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 All right, well, welcome, friends. It's good to see you.

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 Last week, we considered the context for any affirmation of the authority of Scripture.

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 How our cultural context is one deeply suspicious of any claims to authority.

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 Come on in, friends. Just in time.

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 Our cultural context is one deeply suspicious of any claims to authority.

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 But we also considered how the biblical context answers this cultural concern

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 by revealing how God exercises his authority as an instrument of holy good.

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 We explored how worthy Jesus is of our trust.

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 As one who has authority, one meek and lowly of heart.

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 One who came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom.

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 Now, this morning, we want to consider more specifically God's authority as it is invested and involved in the Scriptures, the Christian Scriptures.

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 Now, the authority of Scripture, the Christian Scriptures, at least in the West, since the Enlightenment,

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 has come under unprecedented and sustained attack.

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 And indeed, for many traditional believers, this stress of this onslaught has proved absolutely overwhelming.

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 And they found themselves, often to their great sorrow and confusion,

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 bereaved of their once firm and fundamental conviction as to the trustworthiness and authority of the Bible.

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 John Ruskin, the greatest theet, confided to a friend that he broke out into cold sweat

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 at the sound of every strike of the geologist's hammer.

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 For fear that it would uncover something that would rob him of some precious Bible truth.

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 A loss that Matthew Arnold's poem, Dover Beach, likens to a receding tide.

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 The sea of faith was once too at the full and round earth shore lay like the fold of a bright girdled furled.

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 But now I only hear its melancholy, long withdrawing roar,

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 retreating to the breath of the night wing down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world.

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 Now, for some of you here, the notion of doubt dealing difficulties with the Bible is completely alien.

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 Whatever could they mean, problems with the Bible?

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 God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.

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 If history or science or moral intuition seems to disagree with the scriptures,

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 so much the worse for history or science or moral intuition.

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 And indeed, perhaps, for some of you, the divine God-breathed character of the Bible

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 is reinforced every time you open its precious pages

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 and find in them the Savior you have come to love.

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 Its spiritual work of comfort and guidance and healing and succor is so deep and wonderful.

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 You could never doubt that the words of scripture are the very words of God.

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 But there are others in the Christian fold for whom their experience of the Bible

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 has raised many a question, some pressing.

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 Some pages of scripture are, for them, not obvious candidates for God's words.

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 These doubts, often agonizing, need not reflect infidelity.

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 They may come out of a context of faith and reflect something of Mary's query.

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 How can these things be?

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 And I want to direct my comments this morning chiefly to those among us

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 for whom these gnawing questions are a reality.

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 Who feel some difficulty in affirming the Bible in all of its parts as God's word

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 and as such divinely authoritative in all that it affirms.

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 And indeed, in all likelihood, largely inhabit a world in which such a conviction

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 is thought utterly implausible, ludicrous, even maybe morally reprehensible.

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 So I want to first suggest some lines of reflection,

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 which to my mind at least constitute strong grounds for maintaining the authority of the Bible,

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 even in the midst of persisting difficulties.

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 And our time will only allow me to be suggestive here, not exhaustive.

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 But I hope fruitfully to seed your own further reflections that they might have in them seminally

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 all that is needed for a harvest of strong conviction on this vital point.

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 So hopefully, then today, laying this foundation,

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 next week we'll take up the remaining sheer and stress on the structure,

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 the foundation that we've laid.

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 I will next week offer then some considerations,

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 which I hope will render any persistent problems a little bit less problematic.

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 How do we deal with the remaining doubt?

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 So that'll be next week, Lord willing, if we're there.

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 So let's begin with a word of prayer.

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 Father, as we take up this topic,

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 we especially crave the presence of your Holy Spirit,

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 both in your Spirit's clarifying work,

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 forming in us convictions,

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 and in his comforting work,

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 addressing our doubts and anxieties,

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 which can easily gnaw on our souls

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 and rob us of our joy.

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 So we ask for his presence,

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 confidently remembering your assurance

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 that it would indeed be so.

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 We commit our time to you.

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 In Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Okay, here we go, team.

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 So let's consider some grounds

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 for maintaining the authority of Scripture.

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 And we're dealing with

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 a wonderfully rich tapestry of warrant here.

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 And any number of strands could be explored.

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 We might take up the claims

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 that Scripture makes for itself

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 in reference to its truthfulness.

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 So for instance,

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 Psalm 119, verse 60 says,

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 the sum of your word is truth.

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 Notice, considering the whole collectively.

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 But then,

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 but then,

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 David goes on and states,

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 concerning its individual parts,

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 and every one of your righteous rules

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 endures forever.

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 Or Psalm 12, verse 6,

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 the words of the Lord are pure words,

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 like silver refined in a furnace,

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 purified seven times.

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 clearly,

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 clearly,

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 no dross or ore,

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 mingled,

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 making it unreliable.

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 It's a real potent image, isn't it?

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 Refined seven times over.

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 And in fact,

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 the Hebrew word translated here as pure

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 gives us another image.

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 For it was that Hebrew word,

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 tahor,

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 tahor,

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 I'm not good at Hebrew pronunciation.

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 It was used,

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 that was the word that was used

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 to communicate ritual purity,

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 as was required for the sacrificial lamb,

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 without spot or blemish.

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 That's what God's word is like.

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 Utterly free from any defect,

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 like that sacrificial spotless lamb.

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 And any attentive reader of the scriptures

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 will know that such claims

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 are just studded throughout the Bible

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 and could be multiplied effortlessly.

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 These are just two.

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 They're so commonplace.

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 So that would be one strand of argument,

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 just going through and looking at

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 what sort of claims the Bible makes for itself.

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 Some might plausibly object,

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 well, wait a minute,

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 isn't that circular?

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 Yeah, I mean,

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 we want to know if we can trust the Bible.

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 So we look at the Bible

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 and the Bible says,

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 yes, it's trustworthy.

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 You know, it's circular.

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 Well, yes, it is.

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 But anytime you're arguing

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 for your final authority,

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 you will either be circular

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 or you will be inconsistent.

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 Because if I'm arguing for my final authority

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 and say, well, the Bible's authoritative

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 and I'm,

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 well, why do you believe that?

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 If I say, well,

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 it seems to make sense,

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 it pragmatically works out,

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 well, then my ultimate authority

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 is pragmatism,

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 not the word.

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 So you're either going to be circular

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 when you're arguing

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 for your final authority

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 or you're going to be inconsistent.

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 Makes sense to me.

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 Well, then reason is your final authority.

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 So you got to do that.

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 So there's one line.

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 What does the Bible say about itself?

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 But another particularly compelling line of thought

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 explores the attitude of Jesus himself

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 toward the scriptures.

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 And this would make sense

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 that we would consider that

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 because as disciples of Jesus,

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 what it means to be a disciple

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 is to conform our views

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 to the ones that Jesus had.

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 our thoughts,

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 we want to conform to his mind

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 in all matters

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 so we would naturally act.

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 Well, what was his view

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 of scripture's authority?

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 Seeking to adopt that very view

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 as our own

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 if we're his disciples.

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 And we can get at that,

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 his view,

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 straightforwardly revealed

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 in his direct statements.

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 And there are plenty of them.

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 So, for example,

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 on the Sermon on the Mount,

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 Matthew 5.18,

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 he says,

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 truly I say to you,

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 truly,

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 again,

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 a solemn asserberation.

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 I'm really confident about this.

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 Truly I say to you,

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 until heaven and earth

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 pass away,

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 not the smallest

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 letter or stroke

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 shall pass away

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 from the law.

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 And by law,

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 Jesus is just using

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 common parlance

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 of the Hebrew culture

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 in his day.

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 Not pointing to just

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 one single little bit

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 of scripture,

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 the law of Moses,

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 but speaking of the whole thing

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 as they commonly did,

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 considering it

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 in its commanding form.

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 Indeed,

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 taking up this very topic

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 that we are taking up

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 in its authoritative

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 commanding form.

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 All of scripture

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 commands us

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 because it comes

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 with God's authority.

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 So not a jot

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 or a tittle.

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 That is,

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 not the least part

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 shall prove to be

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 less than of

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 abiding authority.

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 Or,

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 as he tersely states,

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 recorded in John 10.35,

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 scripture cannot

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 be broken.

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 That is,

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 it can never fail

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 in its judgments

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 and statements

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 and is incapable

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 of proving false.

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 Or again,

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 Matthew 22.29,

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 is telling.

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 Regarding the

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 much married wife

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 conundrum

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 expounded by the Sadducees.

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 Remember that?

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 Jesus simply says,

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 oh,

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 you err,

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 not knowing

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 the scriptures.

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 Remember that?

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 That is,

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 had you known

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 the scriptures,

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 you wouldn't have

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 made this mistake.

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 The assumption

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 is clear.

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 Scripture is

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 an infallible guide

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 to truth

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 in these matters.

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 And had you clung

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 to it,

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 well,

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 you would have

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 been right.

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 Satan in the,

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 Jesus in the wilderness.

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 Oh,

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 that's a good one.

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 Yeah,

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 yeah.

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 That's,

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 yeah,

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 I'll get to that

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 in just a moment.

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 That's,

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 I will remember

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 that one.

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 So,

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 summing up

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 his conviction,

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 Jesus states

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 in the course

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 of his high priestly

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 prayer,

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 addressing the Father,

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 your word

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 is truth.

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 John 17,

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 17.

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 So these,

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 some of his

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 direct statements,

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 but even if we did

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 not have these

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 explicit statements

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 of Jesus

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 on the scriptures

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 authority,

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 just his whole

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 manner

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 is decisively

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 telling

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 in its

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 implicit

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 presupposition.

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 Again,

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 if you're familiar

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 with the gospels,

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 you're aware

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 of this reality.

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 To settle

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 any controversy,

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 Jesus simply

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 quotes scripture

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 as decisively

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 authoritative

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 to settle the matter

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 as he does

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 in Matthew 19,

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 verse 4,

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 concerning divorce.

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 Oh,

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 here's a question

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 for you,

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 Jesus.

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 Oh,

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 have you not read?

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 This is what

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 the scripture says.

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 Boom.

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 End of issue.

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 As Jesus asserted,

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 and this is what

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 Raul just brought up,

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 Jesus asserted

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 against Satan

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 in the temptation,

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 Matthew 4,

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 4.

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 Man shall live

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 by every word

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 that proceeds

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 out of the mouth

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 of God.

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 And his practice

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 testifies

00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:53.379
 to his confidence

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 as to every word.

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 For Jesus

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 is quite comfortable

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 hanging his arguments,

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 letting them

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 turn entirely

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 on a single word

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 of scripture.

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 Even a single

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 tense

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 of a single

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 word

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 of scripture.

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 So,

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 for example,

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 we see this

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 in Matthew 22,

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 32.

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 Again,

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 taking up

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 with the Sadducees

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 on the matter

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 of the resurrection.

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 Remember that

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 where he says,

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 oh,

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 oh,

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 oh,

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 oh,

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 no,

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 no,

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 what do the scriptures

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 say?

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 I am

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 the God

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 of Abraham,

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 Isaac,

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 and Jacob.

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 In other words,

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 not I was their God

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 when they were alive.

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 I am

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 currently

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 their God.

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 In other words,

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 they are still

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 arrived.

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 God is still

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 their God

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 because they

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 are still alive.

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 Notice the whole

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 argument is just

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 on the tense

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 of that.

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 There's more

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 to the argument

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 to that,

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 but that's

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 a lot of it.

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 Not only

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 God is still

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 their God

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 because they

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 are still alive,

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 but they are

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 still alive

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 because God

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 is their God,

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 their personal God.

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 God is so

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 involved with them

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 intimately,

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 he can call them,

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 I am the God

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 of Abraham,

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 Isaac,

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 and Jacob.

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 I have a special

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 relationship,

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 an intimate

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 relationship with

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 them.

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 Therefore,

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 because that's

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 so,

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 it's impossible

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 to think that

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 they could just

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 die and go.

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 So that's part

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 of his argument,

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 but part of it

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 is just based

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 on the tense,

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 just the tense.

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 Recall his

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 remark in the

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 Sermon on the

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 Mount,

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 remember Matthew

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 5,

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 18,

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 authoritative

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 down to the

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 last stroke,

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 or in Hebrew

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 just jot or a

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 tittle,

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 the smallest

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 little,

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 he illustrates

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 his conviction

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 in reference

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 to Psalm 110

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 verse 1

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 where he

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 points out,

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 do you remember

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 that passage

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 when he's

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 dealing with

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 the Pharisees

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 and asking,

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 hey,

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 think about

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 who the

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 Messiah is.

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 And he

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 points out

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 that David

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 calls the

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 Messiah

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 Lord.

