240: Dafydd Jenkins – Inspiration: What Does It Mean? (2 Tim. 3:14-17)

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
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You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
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For this week we’re listening to
a talk that was given back at

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the end of 2020 to buy Brother
David Jenkins from The Carter

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Museum.
Place Ecclesia in the UK.

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This was given at the rugby
achalasia in the same country

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where he is taking a look in it
as a public lecture style, talk

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looking at inspiration and what
it means and what is the

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significance of our belief, that
the Bible isn’t the inspired

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word of God and Brother, David
is looking into the different

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meanings in the impact of Add
and sort of diving more into how

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the inspiration of God’s word
would have come to be the

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starting reading that he used
for this was taken from 2nd,

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Timothy chapter 3, verses 14
through 17.

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So if you want to read through
that before you listen to the

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talk, that is the section of
verses that he asked before he

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gave it.
And I really just enjoy brother.

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David’s, look into this.
This was a suggestion that we

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were given and I found it to be
a really powerful.

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Full public lecture that he gave
just underlying both the

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importance and the confidence
that we have in the scriptures

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that we read and how important
those are for us to be able to

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understand that the words that
we read aren’t just something

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that somebody made up and he
also spent some time looking at

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almost how the active
inspiration would have been

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perceived by the very people
writing it.

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So I thought that was kind of an
interesting Little Nugget later

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on in the in the class.
So I hope you find this as

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inspirational as I did, sorry
for the pun with that.

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I will turn it over to Brother
David Jenkins for his talk

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inspiration.
What does it mean?

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So we just read a short section
from Paul’s last letter on the

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last of his letters that we have
amongst the letters that are in

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the pages of the New Testament,
where he’s writing to Timothy a

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younger man.
But one of his close companions

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in the work of teaching, the
gospel around the Roman Empire

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and his giving advice here to
this younger man as to how to

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conduct himself.
And when the Apostle Paul is no

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longer around and as you’ll no
doubt of clean from the few

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verses that we wretch that he’s
putting a great emphasis on

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Timothy, paying attention to
God’s words, he tells us that

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God’s word is able to make us
wise for salvation.

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He tells us in verse 16 that the
word of God is profitable for

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Doctrine for teaching for
reproof.

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Roof for correction for
instruction, in righteousness,

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that men and women of God’s
might be thoroughly equipped

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with everything that they need
to live as God would have them

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live.
So there’s this emphasis upon

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the word of God and it is
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It is profitable for these
various different purposes and

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Paul says that the reason why
the word of God is, Useful for

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these different functions is
because it is given by

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inspiration of God.
It’s directly because it is

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given by inspiration of God
verse 16 that it has these

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various qualities it can perform
those various functions and when

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Paul writes about all scripture
then of course includes the part

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of the Bible that we know as the
Old Testament.

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The Jewish scriptures.
But by the time that Paul is

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writing this last of his letters
within the compass of the New

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Testament then the vast majority
of the material that makes up

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our new testament parts of our
Bible are available and

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circulated around the
congregations of Believers as

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well.
So that as far as Paul is

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concerned, the entirety of the
Bible, both Old and New

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Testaments.
It is useful for these purposes

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because God has provided it by
inspiration.

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Now, the subject inspiration,
what does it mean?

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I’m not going to deal with it in
any kind of technical way this

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afternoon.
So I’m just going to spend two

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minutes on this word inspiration
and that’s about as technical As

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It Gets.
So when we speak to one another,

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then we are breathing in order
to live and we’re taking air in

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and out of our lungs.
And we pass are over our vocal

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cords.
And in that process, we are able

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to produce sounds whereby.
We communicate with one another

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that we breathe out that we pass
the air over our vocal cords and

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we use That to speak.
Now the word inspiration and

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these new testament chapters was
first written in the Greek

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language, the original word,
translated inspiration means god

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breathed.
So whereas we breathe in order

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to speak and use our breath to
speak, they’re really what

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inspiration means.
It’s that God has spoken that

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God has breathed and smokin and
communicate it so that because

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Does God has spoken then the
various parts of the Bible are

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useful for the different
functions that the Apostle Paul

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describes.
But how I’d like to address this

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topic, this afternoon is to look
at the experience of some of

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those individuals who are
subject to inspiration.

