Build houses and live in them.

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 Plant gardens and eat their produce.

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 Take wives and have sons and daughters.

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 Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage that they may bear sons and daughters.

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 Multiply there and do not decrease.

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 But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf,

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 for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

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 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,

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 Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you.

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 And do not listen to the dreams that they dream,

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 for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name.

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 I did not send them, declares the Lord.

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 For thus says the Lord,

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 When seventy years are completed for Babylon,

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 I will visit you and I will fulfill to you my promise

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 and bring you back to this place.

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 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.

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 Plans for welfare and not for evil,

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 to give you a future and a hope.

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 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will hear you.

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 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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 I'll stop reading there.

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 What's the original context in which God says that verse?

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 Jeremiah 29, 11.

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 What's happening to the Israelites?

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 They're in exile.

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 They're going to exile.

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 And what does God promise them will happen?

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 How long are they going to be in exile for?

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 Seventy years.

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 Seventy years.

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 There's lying prophets, false prophets coming to them saying that you're not going to go into exile.

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 Don't worry about that.

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 That's not going to happen.

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 God says, I didn't send them.

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 You're going to exile.

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 You're going to be there for seventy years.

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 So make a home.

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 Expect you to be there for a while.

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 Get married.

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 Give your kids a marriage.

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 Make a living.

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 That's what this passage is about.

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 And then when is he going to bring them back and promise to do good to them?

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 It's after the seventy years of exile.

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 Right?

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 So it doesn't fit how a lot of people use that verse at all.

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 Right?

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 In the context that they're talking about.

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 It's a...

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 If anything, what fits better is that we're in exile now.

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 That's our life now.

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 That's what Peter says.

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 Right?

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 In verse Peter 2.

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 To elect the exiles.

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 It's addressed to the saints.

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 They're called the exiles because our life here on earth is like an exile.

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 We're on our way home.

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 We're not home yet.

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 All right.

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 So let's do...

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 Let's look at one more here.

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 Maybe one or two more.

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 Matthew 18, 19.

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 Hopefully this one you guys know.

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 Again, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

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 How have you guys seen this verse used?

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 You can say it if you want.

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 If any two Christians want something to happen, they just pray and it will happen.

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 Yeah.

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 I mean, in isolation, that's what it looks like.

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 Right?

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 You just need to find another Christian body.

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 Just find one more Christian body.

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 Get together.

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 Agree in prayer.

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 Right?

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 Agree in prayer.

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 You have it.

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 It's like magic.

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 Right?

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 What's the context?

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 Look up the context.

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 What is it?

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 What's it in the context of?

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 It's church discipline.

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 Church discipline.

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 Right?

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 It's not saying God's going to listen to anything you want and make anything you want happen.

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 You just have one person agree with you.

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 It's one referring to the Old Testament standard for a witness.

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 You need two or three witnesses to bring a charge, to establish a charge against somebody.

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 And when you have, so when you're gathered as a church under the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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 and then you decide to excommunicate someone, say this person is no longer living as a believer.

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 They're living in unrepentant sin.

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 And God's saying that what you bind on earth is bound in heaven.

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 What you lose on earth, it will have been loosed in heaven.

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 That's what it's talking about.

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 It's not talking about anything you want, you and your Christian buddy wants.

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 Right?

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 And so context is so important.

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 Right?

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 It's when you take it in isolation, what text without a context is?

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 Pretext.

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 Yes.

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 I mean, just remember that.

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 And then let's look at one more example.

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 Philippians 4.13.

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 The most popular one.

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 For I can do all things.

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 When have you seen that used?

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 Philippians.

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 Athletes.

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 Climbing mountains.

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 Oh my goodness.

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 One of my favorite athletes uses this all the time.

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 You guys know who that is?

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 Tito?

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 I do like Tim Tito.

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 Steph Curry.

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 Steph Curry.

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 Who said Steph Curry?

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 Do you see you, Jason?

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 He writes 4.13.

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 I can do all things on every pair of his new sneakers when he writes.

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 But I guarantee you, you can do that to your sneakers all you want.

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 You will never shoot threes like Steph Curry.

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 It's like, it's just not going to happen.

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 And that's not what's happening.

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 Look at the context again.

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 Philippians 4.13.

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 Look at the original context.

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 Read verses 11 to 13.

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 Not that I am speaking of being in need.

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 For I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

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 I know how to be brought low.

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 And I know how to abound.

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 In any and every circumstance.

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 I've learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger.

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 Abundance and need.

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 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

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 What is the all things that he can do?

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 Because Christ strengthens him.

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 Persevere.

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 Persevering.

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 Persevering through good times and bad times.

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 Yeah.

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 Being brought low.

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 Abounding.

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 Being content.

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 It's not about, you know, changing my circumstance.

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 Making what I want happen.

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 It's about how do you endure in the midst of your circumstance.

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 How do you be content in Christ?

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 Jesus strengthens you for that.

00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:55.799
 Right?

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 Do you see a common thread in all three of these?

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 That tend to get so misused often?

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 It's what we want.

00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:06.339
 It's all about what we want.

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 I is the.

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 Yeah.

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 It's all stuff that give us Warren to claim what we want for ourselves.

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 Is it not?

00:19:13.959 --> 00:19:14.379
 Yeah.

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 Is there any surprise that the simple human heart will take God's word out of context and do that?

00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:19.319
 Right?

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 That's why the context is important.

00:19:21.299 --> 00:19:22.539
 God's given us his word.

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 And we need to take it and understand it the way God's given it to us.

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 Not make it what we want it to say.

00:19:28.220 --> 00:19:28.459
 Right?

00:19:28.460 --> 00:19:35.200
 And so one of the best methods for doing this is you guys have probably heard of the Oya method.

00:19:35.420 --> 00:19:35.519
 Right?

00:19:36.019 --> 00:19:38.019
 Observation, interpretation, and then application.

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 That's the method we try to practice in our CGs.

00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:41.420
 Right?

00:19:41.460 --> 00:19:43.420
 And sometimes the questions will be geared toward that.

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 And you got to do that.

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 And starting with observation, you're going to say, ask yourself, what does the text say?

00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.539
 And interpretation, what is the intended meaning of the text?

00:19:58.460 --> 00:20:01.079
 Why does it say what it says?

00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:05.279
 And then application is how does the text apply?

00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.860
 Really simple three steps, but really important for understanding it.

00:20:09.860 --> 00:20:14.680
 And I'm going to read you guys one illustration of this that is really, really helpful.

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 And just indulge me for a minute.

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 It's a little bit long, but I think it's worth reading.

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 This is a story of Samuel H. Scudder, who was a leading entomologist during his lifetime.

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 He specialized in the study of butterflies and grasshoppers.

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 He was trained under Luis Agassiz, a distinguished Harvard professor of natural history.

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 And Scudder once told this story about one of the most important lessons Agassiz taught him.

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 He says,

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 By and by, I will ask what you have seen.

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 And with that, he left me.

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 In ten minutes, I had seen all that could be seen in that fish.

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 And started in search of the professor, who had, however, left the museum.

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 Half an hour passes.

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 An hour, another hour, the fish began to look loathsome.

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 I turned it over and around, looked it in the face, ghastly.

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 From behind, beneath, above, sideways, at a three-quarters view, just as ghastly.

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 I was in despair.

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 At an early hour, I concluded that lunch was necessary.

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 So with infinite relief, the fish was carefully replaced in the jar.

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 And for an hour, I was free.

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 On my return, I learned that Professor Agassiz had been at the museum, but had gone, and would not return for several hours.

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 Slowly, I drew forth that hideous fish, and with a feeling of desperation, again, looked at it.

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 I might not use a magnifying glass.

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 Instruments of all kinds were interdited.

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 My two hands, my two eyes, and the fish, it seemed a most limited field.

00:22:09.859 --> 00:22:13.059
 I pushed my finger down its throat to feel how sharp the teeth were.

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 I began to count the scales in different rows, until I was convinced that that was nonsense.

00:22:18.460 --> 00:22:20.480
 At last, a happy thought struck me.

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 I would draw the fish.

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 And now, with surprise, I began to discover new features in the creature.

00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:27.619
 Just then, the professor returned.

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 That is right, said he.

00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:31.759
 A pencil is one of the best of eyes.

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 I am glad to notice, too, that you keep your specimen wet and your bottle corked.

00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:39.960
 With these encouraging words, he added, well, what is it like?

00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:45.660
 He listened attentively to my brief rehearsal of the structure of parts whose names were still unknowns to me.

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 The fringed gill, arches, and movable operculum.

00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:52.019
 The pores of the head, fleshy lips, and lidless eyes.

00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.319
 The lateral line, the spinous fins, and forked tail.

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 The compressed and arched body.

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 When I finished, he waited as if expecting more.

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 And then, with an air of disappointment, you have not looked very carefully.

00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:06.000
 Why?

00:23:06.980 --> 00:23:08.220
 He continued more earnestly.

00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:14.900
 You haven't even seen one of the most conspicuous features of the animal, which is plainly before your eyes as the fish itself.

00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:16.059
 Look again.

00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:17.079
 Look again.

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 And he left me to the misery.

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 I was piqued.

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 I was mortified.

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 Still more of that wretched fish.

00:23:24.460 --> 00:23:33.640
 But now I set myself to my tasks with a will and discovered one new thing after another until I saw how just the professor's criticism had been.

00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.759
 The afternoon passed quickly, and then towards its close, the professor inquired,

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 Do you see it yet?

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 No, I replied.

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 I am certain I do not.

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 But I see how little I saw before.

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 That is next best, said he earnestly.

00:23:47.420 --> 00:23:48.700
 But I won't hear you now.

00:23:48.900 --> 00:23:50.180
 Put away your fish and go home.

00:23:50.500 --> 00:23:52.600
 Perhaps you will be ready with a better answer in the morning.

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 I will examine you before you look at the fish.

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 The cordial greeting from the professor the next morning was reassuring.

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 Here was a man who seemed to be quite as anxious as I, that I should see for myself what he saw.

00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:10.080
 Do you perhaps mean, I asked, that the fish has symmetrical sides with paired organs?

00:24:11.120 --> 00:24:12.220
 He's thoroughly pleased.

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 Of course, of course, repaid the wakeful hours of the previous night.

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 After he had discoursed most happily and enthusiastically, as he always did, upon the importance of this point,

00:24:22.859 --> 00:24:25.159
 I ventured to ask what I should do next.

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 Oh, look at your fish, he said, and left me again to my own devices.

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 In a little more than an hour, he returned and heard my new catalog.

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 That is good, that is good, he repeated.

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 But that is not all.

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 Go on.

00:24:40.959 --> 00:24:44.500
 And so for three long days, he placed that fish before my eyes,

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 forbidding me to look at anything else or to use any artificial aid.

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 Look, look, look, was his repeated injunction.

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 This was the best entomological lesson I ever had.

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 A lesson whose influence has extended to the details of every subsequent study.

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 A legacy the professor had left to me, as he has left it to many others,

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 of inestimable value, which we could not buy, with which we cannot part.

00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:09.359
 Right.

00:25:09.819 --> 00:25:15.480
 It's what made him the successful entomologist that he became,

00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:20.240
 later specializing in butterflies and grasshoppers instead of fish, but still, right?

00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:27.099
 And I want you to take that lesson away today,

00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:32.620
 is to look at the text again and again and again.

00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:38.640
 And I've been reading the Bible, I don't know, since I was,

00:25:39.700 --> 00:25:43.900
 started reading it seriously when I was 11, right?

00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:47.039
 Been reading it, I think, at least once a year, every single year.

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 I studied deeply for sermons every single week.

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 And every time I come to a text for a sermon, I see new things.

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 Every time.

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 Isn't that amazing?

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 Like, I mean, God's word really has that kind of depth.

00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:02.839
 And you could see again and again and again and again and again.

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 And so, first thing that I want you to practice listening,

00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:08.259
 and I do want you to take out your pencils,

00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:11.220
 because sometimes that's the best I, right?

00:26:11.379 --> 00:26:14.019
 And let's look at Psalm 19 together.

00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:16.680
 As you're looking at Psalm 19,

00:26:17.299 --> 00:26:19.619
 try to focus on what's repeated.

00:26:20.299 --> 00:26:23.140
 Because that's one of the most important things to try to observe

00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:24.240
 when you're observing a text.

00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:25.079
 What's repeated?

00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:27.319
 Words, phrases, clauses,

00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:29.740
 and not just necessarily the same exact words,

00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:31.299
 but similar concepts.

00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:33.279
 What's the theme that's repeated?

00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:36.559
 And go ahead and take a few minutes to do that,

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 and then let's just share.

00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:38.200
 Huh?

00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:40.500
 All right, let's share.

00:26:40.639 --> 00:26:41.539
 Share some of your,

00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:42.879
 I know you guys probably need more time.

00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:45.079
 We can't, we don't have the time to do what

00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:47.420
 Professor Scott did.

00:26:49.639 --> 00:26:50.759
 But what's the,

00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:52.700
 you can do it at home, though, all you want.

00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:54.519
 And what are you guys seeing?

00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:55.279
 What are you noticing?

00:26:55.819 --> 00:26:56.559
 What's repeated?

00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:56.700
 What's repeated?

00:26:56.700 --> 00:27:03.059
 The law of the Lord,

00:27:03.259 --> 00:27:04.860
 testimony of the Lord,

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:05.940
 precepts of the Lord,

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 fear of the Lord.

00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:09.740
 It's like all about the word, right?

00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:13.799
 The word of God in that second half, right?

00:27:15.019 --> 00:27:18.559
 So that's clearly the theme of that second half of the song.

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 What else do you guys see?

00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:20.620
 Yeah.

00:27:20.619 --> 00:27:27.239
 There's a lot of supporting text of the perfection of God's law.

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 After it states its perfection,

00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:37.000
 then it supports it with all these other things that one would,

00:27:37.439 --> 00:27:41.139
 one would perceive.

00:27:41.579 --> 00:27:41.819
 You know,

00:27:41.879 --> 00:27:45.019
 you would understand that the word would be perfect in those ways.