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 The Lord,

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 God the

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 Father,

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 said to

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 my Lord,

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 the Messiah,

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 sit at thy

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 right hand,

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 and so forth.

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 But it all

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 pivots on

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 just one

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 stroke that

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 makes it a

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 reference,

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 David's reference

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 to my

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 Lord in

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 that.

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 one stroke

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 would have

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 been a

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 little bit

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 longer,

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 would have

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 changed the

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 reference on

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 that.

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 So the

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 argument depends

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 on just

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 slightly

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 lengthening the

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 tiniest little

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 jot.

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 The argument

00:17:31.859 --> 00:17:32.539
 depends on a

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 single stroke of

00:17:33.159 --> 00:17:33.379
 scripture,

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 and Jesus

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 doesn't hesitate

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 to confidently

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 assert it.

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 So this is his

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 practice.

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 I'm supposed to be

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 talking about good

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 books on these

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 as I go along.

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 So one of

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 these is John

00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:45.740
 Wenham,

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 an English

00:17:46.539 --> 00:17:47.039
 scholar,

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 and the book

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 is called

00:17:48.360 --> 00:17:49.279
 Christ and the

00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:49.600
 Bible.

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 It's an old

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 book,

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 but I don't

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 think it's

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 been improved

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 upon.

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 It's fantastic.

00:17:53.940 --> 00:17:54.440
 I think it was

00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:55.220
 out in 72,

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 University Press,

00:17:57.580 --> 00:17:58.500
 John Wenham's

00:17:58.500 --> 00:17:59.279
 Christ and the

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 Bible.

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 So I think

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 these in

00:18:03.660 --> 00:18:04.380
 themselves,

00:18:05.299 --> 00:18:05.460
 one,

00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:06.380
 we've looked

00:18:06.380 --> 00:18:07.279
 at the claims

00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:07.940
 of scripture

00:18:07.940 --> 00:18:09.640
 that it makes

00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:10.400
 for itself,

00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:12.220
 and the

00:18:12.220 --> 00:18:12.940
 attitude of

00:18:12.940 --> 00:18:13.759
 Jesus himself

00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:14.240
 concerning

00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:14.780
 scripture,

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 I think those

00:18:16.320 --> 00:18:17.740
 constitute good

00:18:17.740 --> 00:18:18.720
 grounds for

00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:19.480
 affirming

00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:20.980
 scripture's

00:18:20.980 --> 00:18:21.440
 authority.

00:18:23.700 --> 00:18:24.480
 And these

00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:25.000
 lines of

00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:25.460
 argument are

00:18:25.460 --> 00:18:26.320
 commonly and

00:18:26.320 --> 00:18:27.200
 justly invoked

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 and rightly

00:18:27.840 --> 00:18:28.460
 part of an

00:18:28.460 --> 00:18:29.080
 argument's

00:18:29.080 --> 00:18:30.420
 stout weave,

00:18:30.660 --> 00:18:31.340
 stout weave.

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 But the

00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:33.840
 strand that I

00:18:33.840 --> 00:18:34.800
 want particularly

00:18:34.800 --> 00:18:35.620
 to take up

00:18:35.620 --> 00:18:37.340
 and reflect

00:18:37.340 --> 00:18:38.460
 upon with you,

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 we might call,

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 or I'm going

00:18:40.460 --> 00:18:40.879
 to call it

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 this,

00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:43.619
 the Trinitarian

00:18:43.619 --> 00:18:45.799
 ontology of

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 scripture.

00:18:46.899 --> 00:18:47.960
 The Trinitarian

00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:49.779
 ontology of

00:18:49.779 --> 00:18:50.139
 scripture.

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 That is,

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 I want to

00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:53.259
 explore the

00:18:53.259 --> 00:18:53.779
 question,

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 what are the

00:18:55.700 --> 00:18:56.720
 implications

00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:58.779
 for the

00:18:58.779 --> 00:19:00.039
 character of

00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:00.559
 scripture,

00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:02.200
 of the

00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:03.379
 involvement in

00:19:03.379 --> 00:19:04.480
 them of the

00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:04.939
 trinity,

00:19:05.700 --> 00:19:06.279
 Father,

00:19:06.539 --> 00:19:06.700
 Son,

00:19:06.740 --> 00:19:07.179
 and Spirit?

00:19:07.180 --> 00:19:08.660
 What are the

00:19:08.660 --> 00:19:09.480
 implications for

00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:10.100
 the characters

00:19:10.100 --> 00:19:11.160
 of scripture,

00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:12.680
 of the

00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:13.960
 involvement in

00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:15.120
 them of the

00:19:15.120 --> 00:19:15.759
 trinity,

00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:16.500
 Father,

00:19:16.660 --> 00:19:16.880
 Son,

00:19:17.460 --> 00:19:18.019
 and Spirit?

00:19:18.560 --> 00:19:20.600
 And while we

00:19:20.600 --> 00:19:21.360
 will consider all

00:19:21.360 --> 00:19:22.240
 three persons of

00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:22.580
 the trinity,

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 and we'll kind of

00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:23.720
 go through them

00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:24.820
 one at a time,

00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:26.340
 given, as we

00:19:26.340 --> 00:19:27.060
 know, the

00:19:27.060 --> 00:19:28.420
 intimate relations

00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:29.240
 within the

00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:30.060
 trinity, a

00:19:30.060 --> 00:19:31.740
 crisp parsing

00:19:31.740 --> 00:19:32.600
 out of their

00:19:32.600 --> 00:19:33.779
 various involvements

00:19:33.779 --> 00:19:34.299
 is a little

00:19:34.299 --> 00:19:34.899
 artificial,

00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:36.259
 because you

00:19:36.259 --> 00:19:36.720
 say, wow,

00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:37.579
 is that really

00:19:37.579 --> 00:19:38.079
 the father?

00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:39.079
 Is that really

00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:39.980
 the son?

00:19:42.299 --> 00:19:43.379
 After all,

00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:45.740
 any action of

00:19:45.740 --> 00:19:47.119
 one person of

00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:47.619
 the trinity

00:19:47.619 --> 00:19:49.079
 entails the

00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:50.460
 involvement of

00:19:50.460 --> 00:19:51.919
 all, what

00:19:51.919 --> 00:19:53.159
 theologians call

00:19:53.159 --> 00:19:56.099
 the perichoresis,

00:19:56.819 --> 00:19:58.019
 or it's a

00:19:58.019 --> 00:19:58.740
 Greek word kind

00:19:58.740 --> 00:19:59.960
 of for an

00:19:59.960 --> 00:20:01.480
 interwoven or

00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:02.240
 interlocking

00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:03.660
 dance of

00:20:03.660 --> 00:20:04.180
 the persons

00:20:04.180 --> 00:20:04.460
 of the

00:20:04.460 --> 00:20:04.740
 trinity,

00:20:05.099 --> 00:20:05.500
 peri,

00:20:05.579 --> 00:20:06.000
 around,

00:20:06.140 --> 00:20:06.579
 choresis,

00:20:06.740 --> 00:20:07.400
 a choreography,

00:20:07.980 --> 00:20:09.019
 kind of an

00:20:09.019 --> 00:20:10.420
 interwoven dance

00:20:10.420 --> 00:20:11.880
 of all the

00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:12.440
 persons of the

00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:13.160
 trinity together

00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:15.160
 in all of

00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:15.960
 their activities.

00:20:16.220 --> 00:20:16.660
 So a little

00:20:16.660 --> 00:20:16.900
 bit of

00:20:16.900 --> 00:20:17.779
 artificial to

00:20:17.779 --> 00:20:18.700
 separate them

00:20:18.700 --> 00:20:18.940
 out.

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 But anyway,

00:20:21.259 --> 00:20:21.640
 even if we

00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:22.240
 can't separate

00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:22.740
 them out for

00:20:22.740 --> 00:20:23.779
 our purpose as

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 to the

00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:25.720
 involvements in

00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:26.240
 scripture of

00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:26.720
 the persons of

00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:27.039
 the trinity,

00:20:27.380 --> 00:20:28.120
 what counts is

00:20:28.120 --> 00:20:28.519
 not the

00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:29.599
 distinctiveness of

00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:30.220
 their involvement,

00:20:30.460 --> 00:20:30.940
 but it's

00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:31.740
 decisiveness.

00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:32.839
 That's really

00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:33.180
 what the

00:20:33.180 --> 00:20:34.319
 argument is

00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:34.740
 going to be

00:20:34.740 --> 00:20:35.359
 based upon.

00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:36.920
 So let's

00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:37.620
 go into

00:20:37.620 --> 00:20:37.859
 that.

00:20:39.019 --> 00:20:39.500
 What about

00:20:39.500 --> 00:20:40.019
 the involvement

00:20:40.019 --> 00:20:40.299
 of the

00:20:40.299 --> 00:20:40.660
 father?

00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:44.480
 Let's go

00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:44.880
 back to the

00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:45.880
 beginning and

00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:47.359
 reflect upon

00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:48.779
 the relationship

00:20:48.779 --> 00:20:51.099
 between God's

00:20:51.099 --> 00:20:53.400
 person and

00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:54.359
 the words that

00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:55.480
 he speaks.

00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:57.519
 And scripture

00:20:57.519 --> 00:20:58.680
 indicates a

00:20:58.680 --> 00:20:59.960
 very close

00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:00.779
 relationship

00:21:00.779 --> 00:21:01.680
 between them.

00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:03.440
 Think back

00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:04.440
 of Eden

00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.160
 where God

00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:07.220
 establishes a

00:21:07.220 --> 00:21:07.859
 relationship

00:21:07.859 --> 00:21:09.059
 between himself

00:21:09.059 --> 00:21:09.640
 and Adam

00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:10.259
 and Eve

00:21:10.259 --> 00:21:12.299
 in part

00:21:12.299 --> 00:21:13.480
 by means

00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:13.799
 of a

00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:14.420
 command.

00:21:15.180 --> 00:21:15.559
 Remember?

00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:17.079
 Do not

00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:17.700
 eat from

00:21:17.700 --> 00:21:18.299
 the tree of

00:21:18.299 --> 00:21:18.819
 the knowledge

00:21:18.819 --> 00:21:19.440
 of good and

00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:19.859
 evil.

00:21:21.019 --> 00:21:21.819
 And when

00:21:21.819 --> 00:21:23.140
 they disobeyed

00:21:23.140 --> 00:21:24.519
 this verbal,

00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:25.339
 this spoken

00:21:25.339 --> 00:21:25.920
 command,

00:21:26.700 --> 00:21:27.960
 they fractured

00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:28.920
 their relationship

00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:30.039
 with God

00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:30.640
 himself.

00:21:32.900 --> 00:21:34.120
 When his

00:21:34.120 --> 00:21:35.160
 words are

00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:36.140
 set aside,

00:21:36.580 --> 00:21:37.900
 he himself

00:21:37.900 --> 00:21:39.400
 is set

00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:40.019
 aside.

00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:43.039
 This helps

00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:43.600
 us to see

00:21:43.600 --> 00:21:44.560
 how God

00:21:44.560 --> 00:21:45.740
 has invested

00:21:45.740 --> 00:21:48.060
 himself in

00:21:48.060 --> 00:21:49.200
 his words.

00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:51.140
 Indeed, in a

00:21:51.140 --> 00:21:52.000
 sense, he has

00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:53.820
 identified himself

00:21:53.820 --> 00:21:55.060
 with his

00:21:55.060 --> 00:21:55.840
 words.

00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:58.000
 whatever

00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.419
 somebody does

00:21:59.419 --> 00:22:00.579
 with God's

00:22:00.579 --> 00:22:02.259
 words, they

00:22:02.259 --> 00:22:03.419
 do to

00:22:03.419 --> 00:22:04.019
 God

00:22:04.019 --> 00:22:05.019
 himself.

00:22:06.779 --> 00:22:07.439
 And this

00:22:07.439 --> 00:22:08.699
 covenantal, I

00:22:08.699 --> 00:22:09.059
 think we could

00:22:09.059 --> 00:22:09.659
 call it a

00:22:09.659 --> 00:22:11.099
 covenantal pattern,

00:22:11.439 --> 00:22:12.559
 runs throughout

00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:13.119
 scripture.

00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:15.259
 And it is the

00:22:15.259 --> 00:22:16.720
 fundamental way

00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:18.159
 his redemptive

00:22:18.159 --> 00:22:19.639
 relationship with

00:22:19.639 --> 00:22:20.299
 his people

00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:22.240
 unfolds and

00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:22.919
 is expressed.

00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:25.560
 The reality

00:22:25.560 --> 00:22:26.080
 and nature

00:22:26.080 --> 00:22:26.940
 of our

00:22:26.940 --> 00:22:27.620
 relationship

00:22:27.620 --> 00:22:28.640
 with God

00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:30.039
 is determined

00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:30.720
 by the

00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:31.660
 reality and

00:22:31.660 --> 00:22:32.580
 nature of

00:22:32.580 --> 00:22:33.700
 our relationship

00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:34.840
 to the

00:22:34.840 --> 00:22:35.960
 words God

00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:36.880
 speaks.