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So those individuals that God
used to produce his words and

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see what they say about their
experience and how that can help

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us to understand what
inspiration really means.

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Now, I’d like to begin with
Moses.

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So I’m going to go back to the
second book of the Bible, the

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book of Exodus and Exodus
chapter 4, we can go to Moses

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because Moses is the man that
God used to writes.

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The first five books of the
Bible as we have them in our

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Bibles Moses was the individual
that God used to lead the

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children of Israel.
From their slavery in the land

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of Egypt and through the
Wilderness to the borders of the

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land that he had promised to
their fathers, the land that we

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know as the land of Israel and
in Exodus chapter 4 or Moses is

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80 years of age and he has been
living in the land of Midian for

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40 years.
Having run away from the land of

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Egypt, aged 40 and guard is
interacting with Moses.

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Through his Angel and telling
Moses that the time has come for

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Moses to return to the land of
Egypt and to take up the

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commission that God has set
before him of leading the nation

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of Israel from their slavery and
Moses is not too keen on taking

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up the task.
In fact here in Exodus chapter 4

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he’s making a sequence of
excuses as to why he is not

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really suitable for the role
that God has.

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Asked him to do.
So I’d like to pick up verse 10

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here of Exodus chapter 4.
Moses said unto the Lord, oh my

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Lord.
I am not eloquent.

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Neither heretofore nor since
thou Hast spoken unto thy

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certainty but I am slow of
speech and of a slow tongue.

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So here’s one of Moses is
reasons why he can’t be a

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suitable leader for the people
of Israel.

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He says, that he’s not eloquent,
he’s not good at speaking.

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He’s not a charismatic leader,
whether that’s true or not.

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Is questionable that we could
debate that from other Bible

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verses but that’s the reason
that Moses gives he can’t speak

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well so he can’t be the leader.
Now look at God’s answer to that

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objection in verse 11.
The Lord said unto him who hath

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made man’s mouth or who maketh
the dumb or deaf or the seeing

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or the blind have not.
I the Lord now therefore go and

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I I will be with thy mouth and
teach thee.

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What Thou shalt say.
So God’s response to Moses is

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that he is the creator that he
was responsible for creating the

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mouth of men and women and
therefore in effect.

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He says to Moses look I created
your mouth.

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So don’t tell me you can’t speak
but he goes beyond that doesn’t

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see because there in verse He
says go and I will be with your

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mouth and teach you what you
shall say.

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So that God who made man’s
mouth, could teach you what to

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say.
That’s exactly what he says he

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will do.
In the case of Moses that

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actually Moses his role as
leader won’t be dependent on,

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Moses ability to speak, it would
be dependent upon God’s ability.

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To place words in the mouth of
Moses.

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So that’s that’s really the
starting point for our

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consideration of inspiration.
What does it mean?

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Well God who made the mouse, can
teach it what to say, didn’t

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depend on the man’s eloquence it
depended on the words that God

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provided.
Now God used Moses to

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communicate, a great deal of
information.

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Should serve the nation of
Israel gave them the laws that

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they would live their National
Life.

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By it gave them the details of
how they should worship God in

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an appropriate way details.
Which taught them many things

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about the principles by which he
would extend salvation to men

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and women and God went into,
amazing detail as to how Israel

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should do things in their
worship of him that the center

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of The worship of the nation of
Israel from the time of Moses

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was the tabernacle a tent which
Israel first constructed in the

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wilderness.
And that was filled with various

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items of furniture that God had
described and that would be used

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in his worship.
And God talks about setting up

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the tent talks about packing up
the furniture talks about the

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different individuals, even who
would carry that furniture as

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the nation of Israel.
Moved from place to place in

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their journey in the wilderness.
There’s a remarkable level of

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detail in what God provides.
I’d like you to bear that in

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mind and come on in the pages of
the Bible to 500 years or so

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later, to the time of King
David’s.

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Now those of you who were here
this morning will, I hope

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remember that?
We looked at the book of

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Chronicles, I’d like to go to
the the same section of the book

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of Chronicles, but Inning at
First Chronicles chapter 13.

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When David has become king of
all the Twelve Tribes of Israel

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has captured the city of
Jerusalem and decided that it

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will become the capital of his
kingdom.

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And he wants to take the Ark of
the Covenant.

