Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 349.<\/p>\n
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\nBible School.
\nThis is our brother Sean <\/p>\n
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\nSnowblind’s third class on the
\ntopic of what is truth. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Sean, please.
\nWell, thank you brother and and <\/p>\n
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\ngood morning everyone.
\nOnce again, welcome to class 3. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is truth?
\nYou know, yesterday we discussed<\/p>\n
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\nPaul’s statements about us all
\nbeing without excuse as God has <\/p>\n
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\nrevealed Himself everywhere all
\naround us. <\/p>\n
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\nHowever, as we know, despite
\nthis revelation, people still <\/p>\n
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\nrejected God, leading to
\nungodliness and unrighteousness <\/p>\n
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\nand suppressing the truth that
\nshould have been very evident <\/p>\n
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\nbefore them.
\nAnd so the problem is we we live<\/p>\n
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\nin a world today that is in many
\nways worse than any other time <\/p>\n
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\nin history as it relates to the
\nungodliness and unrighteousness <\/p>\n
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\nof man.
\nWe live in what’s called a pro, <\/p>\n
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\na post truth.
\nAge now. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does that mean?
\nI mean, we’ve heard the term. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, essentially what it means
\nis that we live in this context <\/p>\n
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\nwhere we’re beyond truth, that
\npeople are much more likely and <\/p>\n
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\nwilling to accept information
\nthat aligns with their own <\/p>\n
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\npersonal worldview than anything
\nthat is actually structured in. <\/p>\n
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\nReality, even if it’s
\ninformation that’s false or <\/p>\n
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\nmisleading.
\nNow it may sound to you like, <\/p>\n
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\nwell, that’s crazy, Why would
\nanybody do that? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, The thing is, brethren and
\nsisters, we actually do it <\/p>\n
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\nourselves when we choose to
\nlisten to things that kind of <\/p>\n
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\nplay to our nature or make us
\nfeel good, right? <\/p>\n
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\nSo we live in this this age,
\nthis environment of feelings <\/p>\n
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\nover facts.
\nRight, and I’m sure you’ve heard<\/p>\n
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\nthat term as well.
\nAnd so the key verse that’s up <\/p>\n
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\non the slide, the Lord Jesus
\nChrist speaking in in John 8, he<\/p>\n
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\nsays to those who were around
\nhim that believed him is the <\/p>\n
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\ncontext of the statement.
\nHe says If you abide in my word,<\/p>\n
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\nyou are truly my disciples.
\nAnd you will know the truth and <\/p>\n
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\nthe truth will set you free.
\nAnd so in in keeping with our <\/p>\n
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\nenduring theme for this week of
\nbeing not ashamed of the gospel,<\/p>\n
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\nthe question I have for you this
\nmorning is do you believe that <\/p>\n
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\nthe truth will set you free?
\nAnd I know these are fundamental<\/p>\n
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\nbasic questions and, and
\nprobably the knee jerk reaction <\/p>\n
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\nis to always say, well, yes.
\nBut again, do we live in that <\/p>\n
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\nreality?
\nDo we live with that truth in <\/p>\n
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\nour hearts that’s going back to
\nbelieving in the existence of <\/p>\n
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\nGod and believing in God’s
\nfuture because that’s the future<\/p>\n
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\nwhere we will be set free from
\nthis body of sin. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so the challenge that we
\nhave every single day of our <\/p>\n
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\nlives is that those who continue
\nto perpetuate the lie from the <\/p>\n
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\nGarden of Eden, they have a very
\ncompelling message. <\/p>\n
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\nThey say things that we want to
\nhear. <\/p>\n
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\nThe inclination of human nature
\nis towards self gratification. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s a very, very powerful
\nelixir. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the only antidote to it is
\nthe truth of God. <\/p>\n
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\nTurn over to John 18.
\nAnd and we often go to this, <\/p>\n
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\nthis series of verses when we’re
\ntalking about what is truth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I just want to touch on it
\nvery quickly because of course, <\/p>\n
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\nthis is the statement that Pilot
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\nAnd I just want to make a, a
\npoint, hopefully from this. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, and, and Pilot was an
\nawful, evil man. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a Roman governor.
\nMany of us, I think, probably <\/p>\n
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\neven know the historical facts
\nabout this man and what happened<\/p>\n
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\nafter this particular event and
\nall the horrifying things that <\/p>\n
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\nhe did.
\nBut in in this particular <\/p>\n
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\nmoment, he asks a question that
\nthat I think rings in our ears, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nHe knew Christ either by <\/p>\n
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\nMaybe he’d even seen him.
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\nBut he did understand who this
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\nknew that the leaders had handed
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\nhim.
\nAnd even Pilate’s wife had came,<\/p>\n
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\ncame to him and said, look, I’ve
\nhad a dream. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in the.
\nDream, I was told, have nothing <\/p>\n
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\nto do with this righteous man.
\nWe know because Pilate also said<\/p>\n
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\nthat he found none of the
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\nAnd so in John 18 and 37, Pilate
\nasked the Lord Jesus Christ, so <\/p>\n
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\nare you a king?
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\nI’m a king for the purpose.
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\nfor this purpose have I come
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\nto the truth.
\nAnd everyone who is of the truth<\/p>\n
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\nThe truth that he was preaching,
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\nthe truth about death and the
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\nexistence.
\nIt’s like when Paul picks it up <\/p>\n
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\nin Romans 1 and he says the
\ngospel of God. <\/p>\n
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\nPaul meant everything that God
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\nAnd I think that’s the intent
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\nPilate, however, is not a
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\nIn this particular case, he had <\/p>\n
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\ndespite recognizing the <\/p>\n
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\ninnocence of the Lord Jesus
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\nthink, recognizing the divine
\nsignificance. <\/p>\n
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\nOf this event asked the question
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\nBut he could just throw this <\/p>\n
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\nthat no matter what the reality <\/p>\n
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\nThen what is truth anyway? <\/p>\n
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\nThe truth is not just a a tool <\/p>\n
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\nmaintain. <\/p>\n
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\nindifferent about the abuse of <\/p>\n
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\ntruth in our lives, in our
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\nAnd, and we’ll go through this.
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\nAnd, and we’ll talk if I have
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\nthat whether Bernard showed me
\nlast night, which is, which is <\/p>\n
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\nto say that nothing’s changed, <\/p>\n
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\nNothing’s changed at all. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we think about pre modernism.
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\nwhat was the prevailing <\/p>\n
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\nEnlightenment, all those things <\/p>\n
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\nthat happened before, right?
\nThe worldview was corrupted, but<\/p>\n
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\npredominantly God centered,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nThere was an emphasis on divine
\nauthority. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not saying it was perfect.
\nI’m just saying that was the <\/p>\n
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\nunderpinning of most Western
\nsociety, right? <\/p>\n
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\nThe church, you know, ruled
\nthings that the revelation of <\/p>\n
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\nGod was the primary source that
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\nsocieties.
\nAnd truth was considered at the <\/p>\n
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\ntime to be absolute, certainly
\ngrounded in Scripture and the <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so there was an <\/p>\n
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\nand wrong on the basis of the <\/p>\n
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\nframeworks. <\/p>\n
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\nMorality was generally based on
\nGod’s moral authority. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so those commandments came
\nout and there was a clear <\/p>\n
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\nand the rule of law. <\/p>\n
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\nAgain, I’m not saying it was
\nperfect, it certainly was not, <\/p>\n
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\nworldview at the time. <\/p>\n
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\nSocial structures were futile.
\nThey were hierarchical, they <\/p>\n
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\nwere monarchical, but whatever.
\nAnd I’m not saying that was was <\/p>\n
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\nright or wrong, it just was the
\nfact of the day. <\/p>\n
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\nSo as we moved into modernism,
\nwe sort of passed the threshold <\/p>\n
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\nLast night we were talking about<\/p>\n
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\nthe scientific revolution, which
\ncame in in the 15th, 16th, 17th,<\/p>\n
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\n18th centuries, right?
\nAnd science explodes. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, that was reflected on the
\nworld view at the time. <\/p>\n
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\nSo modernism became more reason
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\nIt was more based on the
\nscientific perspective, <\/p>\n
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\nempirical evidence.
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\nTruth was objective.
\nBut it was based on scientific <\/p>\n
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\nSo the shift from a sort of a
\nGod centered to an objective <\/p>\n
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\ndays there was no king in
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\nmistake with the young people.
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\nyou think about 11 hours a day
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\njust kidding check the amount of<\/p>\n
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\nsay 3 score and 10, and you just
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\nscreen?
\n12 years? <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:54,760 –> 00:18:58,000
\nIt’s 11.
\nYep, you can live a little <\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:58,000 –> 00:19:02,320
\nlonger than me, probably because
\nyou’re a firmer. 11 straight <\/p>\n
343
\n00:19:02,440 –> 00:19:06,000
\nyears. 24 hours a day.
\nThat’s the average person. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:19:06,600 –> 00:19:10,720
\nThat’s the lifespan on a phone.
\nYou know, for older. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:19:10,720 –> 00:19:13,600
\nAdults the The use of social
\nmedia is going through the roof <\/p>\n
346
\n00:19:14,040 –> 00:19:17,800
\nright now.
\nThis year, 2020, 468% of our age<\/p>\n
347
\n00:19:17,800 –> 00:19:20,960
\ngroup here are on social media,
\nin particular Facebook with the <\/p>\n
348
\n00:19:20,960 –> 00:19:21,920
\nkids.
\nDon’t even know what that is <\/p>\n
349
\n00:19:21,920 –> 00:19:24,560
\nanymore.
\nFacebook What’s that, 70? <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:24,560 –> 00:19:29,160
\nPercent of us are on YouTube and
\nthis is not every now and again,<\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:29,160 –> 00:19:31,800
\nthis is this is every day, this
\nis day, this is ours. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:19:32,640 –> 00:19:36,600
\nYounger adults, 78% use
\nInstagram, 62% use TikTok. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:19:36,600 –> 00:19:40,360
\nNow look, I’ll say something
\nright now about TikTok it and <\/p>\n
354
\n00:19:40,360 –> 00:19:42,640
\nyou know what?
\nI got a lot of teens nodding <\/p>\n
355
\n00:19:42,640 –> 00:19:48,000
\ntheir head in class today.