00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:38.860
 Think of

00:22:38.860 --> 00:22:39.720
 the Ark of

00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:40.060
 Covenant

00:22:40.060 --> 00:22:41.160
 containing the

00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:42.120
 tablets of

00:22:42.120 --> 00:22:43.420
 his words

00:22:43.420 --> 00:22:44.720
 to us.

00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:47.080
 His words

00:22:47.080 --> 00:22:48.140
 were the

00:22:48.140 --> 00:22:49.420
 mode by

00:22:49.420 --> 00:22:50.000
 which he

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:50.940
 chose to be

00:22:50.940 --> 00:22:52.140
 present among

00:22:52.140 --> 00:22:53.000
 his people.

00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:56.000
 So God's

00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:56.380
 actions,

00:22:56.540 --> 00:22:57.800
 including verbal

00:22:57.800 --> 00:22:58.720
 actions, are

00:22:58.720 --> 00:22:59.160
 a kind of

00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:01.100
 extension of

00:23:01.100 --> 00:23:01.560
 himself.

00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:03.720
 To put

00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:05.820
 trust in

00:23:05.820 --> 00:23:06.520
 the covenant

00:23:06.520 --> 00:23:07.620
 words God

00:23:07.620 --> 00:23:08.360
 spoke to his

00:23:08.360 --> 00:23:09.720
 people was

00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:11.860
 to put trust

00:23:11.860 --> 00:23:12.620
 in God

00:23:12.620 --> 00:23:13.259
 himself.

00:23:15.500 --> 00:23:16.180
 So, and

00:23:16.180 --> 00:23:16.640
 think about

00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:16.900
 this,

00:23:17.300 --> 00:23:17.960
 communication

00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:19.860
 from God

00:23:19.859 --> 00:23:22.119
 is communion

00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:23.259
 with God

00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:24.519
 when met

00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:25.519
 with a

00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:26.259
 response of

00:23:26.259 --> 00:23:26.799
 trust.

00:23:27.719 --> 00:23:28.399
 Communication

00:23:28.399 --> 00:23:29.319
 from God

00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:30.119
 is communion

00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:30.819
 with God

00:23:30.819 --> 00:23:31.679
 when met

00:23:31.679 --> 00:23:32.439
 with a

00:23:32.439 --> 00:23:33.179
 response of

00:23:33.179 --> 00:23:33.699
 trust.

00:23:35.379 --> 00:23:36.179
 How we

00:23:36.179 --> 00:23:36.699
 might wonder,

00:23:36.819 --> 00:23:37.399
 did God

00:23:37.399 --> 00:23:38.019
 speak to

00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:38.419
 Adam and

00:23:38.419 --> 00:23:38.899
 Eve in the

00:23:38.899 --> 00:23:39.779
 garden or

00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:40.219
 to his

00:23:40.219 --> 00:23:40.599
 people,

00:23:40.719 --> 00:23:41.039
 Abraham,

00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:41.599
 Isaac,

00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:42.119
 Jacob,

00:23:42.479 --> 00:23:42.799
 Moses?

00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:43.720
 Well, we're

00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:44.419
 not told

00:23:44.419 --> 00:23:46.980
 how, but

00:23:46.980 --> 00:23:47.519
 as the

00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:48.159
 Old Testament

00:23:48.159 --> 00:23:50.339
 unfolds, one

00:23:50.339 --> 00:23:51.279
 form of

00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:52.539
 divine speaking

00:23:52.539 --> 00:23:53.700
 does emerge

00:23:53.700 --> 00:23:54.440
 as prominent.

00:23:55.819 --> 00:23:57.359
 God's speech

00:23:57.359 --> 00:23:57.859
 through his

00:23:57.859 --> 00:23:58.399
 appointed

00:23:58.399 --> 00:24:00.440
 prophets in

00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:01.299
 words that

00:24:01.299 --> 00:24:03.039
 they utter in

00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:04.659
 ordinary human

00:24:04.659 --> 00:24:05.460
 language.

00:24:06.339 --> 00:24:06.919
 And the

00:24:06.919 --> 00:24:07.759
 Bible gives

00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:08.359
 no worked

00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:09.220
 out theology

00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:10.119
 or philosophical

00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:10.720
 account.

00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:11.220
 we could

00:24:11.220 --> 00:24:11.779
 put some

00:24:11.779 --> 00:24:12.240
 together,

00:24:12.500 --> 00:24:13.000
 and some

00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:13.339
 have done

00:24:13.339 --> 00:24:13.680
 so,

00:24:14.180 --> 00:24:16.220
 of how

00:24:16.220 --> 00:24:18.200
 human words

00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:19.140
 can be

00:24:19.140 --> 00:24:19.700
 said to

00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:20.420
 be God's

00:24:20.420 --> 00:24:21.039
 words.

00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:22.640
 There's no

00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:23.380
 clear

00:24:23.380 --> 00:24:24.220
 philosophical

00:24:24.220 --> 00:24:24.980
 account for

00:24:24.980 --> 00:24:25.519
 that in

00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:26.079
 Scripture.

00:24:28.140 --> 00:24:29.360
 But it

00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:30.319
 does hint

00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:31.259
 as to how

00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:31.740
 it might

00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:32.079
 be.

00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:34.740
 It is

00:24:34.740 --> 00:24:35.259
 interesting,

00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:35.900
 and I

00:24:35.900 --> 00:24:36.920
 think significant,

00:24:37.380 --> 00:24:37.839
 that when

00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:38.759
 the Bible

00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:40.119
 speaks of

00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:41.319
 God creating

00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:42.419
 mankind in

00:24:42.419 --> 00:24:43.339
 his image

00:24:43.339 --> 00:24:44.720
 and likeness.

00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:46.439
 Though we're

00:24:46.439 --> 00:24:46.899
 not told

00:24:46.899 --> 00:24:47.859
 exactly what

00:24:47.859 --> 00:24:48.579
 this means

00:24:48.579 --> 00:24:49.199
 by being

00:24:49.199 --> 00:24:49.679
 created in

00:24:49.679 --> 00:24:50.099
 his image

00:24:50.099 --> 00:24:50.759
 and likeness.

00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:52.919
 We have,

00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:53.459
 remember,

00:24:54.139 --> 00:24:54.639
 we have

00:24:54.639 --> 00:24:56.439
 God speaking,

00:24:57.459 --> 00:24:58.439
 let us

00:24:58.439 --> 00:24:59.319
 make mankind

00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:00.259
 in our own

00:25:00.259 --> 00:25:00.799
 image.

00:25:01.299 --> 00:25:01.980
 Then,

00:25:02.419 --> 00:25:04.000
 he fashions

00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:04.500
 mankind

00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:05.779
 in his

00:25:05.779 --> 00:25:06.399
 likeness,

00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:07.460
 and then

00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:08.440
 immediately

00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:09.380
 addresses

00:25:09.380 --> 00:25:10.300
 them in

00:25:10.300 --> 00:25:11.240
 speech.

00:25:13.420 --> 00:25:14.340
 Could not

00:25:14.340 --> 00:25:15.060
 God's image

00:25:15.060 --> 00:25:15.680
 and likeness

00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:16.940
 then include

00:25:16.940 --> 00:25:18.180
 a capacity

00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:19.640
 for complex

00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:20.820
 language

00:25:20.820 --> 00:25:22.460
 reflecting

00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:23.400
 God's own

00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:24.019
 character?

00:25:25.980 --> 00:25:26.780
 Though I

00:25:26.780 --> 00:25:27.320
 don't think

00:25:27.320 --> 00:25:27.880
 that the

00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:28.259
 image of

00:25:28.259 --> 00:25:28.920
 God is

00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:30.140
 exhaustively

00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:30.700
 this,

00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:31.519
 it's more

00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:32.019
 than just

00:25:32.019 --> 00:25:32.460
 that,

00:25:33.280 --> 00:25:33.580
 it,

00:25:33.780 --> 00:25:34.259
 I think,

00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:35.240
 includes

00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:35.799
 this.

00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:37.059
 It is

00:25:37.059 --> 00:25:38.640
 this capacity

00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:39.920
 for complex

00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:40.740
 language.

00:25:41.019 --> 00:25:41.700
 That's part

00:25:41.700 --> 00:25:42.259
 of God's

00:25:42.259 --> 00:25:42.859
 image in

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:43.240
 us.

00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:44.620
 And if

00:25:44.620 --> 00:25:45.299
 so,

00:25:46.299 --> 00:25:47.819
 that language

00:25:47.819 --> 00:25:48.880
 is a

00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:50.579
 divine gift

00:25:50.579 --> 00:25:51.440
 from God,

00:25:52.099 --> 00:25:53.620
 then it

00:25:53.620 --> 00:25:54.359
 is a

00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:55.059
 point of

00:25:55.059 --> 00:25:56.259
 contact,

00:25:57.019 --> 00:25:58.180
 not a

00:25:58.180 --> 00:25:58.640
 chasm

00:25:58.640 --> 00:25:59.799
 between

00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:01.420
 the human

00:26:01.420 --> 00:26:01.720
 and the

00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:02.099
 divine.

00:26:02.099 --> 00:26:03.419
 God's

00:26:03.419 --> 00:26:03.939
 mind.

00:26:03.939 --> 00:26:06.459
 And this

00:26:06.459 --> 00:26:07.959
 is where I

00:26:07.959 --> 00:26:08.240
 think a

00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:08.759
 lot of

00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:08.839
 people get

00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:09.459
 this wrong.

00:26:10.459 --> 00:26:10.619
 Well,

00:26:10.819 --> 00:26:11.899
 our language

00:26:11.899 --> 00:26:12.740
 is human

00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:14.339
 and how

00:26:14.339 --> 00:26:15.679
 could human

00:26:15.679 --> 00:26:17.039
 language actually

00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:18.059
 ever be a

00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:18.399
 point of

00:26:18.399 --> 00:26:19.019
 contact with

00:26:19.019 --> 00:26:19.459
 the divine,

00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:20.500
 the transcendent?

00:26:20.779 --> 00:26:21.219
 How could it

00:26:21.219 --> 00:26:21.359
 be?

00:26:21.659 --> 00:26:21.839
 Well,

00:26:22.619 --> 00:26:22.919
 what if

00:26:22.919 --> 00:26:24.000
 actually our

00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:25.019
 language capacity

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:26.099
 is a gift

00:26:26.099 --> 00:26:26.759
 of God,

00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:27.919
 an endowment?

00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:29.480
 And that's

00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:29.740
 what it

00:26:29.740 --> 00:26:30.180
 seems to

00:26:30.180 --> 00:26:30.420
 be.

00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:31.100
 Then it

00:26:31.100 --> 00:26:31.460
 would be a

00:26:31.460 --> 00:26:31.740
 point of

00:26:31.740 --> 00:26:32.360
 contact,

00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:33.060
 not a

00:26:33.060 --> 00:26:33.380
 chasm

00:26:33.380 --> 00:26:34.180
 between us.

00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:36.519
 Our

00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:37.660
 language can

00:26:37.660 --> 00:26:38.160
 be made

00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:38.860
 by God

00:26:38.860 --> 00:26:39.800
 to speak

00:26:39.800 --> 00:26:40.600
 truthfully

00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:40.980
 of Him

00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:41.480
 because

00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:43.200
 our

00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:43.880
 language

00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:44.700
 has its

00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:45.279
 origin

00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:46.240
 in Him

00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:47.440
 and

00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.620
 in ways

00:26:48.620 --> 00:26:49.300
 requisite

00:26:49.300 --> 00:26:49.500
 for

00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:50.200
 communication

00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:51.480
 is like

00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:52.500
 His own.

00:26:54.840 --> 00:26:55.300
 So,

00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:55.860
 throughout

00:26:55.860 --> 00:26:56.279
 Scripture,

00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:57.019
 we see

00:26:57.019 --> 00:27:01.440
 Scripture

00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:02.480
 presented as

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:03.359
 God's

00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:03.720
 Word.

00:27:04.879 --> 00:27:05.700
 It is

00:27:05.700 --> 00:27:06.660
 divine

00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:07.339
 rhetoric.

00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:09.200
 And not

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:10.139
 only that

00:27:10.139 --> 00:27:11.399
 portion in

00:27:11.399 --> 00:27:12.000
 which His

00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:12.859
 very finger,

00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:13.680
 we are told,

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:15.059
 inscribed the

00:27:15.059 --> 00:27:15.660
 words upon

00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:16.559
 stone tablets,

00:27:16.819 --> 00:27:17.740
 but also,

00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:18.519
 as mentioned,

00:27:18.819 --> 00:27:19.500
 the prophetic

00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:20.539
 word, the

00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:21.660
 words that the

00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:22.799
 prophets speak

00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:23.779
 are divine

00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:24.259
 rhetoric.