00:27:45.019 --> 00:27:50.799
 And they go back to glorify the original statement in verse one.

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 The,

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 the,

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 the glory of the Lord,

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 is,

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 is shown in his hand.

00:27:57.420 --> 00:27:58.000
 Mm-hmm.

00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:58.440
 Mm-hmm.

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 It's extolling the glory of God in,

00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:02.599
 in different ways, right?

00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:03.059
 Yeah.

00:28:03.500 --> 00:28:05.740
 Anything else you guys notice?

00:28:06.619 --> 00:28:08.079
 In the first four verses,

00:28:08.259 --> 00:28:08.859
 it's a lot of,

00:28:08.859 --> 00:28:09.139
 uh,

00:28:09.139 --> 00:28:11.900
 speaking and sound of verbs and things like that.

00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:12.099
 Like,

00:28:12.180 --> 00:28:12.579
 declare,

00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:13.180
 proclaims,

00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:13.639
 pours out,

00:28:13.740 --> 00:28:14.180
 voice,

00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:14.740
 speech.

00:28:15.019 --> 00:28:15.619
 Yeah.

00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:17.000
 Yeah.

00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:18.180
 And,

00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:19.920
 and it's,

00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:21.400
 what is it that's speaking?

00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:23.519
 Creation.

00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:24.240
 Creation.

00:28:25.099 --> 00:28:26.539
 Did any of you guys notice that?

00:28:27.019 --> 00:28:27.500
 Right?

00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:28.720
 It's the first half is,

00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:29.759
 is creation.

00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:34.839
 Where second half is scriptures.

00:28:35.379 --> 00:28:35.599
 Right?

00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:37.779
 So in the,

00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:38.599
 in the first half,

00:28:38.639 --> 00:28:39.279
 it's creation.

00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:40.680
 And how does creation speak?

00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:41.000
 It's,

00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.599
 it's soundless speech.

00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:43.960
 Right?

00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:45.340
 It says,

00:28:45.340 --> 00:28:46.299
 there is no speech,

00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:47.279
 nor are there words,

00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:47.759
 verse three.

00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:49.779
 And yet they speak.

00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:50.940
 It's soundless speech.

00:28:51.779 --> 00:28:51.920
 Uh,

00:28:53.140 --> 00:28:53.319
 yeah.

00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:54.460
 What else,

00:28:54.460 --> 00:28:55.299
 what else did you guys see?

00:28:56.299 --> 00:28:57.400
 He repeats himself a lot.

00:28:57.400 --> 00:28:58.340
 Like,

00:28:58.340 --> 00:29:01.100
 the first half and second half of the verse is basically saying the same thing,

00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:02.060
 just saying it twice.

00:29:02.280 --> 00:29:02.620
 That's,

00:29:02.620 --> 00:29:02.880
 that's,

00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:02.880


00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:03.420
 that's,

00:29:03.420 --> 00:29:04.519
 that's a Hebrew parallelism.

00:29:04.620 --> 00:29:04.720
 Yeah,

00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:05.120
 that's poor,

00:29:05.220 --> 00:29:06.040
 that's poetic device.

00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:06.340
 Yeah.

00:29:06.540 --> 00:29:06.700
 Yeah.

00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:06.759
 Yeah.

00:29:07.300 --> 00:29:07.500
 Yeah.

00:29:07.500 --> 00:29:08.360
 That's a good observation.

00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:09.920
 The absoluteness of it,

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:10.220
 like,

00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:10.880
 the life,

00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:11.700
 it is perfect.

00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:12.600
 It is short.

00:29:12.800 --> 00:29:13.560
 They are right.

00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:14.100
 It is,

00:29:14.100 --> 00:29:15.240
 it is clean.

00:29:15.360 --> 00:29:16.060
 They are true.

00:29:16.060 --> 00:29:16.740
 Mm-hmm.

00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:17.460
 See?

00:29:18.120 --> 00:29:18.460
 Absolutely.

00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:18.540
 Yeah.

00:29:19.280 --> 00:29:19.620
 Yeah.

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:22.020
 Perfections,

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:23.100
 the attributes of,

00:29:23.100 --> 00:29:23.980
 of God's word.

00:29:24.260 --> 00:29:24.440
 Mm-hmm.

00:29:24.760 --> 00:29:25.180
 Yeah.

00:29:26.760 --> 00:29:27.040
 It's,

00:29:27.040 --> 00:29:27.880
 it's going everywhere,

00:29:28.060 --> 00:29:28.260
 like,

00:29:28.260 --> 00:29:29.280
 to the end of the world,

00:29:29.660 --> 00:29:30.640
 the end of the heavens.

00:29:30.980 --> 00:29:31.600
 End of the heavens.

00:29:31.760 --> 00:29:31.900
 Yeah.

00:29:32.260 --> 00:29:32.500
 Yeah.

00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:33.100
 Yeah.

00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:34.580
 Mm-hmm.

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:38.039
 Anything else?

00:29:39.619 --> 00:29:40.019
 So,

00:29:40.019 --> 00:29:41.220
 speaking of parallelism,

00:29:41.619 --> 00:29:41.799
 Yeah.

00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:43.079
 like,

00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:43.439
 the,

00:29:43.439 --> 00:29:45.079
 the verse one opens with,

00:29:45.199 --> 00:29:46.779
 heaven's declaring the glory of God,

00:29:47.059 --> 00:29:48.019
 and 14,

00:29:48.179 --> 00:29:48.399
 kind of,

00:29:48.460 --> 00:29:49.519
 close out my mouth,

00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:50.859
 he's declaring the glory of God.

00:29:50.859 --> 00:29:51.279
 Ah.

00:29:52.299 --> 00:29:53.639
 There's a parallel there,

00:29:53.740 --> 00:29:54.879
 but also a contrast,

00:29:55.019 --> 00:29:55.199
 right?

00:29:55.939 --> 00:29:56.000
 Mm-hmm.

00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:56.319
 Uh,

00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:57.659
 the creation speaks,

00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:58.619
 forth God's praise,

00:29:58.679 --> 00:29:59.379
 without sound.

00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:01.059
 And who are the people,

00:30:01.199 --> 00:30:02.299
 who ought to declare his praise,

00:30:02.379 --> 00:30:02.879
 with sound?

00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:03.539
 And that's us.

00:30:03.879 --> 00:30:04.359
 Right?

00:30:04.579 --> 00:30:05.980
 We declare his praise,

00:30:06.019 --> 00:30:06.699
 with our words.

00:30:07.399 --> 00:30:07.659
 Right?

00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:08.039
 Uh,

00:30:08.619 --> 00:30:09.000
 uh,

00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:09.819
 rocks,

00:30:10.159 --> 00:30:11.579
 do not cry out.

00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.039
 They would,

00:30:12.099 --> 00:30:12.659
 if we didn't,

00:30:12.939 --> 00:30:13.659
 because we're the ones,

00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:14.559
 who are supposed to cry out.

00:30:15.199 --> 00:30:15.460
 Right?

00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:16.039
 It's the,

00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:16.939
 um,

00:30:16.939 --> 00:30:17.619
 anything else?

00:30:17.659 --> 00:30:18.079
 There's more.

00:30:18.919 --> 00:30:19.879
 It's closed out,

00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:20.359
 with,

00:30:20.679 --> 00:30:21.179
 basically,

00:30:21.339 --> 00:30:21.960
 a prayer,

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:22.939
 um,

00:30:23.299 --> 00:30:23.679
 that,

00:30:24.199 --> 00:30:24.679
 um,

00:30:25.439 --> 00:30:28.179
 a prayer for worthiness.

00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:29.179
 That's right.

00:30:30.019 --> 00:30:30.480
 That's right.

00:30:30.740 --> 00:30:31.220
 As he,

00:30:31.220 --> 00:30:31.939
 as he,

00:30:31.939 --> 00:30:31.939


00:30:32.419 --> 00:30:33.699
 extones these truths.

00:30:33.879 --> 00:30:34.299
 Mm-hmm.

00:30:33.879 --> 00:30:34.339
 Mm-hmm.

00:30:34.339 --> 00:30:34.779
 Um,

00:30:34.779 --> 00:30:36.059
 it closes with the prayer,

00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:36.799
 and again,

00:30:36.859 --> 00:30:38.039
 that prayer is about the words,

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:38.899
 by my mouth,

00:30:38.939 --> 00:30:40.079
 and the meditations of my heart.

00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:41.079
 Um,

00:30:41.639 --> 00:30:42.359
 anything else,

00:30:42.419 --> 00:30:43.000
 did you guys notice,

00:30:43.099 --> 00:30:43.439
 repeated?

00:30:43.879 --> 00:30:44.059
 Yeah.

00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:45.740
 Jason,

00:30:45.819 --> 00:30:46.000
 go ahead.

00:30:46.439 --> 00:30:46.799
 Um,

00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:48.079
 I think the effect of the word,

00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:48.659
 covers,

00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:48.959
 like,

00:30:49.399 --> 00:30:50.740
 all of us,

00:30:51.019 --> 00:30:51.199
 where,

00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:51.459
 like,

00:30:51.459 --> 00:30:52.500
 a lot of the Lord,

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:52.740
 or,

00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:53.579
 the law of the Lord,

00:30:53.659 --> 00:30:54.539
 rebides the soul.

00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:55.299
 Yeah.

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:56.480
 Rejoice with the heart,

00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:56.639
 and,

00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:56.799
 like,

00:30:56.859 --> 00:30:57.339
 the eyes.

00:30:57.539 --> 00:30:57.939
 Yeah.

00:30:57.939 --> 00:30:58.259
 Um,

00:30:58.259 --> 00:30:59.339
 I was thinking of,

00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:00.199
 Matthew 22,

00:31:00.399 --> 00:31:00.619
 like,

00:31:00.659 --> 00:31:01.220
 the great command.

00:31:01.339 --> 00:31:01.679
 Yeah.

00:31:01.919 --> 00:31:02.399
 Yeah.

00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:04.120
 Yeah.

00:31:04.280 --> 00:31:06.120
 Focus on the inner person,

00:31:06.120 --> 00:31:07.160
 and what it does to us,

00:31:07.280 --> 00:31:08.600
 renewing us from the inside out,

00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:08.940
 right?

00:31:09.620 --> 00:31:10.019
 Um,

00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.440
 anything else you guys noticed,

00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:13.019
 repeated?

00:31:13.019 --> 00:31:18.960
 In 11 through 13,

00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:20.680
 there's kind of the idea that,

00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:21.879
 um,

00:31:22.779 --> 00:31:23.039
 like,

00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:23.920
 we're not perfect,

00:31:24.119 --> 00:31:24.799
 and it's like,

00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:26.839
 we need the words to warn us,

00:31:26.900 --> 00:31:27.940
 to discern our errors,

00:31:28.220 --> 00:31:29.680
 to keep us back from our sins.

00:31:30.180 --> 00:31:30.819
 And there's,

00:31:30.900 --> 00:31:31.019
 again,

00:31:31.059 --> 00:31:32.799
 a contrast between the word of God,

00:31:32.859 --> 00:31:33.420
 and us,

00:31:33.819 --> 00:31:34.039
 right?

00:31:34.420 --> 00:31:36.160
 The law of the Lord is perfect,

00:31:36.259 --> 00:31:36.900
 we are not,

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:37.539
 right?

00:31:37.579 --> 00:31:37.960
 We fall short,

00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:39.339
 which is why we need the word of God,

00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:40.160
 to examine us,

00:31:40.819 --> 00:31:41.059
 right?

00:31:41.059 --> 00:31:41.500
 Uh,

00:31:41.619 --> 00:31:41.779
 and,

00:31:41.899 --> 00:31:42.839
 uh,

00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:43.579
 correct us,

00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:44.399
 challenge us,

00:31:44.399 --> 00:31:44.619
 uh,

00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:45.419
 it's,

00:31:45.500 --> 00:31:45.980
 there's a,

00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:46.759
 any,

00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:47.759
 anything else,

00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:48.559
 any words,

00:31:48.700 --> 00:31:49.379
 specific words,

00:31:49.460 --> 00:31:50.399
 repeated again and again,

00:31:50.460 --> 00:31:51.139
 that you guys noticed?

00:31:54.399 --> 00:31:54.879
 Lord.

00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:55.799
 Lord.

00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.200
 And where is that word repeated again and again?

00:32:01.259 --> 00:32:01.700
 Yes.

00:32:02.139 --> 00:32:02.500
 Jesus,

00:32:03.179 --> 00:32:03.619
 word,

00:32:03.899 --> 00:32:04.399
 testament.

00:32:05.019 --> 00:32:05.179
 Hmm?

00:32:05.579 --> 00:32:06.539
 Next is word,

00:32:06.659 --> 00:32:07.679
 and testimonies,

00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:08.059
 and,

00:32:08.579 --> 00:32:08.759
 yeah,

00:32:08.899 --> 00:32:09.039
 what?

00:32:09.179 --> 00:32:09.700
 His law,

00:32:09.779 --> 00:32:10.220
 the testimony,

00:32:10.379 --> 00:32:10.980
 the precepts,

00:32:11.059 --> 00:32:11.940
 that's right,

00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:13.460
 the section about scripture,

00:32:13.679 --> 00:32:15.399
 consistently,

00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:16.460
 and repeatedly says,

00:32:16.579 --> 00:32:16.839
 Lord,

00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:17.379
 Lord,

00:32:17.539 --> 00:32:17.940
 Lord,

00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:18.480
 Lord,

00:32:18.700 --> 00:32:19.019
 Lord,

00:32:19.019 --> 00:32:19.079
 Lord,

00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:21.039
 in the second half,

00:32:21.339 --> 00:32:22.139
 what about the first half?

00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:29.779
 It's not there at all.

00:32:32.500 --> 00:32:33.500
 What's there instead?

00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:35.119
 God.

00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:37.819
 What's the difference between God and Lord?

00:32:39.179 --> 00:32:40.339
 Yahweh is covenant.