\nIt is the worst social media <\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:48,000 –> 00:19:50,160
\nplatform in the history of
\nmankind. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:51,560 –> 00:19:56,760
\nIt is the most left wing,
\npervasive anti Israel, anti God,<\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:56,960 –> 00:20:01,120
\nanti truth platform literally
\nthat’s ever come out of all the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:01,120 –> 00:20:04,240
\nones that are bad.
\nDon’t go on TikTok. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:04,240 –> 00:20:08,120
\nHe gives her on TikTok.
\nHonestly, you got to get them <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:08,120 –> 00:20:11,880
\noff.
\nIt’s it’s it’s so bad. 40% of <\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:11,880 –> 00:20:15,800
\nyoung adults.
\nBetween the age of 16 and 28, <\/p>\n
363
\n00:20:16,800 –> 00:20:18,520
\nget.
\nAll of their. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:20:18,520 –> 00:20:21,440
\nInformation on TikTok.
\nAll of it. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:20:23,920 –> 00:20:27,680
\nLike, that’s a, that’s a scary
\nthing, you know, The, the, the, <\/p>\n
366
\n00:20:27,880 –> 00:20:31,760
\nthe.
\nThe Gaza protesters, generally <\/p>\n
367
\n00:20:31,760 –> 00:20:34,280
\nspeaking, when they were when
\nthey were spoken to, got. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:20:34,280 –> 00:20:36,680
\nAll of their.
\nInformation about Israel and <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:36,680 –> 00:20:38,680
\nGaza on TikTok.
\nEnough said. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:20:39,760 –> 00:20:42,200
\nI checked the stats and I’m 100%
\ncorrect. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:42,280 –> 00:20:46,080
\nThere are now 5.6 million
\npodcasts currently available on <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:46,080 –> 00:20:48,280
\nthe major streaming platforms
\nthat we have. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:49,160 –> 00:20:52,000
\nWe’re now into podcasts like
\ncrazy. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:52,160 –> 00:20:53,440
\nLook.
\nI think there’s a lot of. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:53,440 –> 00:20:55,920
\nPodcasts out there.
\nSo don’t get me wrong, right? <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:55,920 –> 00:20:58,720
\nThere’s a lot of things that we
\ncan learn from experts. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:58,720 –> 00:21:01,200
\nThere are Christadelphian
\npodcasts out there and they’re <\/p>\n
378
\n00:21:01,200 –> 00:21:04,320
\ngreat.
\nBut we also watch podcasts on <\/p>\n
379
\n00:21:04,320 –> 00:21:06,360
\neverything we’ve we’ve become
\nobsessed with. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:21:06,600 –> 00:21:09,000
\nOh, just listen to that latest
\npodcast on you know, it’s on <\/p>\n
381
\n00:21:09,000 –> 00:21:10,800
\nsports, it’s on work.
\nIt’s on how to be a better <\/p>\n
382
\n00:21:10,800 –> 00:21:12,400
\nmother, how to be a better
\nfather, how to be a better <\/p>\n
383
\n00:21:12,400 –> 00:21:14,640
\ngardener, how to invest better.
\nYou know how to. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:21:14,640 –> 00:21:16,120
\nGrow your empire, whatever it
\nis. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:21:18,240 –> 00:21:22,400
\nI I listen to some podcasts.
\nI’m not immune, but are we <\/p>\n
386
\n00:21:22,400 –> 00:21:25,080
\ngetting more advice from the
\nworld than we get from God? <\/p>\n
387
\n00:21:27,520 –> 00:21:31,160
\nYou know, I love Brother Frank
\nAbel’s description many, many <\/p>\n
388
\n00:21:31,160 –> 00:21:37,120
\nyears ago about when the
\nInternet came into our homes, so<\/p>\n
389
\n00:21:37,120 –> 00:21:38,560
\nyou’ve probably heard it, he
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:21:38,560 –> 00:21:42,280
\nIt’s just literally like a sewer
\npipe pouring into our living <\/p>\n
391
\n00:21:42,280 –> 00:21:44,400
\nrooms and.
\nWhen you hear that, you’re like.<\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:45,360 –> 00:21:48,720
\nAh, gross.
\nIt couldn’t be more true. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:49,440 –> 00:21:52,360
\nWe have access to everything,
\neverything we want. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:53,200 –> 00:21:56,000
\nAnd you know, we all have this
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:56,000 –> 00:21:59,920
\nI don’t have a phone up here to
\nshow you, but it’s like doom <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:59,920 –> 00:22:03,680
\nscrolling, right?
\nWhat do you what do you look, <\/p>\n
397
\n00:22:03,680 –> 00:22:05,840
\nhang on, what are you looking
\nfor? <\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:07,560 –> 00:22:10,720
\nWe all have a problem with just
\nscrolling for content, content, <\/p>\n
399
\n00:22:10,760 –> 00:22:13,160
\ncontent, that next thing, the
\nnext funny thing, what’s going <\/p>\n
400
\n00:22:13,160 –> 00:22:15,520
\nto what’s going to wake me up?
\nWhat’s going to entertain me, <\/p>\n
401
\n00:22:15,520 –> 00:22:17,920
\nright?
\nAnd and it’s, you know, a lot of<\/p>\n
402
\n00:22:17,920 –> 00:22:20,520
\npeople say when they’re asked
\nabout doom scrolling or watching<\/p>\n
403
\n00:22:20,520 –> 00:22:24,120
\nNetflix or whatever it is, you
\nknow what it’s I’m just <\/p>\n
404
\n00:22:24,120 –> 00:22:26,560
\nescaping.
\nJust, I’m just, I need some time<\/p>\n
405
\n00:22:26,560 –> 00:22:30,480
\nto unwind.
\nI just need to just switch off <\/p>\n
406
\n00:22:30,480 –> 00:22:33,320
\nthe brain and just let, let it
\nin for a little bit. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:22:35,160 –> 00:22:39,320
\nThe problem is, before long,
\nwe’re always escaping. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:22:40,760 –> 00:22:43,560
\nLike we never stopped to let the
\ntruth back in. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:22:43,920 –> 00:22:45,960
\nAnd we were talking about this
\nthe other night, How? <\/p>\n
410
\n00:22:46,280 –> 00:22:48,480
\nLook, it happens with Marty and
\nI. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:22:48,480 –> 00:22:50,080
\nI know it seems like we’re
\nperfect. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:22:50,680 –> 00:22:54,160
\nWe’re not.
\nTen o’clock rolls around. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:22:54,160 –> 00:22:56,680
\nYou’ve watched the program.
\nAnd just like we haven’t done <\/p>\n
414
\n00:22:56,680 –> 00:22:59,880
\nthe barbering, it’s like it’s.
\nIt’s too late. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:23:00,200 –> 00:23:02,160
\nI mean, how often do we
\nliterally say that it’s? <\/p>\n
416
\n00:23:02,160 –> 00:23:05,200
\nToo late to read the word of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:23:06,080 –> 00:23:09,520
\nI don’t need to lecture anyone
\nabout the utter waste of time <\/p>\n
418
\n00:23:09,520 –> 00:23:11,480
\nthat media has.
\nBut. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:23:11,480 –> 00:23:14,600
\nBut here’s the thing.
\nEvery time we switch off from <\/p>\n
420
\n00:23:14,600 –> 00:23:16,560
\nGod.
\nWe. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:23:16,560 –> 00:23:18,800
\nSeparate ourselves from his
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:23:19,680 –> 00:23:22,440
\nAnd here’s something that a
\nwriter on this topic recently <\/p>\n
423
\n00:23:22,440 –> 00:23:24,120
\nstated, and I think this is very
\nappropriate. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:23:25,400 –> 00:23:33,920
\nThe Internet, social media,
\nNetflix, whatever literally does<\/p>\n
425
\n00:23:33,920 –> 00:23:40,760
\nour thinking for us.
\nIt keeps us stimulated and yet <\/p>\n
426
\n00:23:40,760 –> 00:23:45,400
\ndistracted so that we do not
\nhave to confront who we are or <\/p>\n
427
\n00:23:45,400 –> 00:23:47,280
\nwhat type of person we’ve
\nbecome. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:23:48,640 –> 00:23:53,720
\nAnd I read that and I thought,
\nit’s like mind blowing. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:23:55,720 –> 00:23:57,760
\nOur number one source of truth
\nmust be God’s Word. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:23:58,520 –> 00:24:01,000
\nIt must be the filter by which
\nwe see the world. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:24:03,520 –> 00:24:06,480
\nListen to what Jeremiah says in
\nJeremiah 15 and 16. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:24:08,360 –> 00:24:10,560
\nSaid when your words.
\nCame to me. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:24:11,120 –> 00:24:14,800
\nI ate them.
\nThey were my joy, my heart’s <\/p>\n
434
\n00:24:14,800 –> 00:24:19,560
\ndelight.
\nFor I bear your name, Lord God <\/p>\n
435
\n00:24:19,560 –> 00:24:21,640
\nAlmighty.
\nI never sat in the company of <\/p>\n
436
\n00:24:21,640 –> 00:24:23,680
\nrevellers.
\nI never made merry with them. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:24:23,920 –> 00:24:30,720
\nI sat alone because your hand
\nwas on me and you had filled me <\/p>\n
438
\n00:24:31,640 –> 00:24:34,760
\nwith indignation.
\nHow often, brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n
439
\n00:24:34,760 –> 00:24:38,400
\nwhen we’re sitting watching a
\nprogram on on Netflix, are we <\/p>\n
440
\n00:24:38,400 –> 00:24:46,080
\nfilled with indignation?
\nMaybe after we feel kind of bad,<\/p>\n
441
\n00:24:46,080 –> 00:24:50,080
\nwe feel kind of dirty.
\nWe need to be filled with <\/p>\n
442
\n00:24:50,080 –> 00:24:52,160
\nindignation.
\nTurn to Psalm 119. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:24:52,160 –> 00:24:53,760
\nI.
\nThink this is an even more <\/p>\n
444
\n00:24:53,760 –> 00:24:56,000
\nbeautiful way to say this very
\nthing? <\/p>\n
445
\n00:24:56,000 –> 00:25:06,360
\nPsalm 119 starting at verse 97,
\nit says. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:25:06,920 –> 00:25:09,520
\nOh how I love your law.
\nI meditate on it all day long. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:25:09,520 –> 00:25:12,440
\nYour commands are always with me
\nand make me wiser than my <\/p>\n
448
\n00:25:12,440 –> 00:25:15,080
\nenemies.
