Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 306.<\/p>\n
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\nright to our introduction.
\nSo this is the 2023 Manitoulin <\/p>\n
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\nFamily Bible Camp.
\nOur speaker for this session is <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Jason Hensley from the
\nSimi Hills, California Ecclesia.<\/p>\n
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\nHis theme this week is the
\nGospel of Peace. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is his second class and the
\nsubject for this class is <\/p>\n
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\ninterconnected Peace.
\nBrother Jason. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at this.
\nHere we go. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, I’m free.
\nWell, good morning, everyone. <\/p>\n
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\nHow are you today?
\nYou doing good. <\/p>\n
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\nGood there.
\nI’m doing good too. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, all right, so here we go.
\nSo we’re talking about <\/p>\n
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\ninterconnected peace.
\nToday. <\/p>\n
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\nI wanted to show you our three
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\nI labeled this Jews and
\nGentiles, but really this is <\/p>\n
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\nkind of like historical
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\nSo it’s going to be looking at
\nJews and Gentiles, but not not <\/p>\n
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\ntotally.
\nWe’ll look at a few other things<\/p>\n
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\nas well.
\nThen we’re going to do a case <\/p>\n
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\nstudy as we walk through the
\nbook of Romans and a case study <\/p>\n
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\nin Ephesians.
\nNow, I will tell you this is <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be a targeted case
\nstudy because we’re looking at <\/p>\n
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\npeace, right?
\nSo we’ll be thinking <\/p>\n
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\nspecifically about peace in
\nthese. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you’re looking at it and
\nthinking, well, that’s not <\/p>\n
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\nreally what Romans is about.
\nWell, yeah, you’re right. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it’s it’s specifically we’re
\ntracing peace. <\/p>\n
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\nThrough.
\nRomans and Ephesians. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s the main message.
\nAll shades of peace are <\/p>\n
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\ninterconnected.
\nNow let me see if you remember. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you remember the main message
\nfrom yesterday? <\/p>\n
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\nPeace matters.
\nVery good. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, well, now you’ll see that
\nI’m really challenging you today<\/p>\n
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\nbecause that was only two words.
\nRight now you get 6. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s I know whoo I didn’t,
\nI didn’t do multiples, but you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, two up through.
\nSo we skipped 4 because I I <\/p>\n
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\nbelieve in you.
\nSo here we go. <\/p>\n
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\nAll shades of peace are
\ninterconnected. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what I mean by that is that
\nwe discussed these different <\/p>\n
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\nkinds of peace yesterday, right?
\nWorld Peace, inner peace, peace <\/p>\n
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\nwith God, interrelational peace,
\nall of these are connected to <\/p>\n
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\neach other.
\nI don’t think that we can really<\/p>\n
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\nhave some of them without the
\nothers. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re all linked together.
\nAnd so that is why peace is so <\/p>\n
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\ncrucial.
\nWhen we want peace with God, we <\/p>\n
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\nneed to learn to have peace with
\neach other. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s our why.
\nQuestion Why should Christians <\/p>\n
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\nlive at peace with others?
\nAnd what I mean by that is in <\/p>\n
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\nthe ecclesia and also outside,
\nright, we are told to live at <\/p>\n
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\npeace with all men.
\nThat means everybody. <\/p>\n
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\nSo why, why are we told to do
\nthat? <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s what we’re going to be
\nlooking at really today. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the why of what we saw
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
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\nWe saw that peace was important.
\nAnd now we’re really going to <\/p>\n
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\nbuild up why it matters so much,
\nwhy it is such a big deal for <\/p>\n
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\nus, and in fact, how it is
\nconnected to the gospel. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, so with that said, we’re
\ngoing to jump in and we’re going<\/p>\n
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\nto take a look at the historical
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\nNow, again, I said this is Jews
\nand Gentiles, but we’re going to<\/p>\n
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\nlook at a few other things
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\nGenerally when I give these
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\nAnd I was actually, I was really
\nintrigued that nobody came and <\/p>\n
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\nsaid this to me yesterday.
\nMaybe maybe you just thought I <\/p>\n
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\npeople will say to me, well wait
\na minute, you know you’re <\/p>\n
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\ntalking about being peaceful,
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\nAnd you can just kind of think
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\ntimes that the Lord was not
\npeaceful, right There’s. <\/p>\n
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\nQuite a few of them, you know,
\nwe know that he turned over the <\/p>\n
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\ntables of the money changers
\ntwice, right? <\/p>\n
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\nministry and at the end. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s not peaceful, you know,
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\nWhen you look at Matthew 23 and <\/p>\n
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\nWe need to kind of understand <\/p>\n
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\nNow, we talked about Simon the
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\nRemember that, and with Simon <\/p>\n
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\nwhitewashed tombs, he says I <\/p>\n
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\nGospels and say, Oh, look, see, <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore, a lot of things that
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\nSo we should say mean things, <\/p>\n
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\nI had somebody tell me that <\/p>\n
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\nLike, no, that’s that’s not how <\/p>\n
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\nLike we need to understand what <\/p>\n
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\nback then and thereby on those <\/p>\n
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\nBy the way. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s go back and look <\/p>\n
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\nhistorically at this.
\nSo I’m going to show you some <\/p>\n
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\nquotes from the Talmud.
\nNow, can I just get a show of <\/p>\n
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\nhands on who is familiar with
\nthe Talmud? <\/p>\n
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\nOK, All right, I’ll give you a
\ndefinition then. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s let’s talk a little bit
\nabout what this is. <\/p>\n
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\nNow #1 I want to make this
\nincredibly clear. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Talmud is not the Bible.
\nIt is not inspired. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is culturally Jewish
\nmaterial. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, I’m not saying it’s
\nright. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not endorsing it.
\nSo please don’t like go home and<\/p>\n
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\nbe like, I’m going to start
\nreading the Talmud or something <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I found this cool book in <\/p>\n
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\nNo, that’s, that’s not what I’m <\/p>\n
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\ndoing.
\nI’m just trying to show this is <\/p>\n
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\nhistorically what things were
\nlike. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s important to know.
\nHere’s how the Talmud comes <\/p>\n
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\nSo there are two major dates <\/p>\n
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\nSo the dates are the 9th of of <\/p>\n
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\n586 BCE, 9th of off 5. 86 BCE,
\nWhat happened on that day? <\/p>\n
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\nBabylon destroys the first
\ntemple, right? <\/p>\n
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\nOr AD 70.
\nWell, we should also be aware of<\/p>\n
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\nthe destruction of the first
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\nSo that’s 586 BCE, 9th of off.
\nNow what’s interesting is they <\/p>\n
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\nhappen on the same day
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\nAnd then you also have the 9th <\/p>\n
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\nof off 70 CE, right?
\nThat’s the destruction of the <\/p>\n
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\nSo you have the. <\/p>\n
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\nDestruction of the First Temple
\nby the Babylonians 586 You have <\/p>\n
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\nthe destruction of the Second
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\nsaid, you get the destruction of
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\nJews are carried off into exile,
\nand I think here’s something <\/p>\n
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\nthat we often miss.
\nCan you imagine being a Jewish <\/p>\n
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\nperson and attempting to follow
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\nJust think about what would
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\nRight, you’d you’d.
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\nlife and you’d realize, oh, I
\njust committed an unintentional <\/p>\n
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\nsin that means I need to go to
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\nsacrifice.
\nAnd then you think, oh wait, the<\/p>\n
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\ntemple is thousands of miles
\naway. <\/p>\n
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\nSorry, I don’t know kilometers.
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\nThousands of kilometers away <\/p>\n
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\nand.
\nYet it doesn’t actually exist. <\/p>\n
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\nRight.
\nSo how are you going to offer <\/p>\n
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\nyour sin offering?
\nHow’s that supposed to work? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd suddenly you realize, oh,
\nwait a minute, we were supposed <\/p>\n
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\nto be offering a sacrifice in
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\nWe were supposed like our lives
\nwere supposed to revolve. <\/p>\n
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\nAround this temple.
\nWe were supposed to go there <\/p>\n
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\nWhen the feast of Passover shows<\/p>\n
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\nup, you’re sitting there in
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\nwhere do I go, right?
\nWhat am I? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat am I supposed to do here?
\nAnd you suddenly realize, I just<\/p>\n
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\ncan’t follow the law at all.
\nAnd that was the point, right? <\/p>\n
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\nIn 586, the people were supposed
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\nabout the law, right?
\nIt was about the principles. <\/p>\n
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\nGod was trying to teach the
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\nWhat’s interesting is there were
\na number of people who did <\/p>\n
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\ndo we do about the law? <\/p>\n
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\nSo they say, well, how about we <\/p>\n
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\ntry and understand what the <\/p>\n
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\nThat was their idea.
\nNow you can see maybe how this <\/p>\n
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\nis starting to go wrong, right?
\nThe principles are good. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re supposed to follow the
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\nThat’s what God was teaching
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\nThe issue is, is that you don’t
\ncreate new laws to follow the <\/p>\n
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\nsame principles.
\nBut this is what takes place. <\/p>\n
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\nThese scribes come together and
\nthey say, well, we want to <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is actually them saying <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to follow the spirit
\nof the law, right? <\/p>\n
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\nof the law. <\/p>\n
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\nBut to do it, they make more
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\nSo that’s the issue.
\nThis group of scribes eventually<\/p>\n
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\nThey’re the early predecessors
\nof the Pharisees, and they put <\/p>\n
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\nOral Torah. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Oral Torah is what the
\nPharisees push, and they say <\/p>\n
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\nthis is how the law applies
\ntoday, right? <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s things that were not
\nwritten in the Torah, but it <\/p>\n
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\nSupposed to be the principles of<\/p>\n
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\nreferring to when he talks about<\/p>\n
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\nSo the Pharisees followed those,<\/p>\n
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\nAnd what ends up happening? <\/p>\n
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\nIs the Pharisees say these are
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\nthis whole history for them.
\nThis is why they call them the <\/p>\n
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\nOral Torah.
\nSo you had the written Torah, <\/p>\n
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\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then you had the Oral Torah,
\nwhich they claimed was given to <\/p>\n
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\nMoses on Mount Sinai by God.
\nGod just decided not to write it<\/p>\n
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\nconveniently and instead he
\nspoke it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it just so happened that he
\nspoke it to Moses, who gave it <\/p>\n
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\nto Joshua, who then gave it to
\ntheir family members. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd those family members were
\nthe scribes. <\/p>\n
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\nSo they say, we have this, you
\nknow, new secret information <\/p>\n
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\nnow that we’re in exile in <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s all about how you <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s called the Oral Torah. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s actually the words of God.
\nYou can see why this made the <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus so mad, right?
\nLike this is totally claiming to<\/p>\n
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\nknow like new information about
\nGod and putting words in God’s <\/p>\n
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\nmouth.
\nSo they claim all this and then.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Pharisee movement takes hold
\nof it. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Temple is destroyed 70 CE,
\nthe second Temple, right. <\/p>\n
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\nSo therefore the Sadducees
\ndisappear because the Sadducees <\/p>\n
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\nwere the priests.
\nAnd so the only people who are <\/p>\n
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\nleft are Pharisees, which then
\nbecome the people called rabbis.<\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s sort of the, you know,
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\nhistory of how this all works.
\nThey then decide the rabbis do <\/p>\n
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\nbecause they say, you know, this
\nwhole temple destroying thing, <\/p>\n
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\nthis is not so good.
\nSo why don’t we actually write <\/p>\n
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\ndown the Oral Torah?
\nSo they write it down. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the Oral Torah becomes
\nwritten and that is what’s <\/p>\n
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\ncalled the Mishnah.
\nA bunch of rabbis get together. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s some in Jerusalem,
\nthere’s some in Babylon. <\/p>\n
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\nThey get together and they
\ncreate commentaries on the <\/p>\n
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\nMishnah.
\nThat’s called the Gomorrah. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you have the Mishnah and the
\nGomorrah, and then the Mishnah <\/p>\n
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\nand the Gomorrah get put
\ntogether into one book, and that<\/p>\n
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\nis the Talmud.
\nSo that’s all the history. <\/p>\n
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\nTalmud creation happens right
\naround 200 BCE. <\/p>\n
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\nYou might be wondering why we’re
\ntalking all about all this, but <\/p>\n
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\nit’s an important piece of just
\nkind of understanding the <\/p>\n
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\nhistorical context of all of
\nthese things, right? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen these things happen,
\nbecause the Talmud gives us a <\/p>\n
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\nhuge insight into what 1st
\ncentury Jewish life was like, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nIt is the writings of the <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s important. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, as we look at that, I just
\nwant to show you some of the <\/p>\n
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\nthings that show up in the
\nTalmud. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I have a very small sampling
\nhere. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is how people talk all the
\ntime in the Talmud. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the Talmud is these
\ncollections of here’s what the <\/p>\n
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\nlaw is, here’s what the Oral
\nTorah is, and then it’s a bunch <\/p>\n
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\nof debates about them.
\nSo here’s just a little sample <\/p>\n
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\nfrom one of the debates.
\nIt says Rava said to him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is Rava.
\nHe’s one of the rabbis. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s talking to another rabbi.
\nHe says, fool, when that verita <\/p>\n
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\nis taught, it’s referring to a
\ncase dot, dot, dot. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he goes on and he talks
\nabout something else. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s another example, Raba,
\nthat’s not the same as Rava. <\/p>\n
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\nRaba said to him, fool, we
\nlearned in the Mishnah that this<\/p>\n
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\nthat this halakha applies and
\nthen he goes and he explains <\/p>\n
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\nwhat the halakha is, etcetera.
\nHolakha is one of the <\/p>\n
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\ncommandments on how you’re.
\nSupposed to live. <\/p>\n
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\nNow do you notice how the rabbis
\naddress one another? <\/p>\n
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\nFool.