00:32:40.339 --> 00:32:41.019
 Ah,

00:32:41.659 --> 00:32:42.279
 Yahweh,

00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.299
 Lord is,

00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:44.500
 is,

00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:45.939
 is standing there for Yahweh,

00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:47.559
 the Lord's actual proper name,

00:32:47.679 --> 00:32:49.740
 which is the personal name of God,

00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:51.759
 the covenant name that he reveals to his people.

00:32:53.179 --> 00:32:55.259
 Contrasted from the generic word for God,

00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:58.379
 that's in verse one,

00:32:59.019 --> 00:33:00.619
 heavens declare the glory of God.

00:33:00.619 --> 00:33:01.619
 What's,

00:33:01.619 --> 00:33:03.779
 what's,

00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:05.139
 what's the significance of that?

00:33:07.139 --> 00:33:08.559
 General revelation,

00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:10.719
 specific revelation in scripture.

00:33:11.099 --> 00:33:11.379
 Yeah.

00:33:12.019 --> 00:33:13.259
 You guys familiar with,

00:33:13.339 --> 00:33:13.819
 with that?

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:19.279
 There's a general revelation that God grants to all people.

00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:20.839
 Everybody,

00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:21.639
 Romans 1,

00:33:21.719 --> 00:33:22.079
 19,

00:33:22.179 --> 00:33:22.319
 right?

00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:23.500
 Like you,

00:33:23.639 --> 00:33:23.799
 you,

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.659
 God's divine attributes have been displayed for all.

00:33:26.740 --> 00:33:28.079
 You can see his eternal power.

00:33:28.179 --> 00:33:29.099
 You can see his divine power.

00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.059
 So that people are without excuse.

00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:31.679
 Yes.

00:33:31.779 --> 00:33:35.139
 General revelation gives people enough knowledge so that they are without excuse.

00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:36.240
 They can be held accountable.

00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:41.019
 But in order for them to come to know God as the Lord,

00:33:41.140 --> 00:33:41.960
 as their covenant Lord,

00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:42.599
 what do they need?

00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:45.559
 They need scripture.

00:33:46.339 --> 00:33:47.380
 They need revelation,

00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:48.259
 special revelation.

00:33:48.980 --> 00:33:50.799
 So you see that contrast here,

00:33:51.099 --> 00:33:51.480
 right?

00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:52.960
 In this first half and the second half.

00:33:57.259 --> 00:33:58.620
 So it's,

00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:01.500
 people can know God from nature,

00:34:01.620 --> 00:34:03.559
 from the glory that God has revealed in creation,

00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:06.339
 enough to not excuse them from God's judge,

00:34:06.419 --> 00:34:07.099
 just judgment,

00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.559
 but they cannot from creation alone,

00:34:09.820 --> 00:34:11.400
 get to know God enough to be saved,

00:34:11.980 --> 00:34:13.900
 to know the Lord,

00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:14.779
 right?

00:34:15.019 --> 00:34:17.739
 You can only get that from the perfect word of God.

00:34:19.179 --> 00:34:19.860
 Isn't that amazing?

00:34:20.299 --> 00:34:21.239
 In that short song,

00:34:21.539 --> 00:34:22.679
 there's so many things here,

00:34:23.099 --> 00:34:23.340
 right?

00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:25.079
 Now,

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:26.820
 flip it over.

00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:27.400
 Let's try.

00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:28.360
 Let's do one more.

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:34.119
 Which,

00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:35.199
 what do you guys have on the other side?

00:34:35.259 --> 00:34:35.920
 Isaiah 55.

00:34:36.299 --> 00:34:38.079
 So another thing that you can look for.

00:34:39.900 --> 00:34:41.559
 So you want to look at what's repeated.

00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:42.779
 Actually,

00:34:43.259 --> 00:34:44.079
 let's just do this first.

00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:44.799
 This is on the other side.

00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:45.840
 Let's look at,

00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:48.599
 you know what?

00:34:48.619 --> 00:34:49.000
 Let's do this.

00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:49.960
 Let's look at what's referenced.

00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:52.299
 Leave that paper for now.

00:34:52.659 --> 00:34:54.460
 Open your Bibles to Revelation chapter one.

00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:54.460


00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:54.460


00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:09.619
 I guess,

00:35:09.799 --> 00:35:11.619
 I guess it's exciting.

00:35:11.739 --> 00:35:12.980
 Are you guys having fun with the ethics?

00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:13.259
 Yeah,

00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:13.639
 it's like,

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:14.820
 because you should be.

00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:15.559
 Yeah.

00:35:18.420 --> 00:35:19.779
 That's my main goal here.

00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:20.199
 It's like,

00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:21.699
 give you just a taste of it.

00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:21.940
 You're like,

00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:22.199
 oh,

00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:23.179
 I want to do this more.

00:35:23.259 --> 00:35:24.079
 And I want to go read it.

00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:24.799
 I want to go study it.

00:35:24.860 --> 00:35:25.039
 And then,

00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:26.860
 and I promise you,

00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:27.759
 like the,

00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:29.880
 whenever you hear me preach and I say stuff,

00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:30.119
 you're like,

00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:30.460
 oh,

00:35:30.460 --> 00:35:31.579
 I never saw that before.

00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:31.779
 Oh,

00:35:31.799 --> 00:35:32.659
 I never thought of it before.

00:35:32.659 --> 00:35:34.159
 It's not because of some,

00:35:34.359 --> 00:35:35.480
 some amazing thing.

00:35:36.059 --> 00:35:36.460
 It's just,

00:35:36.579 --> 00:35:38.399
 it's just because I'm looking at the text longer than you.

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:38.859
 That's it.

00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:41.019
 That's really the difference.

00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:43.339
 Just look at it longer and you'll see it.

00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:43.619
 Yeah.

00:35:43.759 --> 00:35:44.159
 It's a,

00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:44.679
 it's a,

00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:45.319
 do the,

00:35:45.379 --> 00:35:46.039
 do the fish thing.

00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:46.279
 Yeah.

00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:47.239
 Yeah.

00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:47.339
 Yeah.

00:35:47.339 --> 00:35:47.599
 So,

00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:48.420
 um,

00:35:48.739 --> 00:35:49.239
 uh,

00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:50.259
 revelation chapter one.

00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:50.699
 What,

00:35:50.759 --> 00:35:52.579
 another thing that's important is what's referenced.

00:35:53.899 --> 00:35:54.299
 Um,

00:35:54.879 --> 00:35:59.579
 and apocalyptic literature like revelation or some parts of the prophetic literature,

00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:02.279
 especially important to look at what's referenced because they

00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:07.720
 refer to other parts of scripture so much and rely on those images and those,

00:36:07.820 --> 00:36:09.300
 those phrase and clause to give,

00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:10.019
 give it meaning.

00:36:10.600 --> 00:36:10.820
 Right.

00:36:11.180 --> 00:36:12.540
 So do you guys have,

00:36:12.540 --> 00:36:12.880
 um,

00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:13.620
 uh,

00:36:13.980 --> 00:36:15.260
 cross references in your Bibles?

00:36:15.640 --> 00:36:15.880
 You guys,

00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.040
 hopefully you all have them.

00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.619
 If you don't have any cross references,

00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:20.920
 um,

00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:22.800
 you should really get one that has one.

00:36:22.980 --> 00:36:23.239
 Yeah.

00:36:23.300 --> 00:36:23.759
 It's a,

00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:25.300
 it's super helpful resource.

00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:26.239
 Um,

00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:27.840
 and,

00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:28.199
 uh,

00:36:28.259 --> 00:36:29.039
 and basically what,

00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:30.559
 what it is is if you never use one,

00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:35.360
 it has like a little footnote or like a little letter,

00:36:35.579 --> 00:36:36.619
 a small letter,

00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:37.300
 uh,

00:36:37.300 --> 00:36:37.960
 in superscript.

00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:38.820
 And you follow that,

00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:40.980
 it'll give you other scripture references that it's,

00:36:41.059 --> 00:36:41.880
 it's connected to,

00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:42.860
 that it's referring to.

00:36:42.860 --> 00:36:45.780
 And so let's look at revelation one.

00:36:52.860 --> 00:36:53.640
 Starting in verse,

00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:55.320
 verse four,

00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:58.280
 John to the seven churches that are in Asia,

00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.180
 grace to you and peace from him who is and who was,

00:37:01.220 --> 00:37:02.260
 and who is to come.

00:37:02.660 --> 00:37:06.300
 And from the seven spirits who are before his throne and from Jesus Christ,

00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:07.160
 the faithful witness,

00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.460
 the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of kings of earth,

00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:11.240
 kings on earth.

00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:16.419
 To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by blood and made us a

00:37:16.419 --> 00:37:20.739
 kingdom priest to his God and father to him be glory and dominion forever

00:37:20.739 --> 00:37:21.179
 and ever.

00:37:21.699 --> 00:37:22.139
 Amen.

00:37:22.859 --> 00:37:26.879
 What is that a reference to made us a kingdom priest to his God and father?

00:37:29.659 --> 00:37:30.099
 Saints.

00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:31.819
 To the saints.

00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.559
 What scripture is it referring to?

00:37:33.739 --> 00:37:35.259
 You guys try to use your cross references.

00:37:35.259 --> 00:37:40.259
 Verse six.

00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:42.419
 First few.

00:37:43.259 --> 00:37:43.859
 Two five.

00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:45.199
 Yep.

00:37:45.339 --> 00:37:45.859
 That isn't,

00:37:45.959 --> 00:37:46.719
 that isn't first period.

00:37:46.799 --> 00:37:47.579
 Do you guys not have any,

00:37:47.659 --> 00:37:48.019
 anything,

00:37:48.219 --> 00:37:48.500
 any other?

00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:49.179
 Yes.

00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:51.299
 It's also referenced in Exodus.

00:37:51.799 --> 00:37:51.959
 Right.

00:37:52.359 --> 00:37:58.599
 And so he's taking old Testament language used of the people of God and applying that

00:37:58.599 --> 00:37:59.539
 to new Testament states,

00:37:59.619 --> 00:38:01.259
 which includes Jews and Gentiles.

00:38:01.739 --> 00:38:01.879
 Right.

00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:02.880
 Uh,

00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:03.900
 not only the Jews,

00:38:04.019 --> 00:38:04.640
 but also these,

00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:06.840
 all the saints are now kingdom priests to God.

00:38:07.340 --> 00:38:07.740
 Uh,

00:38:07.860 --> 00:38:08.440
 let's keep reading.

00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:08.840
 Behold,

00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:11.079
 he's coming with the clouds and every eye will see him,

00:38:11.140 --> 00:38:15.740
 even those who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him.

00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.780
 Even so.

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:17.880
 Amen.

00:38:19.180 --> 00:38:19.619
 That's,

00:38:19.740 --> 00:38:21.160
 you guys might should recognize.

00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:22.420
 Where have you seen that recently?

00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:23.420
 Um,

00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:25.340
 coming with the clouds,

00:38:25.860 --> 00:38:26.559
 all the trip,

00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:26.960
 Matthew,

00:38:27.220 --> 00:38:27.480
 right?

00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:28.240
 Uh,

00:38:28.240 --> 00:38:30.460
 so that that's going to help you understand what is,

00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:31.780
 what is John talking about here?

00:38:31.820 --> 00:38:34.059
 And what was Jesus talking about when he mentioned this in Matthew?

00:38:34.740 --> 00:38:35.059
 Uh,

00:38:35.059 --> 00:38:38.659
 I am the alpha and omega and the omega says the Lord God who is,

00:38:38.740 --> 00:38:39.180
 and who was,

00:38:39.260 --> 00:38:40.680
 who is to come the almighty.

00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:41.980
 I,

00:38:42.139 --> 00:38:42.380
 John,

00:38:42.460 --> 00:38:49.599
 your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:51.639
 I was in the spirit on the Lord's day.

00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:53.059
 And I heard behind me a loud voice,

00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:54.059
 like a trumpet saying,

00:38:54.199 --> 00:39:02.299
 write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

00:39:03.259 --> 00:39:05.460
 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me.

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:06.059
 And on turning,

00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:08.460
 I saw seven golden lampstands.

00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:09.799
 What is that a reference to?

00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.460
 Golden lampstands.

00:39:14.339 --> 00:39:14.699
 Tabernacle,

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:15.079
 right?

00:39:15.339 --> 00:39:16.139
 In Exodus again,

00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:16.599
 right?

00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:17.259
 Uh,

00:39:17.259 --> 00:39:20.000
 and so if you see a golden lampstand,

00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:20.679
 where are you at?

00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:23.559
 Which is?

00:39:24.659 --> 00:39:25.579
 In the throne room.

00:39:25.819 --> 00:39:26.119
 Yeah.

00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:26.739
 You're,

00:39:26.819 --> 00:39:27.219
 you're in,

00:39:27.339 --> 00:39:29.199
 you're at the footstool of God or in the,

00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:30.579
 in the throne room of God.

00:39:30.659 --> 00:39:31.940
 That's where John is right now.

00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:32.319
 Right?

00:39:32.359 --> 00:39:32.679
 That's the,

00:39:32.739 --> 00:39:33.659
 that's the vision he's seen.

00:39:34.259 --> 00:39:34.619
 Uh,

00:39:34.619 --> 00:39:35.960
 and in the midst of the lampstand,

00:39:36.059 --> 00:39:37.279
 one like a son of man.

00:39:38.059 --> 00:39:39.400
 Everybody knows this now today,

00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:39.579
 right?

00:39:39.619 --> 00:39:39.900
 Jesus.

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:40.799
 Yes.

00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:41.819
 What reference to what?

00:39:42.539 --> 00:39:43.319
 Daniel seven,

00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:43.819
 right?

00:39:43.819 --> 00:39:44.519
 Son of man,

00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:45.319
 uh,

00:39:45.319 --> 00:39:48.039
 clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:49.380
 There's some other references there too,

00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:51.119
 but from Daniel 10 and other places,

00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:53.420
 the hairs of his head were white,

00:39:53.460 --> 00:39:54.360
 like white wool,

00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:55.099
 like snow.

