Jan. 14, 2025

A Knife vs AI

A Knife vs AI

A review of a sermon on James 2:14-26

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A review of a sermon on James 2:14-26

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central, Ladies and gentlemen.

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What is about to happen? I want to make it

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very clear, is not my fault. What is about to

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happen is not my fault. It is because someone sent

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me an email asking me to do this. So I'm

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not going to give their name, but no, but if

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this goes really really bad, it's their fault. If it

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goes really really well, it's I get all the credit.

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So if it goes bad, it's their fault. If it

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goes well, I get the credit. Is that? Do you

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think that'll work? But I do apologize because I don't

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really know exactly what's about to happen. But we're going

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to find out together. And I'm doing this because of

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an email that I received, And I'll tell you about

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that email, tell you what we're going to do right

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after I say welcome everyone. It is Tuesday, January the fourteenth,

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twenty twenty five. It is currently twelve three pm Central time,

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and I am coming to you live from the Theology

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Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. All right,

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so are you ready? Are you ready for this, I hope.

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So I've got I've got pencils, paper, notebooks, bibles, I've

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got everything we could possibly need. I think I'm ready

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to go. The most important thing I have here, this

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is very important, is I have my iPad here with

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artificial intelligence ready to go. Right, So we're going to

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be using AI. Remember twenty twenty five, we've it's going

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to be really the year of AI. We've been talking

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about that. But here's what's going on.

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At six fifty three am in the morning, six fifty

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three ams Central time, I received the following email.

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Here's the subject line, AI can't handle. God gave it

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to us to use. AI can't handle God gave it

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to us to use. Now, what AI can't handle is

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a sermon entitled God gave it to us to use. Now,

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when it says God gave it to us to use,

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they're not talking about artificial intelligence. But the person sent

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me this email is saying AI can't handle this sermon

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entitled God gave it to us to use. Here's how

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the the here's how AI reads. Here's how the email reads.

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AI could not handle this sermon. Now, obviously someone knows.

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If you tell me Hey, this, AI can't handle this.

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They know that's that's smart. That's a very manipulative way

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to get me to ensure that. I'm going to turn

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on the microphone to go, well, let's find out together, right,

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So we're going to find out together if AI can

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actually handle a sermon entitled God gave it to us

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to use more from the email. This sermon uses the

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common everyday case jackknife as a metaphor for spirituality and

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ways I think AI could not. And they put the

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word gr Okay, I'm not familiar with that phrase, but

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I think what they're implying here. In fact, let me

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just look up the word. I didn't even realize that

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word was there. Understanding something, right, okay, so understanding it's

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the word grock. It's the word grock. So the uh

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so let me go back to the email. This, this

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sermon uses the common everyday case jackknife as a metaphor

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for spirituality in ways I think AI could not. Crock.

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The preacher is a mountain man, a tree cutter. Speaking

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to other mountain men. He uses an object that all

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of them are familiar with, a common pocket knife, and

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builds an elaborate metaphor for Christian life. You ought to

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do an AI review of this sermon and see if

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AI could even understand it. This sermon is truly something

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AI would never produce or understand. It relies on a

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shared cultural reference points AI wouldn't even know about. Now

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that's that's some That's an interesting approach. Now, I I'm

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there's there's a lot of things here that fascinates me

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about this email is one, Yes, when people pray each

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we do have a tendency that in our preaching there's

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going to be kind of a cultural perspective of our

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cultural upbringing, the culture that we find ourselves in that

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does impact our preaching. Now we could argue, we could

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debate whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

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It's a good thing because if I'm speaking about a

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shared cultural experience or a shared cultural item, then everyone

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listening is going to get it, and everyone's going to understand,

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and it's going to be somewhat impactful. And so I

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can bring that to a sermon where AI cannot necessarily

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do that. Now, that is true, but there is a

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negative aspect because sometimes our cultural upbringing, our cultural surroundings

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can impact how we actually interpret scripture. That's why if

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and just think about this, I mean this is I

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think this is a fact based statement. I don't think

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anyone can accuse me of not being fact based here.

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If you go to a church that's located in a

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more liberal area or in another country, they're not going

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to be preaching sermons most likely that's supporting gun ownership,

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the use of a gun. That's not gonna be because

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it's not rooted and grounded and gun culture. Now, if

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you go to a church here in West Texas, not

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only will the church at times promote and defend gun

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ownership and their sermons, the churches themselves may be giving

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away like an AR fifteen. Because that happens here in

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West Texas, where the churches are literally giving away a gun. Now,

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that means your cultural upbringing, your cultural surroundings is impacting

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your approach to Christianity. Because whether we like it or not,

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we like to shape Christianity, mold Christianity and making it

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in form to our culture. That's why when you hear

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sermons that comes from maybe certain parts of the South,

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the way they preach, the things they say will be

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radically different than a sermon that comes from somewhere in

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the north or in another country. Culture shapes our approach

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to Christianity. I will argue that's not a good thing,

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because Christianity should be the truths of Christianity, and Christianity

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should be it should transcend our culture. We should not

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bring our culture to Christianity. We bring Christianity to our culture.