\nNow I will tell you this is <\/p>\n
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\nactually a nice translation that
\nthe Talmud is written in Aramaic<\/p>\n
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\nand the Aramaic there.
\nIs actually idiot. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is, this is what they
\ncall each other all the time, <\/p>\n
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\nyou know, and they just, they go
\nback and forth on all of this. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in fact, this is one of the
\nthings that like the Talmud <\/p>\n
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\nloves about it and it, and it’s
\nstill in modern Jewish culture. <\/p>\n
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\nLike, I don’t know if you’ve
\never heard the phrase three Jews<\/p>\n
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\n4 opinions, right?
\nLike that’s, and I’m not, I’m <\/p>\n
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\nnot trying to be, you know, like
\nanti-Semitic or anything along <\/p>\n
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\nthose lines.
\nThat’s, that’s like a phrase <\/p>\n
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\nthat Jews use.
\nI’ve had it told to me many <\/p>\n
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\ntimes when I’ve gone to
\nsynagogues or whatnot. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they use it as like a thing
\nof pride. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, they’re like 3 Jews, 4
\nopinions. <\/p>\n
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\nLike that’s who we are.
\nLike we argue, we debate, we <\/p>\n
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\ncall each other idiots, like,
\nand then we go out for coffee. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s, it’s like
\nthat’s, that’s how they do <\/p>\n
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\nthings and they love it.
\nSo I just, I think it’s helpful <\/p>\n
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\nto recognize this.
\nHere’s another example. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is Rabbi Eliezer versus
\nAkiva or Rabbi Akiva. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, Rabbi Akiva.
\nWas one of the the big deal <\/p>\n
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\nrabbis.
\nSo if you hear something, you <\/p>\n
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\nknow that he wrote, it’s usually
\nlike, whoa, people, people <\/p>\n
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\nreally pay attention to it.
\nHe was just. <\/p>\n
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\nHistorical interest.
\nHe was the rabbi that supported <\/p>\n
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\nBarkokba in the Barkokba.
\nRebellion, if that means <\/p>\n
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\nanything to you.
\nOK, so here’s here’s. <\/p>\n
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\nThis just listen to this.
\nConversation. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, Rabbi Eliezer said to him.
\nThat’s Akiva. <\/p>\n
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\nAbout this Akiva, you have light
\nheartedly responded to me with a<\/p>\n
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\nfaulty, a fortatory inference
\nwith regard to slaughter. <\/p>\n
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\nHis death, that is, Akiva’s
\ndeath, will be with slaughter, <\/p>\n
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\nmeaning as punishment for this
\ndisrespect, you will be <\/p>\n
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\nslaughtered by other people.
\nSo Eliezer is just like, well, <\/p>\n
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\nAkiva, I didn’t like how you
\nresponded to me there. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I just want you to know that
\nwhen you die, people are going <\/p>\n
335
\n00:17:15,520 –> 00:17:16,599
\nto not treat.
\nYou very well. <\/p>\n
336
\n00:17:17,680 –> 00:17:20,680
\nAnd Akiva’s like, OK, thanks.
\nAnd then they like just move on,<\/p>\n
337
\n00:17:21,280 –> 00:17:23,960
\nYou know, there’s no, there’s no
\nlike issue here. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:17:23,960 –> 00:17:26,640
\nThere’s no Akiva saying like, I
\nhate you or anything like that. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:26,880 –> 00:17:32,040
\nLike this is just normal.
\nThis is normal talk. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:32,760 –> 00:17:36,280
\nIn fact, this is important for
\nus particularly because we will <\/p>\n
341
\n00:17:36,280 –> 00:17:38,800
\nsee things like in John chapter
\n8, when the Lord Jesus is <\/p>\n
342
\n00:17:38,800 –> 00:17:41,200
\ntalking to a group of Jews.
\nHe says you were of your father <\/p>\n
343
\n00:17:41,200 –> 00:17:43,600
\nthe devil.
\nYou remember that you’re of your<\/p>\n
344
\n00:17:43,600 –> 00:17:47,000
\nfather the devil.
\nAnd that phrase became terrible <\/p>\n
345
\n00:17:47,080 –> 00:17:50,040
\nin Christian history.
\nIt was taken to mean that Jews <\/p>\n
346
\n00:17:50,040 –> 00:17:52,040
\nare actually demonic and that
\nthey have horns. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:17:52,200 –> 00:17:54,680
\nIn fact, I have met Jewish
\npeople today who say that <\/p>\n
348
\n00:17:54,680 –> 00:17:57,400
\nChristians will still come to
\nthem and ask to feel their head,<\/p>\n
349
\n00:17:58,080 –> 00:18:00,040
\nto see if they have horns.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:00,480 –> 00:18:02,480
\nMultiple Jewish people.
\nHave come and talk to me about <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:02,480 –> 00:18:06,560
\nthat.
\nSo that verse was misunderstood <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:06,560 –> 00:18:10,320
\nbecause this historical context
\nwasn’t understood, but in fact <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:10,320 –> 00:18:13,440
\nthat was a thing that Jews said
\nto each other back then. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:13,600 –> 00:18:15,080
\nSo here’s another example from
\nthe Talmud. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:15,480 –> 00:18:18,920
\nThis is Dosa Ben Harkinas, and
\nhe’s talking about his brother <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:19,000 –> 00:18:23,560
\nJohannitan Ben Harkinas.
\nSo he that’s Dosa said to them. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:23,560 –> 00:18:25,760
\nDid you hear that Dosa Ben
\nHarkinas issued this? <\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:25,760 –> 00:18:27,600
\nRuling.
\nOr did you hear that it was <\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:27,600 –> 00:18:30,680
\nstated by Ben Harkinas?
\nBecause he wants to know, was <\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:30,680 –> 00:18:33,080
\nthis my ruling or was it just by
\nsomebody in my family? <\/p>\n
361
\n00:18:34,480 –> 00:18:36,760
\nThey said to him, on your life,
\nRabbi, we simply heard Ben <\/p>\n
362
\n00:18:36,760 –> 00:18:38,800
\nHarkiness.
\nHe said to them, if so, it is no<\/p>\n
363
\n00:18:38,800 –> 00:18:41,040
\nwonder, as I have a younger
\nbrother who is the first born of<\/p>\n
364
\n00:18:41,040 –> 00:18:44,440
\nthe Satan, IE, he’s extremely
\nsharp and as brazen as a demon. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:18:44,520 –> 00:18:46,920
\nAnd his name is Johannatan, and
\nhe’s among the disciples of <\/p>\n
366
\n00:18:46,920 –> 00:18:49,920
\nShamai, which, you know, in the
\nTalmud being a disciple of <\/p>\n
367
\n00:18:49,920 –> 00:18:53,440
\nShamai, that kind of, you know,
\nthat’s you don’t want to be that<\/p>\n
368
\n00:18:54,520 –> 00:18:59,200
\nit is he who issued this ruling.
\nOK, So what you got again here <\/p>\n
369
\n00:18:59,200 –> 00:19:00,920
\nis this is just how people talk
\nabout each other now. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:00,920 –> 00:19:03,400
\nThis is his brother, right?
\nIt’s not like he’s not saying I <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:03,400 –> 00:19:05,920
\nhate my brother.
\nHe’s just saying, oh, you know, <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:05,920 –> 00:19:07,040
\nlike my brother.
\nYeah, we have. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:07,040 –> 00:19:09,200
\nWe spar, right?
\nLike, this is this is the kind <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:09,200 –> 00:19:11,160
\nof thing that happens.
\nI totally disagree with him. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:11,240 –> 00:19:12,520
\nHe doesn’t ever know what he’s
\ntalking about. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:12,680 –> 00:19:15,560
\nBut then he’ll say, brother, you
\nknow, the next time he sees him.<\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:15,800 –> 00:19:17,280
\nAnd that’s how things will be
\nlike. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:17,280 –> 00:19:20,480
\nThis is how the Talmud is.
\nThis was the historical context <\/p>\n
379
\n00:19:20,480 –> 00:19:22,960
\nback then.
\nThis was how Jews, particularly <\/p>\n
380
\n00:19:22,960 –> 00:19:27,360
\nrabbis, spoke to each other.
\nIn fact, there is one story. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:19:27,560 –> 00:19:29,720
\nI’ll tell you about it just
\nbecause it’s so strange to us. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:19:29,920 –> 00:19:32,840
\nThere’s one story in the Talmud
\nin which these rabbis are <\/p>\n
383
\n00:19:32,840 –> 00:19:35,320
\narguing with each other and they
\ncan’t figure out what the <\/p>\n
384
\n00:19:35,320 –> 00:19:37,760
\ncorrect ruling on this law in
\nthe Torah is. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:19:38,120 –> 00:19:42,560
\nSo one rabbi says, well, if I am
\nright, I will use my mind powers<\/p>\n
386
\n00:19:42,680 –> 00:19:45,400
\nand move this one tree from
\nthere to there. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:19:46,080 –> 00:19:48,960
\nAnd then all the rabbis watch
\nand he goes, you know, any the <\/p>\n
388
\n00:19:48,960 –> 00:19:51,720
\ntree starts to float and the
\ntree moves and everyone’s like, <\/p>\n
389
\n00:19:51,720 –> 00:19:53,720
\nwhoa, you know, he must be
\nright. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:19:53,720 –> 00:19:56,640
\nHe has mind powers.
\nAnd the other rabbi then he’s <\/p>\n
391
\n00:19:56,640 –> 00:20:00,320
\ntalking says, Oh yeah, Well, if
\nI am right then. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:00,600 –> 00:20:04,120
\nThe walls of this house that we
\nare in will cave in on us and <\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:04,120 –> 00:20:07,320
\nthe walls bend down, you know,
\non on top of them. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:07,560 –> 00:20:09,920
\nAnd so you have this like
\ncontest of not only like the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:09,920 –> 00:20:13,560
\nrabbis like their, their
\nunderstanding of the Torah, but <\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:13,560 –> 00:20:16,200
\nlike their mental power, right?
\nLike this guy has so much mind <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:16,200 –> 00:20:18,320
\npower.
\nOne guy can move a tree, but the<\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:18,320 –> 00:20:20,960
\nother guy can like move a house.
\nYou know, so like they’re trying<\/p>\n
399
\n00:20:20,960 –> 00:20:23,160
\nto show I have a bigger brain
\nthan you kind of thing. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:20:23,160 –> 00:20:25,720
\nSo they’re like going back and
\nforth and like arguing over all <\/p>\n
401
\n00:20:25,720 –> 00:20:28,080
\nthis and then finally get this.
\nThis is the weirdest part. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:20:28,520 –> 00:20:34,200
\nGod comes and God says to them,
\nI don’t want to see my children <\/p>\n
403
\n00:20:34,200 –> 00:20:36,440
\nquarreling with one another,
\nright? <\/p>\n
404
\n00:20:36,440 –> 00:20:38,840
\nSo you actually have this
\nintervention in the story of <\/p>\n
405
\n00:20:38,840 –> 00:20:40,480
\nsaying you need to treat each
\nother nicer. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:20:40,640 –> 00:20:43,480
\nAnd the rabbis say no, like,
\nit’s actually OK. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:20:43,480 –> 00:20:44,960
\nLike this is just how we talk,
\nno big deal. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:20:44,960 –> 00:20:47,360
\nDon’t worry about it.
\nAnd so they say to God, they <\/p>\n
409
\n00:20:47,360 –> 00:20:50,240
\nquote him one of the verses from
\nProverbs, I don’t remember which<\/p>\n
410
\n00:20:50,240 –> 00:20:52,320
\nit is.
\nThey quote him a verse from the <\/p>\n
411
\n00:20:52,320 –> 00:20:55,720
\nOld Testament that says like,
\nyou know, something along the <\/p>\n
412
\n00:20:55,720 –> 00:20:57,400
\nlines of.
\nLike you should be right about <\/p>\n
413
\n00:20:57,400 –> 00:21:00,120
\nthings or something like that.
\nAnd so they quote this verse to <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:00,120 –> 00:21:03,720
\nGod, and God says, I’ve been
\nbested by my own children. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:04,280 –> 00:21:08,040
\nAnd he starts laughing and he
\nsays, I love that my children <\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:08,160 –> 00:21:10,040
\nwill argue over these things.
\nAnd he leaves. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:11,480 –> 00:21:14,920
\nSo like, that’s that just gives
\nyou an idea of the cultural <\/p>\n
418
\n00:21:14,920 –> 00:21:17,000
\ncontext.
\nAnd I say that and I wanted to <\/p>\n
419
\n00:21:17,000 –> 00:21:19,240
\nspend, you know, a lot of time
\nlooking at this just because <\/p>\n
420
\n00:21:19,240 –> 00:21:21,480
\nit’s so important for us to
\nunderstand when we talk about <\/p>\n
421
\n00:21:21,480 –> 00:21:25,960
\npeace, like this is a big deal
\ncontext because we can <\/p>\n
422
\n00:21:25,960 –> 00:21:28,360
\ncompletely misunderstand what’s
\ngoing on and completely <\/p>\n
423
\n00:21:28,360 –> 00:21:30,920
\nmisunderstand how people are
\ntreating each other unless we <\/p>\n
424
\n00:21:30,920 –> 00:21:32,680
\nrecognize the way that they
\ntalked. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:21:33,400 –> 00:21:36,720
\nSo that’s that’s the big thing.
\nI would suggest to you a lot of <\/p>\n
426
\n00:21:36,720 –> 00:21:39,240
\nthose times when we read Jesus’s
\nwords and we think, wow, that <\/p>\n
427
\n00:21:39,240 –> 00:21:42,520
\nwas harsh.
\nMost people probably heard those<\/p>\n
428
\n00:21:42,720 –> 00:21:46,640
\nand didn’t think.