\nI have more insight than all of <\/p>\n
449
\n00:25:15,080 –> 00:25:17,280
\nmy teachers, for I meditate on
\nyour statutes. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:25:17,280 –> 00:25:19,880
\nI have more understanding than
\nthe elders, for I obey your <\/p>\n
451
\n00:25:19,880 –> 00:25:21,760
\nprecepts.
\nI have kept my feet from the <\/p>\n
452
\n00:25:21,760 –> 00:25:24,800
\nevil past so that I might obey
\nyour word. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:25:25,000 –> 00:25:28,240
\nI have not departed from your
\nlaws, for you yourself have <\/p>\n
454
\n00:25:28,240 –> 00:25:31,200
\ntaught me.
\nAnd this is the beautiful part. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:25:31,200 –> 00:25:34,200
\nHow sweet are your words to my
\ntaste? <\/p>\n
456
\n00:25:34,200 –> 00:25:37,760
\nSweeter than honey to my mouth.
\nI gain understanding from your <\/p>\n
457
\n00:25:37,760 –> 00:25:39,960
\nprecepts.
\nTherefore I hate every wrong <\/p>\n
458
\n00:25:39,960 –> 00:25:42,280
\npath.
\nYour word is a lamp to my feet, <\/p>\n
459
\n00:25:42,680 –> 00:25:45,360
\na light to my path.
\nI have taken an oath and I have <\/p>\n
460
\n00:25:45,360 –> 00:25:48,320
\nconfirmed that I will follow
\nyour righteous laws. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:25:48,480 –> 00:25:51,200
\nHow often when we watch
\nsomething or we scroll through <\/p>\n
462
\n00:25:51,200 –> 00:25:53,800
\nsomething, do we taste the
\nbitterness of it? <\/p>\n
463
\n00:25:53,840 –> 00:25:56,400
\nAnd I and I think that’s the
\npoint, brethren and sisters, <\/p>\n
464
\n00:25:56,400 –> 00:25:59,080
\nthat the more we consume the
\nWord of God, the more <\/p>\n
465
\n00:25:59,080 –> 00:26:03,120
\ndistasteful the things of the
\nworld will be, the less time we <\/p>\n
466
\n00:26:03,120 –> 00:26:07,800
\nspend consuming God’s Word.
\nThe more palatable the things of<\/p>\n
467
\n00:26:07,800 –> 00:26:10,000
\nthe truth will be.
\nLook, it’s hard to switch off <\/p>\n
468
\n00:26:10,000 –> 00:26:12,840
\nthe world.
\nMarnie and I have thrown away so<\/p>\n
469
\n00:26:12,840 –> 00:26:17,600
\nmany CD sets and VHS tapes and
\nthen, you know, disconnected <\/p>\n
470
\n00:26:17,600 –> 00:26:20,040
\nfrom Netflix multiple times and
\nand. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:26:20,520 –> 00:26:22,960
\nIt just.
\nKeeps coming back and then you <\/p>\n
472
\n00:26:22,960 –> 00:26:25,200
\nknow, but.
\nWe got to keep training <\/p>\n
473
\n00:26:25,200 –> 00:26:27,600
\nourselves to switch it off.
\nThe more often we switch it off,<\/p>\n
474
\n00:26:27,920 –> 00:26:30,160
\nthe easier it will be.
\nWe have to create a boundary, <\/p>\n
475
\n00:26:30,160 –> 00:26:31,760
\nand that’s what that word
\nseparation means. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:26:31,760 –> 00:26:36,400
\nIt’s to mark off a boundary, A
\nseparation between US and godly <\/p>\n
477
\n00:26:36,400 –> 00:26:38,000
\nmorals and the things that are
\nout there. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:26:38,120 –> 00:26:40,720
\nAnd we need to consume the word
\nof God every day and it’ll be <\/p>\n
479
\n00:26:40,720 –> 00:26:45,000
\nthat reset that we need to see.
\nSo the question is, how can we <\/p>\n
480
\n00:26:45,000 –> 00:26:48,160
\ntell truth from deception and
\nand and the teens are. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:26:48,160 –> 00:26:52,080
\nAll over this clearly, when we
\nconsume the word of God. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:26:53,120 –> 00:26:57,000
\nIt becomes the filter by which
\nwe can determine truth from <\/p>\n
483
\n00:26:57,000 –> 00:27:00,440
\nlies.
\nFirst, John four and one, dear <\/p>\n
484
\n00:27:00,440 –> 00:27:04,280
\nfriends, do not believe every
\nspirit, but test the spirits to <\/p>\n
485
\n00:27:04,280 –> 00:27:07,080
\nsee whether they are of God.
\nBecause many false prophets have<\/p>\n
486
\n00:27:07,080 –> 00:27:10,640
\ngone out into the world, so is
\nthat the filter by which we <\/p>\n
487
\n00:27:10,640 –> 00:27:13,640
\ndiscern the difference between
\nright and wrong. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:27:13,960 –> 00:27:16,360
\nNow one of the teens in in the
\nin the workshop. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:27:16,360 –> 00:27:20,800
\nSaid at the end, you know, I
\nsaid, OK, so would you? <\/p>\n
490
\n00:27:21,000 –> 00:27:23,360
\nI put some questions up on the
\nscreen and then they discussed <\/p>\n
491
\n00:27:23,360 –> 00:27:26,960
\nit amongst the group and he came
\nback and and I said, OK, you <\/p>\n
492
\n00:27:26,960 –> 00:27:29,680
\nknow, group at the back.
\nHe said, what you need to do is <\/p>\n
493
\n00:27:30,200 –> 00:27:33,760
\nthat every time you see
\nsomething in the world, you <\/p>\n
494
\n00:27:33,760 –> 00:27:40,480
\nimmediately refer to the Bible,
\nlook it up and go, Nope, that’s <\/p>\n
495
\n00:27:40,480 –> 00:27:41,880
\nnot right.
\nHe said. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:27:41,880 –> 00:27:44,480
\nThen you shut that off.
\nNow this is coming from a 16 <\/p>\n
497
\n00:27:44,480 –> 00:27:46,560
\nyear old kid and.
\nI’ll tell the the parents who it<\/p>\n
498
\n00:27:46,560 –> 00:27:51,480
\nwas after.
\nAnd I just thought what a mature<\/p>\n
499
\n00:27:51,480 –> 00:27:53,800
\nthing.
\nNow putting that in practice is <\/p>\n
500
\n00:27:53,800 –> 00:27:55,920
\na little bit harder, but how
\noften do we see? <\/p>\n
501
\n00:27:55,920 –> 00:28:02,360
\nSomething and then go Nope, not
\ncorrect off. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:28:02,360 –> 00:28:04,880
\nYou know what I mean?
\nLike like that’s that’s the <\/p>\n
503
\n00:28:04,880 –> 00:28:06,920
\nmechanism that we have to build
\ninto our brain. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:28:06,920 –> 00:28:09,000
\nNow I did this for the sake of
\nthe kids. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:28:09,000 –> 00:28:15,240
\nSo we’ll do this really quickly.
\nWhy does Why does Christ call us<\/p>\n
506
\n00:28:15,240 –> 00:28:18,720
\nsheep?
\nWhy aren’t we? <\/p>\n
507
\n00:28:19,560 –> 00:28:22,640
\nA predator I might, you know,
\nyou say, what’s your favorite <\/p>\n
508
\n00:28:22,640 –> 00:28:24,000
\nanimal?
\nYou’re not going to go, that’s a<\/p>\n
509
\n00:28:24,040 –> 00:28:29,400
\nsheep, right?
\nMy favorite animal is the black <\/p>\n
510
\n00:28:29,400 –> 00:28:33,360
\nPuma.
\nLike they are incredibly <\/p>\n
511
\n00:28:33,360 –> 00:28:35,600
\nbeautiful and powerful.
\nAnd just you know what I mean? <\/p>\n
512
\n00:28:36,320 –> 00:28:39,560
\nAnd and yet we’re not.
\nGod didn’t label us as <\/p>\n
513
\n00:28:39,560 –> 00:28:41,680
\npredators, as aggressive
\npredators. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:28:42,760 –> 00:28:44,720
\nHe labeled us as sheep and we’re
\ngoing to talk about sheep a <\/p>\n
515
\n00:28:44,720 –> 00:28:46,880
\nlittle bit more, God willing in
\nin class 5. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:28:47,080 –> 00:28:50,800
\nThere’s a reason why we are to
\nbe identified with that type of <\/p>\n
517
\n00:28:51,160 –> 00:28:54,440
\ncharacter.
\nAnd then Christ says he is wise <\/p>\n
518
\n00:28:54,440 –> 00:28:57,760
\nas serpents and gentle as dubs.
\nSo I’ll ask you the question. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:28:57,880 –> 00:29:00,840
\nWhy did he say that?
\nWhy, why and how are we to be <\/p>\n
520
\n00:29:00,840 –> 00:29:02,400
\nwise as.
\nSerpents. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:29:05,320 –> 00:29:14,000
\nNon rhetorical, sorry.
\nSo certain snakes are very <\/p>\n
522
\n00:29:14,000 –> 00:29:16,880
\ndiscerning.
\nThey have incredible senses. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:29:17,440 –> 00:29:21,080
\nSo it’s not to be like a snake,
\nit’s to use those <\/p>\n
524
\n00:29:21,080 –> 00:29:24,040
\ncharacteristics they can.
\nTheir whole body is a feeling <\/p>\n
525
\n00:29:24,040 –> 00:29:25,240
\nmember.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:29:25,640 –> 00:29:27,360
\nThey don’t hear like we do.
\nThey have. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:29:28,200 –> 00:29:29,600
\nSome of them are.
\nDifferent, but they feel <\/p>\n
528
\n00:29:29,600 –> 00:29:32,360
\nvibrations up to their jawbone
\nthat they interpret into sound. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:29:32,720 –> 00:29:35,720
\nSome, some surf, some snakes to
\nbe careful. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:29:36,120 –> 00:29:38,520
\nThey see like we do, but they
\nalso have infrared vision where <\/p>\n
531
\n00:29:38,520 –> 00:29:42,120
\nthey can detect things at night.