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We don't take our culture and read it into Christianity

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or force it or force Christianity to conform to it.

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Our culture should conform to Christianity. Now, I think there's

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a problem to me personally, but the sermon clearly is

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coming from a certain cultural setting a perspective. Again, the

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preacher is a mountain man man or mountain man mountain man.

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According to this email, he's a tree cutter, and he

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speaks to other mountain men, and he uses an object

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that all of them are familiar with, a common pocket knife,

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and builds an elaborate metaphor for the Christian life. Now

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it says this is the sermon is truly something AI

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would never produce or understand because it relies on a

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shared cultural reference point. Now, you're right, AI is not

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going to produce something utilizing a shared cultural reference point.

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But in some ways that's a good thing because it's

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not influenced by a shared cultural reference point. It's going

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to AI is going to approach the text by here's

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what the text says. Here are the words that he uses.

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It's going to give me history cultural context of the text.

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It's not going to be bringing any shared cultural reference

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point to the text. It's going to be bringing the

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meaning of the text to my culture. That's where I

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think AI's strength is. It doesn't have all of that baggage. Now,

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that baggage may make for more interesting preaching. It may

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may make it entertaining, It may make it sound and

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I mean it's true. Listen to someone preaching from the

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United Kingdom versus someone preaching from West Texas. Sounds so

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radically different. And that can be interesting from a cultural perspective,

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it can be entertaining, it can be fascinating, But how

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is it actually shaping the interpretation of scripture. I think

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that there's a lot there for us to consider. So

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this email fascinated me because it brings all of these

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issues right to the forefront. Right, So, but I'm interested

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to go can AI actually handle this well? I gave

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the sermon to AI. I gave the sermon to AI,

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and I have here. I don't even know how many pages.

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If I was to print this out, it may be

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fifteen pages. It may be fifteen pages, maybe that, maybe ten.

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I don't know. It would be hard to know. There's

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a lot here. But here is what you need to understand, right.

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I really want to drive this point home because since

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we've been talking about artificial intelligence, if you perceive and

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I'm not saying that the emailer perceives it this way,

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I'm talking to anyone and everyone. If anyone perceives artificial

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intelligence is basically just a fancy Google search, you have

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missed the point entirely. Artificial intelligence gives you the ability

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not only to ask it questions, but you can engage

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in an ongoing conversation about it. It will reason with you,

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you can challenge, it can give you something. You can

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challenge its conclusion. It will challenge your conclusions. It's an

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O who can reason with it. That is the strong point.

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So when it comes to the Bible or theology. Here's

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why I think AI is so strong is I can

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engage AI and a thiological discussion, a theiological almost debate,

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athiological we can reason together. It can offer me this,

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and then I can say this, and it can tell

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me if my idea is good or if my idea

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is bad, or it can offer me a counter perspective,

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and then I can challenge its counter perspective. AI is

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great for doing theology. If all you want is simply

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like look something up and then someone feeds you what

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you want to find or what agrees with your theology,

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well then you can use Google and just find the

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sources that agrees with you. AI will be as much

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more for those who want to engage in reason and

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discuss and struggle. So what happened here is AI me

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its basic overview of the sermon. It handled the sermon

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with no problem. It handled it handled the knife thing

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with no problem. It handled it perfectly. But it gave me.

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It kind of gave me how the sermon was approaching

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a certain passage of scripture. And then I begin to

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challenge AI on how most Christians handled this passage of scripture,

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and me, ME and AI went back and forth. So

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what I'm going to do is we're gonna do a

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little bit of the sermon review. Right, You're going to

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clearly hear a sermon coming from a certain cultural reference point.

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You're gonna hear the culture and the sermon, right, You're

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gonna hear it. And I want you to think about

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how culture impacts Christianity. How has your Christianity been shaped

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by your culture, your upbringing. I really want you to

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think about that, because it probably has impacted it far

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more than you would even imagine. So I want you

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to really think about that. And I've challenged the people

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where I you know where I have ministered most of

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my adult life here in West Texas. Now. The thing

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is is, even though I was born and raised in Texas,

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in many cases, I don't share the same cultural perspective

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as the people I've ministered to. I don't. I tend

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to be at odds with it, right, And what I've

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always tried to tell the people is, look, you know

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what my cultural perspective, your cultural perspective, None of that matters.

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We're here to learn what the scripture say in your

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cultural perspective, and my cultural perspective should not be shaping, molding,

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or influencing our handling of scripture and handling our understanding

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of Christianity. Christianity is supposed to transcend nationality, race, culture.

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It's supposed to be above it, not molded by it.

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I really do believe that, and I think that that's

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the thing in the Church. Everyone has their different cultural

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perspectives and their different upbringings. But when it comes down

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to it, we're gonna open up the Bible, figure out

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what the Bible says, and you know what, it may

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go against your cultural upbringing, it go it may go

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against your cultural perspective, and it may go against mine.