\nThat right, that’s that’s now <\/p>\n
429
\n00:21:46,640 –> 00:21:49,000
\nthere are times right where, you
\nknow, the lawyer and Luke 11 <\/p>\n
430
\n00:21:49,000 –> 00:21:51,640
\nsays like you’re offending us.
\nBut think about that. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:21:52,160 –> 00:21:54,320
\nLike Jesus was saying things
\nthat we’d be like, well, <\/p>\n
432
\n00:21:54,320 –> 00:21:56,720
\nobviously he’s offending them,
\nright? <\/p>\n
433
\n00:21:57,040 –> 00:22:00,640
\nBut the lawyer actually felt the
\nneed to say, hey, you know, <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:00,640 –> 00:22:03,960
\nlike, just want you to know this
\nis not like bro talk anymore. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:22:03,960 –> 00:22:07,160
\nLike I’m feeling a little like,
\nI don’t feel good about this, <\/p>\n
436
\n00:22:07,600 –> 00:22:09,760
\nright?
\nThat shows us there were <\/p>\n
437
\n00:22:09,760 –> 00:22:11,640
\ndifferent standards at that
\ntime. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:22:11,720 –> 00:22:13,280
\nI think that that’s important to
\nrecognize. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:22:13,760 –> 00:22:16,560
\nOK, so that’s the first thing
\nthat’s historical. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:22:16,920 –> 00:22:20,320
\nNow, in addition, as we talk
\nabout Romans and Ephesians. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:22:20,520 –> 00:22:23,240
\nI think it’s helpful for us to
\nalso understand some historical <\/p>\n
442
\n00:22:23,240 –> 00:22:27,280
\nperspective as far as how Jews.
\nWorked. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:22:27,280 –> 00:22:30,120
\nWith Gentiles.
\nSo let’s just take a look at <\/p>\n
444
\n00:22:30,120 –> 00:22:32,560
\nthis.
\nSo this is the letter of <\/p>\n
445
\n00:22:32,560 –> 00:22:34,600
\nAristius.
\nThis is the letter that tells us<\/p>\n
446
\n00:22:34,600 –> 00:22:36,960
\nabout how the Septuagint
\nsupposedly came into being. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:22:36,960 –> 00:22:40,400
\nAnd I say supposedly because it
\nsays that the 70 scholars who <\/p>\n
448
\n00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:43,360
\nput together Septuagint were put
\nin 70 different rooms, and they <\/p>\n
449
\n00:22:43,360 –> 00:22:46,000
\nall translated at the same time,
\nand they came up with word for <\/p>\n
450
\n00:22:46,000 –> 00:22:48,520
\nword the same translation.
\nThat. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:22:49,640 –> 00:22:52,640
\nSeems highly unlikely.
\nI don’t even come up with the <\/p>\n
452
\n00:22:52,640 –> 00:22:55,360
\nsame translation when I
\ntranslate something twice, so <\/p>\n
453
\n00:22:56,200 –> 00:22:57,760
\nyou know, I can’t imagine that
\ntaking place. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:22:57,920 –> 00:23:00,040
\nBut anyway, what this is saying
\nis. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:23:00,160 –> 00:23:03,600
\nThis is just giving us a little
\nbit of a a background as far as <\/p>\n
456
\n00:23:03,800 –> 00:23:06,280
\nJews and Gentiles and some of
\nthe the ways that the Jews <\/p>\n
457
\n00:23:06,280 –> 00:23:08,720
\ninteracted with them.
\nSo for instance, we won’t read <\/p>\n
458
\n00:23:08,720 –> 00:23:09,800
\nthrough it, but you can if you
\nwant. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:23:10,480 –> 00:23:14,200
\nIt says that when those Jews
\ncame down to translate the <\/p>\n
460
\n00:23:14,200 –> 00:23:17,920
\nSeptuagint version that Ptolemy
\nthe second says to them, hey, <\/p>\n
461
\n00:23:17,920 –> 00:23:20,080
\nyou know, rabbis, I want to eat
\na meal together. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:23:20,240 –> 00:23:25,040
\nAnd the rabbis are kind of like,
\nwell, you know, it sounds nice. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:23:25,920 –> 00:23:30,160
\nAnd the reason is because they.
\nCan’t eat with gentiles right <\/p>\n
464
\n00:23:30,160 –> 00:23:32,280
\nthere it’s.
\nA real awkward moment because <\/p>\n
465
\n00:23:32,280 –> 00:23:34,240
\nthey can’t eat with gentiles
\nbecause maybe the food was <\/p>\n
466
\n00:23:34,240 –> 00:23:35,960
\noffered to idols.
\nAll of this. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:23:36,240 –> 00:23:38,440
\nAnd so he says, oh, right.
\nYou know, I got to make. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:23:38,600 –> 00:23:40,520
\nI have to make preparations for
\nyour banquet. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:23:40,520 –> 00:23:43,080
\nI got to, you know, make it
\neverything OK for you. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:23:43,120 –> 00:23:44,480
\nI got to do it all kosher.
\nI get it. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:23:44,760 –> 00:23:48,320
\nSo Jews just didn’t normally eat
\nwith Gentiles, right. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:23:48,320 –> 00:23:49,560
\nSo that’s, that’s the thing to
\nnote. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:23:50,880 –> 00:23:53,240
\nHere’s an instance of just what
\na big deal this was. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:23:53,240 –> 00:23:55,040
\nSo this is from the book of
\nSecond Maccabees. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:23:55,040 –> 00:23:57,000
\nAgain, this is not biblical
\nunless you’re a Catholic, which <\/p>\n
476
\n00:23:57,000 –> 00:24:01,040
\nwe aren’t.
\nBut this is this is from Second <\/p>\n
477
\n00:24:01,040 –> 00:24:03,560
\nMaccabees.
\nAnd it again is just sort of <\/p>\n
478
\n00:24:03,560 –> 00:24:06,840
\nhistorical, some of the the
\nstories that Jews see as <\/p>\n
479
\n00:24:06,840 –> 00:24:09,280
\nhistory.
\nSo this is between the <\/p>\n
480
\n00:24:09,280 –> 00:24:10,720
\ntestaments, between the two
\ntestaments. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:24:10,920 –> 00:24:14,480
\nAnd this shows you an example of
\nwhat a big deal it was to avoid <\/p>\n
482
\n00:24:14,480 –> 00:24:16,440
\neating with gentiles.
\nSo listen to this. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:24:17,000 –> 00:24:19,640
\nEleazar, one of the scribes in
\nhigh position, a man now <\/p>\n
484
\n00:24:19,640 –> 00:24:22,920
\nadvanced in age and a noble
\npresence, was being forced to <\/p>\n
485
\n00:24:22,920 –> 00:24:25,280
\nopen his mouth to eat swine’s
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:24:26,080 –> 00:24:29,200
\nOK.
\nBut he welcoming death with <\/p>\n
487
\n00:24:29,240 –> 00:24:31,640
\nhonor rather than life with
\npollution. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:24:31,760 –> 00:24:34,440
\nSo what’s life with pollution?
\nIt’s eating. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:24:34,440 –> 00:24:39,960
\nPig went up to the rack of his
\nown accord, spitting out the <\/p>\n
490
\n00:24:39,960 –> 00:24:42,960
\nflesh as all ought to go who
\nhave the courage to refuse <\/p>\n
491
\n00:24:42,960 –> 00:24:46,160
\nthings that it is not right to
\ntaste, even for the natural love<\/p>\n
492
\n00:24:46,160 –> 00:24:47,800
\nof life.
\nNow you will notice this is <\/p>\n
493
\n00:24:47,920 –> 00:24:49,920
\ndefinitely not an unbiased
\nsource. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:24:50,880 –> 00:24:52,960
\nRight.
\nThis is saying, you know, look <\/p>\n
495
\n00:24:52,960 –> 00:24:56,080
\nat Eliezer like the man, right?
\nYou can imagine like if they had<\/p>\n
496
\n00:24:56,080 –> 00:24:58,720
\ntrading cards back then, it
\nwould be like Eliezer the man. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:24:58,720 –> 00:25:00,200
\nAnd you know, he has big muscles
\nand like. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:25:00,480 –> 00:25:02,800
\nHere he is because he didn’t eat
\npork, right? <\/p>\n
499
\n00:25:03,000 –> 00:25:04,480
\nSo this is this is the big
\nthing. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:25:04,720 –> 00:25:08,520
\nSo what he did is instead he
\nsays, I will not eat pork, <\/p>\n
501
\n00:25:08,520 –> 00:25:11,200
\nInstead put me on the rack.
\nAnd he walks up to the rack and <\/p>\n
502
\n00:25:11,200 –> 00:25:14,800
\ngoes, right, like, I won’t do
\nthat pork and Maccabees is like,<\/p>\n
503
\n00:25:14,960 –> 00:25:19,520
\nthat’s what everyone should do.
\nEliezer was a man, right? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:25:19,560 –> 00:25:21,200
\nOK, so there you go.
\nYou get that? <\/p>\n
505
\n00:25:21,360 –> 00:25:23,720
\nYou get that sense.
\nAnd in fact, you even still see <\/p>\n
506
\n00:25:23,720 –> 00:25:27,120
\nthis in New Testament times
\nafter Christianity has entered <\/p>\n
507
\n00:25:27,120 –> 00:25:28,880
\nthe scene.
\nSo here’s Peter. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:25:29,080 –> 00:25:33,000
\nAnd after he goes to preach to
\nCornelius, the ecclesia <\/p>\n
509
\n00:25:33,000 –> 00:25:38,680
\nconfronts him and says, you ate
\nwith Gentiles. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:25:43,160 –> 00:25:47,080
\nThis is how strong the culture
\nwas at that time, right? <\/p>\n
511
\n00:25:47,080 –> 00:25:49,920
\nEven in a collegial life, Peter
\nwas confronted. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:25:50,080 –> 00:25:53,640
\nWith this, what were you?
\nThinking don’t you remember <\/p>\n
513
\n00:25:53,640 –> 00:25:56,440
\nEleazar Right?
\nLike like. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:25:56,480 –> 00:25:59,760
\nHow could you not do that?
\nYou ate with gentiles. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:26:01,640 –> 00:26:03,040
\nIn addition, they weren’t
\nsupposed to marry. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:26:04,800 –> 00:26:07,160
\nNow, I think we’re fairly
\nfamiliar with that idea, so I’m <\/p>\n
517
\n00:26:07,160 –> 00:26:08,360
\nnot going to go into these
\nquotes. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:26:08,560 –> 00:26:11,400
\nThey weren’t supposed to marry.
\nThat comes out of the the Old <\/p>\n
519
\n00:26:11,400 –> 00:26:13,560
\nTestament, out of the Torah.
\nSo we don’t need to get into <\/p>\n
520
\n00:26:13,560 –> 00:26:15,160
\nthat.
\nBut just, again, historically, <\/p>\n
521
\n00:26:15,280 –> 00:26:18,440
\nthis was a big thing.
\nLike the only way that you could<\/p>\n
522
\n00:26:18,440 –> 00:26:21,320
\nmarry is if the person became a
\nJew, right? <\/p>\n
523
\n00:26:21,720 –> 00:26:23,040
\nThey had to.
\nAccept Judaism. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:26:23,040 –> 00:26:25,280
\nThey had to accept everything
\nthat came with it, including <\/p>\n
525
\n00:26:25,280 –> 00:26:31,400
\ncircumcision, all of that in
\naddition to that, so you <\/p>\n
526
\n00:26:31,400 –> 00:26:33,040
\ncouldn’t eat with gentiles, you
\ncouldn’t marry them. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:26:33,800 –> 00:26:38,320
\nYou also saw them as impure.
\nNow I want to just step back and<\/p>\n
528
\n00:26:38,320 –> 00:26:40,840
\ntalk a little bit about the
\nmarriage piece, because we’re <\/p>\n
529
\n00:26:40,840 –> 00:26:42,840
\nlooking at this in terms of 1st
\ncentury, right? <\/p>\n
530
\n00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:45,480
\nLike we knew those things that
\nJews and Gentiles wouldn’t get <\/p>\n
531
\n00:26:45,480 –> 00:26:47,400
\nmarried.
\nBut I want you to think about it<\/p>\n
532
\n00:26:47,400 –> 00:26:52,040
\nin regard to the 1st century.
\nJust imagine how complicated <\/p>\n
533
\n00:26:52,040 –> 00:26:54,840
\nthat would make things.
\nIf you’re in an ecclesia and you<\/p>\n
534
\n00:26:54,840 –> 00:26:58,080
\nhave a Jew and a Gentile who
\nwant to get married, some people<\/p>\n
535
\n00:26:58,080 –> 00:27:02,280
\nwould be saying, well, is that
\nguy going to get circumcised? <\/p>\n
536
\n00:27:03,200 –> 00:27:04,480
\nRight.
\nYou have, you have this question<\/p>\n
537
\n00:27:04,480 –> 00:27:06,480
\nof trying to figure out, you
\nknow, are you going to, he’s <\/p>\n
538
\n00:27:06,480 –> 00:27:09,600
\ngoing to keep kosher, right?
\nAnd you have to try and try and <\/p>\n
539
\n00:27:09,600 –> 00:27:12,600
\npiece this together because when
\nyou work through the New <\/p>\n
540
\n00:27:12,600 –> 00:27:16,160
\nTestament, it appears as though
\nthere were a number of Jewish <\/p>\n
541
\n00:27:16,160 –> 00:27:20,760
\nChristians who continued to hold
\nto the Torah, continue to hold <\/p>\n
542
\n00:27:20,920 –> 00:27:24,920
\nto sometimes even some of the
\noral traditions up until the <\/p>\n
543
\n00:27:24,920 –> 00:27:26,040
\ndestruction of the Second
\nTemple. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:27:26,640 –> 00:27:28,600
\nWe talk about how the
\ndestruction of the Second Temple<\/p>\n
545
\n00:27:28,840 –> 00:27:30,400
\nwas to show that Judaism was
\ndone. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:27:30,960 –> 00:27:33,400
\nAnd I agree with that.