00:39:56.059 --> 00:39:57.279
 Where's that a reference to?

00:39:58.860 --> 00:40:00.219
 Daniel seven.

00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:01.719
 And in Daniel seven,

00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:02.119
 interestingly,

00:40:02.259 --> 00:40:02.739
 if you go back,

00:40:02.779 --> 00:40:04.119
 it doesn't describe the son of man.

00:40:04.179 --> 00:40:06.059
 It describes the ancient of days like that.

00:40:06.059 --> 00:40:09.139
 So it's connecting Jesus to the ancient of days,

00:40:09.139 --> 00:40:09.699
 uh,

00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:11.840
 and to the image of the ancient of days from Daniel seven.

00:40:12.380 --> 00:40:14.000
 And then his feet were like,

00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:14.420
 uh,

00:40:14.420 --> 00:40:15.900
 his eyes were like flame of fire.

00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:18.099
 His feet were like burnished bronze refined in the furnace.

00:40:18.099 --> 00:40:21.539
 And his voice was like the roar of many waters in the right hand.

00:40:21.619 --> 00:40:25.079
 He held seven stars from his mouth came a sharp two edged sword.

00:40:25.340 --> 00:40:28.619
 And his face was like sun shining in full strength.

00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:30.119
 Does two,

00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:32.440
 where's what does two edged sword remind you of?

00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:33.299
 Why?

00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:35.400
 Where is that from?

00:40:36.139 --> 00:40:36.960
 Hebrews four.

00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.840
 And so how do you know what the two edged sword is?

00:40:41.539 --> 00:40:42.639
 Cause of that reference.

00:40:43.139 --> 00:40:44.480
 And where does it come from?

00:40:46.460 --> 00:40:47.220
 His mouth.

00:40:47.220 --> 00:40:48.099
 That makes a lot of sense.

00:40:48.139 --> 00:40:48.639
 Doesn't it?

00:40:48.720 --> 00:40:49.119
 Right.

00:40:50.220 --> 00:40:51.400
 And when I saw him,

00:40:51.420 --> 00:40:52.760
 I felt at his feet as well dead,

00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:54.579
 but he laid his right hand on me saying,

00:40:54.780 --> 00:40:55.320
 fear not.

00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:59.740
 I am the first and the last and the living one.

00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:02.800
 Now just looking at just reading the text closely.

00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:05.220
 What does the first and the last remind you of?

00:41:05.219 --> 00:41:06.619
 Something we read earlier in this chapter.

00:41:07.879 --> 00:41:08.819
 Alpha and Omega.

00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:10.480
 Who was Alpha and Omega?

00:41:12.379 --> 00:41:12.779
 God.

00:41:13.279 --> 00:41:14.519
 Who was the first and the last?

00:41:15.799 --> 00:41:16.500
 It's Jesus.

00:41:17.179 --> 00:41:17.539
 Again,

00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:21.379
 applying the attributes of God,

00:41:21.459 --> 00:41:23.179
 the ancient of days to Jesus Christ.

00:41:23.179 --> 00:41:23.779
 So it's like,

00:41:23.839 --> 00:41:25.319
 there's so many things like this.

00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:27.379
 You just study the references and you will,

00:41:27.579 --> 00:41:30.919
 it'll just open up your vistas and you'll be able to make so many questions.

00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:31.940
 And understand it more deeply.

00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:34.460
 So what's the first thing you need to look for?

00:41:34.820 --> 00:41:37.099
 What's repeated?

00:41:37.380 --> 00:41:37.519
 Yeah.

00:41:37.619 --> 00:41:38.079
 And then second,

00:41:38.720 --> 00:41:39.659
 what's referenced?

00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.780
 And then the third thing I want you guys to really focus on is what's related.

00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:48.980
 You're trying to get to the structure and the logical flow and the sequence of the text.

00:41:48.980 --> 00:41:51.940
 What comes before and what comes after the passage.

00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:53.400
 Look at order and structure.

00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:55.599
 Think of cause and effect.

00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:56.400
 The purpose.

00:41:57.260 --> 00:42:03.320
 Pay special attention to conjunctions and prepositions.

00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:13.059
 What do the conjunctions and prepositions signal so that you can understand the relations between the clauses and the verses in the sense that you're looking at?

00:42:13.140 --> 00:42:13.260
 Right.

00:42:13.640 --> 00:42:15.700
 So let's now look at Isaiah 55.

00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:17.320
 Yeah.

00:42:17.420 --> 00:42:17.660
 Go ahead.

00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.240
 I have a quick question.

00:42:19.380 --> 00:42:19.500
 Yeah.

00:42:19.660 --> 00:42:20.380
 Previous slide.

00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:20.920
 Yeah.

00:42:21.019 --> 00:42:21.220
 Sure.

00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:27.260
 So how does the author use these processes?

00:42:27.260 --> 00:42:27.580
 Yeah.

00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:28.100
 Yeah.

00:42:28.100 --> 00:42:30.019
 So there's God,

00:42:30.160 --> 00:42:30.580
 the author,

00:42:30.780 --> 00:42:31.800
 and then there's John,

00:42:32.220 --> 00:42:32.960
 the author book.

00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:33.360
 Yeah.

00:42:33.619 --> 00:42:34.019
 Now,

00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:35.440
 when I'm reading Revelation,

00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:38.380
 I'm taking John just as he was there,

00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:38.900
 he was a witness,

00:42:39.019 --> 00:42:40.260
 and he's just writing down what he saw.

00:42:40.380 --> 00:42:40.579
 Yeah.

00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:40.980
 Yeah.

00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:41.559
 So I'm not,

00:42:41.619 --> 00:42:49.300
 I'm not thinking about him necessarily trying to make intentionally his own stitchings of cross-references,

00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:49.900
 cross-structure.

00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:51.380
 He's just writing down what he saw.

00:42:51.539 --> 00:42:53.019
 But then God as the author,

00:42:53.179 --> 00:42:55.179
 he's at the metal level,

00:42:55.340 --> 00:42:56.980
 like tying in all these details.

00:42:57.260 --> 00:42:57.480
 Yeah.

00:42:57.480 --> 00:42:57.940
 So,

00:42:58.780 --> 00:43:02.400
 but should we be reading even Revelation,

00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:05.119
 as John's own authorship,

00:43:05.240 --> 00:43:09.059
 and he's trying to make some points apart from just him writing down what he sees?

00:43:09.619 --> 00:43:10.780
 It's like in other scriptures too.

00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:11.139
 Paul,

00:43:11.220 --> 00:43:11.340
 right?

00:43:11.420 --> 00:43:11.619
 He,

00:43:11.699 --> 00:43:16.019
 he does bring in explicitly certain scriptures from the Old Testament to make a certain point explicitly.

00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:16.699
 Yeah.

00:43:16.699 --> 00:43:17.699
 But then,

00:43:18.019 --> 00:43:24.159
 I always saw that as different from like saying that John is trying to make these references.

00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:25.339
 That's a great question,

00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:25.579
 Asher.

00:43:25.659 --> 00:43:25.940
 So you're,

00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:27.139
 you're asking about like,

00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:27.500
 um,

00:43:27.879 --> 00:43:29.779
 since John is prophecy,

00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:32.739
 and John is prophesying,

00:43:32.879 --> 00:43:34.420
 and Revelation is prophecy,

00:43:34.420 --> 00:43:37.319
 and he's just writing down what he sees in vision,

00:43:37.420 --> 00:43:38.199
 in perfect vision,

00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:38.420
 uh,

00:43:39.259 --> 00:43:41.279
 should we be trying to,

00:43:41.379 --> 00:43:45.940
 is John even crafting the book like a human author would to make things fit?

00:43:45.940 --> 00:43:46.440
 Or is it,

00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:49.119
 are we only just trying to understand God's intentions behind the book?

00:43:49.260 --> 00:43:49.539
 Like that's,

00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:50.700
 is that a good summary of the question?

00:43:50.940 --> 00:43:51.019
 Yeah.

00:43:51.019 --> 00:43:51.420
 I can understand.

00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:51.760
 Yeah.

00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:51.960
 Yeah.

00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:52.420
 Yeah.

00:43:54.420 --> 00:43:54.780
 Yeah.

00:43:54.780 --> 00:43:55.820
 I never saw it.

00:43:55.860 --> 00:43:56.099
 Yeah.

00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:56.559
 Yeah.

00:43:57.059 --> 00:43:58.200
 That's a great question.

00:43:58.320 --> 00:43:58.460
 And,

00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:00.800
 and that goes back to our theory of inspiration.

00:44:01.300 --> 00:44:01.700
 Uh,

00:44:01.700 --> 00:44:03.960
 and so there are some who hold to the,

00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:06.559
 the theory of dictation theory of inspiration,

00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:10.840
 which is basically God dictated to the humans,

00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:13.099
 what he wanted to write them to write.

00:44:13.099 --> 00:44:16.480
 And so you're really not looking at what the humans are crafting.

00:44:16.619 --> 00:44:17.679
 You're just looking at what God,

00:44:17.799 --> 00:44:18.500
 God has,

00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:19.079
 God has done.

00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:19.779
 Uh,

00:44:19.779 --> 00:44:20.699
 and then the,

00:44:20.699 --> 00:44:21.039
 the,

00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:22.319
 the theory of inspiration that,

00:44:22.539 --> 00:44:22.860
 uh,

00:44:22.900 --> 00:44:23.099
 that,

00:44:23.219 --> 00:44:23.900
 that I hold to,

00:44:24.059 --> 00:44:24.500
 that's,

00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:24.799
 uh,

00:44:24.799 --> 00:44:25.259
 that a lot of,

00:44:25.339 --> 00:44:25.819
 uh,

00:44:25.819 --> 00:44:28.960
 reformed evangelicals hold to is based on the Chicago statement of inerrancy.

00:44:29.299 --> 00:44:29.699
 Uh,

00:44:29.699 --> 00:44:31.380
 and it's called verbal plenary inspiration,

00:44:31.940 --> 00:44:34.199
 where we believe that the human authors were,

00:44:34.460 --> 00:44:36.940
 were intimately involved in their writing,

00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:40.400
 and they were trying to make certain emphases and points,

00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:42.059
 and they were crafting their writing.

00:44:42.059 --> 00:44:45.019
 And yet in and through and above all of that,

00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:45.699
 God's the one,

00:44:45.799 --> 00:44:46.679
 the divine author is,

00:44:46.739 --> 00:44:48.480
 is overseeing all of it.

00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:48.719
 Right.

00:44:48.759 --> 00:44:49.139
 And so,

00:44:49.139 --> 00:44:49.920
 uh,

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:54.820
 God doesn't write the scriptures in such a way that he overrules the human,

00:44:54.820 --> 00:44:55.739
 uh,

00:44:56.119 --> 00:44:57.920
 traits or tendencies,

00:44:57.920 --> 00:44:58.900
 uh,

00:44:58.940 --> 00:44:59.380
 of the,

00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:00.279
 of the human authors.

00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:00.880
 Uh,

00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.320
 and yet he has inspired them in such a way and use them in such a way that what we do have,

00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.699
 the finished product is exactly what God wanted written.

00:45:08.179 --> 00:45:08.420
 Uh,

00:45:08.420 --> 00:45:08.840
 and so,

00:45:09.179 --> 00:45:10.059
 so because of that,

00:45:10.059 --> 00:45:11.019
 that's why when you look at,

00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:11.500
 uh,

00:45:11.500 --> 00:45:12.299
 when we're comparing,

00:45:13.019 --> 00:45:13.420
 um,

00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:14.420
 uh,

00:45:14.539 --> 00:45:14.920
 for example,

00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:17.239
 when we were in the parable of the lost sheep,

00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:17.739
 right?

00:45:18.519 --> 00:45:18.960
 Uh,

00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:19.279
 in,

00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:20.559
 in Matthew,

00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:21.420
 uh,

00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:21.639
 in,

00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:22.139
 in Luke,

00:45:22.219 --> 00:45:23.119
 the more famous version,

00:45:23.219 --> 00:45:23.480
 right?

00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:23.799
 It,

00:45:23.799 --> 00:45:24.039
 it's,

00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:24.299
 it's,

00:45:24.299 --> 00:45:26.539
 it's in the context of seeking out the lost,

00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:28.619
 the tax collectors and sinners.

00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:30.119
 You gotta go and,

00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:30.799
 you know,

00:45:30.799 --> 00:45:32.699
 call them to repentance and bring them back to the fold.

00:45:33.139 --> 00:45:35.259
 Do you guys remember what context it was in,

00:45:35.279 --> 00:45:35.779
 in Matthew?

00:45:36.259 --> 00:45:36.460
 Yeah,

00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:36.739
 Jason,

00:45:36.799 --> 00:45:36.940
 right?

00:45:36.940 --> 00:45:38.880
 Within the church,

00:45:39.380 --> 00:45:40.639
 airing brothers and sisters,

00:45:41.240 --> 00:45:42.519
 going and getting them back,

00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:42.860
 right?

00:45:43.260 --> 00:45:43.480
 So,

00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:45.280
 Jesus told the same parable,

00:45:45.380 --> 00:45:46.760
 maybe in multiple contexts,

00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:47.139
 uh,

00:45:47.139 --> 00:45:47.700
 multiple times.

00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:48.000
 We're not,

00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:48.320
 we're not,

00:45:48.380 --> 00:45:49.119
 we don't know for sure,

00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.059
 but Matthew and Luke have a very clear,

00:45:52.059 --> 00:45:52.619
 uh,

00:45:52.659 --> 00:45:52.880
 uh,

00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:54.320
 reason for including that,

00:45:54.500 --> 00:45:56.320
 that parable in the exact place they have it,

00:45:56.619 --> 00:45:56.820
 right?

00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:57.220
 And so,

00:45:57.220 --> 00:45:58.679
 we do need to discern what is it,

00:45:58.740 --> 00:45:59.880
 what is the human author doing?