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But what we have a tendency to do. It's like no, no,

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no no no no no no no no, no no no.

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I want it to be pro Republican, pro Trump, pro

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gun pro And it's like, well, maybe it's not going

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to fit that cultural kind of perspective, and well, but

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people can make it do that. And if all we're

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doing is creating a Christianity in our own image, is

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that not a problem? I think it's a AI is

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not to me. It's more free of that. Obviously, it's

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still influenced by things because it's pulling information, but it

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can it's not it doesn't have that built into it

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in a sense. So this is going to be fascinating.

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But my goal here is to do. This is to

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show you how AI handles the sermon, but really to

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take you through my ongoing discussion with Ai in regards

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to some of the theology mentioned in the sermon. That's real.

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fancy search engine. But the real beauty of it, the

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power of it, is in the arguing, debating, discussing. That's

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where things get interesting. All right, but let's jump into

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this and we'll see. This is not a long sermon. Now,

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sermon review. The goal here is to just kind of

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and then from that I'm gonna let you see or

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read to you how AI handles all of this. And

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then we will just go through my discussion with Ai,

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and then if we need you, we can come back

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to the sermon. The goal here is not to necessarily

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do a full review. Again, the sermon is called God

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gave it to us to use. God gave it to

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us to use. Here is how it begins.

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Bro, Look at James the look with a sid it's

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James in chapter number two. That'll be my best to

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give my heart tonight we're shaking the Lord.

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Good to see you here.

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Talk to this place.

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Yeah, say it every time where he Lord has been good, archer.

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Less dar cher.

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Far more than we're worthy all, or more.

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James, Chapter number two, first number fourteen ays you play.

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James two, verse number fourteen.

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What doth it profit my brethren? Old man say he

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has faith and have not works? Can faith save him?

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If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of

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daily food, one of you say, under them, depart in peace,

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be ye warned and filled. Notwithstanding you give them not

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those things which are needful to the body. Even what

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does it profit even soul? Faith, if it hath not works,

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is dead being alone. A man may say, thou hast faith,

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and I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works.

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I will show thee my faith by my works. Thou

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There is one God.

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Thou doest well the devils all soul beilieve and tremble

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even But wilt thou know, old vain man, that faith

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without works is dead. That's all that I'll read. And

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you know how I am. There's times when the Lord's

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gotta give me natural everyday things, give me the spiritual

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side of it. Don't want to imburse Eman anyone tonight

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I will get Okay.

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was reading all of that I have. Now my gut

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feeling is when they hear James two fourteen through twenty

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six that faith without works is dead, then they are

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the basic fundamentalist evangelical Christian mindset that this means that

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you have to have works to prove that you are saved,

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and if you don't have enough works, then you were

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never saved. That is the common understanding. And of course

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when everyone hears that, they're like, hey, Marridory married a man. Okay,

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And I immediately first I reject this entire approach to

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this text. But that's my gut feeling, right because to me,

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whenever you get to James two fourteen through twenty six,

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my approach would be like, guys, we've got stop the amening.

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We got a very complicated, convoluted text in front of us.

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That is not easy to understand, and it has caused

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major problems, divisions, and debates throughout two thousand years of

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church history. Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to take

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us a long time. This is going to be difficult,

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this is going to be tedious. We're going to have

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to do some serious work. But everybody's just like amen,

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because I just think everyone's already operating on a basic

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philological and interpretive assumption, which I think is problematic, and

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I think it's been problematic for two thousand years, and

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nobody wants to struggle. Well, if there have been those

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in church history that have struggled with it, but for

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the most part, everyone just assumes that they know what

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it means. People, you get into any discussion with Christians,

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faith without works is dead, and they just throw it

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out there, basically to call someone's salvation into question. Well,

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they're not saved. They're not. They love to do that.

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It's like the go to It's like they just carried

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it around in their holster and like oh that person, Pow,

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they pull out the gun and shoot James two fourteen. Faith,

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well all works is dead. They're not saved, and it's like, Wow,

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I'm glad you get to walk around telling everyone who

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they're they're not saved. I don't like the approach to

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the text. I'm that's my feeling, but that's that's the

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basic assumption going into this. I cannot prove that as

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of now because I haven't listened to the sermon, but

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that's that's the feeling I get. I'm already getting nervous

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with all of the amens and all about this, all right,

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but now so now he's stating that God, and I

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don't know how he exactly means this gives him like

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normal objects so that he can find the spiritual meaning.

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I don't think he's I don't think he's saying God

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is giving him the spiritual meaning of common objects. Now,

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because a minute, the minute, you go with God giving

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you something, and of course no one can, no one

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can criticize it if it comes from God. You know

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my problems with that in preaching. I don't think he's

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going that far to say that. But let's just see

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if he if he if he puts this at the

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and since at the feet of God, let's see.

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Give you my hearts.