\nI think it was, but I think it <\/p>\n
547
\n00:27:33,400 –> 00:27:37,040
\nwas additionally to show the
\nJewish Christians, right? <\/p>\n
548
\n00:27:37,040 –> 00:27:39,720
\nWe’ve we’ve moved on, right?
\nThis is this is the end. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:27:39,840 –> 00:27:42,640
\nBut up before that there were a
\nbunch of them who were still <\/p>\n
550
\n00:27:42,640 –> 00:27:44,960
\ndoing all this stuff.
\nAnd so I want us to put <\/p>\n
551
\n00:27:44,960 –> 00:27:48,320
\nourselves into that situation in
\nthe 1st century to understand <\/p>\n
552
\n00:27:48,400 –> 00:27:53,040
\nhow hard this would be as you
\ntry and bring together not just <\/p>\n
553
\n00:27:53,040 –> 00:27:55,080
\ntwo cultures, right?
\nWe have that happen in marriages<\/p>\n
554
\n00:27:55,080 –> 00:27:59,720
\ntoday, but it’s two cultures in
\nwhich one of the cultures says <\/p>\n
555
\n00:28:00,200 –> 00:28:03,040
\nno way, right?
\nI can’t have anything to do with<\/p>\n
556
\n00:28:03,040 –> 00:28:06,880
\nyou.
\nSo this gives you an idea of a <\/p>\n
557
\n00:28:06,880 –> 00:28:08,080
\nlittle bit of that.
\nNo way. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:28:08,080 –> 00:28:10,240
\nPeace.
\nThis is the gentile impurity. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:28:10,440 –> 00:28:13,480
\nSo this is from the Talmud says
\nit was said of Rabbi Ishmael, <\/p>\n
560
\n00:28:13,960 –> 00:28:16,760
\nthe son of Kim Hith.
\nIt once happened on the Day of <\/p>\n
561
\n00:28:16,760 –> 00:28:18,360
\nAtonement.
\nHe spoke in a public place with <\/p>\n
562
\n00:28:18,360 –> 00:28:21,160
\nan Arab whose saliva was
\nsprinkled on the high priest <\/p>\n
563
\n00:28:21,160 –> 00:28:23,000
\nclothes, right.
\nSo they were talking, you know, <\/p>\n
564
\n00:28:23,200 –> 00:28:25,360
\ngetting really excited and maybe
\nhe said a lot of peas or <\/p>\n
565
\n00:28:25,360 –> 00:28:28,080
\nsomething and and you know, the
\nsaliva came out, got on the high<\/p>\n
566
\n00:28:28,080 –> 00:28:30,200
\npriest clothes.
\nAnd because he got saliva on <\/p>\n
567
\n00:28:30,200 –> 00:28:34,760
\nhim, look at this, he became
\nunclean because the Arab might <\/p>\n
568
\n00:28:34,760 –> 00:28:37,840
\nbe unclean.
\nIt’s possible that the Arab was <\/p>\n
569
\n00:28:37,840 –> 00:28:39,640
\nunclean because he didn’t know
\nthe laws of cleanness and <\/p>\n
570
\n00:28:39,640 –> 00:28:41,280
\nwhatnot.
\nSo therefore the high priest was<\/p>\n
571
\n00:28:41,280 –> 00:28:42,800
\nunclean.
\nAnd because of that, he could <\/p>\n
572
\n00:28:42,800 –> 00:28:45,160
\nnot perform his duties as a high
\npriest on the Day of Atonement. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:28:46,360 –> 00:28:48,200
\nSo he has to step back and his
\nbrother takes his spot. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:28:48,200 –> 00:28:50,800
\nSo that’s what that story is all
\nabout. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:28:53,080 –> 00:28:56,040
\nYou might be familiar with the
\nlayout of the second temple. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:28:57,000 –> 00:28:59,760
\nSo this portion here that I’ve
\noutlined in blue, that was <\/p>\n
577
\n00:28:59,760 –> 00:29:01,680
\nreferred to as the Court of the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:29:02,000 –> 00:29:04,960
\nSo you have there on the bottom
\nleft, that’s the Royal Stoa. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:29:05,080 –> 00:29:06,560
\nThat’s where the money changers
\nwould have been. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:29:06,560 –> 00:29:09,200
\nThat’s where the Sanhedrin met.
\nAnd then you have the Court of <\/p>\n
581
\n00:29:09,200 –> 00:29:11,960
\nthe Gentiles in that blue
\nsection. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:29:11,960 –> 00:29:15,000
\nSo if you were a Gentile, you
\nwere allowed to go into the <\/p>\n
583
\n00:29:15,000 –> 00:29:18,280
\nCourt of the Gentiles.
\nHowever, you had to stop right <\/p>\n
584
\n00:29:18,280 –> 00:29:23,560
\nthere at that green marking that
\nis referred to as the Sorag. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:29:24,840 –> 00:29:30,840
\nIt was a a fabric covering and
\nit was blocked off. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:29:31,520 –> 00:29:35,120
\nYou could not as a Gentile go in
\nhere is what Josephus says about<\/p>\n
587
\n00:29:35,120 –> 00:29:36,280
\nit.
\nHe says, When you go through <\/p>\n
588
\n00:29:36,280 –> 00:29:38,960
\nthese first cloisters unto the
\n2nd court of the temple. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:29:39,200 –> 00:29:41,680
\nThere was a partition made of
\nstone all around, so there’s <\/p>\n
590
\n00:29:41,680 –> 00:29:44,560
\nstones and the fabric whose
\nheight was 3 cubits. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:29:44,560 –> 00:29:46,000
\nIts construction was very
\nelegant. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:29:46,200 –> 00:29:49,080
\nUpon it stood pillars at equal
\ndistances from one another, <\/p>\n
593
\n00:29:49,080 –> 00:29:52,120
\ndeclaring the law of purity.
\nSome in Greek, some in Roman. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:29:52,120 –> 00:29:55,960
\nLetters that quote no foreigners
\nshould go within that sanctuary.<\/p>\n
595
\n00:29:56,200 –> 00:29:58,480
\nFor the 2nd court of the temple
\nwas called the sanctuary. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:29:58,720 –> 00:30:00,920
\nAnd was ascended to by 14 steps
\nfrom the 1st court. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:30:01,080 –> 00:30:03,320
\nThis court was four square and
\nhad a wall about it peculiar to <\/p>\n
598
\n00:30:03,320 –> 00:30:05,400
\nitself.
\nSo what Josephus is saying is <\/p>\n
599
\n00:30:05,400 –> 00:30:10,080
\nthat this portion here was
\nblocked off from gentiles. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:30:10,680 –> 00:30:14,640
\nSo if you were a gentile, you
\ncould only go in that outside <\/p>\n
601
\n00:30:14,640 –> 00:30:19,360
\narea.
\nIn fact, archaeologists have now<\/p>\n
602
\n00:30:19,360 –> 00:30:23,840
\ndiscovered the markings that
\nhave that say what Josephus <\/p>\n
603
\n00:30:23,840 –> 00:30:25,720
\nwrote about.
\nSo this is in the Istanbul <\/p>\n
604
\n00:30:25,720 –> 00:30:30,240
\nMuseum and there’s a like 1\/2
\nversion in the Israel Museum in <\/p>\n
605
\n00:30:30,240 –> 00:30:32,640
\nJerusalem.
\nHere’s what it says. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:30:33,280 –> 00:30:35,720
\nNo stranger is to enter within
\nthe balustrade round about the <\/p>\n
607
\n00:30:35,720 –> 00:30:37,440
\ntemple enclosure.
\nWhoever is caught will be <\/p>\n
608
\n00:30:37,440 –> 00:30:39,640
\nresponsible to himself for his
\ndeath, which will ensue. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:30:41,280 –> 00:30:45,080
\nYou know, pretty straightforward
\nif you if you are a gentile and <\/p>\n
610
\n00:30:45,080 –> 00:30:47,720
\nyou go into this section.
\nWell, you will die and it’s your<\/p>\n
611
\n00:30:47,720 –> 00:30:56,080
\nown fault, but that again gives
\nyou that sense of this was the <\/p>\n
612
\n00:30:56,080 –> 00:30:58,920
\nfeeling about Gentiles right.
\nIt was there is this <\/p>\n
613
\n00:30:59,560 –> 00:31:01,600
\nuncleanness.
\nThe Gentile could be unclean and<\/p>\n
614
\n00:31:01,600 –> 00:31:03,120
\nso then that would make the
\ntemple unclean. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:31:03,400 –> 00:31:05,600
\nAnd I don’t this I don’t know
\nwhy this verse is on here. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:31:05,640 –> 00:31:07,200
\nI meant to change it in in
\nbetween the break. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:31:07,480 –> 00:31:08,640
\nThat’s not what it’s supposed to
\nhave. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:31:09,560 –> 00:31:13,040
\nIt’s supposed to have Acts 21 in
\nActs chapter 21, the apostle <\/p>\n
619
\n00:31:13,040 –> 00:31:15,880
\nPaul goes into the temple.
\nYou remember he shaves his head <\/p>\n
620
\n00:31:15,880 –> 00:31:19,160
\nbecause he he has this vow.
\nHe goes in the temple and the <\/p>\n
621
\n00:31:19,160 –> 00:31:24,880
\npeople get really upset about it
\nbecause they say what he brought<\/p>\n
622
\n00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:28,960
\nTrophimus the Ephesian into the
\ntemple and they can’t believe <\/p>\n
623
\n00:31:28,960 –> 00:31:29,960
\nit.
\nAnd what do they do? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:31:30,480 –> 00:31:33,200
\nThey grab Paul and they start
\nbeating him up. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:31:35,240 –> 00:31:39,800
\nSo that gives us again, this is
\nsome of the historical cultural <\/p>\n
626
\n00:31:39,800 –> 00:31:41,920
\nunderstanding that we need to
\nhave when we approach the New <\/p>\n
627
\n00:31:41,920 –> 00:31:44,360
\nTestament, right?
\nThere are no people that will <\/p>\n
628
\n00:31:44,360 –> 00:31:46,960
\nwalk into like a Christadelphian
\necclesia and get beat up because<\/p>\n
629
\n00:31:46,960 –> 00:31:48,960
\nof it.
\nSo it’s an important thing, <\/p>\n
630
\n00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:51,800
\nhopefully.
\nSo it’s, it’s an important thing<\/p>\n
631
\n00:31:51,800 –> 00:31:55,160
\nfor us to understand, right?
\nWhen we try and understand, you <\/p>\n
632
\n00:31:55,160 –> 00:32:00,240
\nknow, what was happening back
\nthen, OK, so this is not how <\/p>\n
633
\n00:32:00,240 –> 00:32:02,520
\neverybody felt, but it was how a
\nlot of people felt. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:32:02,640 –> 00:32:06,680
\nSo when we start looking at
\npeace, right, when we try and <\/p>\n
635
\n00:32:06,680 –> 00:32:10,160
\nunderstand peace, I think we
\nneed to recognize that the 1st <\/p>\n
636
\n00:32:10,160 –> 00:32:14,440
\ncentury ecclesia was probably
\none of the most unpeaceful <\/p>\n
637
\n00:32:14,440 –> 00:32:19,280
\nplaces because you have this
\nnatural division that has been <\/p>\n
638
\n00:32:19,280 –> 00:32:22,840
\nin place for hundreds of years
\nthat a number of Jewish people <\/p>\n
639
\n00:32:22,840 –> 00:32:28,160
\nfelt was created by God, right?
\nAnd they would turn to your <\/p>\n
640
\n00:32:28,160 –> 00:32:31,960
\npassages in the Old Testament to
\nprove that Jews and Gentiles, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:32:32,080 –> 00:32:35,160
\nthat Moabites, that foreigners,
\nright, Moabites and Ammonites <\/p>\n
642
\n00:32:35,160 –> 00:32:37,000
\ncannot answer to the 10th
\ngeneration. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:32:37,320 –> 00:32:39,600
\nAnd they would say look like,
\nyou know, if they’re not going <\/p>\n
644
\n00:32:39,600 –> 00:32:43,720
\nto get circumcised, what do you
\ndo about this verse, right? <\/p>\n
645
\n00:32:43,720 –> 00:32:46,440
\nLike it would have been a major
\nchallenge. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:32:46,440 –> 00:32:49,120
\nAnd Can you imagine when people
\ntried to break bread? <\/p>\n
647
\n00:32:49,520 –> 00:32:53,720
\nWell, there would be I can’t sit
\nover there with him because look<\/p>\n
648
\n00:32:53,720 –> 00:32:58,000
\nlike he’s a gentile.
\nWe can’t eat with gentiles. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:32:58,000 –> 00:33:01,160
\nDon’t you know that, right?
\nLike this is this is a meal. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:03,320
\nIt can’t happen.
\nSo you could you could picture <\/p>\n
651
\n00:33:03,320 –> 00:33:05,200
\nJews coming along and saying,
\nwell, OK, you know, we’re going <\/p>\n
652
\n00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:08,200
\nto have the Jewish like morning
\nservice and we’ll have the <\/p>\n
653
\n00:33:08,200 –> 00:33:11,000
\nGentile afternoon service, you
\nknow, or something like that. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:15,120
\nAnd what’s fascinating is the
\nApostle Paul comes along and <\/p>\n
655
\n00:33:15,120 –> 00:33:20,720
\nPaul says, absolutely not.
\nAnd I think that that’s one of <\/p>\n
656
\n00:33:20,720 –> 00:33:25,080
\nthe amazing things to see that
\nwhen you look at how difficult. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:33:25,080 –> 00:33:27,960
\nThis would have been.