00:46:00.059 --> 00:46:03.740
 Because whatever the human author is doing is also what God is doing in and through them,

00:46:03.860 --> 00:46:04.039
 right?

00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:04.380
 And so,

00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:05.759
 so even with John,

00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:07.940
 I would say that we need to ask ourselves that,

00:46:08.019 --> 00:46:08.179
 like,

00:46:08.219 --> 00:46:08.400
 what,

00:46:08.460 --> 00:46:09.759
 what is it that John's trying to get?

00:46:09.820 --> 00:46:12.320
 Why is he using this imagery and this reference and not,

00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:13.239
 not something else?

00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:13.460
 Like,

00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:13.659
 you know,

00:46:13.699 --> 00:46:13.900
 why,

00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:14.559
 why does he,

00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:15.360
 uh,

00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:15.659
 and,

00:46:15.739 --> 00:46:16.980
 and somehow God's still,

00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:19.320
 God's showing him these things and they're,

00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:21.960
 he's using the things that are in John's mind as well as he's,

00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:22.779
 the things that he,

00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:23.719
 he's showing him,

00:46:23.940 --> 00:46:24.099
 right?

00:46:24.139 --> 00:46:25.679
 And so it's a great question.

00:46:25.820 --> 00:46:25.980
 Yeah.

00:46:26.059 --> 00:46:26.360
 It's a,

00:46:26.460 --> 00:46:26.920
 I think the,

00:46:27.380 --> 00:46:27.739
 um,

00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:29.079
 and I hope,

00:46:29.139 --> 00:46:29.599
 I hope that,

00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:30.880
 that answers the question.

00:46:31.059 --> 00:46:31.259
 You know,

00:46:31.259 --> 00:46:31.800
 it's satisfactory.

00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:32.279
 Yeah,

00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:33.480
 go ahead.

00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:33.719
 Yeah.

00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:33.800
 Yeah.

00:46:34.460 --> 00:46:36.019
 Does that mean that prophecy,

00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:37.519
 every time we see prophecy,

00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:38.500
 even in the old Testament,

00:46:39.380 --> 00:46:39.880
 um,

00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:43.800
 the authors were making certain points as well.

00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:45.199
 It's not just like direct,

00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:49.820
 but in the same way that John,

00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:51.940
 when we're seeing this revelation,

00:46:52.139 --> 00:46:53.699
 he made certain points.

00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:54.639
 Um,

00:46:54.860 --> 00:46:55.059
 yeah.

00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:56.400
 I should also be looking at Jeremiah.

00:46:58.179 --> 00:46:58.619
 Yeah.

00:46:58.840 --> 00:46:59.139
 Yeah.

00:46:59.240 --> 00:46:59.800
 That's a,

00:46:59.900 --> 00:47:00.699
 that's a great question.

00:47:00.699 --> 00:47:02.519
 So what about the old Testament prophets?

00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:03.179
 Is it similar?

00:47:03.940 --> 00:47:04.380
 Um,

00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:06.820
 so if you look at,

00:47:06.820 --> 00:47:07.360
 um,

00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:09.280
 Jeremiah one 11,

00:47:09.579 --> 00:47:09.860
 right?

00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:11.639
 Um,

00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:13.460
 and it says,

00:47:13.579 --> 00:47:15.739
 and the word of the Lord came to me saying,

00:47:15.860 --> 00:47:16.199
 Jeremiah,

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:17.259
 what do you see?

00:47:18.199 --> 00:47:19.000
 And I said,

00:47:19.059 --> 00:47:21.480
 I see an almond branch.

00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:23.619
 Then the Lord said to me,

00:47:23.659 --> 00:47:24.800
 you have seen well,

00:47:25.340 --> 00:47:27.739
 for I'm watching over my word to perform it.

00:47:27.739 --> 00:47:31.219
 Because the word almond in Hebrew sounds like watching.

00:47:31.799 --> 00:47:32.219
 Right.

00:47:32.459 --> 00:47:35.219
 And so here's like an example of like the prophet.

00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:37.659
 He's looking at an almond branch.

00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:40.259
 God told him that like,

00:47:40.279 --> 00:47:40.859
 he'd look at this.

00:47:40.939 --> 00:47:41.039
 Yeah.

00:47:41.079 --> 00:47:41.919
 He's looking at it.

00:47:42.179 --> 00:47:42.439
 Oh,

00:47:42.539 --> 00:47:43.239
 almond branch,

00:47:43.399 --> 00:47:44.639
 almond watching.

00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:46.379
 And the Lord says,

00:47:46.879 --> 00:47:47.559
 I'm watching,

00:47:48.359 --> 00:47:48.719
 uh,

00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:50.119
 over my word to perform it.

00:47:50.179 --> 00:47:50.339
 Right.

00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:53.960
 So he's using the prophets sensory experience,

00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:55.000
 uh,

00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.940
 and what he brings to the table to speak what he wants to say.

00:47:57.980 --> 00:47:58.239
 Right.

00:47:58.480 --> 00:47:58.699
 Uh,

00:47:58.699 --> 00:47:59.019
 and so,

00:47:59.099 --> 00:48:02.440
 so I'd say even if the old Testament prophets that's happening to varying degrees,

00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:06.700
 but that doesn't give us any less confidence that that's exactly what God wanted them to say.

00:48:06.860 --> 00:48:07.039
 Yeah.

00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:07.679
 Yeah.

00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:08.500
 So I think the,

00:48:09.179 --> 00:48:09.559
 um,

00:48:09.980 --> 00:48:11.039
 yeah.

00:48:11.059 --> 00:48:13.760
 And that's why the different authors have different like tendencies,

00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:16.220
 the way they write kinds of words they use.

00:48:16.780 --> 00:48:17.159
 Um,

00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:17.599
 you,

00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:18.700
 you look at John,

00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:19.280
 uh,

00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:23.179
 when he thinks that talks about the decisive victory of Christ over Satan,

00:48:23.179 --> 00:48:23.579
 uh,

00:48:23.579 --> 00:48:24.720
 during his earthly ministry,

00:48:24.720 --> 00:48:26.240
 he talks about how the,

00:48:26.240 --> 00:48:26.760
 the,

00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:28.480
 how Satan was the ruler of this world.

00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:29.440
 It's cast down,

00:48:29.720 --> 00:48:30.320
 cast out.

00:48:30.740 --> 00:48:32.420
 That's the language he uses in the gospel of John.

00:48:32.539 --> 00:48:33.860
 That's the language he uses in the John,

00:48:33.940 --> 00:48:34.139
 John,

00:48:34.220 --> 00:48:34.420
 John,

00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:34.880
 John epistles.

00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:36.159
 That's the language he uses in revelation.

00:48:37.019 --> 00:48:39.220
 So synoptic gospels refer to the same event.

00:48:39.300 --> 00:48:40.400
 They'll use the word bind.

00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:41.780
 The strong man,

00:48:41.860 --> 00:48:42.740
 Satan is bound.

00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:43.559
 Right.

00:48:43.579 --> 00:48:43.940
 Uh,

00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:44.420
 and so,

00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:45.099
 uh,

00:48:45.099 --> 00:48:45.780
 and so it's,

00:48:45.860 --> 00:48:46.019
 uh,

00:48:46.019 --> 00:48:46.200
 you,

00:48:46.340 --> 00:48:46.920
 they just,

00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:47.980
 they use different words.

00:48:48.200 --> 00:48:51.500
 And so then when you take the synoptic gospel authors and you say bound,

00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:52.099
 and then you say,

00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:52.340
 well,

00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:52.539
 yeah,

00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:53.539
 revelation 20,

00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:54.900
 it says bound.

00:48:55.579 --> 00:48:55.980
 Uh,

00:48:55.980 --> 00:48:56.340
 it's like,

00:48:56.360 --> 00:48:59.119
 it means it's talking about the exact same thing that you could run into trouble.

00:48:59.400 --> 00:48:59.639
 Right.

00:48:59.960 --> 00:49:00.240
 Uh,

00:49:00.240 --> 00:49:02.000
 because John actually doesn't use that.

00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.559
 He's the one gospel author that doesn't use that word,

00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:05.260
 uh,

00:49:05.260 --> 00:49:06.059
 to refer to that,

00:49:06.179 --> 00:49:06.639
 that event,

00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:07.219
 what happened there.

00:49:07.300 --> 00:49:07.880
 So it's the,

00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:08.579
 uh,

00:49:08.579 --> 00:49:09.139
 so that I,

00:49:09.139 --> 00:49:11.420
 I think it's really important to pay attention to the,

00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:12.460
 uh,

00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:12.940
 great.

00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:13.159
 Yeah.

00:49:13.219 --> 00:49:13.840
 Great question.

00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:14.039
 Yeah.

00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:14.780
 Yeah.

00:49:14.780 --> 00:49:15.500
 Any other questions?

00:49:17.340 --> 00:49:17.620
 Yeah.

00:49:17.620 --> 00:49:18.840
 The thing that is amazing though,

00:49:18.860 --> 00:49:20.780
 that there were over 40 authors.

00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:21.320
 I know.

00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:22.860
 Bible in three different languages.

00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:23.240
 Yeah.

00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:24.080
 1500 years.

00:49:24.160 --> 00:49:24.260
 Yeah.

00:49:24.260 --> 00:49:24.620
 It's still,

00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:26.140
 it's interwoven together.

00:49:26.140 --> 00:49:26.860
 It's amazing.

00:49:26.860 --> 00:49:27.700
 It's such a beautiful perfection.

00:49:28.060 --> 00:49:28.280
 Yeah.

00:49:28.340 --> 00:49:29.400
 Like no other book.

00:49:29.460 --> 00:49:29.680
 Yeah.

00:49:30.060 --> 00:49:34.280
 But so many different professions from fishermen to scholar,

00:49:34.600 --> 00:49:35.220
 you know,

00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:35.880
 that's right.

00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:36.500
 And teachers.

00:49:36.980 --> 00:49:37.800
 That's so perfect.

00:49:38.640 --> 00:49:38.840
 There,

00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:39.820
 there's nothing like it.

00:49:40.019 --> 00:49:40.280
 Yeah.

00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:40.720
 Uh,

00:49:40.720 --> 00:49:41.240
 it's,

00:49:41.300 --> 00:49:42.080
 it's a holy book,

00:49:42.080 --> 00:49:43.100
 uh,

00:49:43.120 --> 00:49:43.900
 on my vineyard,

00:49:44.420 --> 00:49:44.740
 uh,

00:49:44.740 --> 00:49:45.980
 because it's set apart.

00:49:47.060 --> 00:49:47.340
 So,

00:49:47.340 --> 00:49:49.040
 yeah,

00:49:49.340 --> 00:49:49.660
 it's,

00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:50.300
 there's nothing,

00:49:50.500 --> 00:49:51.440
 nothing else like it.

00:49:51.580 --> 00:49:52.500
 Only must read book.

00:49:52.500 --> 00:49:53.340
 Like we said last week.

00:49:55.500 --> 00:49:55.580
 Um,

00:49:55.740 --> 00:49:56.980
 so pay attention to what's repeated,

00:49:57.080 --> 00:49:57.820
 what's referenced.

00:49:57.940 --> 00:49:59.560
 And then now let's look at what's related.

00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:01.160
 Yeah.

00:50:01.220 --> 00:50:01.380
 Oh,

00:50:01.420 --> 00:50:01.519
 wait,

00:50:01.580 --> 00:50:02.140
 Tim had a question.

00:50:02.240 --> 00:50:02.320
 Yeah.

00:50:02.340 --> 00:50:02.480
 Tim.

00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:02.760
 Um,

00:50:03.040 --> 00:50:03.220
 yeah.

00:50:03.900 --> 00:50:03.980
 Yeah.

00:50:08.040 --> 00:50:09.920
 The verbal plenary inspiration.

00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:10.519
 Um,

00:50:12.200 --> 00:50:13.380
 if I can take that further,

00:50:13.640 --> 00:50:14.900
 is it valid to say like,

00:50:14.980 --> 00:50:15.480
 for example,

00:50:15.700 --> 00:50:16.420
 in revelation,

00:50:17.500 --> 00:50:17.940
 um,

00:50:18.580 --> 00:50:19.060
 that like,

00:50:19.940 --> 00:50:21.280
 would it be valid to say that John,

00:50:21.420 --> 00:50:26.040
 he didn't actually see a sword coming out of the mouth of somebody.

00:50:26.160 --> 00:50:26.480
 Instead,

00:50:26.600 --> 00:50:30.420
 he saw something and then he wrote it in a way to like,

00:50:30.420 --> 00:50:31.680
 in his references,

00:50:31.900 --> 00:50:32.480
 like he knew that,

00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:34.120
 this is like something of the word.

00:50:34.220 --> 00:50:36.060
 So I'm going to write it like a double sword.

00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:38.000
 But he didn't actually literally see it.

00:50:38.860 --> 00:50:39.140
 Um,

00:50:39.139 --> 00:50:43.960
 I'm less comfortable with that because John does say that in the book that he saw them.

00:50:44.319 --> 00:50:45.119
 He saw the vision.

00:50:45.539 --> 00:50:45.699
 Yeah.

00:50:45.819 --> 00:50:46.259
 And so,

00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:47.460
 and I think the,

00:50:47.980 --> 00:50:52.319
 but I do think what's happening is he has these biblical images in his mind.

00:50:53.179 --> 00:50:57.079
 And I think God uses those images to show him what he sees.

00:50:57.259 --> 00:50:57.539
 Right.

00:50:57.960 --> 00:50:58.219
 Uh,

00:50:58.219 --> 00:50:59.460
 and so the,

00:50:59.779 --> 00:51:01.019
 when he sees the four,

00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:01.900
 uh,

00:51:02.279 --> 00:51:02.519
 you know,

00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:03.719
 be surrounding the,

00:51:03.719 --> 00:51:04.639
 the throne of God,

00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:05.559
 when he sees the,

00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:06.599
 the chair of him,

00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:06.880
 right.