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:25.799
 As a

00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:26.319
 test by

00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:26.819
 the

00:27:26.819 --> 00:27:27.359
 repeated

00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:28.059
 refrain

00:27:28.059 --> 00:27:28.460
 that we

00:27:28.460 --> 00:27:29.259
 see again

00:27:29.259 --> 00:27:29.759
 and again,

00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:30.639
 and the

00:27:30.639 --> 00:27:31.059
 word of

00:27:31.059 --> 00:27:31.559
 the Lord

00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:32.460
 came to

00:27:32.460 --> 00:27:33.379
 Amos,

00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:34.000
 and the

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:34.299
 word of

00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:34.639
 the Lord

00:27:34.639 --> 00:27:35.339
 came to

00:27:35.339 --> 00:27:35.779
 Jeremiah,

00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:36.259
 and the

00:27:36.259 --> 00:27:36.519
 word of

00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:36.779
 the Lord

00:27:36.779 --> 00:27:37.299
 came to

00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:38.039
 again and

00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:38.379
 again and

00:27:38.379 --> 00:27:38.680
 again.

00:27:39.899 --> 00:27:40.700
 And this

00:27:40.700 --> 00:27:41.359
 is true

00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:42.839
 whatever

00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:43.619
 genre

00:27:43.619 --> 00:27:44.779
 happened to

00:27:44.779 --> 00:27:45.279
 be the

00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:45.740
 prophet's

00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:46.099
 medium.

00:27:46.579 --> 00:27:47.019
 Sometimes

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:47.559
 poetry,

00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:48.299
 sometimes

00:27:48.299 --> 00:27:49.000
 song,

00:27:49.159 --> 00:27:49.519
 narrative,

00:27:49.740 --> 00:27:50.379
 apocalyptic.

00:27:50.879 --> 00:27:51.599
 It's all

00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:52.579
 the word of

00:27:52.579 --> 00:27:53.000
 the Lord

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:54.319
 coming to

00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:54.839
 the prophet.

00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:54.879
 prophet.

00:27:55.419 --> 00:27:55.799
 As

00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:56.779
 Hebrews 1.1

00:27:56.779 --> 00:27:57.519
 tells us,

00:27:58.199 --> 00:27:59.259
 God spoke

00:27:59.259 --> 00:27:59.939
 in the

00:27:59.939 --> 00:28:00.480
 prophets

00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:02.379
 in many

00:28:02.379 --> 00:28:03.019
 portions

00:28:03.019 --> 00:28:03.519
 and in

00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:04.639
 many ways,

00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:05.319
 but it's

00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:05.939
 still all

00:28:05.939 --> 00:28:06.379
 God

00:28:06.379 --> 00:28:07.279
 speaking

00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:08.379
 in these

00:28:08.379 --> 00:28:09.079
 many ways.

00:28:11.019 --> 00:28:11.699
 Continuing

00:28:11.699 --> 00:28:12.279
 with the

00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:13.000
 involvement of

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:13.439
 the Father,

00:28:13.899 --> 00:28:14.899
 in 2 Timothy

00:28:14.899 --> 00:28:15.899
 3.16,

00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:18.240
 Paul

00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:19.179
 describes

00:28:19.179 --> 00:28:20.139
 the relation

00:28:20.139 --> 00:28:20.500
 of the

00:28:20.500 --> 00:28:21.139
 Father to

00:28:21.139 --> 00:28:21.619
 Scripture

00:28:21.619 --> 00:28:22.419
 as one

00:28:22.419 --> 00:28:22.579
 of

00:28:22.579 --> 00:28:23.299
 literally

00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:24.559
 breathing

00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:25.519
 out

00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:25.959
 the

00:28:25.959 --> 00:28:26.399
 Scriptures.

00:28:27.179 --> 00:28:27.959
 Breathing

00:28:27.959 --> 00:28:28.219
 them

00:28:28.219 --> 00:28:28.719
 out.

00:28:29.419 --> 00:28:29.719
 All

00:28:29.719 --> 00:28:30.119
 Scripture

00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:30.459
 is

00:28:30.459 --> 00:28:31.199
 inspired

00:28:31.199 --> 00:28:31.739
 by God

00:28:31.739 --> 00:28:32.000
 and is

00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:32.419
 profitable

00:28:32.419 --> 00:28:32.899
 for and

00:28:32.899 --> 00:28:33.119
 on and

00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:33.339
 on it

00:28:33.339 --> 00:28:33.500
 goes.

00:28:33.879 --> 00:28:34.259
 And our

00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:35.000
 English

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:36.559
 rendering

00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:36.879
 there

00:28:36.879 --> 00:28:38.500
 inspired

00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:39.919
 doesn't

00:28:39.919 --> 00:28:40.500
 really do

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.039
 a great

00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:41.439
 job

00:28:41.439 --> 00:28:42.099
 translating

00:28:42.099 --> 00:28:42.559
 the

00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.559
 Greek

00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:44.459
 on this

00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:45.340
 because

00:28:45.340 --> 00:28:45.559
 you think

00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:46.059
 Shakespeare

00:28:46.059 --> 00:28:46.380
 is

00:28:46.380 --> 00:28:46.960
 inspired

00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:47.360
 or that

00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:47.680
 was an

00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.259
 inspiring

00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:48.900
 dessert.

00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:50.700
 But

00:28:50.700 --> 00:28:52.299
 literally

00:28:52.299 --> 00:28:52.740
 the word

00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:54.360
 theonoustos

00:28:54.360 --> 00:28:55.160
 literally

00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:56.079
 God

00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:57.299
 breathed.

00:28:58.240 --> 00:28:58.460
 So the

00:28:58.460 --> 00:28:58.700
 word,

00:28:58.840 --> 00:28:59.240
 the Scripture

00:28:59.240 --> 00:28:59.799
 is actually

00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:01.519
 exhaled

00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:02.360
 by God.

00:29:06.360 --> 00:29:07.640
 A lot

00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:07.940
 has been

00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:08.340
 written on

00:29:08.340 --> 00:29:08.600
 this.

00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:09.559
 Excuse me.

00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:11.180
 B.B.

00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:11.920
 Warfield

00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:12.660
 has done

00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:13.240
 extensive

00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:14.039
 work on

00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:14.340
 that.

00:29:14.460 --> 00:29:14.840
 In a

00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:15.299
 work called

00:29:15.299 --> 00:29:15.440
 The

00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:16.000
 Inspiration

00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:16.180
 and

00:29:16.180 --> 00:29:16.500
 Authority

00:29:16.500 --> 00:29:16.680
 of

00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:17.039
 Scripture

00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:17.880
 is

00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:18.519
 fantastic.

00:29:20.860 --> 00:29:21.200
 This

00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.079
 Swiss

00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:23.380
 scholar

00:29:23.380 --> 00:29:23.980
 Gausen.

00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:26.259
 And then

00:29:26.259 --> 00:29:26.640
 notice

00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:27.579
 all

00:29:27.579 --> 00:29:28.079
 Scripture

00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:28.559
 or

00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:29.259
 every

00:29:29.259 --> 00:29:29.759
 Scripture

00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:30.600
 could be

00:29:30.600 --> 00:29:30.880
 rendered

00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:31.279
 anyway

00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:31.680
 but it

00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:31.920
 doesn't

00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:32.079
 really

00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:32.319
 make

00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:32.940
 much

00:29:32.940 --> 00:29:33.120
 of a

00:29:33.120 --> 00:29:33.400
 difference.

00:29:33.600 --> 00:29:33.819
 All

00:29:33.819 --> 00:29:34.259
 involves

00:29:34.259 --> 00:29:34.680
 every

00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:37.279
 because

00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:37.840
 it is

00:29:37.840 --> 00:29:38.920
 all

00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:39.779
 inspired

00:29:39.779 --> 00:29:41.779
 not

00:29:41.779 --> 00:29:42.160
 just

00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:42.480
 the

00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:42.759
 bits

00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:42.960
 that

00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:43.299
 come

00:29:43.299 --> 00:29:43.720
 down

00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:44.220
 in

00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:44.819
 reported

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:45.660
 speech

00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:46.420
 of the

00:29:46.420 --> 00:29:46.779
 Father.

00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:47.180
 The

00:29:47.180 --> 00:29:47.380
 bits

00:29:47.380 --> 00:29:47.559
 in

00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:48.220
 quotes

00:29:48.220 --> 00:29:48.799
 so to

00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:49.180
 speak.

00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:49.920
 Finger

00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:50.299
 on the

00:29:50.299 --> 00:29:50.559
 wall

00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:51.059
 many

00:29:51.059 --> 00:29:51.259
 many

00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:52.079
 you

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:52.240
 have

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:52.400
 been

00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:52.620
 weighed

00:29:52.620 --> 00:29:52.819
 in the

00:29:52.819 --> 00:29:53.200
 balances

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:53.700
 and found

00:29:53.700 --> 00:29:54.120
 wanting

00:29:54.120 --> 00:29:55.180
 or the

00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:55.500
 voice

00:29:55.500 --> 00:29:55.759
 from

00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:56.059
 heaven

00:29:56.059 --> 00:29:56.740
 this

00:29:56.740 --> 00:29:57.140
 is my

00:29:57.140 --> 00:29:57.440
 beloved

00:29:57.440 --> 00:29:57.799
 son

00:29:57.799 --> 00:29:58.079
 in whom

00:29:58.079 --> 00:29:58.319
 I am

00:29:58.319 --> 00:29:58.460
 well

00:29:58.460 --> 00:29:58.660
 pleased.