\nWhen they’re trying to piece <\/p>\n
658
\n00:33:27,960 –> 00:33:31,280
\nthis together and when you have
\none side pulling out their <\/p>\n
659
\n00:33:31,280 –> 00:33:33,960
\nBibles and saying this is what’s
\nright and the other side saying <\/p>\n
660
\n00:33:34,160 –> 00:33:36,880
\nthis is what’s right, it’s a
\nmajor challenge. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:33:36,880 –> 00:33:39,960
\nAnd yet the apostle Paul in fact
\nsays, well, guess what guys? <\/p>\n
662
\n00:33:41,080 –> 00:33:42,960
\nWe’re going to figure it out,
\nright? <\/p>\n
663
\n00:33:42,960 –> 00:33:44,280
\nAnd that’s that’s what we have
\nto do. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:33:44,880 –> 00:33:47,560
\nSo I want us to see that as we
\ntalk about peace. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:33:48,880 –> 00:33:51,360
\nSo we’re going to work.
\nThrough Romans, and we’re going <\/p>\n
666
\n00:33:51,360 –> 00:33:54,440
\nto see Romans as a little bit of
\na case study here because the <\/p>\n
667
\n00:33:54,440 –> 00:33:59,680
\necclesia in Rome was built out
\nof Gentiles and Jews, right? <\/p>\n
668
\n00:33:59,680 –> 00:34:03,440
\nSo you’re going to have this,
\nthis fighting together of trying<\/p>\n
669
\n00:34:03,440 –> 00:34:04,840
\nto bring these two groups
\ntogether, so. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:34:05,040 –> 00:34:06,880
\nLet’s just first.
\nTake a look at an outline of <\/p>\n
671
\n00:34:06,880 –> 00:34:08,679
\nRomans.
\nAnd then after that, we’re going<\/p>\n
672
\n00:34:08,679 –> 00:34:09,880
\nto see how this relates to
\npeace. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:34:10,639 –> 00:34:14,000
\nSo let’s look at the well, we
\nwon’t turn these up. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:34:14,000 –> 00:34:15,480
\nYou can write them down and turn
\nthem up if you want. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:34:15,480 –> 00:34:16,840
\nI’ll, I’ll talk to you about
\nwhat they say. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:34:17,280 –> 00:34:19,120
\nBut Romans chapter one verses
\none through 17. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:34:19,120 –> 00:34:20,280
\nThat’s really our introduction,
\nright? <\/p>\n
678
\n00:34:20,280 –> 00:34:22,360
\nIt’s kind of it’s like Paul
\nsaying hi, right? <\/p>\n
679
\n00:34:22,480 –> 00:34:23,719
\nThat’s kind of how he starts his
\nletters. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:34:24,199 –> 00:34:27,120
\nWhen you move on, you basically
\nget the human condition. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:34:27,840 –> 00:34:31,639
\nSo he brings out Gentiles are
\ncondemned. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:34:31,639 –> 00:34:35,520
\nYou remember the part where he
\nsays they should know, right? <\/p>\n
683
\n00:34:36,159 –> 00:34:38,840
\nThe the invisible things of God
\nare known. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:34:39,880 –> 00:34:44,120
\nBy nature, by his creation.
\nSo the Gentiles should know God <\/p>\n
685
\n00:34:44,280 –> 00:34:47,960
\nbased on creation.
\nHe then goes on in chapter 2 to <\/p>\n
686
\n00:34:47,960 –> 00:34:51,320
\ncondemn the Jews because he says
\njust like the Gentiles should <\/p>\n
687
\n00:34:51,320 –> 00:34:54,360
\nhave understood God from nature,
\nthe Jews should have understood <\/p>\n
688
\n00:34:54,360 –> 00:34:58,000
\nGod from the law.
\nSo the Gentiles had nature, the <\/p>\n
689
\n00:34:58,000 –> 00:35:00,080
\nJews had the law, and nobody got
\nit. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:35:00,560 –> 00:35:03,080
\nHe says.
\nSo therefore he sums it all up <\/p>\n
691
\n00:35:03,080 –> 00:35:05,640
\nin Romans chapter three.
\nHe has this big litany of Psalms<\/p>\n
692
\n00:35:05,640 –> 00:35:09,040
\nthat he strings together and he
\nsays, look, everyone has been <\/p>\n
693
\n00:35:09,040 –> 00:35:15,880
\ncondemned.
\nTherefore, he says in chapters <\/p>\n
694
\n00:35:15,880 –> 00:35:18,840
\nthree and four, we needed
\nsomething else, right? <\/p>\n
695
\n00:35:18,840 –> 00:35:20,480
\nWe had to be justified through
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:35:20,960 –> 00:35:25,120
\nAnd so God creates justification
\nthrough faith and he brings out <\/p>\n
697
\n00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:27,920
\npeace in chapter 5 through the
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:35:28,760 –> 00:35:33,120
\nThat means of salvation, Paul
\ngoes on to argue, means a <\/p>\n
699
\n00:35:33,120 –> 00:35:34,760
\ncomplete transformation of our
\nlives. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:35:34,760 –> 00:35:36,480
\nSo that’s what chapter 6 is
\nabout. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:35:36,480 –> 00:35:38,120
\nThis is why we read it at
\nbaptisms, right? <\/p>\n
702
\n00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:41,680
\nBecause we are then associating
\nourselves with the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
703
\n00:35:41,800 –> 00:35:43,840
\nand we are saying our life will
\ngo in a different direction. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:35:44,400 –> 00:35:47,000
\nSo he brings out this is the
\nmeaning of baptism, this is the <\/p>\n
705
\n00:35:47,000 –> 00:35:49,560
\nmeaning of the law.
\nThis is life in the Spirit. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:35:49,560 –> 00:35:51,160
\nOf God.
\nNow again, I, I don’t want to <\/p>\n
707
\n00:35:51,160 –> 00:35:54,560
\nsound like I’m saying, you know,
\nthat we, we live with the Holy <\/p>\n
708
\n00:35:54,560 –> 00:35:56,920
\nSpirit or something like that.
\nThis is just, these are Paul’s <\/p>\n
709
\n00:35:56,920 –> 00:35:59,360
\nwords, right?
\nThis is he talks about those led<\/p>\n
710
\n00:35:59,360 –> 00:36:04,040
\nby the Spirit in Romans 8.
\nHe then explains, OK, so now you<\/p>\n
711
\n00:36:04,040 –> 00:36:06,960
\nmight be confused, right?
\nI thought that Israel was God’s <\/p>\n
712
\n00:36:06,960 –> 00:36:10,360
\nspecial people.
\nSo if God is justifying all <\/p>\n
713
\n00:36:10,360 –> 00:36:14,360
\nthrough faith and if God is
\ncalling people who believe to <\/p>\n
714
\n00:36:14,360 –> 00:36:16,440
\nthen live different lives, well,
\nwhere does Israel actually fit <\/p>\n
715
\n00:36:16,440 –> 00:36:18,400
\nin?
\nSo then he explains, well here’s<\/p>\n
716
\n00:36:18,400 –> 00:36:22,480
\nIsrael’s portion.
\nThat’s Romans 9 through 11 and <\/p>\n
717
\n00:36:22,480 –> 00:36:27,120
\nhe stops at that point and he
\nintroduces the word. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:36:27,960 –> 00:36:30,840
\nYou may be noticed it before
\nRomans 12 verse one. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:36:30,960 –> 00:36:37,040
\nHe starts with the word,
\ntherefore, so he’s now laid out <\/p>\n
720
\n00:36:37,040 –> 00:36:39,280
\nall the theology.
\nRight, Romans one through 11. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:36:39,440 –> 00:36:42,040
\nHere’s the theology.
\nSo Romans chapter 12 verse one, <\/p>\n
722
\n00:36:42,040 –> 00:36:45,880
\nhe says therefore, if you
\nunderstand all these things, if <\/p>\n
723
\n00:36:45,880 –> 00:36:48,520
\nyou understand that there’s
\ncondemnation, but there doesn’t <\/p>\n
724
\n00:36:48,520 –> 00:36:51,600
\nhave to be condemnation because
\nwe are justified through Christ <\/p>\n
725
\n00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:53,320
\nand you understand that this
\nimpacts. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:36:53,320 –> 00:36:56,120
\nWho we are as people.
\nIf all of this makes sense to <\/p>\n
727
\n00:36:56,120 –> 00:36:58,000
\nyou, therefore, here’s how you
\nlive. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:36:58,240 –> 00:36:59,560
\nAnd that’s what chapter 12 is
\nabout. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:37:00,080 –> 00:37:03,640
\nChapter 12131415.
\nThey’re all about how to live a <\/p>\n
730
\n00:37:03,640 –> 00:37:07,200
\nnew life, and it shouldn’t be
\nsurprising then, that when we <\/p>\n
731
\n00:37:07,200 –> 00:37:10,560
\nwork through chapters 12. 13 and
\n14 and 15. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:37:11,160 –> 00:37:14,640
\nGuess what the emphasis is?
\nIt’s on learning to work with <\/p>\n
733
\n00:37:14,640 –> 00:37:18,520
\neach other.
\nSo he says, if you understand <\/p>\n
734
\n00:37:19,480 –> 00:37:24,560
\nwhat the death of the Lord Jesus
\nmeans, that means that even <\/p>\n
735
\n00:37:24,560 –> 00:37:29,120
\nthough you’re a Jew and even
\nthough you’re a Gentile, you’re <\/p>\n
736
\n00:37:29,120 –> 00:37:32,520
\ngoing to figure it out.
\nSo that’s the big emphasis here.<\/p>\n
737
\n00:37:33,040 –> 00:37:34,200
\nAnd then he closes up the
\nletter. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:37:34,440 –> 00:37:36,000
\nSo that’s kind of like his
\nclimax. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:37:36,160 –> 00:37:37,600
\nIt’s like his crowning point
\nhere. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:37:37,840 –> 00:37:39,600
\nThat he says.
\nYou have to understand the <\/p>\n
741
\n00:37:39,600 –> 00:37:42,720
\ntheology, and when you have that
\ntheological base and it makes <\/p>\n
742
\n00:37:42,720 –> 00:37:45,800
\nsense to you, you understand
\nwhat the Lord Jesus did for you <\/p>\n
743
\n00:37:45,800 –> 00:37:52,560
\nand how He conquered death.
\nThen you learn to create peace. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:37:53,880 –> 00:37:54,960
\nSo here’s the progression of
\nthought. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:37:54,960 –> 00:37:56,840
\nHere’s the quick summary.
\nYou have the first section, <\/p>\n
746
\n00:37:56,840 –> 00:37:59,640
\neverybody’s in trouble.
\nSecond section, but God has a <\/p>\n
747
\n00:37:59,640 –> 00:38:01,800
\nplan.
\nThird, the complaint. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:38:01,800 –> 00:38:05,440
\nThe plan completely overhauls
\nyour life, 4th it doesn’t <\/p>\n
749
\n00:38:05,440 –> 00:38:08,720
\nexclude Israel and 5th as a
\nresult of that plan, the <\/p>\n
750
\n00:38:08,720 –> 00:38:10,120
\necclesia.
\nHas to work at its differences, <\/p>\n
751
\n00:38:10,120 –> 00:38:12,040
\nso.
\nThat’s what he’s saying to the <\/p>\n
752
\n00:38:12,040 –> 00:38:14,640
\npeople in Rome.
\nJews, Gentiles. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:38:15,280 –> 00:38:18,920
\nIt’s time to work this out.
\nSo let’s just. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:38:18,920 –> 00:38:21,600
\nLook at this in a little bit
\nmore detail because what I want <\/p>\n
755
\n00:38:21,600 –> 00:38:24,160
\nto suggest to you, and this
\nreally struck me when I saw <\/p>\n
756
\n00:38:24,160 –> 00:38:27,880
\nthis, is that each of these
\nsections is actually based on <\/p>\n
757
\n00:38:27,880 –> 00:38:31,520
\npeace.
\nI want to, I want to suggest to <\/p>\n
758
\n00:38:31,520 –> 00:38:37,480
\nyou that the apostle Paul is
\nusing peace as sort of like the <\/p>\n
759
\n00:38:37,720 –> 00:38:42,760
\nthe theme as he works through
\nthis letter and he crowns it <\/p>\n
760
\n00:38:42,880 –> 00:38:45,840
\nwith chapters 14 and 15.
\nIs that a bird? <\/p>\n
761
\n00:38:47,920 –> 00:38:50,960
\nWow, that’s really unfortunate
\nfor that bird. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:38:52,280 –> 00:38:55,560
\nOh, well, I don’t know what to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:38:55,680 –> 00:38:57,960
\nI guess it can listen to the
\nclass. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:38:58,720 –> 00:39:01,200
\nOK, so here’s here’s how this
\ngoes. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:04,560
\nRight you have you have Section
\n1 and the first section is about<\/p>\n
766
\n00:39:04,560 –> 00:39:06,840
\nhow everybody’s in trouble.
\nNow I don’t think it’s an <\/p>\n
767
\n00:39:06,840 –> 00:39:09,520
\naccident that as we read through
\nthis in Romans chapter 3. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:39:09,840 –> 00:39:13,040
\nJust listen to this says as it
\nis written, there is no one <\/p>\n
769
\n00:39:13,040 –> 00:39:16,560
\nrighteous, not even one.
\nThere is no one who understands <\/p>\n
770
\n00:39:16,560 –> 00:39:18,680
\nthere’s no one who seeks God.