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I'm gonna lead this for just a minute, and so

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you pray for us. I guess there's about two years ago.

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They're on my birthday. Brandon give me this knife. It's

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a case knife and it's and it has a cross

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they're inlaid in the handle. Used to say, amazing grace

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on the handle. I have carried it so much that

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it's rubbed it all. Me and him will coon outing

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not long after that, and we kill a coon. I

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don't remember if he's gonna skin in or cut its

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tail off, what he's gonna do.

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I reached him in my pocket and I pulled out

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that knife that he gave me, and he didn't say nothing.

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Then you know how we are. We liked the Joe

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call of us. We like to cut up a little

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bit in a little Even later on we was here,

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I believe might have been over at the fellowship all.

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collector's at him.

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cultural Like he's coming from a culture. I would be.

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I'd walk in there and I would be like, what

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is happening here? You're going coon hunting? You're getting ready

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to skip what is happening here right, Like it's a

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completely opposite culture. Now what I have to do as

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a human Now, this is where this is where the

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hard part for me being human. Right, as a human being,

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when you hear sermons coming from a certain culture, you've

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got to allow yourself to hear the scripture, the theology

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and not just either so enjoy or or so in

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line with that culture that it just makes you agree

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with everything in the sermon, or you're so foreign to

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the culture, or oppose the culture, or don't like the

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culture that you just immediately reject the theology or the

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preaching from it. You got to look past the cultural

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trappings or the cultural robe, the cultural robe that's wrapped

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around the theology and the preaching. You got to you

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gotta set that aside. You gotta hear the theology. You

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can't allow the kind of what it's dressed up in.

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I mean, he's got his his voice, his way of speaking,

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his accent, I mean, everything about it had just some

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people would I mean this just to happen to Jay

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Vernon McGee. Sometimes people would criticize him and not like

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his preaching because of his accent. Right, that can happen,

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whether we want to admit it or not. That can

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happen when you're listening to sermons. You've got to just

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set aside what it's dressed up in, because people the

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pastor's culture, the pastor's personality that it's going to come through,

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and sometimes that gets actually in the way of the text.

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AI doesn't have this problem. It's just gonna get you

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to the text. You're not gonna get it's not gonna

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be wrapped up in some kind of cultural robe. So

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this cultural robe, some people would be immediately turned off

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and just like what is this and just be done.

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So we got to set that aside and say, okay,

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just get to the text, get to where he's going,

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and not allow any of these trappings to either draw

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us in or to push us away. Because their day,

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they're not important. What's important is how is James two

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fourteenth through twenty six gonna be handled.

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I was using it.

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And me being the nice man that I am, I said, Brandon,

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if you give me something, I'm.

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Gonna use it.

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Well, on that same day that brand, don't give me

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that case knife boyet come walking to me out in

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the parking lot, handed me this one here. This is

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a klerk saw boy. Now, he didn't tell me to

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go home and put it in the drawer. He handed

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it to me. He never said happy birthday, but he

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handed me that knife. And this is the words that

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he said. I'm giving you this to you, and so

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if the Lord would help me, that's what I'm gonna

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give you for a little life tonight. Hens Cock give

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it to us to you, and mad he give it

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to us to you.

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Okay, Now the people are just aimening everything. I think.

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I think he could just be like I went to

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the refrigerator to get a drinkerybody like man. Okay, like

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the amenning here. I appreciate the enthusiasm, but he just

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aimening everything. Okay, But so he says it a lot

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better when I read the email. God gave it to

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us to use. The way he says it comes across more,

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God gave it to us to use. It sounds more

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like I was I was stomached. God gave it to us.

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God gave it to us to use, Like I have to.

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I have to like the way he says it comes

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across much better than the way I say it the

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way I say it doesn't I was reading it and

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it didn't flow right. God, I have to really really

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enunciate God gave it to us to use. If I

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just say God give it to us to use, I

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guess I have to really think about it.

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But all right, sounds good, sounds great. I think you

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see where this is going. All right, he was given

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knives to use. God gives us something to use. Now

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I got questions. Is the thing God gave us to

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use is our faith? So God gives us the faith?

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That would mean then that the us receiving faith is

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a work of a sovereign God. Now are we to.

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Do the rest?

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Is this a synergistic approach? Clearly it seems like it's not.

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Definitely not going in a monogistic way. Are already got

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some theological ideas in my head. Let's just see where

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it goes.

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Begin to write and to tell us how the faith

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without words, he is staying. I tried my besteners Sunday

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morning to talk about the trying of our faith. Sunday

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night rolled around and I talked about how what our

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faith is tried, it will be worth it. I'm afraid, honey,

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that we're in a time where we don't want to

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use the faith.

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That God, God tells give it us. As much as

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I love.

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Brandon and he give me this amen, I believe amen

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out of the bottom of his heart. Hey man, the Brandon,

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I love you, brother, But when he give me this knife,

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he fully expected I believe for me to Hayman to

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set it up somewhere allan handle Luck had it and busy.