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The most important of the pieces
of furniture that have been made

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in the time of Moses and bring
it up to the city of Jerusalem,

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the Ark of the Covenant
represents The, The Throne of

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God in the midst of his people.
And God, what and David wanted

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that to be in the capital city.
So that the whole of the life of

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Israel could be focused upon
their relationship with the

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living gods.
And in first Chronicles chapter

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13 and then David is going to
attempt to achieve his aim and

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to move the Ark of God from the
place that had been for many

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years up to the city.
Of Jerusalem.

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I’ll pick it up in verse 5 of
this chapter.

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So David gathered all Israel
together from shy horror of

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Egypt, even unto the entering
and of he math to bring the Ark

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of God from kerchief.
Jairam verse 7, They Carried the

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Ark of God in a new cart out of
the house of abinadab and other

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and Ohio drive the car at verse
9 when they came to the

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threshing floor of Charlie
didn’t as I put forth.

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His hands, a hold, the ark for
The Oxen stumbled, and the anger

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of the Lord was kindled against
us and he smote him, because he

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put his hands to the ark and
there he died.

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You’d before God’s verse 12
tells us.

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David was afraid of God that
day.

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Saying, how shall I bring the
Ark of God’s home to me.

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So, David has great intentions.
He wants to bring this

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significant piece of Furniture
up to the capital city and other

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one of the men who is
transporting this piece of

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furniture on a card.
Also has great intentions

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because the oxen of stumbled the
Cartesian shaking.

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There is a danger perhaps that
this very important item might

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fall from the carton be damaged
and so he stretches out his hand

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in order to study it with the
best of intentions, and the Lord

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is displeased with his actions.
So displeased that he strikes

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him and that he dies.
And David as we read was afraid

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asking the question, when how
shall I bring the Ark of God

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home to me, to the city of
Jerusalem?

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Every turn over a couple of
pages to chapter 15, we find out

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that some months later.
David was successful in bringing

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the Ark of God up to Jerusalem.
Start at the beginning of the

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chapter, David made him houses
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prepared a place for the Ark of
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Then David said, none ought to
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Levites for them.
Have the Lord chosen to carry

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the Ark of God and to minister
unto him forever.

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And David gathered, all Israel
together to Jerusalem to bring

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up the Ark of the Lord unto his
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Which he had prepared for it.
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great joy and rejoicing, then
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achieve their objective and a
bring the Ark of God to set it

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up in the city of Jerusalem.
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between chapter 13 and chapter
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Is that David has got his Bible
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Well a series of Scrolls as the
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time of David and he’s got the
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First written by Moses and he’s
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he’s come to the book of numbers
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numbers and he’s read what we
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he can say none, but the Levites
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He’s read those very detailed
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Israel through Moses.
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that God has authorized for the
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To be moved from place to place,
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had written, then he meets with
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Now here’s here’s the points for
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that 500 years or so have passed
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And the time of David’s between
the time when those instructions

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were given and then the time
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ark but the passage of time,
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God has not changed and the word
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time of Moses is Equally
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David’s.
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It’s authoritative.
It does not change.

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Now then David himself was used
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Bible, the Psalms particularly
are associated with the pain of

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David and the ability of David
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praise God.
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Bible that also contain words
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And I’d like to take you now, if
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to the and book of Samuel and
chapter 23, because there we

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have a section which is
described for us as the last

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words of King David’s that in
this section, we get perhaps the

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fullest description of
inspiration that we get anywhere

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in the Bible.
We get a description of

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inspiration.
We don’t get an explanation that

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the Bible doesn’t explain how
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It doesn’t explain how it is.
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Speak certain words or to write
certain words and for them yet

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to be exactly the words that God
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It doesn’t explain that process
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we get to a description of what
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Second Samuel chapter 23.
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David’s David, the son of Jesse
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up on high, the anointed of the
god of Jacob and the sweet

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psalmist of Israel, seds, they
might say, David has been a bit

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repetitive there.
Don’t you think, did you miss

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the point that David wrote these
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These are the last words of
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said the anointed of the god of
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And the sweet psalmist of Israel
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Well, three times.
David has said, these are my

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words.
But look how he continues in

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verse 2, the spirit of the Lord
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And his word was in my tongue.
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of Israel speak to me and then
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He, that ruleth over men must be
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So is he in verse 1?
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are David’s words.
These are my words, But then in