00:29:58.660 --> 00:29:58.819
 We

00:29:58.819 --> 00:29:58.960
 might

00:29:58.960 --> 00:29:59.259
 call the

00:29:59.259 --> 00:29:59.660
 quotation

00:29:59.660 --> 00:29:59.920
 mark

00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:00.120
 bits

00:30:00.120 --> 00:30:00.680
 not

00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:01.000
 just

00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:01.360
 that

00:30:01.360 --> 00:30:01.500
 but

00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:01.759
 because

00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:01.940
 it's

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:02.180
 all

00:30:02.180 --> 00:30:03.279
 expired

00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:03.579
 from

00:30:03.579 --> 00:30:03.879
 God

00:30:03.879 --> 00:30:05.139
 everything

00:30:05.139 --> 00:30:07.160
 it is

00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:07.759
 all

00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:08.859
 invested

00:30:08.859 --> 00:30:09.139
 with

00:30:09.139 --> 00:30:09.519
 God's

00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:10.000
 authority

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:11.879
 and

00:30:11.879 --> 00:30:12.079
 this

00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:12.899
 conviction

00:30:12.899 --> 00:30:14.399
 Jesus

00:30:14.399 --> 00:30:15.039
 reflects

00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:15.639
 when

00:30:15.639 --> 00:30:16.480
 citing

00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:17.299
 bits

00:30:17.299 --> 00:30:17.779
 of

00:30:17.779 --> 00:30:18.480
 scripture

00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:19.299
 that are

00:30:19.299 --> 00:30:19.680
 actually

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:20.099
 not

00:30:20.099 --> 00:30:20.279
 in

00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:20.720
 quotation

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:21.259
 marks

00:30:21.259 --> 00:30:22.399
 even

00:30:22.399 --> 00:30:22.680
 though

00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:22.899
 it's

00:30:22.899 --> 00:30:23.079
 not

00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:23.519
 reported

00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:23.980
 speech

00:30:23.980 --> 00:30:24.160
 of

00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:24.619
 God

00:30:24.619 --> 00:30:25.700
 Jesus

00:30:25.700 --> 00:30:26.299
 says

00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:27.019
 well

00:30:27.019 --> 00:30:27.359
 just

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:27.660
 quoting

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:27.839
 any

00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:27.980
 bit

00:30:27.980 --> 00:30:28.099
 of

00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:28.399
 scripture

00:30:28.399 --> 00:30:29.079
 as

00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:29.480
 God

00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:30.139
 says

00:30:30.140 --> 00:30:31.560
 so

00:30:31.560 --> 00:30:31.740
 for

00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:32.140
 example

00:30:32.140 --> 00:30:32.380
 in

00:30:32.380 --> 00:30:33.140
 Matthew

00:30:33.140 --> 00:30:33.640
 19

00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:33.960
 when

00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:34.100
 he's

00:30:34.100 --> 00:30:34.320
 taking

00:30:34.320 --> 00:30:34.500
 up

00:30:34.500 --> 00:30:34.640
 the

00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:34.960
 question

00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:35.100
 of

00:30:35.100 --> 00:30:35.620
 divorce

00:30:35.620 --> 00:30:36.620
 he

00:30:36.620 --> 00:30:36.900
 says

00:30:36.900 --> 00:30:37.280
 well

00:30:37.280 --> 00:30:38.240
 God

00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:38.900
 says

00:30:38.900 --> 00:30:39.980
 and

00:30:39.980 --> 00:30:40.100
 then

00:30:40.100 --> 00:30:40.240
 he

00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:40.560
 quotes

00:30:40.560 --> 00:30:40.800
 a little

00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:41.000
 bit

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:41.200
 that's

00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:41.520
 actually

00:30:41.520 --> 00:30:41.960
 Moses

00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:42.560
 speaking

00:30:42.560 --> 00:30:43.980
 but

00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:44.240
 in

00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:44.540
 Jesus

00:30:44.540 --> 00:30:45.120
 mind

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:45.740
 it's

00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:46.200
 scripture

00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:46.960
 even

00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:47.140
 though

00:30:47.140 --> 00:30:47.460
 Moses

00:30:47.460 --> 00:30:47.720
 is

00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:48.020
 saying

00:30:48.020 --> 00:30:48.200
 it

00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:48.440
 so

00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:49.120
 God

00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:49.460
 says

00:30:49.460 --> 00:30:49.740
 it

00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:50.800
 God

00:30:50.800 --> 00:30:51.080
 says

00:30:51.080 --> 00:30:51.320
 it

00:30:51.320 --> 00:30:52.960
 man

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.200
 shall

00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:53.759
 leave

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:54.080
 and

00:30:54.080 --> 00:30:54.500
 cleave

00:30:54.500 --> 00:30:54.640
 and

00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:54.759
 the

00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:54.900
 two

00:30:54.900 --> 00:30:55.060
 shall

00:30:55.060 --> 00:30:55.320
 become

00:30:55.320 --> 00:30:55.520
 one

00:30:55.520 --> 00:30:55.880
 flesh

00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:56.300
 as

00:30:56.300 --> 00:30:56.620
 God

00:30:56.620 --> 00:30:56.980
 says

00:30:56.980 --> 00:30:57.340
 it's

00:30:57.340 --> 00:30:57.540
 actually

00:30:57.540 --> 00:30:57.880
 Moses

00:30:57.880 --> 00:30:58.120
 but

00:30:58.120 --> 00:30:58.680
 God

00:30:58.680 --> 00:30:59.080
 says

00:30:59.080 --> 00:30:59.460
 it's

00:30:59.460 --> 00:30:59.960
 it's

00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:00.720
 expired

00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:01.019
 by

00:31:01.019 --> 00:31:01.380
 God

00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:03.539
 this

00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:04.220
 relation

00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:04.480
 of the

00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:04.860
 father

00:31:04.860 --> 00:31:05.079
 to

00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:05.460
 scripture

00:31:05.460 --> 00:31:06.720
 is

00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:06.900
 true

00:31:06.900 --> 00:31:07.140
 not

00:31:07.140 --> 00:31:07.860
 simply

00:31:07.860 --> 00:31:08.220
 of the

00:31:08.220 --> 00:31:08.460
 Old

00:31:08.460 --> 00:31:08.900
 Testament

00:31:08.900 --> 00:31:10.140
 prophetic

00:31:10.140 --> 00:31:10.840
 voice

00:31:10.840 --> 00:31:11.500
 but

00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:11.980
 also

00:31:11.980 --> 00:31:12.480
 of the

00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:12.680
 New

00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:13.079
 Testament

00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:14.180
 apostolic

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 voice

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 for

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 they

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 also

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 spoke

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 under

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 the

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 same

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 divine

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 inspiration

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 thus

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 their

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 words

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 too

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 were

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 and

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 are

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 the

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 words

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 of

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 the

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 father

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 as

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 the

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 apostle

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 told

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 the

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 Thessalonians

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 this is

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 1st

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 Thessalonians

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 2

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 13

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 we

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 thank

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 God

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 that

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 when

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 you

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 receive

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 from

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 us

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 the

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 words

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 of

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 God's

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 message

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 you

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 accepted

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 it

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 not

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 as

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 the

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 words

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 of

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 men

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 in

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 other

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 words

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 not

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 merely

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 as

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 the

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 words

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 of

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 men

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 but

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 for

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 what

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 it

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 really

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 is

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 the

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 very

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 words

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 of

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 God

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 that

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 is

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 the

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 apostolic

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 speech

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 as

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 recorded

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 in

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 the

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 scriptures

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 are

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 not

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 merely

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 the

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 words

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 of

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 men

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 but

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 the

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 very

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 words

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 of

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 God

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 1st

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 Thess

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 2

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 13

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 so

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 that

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 on

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 the

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 involvement

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 of

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 the

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 father

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 it's

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 very

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 intimate

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 involvement

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 what

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 what

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 about

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 the

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 involvement

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 of

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 the

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 spirit

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 in

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 the

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 scriptures

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 2

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 Peter

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 1

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 21

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 reminds

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 us

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 of

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 the

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 remark

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 of

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 2

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 Timothy

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 3

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 16

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 about

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 all

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 scripture

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 being

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 inspired

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 but

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 here

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 2

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 Peter

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 1

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 21

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 focuses

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 on

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 the

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 relation

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 of

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 the

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 spirit

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 to

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 scripture

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 so

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 2

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 Timothy

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 talks

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 about

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 God

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 expired

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 but

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 in

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 the

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 2

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 Peter

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 passage

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 we

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 will

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 look

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 at

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 it's

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 the

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 spirit

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 effecting

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 effecting

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 it

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 Peter

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 writes

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 for

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 no

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 prophecy

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 of

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 scripture

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 he's

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 talking

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 about

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 scriptural

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 prophecy

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 no

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 prophecy

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 of

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 scripture

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 was

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 ever

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 made

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 by

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 an

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 act

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 of

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 the

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 human

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 will

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 but

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 men

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 moved

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 by the

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 Holy

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 Spirit

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 spoke

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 from

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 God

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 so

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 notice

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 the

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 Holy

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 Spirit

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 as

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 the

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 agent

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 the

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 instigator

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 and

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 every

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 once in

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 a while

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 you'll

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 encounter

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 some

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 regarding

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 either

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 implicitly

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 or maybe

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 even

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 explicitly

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 that

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 the

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 explicit

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 words

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 of

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 Jesus

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 somehow

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 in their

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 mind

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 possess

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 greater

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 authority

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 than the

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 rest of

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 scripture

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 you

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 know

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 all

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 that's

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 all

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 very

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 well

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 and

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 good

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 but

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 that's

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 Paul

00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:39.019
 or

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 that's

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 the

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 Old

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 Testament

00:33:40.100 --> 00:33:40.960
 but

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 what

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 does

00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:41.720
 Jesus

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 say

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 about

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 this

00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:43.640
 matter

00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:44.259
 I don't

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 know if

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 you've

00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:44.759
 ever

00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:45.259
 encountered

00:33:45.259 --> 00:33:45.440
 that

00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:45.740
 objection

00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:46.400
 as if

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 somehow

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 kind of

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 the

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 red

00:33:47.420 --> 00:33:47.720
 print

00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:48.220
 stuff

00:33:48.220 --> 00:33:49.440
 takes

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 on

00:33:49.660 --> 00:33:49.960
 greater

00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:50.400
 authority

00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:50.680
 you know

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 it's

00:33:50.840 --> 00:33:50.980
 from

00:33:50.980 --> 00:33:51.120
 the

00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:51.519
 horse's

00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:51.900
 mouth

00:33:51.900 --> 00:33:52.840
 and

00:33:52.840 --> 00:33:53.660
 somehow

00:33:53.660 --> 00:33:55.160
 makes

00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:55.319
 the

00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:55.759
 requirement

00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:56.019
 for

00:33:56.019 --> 00:33:56.299
 greater

00:33:56.299 --> 00:33:56.759
 clout

00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.299
 you know

00:33:57.299 --> 00:33:57.600
 give me

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 something

00:33:57.840 --> 00:33:58.460
 dominical

00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:58.880
 something

00:33:58.880 --> 00:33:59.120
 that

00:33:59.120 --> 00:33:59.500
 Jesus

00:33:59.500 --> 00:34:00.559
 said

00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:01.059
 but

00:34:01.059 --> 00:34:18.980
 But this distinction that we often hear is completely scuttled by an appreciation that Jesus' words are divine precisely because they are spirit-inspired.

00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:29.039
 Jesus' prophethood was a spiritual gift, a gift of the spirit.

00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:36.320
 It was the spirit's anointing that made his words God's.

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:44.719
 As he said in the synagogue at the opening of his ministry, remember Jesus cites Isaiah 61.1.

00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:51.679
 The spirit of the Lord is upon me and appointed me to preach.

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:54.279
 This is Luke 4.18.

00:34:54.280 --> 00:35:06.300
 So Jesus' speech is God's speech because it is the Holy Spirit's speech.

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:13.100
 Because he was the spirit-anointed son.

00:35:14.040 --> 00:35:17.480
 And John 3.34 makes this point.

00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:30.000
 For he whom God has sent, speaking of Jesus, utters the words of God for, okay, it's giving an explanation, for, or reason.

00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.579
 For he gives him the spirit without measure.

00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:35.900
 Do you see that?

00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:45.079
 Because of the involvement of the Holy Spirit, Jesus' words are divine words.

00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:59.440
 Therefore, despite Jesus' uniqueness, his words are no more divine than those of the New Testament apostles or Old Testament prophets,

00:35:59.980 --> 00:36:06.500
 whose words were also uttered under the Spirit's mediation and agency.

00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:16.139
 Just as Jesus asserted in what we just crafted it.

00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:20.679
 As David said, through the Holy Spirit or by the Holy Spirit.

00:36:21.059 --> 00:36:23.159
 He talks about that again and again and again.

00:36:24.739 --> 00:36:29.280
 So, what this does, it keeps the words in red.

00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:35.579
 If you have a red print Bible, keeps the words from red from superseding those in black.

00:36:35.579 --> 00:36:39.199
 There is no difference in terms of their authority.

00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:43.099
 Because of inspiration and the involvement of the Spirit.

00:36:45.279 --> 00:36:56.179
 And just as the Holy Spirit conceived, anointed, and mediated the words Jesus spoke.

00:36:56.559 --> 00:37:05.059
 So, the Holy Spirit carried on this work in Jesus' absence in the words of the apostles.

00:37:05.579 --> 00:37:08.759
 And this was Jesus' own promise to them.

00:37:10.059 --> 00:37:11.039
 He writes,

00:37:11.279 --> 00:37:16.340
 These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.

00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:23.940
 But, the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,

00:37:24.340 --> 00:37:29.799
 he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:33.920
 It's John 14, 25 and 26.

00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:36.940
 Or again, I have, Jesus speaking,

00:37:37.260 --> 00:37:41.180
 I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot hear them now.

00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:45.860
 But, when he, the Spirit of truth comes,

00:37:46.260 --> 00:37:49.019
 he will guide you into all the truth.

00:37:49.019 --> 00:37:51.920
 For he will not speak on his own initiative,

00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:55.800
 but whatever he hears, hears me,

00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:57.780
 he will speak.

00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:03.099
 He shall take what is mine and disclose it to you.

00:38:04.860 --> 00:38:07.119
 John 16, 12 through 15.

00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:13.299
 So, as with the Word of God made flesh,

00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:14.359
 Jesus,

00:38:15.099 --> 00:38:18.659
 so with the Word of God made words,

00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:19.880
 the Scripture,

00:38:20.839 --> 00:38:23.799
 both are the work of the Holy Spirit.

00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:26.880
 So, the great work of the Holy Spirit,

00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:28.119
 the incarnation,

00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:31.619
 this is the Word of God made flesh,

00:38:31.619 --> 00:38:32.759
 and also,

00:38:33.339 --> 00:38:34.440
 in Scripturation,

00:38:34.799 --> 00:38:37.219
 the Word of God made words.

00:38:37.799 --> 00:38:39.539
 So, both the work of the Holy Spirit.

00:38:45.339 --> 00:38:46.739
 When he conceived,

00:38:46.839 --> 00:38:49.859
 when the Spirit conceived Jesus in Mary's womb,

00:38:49.859 --> 00:38:52.659
 she was, by the Spirit,

00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:54.859
 the Word-bearer,

00:38:55.839 --> 00:38:57.019
 logotakos,

00:38:57.500 --> 00:38:58.420
 the theologians say.

00:38:58.420 --> 00:39:01.880
 Her human body

00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:05.159
 introduced God's eternal Word

00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:08.220
 into the human world.

00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:10.200
 And likewise,

00:39:11.340 --> 00:39:13.440
 the prophets and the apostles

00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.139
 are word-bearers.