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At how curty it was.

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Hey, Amanda just s walk b Glades had it from

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time to time. How bet you know what I've done, Todd,

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I pulled it out of my pocket of many other time.

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Hayman abrol that I've done things with it that not

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an able at a knife.

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Ham, Wow, Man, I think the guy's gonna have a stroke.

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I mean he he's gonna have a heart attack, okay,

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or he's breathing okay, A right.

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But but once again here we're I'm using this to

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show you the difference between AI and and and sermon.

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Now we've talked about the cultural aspect. AI is not

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going to have it wrapped in a robe of a

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cultural feel. Right, this has a cultural feel all over.

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But notice what else preaching style. Now see what I

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have to do. He's like, he's got this flow, this

469
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.680
rhythm right, no, no, no, and taking these deep breaths. Now,

470
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:34.559
guess what, that to me is so distracting. That to

471
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.799
me is like whoa can? I like, I'm just gonna

472
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:39.640
be honest. There's a part of me that just wants

473
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.319
to immediately just say, you know what, just forget it,

474
00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:43.759
just forget it. Let's just stop, right, because it's just

475
00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:47.319
I can't that that goes against everything. Now there's other

476
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:50.039
people who look, see what I just did. I cut

477
00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:53.839
myself off in mid sentence. That drives some people crazy.

478
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:56.359
When I do that, I'll get emails you didn't finish

479
00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:59.279
your sentence. You cut yourself off. Slow down, don't get

480
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.480
so loud. Because there are certain things about my style

481
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:07.519
that drives people insane. People hate sometimes that I'm too repetitive,

482
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:11.759
or some people say that I'm too over dramatic and

483
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:16.559
it's fake and it's theatric and so guess what. When

484
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:20.000
it comes to preaching, this is another shortcoming that AI

485
00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:26.839
does not have. AI doesn't have a preaching style. It's

486
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.839
just going to give me the facts. It's just gonna

487
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:34.680
give me the breakdown the exegesis, the hermoneutics, to geography,

488
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:38.880
the cross referencing, the cultural context, the textual context. So

489
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:45.359
there's no preaching style to either for someone to like,

490
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:50.039
to love or for someone to hate. I'm just gonna

491
00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:51.799
be honest with you. I could not listen to a

492
00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:54.920
lot of this preaching. Now that's on me. That's my

493
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:58.559
own personal likes, as you could call it, my own

494
00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:04.000
personal bias. This this, this will suck, this rhythm. I'd

495
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:06.640
be like, oh, come on, can we just talk here?

496
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:09.119
Now you can get excited. But see then other people

497
00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:13.079
would want someone to even be more subtle, more tame,

498
00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:18.519
more quiet. Other people want someone more excited. That's why

499
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:24.119
people are drawn to personalities. Some people's favorite preacher is

500
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:27.119
more about the personality than we ever want to admit.

501
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:32.359
Some people choose a church because of everything other than theology.

502
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:38.160
So here's his style at this point. I mean, so

503
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God wants us to use what he gives us. So

504
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:44.160
it sounds like what he's saying is God. He seems

505
00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:48.960
to be at least acknowledging God gives us faith, So

506
00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:52.039
he seems to be I would be it would be

507
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:53.960
hard for me to believe they're coming at this from

508
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.119
a reform perspective, So I don't know if he understands

509
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:58.880
the implications of that. If God is the one who

510
00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:02.559
grants faith, well maybe they would do it this way.

511
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:05.200
God grants the faith for the one who asks for it.

512
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:10.599
But then what makes you want to ask for it? Okay, well, yeah,

513
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:14.440
we get into an argument between Calvinism and okay, well

514
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:17.319
we'll just obviously he's not gonna get this is not

515
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:20.000
gonna be very theologically in depth, I don't think. But

516
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:23.640
let's let's see where this goes. And we're just gonna

517
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:25.480
see if he gets a little bit. He's not really

518
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.359
yet defined what it means that faith without works is

519
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.920
dead dead in what way? Let's just see where he goes.

520
00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:38.759
I hate to do. Are you in me that? Honey?

521
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:42.480
God did not give us that measure of fain? How

522
00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:46.359
to hang upon myself somewhere? I'm no, won't Now when

523
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:50.519
church time comes around, he look at it, how shiny

524
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:53.920
it is? You know what, I've had a lot of time.

525
00:32:54.920 --> 00:33:00.680
Even the shinier it is, Honey, it ain't worth fifteen say, man,

526
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:04.839
ain't tell right, honey? You know what this one hayman?

527
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:07.200
I abro they I done told you, amen, I wore

528
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:10.839
the letters off. Even the blood's been a little bit.

529
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:11.640
Of what I've used it.

530
00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:15.440
He hey man, you know why he was more than

531
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:20.240
just in ordering to me. Hey Man, I believe PAULI

532
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.960
for us. Now we're written there, Hamn.