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verse 2 in the beginning of
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He says well actually these are
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And that’s inspiration that the
words that were expressed by a

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man could at one and the same
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Exactly the words that God
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And it’s not just restricted to
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I’m going to go now to the first
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this time to chapter 28, what
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was to build a temple of for the
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to where he had moved the ark
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undertaking that task but said
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performed by his son Solomon,
but David not put off made

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extensive preparation for the
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that would be carried out after
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And in first Chronicles chapter,
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preparations that David made of
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Then David gave to Solomon, his
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and at the houses thereof and of
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the upper chambers thereof and
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and of the place of the mercy
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And the pattern of all that he
had by the spirit of the Courts

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of the house of the Lord, and
have all the chambers around

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about of the treasuries of the
house of God and of, the

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treasuries of the dedicated
things and come down to verse 9,

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18.
All this said, David the Lord

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made me understand in writing by
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of this pattern.
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You saying here are the
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Here are the plans which I’m
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Solomon to allow this Temple to
be constructed and these aren’t

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my plans, but as I drew the
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hand was upon me so that they
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pattern that God determines Now,
David is a great man described

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in the Bible as the man after
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with his wonderful insight into
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sufficient to draw those plans.
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for a place, a temple, a house
where God should be worshipped,

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it was necessary that they
should be exactly right to

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express.
Is the ideas that were

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appropriate for the worship of
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However, great that man might
be, so that God didn’t leave it

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to chance.
He didn’t leave it to the

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ability of David’s.
But, you know, David’s a great

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man.
I’m sure he’ll get something

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approximately right, that that
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That God guided, David’s Hands.
So the plan would be exactly

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what was appropriate for a house
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That the things that God
provided the ideas that God

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expressed were not in any way,
limited by the capacity of the

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individual that he used.
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understanding or David’s
insights that.

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God, could overrule that go over
and beyond that to ensure that

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they were exactly right as God’s
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It in the New Testament.
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about that.
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that he wrote switch, we find
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the New Testaments.
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Peter.
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Peter is writing about the
salvation that God has made

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available to men and women
through the work of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
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verse 10.
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prophets have inquired and
searched diligently who

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prophesied of the grace.
That should come unto you

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searching.
What or what manner of time the

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spirit Of Christ which was in
them did signify when it

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testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ and the

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glory that should follow and to
whom it was revealed that not

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unto themselves but unto us they
did Minister the things which

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are now reported unto you buy
them that have preached the

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gospel unto you.
So here’s Peter confirming.

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That God was not limited by the
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As or the circumstances, or
anything else that related to

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the men that he used the profits
that he used to rights the

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different books of the Old
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It is saying in fact that
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output of those individuals that
they studied their own writings,

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they searched diligently the
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So they might understand more
fully the things that God had.

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Waited through them concerning
the work of the Christ, his son

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that they weren’t limited by
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They could improve their
understanding by studying their

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own words and beyond that
because God was in control of

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the process because God’s
inspiration was controlling the

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output that the prophets put
down that the things that they

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wrote are of even greater A
benefit to those who live and

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seek these things.
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Christ, there have greater
benefit to people who lived long

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after the time that the prophets
who wrote them lifts that as

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Peter said there in verse 12
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they ministered to individuals
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full benefit of the prophets
message because they had the

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blessing of being after the
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The Lord Jesus Christ and
therefore could understand fully

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how God achieved salvation
through the life of the death

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and the resurrection of his son.
That’s because God is in

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control, that?
Yeah let’s choose a prophet

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Isaiah, say writing 700 BC,
could write something that Peter

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and the first century and
ourselves in the 21st century

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can benefit from even more more
than Isaiah and his

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contemporaries could benefit
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benefit greatly because it
wasn’t limited by Isaiah’s

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times, it wasn’t limited by
Isaiah’s understanding, it was

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not limited because it was God’s
words that he provided to

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Isaiah.
Now we come over to the second

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letter of Peter, just going on a
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Testaments, then When Peter
makes a another comments about

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this.
He’s talking about the

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difference evidences that ashore
followers of the Lord, Jesus

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Christ, that the things that
they believe and the things that