00:39:17.579 --> 00:39:18.659
 Logotakoi.

00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:20.920
 Word-bearers, just like Mary.

00:39:21.619 --> 00:39:21.820
 Okay?

00:39:22.019 --> 00:39:24.840
 And introduce God's eternal Word

00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:26.860
 into human words.

00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:30.800
 So,

00:39:31.240 --> 00:39:34.220
 we're saying the Spirit-conceived Son

00:39:34.220 --> 00:39:37.760
 is analogous,

00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:38.460
 at this point,

00:39:38.820 --> 00:39:42.380
 to the Spirit-conceived speech acts.

00:39:45.180 --> 00:39:46.280
 And incidentally,

00:39:46.720 --> 00:39:47.800
 just as Jesus

00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:49.220
 bore the marks

00:39:49.220 --> 00:39:51.400
 of his human bearer,

00:39:52.780 --> 00:39:53.340
 he's probably,

00:39:53.640 --> 00:39:54.900
 hey, you look just like Mary.

00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:56.140
 Oh, that did Joseph to you?

00:39:56.139 --> 00:39:57.440
 Well, not Joseph, sorry.

00:39:57.679 --> 00:39:58.359
 Just like Mary.

00:39:58.599 --> 00:39:59.699
 You look just like Mary.

00:40:00.339 --> 00:40:00.500
 Okay?

00:40:03.219 --> 00:40:05.079
 So, God's words

00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:06.400
 bear marks

00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:07.759
 of their human authors.

00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:10.279
 The apostles' personality,

00:40:10.779 --> 00:40:11.139
 diction,

00:40:11.699 --> 00:40:12.199
 idiom.

00:40:13.839 --> 00:40:16.219
 You can kind of tell the difference

00:40:16.219 --> 00:40:18.460
 between Peter, Paul,

00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:19.819
 and even the author of Hebrews.

00:40:19.820 --> 00:40:22.039
 So,

00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.080
 bear the marks.

00:40:24.080 --> 00:40:25.680
 Jesus in the Bible,

00:40:26.580 --> 00:40:29.080
 no less human for being divine.

00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:30.240
 You know,

00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:31.860
 you've got the hypostatic union,

00:40:32.220 --> 00:40:33.840
 no less divine for being human.

00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:36.240
 And you've got the verbal union,

00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:37.380
 the words of God

00:40:37.380 --> 00:40:38.480
 in the words of people,

00:40:38.620 --> 00:40:40.260
 no less divine for being human.

00:40:41.220 --> 00:40:42.600
 Analogous in that respect.

00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:45.460
 So, that on the spirit.

00:40:45.739 --> 00:40:47.019
 Well, let's finally consider

00:40:47.019 --> 00:40:49.239
 what is the involvement

00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:50.339
 of the Son,

00:40:51.380 --> 00:40:52.239
 God the Son,

00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:52.819
 Jesus,

00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:54.279
 in the scriptures.

00:40:57.179 --> 00:40:57.739
 First,

00:40:57.900 --> 00:40:59.299
 it's worth pausing

00:40:59.299 --> 00:41:00.860
 to notice that

00:41:00.860 --> 00:41:02.519
 with the incarnation

00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:03.960
 of the Son,

00:41:05.279 --> 00:41:07.440
 we have God's logos

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:09.639
 introduced into

00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:11.880
 speaking humanity.

00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:14.260
 That means

00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:16.400
 the divine logos,

00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:18.900
 the second person

00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:19.440
 of the Trinity,

00:41:21.019 --> 00:41:23.619
 and wordly humanity

00:41:23.619 --> 00:41:25.300
 can and do

00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:26.780
 co-inhere.

00:41:27.340 --> 00:41:29.559
 They can come together.

00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:30.760
 None of this,

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:32.539
 well, that's too transcendent

00:41:32.539 --> 00:41:33.840
 and our human language

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:35.200
 is too imminent,

00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:36.740
 so the transcendent

00:41:36.739 --> 00:41:37.779
 can never connect

00:41:37.779 --> 00:41:38.199
 with the imminent.

00:41:38.399 --> 00:41:38.759
 No!

00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:41.659
 The incarnation does that.

00:41:41.979 --> 00:41:42.739
 That's exactly

00:41:42.739 --> 00:41:43.679
 what it does.

00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:46.699
 As an aside,

00:41:46.879 --> 00:41:47.359
 this means,

00:41:47.459 --> 00:41:47.839
 for one,

00:41:48.219 --> 00:41:48.859
 the troublesome

00:41:48.859 --> 00:41:50.179
 Kantian distinction,

00:41:50.359 --> 00:41:50.519
 you know,

00:41:50.579 --> 00:41:51.219
 for those of you

00:41:51.219 --> 00:41:52.479
 that do a philosophy

00:41:52.479 --> 00:41:53.559
 between the noumenal

00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:54.279
 and the phenomenal,

00:41:55.339 --> 00:41:56.219
 those two realms,

00:41:56.379 --> 00:41:56.599
 boy,

00:41:56.679 --> 00:41:57.859
 these two can't come together.

00:41:58.039 --> 00:41:58.159
 You know,

00:41:58.239 --> 00:41:59.299
 there's ever going to be

00:41:59.299 --> 00:42:00.739
 an inseparable bridge.

00:42:00.859 --> 00:42:01.439
 We can never,

00:42:01.659 --> 00:42:01.939
 you know,

00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:03.119
 from the phenomenon,

00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:03.739
 have any sort of

00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:04.419
 noumenal sense.

00:42:05.059 --> 00:42:06.179
 That dissolves

00:42:06.179 --> 00:42:06.899
 forever

00:42:06.899 --> 00:42:08.559
 with the annunciation

00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:10.919
 that God

00:42:10.919 --> 00:42:11.719
 has actually

00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:12.460
 come down

00:42:12.460 --> 00:42:13.579
 into the phenomenal.

00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:16.359
 That's a huge,

00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:17.319
 huge thing.

00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:19.699
 Since Jesus

00:42:19.699 --> 00:42:20.799
 is the incarnate

00:42:20.799 --> 00:42:21.399
 Son of God,

00:42:21.699 --> 00:42:22.599
 His words

00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:23.519
 are the words

00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:24.059
 of God,

00:42:24.759 --> 00:42:25.940
 the words of God

00:42:25.940 --> 00:42:26.719
 and also the words

00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:27.359
 from God,

00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:29.399
 surely without qualification.

00:42:31.099 --> 00:42:31.940
 That is,

00:42:32.359 --> 00:42:33.519
 Jesus' words

00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:34.179
 are the words

00:42:34.179 --> 00:42:36.019
 the Father gave to Him.

00:42:36.279 --> 00:42:37.699
 John 8, 28.

00:42:38.500 --> 00:42:39.399
 I do nothing,

00:42:39.500 --> 00:42:39.919
 Jesus says,

00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:41.179
 I do nothing on my own

00:42:41.179 --> 00:42:42.500
 but speak just

00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:43.279
 what the Father

00:42:43.279 --> 00:42:44.099
 has taught me.

00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:46.099
 John 12, 49.

00:42:46.419 --> 00:42:47.559
 I do not speak

00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:48.199
 on my own

00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:49.980
 but the Father

00:42:49.980 --> 00:42:51.159
 who has sent me

00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:52.739
 commanded me

00:42:52.739 --> 00:42:53.339
 to say

00:42:53.339 --> 00:42:55.319
 all that I have spoken.

00:42:56.579 --> 00:42:58.059
 John 17, 8.

00:42:58.399 --> 00:42:59.759
 I gave them

00:42:59.759 --> 00:43:00.619
 the words

00:43:00.619 --> 00:43:01.899
 you gave to me,

00:43:01.899 --> 00:43:03.219
 speaking to the Father.

00:43:03.219 --> 00:43:04.539
 the Father.

00:43:05.699 --> 00:43:06.719
 This implies

00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:07.480
 that

00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.239
 God the Son,

00:43:09.419 --> 00:43:10.619
 the word incarnate,

00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:11.959
 speaks to us

00:43:11.959 --> 00:43:13.659
 in human words,

00:43:13.939 --> 00:43:15.079
 the very words

00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:16.799
 He heard the Father say

00:43:16.799 --> 00:43:18.679
 in the eternal life

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:19.399
 of the Trinity.

00:43:23.219 --> 00:43:23.959
 But,

00:43:24.439 --> 00:43:26.659
 so that's clear enough,

00:43:27.319 --> 00:43:27.699
 but

00:43:27.699 --> 00:43:29.279
 consider

00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:30.800
 what

00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:32.500
 Jesus

00:43:32.500 --> 00:43:33.680
 so often

00:43:33.680 --> 00:43:34.380
 speaks

00:43:34.380 --> 00:43:35.460
 in His career

00:43:35.460 --> 00:43:37.420
 as those words.

00:43:39.100 --> 00:43:39.700
 Scripture.

00:43:40.900 --> 00:43:41.500
 Scripture.

00:43:42.720 --> 00:43:43.360
 Jesus

00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:44.380
 commonly

00:43:44.380 --> 00:43:45.340
 speaks

00:43:45.340 --> 00:43:45.860
 the words

00:43:45.860 --> 00:43:46.640
 of Scripture

00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:48.160
 as His

00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:49.700
 own words,

00:43:50.019 --> 00:43:51.080
 as the words

00:43:51.080 --> 00:43:51.720
 the Father

00:43:51.720 --> 00:43:52.260
 gave Him

00:43:52.260 --> 00:43:52.840
 to speak.

00:43:54.120 --> 00:43:54.360
 You know,

00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:54.660
 again,

00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:55.120
 you think of

00:43:55.120 --> 00:43:56.500
 the temptation

00:43:56.500 --> 00:43:57.060
 in the desert

00:43:57.060 --> 00:43:58.200
 as just one example.

00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.219
 quote Scripture,

00:44:01.379 --> 00:44:01.699
 takes them

00:44:01.699 --> 00:44:02.480
 as His words.

00:44:04.339 --> 00:44:05.079
 And it is

00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:06.159
 noteworthy

00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:06.919
 that when

00:44:06.919 --> 00:44:07.339
 Jesus

00:44:07.339 --> 00:44:08.719
 quotes Scripture,

00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:11.299
 He does it

00:44:11.299 --> 00:44:11.679
 as

00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:12.859
 canon,

00:44:13.939 --> 00:44:14.119
 okay,

00:44:14.259 --> 00:44:15.219
 in virtue

00:44:15.219 --> 00:44:16.379
 of it being

00:44:16.379 --> 00:44:17.559
 Scripture.

00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:20.279
 He doesn't

00:44:20.279 --> 00:44:20.899
 quote

00:44:20.899 --> 00:44:21.679
 as if

00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:22.759
 selectively

00:44:22.759 --> 00:44:23.859
 appropriating

00:44:23.859 --> 00:44:24.779
 a bit here

00:44:24.779 --> 00:44:26.019
 or a bit there,

00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:26.719
 which might

00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:28.219
 happen to

00:44:28.219 --> 00:44:28.820
 reflect

00:44:28.820 --> 00:44:30.019
 His perspective.

00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:30.800
 Kind of like

00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:31.500
 some speaker

00:44:31.500 --> 00:44:32.320
 might rummage

00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:32.820
 through a book

00:44:32.820 --> 00:44:33.440
 of quotes

00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:33.900
 to see if

00:44:33.900 --> 00:44:34.420
 he can find

00:44:34.420 --> 00:44:34.739
 one that

00:44:34.739 --> 00:44:35.280
 he can use.

00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:35.880
 No!

00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:38.420
 He takes

00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:38.900
 it upon

00:44:38.900 --> 00:44:39.440
 His lips

00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:41.119
 as Scripture.

00:44:41.900 --> 00:44:42.619
 Because it's

00:44:42.619 --> 00:44:42.980
 Scripture,

00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:43.840
 He takes it

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:44.559
 on His lips

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.739
 and appropriates

00:44:45.739 --> 00:44:45.940
 it.

00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:48.199
 No,

00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:49.340
 the rummaging

00:44:49.340 --> 00:44:50.340
 around in the

00:44:50.340 --> 00:44:50.579
 little,

00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:51.000
 you know,

00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:52.159
 fortune cookie

00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:52.780
 sayings

00:44:52.780 --> 00:44:53.240
 or whatever.

00:44:53.640 --> 00:44:54.200
 That's

00:44:54.200 --> 00:44:55.019
 precisely the

00:44:55.019 --> 00:44:55.380
 way the

00:44:55.380 --> 00:44:56.700
 devil uses

00:44:56.700 --> 00:44:57.340
 Scripture

00:44:57.340 --> 00:44:58.240
 and used

00:44:58.240 --> 00:44:58.840
 Scripture

00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:00.000
 to try

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.019
 to tempt

00:45:01.019 --> 00:45:01.960
 Jesus

00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:03.240
 to do

00:45:03.240 --> 00:45:03.880
 so in

00:45:03.880 --> 00:45:04.320
 the same

00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:04.840
 way Himself,

00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:05.260
 but He

00:45:05.260 --> 00:45:05.860
 would not.