\nAnd really for the serpent, it’s<\/p>\n
532
\n00:29:42,120 –> 00:29:46,080
\nall about determining the
\ndifference between prey and <\/p>\n
533
\n00:29:46,080 –> 00:29:48,360
\npredator.
\nThat’s what their senses are <\/p>\n
534
\n00:29:48,360 –> 00:29:51,160
\nfor.
\nDo I either run or do I attack? <\/p>\n
535
\n00:29:51,160 –> 00:29:54,720
\nOh, and also finding a mate.
\nWhy doves? <\/p>\n
536
\n00:29:55,040 –> 00:29:56,960
\nWell, the answer from the teens
\nwas immediate. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:29:57,240 –> 00:30:01,240
\nThey’re innocent, they’re
\nharmless, they’re pure, they’re <\/p>\n
538
\n00:30:01,240 –> 00:30:03,000
\nlovely.
\nOne of them said they’re always <\/p>\n
539
\n00:30:03,000 –> 00:30:04,880
\nwhite.
\nAnd I go, that’s not true. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:30:07,400 –> 00:30:11,040
\nThere’s black doves.
\nListen to what Paul says in <\/p>\n
541
\n00:30:11,120 –> 00:30:13,800
\nRomans 16 and 19.
\nAnd I think he takes that these <\/p>\n
542
\n00:30:13,800 –> 00:30:18,120
\ntwo animals and just kind of
\nflips it upside down and puts in<\/p>\n
543
\n00:30:18,120 –> 00:30:19,480
\na way that maybe we can
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:30:19,480 –> 00:30:21,880
\nHe says, for your obedience is
\nknown to us all so that I may <\/p>\n
545
\n00:30:21,920 –> 00:30:27,320
\nrejoice over you, but I want you
\nto be wise to what is good and <\/p>\n
546
\n00:30:27,320 –> 00:30:32,320
\ninnocent to what is evil, using
\nthose two same characteristics. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:30:32,320 –> 00:30:34,440
\nAnd so when we’re presented with
\nthe deceptions of the world. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:30:34,720 –> 00:30:37,480
\nAre we equipped to be wise to
\nwhat is? <\/p>\n
549
\n00:30:38,280 –> 00:30:42,920
\nGood and innocent to what is
\nevil and that’s the intention of<\/p>\n
550
\n00:30:42,920 –> 00:30:47,040
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ commands.
\nSo we look at social relativism <\/p>\n
551
\n00:30:47,040 –> 00:30:51,880
\nand and and subjective truth and
\nrelative morality. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:54,320
\nWe have a huge problem in this
\nworld right. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:30:54,320 –> 00:30:57,120
\nI hear things like it’s my truth
\nand my lived experience and. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:30:57,400 –> 00:31:00,480
\nTruth is just a social construct
\nand all these different things, <\/p>\n
555
\n00:31:00,480 –> 00:31:02,840
\nright?
\nAnd so it appeals to our human <\/p>\n
556
\n00:31:02,840 –> 00:31:06,320
\nnature because you know who
\ndoesn’t want? <\/p>\n
557
\n00:31:07,240 –> 00:31:12,200
\nSociety to do everything for
\nyou, right? <\/p>\n
558
\n00:31:12,200 –> 00:31:15,040
\nTo appeal to your individual
\nneed. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:31:15,520 –> 00:31:17,560
\nBecause that’s the world we live
\nin, right? <\/p>\n
560
\n00:31:18,040 –> 00:31:20,320
\nIt’s that my truth Trump’s
\nyours. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:31:20,960 –> 00:31:24,080
\nIt’s that my world Trump’s.
\nWhat I do is more important than<\/p>\n
562
\n00:31:24,120 –> 00:31:26,680
\nwhat you do.
\nThat that’s that’s the narrative<\/p>\n
563
\n00:31:26,680 –> 00:31:30,000
\nof postmodernism.
\nIt’s hyper individualism. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:31:30,680 –> 00:31:34,880
\nSometimes they call it.
\nHumanism 3.0 It’s still all <\/p>\n
565
\n00:31:34,880 –> 00:31:39,160
\nhumanism, right?
\nWe talked about the change in <\/p>\n
566
\n00:31:39,160 –> 00:31:41,240
\nhow we term different things,
\nright? <\/p>\n
567
\n00:31:41,240 –> 00:31:44,920
\nWe’re not, not all of us, but
\nsome of us, very small amount of<\/p>\n
568
\n00:31:44,920 –> 00:31:47,320
\nus, right?
\nOf switched over to these new <\/p>\n
569
\n00:31:47,320 –> 00:31:50,080
\nterms.
\nWell, that’s my partner, not my <\/p>\n
570
\n00:31:50,080 –> 00:31:52,400
\nwife.
\nGender pronouns of the new <\/p>\n
571
\n00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:53,880
\nthing, right?
\nYou can turn yourself whatever <\/p>\n
572
\n00:31:53,880 –> 00:31:55,000
\nyou want.
\nYour gender is fluid. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:31:55,200 –> 00:31:59,360
\nToday I’m he, him.
\nTomorrow I’m a day then, right? <\/p>\n
574
\n00:31:59,360 –> 00:32:00,800
\nYou have to accept me today as a
\nman. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:32:00,800 –> 00:32:02,000
\nTomorrow I’m going to be
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:32:02,800 –> 00:32:05,360
\nWe have to accept there are
\npeople getting sued for using <\/p>\n
577
\n00:32:05,360 –> 00:32:07,400
\nthe wrong pronouns.
\nThat’s the new law in Canada, <\/p>\n
578
\n00:32:08,320 –> 00:32:10,480
\nright?
\nYou misgender somebody, you lose<\/p>\n
579
\n00:32:10,480 –> 00:32:13,560
\nyour job, right, If you’re in
\nthe wrong place at the wrong <\/p>\n
580
\n00:32:13,560 –> 00:32:16,600
\ntime with the wrong person.
\nYou know, we talked about how <\/p>\n
581
\n00:32:16,600 –> 00:32:17,840
\nthat.
\nYou know, we live in a world <\/p>\n
582
\n00:32:17,840 –> 00:32:20,680
\nwhere.
\nPeople now will say that yes, a <\/p>\n
583
\n00:32:20,680 –> 00:32:26,760
\nman can become a woman, but
\nthat’s why you see feminine <\/p>\n
584
\n00:32:26,760 –> 00:32:28,960
\nhygiene products in male
\nbathrooms. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:32:30,360 –> 00:32:33,360
\nAnd I may have mentioned this.
\nTo some of you, but my first <\/p>\n
586
\n00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:36,280
\ntaste of this was like 8 years
\nago when we first moved back <\/p>\n
587
\n00:32:37,080 –> 00:32:39,520
\ndown to Victoria and I went to,
\nto you Victoria. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:32:39,520 –> 00:32:41,720
\nWe were working there, doing a
\njob there, and I went to find a <\/p>\n
589
\n00:32:41,720 –> 00:32:46,200
\nbathroom in the Student Union
\nbuilding and I couldn’t find a <\/p>\n
590
\n00:32:46,200 –> 00:32:49,000
\nmen’s.
\nBathroom They were gender <\/p>\n
591
\n00:32:49,000 –> 00:32:51,200
\nneutral, all of them.
\nIt’s. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:32:51,200 –> 00:32:52,840
\nNot like they said, oh, let’s
\njust add a. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:32:52,840 –> 00:32:55,640
\nBathroom, you can have your
\nmale, you can have your female, <\/p>\n
594
\n00:32:55,640 –> 00:32:58,600
\nand you can have your other,
\nyour universal, your whatever. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:32:58,600 –> 00:33:00,880
\nNo, no, no, they don’t want
\nthat. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:33:01,320 –> 00:33:04,200
\nThey don’t want compromise.
\nPostmodern is not about <\/p>\n
597
\n00:33:04,200 –> 00:33:06,200
\ncompromise.
\nIt’s about capitulation. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:33:07,320 –> 00:33:10,360
\nI didn’t go to the bathroom like
\nI went, I went and found a <\/p>\n
599
\n00:33:10,360 –> 00:33:13,280
\nJohnny on the spot somewhere.
\nLike it was, it was so bizarre <\/p>\n
600
\n00:33:13,280 –> 00:33:15,520
\nand I, I didn’t think about it
\nfor another couple of years. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:33:15,520 –> 00:33:18,560
\nThen I realized, whoa, this is
\nalready happening. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:33:19,160 –> 00:33:21,800
\nAnd that’s just, that’s just a
\nminor thing, but these things <\/p>\n
603
\n00:33:21,800 –> 00:33:24,440
\nare challenging to our Christian
\nsensitivities. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:33:24,960 –> 00:33:27,480
\nOur understanding of truth and
\nit chips away at us. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:33:27,480 –> 00:33:30,440
\nIt wears away at us.
\nThe more often you see <\/p>\n
606
\n00:33:30,440 –> 00:33:32,240
\nsomething, and this is a problem
\nwith doom scrolling, the more <\/p>\n
607
\n00:33:32,240 –> 00:33:38,320
\noften you see the same thing,
\nthe more normal it becomes. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:41,920
\nAnd so we’re.
\nBeing normalized in this new <\/p>\n
609
\n00:33:41,920 –> 00:33:46,320
\nphilosophy instead of being
\nnormalized in the truth of God <\/p>\n
610
\n00:33:47,440 –> 00:33:51,200
\nand it begins to challenge how
\nwe view the absolute truth of <\/p>\n
611
\n00:33:51,200 –> 00:33:53,440
\nscripture.
\nThink about the Word of God as <\/p>\n
612
\n00:33:53,440 –> 00:33:56,280
\nan.
\nAnchor that pins you to the <\/p>\n
613
\n00:33:56,280 –> 00:34:01,800
\nground, I mean in a good way,
\nand the world can move by, but <\/p>\n
614
\n00:34:01,800 –> 00:34:04,240
\nyou’re stable.
\nYou understand everything that’s<\/p>\n
615
\n00:34:04,240 –> 00:34:07,360
\nhappening and then you can
\nchallenge the reality that’s <\/p>\n
616
\n00:34:07,360 –> 00:34:09,960
\nhappening around you by the
\nstability that you have in the <\/p>\n
617
\n00:34:09,960 –> 00:34:12,560
\nWord of God.