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they have learned are true.
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talking about in, this chapter,
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And the things that he could
witness to that, he had seen

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personally during his time with
Jesus Christ in the days of the

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ministry of Jesus.
But having spoken of his own

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personal witness to the things
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He says this in verse 19, second
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He says we have also a more sure
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You do well that you take heed
as unto a light that shines in a

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dark place, until the day Dawn,
and the day star arise in your

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hearts knowing this.
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scripture.
No Prophecy of the scripture is

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of any private interpretation
for the prophecy came not in Old

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Time by the will of man, but
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So Peter is saying, you’ve not
only got the eyewitness

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testimony that I can give to
you, but there’s an even better

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witness which is the witness of
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The witness of the words written
by God’s prophets which gives

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light it.
Gives education it illuminates,

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like a light in a dark place
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It’s not private in any way but
it comes from God’s and then he

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made that comment in verse 21
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Old Time by the will of man, it
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these things were written but
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As they were moved by the Holy
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I’ve already commented that
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first written in the Greek
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And when the Peter says that,
holy men of God, spake, as they

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were moved, he uses a word which
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there’s a record in the Acts of
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When the Apostle Paul has been
taken to the city of Rome to

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stand trial.
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Journey, he is Shipwrecked along
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As the ship in which he is,
traveling is caught up in a

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mighty storm and the record
tells us that because of the

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force of the wind and then the
sailors had no opportunity to

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steer the ship that.
If they try to steer the ship

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different to the way in which
the wind was blowing, that the

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force of the wind was so great
that it would up of uprooted the

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masks and wrecked the ship
earlier than it did.

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Otherwise, So the only option
that the sailors had was to run

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with the winds.
The force was so great that the

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ship just had to run before the
force of the wind.

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It was compelled Along by the
ferocity of the Gale.

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And the word that’s used in The
Acts of the Apostles to describe

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the ship being compelled to go
in a certain direction by the

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force of the storm.
Is the word that Peter uses

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here.
For holy men of God.

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Being moved by the Holy Spirit.
They were compelled.

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They were forced Along by the
Holy Spirit.

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It wasn’t down to their will, it
wasn’t out of their choice?

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It was what God requires that.
Once expressed.

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Now, I can illustrate that for
you, going back to the Old

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Testament and actually to the
time of Moses, and going to the

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Book of Numbers.
This time, if you’re following,

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let’s go to Numbers chapter, 22
and Numbers, Chapter 23, bit.

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Because I suppose that this
phenomena of inspiration there,

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varies from Individual to
individual, but that on the one

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extreme, you might have a man
like, David’s of a deeply

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spiritual character with
tremendous insight into the word

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of God, who could express the
Praises that came to his mind

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and the understanding that he
had and perhaps with, only a

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small amount of change through
the operation of God’s Spirits

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became exactly what God Quiets
On The Other Extreme you might

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have a rare case where God uses
a man who is not inclined at all

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to the things of God and who God
overalls completely in every way

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to ensure words that God
requires to be spoken are spoken

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and such a case is the prophet
Balaam who we read about in The

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Book of Numbers chapters 22 and
23 here.

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Balaam is presented to us as a
false prophets, a man who has a

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knowledge of the living Gods,
but instead of using that

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knowledge to worship God and to
seek more, clearly into the

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things of his truth, uses the
knowledge that he has to enrich

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himself and to manipulate
others.

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And in this section of the Book
of Numbers, the nation of

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Israel, making their Journey
Holds the land of Israel are

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camped in the plains of Moab and
the king of that area is rather

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concerned by the presence of
this large body of people on the

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borders of his lamps.
He’s worried that if there is

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conflict between them, that his
kingdom will be taken from him

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and he’s heard of the reputation
of this false prophet Baylin.

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So he wants Balaam to come and
curse.

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The people of Israel.
And he’s prepared to pay

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handsomely for Balaam to do that
and there’s nothing that Balaam

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wants more than to take the
money that’s on offer.

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He wants to fulfill the
commission that the King has

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given him.
He wants to take the opportunity

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to curse these people and to
receive a bountiful rewards.

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But before he travels, he’s
warned about the situation by an

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You love God’s Numbers, chapter
22, and verse 35.

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The angel of the Lord said unto
Balaam go with the men, but only

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the word that I shall speak unto
thee, that thou shalt speak.