00:45:07.160 --> 00:45:07.700
 There is

00:45:07.700 --> 00:45:09.200
 no indication,

00:45:09.540 --> 00:45:10.880
 no indication

00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:11.960
 of Jesus

00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:13.120
 favoring

00:45:13.120 --> 00:45:13.500
 some

00:45:13.500 --> 00:45:14.060
 scriptural

00:45:14.060 --> 00:45:14.780
 words over

00:45:14.780 --> 00:45:15.160
 others.

00:45:15.680 --> 00:45:16.240
 Just as

00:45:16.240 --> 00:45:16.920
 Scripture says,

00:45:17.040 --> 00:45:17.580
 as Scripture

00:45:17.580 --> 00:45:17.960
 says,

00:45:18.040 --> 00:45:18.620
 as Scripture

00:45:18.620 --> 00:45:19.120
 says.

00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:21.839
 On the

00:45:21.839 --> 00:45:22.259
 contrary,

00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:23.139
 one lives

00:45:23.139 --> 00:45:23.420
 by,

00:45:23.539 --> 00:45:24.179
 as He

00:45:24.179 --> 00:45:25.000
 put it

00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:25.460
 back in

00:45:25.460 --> 00:45:25.880
 Satan's

00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:26.239
 face,

00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:27.900
 one lives

00:45:27.900 --> 00:45:28.719
 by every

00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:29.179
 word,

00:45:29.259 --> 00:45:30.319
 every word,

00:45:31.019 --> 00:45:31.859
 Matthew 4.4,

00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:32.960
 that comes

00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:33.219
 from the

00:45:33.219 --> 00:45:33.559
 mouth of

00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:33.880
 God.

00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:35.119
 Not a

00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:35.920
 single stroke

00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:36.480
 accepted,

00:45:36.779 --> 00:45:37.679
 Matthew 5.18.

00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:39.559
 So,

00:45:39.739 --> 00:45:40.139
 how then

00:45:40.139 --> 00:45:40.619
 can the

00:45:40.619 --> 00:45:41.500
 biblical passages

00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:42.000
 that He

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:42.940
 does not

00:45:42.940 --> 00:45:43.880
 quote be

00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:44.480
 any less

00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:45.380
 true revelation?

00:45:46.779 --> 00:45:47.359
 If what He

00:45:47.359 --> 00:45:47.759
 does quote,

00:45:47.799 --> 00:45:48.019
 He just

00:45:48.019 --> 00:45:48.539
 quotes as

00:45:48.539 --> 00:45:48.859
 Scripture

00:45:48.860 --> 00:45:49.220
 and because

00:45:49.220 --> 00:45:49.420
 it's

00:45:49.420 --> 00:45:49.680
 Scripture.

00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:51.940
 Thus,

00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:52.559
 we see

00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:52.900
 Jesus'

00:45:53.220 --> 00:45:54.220
 endorsement.

00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:55.240
 His

00:45:55.240 --> 00:45:55.700
 taking

00:45:55.700 --> 00:45:56.579
 Scripture

00:45:56.579 --> 00:45:57.059
 words

00:45:57.059 --> 00:45:57.860
 as His

00:45:57.860 --> 00:45:58.400
 own

00:45:58.400 --> 00:45:59.519
 affirms

00:45:59.519 --> 00:45:59.860
 those

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:00.260
 Scripture

00:46:00.260 --> 00:46:00.680
 words

00:46:00.680 --> 00:46:00.860
 as

00:46:00.860 --> 00:46:01.420
 divine.

00:46:02.900 --> 00:46:03.559
 But,

00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:04.460
 really,

00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:05.800
 the interplay

00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:06.460
 of Jesus

00:46:06.460 --> 00:46:07.480
 and Scripture

00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:08.720
 runs both

00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:09.360
 ways,

00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:09.720
 does it

00:46:09.720 --> 00:46:10.099
 not?

00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:12.820
 There is

00:46:12.820 --> 00:46:14.039
 a reciprocal

00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:15.620
 authorization.

00:46:16.340 --> 00:46:16.559
 Oh,

00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:17.039
 the weave

00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:17.780
 is so rich

00:46:17.780 --> 00:46:18.280
 and thick

00:46:18.280 --> 00:46:18.579
 here.

00:46:18.860 --> 00:46:20.579
 not only

00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:21.660
 does Jesus

00:46:21.660 --> 00:46:22.780
 point back

00:46:22.780 --> 00:46:23.340
 to the words

00:46:23.340 --> 00:46:23.579
 of the

00:46:23.579 --> 00:46:23.960
 prophets

00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:24.760
 and say

00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:25.240
 in effect,

00:46:25.660 --> 00:46:26.240
 these are

00:46:26.240 --> 00:46:27.220
 my words

00:46:27.220 --> 00:46:27.820
 too,

00:46:29.620 --> 00:46:30.300
 but

00:46:30.300 --> 00:46:31.780
 the prophetic

00:46:31.780 --> 00:46:32.400
 words

00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:33.620
 pointed also

00:46:33.620 --> 00:46:34.440
 to Him

00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:35.780
 and authorized

00:46:35.780 --> 00:46:36.980
 Him.

00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:39.340
 It was

00:46:39.340 --> 00:46:40.140
 the Scriptures

00:46:40.140 --> 00:46:41.740
 that formed

00:46:41.740 --> 00:46:42.760
 the Christ.

00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:44.640
 The Scriptures

00:46:44.640 --> 00:46:45.840
 defined

00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:47.460
 His vocation

00:46:47.460 --> 00:46:48.760
 as Messiah.

00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:49.460
 They

00:46:49.460 --> 00:46:52.519
 constituted

00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:52.860
 Him.

00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:54.179
 They

00:46:54.179 --> 00:46:54.679
 marked

00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:55.119
 out

00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:55.679
 His

00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:56.320
 path

00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:56.579
 of

00:46:56.579 --> 00:46:57.559
 faithfulness.

00:46:58.460 --> 00:46:58.780
 As He

00:46:58.780 --> 00:46:59.079
 would say

00:46:59.079 --> 00:46:59.420
 again and

00:46:59.420 --> 00:46:59.599
 again,

00:46:59.800 --> 00:46:59.960
 no,

00:47:00.019 --> 00:47:00.199
 no,

00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:00.900
 the Scriptures

00:47:00.900 --> 00:47:01.659
 must be

00:47:01.659 --> 00:47:02.059
 fulfilled.

00:47:02.220 --> 00:47:02.820
 I must

00:47:02.820 --> 00:47:03.599
 do this.

00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:04.440
 The Scriptures

00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:05.220
 form me.

00:47:05.219 --> 00:47:07.039
 They shape

00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:07.379
 me.

00:47:12.500 --> 00:47:13.219
 Scripture

00:47:13.219 --> 00:47:14.579
 was His

00:47:14.579 --> 00:47:15.480
 master

00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:16.699
 and He

00:47:16.699 --> 00:47:17.439
 its pupil.

00:47:18.059 --> 00:47:19.099
 He rendered

00:47:19.099 --> 00:47:20.019
 it obedience.

00:47:20.019 --> 00:47:21.759
 It was

00:47:21.759 --> 00:47:22.539
 there

00:47:22.539 --> 00:47:23.139
 that He

00:47:23.139 --> 00:47:23.960
 listened

00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:24.679
 to the

00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:25.259
 voice of

00:47:25.259 --> 00:47:25.960
 the Father.

00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:28.659
 Thus,

00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:29.639
 the written

00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:30.019
 Word

00:47:30.019 --> 00:47:31.179
 formed

00:47:31.179 --> 00:47:32.360
 the

00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:33.219
 incarnate

00:47:33.219 --> 00:47:33.679
 Word.

00:47:35.539 --> 00:47:36.460
 The

00:47:36.460 --> 00:47:37.199
 life that

00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:37.759
 was truly

00:47:37.759 --> 00:47:38.460
 divine

00:47:38.460 --> 00:47:39.420
 was the

00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:40.480
 life that

00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:41.440
 fulfilled

00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:42.559
 the Scripture.

00:47:44.699 --> 00:47:45.860
 This is

00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:46.820
 the relation

00:47:46.820 --> 00:47:47.860
 of reciprocal

00:47:47.860 --> 00:47:49.500
 authorization.

00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:51.480
 In

00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:52.400
 obeying

00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:53.300
 Scripture,

00:47:54.179 --> 00:47:55.559
 Christ is

00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:56.420
 revealed as

00:47:56.420 --> 00:47:57.259
 more than

00:47:57.259 --> 00:47:57.860
 its servant.

00:47:59.500 --> 00:48:00.259
 He is

00:48:00.259 --> 00:48:00.599
 the very

00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:01.460
 Lord of

00:48:01.460 --> 00:48:01.840
 Scripture.

00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:02.480
 And Scripture

00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:03.340
 reveals that

00:48:03.340 --> 00:48:03.840
 and confirms

00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:04.119
 Him as

00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:04.400
 that.

00:48:04.619 --> 00:48:05.079
 So He's

00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:05.400
 able to

00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:06.000
 declare all

00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:06.519
 food

00:48:06.519 --> 00:48:06.940
 clean.

00:48:09.059 --> 00:48:10.000
 And so

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:10.300
 He

00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:11.759
 transforms

00:48:11.759 --> 00:48:12.300
 Scripture

00:48:12.300 --> 00:48:13.239
 by rendering

00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:14.300
 it intelligible.

00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:15.500
 It's all

00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:16.539
 about me.

00:48:16.759 --> 00:48:17.539
 Luke 24,

00:48:17.739 --> 00:48:18.079
 Road to

00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:18.579
 Emmaus.

00:48:19.059 --> 00:48:19.619
 He renders

00:48:19.619 --> 00:48:20.359
 it intelligible,

00:48:20.819 --> 00:48:21.960
 renewing and

00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:23.279
 reprobligating

00:48:23.279 --> 00:48:23.639
 it.

00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:28.639
 We also

00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:29.400
 see an

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:30.699
 expansion of

00:48:30.699 --> 00:48:31.559
 these divine

00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:32.699
 words becoming

00:48:32.699 --> 00:48:33.739
 human words.

00:48:34.500 --> 00:48:34.940
 As Jesus

00:48:34.940 --> 00:48:35.519
 prayed to the

00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:36.099
 Father in His

00:48:36.099 --> 00:48:36.559
 high priestly

00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:36.900
 prayer,

00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:37.639
 John 17,

00:48:38.420 --> 00:48:39.259
 I gave

00:48:39.259 --> 00:48:39.759
 them,

00:48:39.839 --> 00:48:40.339
 speaking of

00:48:40.339 --> 00:48:41.000
 the apostles,

00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:42.659
 I gave

00:48:42.659 --> 00:48:43.739
 them the

00:48:43.739 --> 00:48:44.719
 words you

00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:45.920
 gave to

00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:46.519
 me,

00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:47.400
 verse 8.

00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:48.639
 Then He

00:48:48.639 --> 00:48:49.180
 goes on to

00:48:49.180 --> 00:48:49.720
 pray for

00:48:49.720 --> 00:48:50.760
 those who

00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:51.559
 will believe

00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:52.180
 in me

00:48:52.180 --> 00:48:53.200
 through their

00:48:53.200 --> 00:48:53.960
 the apostles'

00:48:54.180 --> 00:48:54.599
 message.

00:48:56.039 --> 00:48:56.980
 So we

00:48:56.980 --> 00:48:57.380
 have the

00:48:57.380 --> 00:48:58.019
 words the

00:48:58.019 --> 00:48:59.079
 Father gave

00:48:59.079 --> 00:48:59.440
 to the

00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:00.559
 Son being

00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:01.440
 passed on

00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:02.019
 by the

00:49:02.019 --> 00:49:02.599
 incarnate

00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:03.360
 Son in

00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:04.680
 ordinary human

00:49:04.680 --> 00:49:05.380
 language to

00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:06.059
 His disciples.

00:49:06.059 --> 00:49:06.139
 apostles.

00:49:07.340 --> 00:49:08.279
 And now

00:49:08.279 --> 00:49:08.820
 these words

00:49:08.820 --> 00:49:09.279
 are passed

00:49:09.279 --> 00:49:10.019
 on by the

00:49:10.019 --> 00:49:11.759
 apostles to

00:49:11.759 --> 00:49:12.159
 those who

00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:12.880
 did not hear

00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:13.460
 the Father's

00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:14.619
 words from

00:49:14.619 --> 00:49:14.920
 Jesus'

00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:15.559
 mouth.