\nNow we now I think we’ve quoted <\/p>\n
618
\n00:34:12,560 –> 00:34:15,360
\nthis first before second Timothy
\nfour and three for the time will<\/p>\n
619
\n00:34:15,360 –> 00:34:18,040
\ncome and people will not endure
\nsound teaching, but having <\/p>\n
620
\n00:34:18,040 –> 00:34:21,480
\nitching ears and what
\napplication of that. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:34:21,560 –> 00:34:26,520
\nYou think itching?
\nEars is kind of like the word <\/p>\n
622
\n00:34:26,520 –> 00:34:32,440
\ncan also mean tickle.
\nTeens love this. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:34:32,440 –> 00:34:41,360
\nIt’s like it’s almost creepy.
\nThe time will come when people <\/p>\n
624
\n00:34:41,360 –> 00:34:44,360
\nnot endure sound teaching, but
\nthey want to hear things that <\/p>\n
625
\n00:34:44,360 –> 00:34:47,840
\nwill tickle their ears.
\nAnd so in, in, in doing that, <\/p>\n
626
\n00:34:47,840 –> 00:34:50,440
\nthey will look for and they will
\nfind and they will accumulate <\/p>\n
627
\n00:34:50,440 –> 00:34:53,440
\nfor themselves teachers who will
\nsuit their own passions. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:34:53,440 –> 00:34:56,120
\nAnd, and we tend to do that.
\nWe tend to hang out with people <\/p>\n
629
\n00:34:56,320 –> 00:34:58,480
\nthat we like.
\nThat’s that, right? <\/p>\n
630
\n00:34:58,480 –> 00:35:00,880
\nThat do things that we do and
\nthat believe the things that we <\/p>\n
631
\n00:35:00,880 –> 00:35:02,240
\ndo.
\nAnd in the truth, that’s <\/p>\n
632
\n00:35:02,240 –> 00:35:03,840
\nfantastic.
\nWe should definitely do that. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:35:04,240 –> 00:35:08,120
\nBut we also need somebody to be
\nobjective about the things that <\/p>\n
634
\n00:35:08,120 –> 00:35:10,080
\nwe are doing.
\nAnd this is the problem with <\/p>\n
635
\n00:35:10,080 –> 00:35:14,680
\nthis relativism.
\nTurn to Second Timothy 4 and <\/p>\n
636
\n00:35:14,680 –> 00:35:17,920
\nverse one.
\nJust read a little bit more of <\/p>\n
637
\n00:35:17,920 –> 00:35:28,940
\nthis particular verse.
\nStarting at verse one, I charge <\/p>\n
638
\n00:35:28,940 –> 00:35:31,540
\nyou in the presence of God and
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ who is to <\/p>\n
639
\n00:35:31,540 –> 00:35:34,940
\njudge the living and the dead
\nand by his appearing at his <\/p>\n
640
\n00:35:34,940 –> 00:35:38,140
\nKingdom to preach the word, be
\nready in season and out of <\/p>\n
641
\n00:35:38,140 –> 00:35:42,860
\nseason to reprove and to rebuke
\nand to exhort and with complete <\/p>\n
642
\n00:35:42,860 –> 00:35:47,720
\npatience and teaching.
\nSo when we come across these <\/p>\n
643
\n00:35:47,720 –> 00:35:51,240
\nthings in our community, in our
\ncliche, in our family that are <\/p>\n
644
\n00:35:51,240 –> 00:35:55,240
\ntickling the ears of the people
\nthat we know or even, or even <\/p>\n
645
\n00:35:55,240 –> 00:35:59,000
\nourselves, we have to be.
\nReady at all times, brothers and<\/p>\n
646
\n00:35:59,000 –> 00:36:05,560
\nsisters, to teach, to reprove,
\nto rebuke to. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:36:05,560 –> 00:36:09,920
\nNot.
\nEndure those things, otherwise <\/p>\n
648
\n00:36:09,920 –> 00:36:13,720
\nthey’ll wander off to miss.
\nAs for you, the apostle Paul <\/p>\n
649
\n00:36:13,720 –> 00:36:17,400
\nsays to Timothy, always be sober
\nminded to endure suffering, do <\/p>\n
650
\n00:36:17,400 –> 00:36:20,280
\nthe work of the evangelist and
\nto fulfill your ministry. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:36:21,240 –> 00:36:24,560
\nThere is only one truth to
\nmodernize that term. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:36:24,560 –> 00:36:26,640
\nLet’s just say it is the meta
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:36:27,680 –> 00:36:30,920
\nIt is the precondition for truth
\nitself, and that is the word of <\/p>\n
654
\n00:36:30,920 –> 00:36:32,400
\nGod.
\nAnd so we have to preach it. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:36:32,520 –> 00:36:34,840
\nWe can’t shrink back from
\nspeaking it. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:36:34,960 –> 00:36:38,640
\nWe’re commanded to rebuke and to
\nreprove and to exhort with all <\/p>\n
657
\n00:36:38,640 –> 00:36:41,400
\npatients and doctrine.
\nAnd so when we see something, we<\/p>\n
658
\n00:36:41,400 –> 00:36:43,320
\ncan’t fear speaking out about
\nit. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:36:43,320 –> 00:36:44,640
\nWe have to do it in the right.
\nWay. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:36:45,200 –> 00:36:47,440
\nWe have to approach it with love
\nand with compassion. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:36:47,440 –> 00:36:50,160
\nBut the problem is because of
\neverything that’s going on in <\/p>\n
662
\n00:36:50,160 –> 00:36:53,840
\nthe world and those philosophies
\ncome into the ecclesia, we are <\/p>\n
663
\n00:36:53,840 –> 00:36:55,720
\nshrinking back from saying
\nthings. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:36:55,880 –> 00:36:58,960
\nWe’re not standing up for truth
\nall the time because sometimes <\/p>\n
665
\n00:36:58,960 –> 00:37:02,680
\nwe don’t know, oh, it’s, it’s
\nnot the right time. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:37:03,600 –> 00:37:05,280
\nI don’t know what to say to that
\nperson. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:37:05,680 –> 00:37:07,840
\nI’m not sure if they’re how
\nthey’re going to react. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:37:08,040 –> 00:37:11,240
\nAnd those are those are all.
\nRealities, I get it. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:37:11,240 –> 00:37:15,800
\nIt’s, it’s not easy speaking to
\nsomebody about an issue that you<\/p>\n
670
\n00:37:15,800 –> 00:37:19,880
\nmight see or a problem, but if
\nwe do nothing, then we are done <\/p>\n
671
\n00:37:19,880 –> 00:37:22,320
\nas a community.
\nHere’s the other thing that <\/p>\n
672
\n00:37:22,320 –> 00:37:26,640
\nhappens with, with moral
\nrelativism, OK, and, and, and, <\/p>\n
673
\n00:37:26,640 –> 00:37:30,440
\nand this is, this is something
\nthat is, it’s banging at our <\/p>\n
674
\n00:37:30,440 –> 00:37:35,080
\ndoor and that is that society.
\nWhen I say downplaying the <\/p>\n
675
\n00:37:35,080 –> 00:37:38,200
\nproblem of sin, what I mean is
\nthat in society they don’t even <\/p>\n
676
\n00:37:38,200 –> 00:37:42,080
\ncare about sin, but the issue is
\nthat that impacts our brain and <\/p>\n
677
\n00:37:42,080 –> 00:37:45,600
\nit starts for us to desensitize
\nus on things and we start to <\/p>\n
678
\n00:37:45,600 –> 00:37:52,320
\ndownplay the problem of sin.
\nIsai 59 starting verse 14 says <\/p>\n
679
\n00:37:52,320 –> 00:37:55,640
\nas justice is turned back and
\nrighteousness stands far away <\/p>\n
680
\n00:37:55,640 –> 00:37:58,040
\nfor truth is stumbled in the
\npublic squares, the uprightness <\/p>\n
681
\n00:37:58,040 –> 00:38:00,400
\ncannot enter.
\nTruth is lacking, and he who <\/p>\n
682
\n00:38:00,400 –> 00:38:02,880
\ndeparts from evil makes himself
\na prey. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:38:07,280 –> 00:38:11,280
\nAnd then it says, And the Lord
\nsaw it, and it was, and he was <\/p>\n
684
\n00:38:11,280 –> 00:38:13,800
\ndispleased of him that there was
\nno justice. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:38:13,840 –> 00:38:15,680
\nAnd he saw that there was no
\nman. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:38:16,040 –> 00:38:20,680
\nAnd he wondered, Is there anyone
\nwho would intercede? <\/p>\n
687
\n00:38:22,720 –> 00:38:25,200
\nAnd then his own arm brought him
\nsalvation, and his righteousness<\/p>\n
688
\n00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:27,280
\nupheld him.
\nAnd he put on righteousness as a<\/p>\n
689
\n00:38:27,280 –> 00:38:29,520
\nbreastplate.
\nAnd as the helmet of salvation <\/p>\n
690
\n00:38:29,520 –> 00:38:31,880
\nwas on his head, he put on
\ngarments of vengeance for <\/p>\n
691
\n00:38:31,880 –> 00:38:34,800
\nclothing, and he wrapped himself
\nin zeal as a cloak. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:38:36,960 –> 00:38:40,760
\nSometimes, brethren and sisters.
\nWe are that person that needs to<\/p>\n
693
\n00:38:40,760 –> 00:38:45,360
\nintercede and when we see these
\nthings going on in our life <\/p>\n
694
\n00:38:45,360 –> 00:38:49,240
\naround us, we have to step in
\nwith the sword of the Spirit. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:38:49,920 –> 00:38:52,200
\nDo not be sieved.
\nThe the apostle Paul says in <\/p>\n
696
\n00:38:52,200 –> 00:38:53,760
\nGalatians 6.
\nDo not be deceived. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:58,520
\nGod is not mocked for whatever
\none sows that he will also reap.<\/p>\n
698
\n00:38:58,880 –> 00:39:02,000
\nAnd so we’ve become increasingly
\nreluctant to speak out against <\/p>\n
699
\n00:39:02,000 –> 00:39:04,120
\nsin, even in our own
\ncommunities. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:39:04,120 –> 00:39:08,560
\nLook, sin is not a popular
\nsubject. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:39:10,200 –> 00:39:14,000
\nNot even for believers.