00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:07.299
 Or the,

00:51:07.299 --> 00:51:07.599
 the,

00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:07.839
 the,

00:51:07.839 --> 00:51:08.659
 or the angels,

00:51:08.659 --> 00:51:08.980
 like,

00:51:08.980 --> 00:51:10.259
 like the way they are,

00:51:10.339 --> 00:51:12.860
 it comes from Isaiah or Ezekiel,

00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:14.139
 the way they're like the,

00:51:14.139 --> 00:51:14.360
 the,

00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:14.440
 the,

00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:15.159
 the describe it.

00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:19.440
 I think he's so steep in the old Testament scriptures.

00:51:20.279 --> 00:51:20.679
 Uh,

00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:24.119
 even the images that he sees are like things that come from scripture.

00:51:24.380 --> 00:51:24.639
 Right.

00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:24.799
 Uh,

00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:25.080
 uh,

00:51:25.080 --> 00:51:25.400
 and,

00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:25.600
 uh,

00:51:25.600 --> 00:51:25.720
 and,

00:51:25.720 --> 00:51:25.780
 and,

00:51:25.780 --> 00:51:28.440
 and I think God's using all that and showing him things to,

00:51:28.500 --> 00:51:29.060
 to write that.

00:51:29.160 --> 00:51:29.420
 So I,

00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:30.120
 uh,

00:51:30.120 --> 00:51:31.880
 I do think he actually saw visions.

00:51:32.220 --> 00:51:32.400
 Yeah.

00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:33.280
 Uh,

00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:33.560
 and,

00:51:33.640 --> 00:51:33.840
 uh,

00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:34.940
 um,

00:51:35.300 --> 00:51:36.940
 and then because he tells us that that's,

00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:37.539
 that's,

00:51:37.539 --> 00:51:38.039
 that's fine.

00:51:38.180 --> 00:51:41.180
 Cause you don't have to see visions to write prophetic books,

00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:42.080
 right?

00:51:42.080 --> 00:51:42.440
 Uh,

00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:46.480
 you could just have prophetic impressions and words and phrases that you could write.

00:51:46.560 --> 00:51:47.440
 You don't have to see them,

00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:48.720
 but John said he saw them.

00:51:48.960 --> 00:51:49.039
 Yeah.

00:51:49.140 --> 00:51:49.700
 So I think that,

00:51:50.180 --> 00:51:52.960
 and that's what a unique thing about revelation is it's,

00:51:52.980 --> 00:51:52.980


00:51:52.980 --> 00:51:54.660
 it's a book that's intended to help us,

00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:55.320
 it's see,

00:51:55.600 --> 00:51:55.800
 right?

00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:56.600
 Uh,

00:51:57.039 --> 00:51:57.380
 C.S.

00:51:57.420 --> 00:51:58.240
 Lewis writes,

00:51:58.500 --> 00:52:00.400
 talks about how in good writing,

00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:01.519
 they're not just,

00:52:01.740 --> 00:52:04.720
 don't just tell someone that this beast was terrible,

00:52:05.300 --> 00:52:05.500
 right?

00:52:06.019 --> 00:52:06.460
 Uh,

00:52:06.680 --> 00:52:09.600
 describe the beast in such a way that people who read it are terrified,

00:52:10.080 --> 00:52:10.580
 right?

00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:11.940
 You got to show them,

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:12.700
 don't just tell them,

00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:16.080
 show them that like a revelation is a book that shows us,

00:52:16.080 --> 00:52:16.880
 uh,

00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:18.440
 what the spiritual realities are.

00:52:18.539 --> 00:52:19.500
 It doesn't just tell us.

00:52:19.600 --> 00:52:22.080
 And so I think it was very important that John sees that,

00:52:22.240 --> 00:52:22.780
 sees what vision.

00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:23.720
 Uh,

00:52:23.720 --> 00:52:24.200
 and so I think,

00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:24.440
 uh,

00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:25.620
 um,

00:52:26.539 --> 00:52:27.019
 yeah.

00:52:27.220 --> 00:52:27.500
 Yeah.

00:52:27.500 --> 00:52:28.400
 Does that answer your question?

00:52:28.539 --> 00:52:28.640
 Yeah.

00:52:28.720 --> 00:52:28.880
 Yeah.

00:52:30.640 --> 00:52:31.120
 All right.

00:52:31.120 --> 00:52:32.600
 Let's try Isaiah 55,

00:52:32.600 --> 00:52:33.280
 uh,

00:52:33.340 --> 00:52:35.480
 pay special attention to what's related.

00:52:35.860 --> 00:52:37.100
 Pay attention to prepositions.

00:52:38.100 --> 00:52:38.539
 Um,

00:52:39.460 --> 00:52:42.840
 all right.

00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:43.600
 What are you guys seeing?

00:52:43.860 --> 00:52:44.260
 Sorry.

00:52:44.260 --> 00:52:45.060
 I'm not giving you that much.

00:52:45.060 --> 00:52:45.360
 Uh,

00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:49.920
 what are you guys noticing?

00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:50.620
 What are you observing?

00:52:50.619 --> 00:52:53.500
 Things repeated,

00:52:53.500 --> 00:52:54.539
 things related.

00:52:54.539 --> 00:52:57.359
 The last part is first person.

00:52:57.359 --> 00:52:57.679
 Um,

00:52:57.679 --> 00:52:58.440
 um,

00:52:58.440 --> 00:52:59.579
 um,

00:52:59.579 --> 00:53:00.619
 talk,

00:53:00.779 --> 00:53:01.539
 talk about,

00:53:01.539 --> 00:53:02.920
 uh,

00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:07.460
 things about God.

00:53:07.460 --> 00:53:07.980
 Yeah.

00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:08.119
 Um,

00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:10.700
 and the first part,

00:53:10.700 --> 00:53:12.880
 it's almost like a,

00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:13.300
 um,

00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:15.519
 um,

00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:17.559
 cause and effect.

00:53:17.740 --> 00:53:17.860
 Well,

00:53:17.860 --> 00:53:18.659
 not cause and effect,

00:53:18.659 --> 00:53:20.440
 but the response.

00:53:20.759 --> 00:53:21.059
 Yeah.

00:53:21.420 --> 00:53:21.619
 Yeah.

00:53:21.619 --> 00:53:21.659
 Yeah.

00:53:21.659 --> 00:53:24.359
 The response is actually first though.

00:53:25.359 --> 00:53:25.559
 Mm.

00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:25.799
 Mm.

00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:27.480
 Yeah.

00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:29.619
 I probably missed some quotation marks in there,

00:53:29.619 --> 00:53:31.319
 but you're making a great observation,

00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:31.619
 Kevin,

00:53:31.699 --> 00:53:34.980
 that verses eight and nine is first person speech from the Lord himself.

00:53:34.980 --> 00:53:35.619
 Right.

00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.320
 He's speaking through the prophet.

00:53:39.139 --> 00:53:39.500
 Um,

00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:40.159
 mm.

00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:44.460
 So a lot of like these couplet things like,

00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:44.960
 yeah.

00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:45.800
 Um,

00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:46.940
 seek and call.

00:53:47.380 --> 00:53:48.179
 That's good.

00:53:48.260 --> 00:53:49.099
 Found and near.

00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:49.719
 Yeah.

00:53:50.019 --> 00:53:50.280
 Yeah.

00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:50.480
 Um,

00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:52.820
 and then like Lord and God,

00:53:53.139 --> 00:53:53.480
 um,

00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:54.820
 compassion and pardon,

00:53:55.780 --> 00:53:57.280
 wicked and unrighteous,

00:53:57.740 --> 00:53:58.679
 and ways of thoughts,

00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:00.800
 especially repeated together.

00:54:01.059 --> 00:54:01.780
 That's great.

00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:03.900
 You coupled it a little differently.

00:54:03.900 --> 00:54:05.000
 I did see that.

00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:06.139
 Thank you for showing that.

00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:06.740
 Um,

00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:07.260
 I had it.

00:54:07.340 --> 00:54:10.180
 The wicked has a way in which they go,

00:54:10.380 --> 00:54:13.039
 and unrighteous has a way that they think.

00:54:13.940 --> 00:54:14.220
 Um,

00:54:14.820 --> 00:54:22.579
 and the Lord then saying that his ways are righteous,

00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:23.599
 and his ways,

00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:26.599
 not the wicked's way,

00:54:26.720 --> 00:54:28.780
 and his thoughts are not the unrighteous thoughts.

00:54:29.420 --> 00:54:30.680
 So I coupled it differently,

00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:32.160
 but I appreciate bringing the other words.

00:54:32.160 --> 00:54:32.340
 Yeah.

00:54:32.340 --> 00:54:32.579
 Yeah.

00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:34.980
 I mean,

00:54:34.980 --> 00:54:37.559
 you're paying good attention to the literary scheme,

00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:38.380
 where,

00:54:38.500 --> 00:54:38.700
 uh,

00:54:38.700 --> 00:54:39.000
 again,

00:54:39.200 --> 00:54:41.460
 like poetic literature often has parallels,

00:54:41.460 --> 00:54:43.820
 and sometimes they're synonymous parallels,

00:54:43.820 --> 00:54:45.400
 where the two lines,

00:54:45.500 --> 00:54:47.600
 the coupler are saying kind of the same thing in different ways.

00:54:47.860 --> 00:54:48.760
 Sometimes they're,

00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:49.100
 uh,

00:54:49.100 --> 00:54:49.780
 opposites,

00:54:49.980 --> 00:54:50.260
 you know,

00:54:50.300 --> 00:54:51.780
 they're antithetical parallels,

00:54:51.900 --> 00:54:52.039
 right?

00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:52.940
 They're contrasting.

00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:53.400
 So it's like,

00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:54.200
 uh,

00:54:54.200 --> 00:54:54.680
 um,

00:54:55.340 --> 00:54:55.900
 um,

00:54:55.900 --> 00:54:57.539
 yeah,

00:54:57.579 --> 00:54:58.599
 anything else you guys noticed?

00:54:58.760 --> 00:54:59.539
 What's related?

00:54:59.900 --> 00:55:01.440
 You guys noticed any prepositions?

00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:05.800
 Well,

00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:09.200
 I think he's making a point that the thoughts always shape the ways.

00:55:09.300 --> 00:55:10.360
 Those are always together.

00:55:10.900 --> 00:55:11.539
 Say again?

00:55:11.740 --> 00:55:11.860
 Yeah.

00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:12.900
 The thoughts and the ways.

00:55:13.220 --> 00:55:13.480
 Yeah.

00:55:13.740 --> 00:55:16.780
 Maybe it's that Hebrew parallelism you're talking about,

00:55:16.780 --> 00:55:17.040
 but,

00:55:17.040 --> 00:55:18.060
 um,

00:55:18.200 --> 00:55:20.300
 one's ways shapes one's thoughts.

00:55:20.820 --> 00:55:22.960
 And so like for us to like wickedness,

00:55:23.019 --> 00:55:23.260
 it's,

00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:27.880
 it's something of a thought end of our ways and also abiding in the Lord.

00:55:28.080 --> 00:55:28.240
 Also.

00:55:28.460 --> 00:55:28.780
 Yeah.

00:55:28.940 --> 00:55:30.320
 It's a thought level thing.

00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:30.920
 Yeah.

00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:31.860
 It shapes our ways.

00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:33.700
 That's a great observation,

00:55:34.060 --> 00:55:34.340
 right?

00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:34.760
 The,

00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:38.180
 and you guys are doing what we are applying what we learned from the previous

00:55:38.180 --> 00:55:38.900
 exercise.

00:55:39.019 --> 00:55:40.640
 You're noticing what's repeated too.

00:55:41.080 --> 00:55:46.400
 So the way of the wicked thoughts of the unrighteous thoughts of the Lord,

00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:47.500
 ways of the Lord.

00:55:47.579 --> 00:55:47.780
 Right.

00:55:48.099 --> 00:55:49.680
 And so there's that contrast,

00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:50.760
 um,

00:55:50.820 --> 00:55:51.240
 and,

00:55:51.240 --> 00:55:52.019
 uh,

00:55:52.160 --> 00:55:52.360
 and,

00:55:52.420 --> 00:55:52.619
 and,

00:55:52.700 --> 00:55:55.099
 and how our ways flow from our thoughts.

00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:55.599
 You're saying,

00:55:55.720 --> 00:55:55.880
 right.

00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:56.559
 So that's good.

00:55:56.660 --> 00:55:57.220
 Great observation.

00:55:57.360 --> 00:55:57.460
 Yeah.

00:55:57.460 --> 00:55:58.039
 Anything else?

00:55:58.220 --> 00:55:58.380
 Yeah.

00:55:59.639 --> 00:55:59.920
 Jason.

00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:05.320
 Ah,

00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:08.200
 so why does God want him to return?

00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:10.880
 And repent?

00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:13.380
 So he could have compassion on him.

00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:15.180
 So he could pardon him.

00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:16.760
 Right.

00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:17.900
 So that's how we,

00:56:18.260 --> 00:56:19.300
 four tells us that,

00:56:19.420 --> 00:56:20.220
 that tells us that,

00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:22.340
 that he may cut compassion on him for,

00:56:22.500 --> 00:56:23.400
 he will abundantly pardon.

00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:24.039
 Verse seven.

00:56:24.220 --> 00:56:24.400
 Right.

00:56:26.300 --> 00:56:29.619
 And then what's the relationship between that and the following verses?

00:56:30.180 --> 00:56:33.180
 It's four for eight and nine starts with four.

00:56:33.180 --> 00:56:35.960
 So it's the like motivation to,

00:56:36.139 --> 00:56:37.980
 to listen to this advice.

00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:38.760
 Huh?

00:56:38.980 --> 00:56:39.260
 Let,

00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:39.860
 you know,

00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:43.800
 let them return to the Lord for your thoughts or not,

00:56:43.860 --> 00:56:44.340
 or like,

00:56:44.780 --> 00:56:45.820
 not like God's thoughts.

00:56:45.820 --> 00:56:46.220
 Yeah.

00:56:46.380 --> 00:56:48.200
 Your ways are not like God's ways.