00:49:17.179 --> 00:49:18.440
 Thereby we,

00:49:18.980 --> 00:49:20.000
 at a distance

00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:20.739
 in time and

00:49:20.739 --> 00:49:21.139
 space,

00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:22.380
 may encounter

00:49:22.380 --> 00:49:23.619
 the words

00:49:23.619 --> 00:49:24.759
 the Father

00:49:24.759 --> 00:49:27.500
 and Christ

00:49:27.500 --> 00:49:28.980
 who in

00:49:28.980 --> 00:49:30.159
 those words

00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:30.619
 of the

00:49:30.619 --> 00:49:31.239
 apostles

00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:32.320
 present

00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:33.579
 themselves to

00:49:33.579 --> 00:49:35.159
 us as a

00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:36.139
 covenant-making

00:49:36.139 --> 00:49:37.279
 God and

00:49:37.279 --> 00:49:37.799
 His words

00:49:37.799 --> 00:49:38.380
 to us.

00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:41.219
 We see this

00:49:41.219 --> 00:49:41.679
 pattern in

00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:42.019
 the sending

00:49:42.019 --> 00:49:42.360
 out of the

00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:42.659
 twelve.

00:49:42.779 --> 00:49:43.039
 Remember

00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:43.880
 Matthew 10.

00:49:45.340 --> 00:49:45.819
 If anyone

00:49:45.819 --> 00:49:46.659
 will not

00:49:46.659 --> 00:49:47.500
 welcome you,

00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:48.819
 is apostles

00:49:48.819 --> 00:49:50.119
 giving these

00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:50.460
 words,

00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:51.380
 if anyone

00:49:51.380 --> 00:49:51.799
 will not

00:49:51.799 --> 00:49:52.420
 welcome you

00:49:52.420 --> 00:49:53.039
 or listen

00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:53.559
 to your

00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:54.000
 words,

00:49:54.380 --> 00:49:54.880
 shake the

00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:55.340
 dust of

00:49:55.340 --> 00:49:55.960
 your feet

00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:56.980
 off.

00:49:57.579 --> 00:49:58.319
 It will

00:49:58.319 --> 00:49:58.719
 be more

00:49:58.719 --> 00:49:59.380
 bearable for

00:49:59.380 --> 00:49:59.860
 Sodom and

00:49:59.860 --> 00:50:00.259
 Gomorrah.

00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:01.559
 Anyone who

00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:02.819
 welcomes you

00:50:02.820 --> 00:50:04.280
 welcomes me

00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:05.019
 and anyone

00:50:05.019 --> 00:50:05.900
 who welcomes

00:50:05.900 --> 00:50:06.920
 me welcomes

00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:07.539
 the one who

00:50:07.539 --> 00:50:08.140
 sent me,

00:50:08.380 --> 00:50:08.820
 the Father.

00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:11.140
 Thus,

00:50:11.580 --> 00:50:12.960
 to reject

00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:13.860
 the apostles'

00:50:14.160 --> 00:50:14.580
 words,

00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:15.800
 which come

00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:17.380
 from Christ,

00:50:18.059 --> 00:50:18.519
 is to

00:50:18.519 --> 00:50:19.620
 reject God.

00:50:20.260 --> 00:50:21.160
 God has

00:50:21.160 --> 00:50:22.300
 identified

00:50:22.300 --> 00:50:23.240
 himself

00:50:23.240 --> 00:50:24.740
 both

00:50:24.740 --> 00:50:26.200
 with Christ

00:50:26.200 --> 00:50:27.100
 in person

00:50:27.100 --> 00:50:28.220
 and with

00:50:28.220 --> 00:50:29.220
 the passing

00:50:29.220 --> 00:50:30.240
 on by his

00:50:30.240 --> 00:50:31.360
 apostles of

00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:31.960
 the words of

00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:32.280
 Jesus.

00:50:32.820 --> 00:50:33.660
 with the

00:50:33.660 --> 00:50:34.480
 result that

00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:35.740
 to reject

00:50:35.740 --> 00:50:36.539
 the words

00:50:36.539 --> 00:50:36.880
 of the

00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:37.460
 apostles

00:50:37.460 --> 00:50:38.620
 is to

00:50:38.620 --> 00:50:39.200
 reject

00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:40.180
 God.

00:50:43.380 --> 00:50:44.080
 So,

00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:45.220
 this is

00:50:45.220 --> 00:50:46.480
 what we

00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:47.140
 have called

00:50:47.140 --> 00:50:48.600
 the

00:50:48.600 --> 00:50:49.519
 Trinitarian

00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:50.580
 ontology

00:50:50.580 --> 00:50:51.860
 of Scripture.

00:50:52.080 --> 00:50:53.000
 Do you get

00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:53.720
 a sense of

00:50:53.720 --> 00:50:54.220
 what I mean

00:50:54.220 --> 00:50:54.880
 by that now?

00:50:55.160 --> 00:50:56.080
 The deep,

00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:56.700
 profound

00:50:56.700 --> 00:50:57.580
 involvement of

00:50:57.580 --> 00:50:58.519
 every person

00:50:58.519 --> 00:50:59.220
 of the

00:50:59.220 --> 00:50:59.780
 Trinity

00:50:59.780 --> 00:51:01.160
 in the

00:51:01.160 --> 00:51:01.640
 Scriptures

00:51:01.640 --> 00:51:02.980
 themselves.

00:51:04.120 --> 00:51:04.740
 Do you

00:51:04.740 --> 00:51:06.060
 feel that?

00:51:06.220 --> 00:51:06.700
 Do you

00:51:06.700 --> 00:51:07.780
 see that?

00:51:09.780 --> 00:51:10.620
 The

00:51:10.620 --> 00:51:11.060
 Trinity

00:51:11.060 --> 00:51:12.040
 is so

00:51:12.040 --> 00:51:13.440
 profoundly

00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:14.700
 involved

00:51:14.700 --> 00:51:15.940
 in the

00:51:15.940 --> 00:51:16.980
 being of

00:51:16.980 --> 00:51:17.500
 Scripture

00:51:17.500 --> 00:51:19.580
 that the

00:51:19.580 --> 00:51:20.580
 character of

00:51:20.580 --> 00:51:20.960
 Scripture

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:22.740
 is invested

00:51:22.739 --> 00:51:24.459
 with the

00:51:24.459 --> 00:51:25.259
 divine

00:51:25.259 --> 00:51:26.379
 character.

00:51:28.859 --> 00:51:29.319
 That is,

00:51:29.459 --> 00:51:30.000
 the Trinity

00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:30.919
 is so

00:51:30.919 --> 00:51:31.699
 profoundly

00:51:31.699 --> 00:51:32.259
 involved in

00:51:32.259 --> 00:51:32.679
 the being

00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:33.179
 of Scripture

00:51:33.179 --> 00:51:33.919
 that the

00:51:33.919 --> 00:51:34.719
 character of

00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:35.079
 Scripture

00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:36.799
 is invested

00:51:36.799 --> 00:51:38.500
 with divine

00:51:38.500 --> 00:51:39.079
 character.

00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:42.159
 The Trinity

00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:42.919
 is the

00:51:42.919 --> 00:51:44.239
 three-fold

00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:44.699
 cord,

00:51:44.839 --> 00:51:44.979
 this

00:51:44.979 --> 00:51:46.639
 intertwined

00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:47.500
 involvement.

00:51:47.500 --> 00:51:50.920
 And these,

00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:52.179
 it strikes

00:51:52.179 --> 00:51:52.619
 me,

00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:55.179
 are solid

00:51:55.179 --> 00:51:56.099
 grounds

00:51:56.099 --> 00:51:57.260
 for

00:51:57.260 --> 00:51:57.840
 maintaining

00:51:57.840 --> 00:51:58.860
 Scripture's

00:51:58.860 --> 00:51:59.260
 authority.

00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:01.860
 So finally,

00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:03.079
 just a few

00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:03.760
 seconds on

00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:04.599
 so what.

00:52:05.420 --> 00:52:05.719
 Well,

00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:06.760
 if this

00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:08.119
 is so,

00:52:08.980 --> 00:52:09.639
 how should

00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:10.179
 we then

00:52:10.179 --> 00:52:10.659
 live?

00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:13.340
 Well,

00:52:13.539 --> 00:52:14.119
 God's

00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:14.480
 Word,

00:52:14.739 --> 00:52:15.519
 the Scriptures

00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:16.800
 must

00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:17.480
 find

00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:18.219
 functioned

00:52:18.219 --> 00:52:18.679
 as

00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:19.360
 authority

00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:19.960
 in our

00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:20.619
 lives.

00:52:21.940 --> 00:52:22.400
 Four,

00:52:23.019 --> 00:52:24.019
 the

00:52:24.019 --> 00:52:24.679
 authority

00:52:24.679 --> 00:52:25.440
 of Scripture

00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:27.940
 is simply

00:52:27.940 --> 00:52:29.019
 shorthand

00:52:29.019 --> 00:52:30.340
 for the

00:52:30.340 --> 00:52:31.139
 authority

00:52:31.139 --> 00:52:32.420
 of God

00:52:32.420 --> 00:52:33.639
 exercised

00:52:33.639 --> 00:52:34.300
 through Scripture.

00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:35.699
 Okay,

00:52:35.699 --> 00:52:36.240
 this is the

00:52:36.240 --> 00:52:36.840
 one phrase

00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:37.300
 takeaway.

00:52:38.780 --> 00:52:40.179
 The authority

00:52:40.179 --> 00:52:40.780
 of Scripture

00:52:40.780 --> 00:52:42.380
 is simply

00:52:42.380 --> 00:52:43.159
 shorthand

00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:44.800
 for the

00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:45.539
 authority

00:52:45.539 --> 00:52:46.500
 of God

00:52:46.500 --> 00:52:48.280
 exercised

00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:48.920
 through Scripture.

00:52:51.460 --> 00:52:52.280
 So we

00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:53.519
 must never

00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:54.539
 place

00:52:54.539 --> 00:52:55.000
 ourselves

00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:55.679
 over it

00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:56.420
 in judgment.

00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:01.380
 Reminds me

00:53:01.380 --> 00:53:01.800
 when I was

00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:02.320
 in the Louvre

00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:02.780
 some time

00:53:02.780 --> 00:53:03.099
 ago,

00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:05.679
 there was

00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:05.980
 a,

00:53:05.980 --> 00:53:06.039
 a,

00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:06.099
 a,

00:53:06.099 --> 00:53:06.179
 a,

00:53:06.179 --> 00:53:06.219
 a,

00:53:06.219 --> 00:53:06.280
 a,

00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:07.119
 a,

00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:08.219
 a,

00:53:08.219 --> 00:53:08.260
 a,

00:53:08.260 --> 00:53:08.280
 a,

00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:08.320
 a,

00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:08.360
 a,

00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:08.920
 a,

00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:08.960
 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 a,

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 and he's

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 sitting there

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 just kind

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 of looking

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 at the

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 pictures

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 and,

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 you know,

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 he's kind

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 of looking

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 at this

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 thing

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 and kind

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 of wincing

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 and,

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 you know,

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 he's in

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 Mona Lisa

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 and that

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 and kind

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 of looking

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 that

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 and just

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 shaking his

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 head,

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 overrated,

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 overrated,

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 going forward

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 to the next.

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 At one point,

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 this very

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 elegant

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 and kind

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 of demure

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 guard

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 that was there

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 kind of leaned

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 over and said,

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 monsieur,

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 in this

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 museum,

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 it is not

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 the artwork

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 that is under judgment.

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 In other words, you just judge yourself as a Philistine

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 by not approving that.

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 Look, when it comes to scripture,

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 it's not the scripture that's under judgment.

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 It's us.

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 Just like it says that the cross was not,

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 in one sense, that was the judgment of the world,

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 it says in 1 Corinthians 7.

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 When Jesus was judged by the world

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 and hung on the cross in judgment of him,

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 that judgment of him was the judgment of the world.

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 That judged them to be false,

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 to be out of touch with reality,

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 to be on the wrong side of everything.

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 And it's the same way with the word.

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 It's the same way with scripture.

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 It must judge us.

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 James writes in James 1.21,

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 in humility, receive the word.

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 In humility, receive the word.

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 Which works for our salvation.

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 That we receive the word

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 shows that we are being saved.

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 That there is a saving work that is going on in us.

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 Or why don't we end with this?

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 Isaiah 66.2.

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 But to this one I will look,

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 to him who is humble and of contrite spirit,

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 who trembles at my word.

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 Who trembles at my word.

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 Tremble.

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 We need to respond to God's word

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 exactly as we would to God himself.

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 In trembling awe.

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 In reverential, urgent submission.