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So Balaam went with the princes
of balak.

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They lack is the Kink of the
area.

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So the angel said to Balaam only
the words that the angel allowed

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should Balaam speak we come into
Where we can come down to verse

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38.
When Balaam meets the king.

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Balaam said unto Baal a khlo.
I am come unto thee.

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Have I now any power at all to
say anything, the word that God

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puts in my mouth, that shall I
speak?

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So he confesses that his own
will has nothing to do with the

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words that he speaks.
And when we come into the next

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chapter, then we find Balaam
trying to Curse the nation of

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Israel in order to receive the
rewards and every time he opens

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his mouth to curse then instead
blessings come out and we have a

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slime, a ridiculous situation
really where where the king is

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saying to me, well, you know, I
want you to curse and you’re

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speaking blessings.
Well, maybe if you come behind

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the hill that you can’t even see
these people, you’ll be able to

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curse them.
So, he goes behind the hill and

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he and he tries to Curse.
So that every time he tries to

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curse then instead blessings
come out verse 5 of chapter 23,

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the Lord put a word in balaam’s
math and said return and to

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balak and thus Thou shalt speak
that the word the laws rather

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controlled, the tongue of Balaam
to enforce that the words that

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the almighty required to be
spoken.

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Were the words that he spoke the
king gets very frustrated.

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If we come down to verse 11 of
chapter 23, balak said unto

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Balaam, what hast thou done unto
me.

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I took me to curse, mine enemies
and thou Hast blessed them all

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together.
And Balaam said answered and

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said, most do not take heed to
speak that which the Lord hath

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put in my mouth.
So they’re gone in absolute

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control.
What they l’m sets Amanda.

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Desperate to curse.
But only able to speak blessings

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compelled to bless by the will
of gods that overrules, the will

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of the man.
God’s words is not dependent on

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or changeable by man in any way.
That’s what the experience of

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Balaam and the other prophets is
telling us.

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Go back to the New Testament for
our final few references.

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We started with the Apostle,
Paul and the Apostle.

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Paul also comments about the
inspiration, that’s underpinned

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his teaching take you.
If you’re following to the first

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letter that he wrote to the
Corinthians to the communities

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of Believers, in the city of
Corinth where he speaks about.

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The character and the quality of
the inspiration of God as it

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operates it in the teaching of
the Apostles of Jesus Christ.

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First of the Corinthians and
death 2:12. now we says speaking

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initially about himself and the
other Apostles we have received,

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not the spirit of the world, but
the spirit, which is of god,

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that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of

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God’s which things also, we
speak not in The Words, which

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man’s Wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Spirit teaches

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comparing spiritual things with
Spiritual.

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That’s Paul, you know, this
isn’t education.

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This isn’t cleverness.
This isn’t the ability of these

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teachers that God is using.
This is God’s activity that

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through the Holy Spirit.
He has taught them, the things

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they are to express.
I don’t know if you know

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anything about the Apostle Paul.
The Apostle Paul was a brilliant

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man.
Before he became a follower of

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the Lord Jesus Christ, he was
one of the great up-and-coming

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talents of the Jewish
establishments.

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He had the best education in the
things of the Jewish,

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00:41:16,100 –> 00:41:18,600
understanding of the word of
God, and the Old Testament

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00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:20,900
scriptures, that it was possible
to have.

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He had a Brilliant Minds, a
lawyer’s mind to argue with

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logic.
Is it it’s got nothing to do

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with my education.
It’s got nothing to do with how

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clever I am.
It’s got nothing to do with the

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different abilities that I might
have.

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And that somebody else might not
got nothing to do with my

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ability, but it’s down to The
Words, which God teaches through

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the operation of his holy
spirit, or even a brilliant

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scholar, like Paul would admits
that.

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It’s not his learning, not his
understanding, not his ability.

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But utterly controls by God’s.
Now, the outworking of that in

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an illustration comes towards
the end of this first letter to

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the Corinthians.
If I can take you now to Chapter

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14, verse Corinthians, chapter
14 and verse 37 towards the end

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of the chapter there.
One of the things that we learn

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when we read through the first
letter that Paul wrote to the

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Believers at Corinth, was that
he had opponents, that there

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were other men who went to those
communities of Believers and try

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to teach them something a little
different, to the teaching of

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the Apostle Paul, and in order
to try and get others to accept

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their point of view, who chose
to try and belittle and

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undermine the Apostle Paul,
Paul, and that’s been happening.