00:56:48.480 --> 00:56:50.340
 So four supplies the reason,

00:56:50.600 --> 00:56:50.860
 right?

00:56:51.380 --> 00:56:51.840
 So,

00:56:53.240 --> 00:56:54.900
 why does,

00:56:55.380 --> 00:56:57.559
 why will God abundantly pardon?

00:57:01.680 --> 00:57:05.760
 Because his thoughts are not our thoughts,

00:57:05.980 --> 00:57:06.720
 our ways are not,

00:57:07.080 --> 00:57:08.400
 his ways are not our ways.

00:57:09.340 --> 00:57:09.820
 Right?

00:57:09.820 --> 00:57:10.220
 This,

00:57:10.220 --> 00:57:12.340
 this,

00:57:12.539 --> 00:57:12.960
 this,

00:57:13.100 --> 00:57:16.880
 this verse is often used to talk about God's transcendence.

00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:18.440
 Right?

00:57:19.860 --> 00:57:21.080
 Which is not wrong.

00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:25.300
 Because it's still truth from some other places in scripture where God's ways are not,

00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:26.320
 he doesn't think like us.

00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:27.760
 His ways are so beyond us,

00:57:28.220 --> 00:57:29.320
 higher than our ways.

00:57:29.820 --> 00:57:33.680
 But how is it higher than our ways in this passage?

00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:35.960
 Because he abundantly pardons.

00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:39.559
 He abundantly pardons in a way that man does not.

00:57:42.379 --> 00:57:42.779
 Right?

00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:44.960
 Man does not abundantly pardon.

00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:50.400
 But God will pardon him if he comes to me because I'm not like you,

00:57:50.460 --> 00:57:50.840
 he's saying.

00:57:51.420 --> 00:57:52.820
 My ways are not your ways.

00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:53.420
 My thoughts are not.

00:57:53.460 --> 00:57:54.099
 Isn't that amazing?

00:57:54.539 --> 00:57:54.659
 Yeah.

00:57:55.139 --> 00:57:56.900
 That's all from just paying attention to four.

00:57:58.179 --> 00:57:58.500
 Yeah.

00:57:58.500 --> 00:58:01.219
 So I even had somebody this week ask,

00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:05.280
 why would God forgive Jesus to die on the cross?

00:58:05.380 --> 00:58:10.639
 I never thought of the scripture because his thoughts in his ways are not my God.

00:58:10.820 --> 00:58:11.059
 Yeah.

00:58:11.139 --> 00:58:11.300
 Yeah.

00:58:11.460 --> 00:58:12.059
 That's right.

00:58:12.139 --> 00:58:13.000
 I never noticed that.

00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:13.400
 Yeah.

00:58:14.860 --> 00:58:15.940
 Isn't that so rewarding?

00:58:16.300 --> 00:58:16.679
 Mm-hmm.

00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:17.019
 Right?

00:58:18.099 --> 00:58:18.420
 Am I,

00:58:18.599 --> 00:58:19.300
 you guys with me?

00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:19.579
 Like,

00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:20.000
 it's like,

00:58:20.219 --> 00:58:20.400
 yeah.

00:58:22.019 --> 00:58:22.460
 All right.

00:58:22.460 --> 00:58:23.599
 Let's look at the other piece of paper.

00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:23.980
 Yeah.

00:58:26.219 --> 00:58:27.480
 We're going to try to put this together.

00:58:28.500 --> 00:58:31.360
 Let's look at the short one first.

00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:32.480
 Did someone just knock?

00:58:33.780 --> 00:58:33.960
 No.

00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:35.320
 That's my glass.

00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:35.500
 Oh,

00:58:35.579 --> 00:58:35.719
 okay.

00:58:35.940 --> 00:58:36.039
 Yeah.

00:58:36.139 --> 00:58:36.420
 Sorry.

00:58:41.739 --> 00:58:42.940
 First John 3,

00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:43.739
 16 to 20.

00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:45.019
 I already did the yesterday,

00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:46.599
 last week's work for you guys.

00:58:46.780 --> 00:58:49.719
 That's why you have an as the NASB translation inside of the,

00:58:49.860 --> 00:58:51.000
 instead of the ESP here.

00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:54.099
 So hopefully it'll help you to interpret this correctly.

00:58:55.360 --> 00:58:57.039
 This is the original NASB.

00:58:58.500 --> 00:58:59.320
 From like the seventies.

00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:00.380
 Uh,

00:59:00.380 --> 00:59:02.019
 so go ahead and go ahead and read that.

00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:04.400
 And then let's try to understand what this means.

00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:08.579
 It's a verse that's somewhat controverted in its,

00:59:08.579 --> 00:59:09.460
 in its interpretation.

00:59:10.019 --> 00:59:10.400
 Um,

00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:12.300
 people have debated it.

00:59:12.300 --> 00:59:13.300
 Um,

00:59:13.300 --> 00:59:25.480
 how are you guys doing?

00:59:27.060 --> 00:59:27.600
 It's good.

00:59:27.900 --> 00:59:28.380
 All right.

00:59:28.420 --> 00:59:28.720
 Let's,

00:59:28.780 --> 00:59:28.940
 uh,

00:59:28.940 --> 00:59:29.400
 share.

00:59:29.539 --> 00:59:30.519
 What are you guys observing?

00:59:30.680 --> 00:59:31.519
 What are you guys seeing?

00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:33.519
 What are you guys seeing?

00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:34.420
 What are you guys seeing?

00:59:34.420 --> 00:59:35.420
 What are you guys seeing?

00:59:35.420 --> 00:59:36.019
 What are you guys seeing?

00:59:36.019 --> 00:59:36.619
 What are you seeing?

00:59:36.619 --> 00:59:37.139
 What are you seeing?

00:59:37.139 --> 00:59:38.940
 The word knowing is part of a lot.

00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:39.980
 Mm-hmm.

00:59:40.380 --> 00:59:41.500
 To know something.

00:59:42.139 --> 00:59:42.360
 Mm-hmm.

00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:43.280
 To know is love.

00:59:44.780 --> 00:59:46.900
 And what is this that we're trying to know?

00:59:48.980 --> 00:59:49.460
 Truth.

00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:51.460
 That we are of the truth.

00:59:51.900 --> 00:59:52.119
 Right?

00:59:52.579 --> 00:59:52.900
 Uh,

00:59:52.900 --> 00:59:54.460
 do we really belong to God or not?

00:59:55.059 --> 00:59:56.719
 Can we have assurance of salvation?

00:59:57.820 --> 00:59:58.719
 Are we of the truth?

00:59:58.719 --> 00:59:59.819
 That's the question.

01:00:00.219 --> 01:00:00.539
 That's,

01:00:00.579 --> 01:00:01.599
 that's something we're trying to know.

01:00:01.759 --> 01:00:01.899
 Right?

01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:02.239
 Yeah.

01:00:02.699 --> 01:00:03.799
 What else do you guys see?

01:00:03.919 --> 01:00:04.039
 Yeah.

01:00:09.759 --> 01:00:12.299
 I think this translation is really interesting.

01:00:12.439 --> 01:00:14.359
 I've never looked at this passage in this translation,

01:00:14.539 --> 01:00:16.839
 so it's kind of bringing up things I've never seen.

01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:17.279
 Yeah.

01:00:17.279 --> 01:00:17.859
 But basically,

01:00:18.099 --> 01:00:18.219
 it's,

01:00:18.219 --> 01:00:19.980
 it's talking about the heart a lot.

01:00:20.219 --> 01:00:20.599
 Ah.

01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:21.519
 If,

01:00:21.839 --> 01:00:22.279
 if,

01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:23.799
 if you see somebody in me,

01:00:23.899 --> 01:00:24.299
 basically.

01:00:24.980 --> 01:00:25.419
 Yeah.

01:00:25.899 --> 01:00:27.099
 And you close your heart.

01:00:27.379 --> 01:00:27.779
 Ah.

01:00:27.780 --> 01:00:28.660
 And you don't have love.

01:00:28.740 --> 01:00:29.240
 How can,

01:00:29.600 --> 01:00:30.600
 how can you be of me?

01:00:30.640 --> 01:00:31.980
 Because I laid down my life.

01:00:32.220 --> 01:00:32.540
 Mm-hmm.

01:00:32.540 --> 01:00:33.800
 And you should be laying down your life.

01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:35.519
 And then it keeps saying that,

01:00:35.580 --> 01:00:35.640
 well,

01:00:35.640 --> 01:00:36.900
 set our heart at ease before him,

01:00:36.900 --> 01:00:38.200
 that if our heart condemns us,

01:00:38.300 --> 01:00:39.460
 that God is greater than our heart.

01:00:40.420 --> 01:00:40.720
 Beloved,

01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:42.100
 if our heart does not condemn us,

01:00:42.180 --> 01:00:43.300
 we have confidence before God.

01:00:43.380 --> 01:00:43.480
 Yeah.

01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:43.860
 So basically,

01:00:44.019 --> 01:00:44.400
 if you are,

01:00:44.720 --> 01:00:46.160
 you have love in your heart,

01:00:46.260 --> 01:00:47.760
 and you're showing that to people

01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:48.640
 and laying down your life,

01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:50.680
 then you kind of have assurance of salvation.

01:00:50.680 --> 01:00:50.900
 Yeah.

01:00:51.660 --> 01:00:52.240
 That's a,

01:00:52.300 --> 01:00:53.700
 that's a great observation.

01:00:54.120 --> 01:00:55.960
 And that's the benefit of having a,

01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:57.780
 word for word,

01:00:58.519 --> 01:00:59.099
 translations,

01:00:59.300 --> 01:01:00.920
 that it brings these kind of things to light.

01:01:01.420 --> 01:01:02.940
 Where in a thought for thought translation,

01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:03.920
 you're not going to see that.

01:01:04.059 --> 01:01:04.599
 Because it's not,

01:01:04.699 --> 01:01:06.000
 it's going to have a different word than a heart

01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:07.460
 for a number of these instances.

01:01:08.260 --> 01:01:09.440
 But there's a connection,

01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:09.840
 clearly.

01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:10.360
 Right?

01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:13.760
 If you close your heart toward your brother in need,

01:01:13.980 --> 01:01:14.860
 sister in need,

01:01:15.640 --> 01:01:19.360
 can your heart be at ease before God?

01:01:20.340 --> 01:01:21.440
 Will your heart condemn you?

01:01:24.019 --> 01:01:24.599
 That's the,

01:01:24.700 --> 01:01:25.000
 that's the,

01:01:25.140 --> 01:01:25.400
 that's,

01:01:25.460 --> 01:01:26.820
 that's what this is dealing with.

01:01:26.860 --> 01:01:27.320
 So the heart,

01:01:27.420 --> 01:01:30.120
 heart is definitely connected.

01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:30.559
 Right?

01:01:32.260 --> 01:01:33.500
 Anything else you guys noticed?

01:01:33.500 --> 01:01:38.059
 When he addresses them as,

01:01:38.260 --> 01:01:39.619
 his little children and beloved.

01:01:40.059 --> 01:01:40.420
 Hmm.

01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:41.159
 Hmm.

01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:43.159
 Gentle and relational.

01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:44.059
 Yeah.

01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:47.159
 That's John's favorite way of referring to the church.

01:01:47.820 --> 01:01:48.360
 Beloved.

01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:49.039
 Yeah.

01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:50.099
 Beloved.

01:01:50.500 --> 01:01:51.659
 The apostle of love.

01:01:52.820 --> 01:01:53.460
 It's,

01:01:53.460 --> 01:01:54.300
 it's very endearing.

01:01:54.559 --> 01:01:54.739
 Yeah.

01:01:54.739 --> 01:02:01.779
 In verse 18.

01:02:02.659 --> 01:02:02.919
 Yeah.

01:02:03.219 --> 01:02:05.839
 Let's not love with word or with tongue,

01:02:05.939 --> 01:02:06.759
 but in deed and truth.

01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:07.219
 Hmm.

01:02:07.339 --> 01:02:09.139
 I find it interesting because sometimes,

01:02:09.739 --> 01:02:14.319
 there's a preconception that word and tongue is deed as well.

01:02:14.319 --> 01:02:14.839
 Hmm.

01:02:14.839 --> 01:02:18.799
 But if they're contrasting the word and tongue with deed and truth.

01:02:19.119 --> 01:02:19.219
 Yeah.

01:02:19.219 --> 01:02:19.679
 And also,

01:02:20.099 --> 01:02:20.779
 I guess in,

01:02:20.779 --> 01:02:21.399
 in that sense,

01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:24.299
 John 1,

01:02:24.300 --> 01:02:24.780
 you know,

01:02:24.820 --> 01:02:26.700
 word was God who dwelt among us.

01:02:26.820 --> 01:02:27.700
 They're referring to Jesus.

01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:28.560
 And,

01:02:28.640 --> 01:02:29.920
 and Jesus is the life,

01:02:30.660 --> 01:02:31.100
 the way,

01:02:31.200 --> 01:02:31.560
 the way,

01:02:31.700 --> 01:02:32.340
 the truth and life.

01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:32.720
 Hmm.

01:02:33.039 --> 01:02:33.660
 But here,

01:02:33.840 --> 01:02:34.340
 the word,

01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:35.620
 our word,

01:02:35.680 --> 01:02:36.000
 I guess,

01:02:36.100 --> 01:02:37.519
 is contrasting with the truth.

01:02:37.740 --> 01:02:37.980
 Yeah.

01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:38.600
 Yeah.

01:02:38.740 --> 01:02:39.240
 It's the,

01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:42.780
 is there a passage that this reminds you of?

01:02:43.560 --> 01:02:46.480
 Not loving your brother or sister with just word or tongue,

01:02:46.580 --> 01:02:47.580
 but in deed and truth.

01:02:48.900 --> 01:02:49.300
 It's about,

01:02:50.140 --> 01:02:50.700
 James.

01:02:50.940 --> 01:02:51.300
 James.

01:02:51.300 --> 01:02:51.700
 James.

01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:52.240
 Right?