\nAll have turned away. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:39:18,680 –> 00:39:20,200
\nThey have together become
\nworthless. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:39:20,360 –> 00:39:23,360
\nThere is no one who does good,
\nnot even one quote. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:39:23,480 –> 00:39:26,760
\nTheir throats are open graves,
\ntheir tongues practice deceit. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:39:27,000 –> 00:39:29,120
\nThe poison of Vipers is on their
\nlips. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:39:29,280 –> 00:39:31,040
\nTheir mouths are full of cursing
\nand bitterness. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:39:31,200 –> 00:39:32,720
\nTheir feet are swift to shed
\nblood. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:39:32,880 –> 00:39:37,240
\nRuin and misery mark their ways,
\nand the way of peace they do not<\/p>\n
778
\n00:39:37,240 –> 00:39:39,360
\nknow.
\nSo at the end of this section <\/p>\n
779
\n00:39:39,520 –> 00:39:42,400
\nthe apostle Paul says, look, I
\nshow that everybody is under <\/p>\n
780
\n00:39:42,400 –> 00:39:45,040
\ncondemnation.
\nAnd what that means is that you <\/p>\n
781
\n00:39:45,040 –> 00:39:52,240
\nhave no peace.
\nThere is no peace before the <\/p>\n
782
\n00:39:52,240 –> 00:39:55,880
\nwork of the Lord Jesus, so he
\nsays no peace. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:39:55,960 –> 00:39:58,560
\nSo then you move on into the
\nsecond section and surprisingly <\/p>\n
784
\n00:39:59,400 –> 00:40:04,040
\nor perhaps not, you then see
\nthat when this plan gets <\/p>\n
785
\n00:40:04,440 –> 00:40:07,120
\nimplemented through the Lord
\nJesus Christ, well, look at what<\/p>\n
786
\n00:40:07,120 –> 00:40:09,480
\nit brings out says Romans 5
\nverse one. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:40:09,480 –> 00:40:13,880
\nTherefore, since we have been
\njustified through faith, we have<\/p>\n
788
\n00:40:13,880 –> 00:40:16,880
\npeace with God through our Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:40:17,160 –> 00:40:20,080
\nSo you start out in this
\nposition of having no peace and <\/p>\n
790
\n00:40:20,080 –> 00:40:23,160
\nthe apostle Paul says, but don’t
\nworry because. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:40:23,440 –> 00:40:27,160
\nThere’s a plan to bring peace.
\nThat’s what this is about. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:40:28,120 –> 00:40:30,160
\nThere’s no peace.
\nAnd then there’s the plan to <\/p>\n
793
\n00:40:30,160 –> 00:40:33,280
\nbring about peace and it
\ncompletely overhauls your <\/p>\n
794
\n00:40:33,280 –> 00:40:35,800
\nindividual life.
\nSo you have, on one hand, you <\/p>\n
795
\n00:40:35,800 –> 00:40:37,760
\nhave peace with God, right?
\nThat’s what we saw in the last <\/p>\n
796
\n00:40:37,760 –> 00:40:39,960
\nsection.
\nAnd what we’re seeing is, in <\/p>\n
797
\n00:40:39,960 –> 00:40:44,720
\nfact, all these pieces of peace
\nare connected, right? <\/p>\n
798
\n00:40:44,840 –> 00:40:47,600
\nSo you have peace with God in
\nthe last section. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:40:47,600 –> 00:40:50,600
\nThat’s Romans 5 verse one.
\nAnd then when you have that <\/p>\n
800
\n00:40:50,600 –> 00:40:53,280
\npeace with God and you start to
\nlive differently, what you will <\/p>\n
801
\n00:40:53,280 –> 00:41:00,400
\nexperience then wow, Romans 8
\nverse six says the mind governed<\/p>\n
802
\n00:41:00,400 –> 00:41:03,640
\nby the flesh is death, but the
\nmind governed by the Spirit is <\/p>\n
803
\n00:41:03,640 –> 00:41:06,160
\nlife and peace.
\nYou then begin to experience <\/p>\n
804
\n00:41:06,320 –> 00:41:08,680
\nthat individual peace, that
\ninner peace. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:41:10,320 –> 00:41:15,560
\nSo you start to understand what
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ has done, <\/p>\n
806
\n00:41:15,680 –> 00:41:20,840
\nhow He conquered death, and
\nthrough that you join it and you<\/p>\n
807
\n00:41:20,840 –> 00:41:23,320
\nhave peace with God.
\nAnd as you develop that peace <\/p>\n
808
\n00:41:23,320 –> 00:41:25,520
\nwith God, you start to realize
\nwho He really is. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:41:25,600 –> 00:41:27,880
\nYou start to understand grace
\nand forgiveness. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:41:28,040 –> 00:41:30,760
\nAnd as you understand those
\nthings, then you feel. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:41:30,760 –> 00:41:34,600
\nThat peace, that inner peace,
\nand you start to live according <\/p>\n
812
\n00:41:34,600 –> 00:41:38,600
\nto the Spirit.
\nNow you’ll notice here I’m <\/p>\n
813
\n00:41:38,600 –> 00:41:41,120
\nquoting the KJV again.
\nI mentioned this yesterday that <\/p>\n
814
\n00:41:41,160 –> 00:41:44,640
\nsome manuscripts don’t have it.
\nIt clearly fits nicely with my <\/p>\n
815
\n00:41:44,800 –> 00:41:47,120
\nframework here.
\nBut maybe it’s not there, right?<\/p>\n
816
\n00:41:47,800 –> 00:41:50,560
\nSo this is Romans 1015.
\nEven in the section about <\/p>\n
817
\n00:41:50,560 –> 00:41:52,520
\nIsrael, you will notice it
\nmentions peace. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:41:52,640 –> 00:41:55,040
\nAnd I think it’s fascinating
\nthat it says, he says, look, <\/p>\n
819
\n00:41:55,400 –> 00:41:58,720
\nIsrael hasn’t been excluded, and
\nso the gospel of peace will be. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:41:58,720 –> 00:42:06,270
\nBrought to them too.
\nSo then you get in Romans 12 <\/p>\n
821
\n00:42:06,270 –> 00:42:12,390
\nverse one, you get the Therefore
\ntherefore I urge you, brothers <\/p>\n
822
\n00:42:12,390 –> 00:42:15,230
\nand sisters, in view of God’s
\nmercy, to offer your bodies as a<\/p>\n
823
\n00:42:15,230 –> 00:42:17,310
\nliving sacrifice, holy and
\npleasing to God. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:42:17,310 –> 00:42:19,230
\nThis is your true.
\nAnd proper worship now. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:42:19,520 –> 00:42:24,080
\nI always understood this verse
\nto mean get out there and work <\/p>\n
826
\n00:42:24,080 –> 00:42:26,720
\nin the ecclesia, and I think
\nthat’s good. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:42:27,400 –> 00:42:31,760
\nSo I don’t don’t understand
\nthis, please, as me saying like <\/p>\n
828
\n00:42:31,960 –> 00:42:33,880
\nwork in the ecclesia is bad or
\nsomething like that. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:42:33,880 –> 00:42:35,840
\nI think we should be getting out
\nthere and doing everything we <\/p>\n
830
\n00:42:35,840 –> 00:42:38,480
\ncan, but I think that’s taking
\nthe verse out of context. <\/p>\n
831
\n00:42:38,680 –> 00:42:42,360
\nBecause if we continue to read,
\nyou will notice that the next <\/p>\n
832
\n00:42:42,360 –> 00:42:44,520
\nfew verses are all about being
\none body. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:42:46,520 –> 00:42:47,640
\nThey’re all about working
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:42:48,520 –> 00:42:52,760
\nAnd then if you keep reading, he
\nsays it again, if it is possible<\/p>\n
835
\n00:42:52,760 –> 00:42:56,520
\nas far as it depends on you live
\nat peace with everyone, right? <\/p>\n
836
\n00:42:56,520 –> 00:42:59,880
\nSo he keeps bringing this out
\nover and over that you’re 1 body<\/p>\n
837
\n00:43:00,000 –> 00:43:02,480
\nlive at peace with each other.
\nAnd the reason he brings this up<\/p>\n
838
\n00:43:02,920 –> 00:43:05,480
\nis he says like this is the
\nmajor thing he wants to work on <\/p>\n
839
\n00:43:05,480 –> 00:43:07,840
\nwith them.
\nHe says you have to understand <\/p>\n
840
\n00:43:07,840 –> 00:43:10,800
\nthis because you are Jews, you
\nare gentiles. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:43:10,880 –> 00:43:13,960
\nAnd I know it’s hard.
\nI know that when you come <\/p>\n
842
\n00:43:13,960 –> 00:43:16,160
\ntogether on Sunday, you don’t
\nwant to sit with these people, <\/p>\n
843
\n00:43:16,840 –> 00:43:18,640
\nright?
\nI know that you don’t want your <\/p>\n
844
\n00:43:18,640 –> 00:43:21,680
\ndaughter talking to him.
\nI, I know that this is a <\/p>\n
845
\n00:43:21,680 –> 00:43:25,320
\ncultural thing that you are
\nstruggling with and that some of<\/p>\n
846
\n00:43:25,320 –> 00:43:28,000
\nyou, you know, you’re probably
\narguing biblically about Jews <\/p>\n
847
\n00:43:28,000 –> 00:43:29,560
\nand Gentiles bringing being
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:43:29,960 –> 00:43:34,360
\nAnd I get that.
\nBut he says, if you understand <\/p>\n
849
\n00:43:34,360 –> 00:43:37,520
\nwhat the Lord Jesus did, if you
\nunderstand that you had no peace<\/p>\n
850
\n00:43:37,760 –> 00:43:41,080
\nand that the Lord Jesus is
\nbringing peace and that you can <\/p>\n
851
\n00:43:41,080 –> 00:43:44,160
\nhave inner peace through him, he
\nsays how could you not have <\/p>\n
852
\n00:43:44,160 –> 00:43:47,280
\npeace with each other, right?
\nBecause that’s what this is all <\/p>\n
853
\n00:43:47,280 –> 00:43:49,600
\nabout.
\nHe’s bringing out in Romans that<\/p>\n
854
\n00:43:49,600 –> 00:43:56,240
\nthe plan of God is about peace.
\nSo therefore, if we believe <\/p>\n
855
\n00:43:56,320 –> 00:44:02,000
\nRomans 5, if we believe Romans
\n8, and we believe that we’ve <\/p>\n
856
\n00:44:02,000 –> 00:44:05,840
\nbeen given that peace with God,
\nthe apostle Paul. <\/p>\n
857
\n00:44:05,880 –> 00:44:10,520
\nEmphasizes this peace because.
\nHe’s saying we therefore have to<\/p>\n
858
\n00:44:10,520 –> 00:44:16,040
\nhave peace with each other.
\nSo the next few chapters go on. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:44:16,280 –> 00:44:20,680
\nTo stress that now I want to
\njust bring this out because I <\/p>\n
860
\n00:44:20,680 –> 00:44:23,200
\nthink to me this is one of the
\nmost powerful things that comes <\/p>\n
861
\n00:44:23,200 –> 00:44:27,640
\nout here.
\nRomans 14 if you, if you ever <\/p>\n
862
\n00:44:27,640 –> 00:44:31,600
\nget the chance, I, I completely
\nrecommend doing a study just of <\/p>\n
863
\n00:44:31,600 –> 00:44:35,520
\nthat chapter 14 and 15.
\nAnd maybe you already have. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:44:35,920 –> 00:44:38,080
\nSometimes I think it gets a
\nlittle bit confused with First <\/p>\n
865
\n00:44:38,080 –> 00:44:41,080
\nCorinthians 8, which is also
\nabout eating food offered to <\/p>\n
866
\n00:44:41,120 –> 00:44:43,000
\nidols.
\nBut I think we need to just look<\/p>\n
867
\n00:44:43,000 –> 00:44:47,160
\nat the context a little bit.
\nSo let’s let’s go ahead and open<\/p>\n
868
\n00:44:47,160 –> 00:44:50,800
\nup here to Romans 14.
\nAnd I want us to look first at <\/p>\n
869
\n00:44:50,800 –> 00:44:58,520
\nverse 2.
\nSo just to help us understand, <\/p>\n
870
\n00:44:58,520 –> 00:45:02,160
\nbecause this was a different
\nthing in Corinth and I think we <\/p>\n
871
\n00:45:02,160 –> 00:45:04,000
\nneed to.
\nReally recognize what the <\/p>\n
872
\n00:45:04,000 –> 00:45:08,360
\nproblem was here.
\nSo Romans 14 verse two, it says <\/p>\n
873
\n00:45:08,360 –> 00:45:13,320
\nthere verse 2 for one believeth
\nthat he may eat all things, <\/p>\n
874
\n00:45:13,320 –> 00:45:15,720
\nanother who is weak eateth
\nherbs. <\/p>\n
875
\n00:45:16,640 –> 00:45:19,240
\nSo this is a similar situation
\nto what was going on at Corinth <\/p>\n
876
\n00:45:19,640 –> 00:45:22,480
\nin that you had somebody who
\ndecided to become a vegetarian <\/p>\n
877
\n00:45:22,920 –> 00:45:25,920
\nand the reason they were being a
\nvegetarian was because they <\/p>\n
878
\n00:45:25,920 –> 00:45:27,520
\nfigured that that way they could
\navoid food that. <\/p>\n
879
\n00:45:27,520 –> 00:45:31,160
\nWas offered to idols, right?
\nBut that wasn’t the only thing, <\/p>\n
880
\n00:45:31,440 –> 00:45:32,520
\nright?
\nAnd This is why I say this is <\/p>\n
881
\n00:45:32,520 –> 00:45:33,760
\ndifferent than First
\nCorinthians. <\/p>\n
882
\n00:45:34,160 –> 00:45:36,600
\nSo in this case.
\nYou have people who are acting <\/p>\n
883
\n00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:39,040
\nas vegetarians.
\nBut then in addition to that, <\/p>\n
884
\n00:45:39,160 –> 00:45:43,960
\nlook at verse 5, verse five says
\none man esteemeth one day above <\/p>\n
885
\n00:45:43,960 –> 00:45:45,640
\nanother.