533
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:26.079
But the pocket knife is just part of us. That's

534
00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:27.319
just part of who we are.

535
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:31.359
I's growing up, going it's cool and there's a knife

536
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:34.759
in my potty. It's not I signed it this old bay.

537
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:39.440
It's just it was having I was raised Hayman calling

538
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:44.000
my pocket manill o the honey. Here we are haming

539
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:48.000
into here. Here it is two thy and twenty five,

540
00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:50.119
and brother Faith has.

541
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.880
Put on the back burner. I had a lot of times.

542
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.359
They only time the men and women want God, it's

543
00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:58.279
when they need it.

544
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:03.279
Comn, I help me in my knife, putting in my

545
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.039
pocket and I really love that.

546
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:18.280
Okay, Well, that that's hard to listen to. I don't

547
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:20.519
know what we're gonna get anywhere there, right, So what

548
00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:22.440
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to AI here

549
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.239
and have AI break this down for us. You can

550
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:27.760
go listen to that, but I think that's just gonna

551
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:32.840
be that style whoa man that is that's difficult to

552
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:33.480
listen to.

553
00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:34.800
It's just like D.

554
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Do it.

555
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.639
It's just and I mean it's all I don't even

556
00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:44.199
know where it's going. It's I wow, I don't even

557
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:46.519
know what you do with that? Right you? You do

558
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:48.239
what you want to do with that. The sermon is

559
00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:51.119
called God gave it to us to use. You go

560
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:54.199
listen to it. I mean you go download and listen.

561
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:56.719
It's available in service two point oh app sermon audio website.

562
00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:59.679
You go do that. What I'm gonna do is just

563
00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:01.880
now kind of get into a well, what we'll do.

564
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:04.639
I let it plate just a little bit longer, just

565
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:07.800
a little bit longer, so that you would just so

566
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:09.719
that no one feels that I cut it off too early.

567
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:16.280
I've had any place or I needed a knife and

568
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:20.280
it wasn't. There happen pyment, We happen. We pleased up.

569
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:24.480
Meeting out at ball Creek has started a man it

570
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:25.440
was hot in there.

571
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.800
The same man has started to rain. The side was

572
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:29.280
rolled up.

573
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:33.320
I couldn't I'm tiling not on the side. Came and

574
00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:36.559
Alan was sitting there. I said, Alan, you got a knife?

575
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.519
Illam pulled his knife out of his pocket.

576
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:44.760
Listen, go with me tonight. Hain't a word of time.

577
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.800
We're word depending on somebody else's pace, may somebody else's

578
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:54.199
town or somebody else's song. Honey, wasn't God getting it

579
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:54.679
to us?

580
00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:55.639
How are you.

581
00:35:58.880 --> 00:35:59.079
Head?

582
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:02.760
I'm going to be along? God give a toss to you.

583
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:05.960
Hang up.

584
00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:11.239
I don't, man, I don't. I don't know what you

585
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:14.719
do with that. Ladies and gentlemen. Again, we can't allow

586
00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:19.000
the culture and we can't allow the style to distract us.

587
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:24.920
But I'm just being honest with you. I who I

588
00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:26.840
don't know what to do with that. So I gave

589
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:29.079
it to AI. I gues I said, here you go, AI,

590
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:31.199
let me know what to do here. So I gave

591
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:34.639
it to AI. Now I've told you before that the

592
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:38.519
key to AI is your ability to ask it the

593
00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:40.639
right question. So many times when I see people say, well,

594
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:43.079
I asked AI this or this or this, I always

595
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:45.440
hear these criticisms, And sometimes I want to say, show

596
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:50.039
me a screenshot of the conversation, because because in many

597
00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.519
cases I'm like, I don't that seems weird that that's

598
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:55.800
what you're getting. So in this particular case, I downloaded

599
00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:59.519
the transcript uploaded the transcript to AI. This is what

600
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:11.320
I asked to do. Analyze, critique, summarize, outline logical, philological, biblical,

601
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:14.679
and hermoneutical errors. That's what I asked it to do.

602
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:20.639
Here's what AI gave me. The sermon focuses on James

603
00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:25.039
two fourteen through twenty six, emphasizing the relationship between faith

604
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:29.880
and works, using a metaphor of pocket knives giving as gifts.

605
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:33.039
The preacher illustrates the idea that faith, like a tool,

606
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:38.360
must be actively used rather than displayed or neglected. The

607
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.960
sermon critiques modern Christianity for treating faith as an ornamental

608
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:48.079
rather than function than functional, resulting in spiritual and effectiveness.

609
00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:52.320
The preacher calls for believers to actively engage their faith,

610
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.119
sharpen it through trials, and avoid becoming spiritually complacent. Now

611
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:00.679
guess what I love that about AI? Look what I did?

612
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:01.519
See?

613
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:05.559
AI had nothing to say about style, nothing to say

614
00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:08.719
about it. It's culture, it's cultural robe that it was

615
00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:12.480
dressed in. Nothing about the none of that. See when

616
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:13.039
I review it?