01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:54.260
 You see a brother coming in need,

01:02:54.300 --> 01:02:55.100
 and you tell them,

01:02:55.180 --> 01:02:55.280
 hey,

01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:56.140
 go and be well.

01:02:56.220 --> 01:02:57.180
 You speak good words to them,

01:02:57.200 --> 01:02:58.260
 but you do nothing to help them.

01:02:58.320 --> 01:02:58.820
 What have you done?

01:02:59.080 --> 01:02:59.220
 Right?

01:02:59.740 --> 01:03:00.700
 It's the exact same idea.

01:03:00.900 --> 01:03:01.080
 Yeah.

01:03:01.100 --> 01:03:05.200
 So contrasting the word and deed and truth from the word and tongue.

01:03:05.880 --> 01:03:06.080
 Yeah.

01:03:07.660 --> 01:03:10.440
 What does that mean there in verse 20?

01:03:11.100 --> 01:03:16.360
 Trying to connect it to what you were saying about using the word for and that.

01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:16.560
 Yeah.

01:03:18.080 --> 01:03:19.640
 That if our heart condemns us.

01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:21.019
 If our heart condemns us,

01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:23.059
 that God is greater than our heart,

01:03:23.259 --> 01:03:24.319
 and he knows all things.

01:03:24.319 --> 01:03:26.879
 That was kind of like a brain twister in there.

01:03:26.900 --> 01:03:31.019
 That's kind of the challenging verse that's often misinterpreted, right?

01:03:31.019 --> 01:03:33.480
 How have you guys seen,

01:03:33.579 --> 01:03:34.739
 how have you guys interpreted that?

01:03:34.739 --> 01:03:35.579
 Have you seen that interpreted?

01:03:35.739 --> 01:03:38.199
 What does it mean that when our heart condemns us,

01:03:38.659 --> 01:03:40.699
 that God's greater than our heart?

01:03:42.420 --> 01:03:43.179
 He knows all things.

01:03:43.219 --> 01:03:44.659
 What is John trying to tell us?

01:03:46.259 --> 01:03:48.119
 I don't know the connection there,

01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:51.340
 but I did go to the cross-reference of 1 Corinthians 4, 4 and 5,

01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:53.659
 that the Lord knows the counsels of our heart.

01:03:53.780 --> 01:03:54.659
 He does, yeah.

01:03:54.860 --> 01:03:55.099
 Yeah.

01:03:55.099 --> 01:03:56.739
 I don't know what that has to do with it.

01:03:56.739 --> 01:03:57.179
 Yeah.

01:03:57.379 --> 01:04:00.079
 Well, that for sure is explaining he knows all things.

01:04:00.279 --> 01:04:01.939
 So he's saying that God sees our hearts,

01:04:02.179 --> 01:04:03.439
 the secret things in our hearts.

01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:05.579
 And so what is verse 20?

01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:06.619
 How does it function mean?

01:04:07.159 --> 01:04:09.799
 What does it mean when our heart condemns us?

01:04:09.979 --> 01:04:11.500
 What's the application for us in terms of

01:04:11.500 --> 01:04:13.939
 you feel your heart condemning you?

01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:15.579
 And then John says,

01:04:15.699 --> 01:04:16.959
 God is greater than our heart.

01:04:17.059 --> 01:04:17.719
 He knows all things.

01:04:17.799 --> 01:04:18.500
 What is he trying to say?

01:04:18.899 --> 01:04:21.879
 I think it's saying that God knows

01:04:21.879 --> 01:04:23.379
 even the conditions of our heart,

01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:25.500
 so there's nothing you can hide from the Lord.

01:04:25.500 --> 01:04:28.219
 Like, if you even feel condemned,

01:04:28.500 --> 01:04:30.300
 like, then, of course,

01:04:30.420 --> 01:04:32.239
 like, God will know how you feel.

01:04:32.900 --> 01:04:34.900
 So it's like, yeah,

01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:36.940
 kind of like how David writes in his Psalms,

01:04:37.019 --> 01:04:38.239
 like, you know, search my heart.

01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:38.719
 Yeah.

01:04:38.719 --> 01:04:39.880
 Is there any, like,

01:04:40.619 --> 01:04:41.960
 not, like, basically saying,

01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:42.500
 Yeah.

01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:45.039
 Yeah.

01:04:45.139 --> 01:04:47.780
 So I think you're getting it right.

01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:51.380
 What's one way you can misinterpret this?

01:04:53.380 --> 01:04:55.099
 Have you guys seen this misinterpreted anyway?

01:04:55.500 --> 01:04:55.619
 Yeah.

01:04:55.900 --> 01:04:56.920
 Do you say that, like,

01:04:57.559 --> 01:04:58.900
 if our heart condemns us,

01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:01.539
 then it might actually be, like, deceiving us?

01:05:01.659 --> 01:05:02.079
 Yeah.

01:05:02.300 --> 01:05:03.599
 We actually don't have to listen to it.

01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:04.119
 Yes.

01:05:04.900 --> 01:05:06.079
 That's what a lot of people think.

01:05:07.139 --> 01:05:07.420
 Right?

01:05:07.480 --> 01:05:07.800
 Can you tell you that?

01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:08.519
 Yeah.

01:05:08.619 --> 01:05:10.059
 So a lot of people think,

01:05:10.260 --> 01:05:10.860
 in verse 20,

01:05:11.099 --> 01:05:12.199
 if our heart condemns us,

01:05:12.260 --> 01:05:13.239
 oh, don't listen to that.

01:05:13.480 --> 01:05:14.760
 God's greater than our hearts.

01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:15.940
 He knows.

01:05:16.019 --> 01:05:16.920
 He knows better than us.

01:05:17.019 --> 01:05:17.460
 Your heart condemns.

01:05:17.460 --> 01:05:18.380
 Don't listen to that.

01:05:18.699 --> 01:05:20.480
 Which sounds almost reformed, right?

01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:22.480
 Sounds like good gospel doctrine.

01:05:22.599 --> 01:05:23.840
 Don't let yourself be condemned.

01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:26.360
 And there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

01:05:26.539 --> 01:05:27.320
 Romans 8, 1, right?

01:05:27.579 --> 01:05:28.579
 So don't listen to that.

01:05:28.660 --> 01:05:29.180
 Listen to God.

01:05:29.240 --> 01:05:30.280
 He's greater than your heart.

01:05:30.860 --> 01:05:33.420
 But that's not what this passage is saying.

01:05:34.760 --> 01:05:35.160
 Right?

01:05:35.600 --> 01:05:36.000
 Why?

01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:36.740
 How do you know that?

01:05:38.740 --> 01:05:40.660
 Look at the structure of 20 and 21.

01:05:40.659 --> 01:05:49.759
 Part of the second clause is, like,

01:05:50.679 --> 01:05:52.940
 the last verse,

01:05:53.059 --> 01:05:54.299
 because we keep his commandments

01:05:54.299 --> 01:05:56.079
 and do things that are pleasing in his sight,

01:05:56.199 --> 01:05:58.319
 is attached to the second one,

01:05:58.539 --> 01:05:59.719
 as opposed to the first,

01:05:59.980 --> 01:06:00.619
 in verse 20,

01:06:00.859 --> 01:06:02.239
 that case.

01:06:03.199 --> 01:06:03.339
 Yeah.

01:06:03.340 --> 01:06:04.980
 And there's a parallel construction, right?

01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:05.880
 Between 20 and 21.

01:06:06.180 --> 01:06:08.039
 That's why I use the NASV and not the ESV,

01:06:08.120 --> 01:06:10.100
 because ESV obscures that parallel construction,

01:06:10.680 --> 01:06:11.640
 where it says in 20,

01:06:11.880 --> 01:06:13.680
 if our heart condemns us,

01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:16.440
 then God is greater than our hearts

01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:18.700
 and he knows all things.

01:06:19.340 --> 01:06:21.500
 If our heart does not condemn us,

01:06:21.579 --> 01:06:22.840
 we have confidence before God.

01:06:22.840 --> 01:06:26.320
 If our heart does not condemn us,

01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:27.940
 because we did not close our hearts

01:06:27.940 --> 01:06:29.440
 to our brothers and sisters in need,

01:06:29.980 --> 01:06:31.300
 then we can have,

01:06:31.500 --> 01:06:33.600
 we can set our heart at ease before him.

01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:34.740
 We know that we are of the truth

01:06:34.740 --> 01:06:36.120
 because we love our brothers and sisters.

01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:38.880
 We have confidence before God.

01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:41.120
 If our heart condemns us,

01:06:41.140 --> 01:06:42.620
 because you close your heart

01:06:42.620 --> 01:06:43.980
 to your brothers and sisters in need,

01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:46.820
 your own heart is condemning you,

01:06:47.180 --> 01:06:48.400
 and you don't even know

01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:49.880
 all the secrets of your own heart.

01:06:50.539 --> 01:06:51.920
 God who knows all things,

01:06:51.920 --> 01:06:53.400
 how can you pass his judgment?

01:06:54.680 --> 01:06:54.760
 Right?

01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:56.380
 So this is not a,

01:06:57.340 --> 01:06:58.700
 this is not Romans 8.1.

01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:01.880
 This is a totally different passage.

01:07:02.619 --> 01:07:02.740
 Right?

01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:06.079
 It's here to take away

01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:07.539
 false assurance and security

01:07:07.539 --> 01:07:08.900
 from people who are not actually

01:07:08.900 --> 01:07:09.740
 living by the word.

01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:13.340
 Whereas Romans 8.1 is there

01:07:13.340 --> 01:07:14.680
 to assure believers

01:07:14.680 --> 01:07:15.920
 who are walking by the word,

01:07:16.019 --> 01:07:18.059
 but yet have guilty conscience

01:07:18.059 --> 01:07:19.159
 and struggling with different things

01:07:19.159 --> 01:07:20.119
 that they need to be assured

01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:21.139
 that there's no condemnation

01:07:21.139 --> 01:07:22.079
 because of Christ Jesus.

01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:23.239
 Right?

01:07:25.239 --> 01:07:25.559
 Right?

01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:26.559
 Can you get seated?

01:07:26.619 --> 01:07:27.359
 You can do this.

01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:27.839
 This is,

01:07:28.019 --> 01:07:29.379
 this is all right there.

01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:30.599
 You guys can all do this on your own.

01:07:30.799 --> 01:07:30.960
 Yeah.

01:07:31.579 --> 01:07:31.759
 Right?

01:07:32.799 --> 01:07:33.359
 And then,

01:07:33.859 --> 01:07:34.759
 do we have time?

01:07:35.819 --> 01:07:36.519
 We don't have time.

01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:38.379
 Well,

01:07:39.500 --> 01:07:41.839
 you guys could try

01:07:41.839 --> 01:07:43.159
 1 Corinthians 13 on your own.

01:07:43.299 --> 01:07:43.659
 Yeah.

01:07:45.339 --> 01:07:46.519
 That would be good homework.

01:07:46.619 --> 01:07:47.359
 You guys could take it home

01:07:47.359 --> 01:07:47.920
 and do it with you.

01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:50.539
 A question that often people

01:07:50.539 --> 01:07:51.280
 will bring this is,

01:07:51.340 --> 01:07:52.180
 this is a key text

01:07:52.180 --> 01:07:53.360
 for the debate between

01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:55.180
 cessationism and continuationism.

01:07:57.680 --> 01:07:58.519
 Cessationists argue

01:07:58.519 --> 01:07:59.639
 that there's no,

01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:02.320
 that when the scriptures

01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:03.019
 were completed,

01:08:03.220 --> 01:08:04.420
 God's special revelation

01:08:04.420 --> 01:08:05.000
 was completed,

01:08:05.680 --> 01:08:07.740
 that prophecy ceased.

01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:10.220
 That this passage tells us

01:08:10.220 --> 01:08:10.920
 that they will cease

01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:11.960
 when the perfect comes

01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:12.720
 and the perfect came

01:08:12.720 --> 01:08:13.320
 in the scriptures.

01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:14.180
 And they complete.

01:08:14.179 --> 01:08:14.779
 So this is,

01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:16.019
 some cessation

01:08:16.019 --> 01:08:16.739
 will take a different

01:08:16.739 --> 01:08:17.500
 line of argument.

01:08:17.699 --> 01:08:18.920
 This was kind of historically

01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:19.699
 being the main one.

01:08:20.779 --> 01:08:22.779
 And the continuationists

01:08:22.779 --> 01:08:23.300
 argue that no,

01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:23.399
 no,

01:08:23.420 --> 01:08:23.859
 the spirits,

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 gifts,

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 prophecy,

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 tongues,

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 these things continue

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 to this day.

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 And this passage tells us that,

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 tells us why.

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 And I think if you do,

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 if you look at this text

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 and look at it again

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 and look at it again

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 like that fish

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 and you study it,

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 I think you will all

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 come out in one place.

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 And so this is,

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 so you guys could do that

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 as well.

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 Read it carefully,

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 see what's repeated,

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 see what's referenced,

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 see what's related,

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 and then see where you end up.

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 And then,

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 and then you can tell me

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 where you end up.

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 You can ask me questions

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 next week.

01:08:57.039 --> 01:08:57.479
 All right,

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 let me pray.

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 Father,

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 thank you for

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 your wondrous word.

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 Thank you that

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 you continue to speak,

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 that you are living

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 and your word

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 is living and active.

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 Thank you that it is

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 a double-edged sword.

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 It cuts through the marrow,

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 the bone,

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 the division of spirit

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 and soul.

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 You,

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 you,

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 you,

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 you search us

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 with your word.

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 You govern us

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 with your word.

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 Lord,

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 will you continue

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 by,

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 if your word,

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 to shape my brothers

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 and sisters,

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 shape us and build us up,

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 mature us

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 as your disciples,

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 as a church.

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 All for your glory,

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 Lord.

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 In Jesus' name we pray.

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 Amen.

01:09:37.340 --> 01:09:37.659
 Yeah.

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 Thanks, guys.

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 This time I knew

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 what time it was supposed

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 to end.

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 So,

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