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And that’s the background to
what Paul has to say here.

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So, in verse 37 of First
Corinthians 14, he says If any

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man think himself to be a
prophet or spiritual, let him

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acknowledge that the things that
I write unto, you are the

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Commandments of the law.
It’s so with one eye on his

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opponents, were trying to
undermine him.

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So, look, this is the situation.
If anyone comes here and they

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set themselves up to be a
prophet to speak for God, or a

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spiritual person who can give
guidance to the Believers, let

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them first.
Acknowledge that Paul’s Words,

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the things that he has written
to the Believers in Corinth are

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the Commandments of the Lord
Jesus.

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Because they weren’t Paul’s
words.

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At all, they didn’t depend on
Paul.

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They were the words that Paul
had been taught by the holy

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spirit’s.
They were the Commandments of

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the Lord’s.
Their Authority came, not from

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Paul and then he personal
Authority, he might have, but

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from God’s entirely.
And you know that even applied

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to the Lord Jesus Christ
himself, the son of Gods, the

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greatest of men.
Finally let’s go to John chapter

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8 and see the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaking about his own

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experience.
In John’s gospel, Jesus is often

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found in discussion and
argument.

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We might say, with the leaders
of the Jewish Nation, their

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religious teachers and
authority, and he’s in that

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00:44:44,100 –> 00:44:51,000
situation here in John chapter
8, John chapter 8, and verse 26.

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Jesus speaking, he says, I have
many things to say and to judge

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00:44:57,800 –> 00:45:02,700
of you, but he that sent me is
true and I speak to the world,

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00:45:02,700 –> 00:45:08,500
those things which I have heard
of him They understood not that,

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00:45:08,500 –> 00:45:13,400
he spake to them of the father,
then said Jesus unto them when

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he have lifted up the son of
man, then shall you know that I

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am he and that I do nothing of
myself.

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But as my father, hath taught
me.

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I speak these things and he that
sent me is with me.

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00:45:26,900 –> 00:45:29,700
The father hath not left me
alone for I do, always those

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00:45:29,700 –> 00:45:32,300
things that please him as he
spake.

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These words, many believed on
him, but that you see here is

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Jesus.
Launched himself.

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Here is the Son of God, saying
the teaching that I’m giving you

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00:45:42,800 –> 00:45:45,700
has Authority.
Not because of any personal

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Authority that I might have, but
no because I’m teaching verse

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26, the things which I have
heard of God’s, the things,

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which I have heard of him, or in
verse 28, I do nothing of

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00:45:59,300 –> 00:46:02,300
myself, but as my father, hath
taught me.

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I speak these things that the
teaching of the Lord, Lord,

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Jesus Christ was authoritative.
Because he had received it of

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his father that God’s word in no
way.

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Rests upon the Authority or the
ability of man.

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00:46:22,200 –> 00:46:26,800
But God has insured’s that the
original words that were

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expressed are the words that he
wanted to be set down exactly as

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he intended.
So in thinking about this topic

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of inspiration, this afternoon
and seeing just a few examples

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of those who were subject to it
and experienced its that then we

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00:46:48,900 –> 00:46:56,600
can draw out several key.
Is that the Bible puts to us but

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00:46:56,600 –> 00:47:00,900
that Gods who made the mouth
could teach you what to say

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00:47:01,300 –> 00:47:06,000
that, God would control the
process that they’re God’s word,

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00:47:06,000 –> 00:47:10,600
does not change the passage of
time, doesn’t alter its its

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00:47:10,600 –> 00:47:15,200
authoritative.
That God’s word is not limited

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00:47:15,200 –> 00:47:18,300
in any way, by the
understanding, or the time, or

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00:47:18,300 –> 00:47:23,400
the circumstances of Those whom
he used to produce it.

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But God’s word is not dependent
or changeable by man.

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So inspiration.
What does it mean?

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Well, let me tell you what it
means in Practical to

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inspiration means that the Bible
that we are privileged to read

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00:47:46,900 –> 00:47:52,200
is God’s words.
And because it is God’s words,

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we cannot afford to ignore it.
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