\nI mean, I mean, really <\/p>\n
702
\n00:39:14,000 –> 00:39:17,320
\nscripturally, we like to think
\nwe’re in a post sin environment <\/p>\n
703
\n00:39:17,320 –> 00:39:21,760
\nin the sense that we have
\nforgiveness and we prefer to <\/p>\n
704
\n00:39:21,760 –> 00:39:24,800
\ntalk about love and, and, and
\nwe’ve already heard before that <\/p>\n
705
\n00:39:24,880 –> 00:39:26,400
\nwe, you know, we like to hear
\nmore. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:39:26,400 –> 00:39:28,800
\nPositive subjects.
\nYou know, why can’t we talk <\/p>\n
707
\n00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:32,760
\nabout more positive subjects?
\nWell, yes, the truth is is <\/p>\n
708
\n00:39:32,760 –> 00:39:35,320
\namazing.
\nIt’s very positive, but we have <\/p>\n
709
\n00:39:35,320 –> 00:39:38,480
\nto deal with the issue of sin
\n1st and claiming to be without <\/p>\n
710
\n00:39:38,480 –> 00:39:42,000
\nsin distorts our view of self
\nand it disconnects us from the <\/p>\n
711
\n00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:45,600
\nreality of of God’s truth.
\nFirst, John one and eight, if we<\/p>\n
712
\n00:39:45,600 –> 00:39:48,480
\nclaim to be without sin, we
\ndeceive ourselves and the truth <\/p>\n
713
\n00:39:48,480 –> 00:39:52,440
\nis not in us.
\nBut the beautiful part is that <\/p>\n
714
\n00:39:52,440 –> 00:39:55,680
\nif we confess our sins, He is
\nfaithful and he is just. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:39:55,680 –> 00:39:58,720
\nAnd He will forgive our sins and
\npurify us from all <\/p>\n
716
\n00:39:58,720 –> 00:40:02,000
\nunrighteousness.
\nThat is the positive message of <\/p>\n
717
\n00:40:02,000 –> 00:40:05,600
\nsalvation, but it only comes
\nafter we confront the reality of<\/p>\n
718
\n00:40:05,600 –> 00:40:07,240
\nthe sin that so easily besets
\nus. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:40:08,200 –> 00:40:10,480
\nAnd these are the things we need
\nto see through the lens of <\/p>\n
720
\n00:40:10,480 –> 00:40:12,600
\ntruth.
\nThat are happening in our lives <\/p>\n
721
\n00:40:12,600 –> 00:40:15,080
\nand in our families, our
\nextended families and in the <\/p>\n
722
\n00:40:15,080 –> 00:40:17,000
\ntruth and in the broader
\ncommunity. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:40:23,480 –> 00:40:25,480
\nWe don’t need to spend a lot of
\ntime on this because we know <\/p>\n
724
\n00:40:25,560 –> 00:40:29,360
\nexactly what happened in the
\ntime of King Jehoiakim. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:40:29,360 –> 00:40:34,720
\nBut I, I, I put it in here
\nbecause it’s, it’s AI think it’s<\/p>\n
726
\n00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:37,360
\na powerful reminder of, of
\nsometimes the things that we <\/p>\n
727
\n00:40:37,360 –> 00:40:39,680
\nunconsciously do.
\nLook, we can read through the <\/p>\n
728
\n00:40:39,680 –> 00:40:42,400
\nBible from beginning to end and
\nfind all kinds of our favorite <\/p>\n
729
\n00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:46,200
\nverses.
\nBut I bet you our favorite <\/p>\n
730
\n00:40:46,200 –> 00:40:49,080
\nverses are not about the
\ndeceitfulness of our heart, <\/p>\n
731
\n00:40:50,080 –> 00:40:53,280
\nright?
\nAnd so when Jehoiakim was up in <\/p>\n
732
\n00:40:53,280 –> 00:40:56,400
\nhis winter palace and he was
\nsitting in front of the fire and<\/p>\n
733
\n00:40:56,640 –> 00:40:59,760
\nGod came to Jeremiah and says,
\nyou need to take these judgments<\/p>\n
734
\n00:40:59,760 –> 00:41:02,960
\nand these prophecies and this
\ntruth, and you need to have it <\/p>\n
735
\n00:41:02,960 –> 00:41:06,200
\nread before the king.
\nAnd Jeremiah was under house <\/p>\n
736
\n00:41:06,200 –> 00:41:10,320
\narrest and Baruch was not able
\nto go up into the palace. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:41:10,480 –> 00:41:12,840
\nAnd so we had to send it through
\na bunch of different people. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:41:12,840 –> 00:41:15,960
\nBut as we know the story, it
\neventually Jehudai stands before<\/p>\n
739
\n00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:18,280
\nthe king.
\nI can imagine what it would have<\/p>\n
740
\n00:41:18,280 –> 00:41:21,760
\nbeen like to stand before him
\nand read the. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:41:21,840 –> 00:41:27,800
\nThe judgment from God himself to
\nthis wicked king and he listened<\/p>\n
742
\n00:41:27,800 –> 00:41:32,600
\nto a few lines on the scroll and
\nI just love how the truth is <\/p>\n
743
\n00:41:32,600 –> 00:41:35,640
\ngiven to us that it’s just so
\ndetailed and raw you. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:41:36,280 –> 00:41:39,160
\nJust pull out his pen knife and
\njust cut that off. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:41:40,000 –> 00:41:41,400
\nThrew that in the fire.
\nJude. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:41:41,400 –> 00:41:44,560
\nI would read a few more lines.
\nCut it off. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:41:44,800 –> 00:41:46,920
\nThrow it into the fire.
\nIn the end, the whole scroll was<\/p>\n
748
\n00:41:47,040 –> 00:41:53,120
\nwas burned up in the fire.
\nYou know, sometimes, brethren <\/p>\n
749
\n00:41:53,120 –> 00:41:57,000
\nand sisters, we read things in
\nthe Word of God that we don’t <\/p>\n
750
\n00:41:57,000 –> 00:42:04,600
\nlike to hear and and it’s.
\nIt’s not always about saying, <\/p>\n
751
\n00:42:04,600 –> 00:42:06,400
\nlook, I really wish I could do
\nthat. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:42:06,400 –> 00:42:09,440
\nBut sometimes it’s about, I
\nthink God might be wrong about <\/p>\n
753
\n00:42:09,440 –> 00:42:12,880
\nthis thing.
\nAnd we might change a practice, <\/p>\n
754
\n00:42:12,880 –> 00:42:15,440
\nwe might change a doctrine, we
\nmight change a principle, we <\/p>\n
755
\n00:42:15,440 –> 00:42:16,960
\nmight change a belief, we might
\njust. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:42:16,960 –> 00:42:18,920
\nTweak it a little bit so that.
\nWe can, maybe. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:42:18,920 –> 00:42:21,320
\nJustify, you know where we’re
\nat. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:42:21,320 –> 00:42:24,040
\nAnd tomorrow we’ll talk about
\nhow tolerance can lead to <\/p>\n
759
\n00:42:24,040 –> 00:42:26,960
\nacceptance, which leads to
\njustification. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:42:26,960 –> 00:42:30,000
\nAnd that’s.
\nIt’s a whole other issue, but I <\/p>\n
761
\n00:42:30,000 –> 00:42:32,720
\nthink the stark reality of what
\nJehoiakim did should, should <\/p>\n
762
\n00:42:32,720 –> 00:42:37,240
\necho in our minds that we cannot
\ncut away truth or reinterpret it<\/p>\n
763
\n00:42:37,240 –> 00:42:40,000
\nto suit our own desires to
\nremove the Word of God, the <\/p>\n
764
\n00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:42,240
\nthings that we don’t like
\nbecause it makes us feel <\/p>\n
765
\n00:42:42,440 –> 00:42:46,120
\nuncomfortable or ashamed.
\nOr that we won’t speak to other <\/p>\n
766
\n00:42:46,120 –> 00:42:49,600
\npeople because we feel it’ll
\nmake them uncomfortable and <\/p>\n
767
\n00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:53,040
\nashamed.
\nAll of these things the prophet <\/p>\n
768
\n00:42:53,040 –> 00:42:55,400
\nIsaiah says in 66.
\nAll of these things my hand is <\/p>\n
769
\n00:42:55,400 –> 00:42:56,760
\nmade.
\nAnd so all of these things came <\/p>\n
770
\n00:42:56,760 –> 00:43:00,040
\nto be, declares the Lord.
\nBut this is the one to whom I <\/p>\n
771
\n00:43:00,040 –> 00:43:05,920
\nwill look, he who is humble and
\ncontrite spirit, and trembles at<\/p>\n
772
\n00:43:05,920 –> 00:43:09,200
\nmy word.
\nSometimes the things that God <\/p>\n
773
\n00:43:09,200 –> 00:43:14,080
\nsays to us will make us tremble,
\nbut they will correct us and <\/p>\n
774
\n00:43:14,080 –> 00:43:16,120
\nmeasure and bring us back to
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:43:17,600 –> 00:43:20,640
\nAnd to say that as to is to lead
\ninto the fact that the truth of <\/p>\n
776
\n00:43:20,640 –> 00:43:23,320
\nGod is A2 edged sword.
\nAnd we love to quote this as <\/p>\n
777
\n00:43:23,320 –> 00:43:25,400
\nwell.
\nI love this particular verse in <\/p>\n
778
\n00:43:25,400 –> 00:43:27,160
\nHebrews 4.
\nLet’s turn it up because you <\/p>\n
779
\n00:43:27,160 –> 00:43:29,400
\nknow, we quote it all the time.
\nWe, we can’t be ashamed of the <\/p>\n
780
\n00:43:29,400 –> 00:43:32,920
\ntruth And we say that the the
\nword of God is A2 edged sword <\/p>\n
781
\n00:43:33,120 –> 00:43:35,960
\nand we can go out and we can
\nslay the evil right? <\/p>\n
782
\n00:43:37,680 –> 00:43:40,640
\nAnd it’s very powerful.
\nHebrews 4 and 12 For the Word of<\/p>\n
783
\n00:43:40,640 –> 00:43:44,760
\nGod is quick and powerful and
\nsharper than any 2 edged sword, <\/p>\n
784
\n00:43:45,080 –> 00:43:47,640
\npiercing even the dividing
\nasunder of the soul and spirit <\/p>\n
785
\n00:43:47,640 –> 00:43:50,120
\ninto the joints in the marrow,
\nand is the discerner of the <\/p>\n
786
\n00:43:50,120 –> 00:43:51,400
\nthoughts in the intense of the
\nheart. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:54,360
\nAnd we think about, you know,
\nthe mechanism of the priesthood <\/p>\n
788
\n00:43:54,360 –> 00:43:57,200
\nand bringing the offering.