\nAnother esteemeth every day <\/p>\n
886
\n00:45:45,640 –> 00:45:47,880
\nalike.
\nLet every man be fully persuaded<\/p>\n
887
\n00:45:47,880 –> 00:45:49,680
\nin his own mind.
\nWhat do you think Paul’s talking<\/p>\n
888
\n00:45:49,680 –> 00:45:53,840
\nabout there?
\nThat’s the Sabbath, right? <\/p>\n
889
\n00:45:54,240 –> 00:45:58,120
\nThere’s, there’s Jews in the
\necclesia who are saying, look, <\/p>\n
890
\n00:45:58,120 –> 00:45:59,720
\nyou got it.
\nWhat do you, why are you not <\/p>\n
891
\n00:45:59,720 –> 00:46:01,400
\nfollowing Shabbat?
\nLike, what are you thinking? <\/p>\n
892
\n00:46:02,160 –> 00:46:04,600
\nYou know, clearly, let’s look at
\nGenesis, right? <\/p>\n
893
\n00:46:04,600 –> 00:46:07,760
\nThis is a holy day.
\nGod sanctifies the 7th day. <\/p>\n
894
\n00:46:07,840 –> 00:46:11,040
\nHe rests on the 7th day.
\nLike you’re just acting like <\/p>\n
895
\n00:46:11,040 –> 00:46:14,720
\nit’s normal, right?
\nAnd you can you can imagine this<\/p>\n
896
\n00:46:15,200 –> 00:46:17,320
\nproblem and you can imagine them
\ngoing back. <\/p>\n
897
\n00:46:17,320 –> 00:46:19,160
\nTo the old.
\nTestament and saying we have <\/p>\n
898
\n00:46:19,160 –> 00:46:21,040
\nbiblical reasons for feeling
\nthis way. <\/p>\n
899
\n00:46:24,120 –> 00:46:27,800
\nSo what you have going on here
\nis this is very much in the <\/p>\n
900
\n00:46:27,800 –> 00:46:31,760
\ncontext of Jew and Gentile.
\nIn fact, just just to really <\/p>\n
901
\n00:46:31,760 –> 00:46:35,880
\nbring it out, you can see it in
\nverse 14 that the apostles talks<\/p>\n
902
\n00:46:35,880 –> 00:46:38,840
\nabout nothing being unclean of
\nitself, right? <\/p>\n
903
\n00:46:38,840 –> 00:46:40,560
\nSo this is about cleanness and
\nuncleanness. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:46:41,320 –> 00:46:46,120
\nSo what we’re looking at is Jews
\nand Gentiles learning to get <\/p>\n
905
\n00:46:46,120 –> 00:46:50,760
\nalong based on the fact that for
\ncenturies Jews have had a <\/p>\n
906
\n00:46:50,760 –> 00:46:52,880
\ndifferent understanding of
\nScripture because Gentiles <\/p>\n
907
\n00:46:52,880 –> 00:46:55,960
\nhaven’t even read it, right?
\nAnd then they come along and now<\/p>\n
908
\n00:46:55,960 –> 00:46:58,240
\nthey’re saying, well, actually
\nall those things that you’re <\/p>\n
909
\n00:46:58,240 –> 00:47:00,080
\nclearly showing me are
\ncommandments. <\/p>\n
910
\n00:47:00,200 –> 00:47:02,080
\nWe don’t actually have to follow
\nthose, right? <\/p>\n
911
\n00:47:02,960 –> 00:47:05,320
\nAnd the Jews are like.
\nBut that’s what it says. <\/p>\n
912
\n00:47:06,200 –> 00:47:07,960
\nRight.
\nLike, what do you mean? <\/p>\n
913
\n00:47:08,280 –> 00:47:11,760
\nYou’re telling me that the words
\nof the Bible don’t matter, you <\/p>\n
914
\n00:47:11,760 –> 00:47:13,640
\nknow, or something like that?
\nLike that’s it. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:47:13,800 –> 00:47:16,840
\nYou can picture this is this
\nwould be a serious debate. <\/p>\n
916
\n00:47:17,120 –> 00:47:19,840
\nThis would be a big problem.
\nSo they’re going. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:47:19,840 –> 00:47:22,840
\nBack and forth.
\nAnd I think it’s astonishing <\/p>\n
918
\n00:47:22,840 –> 00:47:25,920
\nthen to see what the apostle
\nwrites here in Romans 14 verse <\/p>\n
919
\n00:47:25,920 –> 00:47:33,160
\n14, he says, I am convinced.
\nBeing fully persuaded in the <\/p>\n
920
\n00:47:33,160 –> 00:47:37,760
\nLord Jesus now.
\nWe often miss this, I think, <\/p>\n
921
\n00:47:37,760 –> 00:47:40,240
\nbecause we just, we don’t notice
\nPaul’s emphasis. <\/p>\n
922
\n00:47:40,240 –> 00:47:42,720
\nWe just say like, you know, OK,
\nso he’s really convinced of <\/p>\n
923
\n00:47:42,720 –> 00:47:44,200
\nthis.
\nThat’s not, that’s not what’s <\/p>\n
924
\n00:47:44,200 –> 00:47:47,640
\ngoing on here.
\nThe apostle triple emphasizes <\/p>\n
925
\n00:47:47,640 –> 00:47:52,560
\nwhat he’s about to say.
\nHe says, I am convinced, I’m <\/p>\n
926
\n00:47:52,560 –> 00:47:58,120
\npersuaded and I am persuaded in
\nthe Lord Jesus, right? <\/p>\n
927
\n00:47:58,120 –> 00:47:59,920
\nThere’s there’s those 3
\nemphasis. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:47:59,920 –> 00:48:02,560
\nSo convinced, persuaded, and
\nthen in the Lord Jesus, or if <\/p>\n
929
\n00:48:02,560 –> 00:48:04,360
\nyou have the KJV, it’s by the
\nLord Jesus. <\/p>\n
930
\n00:48:05,760 –> 00:48:09,720
\nNow the reason that this matters
\nfor us is if you search these <\/p>\n
931
\n00:48:09,720 –> 00:48:12,040
\nphrases in the Greek, here’s
\nwhat you’ll find. <\/p>\n
932
\n00:48:12,680 –> 00:48:15,520
\nYou’ll find that occasionally
\nPaul will say I’m convinced and <\/p>\n
933
\n00:48:15,520 –> 00:48:18,560
\npersuaded.
\nOccasionally he’ll say I’m <\/p>\n
934
\n00:48:18,560 –> 00:48:22,120
\nconvinced in the Lord Jesus.
\nSometimes he’ll say I’m <\/p>\n
935
\n00:48:22,120 –> 00:48:25,920
\npersuaded in the Lord Jesus.
\nBut you will never find any <\/p>\n
936
\n00:48:25,920 –> 00:48:28,440
\nother instance where he says I
\nam convinced being fully <\/p>\n
937
\n00:48:28,440 –> 00:48:33,680
\npersuaded in the Lord Jesus.
\nIn other words, this is the only<\/p>\n
938
\n00:48:33,680 –> 00:48:37,640
\ntime that the apostle is triple
\nemphasizing something like this <\/p>\n
939
\n00:48:37,800 –> 00:48:38,920
\nnow, I think.
\nThat, that is huge. <\/p>\n
940
\n00:48:38,920 –> 00:48:42,400
\nFor us, because what that tells
\nus is that this is the most <\/p>\n
941
\n00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:45,080
\nemphatic verse that the apostle
\never writes. <\/p>\n
942
\n00:48:47,840 –> 00:48:53,040
\nNow that’s amazing to me because
\nit is not about theology, right?<\/p>\n
943
\n00:48:53,040 –> 00:48:56,920
\nIt is not about him, you know,
\nsaying here’s how you need to <\/p>\n
944
\n00:48:56,920 –> 00:49:00,600
\nunderstand the atonement.
\nOr here’s how you need to be <\/p>\n
945
\n00:49:00,600 –> 00:49:02,720
\nready for the Kingdom of God.
\nOr something like that. <\/p>\n
946
\n00:49:03,080 –> 00:49:06,680
\nHis most emphatic verse is about
\ngetting along with each other. <\/p>\n
947
\n00:49:10,480 –> 00:49:15,800
\nSo in his most emphatic verse he
\nsays this, I am convinced, fully<\/p>\n
948
\n00:49:15,800 –> 00:49:19,280
\npersuaded in the Lord Jesus that
\nnothing is unclean in itself. <\/p>\n
949
\n00:49:19,400 –> 00:49:21,560
\nSo he says you need to
\nunderstand that, right? <\/p>\n
950
\n00:49:21,680 –> 00:49:25,400
\nUnderstand this basis that this
\nis OK, It’s OK that you disagree<\/p>\n
951
\n00:49:25,400 –> 00:49:27,360
\non this.
\nAnd he says with that <\/p>\n
952
\n00:49:27,360 –> 00:49:31,920
\nunderstanding, consider this.
\nIf anyone regards something as <\/p>\n
953
\n00:49:31,920 –> 00:49:34,000
\nunclean, then for that person,
\nit is unclean. <\/p>\n
954
\n00:49:34,200 –> 00:49:36,280
\nIf your brother or sister is
\ndistressed because of what you <\/p>\n
955
\n00:49:36,280 –> 00:49:38,360
\neat, you are no longer acting in
\nlove. <\/p>\n
956
\n00:49:39,920 –> 00:49:41,960
\nNow this is one of those
\ninstances. <\/p>\n
957
\n00:49:41,960 –> 00:49:45,520
\nI was just talking about how I’m
\nquoting the NIV up here. <\/p>\n
958
\n00:49:45,520 –> 00:49:48,920
\nI actually I’m, I should, I
\nshould tell you this, I, I, I <\/p>\n
959
\n00:49:48,920 –> 00:49:52,120
\nlike to change my translation
\nevery year that I do the <\/p>\n
960
\n00:49:52,120 –> 00:49:54,920
\nreadings from.
\nSo I put together the study when<\/p>\n
961
\n00:49:54,920 –> 00:49:57,560
\nI was using the NIV and I
\nactually don’t like how the NIV <\/p>\n
962
\n00:49:57,600 –> 00:50:00,680
\nhandles a number of passages.
\nSo in case you’re thinking like,<\/p>\n
963
\n00:50:00,680 –> 00:50:02,200
\noh, you know, Jason likes the
\nNIV. <\/p>\n
964
\n00:50:02,200 –> 00:50:06,080
\nI, I, it’s not really one of my
\nfavorites, but I, but I didn’t <\/p>\n
965
\n00:50:06,080 –> 00:50:07,560
\nwant to change all the verses,
\nright? <\/p>\n
966
\n00:50:07,840 –> 00:50:11,360
\nSo anyway, what it says up here
\nis it says you are no longer <\/p>\n
967
\n00:50:11,360 –> 00:50:13,520
\nacting in love.
\nWell, that’s one of those <\/p>\n
968
\n00:50:13,520 –> 00:50:16,320
\ninstances where unfortunately
\nthat the NI VS emphasis on <\/p>\n
969
\n00:50:16,320 –> 00:50:19,040
\ntrying to be more readable,
\nwhich makes it nice to read when<\/p>\n
970
\n00:50:19,040 –> 00:50:21,640
\nyou’re doing the readings right.
\nI felt like it really made some <\/p>\n
971
\n00:50:21,640 –> 00:50:24,440
\nof the stuff that Paul writes
\nmake more sense, but <\/p>\n
972
\n00:50:24,440 –> 00:50:26,960
\nunfortunately it’s not as
\nliteral as it could be there. <\/p>\n
973
\n00:50:27,800 –> 00:50:29,600
\nSays you are no longer acting in
\nlove. <\/p>\n
974
\n00:50:29,640 –> 00:50:33,440
\nWhat that really says in the
\nGreek is you are no longer <\/p>\n
975
\n00:50:33,600 –> 00:50:39,720
\nwalking in love.
\nNow that’s really interesting <\/p>\n
976
\n00:50:39,720 –> 00:50:44,480
\nbecause the apostle Paul will go
\non later in Ephesians to. <\/p>\n
977
\n00:50:44,480 –> 00:50:50,760
\nQuote that phrase, and in
\nEphesians chapter five he tells <\/p>\n
978
\n00:50:50,760 –> 00:50:52,160
\nus what it means to walk in
\nlove. <\/p>\n
979
\n00:50:54,000 –> 00:50:57,840
\nSo Ephesians chapter 5.
\nVerse two, listen to this <\/p>\n
980
\n00:50:58,440 –> 00:51:03,280
\nEphesians 5 verse two he uses
\nthat same phrase of walking in <\/p>\n
981
\n00:51:03,280 –> 00:51:05,280
\nlove.
\nListen to what walking in love <\/p>\n
982
\n00:51:05,280 –> 00:51:08,320
\nis.
\nEphesians 5 verse two says and <\/p>\n
983
\n00:51:08,320 –> 00:51:13,040
\nwalk in love as Christ also hath
\nloved us and hath given himself <\/p>\n
984
\n00:51:13,040 –> 00:51:17,240
\nfor us an offering and a
\nsacrifice to God for a sweet <\/p>\n
985
\n00:51:17,240 –> 00:51:20,280
\nsmelling savour.
\nSo what Paul is emphasizing here<\/p>\n
986
\n00:51:21,160 –> 00:51:25,120
\nis he says walking in love.
\nThat’s the fact that the Lord <\/p>\n
987
\n00:51:25,120 –> 00:51:32,160
\nJesus gave his life for you.