617
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:13.639
What did I do?

618
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:21.280
I was drawn to the culture and the style. See

619
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.840
where AI can review a sermon better than a human

620
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:28.280
being can? You don't even need me to review sermons.

621
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:33.079
I was drawn to those things, and look, I feel bad.

622
00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:35.800
Let me just make it honest. I feel bad. I

623
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:40.199
feel sinful that I can't handle that style. I feel

624
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:44.320
like that's not godly. I should be able to listen

625
00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:48.039
to that preaching and focus on the theology and the

626
00:38:48.199 --> 00:38:51.639
text and not all. But I'm being honest with that

627
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.440
was gonna drive me if I would, if I would

628
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:56.920
review that entire sermon by the end, I would be

629
00:38:57.159 --> 00:39:01.719
so just frustrated and irritated with all of that yelling

630
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:04.599
and the breathing, and it sounded like he's going to

631
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:06.159
pass out have a heart attack.

632
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:08.079
I could not do it.

633
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:10.239
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just being honest with you. I

634
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:12.639
could not do it. Ay, I was able to break

635
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:14.880
that down far better than I could, because I would

636
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:18.199
just be stopping it going man, breathe, take a breath,

637
00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:26.199
just talk, just speak. So Ay, I broke the sermon

638
00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:30.880
down into an outline. Here's what it gives me. Introduction.

639
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:34.840
It references James two fourteen through twenty six. Faith without

640
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:39.840
works is Dead. Personal antidotes about receiving and using pocket

641
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:46.000
knives as a metaphor for faith right so it catches

642
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:48.079
on that it's using it kind of as an illustration.

643
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:52.639
Here's these personal stories. Hey, I receive these knives. These

644
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:55.760
knives is like a metaphor for faith. The knives are

645
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:59.559
a metaphor for faith. Number two, so this is this

646
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:02.840
is breaking the entire sermon into an outline. Gives me

647
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:07.760
the introduction. Now, faith as a tool. Faith is meant

648
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:12.599
to be used, not displayed. Neglecting faith results in spiritual

649
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:17.840
dullness and and effectiveness. Personal responsibility for maintaining and using faith.

650
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:23.000
So faith is given to us. We're supposed to use faith,

651
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:27.639
and then it's our responsibility to maintain it and to

652
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:32.079
use it. It's your responsibility to maintain your faith. Is

653
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if God is the author and finisher of our faith,

654
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:39.239
is it my job to maintain it? See this gets

655
00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:43.239
into a whole. See this phraises so many theological questions.

656
00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:45.239
And then how do you use your faith?

657
00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:48.639
All right?

658
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:56.239
Number three Critique of modern Christianity. Modern faith is often

659
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treated as ornamental or superficial reliance on others' faith instead

660
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:07.440
of personal engagement. Lack of hang on almost messed up

661
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:12.880
AI here, lack of spiritual depth compared to past generations.

662
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:17.760
So it critiques modern Christianity, and so the critiques are

663
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:22.559
modern faith is ornamental and superficial, and it's kind of

664
00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:26.280
to have a hard time here. That kind of preaching

665
00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:31.159
right theory, to me is the very definition of superficial, yelling, screaming,

666
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:34.159
everyone's saying amen, and you're not even dealing with anything

667
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.960
remotely close to the theology and the complexities of that.

668
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:40.960
Isn't it funny that we are always good at saying

669
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everyone else is superficial, everyone else is shallow, everyone else

670
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:48.599
is not in depth, while we maybe ourselves demonstrate that

671
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:53.280
we lack depth. And in that kind of do you

672
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:56.800
not find that kind of ironic? Here's a sermon that,

673
00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:00.679
to me would be the very definition of super It

674
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:08.639
would be the very definition of shallow, superficial surface, not

675
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:14.559
even dealing with the theology. It's it's it's more motivational,

676
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:17.639
and I don't even know what it is. It's more

677
00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:21.599
it's experiential than it is any like we're going to

678
00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:25.400
actually study and figure out James two fourteen through twenty six. Look,

679
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:29.239
it's textual context, historical context, how it's been handled throughout

680
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:33.280
church history, none and none of that, I would say

681
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:38.880
that's the example of superficial reliance on others' faith instead

682
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:42.559
of personal engagement and then lack of spiritual death compared

683
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:46.880
to past generations. And the past generations had spiritual depth.

684
00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:51.480
Where they're having spiritual depth when they were killing innocent

685
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:55.679
people in Salem? Were they having spiritual depth when they

686
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:58.400
were I don't know, killing and taking the land to

687
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:00.920
belong to other people where they where? I mean, I

688
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:03.880
can go on through horrible things that's happened in church history?

689
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:08.760
Was that the sign of spiritual depth? The past generations

690
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:12.880
had it, We don't. It's always older people want to

691
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:16.599
criticism the past generations were so good. When was that?