\nAnd they would inspect the <\/p>\n
789
\n00:43:57,200 –> 00:44:00,160
\noffering from the outside and
\nlook and yes, it looks perfect, <\/p>\n
790
\n00:44:00,160 –> 00:44:02,480
\nbut then they would open it up
\nand make sure it had all the <\/p>\n
791
\n00:44:02,480 –> 00:44:05,120
\ninternal organs, that there
\nwasn’t something hidden within. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:44:05,120 –> 00:44:07,720
\nAnd that’s what the Word of God
\nhas intended to do to us. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:44:08,640 –> 00:44:12,520
\nIt’s to open us up because the
\nWord of God cuts both ways. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:44:14,840 –> 00:44:17,720
\nIt says in Jeremiah 17 and 10,
\nThe Lord is I. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:44:17,720 –> 00:44:20,560
\nThe Lord search the heart, and I
\nexamine the mind to reward each <\/p>\n
796
\n00:44:20,560 –> 00:44:22,800
\nperson according to their
\nconduct and according to what <\/p>\n
797
\n00:44:22,800 –> 00:44:25,720
\ntheir deeds deserve.
\nSo the sword will divide asunder<\/p>\n
798
\n00:44:25,920 –> 00:44:29,640
\nthe soul and the spirit.
\nIt can be profoundly structural <\/p>\n
799
\n00:44:29,640 –> 00:44:35,000
\nto us rather than sisters.
\nIt can cut us right to the bone,<\/p>\n
800
\n00:44:35,000 –> 00:44:41,400
\nand it will open us up as it is
\nintended to do. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:44:43,880 –> 00:44:47,360
\nGod doesn’t intend to mortally
\nwound us by the Word that He <\/p>\n
802
\n00:44:47,360 –> 00:44:49,720
\nspeaks, but if we resist it, it
\nwill. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:44:50,440 –> 00:44:53,000
\nBut He does want to open us up.
\nHe wants to know what is inside <\/p>\n
804
\n00:44:53,000 –> 00:44:54,640
\nour heart.
\nHe wants to discern what is <\/p>\n
805
\n00:44:54,640 –> 00:44:57,680
\ngoing on in our mind.
\nWouldn’t you rather know now, <\/p>\n
806
\n00:44:57,680 –> 00:45:02,320
\nbrethren and sisters?
\nSo that we can correct our path <\/p>\n
807
\n00:45:02,960 –> 00:45:08,720
\nbefore we stand at the judgement
\nseat before Christ, God’s Word. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:45:09,720 –> 00:45:12,400
\nCan correct us and it can heal
\nus. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:45:14,160 –> 00:45:17,800
\nJust like David when he when he
\nheard the cold hard truth of <\/p>\n
810
\n00:45:17,800 –> 00:45:20,680
\nwhat Nathan had to say to him
\nabout his sin, it cut him <\/p>\n
811
\n00:45:20,680 –> 00:45:23,600
\nasunder.
\nHe was exposed, his heart was <\/p>\n
812
\n00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:27,360
\nopened.
\nWhat was his response? <\/p>\n
813
\n00:45:28,040 –> 00:45:31,360
\nBrought him to his knees.
\nIt humbled him by the truth of <\/p>\n
814
\n00:45:31,360 –> 00:45:33,320
\nhis actions.
\nIt changed him. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:45:33,600 –> 00:45:36,040
\nHe repented, and he was restored
\nof God. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:45:37,240 –> 00:45:39,040
\nThe truth, brethren and sisters,
\nwill. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:45:39,040 –> 00:45:42,560
\nHurt.
\nIt will wound us. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:45:45,640 –> 00:45:49,720
\nIf the truth doesn’t hurt us,
\nwe’re not living. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:45:49,720 –> 00:45:54,880
\nIt right, But by God’s grace
\nwe’ll be healed by those same <\/p>\n
820
\n00:45:54,880 –> 00:45:57,440
\nwords.
\nWe’ll be rebuilt in the image of<\/p>\n
821
\n00:45:57,440 –> 00:46:03,920
\nGod and not of man.
\nAnd and so, brethren and <\/p>\n
822
\n00:46:03,920 –> 00:46:07,920
\nsisters, truth is also missing.
\nIf we don’t. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:46:07,920 –> 00:46:10,800
\nSpeak it.
\nThe word of God will just stay <\/p>\n
824
\n00:46:10,800 –> 00:46:14,080
\nstatic on the page if we’re not
\nthe voice by which it is spoken.<\/p>\n
825
\n00:46:14,840 –> 00:46:17,440
\nAnd so if the truth is absent
\nfrom our cliches, from our <\/p>\n
826
\n00:46:17,440 –> 00:46:20,920
\nfamilies, from our own mind, and
\nI find this happening more and <\/p>\n
827
\n00:46:20,920 –> 00:46:23,480
\nmore and more where we stand
\nback and we just let things <\/p>\n
828
\n00:46:23,480 –> 00:46:25,080
\nhappen.
\nWe don’t we don’t speak out, as <\/p>\n
829
\n00:46:25,080 –> 00:46:28,200
\nI said, because we fear maybe
\nthere’s some moral confusion, <\/p>\n
830
\n00:46:28,200 –> 00:46:31,520
\nmaybe we feel will push people
\naway by the harsh, harsh reality<\/p>\n
831
\n00:46:31,520 –> 00:46:33,920
\nof the truth.
\nYou know one of the things that <\/p>\n
832
\n00:46:33,920 –> 00:46:36,520
\ncame up.
\nWe talked about it yesterday <\/p>\n
833
\n00:46:36,520 –> 00:46:38,400
\nwith the teens was, you know,
\nwhen, when do you make that <\/p>\n
834
\n00:46:38,400 –> 00:46:44,800
\ndecision to cut somebody off?
\nAnd so we often feel that we can<\/p>\n
835
\n00:46:44,880 –> 00:46:48,120
\nhelp somebody by keeping them
\nwith us, that that that <\/p>\n
836
\n00:46:48,120 –> 00:46:52,520
\nassociation, we can convert
\nthem, we can save them. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:46:52,520 –> 00:46:54,680
\nAnd that may in fact be the
\ncase. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:46:55,520 –> 00:46:59,160
\nBut oftentimes, you know, we get
\npulled off in their direction as<\/p>\n
839
\n00:46:59,160 –> 00:47:01,800
\nopposed to us pulling them in
\nours. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:47:03,240 –> 00:47:06,680
\nYou know, as I said, you can’t
\nsave a mortally wounded man with<\/p>\n
841
\n00:47:06,680 –> 00:47:12,320
\njust a Band-Aid and kind words.
\nIn our desire to avoid being <\/p>\n
842
\n00:47:12,320 –> 00:47:15,920
\njudgmental, we may end up doing
\nthe opposite by enabling and <\/p>\n
843
\n00:47:15,920 –> 00:47:18,600
\ntolerating those things that
\nshould be confronted and <\/p>\n
844
\n00:47:18,600 –> 00:47:21,360
\naddressed.
\nTurn to Ezekiel chapter. 33 This<\/p>\n
845
\n00:47:23,920 –> 00:47:27,320
\nis the stark reality of those
\nwho are intended to be Watchmen <\/p>\n
846
\n00:47:27,560 –> 00:47:29,960
\nwithin the community, and
\ncertainly here in the community <\/p>\n
847
\n00:47:29,960 –> 00:47:33,160
\nof God.
\nEzekiel 33 starting in verse 2. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:47:40,930 –> 00:47:43,250
\nSon of Man, speak to your people
\nand say to them, If I bring the <\/p>\n
849
\n00:47:43,250 –> 00:47:45,970
\nsword upon the land, and the
\npeople of the land, take a man <\/p>\n
850
\n00:47:45,970 –> 00:47:48,090
\nfrom among them, and make them
\ntheir Watchmen. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:47:48,250 –> 00:47:51,170
\nAnd if he sees the sword coming
\nupon the land and blows the <\/p>\n
852
\n00:47:51,170 –> 00:47:54,290
\ntrumpet and warns the people,
\nthen if anyone who hears the <\/p>\n
853
\n00:47:54,290 –> 00:47:57,250
\nsound of the trumpet and does
\nnot take warning, and the sword <\/p>\n
854
\n00:47:57,250 –> 00:48:00,330
\ncomes and takes him away, his
\nblood shall appear upon his <\/p>\n
855
\n00:48:00,330 –> 00:48:02,640
\nhead.
\nHe heard the sound of the <\/p>\n
856
\n00:48:02,640 –> 00:48:05,120
\ntrumpet and did not take
\nwarning, and his blood was upon <\/p>\n
857
\n00:48:05,120 –> 00:48:07,600
\nhimself.
\nBut if he had taken the warning,<\/p>\n
858
\n00:48:07,720 –> 00:48:12,400
\nit could have saved his life.
\nBut if the watchman sees the <\/p>\n
859
\n00:48:12,400 –> 00:48:15,680
\nsword coming and does not blow
\nthe trumpet so that the people <\/p>\n
860
\n00:48:15,680 –> 00:48:18,320
\nare not warned and the sword
\ncomes and takes any one of them,<\/p>\n
861
\n00:48:18,320 –> 00:48:20,400
\nthen that person is taken away
\nin their iniquity. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:48:20,400 –> 00:48:23,480
\nSo there’s there’s two things
\nthat have to happen. <\/p>\n
863
\n00:48:23,840 –> 00:48:27,240
\nWe as Watchmen need to blow the
\ntrumpet to deal with these <\/p>\n
864
\n00:48:27,240 –> 00:48:29,920
\nissues in our community and
\nthose of us in the. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:48:29,920 –> 00:48:35,440
\nCommunity need to listen.
\nAnd respond and change our ways.<\/p>\n
866
\n00:48:35,840 –> 00:48:39,840
\nIt is our responsibility as
\nshepherds to speak the truth. <\/p>\n
867
\n00:48:40,080 –> 00:48:49,690
\nAnd as sheep to listen to it,
\nApostle Paul says in Ephesians <\/p>\n
868
\n00:48:49,690 –> 00:48:53,530
\nchapter 4 and 23 says Therefore
\neach of you must put off <\/p>\n
869
\n00:48:53,530 –> 00:48:56,210
\nfalsehood and speak truthfully
\nto your neighbor, for we are all<\/p>\n
870
\n00:48:56,210 –> 00:49:03,680
\nmembers of one body.