\nSo he says, if you can’t figure <\/p>\n
988
\n00:51:32,160 –> 00:51:35,000
\nout how to get along, right, if
\nyou’re if you’re looking at this<\/p>\n
989
\n00:51:35,000 –> 00:51:36,920
\nand say, oh, well, you know, I’m
\ngoing to eat whatever I want, <\/p>\n
990
\n00:51:37,080 –> 00:51:38,640
\neven though that bothers that
\nperson. <\/p>\n
991
\n00:51:38,840 –> 00:51:41,520
\nOr if you’re looking at that
\nother person and judging them <\/p>\n
992
\n00:51:41,520 –> 00:51:43,240
\nand saying, well, they’re not a
\ngood believer because they eat <\/p>\n
993
\n00:51:43,240 –> 00:51:46,000
\nwhatever they want, right.
\nAnd you know, you have these <\/p>\n
994
\n00:51:46,000 –> 00:51:49,240
\nscriptural basis for feeling
\nthis way yet, Paul says. <\/p>\n
995
\n00:51:49,840 –> 00:51:52,480
\nIf you look at that person and
\nfeel that way, he says you <\/p>\n
996
\n00:51:52,480 –> 00:51:54,400
\nmissed the point of the
\nsacrifice of Christ. <\/p>\n
997
\n00:51:57,200 –> 00:51:59,480
\nThat’s why this is his most
\nemphatic verse, right? <\/p>\n
998
\n00:51:59,640 –> 00:52:03,920
\nLike he, he says this, the Lord
\nJesus walked in love and how did<\/p>\n
999
\n00:52:03,920 –> 00:52:07,160
\nhe do that?
\nHe gave his life for you and he <\/p>\n
1000
\n00:52:07,160 –> 00:52:12,760
\ngave his life for them.
\nSo that’s why this is such a big<\/p>\n
1001
\n00:52:12,760 –> 00:52:15,680
\ndeal.
\nAnd so in fact, when he brings <\/p>\n
1002
\n00:52:15,680 –> 00:52:21,360
\nit all together, he says.
\nDo not buy your eating. <\/p>\n
1003
\n00:52:22,400 –> 00:52:24,960
\nDestroy someone for whom Christ
\ndied. <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:52:26,840 –> 00:52:31,280
\nNow it’s interesting that he’s
\ntalking about the strong and the<\/p>\n
1005
\n00:52:31,280 –> 00:52:35,120
\nweak in Romans 14, right?
\nI don’t think it’s an accident <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:52:35,960 –> 00:52:40,080
\nthat, yes, the weak are the ones
\nwho are wanting to become <\/p>\n
1007
\n00:52:40,080 –> 00:52:42,880
\nvegetarian, right?
\nAnd and, you know, wanting to <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:52:42,880 –> 00:52:45,080
\nfollow the Sabbath and all that.
\nAnd the strong are the ones who <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:52:45,080 –> 00:52:46,240
\nrecognize that you don’t need
\nthat. <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:52:46,560 –> 00:52:49,280
\nBut I don’t think it’s an
\naccident then in Romans 5. <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:52:50,560 –> 00:52:55,360
\nPaul wrote this Romans 5 verse
\nsix For when we were yet without<\/p>\n
1012
\n00:52:55,360 –> 00:53:00,120
\nstrength, in due time, Christ
\ndied for the ungodly when we <\/p>\n
1013
\n00:53:00,840 –> 00:53:03,160
\nwere without strength.
\nNow that word without strength <\/p>\n
1014
\n00:53:04,160 –> 00:53:08,800
\nin the Greek is the word weak.
\nSame word as Romans 14 verse one<\/p>\n
1015
\n00:53:10,120 –> 00:53:14,080
\nand and two.
\nSo that’s Romans 5 verse 6 and <\/p>\n
1016
\n00:53:14,080 –> 00:53:16,280
\nRomans 14-1 and two.
\nIn other words, what Paul is <\/p>\n
1017
\n00:53:16,280 –> 00:53:22,480
\nsaying is that everyone in some
\nsense is the weak. <\/p>\n
1018
\n00:53:23,720 –> 00:53:27,960
\nAnd that’s the basis on which we
\nlearn to work together to <\/p>\n
1019
\n00:53:27,960 –> 00:53:32,720
\nrecognize that, you know, I this
\nis what I think it says, here’s <\/p>\n
1020
\n00:53:32,720 –> 00:53:34,360
\nwhy.
\nAnd you say, well, this is what <\/p>\n
1021
\n00:53:34,360 –> 00:53:37,920
\nI think it says, here’s why.
\nAnd we can sit down together and<\/p>\n
1022
\n00:53:37,960 –> 00:53:40,720
\nwe can say, OK, well, you know,
\nlet’s, let’s talk through this. <\/p>\n
1023
\n00:53:41,160 –> 00:53:44,680
\nLet’s try and figure it out.
\nIn some cases, maybe. <\/p>\n
1024
\n00:53:45,200 –> 00:53:46,440
\nYou know, I’m not.
\nI’m not. <\/p>\n
1025
\n00:53:46,440 –> 00:53:47,960
\nTalking on 1st principles, don’t
\nworry. <\/p>\n
1026
\n00:53:47,960 –> 00:53:50,320
\nBut in some cases maybe you’ll
\nhave to compromise. <\/p>\n
1027
\n00:53:50,320 –> 00:53:52,880
\nI know sometimes that people
\nfeel like that’s a bad word, but<\/p>\n
1028
\n00:53:53,080 –> 00:53:55,920
\nyou know, I, I think that that’s
\nan important thing for us to <\/p>\n
1029
\n00:53:55,920 –> 00:53:58,280
\nconsider.
\nRight, that’s how we get along. <\/p>\n
1030
\n00:54:00,320 –> 00:54:02,240
\nNow I put my remote somewhere.
\nI got all excited. <\/p>\n
1031
\n00:54:02,640 –> 00:54:08,320
\nThere it is.
\nOK, I got 5 more minutes. <\/p>\n
1032
\n00:54:08,840 –> 00:54:12,360
\nSo let’s really quickly walk
\nthrough Ephesians because <\/p>\n
1033
\n00:54:12,360 –> 00:54:13,280
\nEphesians is.
\nWow. <\/p>\n
1034
\n00:54:13,840 –> 00:54:16,280
\nYeah, OK, four.
\nSo Ephesians is the same thing. <\/p>\n
1035
\n00:54:17,200 –> 00:54:20,320
\nBut I think you’ll notice that
\nsame point that what the apostle<\/p>\n
1036
\n00:54:20,320 –> 00:54:23,920
\ndoes is he gives us the
\nsacrifice of the Lord, and he <\/p>\n
1037
\n00:54:23,920 –> 00:54:26,720
\nsays this sacrifice was about
\npeace. <\/p>\n
1038
\n00:54:27,040 –> 00:54:30,040
\nSo you have the same problem,
\nJews and Gentiles, and it’s <\/p>\n
1039
\n00:54:30,040 –> 00:54:33,440
\nagain revolved around peace.
\nEphesians 2 verses 11 to 13 says<\/p>\n
1040
\n00:54:33,560 –> 00:54:36,960
\nTherefore remember that formerly
\nyou who are Gentiles by birth <\/p>\n
1041
\n00:54:37,160 –> 00:54:39,280
\nand called uncircumcised by
\nthose who call themselves the <\/p>\n
1042
\n00:54:39,280 –> 00:54:41,680
\ncircumcision, which is done in
\nthe body by human hands. <\/p>\n
1043
\n00:54:41,880 –> 00:54:44,120
\nRemember that at that time you
\nwere separate from Christ, <\/p>\n
1044
\n00:54:44,360 –> 00:54:46,840
\nexcluded from citizenship in
\nIsrael, foreigners to the <\/p>\n
1045
\n00:54:46,840 –> 00:54:49,360
\ncovenants of promise, without
\nhope, without God in the world, <\/p>\n
1046
\n00:54:49,480 –> 00:54:53,120
\nbut now in Christ Jesus, you who
\nonce were far away, have been <\/p>\n
1047
\n00:54:53,120 –> 00:54:54,640
\nbrought near by the blood of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
1048
\n00:54:54,760 –> 00:54:58,120
\nNow I’ve underlined it on there,
\nthat’s an illusion. <\/p>\n
1049
\n00:54:59,480 –> 00:55:01,920
\nHe says you were once far away
\nand you’ve been brought near by <\/p>\n
1050
\n00:55:01,920 –> 00:55:03,320
\nthe blood of Christ.
\nNow that’s an illusion. <\/p>\n
1051
\n00:55:03,320 –> 00:55:06,720
\nI would suggest you to Isaiah 57
\nbecause that whole section is <\/p>\n
1052
\n00:55:06,720 –> 00:55:10,120
\nquoting Isaiah 57 and we’ll
\nwe’ll look at it maybe as we go,<\/p>\n
1053
\n00:55:10,200 –> 00:55:13,840
\ndepending on how fast they talk,
\nbut being far away. <\/p>\n
1054
\n00:55:14,160 –> 00:55:16,960
\nIsaiah 57 talks about those who
\nare far, and the reason we need <\/p>\n
1055
\n00:55:16,960 –> 00:55:19,480
\nto recognize that illusion is
\nbecause look at what it’s saying<\/p>\n
1056
\n00:55:19,480 –> 00:55:24,080
\nto those who are far.
\nIt says peace to those who are <\/p>\n
1057
\n00:55:24,080 –> 00:55:25,560
\nfar.
\nAnd that’s Paul’s point. <\/p>\n
1058
\n00:55:25,840 –> 00:55:29,480
\nHe says you once were strangers
\nfrom the covenant, you once were<\/p>\n
1059
\n00:55:29,480 –> 00:55:32,800
\naliens from the Commonwealth of
\nIsrael, and he says, but now you<\/p>\n
1060
\n00:55:32,800 –> 00:55:36,880
\nhave peace because of what the
\nLord Jesus did. <\/p>\n
1061
\n00:55:38,880 –> 00:55:41,920
\nSo he explains that He Himself
\nis our peace. <\/p>\n
1062
\n00:55:42,240 –> 00:55:47,280
\nHow not just peace with God, not
\njust inner peace, but he says <\/p>\n
1063
\n00:55:47,480 –> 00:55:51,640
\nthe Lord Jesus has made the two
\ngroups one and has destroyed the<\/p>\n
1064
\n00:55:51,640 –> 00:55:54,520
\nbarrier, the dividing wall of
\nhostility by setting aside in <\/p>\n
1065
\n00:55:54,520 –> 00:55:57,120
\nhis flesh the law with its
\ncommands and regulations. <\/p>\n
1066
\n00:55:57,240 –> 00:55:59,320
\nAnd he doesn’t say it’s going to
\nbe easy to figure out the peace,<\/p>\n
1067
\n00:55:59,440 –> 00:56:02,640
\nbut he says that peace has to
\nhappen right? <\/p>\n
1068
\n00:56:02,640 –> 00:56:04,360
\nBecause that’s the sacrifice of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
1069
\n00:56:05,280 –> 00:56:09,120
\nHe says uniting those two
\ngroups, making you one, is what <\/p>\n
1070
\n00:56:09,120 –> 00:56:11,440
\nthe Lord Jesus did.
\nAnd if you aren’t? <\/p>\n
1071
\n00:56:11,560 –> 00:56:15,840
\nThat.
\nThen you’ve missed it. <\/p>\n
1072
\n00:56:17,240 –> 00:56:20,680
\nThat’s when he quotes Isaiah 57.
\nHe came and preached peace to <\/p>\n
1073
\n00:56:20,680 –> 00:56:24,360
\nyou who were far away, and peace
\nto those who are near. <\/p>\n
1074
\n00:56:28,320 –> 00:56:32,680
\nSo what we see?
\nIs that when it comes to the <\/p>\n
1075
\n00:56:32,680 –> 00:56:38,320
\nstory of the gospel, it’s the
\ngospel of peace. <\/p>\n
1076
\n00:56:39,120 –> 00:56:42,640
\nAnd all of these aspects of
\npeace are connected. <\/p>\n
1077
\n00:56:43,600 –> 00:56:49,560
\nIn fact, ultimately I would put
\nto you, I think really peace <\/p>\n
1078
\n00:56:49,560 –> 00:56:52,720
\nwith each other is probably the
\nhardest kind of peace to bring <\/p>\n
1079
\n00:56:52,720 –> 00:56:54,760
\nabout, right?
\nBecause you know, you, you have <\/p>\n
1080
\n00:56:54,760 –> 00:56:56,880
\nto bring together all these
\ndifferent kinds of people. <\/p>\n
1081
\n00:56:56,880 –> 00:56:59,040
\nAnd, and even though we’re not
\ndealing with Jews and Gentiles <\/p>\n
1082
\n00:56:59,040 –> 00:57:01,760
\ntoday, right?
\nThere’s still a lot of different<\/p>\n
1083
\n00:57:01,760 –> 00:57:04,800
\nopinions and a lot of different
\nfeelings about stuff, right? <\/p>\n
1084
\n00:57:04,800 –> 00:57:06,480
\nAnd it’s it’s hard to make it
\nwork. <\/p>\n
1085
\n00:57:07,040 –> 00:57:09,880
\nAnd yet what we see when we come
\nto Romans, when we come to <\/p>\n
1086
\n00:57:09,880 –> 00:57:13,360
\nEphesians, is the apostle Paul
\nacknowledges, yes, it’s hard. <\/p>\n
1087
\n00:57:13,560 –> 00:57:19,160
\nBut he says when you understand
\nwhat God is doing and how God is<\/p>\n
1088
\n00:57:19,320 –> 00:57:23,160
\nbringing out peace with God, how
\nhe’s bringing out your inner <\/p>\n
1089
\n00:57:23,160 –> 00:57:26,400
\npeace, and that all of these
\nthings together link and should <\/p>\n
1090
\n00:57:26,400 –> 00:57:31,360
\ninspire you to be at peace with
\neach other, he says how can you <\/p>\n
1091
\n00:57:31,360 –> 00:57:35,520
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