\nHe says in First Thessalonians 5<\/p>\n
871
\n00:49:03,680 –> 00:49:05,160
\nand 11.
\nHe says therefore encourage one <\/p>\n
872
\n00:49:05,160 –> 00:49:07,480
\nanother and build one another up
\njust as you are doing. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:49:11,120 –> 00:49:12,960
\nThere’s no truth if we don’t
\nspeak it, brothers and. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:49:12,960 –> 00:49:18,040
\nSisters and there’s no truth and
\nwe don’t listen and so we have <\/p>\n
875
\n00:49:18,040 –> 00:49:22,720
\nto do both as hard as it is
\nsometimes to call things out or <\/p>\n
876
\n00:49:22,720 –> 00:49:26,600
\nto stand up for truth.
\nYou know one of the great <\/p>\n
877
\n00:49:26,720 –> 00:49:29,800
\nanswers that came today when I.
\nAsked How do we stand up for <\/p>\n
878
\n00:49:29,800 –> 00:49:30,320
\ntruth?
\nHow do we? <\/p>\n
879
\n00:49:30,320 –> 00:49:35,200
\nHow do we speak truth?
\nThis is one one of the younger <\/p>\n
880
\n00:49:35,520 –> 00:49:37,400
\nin the group.
\nThis is what he said. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:49:39,080 –> 00:49:42,280
\nHe said when you’re talking to
\nsomebody at school, you’re like <\/p>\n
882
\n00:49:42,280 –> 00:49:45,760
\na friend at school and they want
\nto talk to you about, you know, <\/p>\n
883
\n00:49:45,760 –> 00:49:47,960
\nstuff that’s gross and stuff
\nthat’s not godly. <\/p>\n
884
\n00:49:47,960 –> 00:49:51,520
\nAnd he said you’ve got to keep
\nredirecting the conversation <\/p>\n
885
\n00:49:51,520 –> 00:49:54,200
\nback to good things, back to the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:49:54,320 –> 00:49:55,840
\nHe said you got to keep
\ncorrecting them. <\/p>\n
887
\n00:49:55,960 –> 00:49:58,000
\nHe said.
\nHe actually said it was really <\/p>\n
888
\n00:49:58,000 –> 00:49:59,320
\nweird.
\nYou got to control the <\/p>\n
889
\n00:49:59,320 –> 00:50:03,800
\nnarrative, which is kind of a
\nmodern term, but but it but it <\/p>\n
890
\n00:50:03,800 –> 00:50:04,920
\nworks.
\nYou got to control the <\/p>\n
891
\n00:50:04,920 –> 00:50:06,840
\nnarrative.
\nAnd he goes and if you get to a <\/p>\n
892
\n00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:10,160
\npoint where they don’t listen,
\nyou got to walk away. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:50:10,440 –> 00:50:14,920
\nAnd I thought this is a very
\nmature thing for 13 year old kid<\/p>\n
894
\n00:50:14,920 –> 00:50:16,840
\nto say.
\nAnd certainly that was what the <\/p>\n
895
\n00:50:16,840 –> 00:50:20,720
\ntable had talked about.
\nWe have to determine when that <\/p>\n
896
\n00:50:20,720 –> 00:50:24,400
\nmoment is that we’re no longer
\nable to course correct and we <\/p>\n
897
\n00:50:24,400 –> 00:50:28,360
\nhave to walk away.
\nWe have to stay centered on the <\/p>\n
898
\n00:50:28,360 –> 00:50:34,680
\ntruth.
\nSo when we think about the <\/p>\n
899
\n00:50:34,680 –> 00:50:39,520
\ndeception of the darkness of the
\nworld, when we think about being<\/p>\n
900
\n00:50:39,520 –> 00:50:42,320
\nunashamed of the truth of God,
\nwhat it means when we’re <\/p>\n
901
\n00:50:42,320 –> 00:50:45,880
\nconfident to speak it and to
\ndefend it, even at the risk of <\/p>\n
902
\n00:50:45,880 –> 00:50:49,240
\nbeing cancelled, of being
\nbelittled, or like Paul, who is <\/p>\n
903
\n00:50:49,240 –> 00:50:51,360
\nready to die for the things that
\nhe believed. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:50:51,760 –> 00:50:53,840
\nTurn over to Psalm 40.
\nWe’ll just close with this <\/p>\n
905
\n00:50:53,840 –> 00:50:55,920
\nparticular verse.
\nThis is one of the cross <\/p>\n
906
\n00:50:55,920 –> 00:50:58,400
\nreferences we find from Romans 1
\nand 16. <\/p>\n
907
\n00:50:59,280 –> 00:51:01,600
\nI like to.
\nThink it may very well have been<\/p>\n
908
\n00:51:03,000 –> 00:51:06,960
\nused by the Lord Jesus Christ in
\nhis words in Luke and the <\/p>\n
909
\n00:51:06,960 –> 00:51:10,400
\nApostle Paul in his.
\nAnd here’s David writing about <\/p>\n
910
\n00:51:10,400 –> 00:51:13,320
\nthe great.
\nDistress that he had endured, <\/p>\n
911
\n00:51:14,600 –> 00:51:17,200
\nand how that his God had drawn
\nhim up out of the pit of <\/p>\n
912
\n00:51:17,200 –> 00:51:20,080
\ndestruction, out of the miry
\nbog, and set my feet upon a <\/p>\n
913
\n00:51:20,080 –> 00:51:22,160
\nrock, making my steps secure as
\nHe. <\/p>\n
914
\n00:51:22,160 –> 00:51:24,200
\nSays at the start Psalm 40 and
\nverse 9. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:51:24,200 –> 00:51:28,680
\nHe says through all of this.
\nHe says, For I have preached <\/p>\n
916
\n00:51:28,680 –> 00:51:30,680
\nrighteousness in the great
\ncongregation. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:51:30,680 –> 00:51:35,080
\nLo, I have not refrained my
\nlips, O Lord, Thou knowest I <\/p>\n
918
\n00:51:35,080 –> 00:51:37,520
\nhave not hid Thy righteousness
\nwithin my heart. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:51:37,520 –> 00:51:40,560
\nI have declared thy.
\nFaithfulness and Thy salvation I<\/p>\n
920
\n00:51:40,560 –> 00:51:44,080
\nhave not concealed by loving
\nkindness and Thy truth from the <\/p>\n
921
\n00:51:44,080 –> 00:51:50,920
\ngreat congregation.
\nYou know, whatever I’m I’m down <\/p>\n
922
\n00:51:50,920 –> 00:51:56,040
\nor I’m struggling spiritually.
\nAnd maybe it is for a lot of <\/p>\n
923
\n00:51:56,040 –> 00:51:57,640
\nyou.
\nThe best place to go, I feel, is<\/p>\n
924
\n00:51:57,800 –> 00:52:01,480
\ngo to the Psalms.
\nAnd Marty pointed this out to me<\/p>\n
925
\n00:52:02,120 –> 00:52:08,000
\nat one point, that in many of
\nthe Psalms, David starts out in <\/p>\n
926
\n00:52:08,000 –> 00:52:11,360
\ndistress.
\nHe’s struggling, he’s under <\/p>\n
927
\n00:52:11,360 –> 00:52:17,000
\ntrial, he’s being persecuted.
\nAnd as he communicates with God,<\/p>\n
928
\n00:52:17,560 –> 00:52:21,320
\nhe gets pulled back to center,
\nand often times at the end of <\/p>\n
929
\n00:52:21,320 –> 00:52:25,040
\nthe Psalm, he’s back elevating
\nhis God in his life and thanking<\/p>\n
930
\n00:52:25,040 –> 00:52:30,840
\nhim as being his rock.
\nAnd so we can blame social <\/p>\n
931
\n00:52:30,840 –> 00:52:33,320
\nrelativism.
\nWe can blame postmodernism, we <\/p>\n
932
\n00:52:33,320 –> 00:52:37,560
\ncan blame moral issues, we can
\nblame historical revisionism. <\/p>\n
933
\n00:52:37,640 –> 00:52:39,680
\nWe can blame postmodernism for
\neverything. <\/p>\n
934
\n00:52:39,680 –> 00:52:41,040
\nBut there’s one thing we can’t
\ndo. <\/p>\n
935
\n00:52:41,120 –> 00:52:43,000
\nWe cannot blame God for his
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
936
\n00:52:45,320 –> 00:52:48,800
\nIt’s right there in front of us,
\nalways waiting for us to. <\/p>\n
937
\n00:52:48,800 –> 00:52:52,200
\nOpen it up.
\nAnd to use it to discern the <\/p>\n
938
\n00:52:52,200 –> 00:52:57,440
\nvery thoughts of our heart, so
\nthat it might save us, that it <\/p>\n
939
\n00:52:57,440 –> 00:53:00,880
\nmight purify us, that it might
\nrebuke us, that it might correct<\/p>\n
940
\n00:53:00,880 –> 00:53:05,080
\nus, and that we might be
\nreunited with our Father in <\/p>\n
941
\n00:53:05,080 –> 00:53:10,240
\nheaven.
\nSo what is truth, brethren and <\/p>\n
942
\n00:53:10,240 –> 00:53:13,840
\nsisters?
\nIt is the power of God unto <\/p>\n
943
\n00:53:13,840 –> 00:53:15,760
\nsalvation for everyone who
\nbelieves. <\/p>\n
944
\n00:53:18,600 –> 00:53:27,360
\nThe trick is we have to believe
\nit, and when we believe it, <\/p>\n
945
\n00:53:27,880 –> 00:53:33,080
\nbrethren and sisters, we have to
\npractice it, and in practicing <\/p>\n
946
\n00:53:33,080 –> 00:53:39,360
\nit, we speak it.
\nAnd that is our task is to be <\/p>\n
947
\n00:53:39,360 –> 00:53:44,440
\nunashamed of the truth, so that
\neveryone else who hears the word<\/p>\n
948
\n00:53:44,440 –> 00:53:46,640
\nof God might also be saved.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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