692
00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:18.840
When we were denying civil rights to people because of

693
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the skin color, When certain Christian colleges would not let

694
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:27.000
people go to those schools if they were black. I mean, whoa,

695
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:35.280
That's where they had great spiritual depth. Oh now it

696
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:40.000
probably offended some people, is it? Back when certain Christian

697
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:51.119
denominations supported slavery? Okay, well it got quiet. Now I

698
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:54.199
got quiet because I'm in an empty room. But yeah, right.

699
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:58.119
Number four Sharpening faith trials as a means of refining

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00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.840
and strengthening faith. The importance of scripture and spiritual discipline

701
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.559
and keeping faith sharp. Well, if scripture is so important

702
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:07.679
keeping faith sharp, is that preaching? Is that the way

703
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.119
you handle the text? You wanna hear a little bit

704
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:11.719
more of it, and.

705
00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:12.800
Look head it happen?

706
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:19.239
He man, Hey, Hamn, Joe, you reckon, Hayman, what good

707
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that night told?

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Do me?

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If it was in the sop drawer at the house,

710
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how I was way off in a thicket somewhere, Haymn,

711
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:28.639
I had to cut my way out?

712
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Do you reckon? That would be worth fifteen cent to me?

713
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Then he may, he man, you know what we do

714
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:40.360
with a lot of times, Paul, we'll even laying right,

715
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:44.920
he man, may what trouble comes here?

716
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:45.639
Your rhyme?

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Hamn, gob a hold of it. Oh Lord help me,

718
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o Lord help he Lord heaven unbelieve Hayman, w my

719
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:58.960
walle march right my tail and pulling back in the

720
00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:04.440
drawer again where they are to the convenant. How they

721
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:10.760
put it upon the tale, go I won the battle?

722
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:12.519
It wasn't that?

723
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I mean? Is that in depth preaching? If the scriptures

724
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are so important to our faith, is that is that

725
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the handling of the scriptures Number five Call to Action

726
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encouragement to actively use and maintain faith. Faith must be

727
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:36.199
engaged to see spiritual growth, engaged to see spiritual growth

728
00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:41.519
and answered prayers, personal accountability for spiritual dullness. Conclusion, faith

729
00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:44.199
is a gift from God intended for active use. So again,

730
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I don't know if they understand the philological implications of

731
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saying faith is a gift from God. I guess I could,

732
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since I you know, I went to schools that were

733
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very anti Calvinistic. I went to schools that were Calvinistic,

734
00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:57.920
so I could try to probably I could probably shape

735
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this in a non Calvinistic way, how faith can be

736
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given to us but not not yet support Calvinism. It

737
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:06.960
may get a little convoluted, but yeah, I definitely my

738
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theology believes that God grants us faith. It's not something

739
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:13.639
we produce inside of us. So but that raises again

740
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:18.920
all kinds of theological implications. But all right, believers must

741
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:21.599
take responsibility for sharpening and applying their faith in a

742
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.880
daily life. All right. So here, So that's Ai breaking

743
00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:27.000
it down. Now. The good thing is AI was able

744
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:29.000
to break all of that down, and I can kind

745
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.639
of I can actually hear and see the theology and

746
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:34.719
critique it listening to that, I would have a hard

747
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:39.199
time actually analyzing and critiquing it because once again, and

748
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:42.599
I'm admitting here that this is not a godly attitude.

749
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:45.760
I can't listen to that, ladies and gentlemen without just

750
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:51.039
being so focused on how it's being preached. All right,

751
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:55.800
So here AI says, here is the hermeneutical critique. Theological

752
00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:59.440
and hermonutical critique Number one, faith in works relationship. The

753
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.800
sermon emphasizes that faith without works is dead, aligning with

754
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:07.480
James two. However, it risk oversimplifying the philological tension between

755
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:10.719
justification by faith and the necessity of works as evidence

756
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:15.400
of genuine faith. A clear distinction between justification and sanctification

757
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:19.239
would provide better philological balance. So guess what it basically

758
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:27.960
is saying? It was not in depth. It oversimplifies, it

759
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:32.400
was shallow the very thing the sermon was criticizing. I says,

760
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:37.039
it's guilty of it's over it's not dealing with these

761
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:40.840
issues because this is the real issue. Faith without works

762
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:47.280
is dead. What does that mean? Metaphor use. While the

763
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.880
knife metaphor is relatable, it could inavertently imply that faith's

764
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:57.840
efficacy depends entirely on human effort. This could conflict with

765
00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:00.239
the biblical teaching that faith is both a gift from

766
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:07.199
God and is sustained by his power. The metaphor needs

767
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:13.559
clarification to avoid undermining divine grace. So AI is like whoa, whoa, whoa.

768
00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:16.679
The metaphor it may be relatable, but the problem is

769
00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:19.840
the metaphor makes it sound like it's up to us

770
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:23.920
to maintain faith to do and AI is like, wait

771
00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:25.960
a minute. God is the one who gives it to us,

772
00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:29.159
and he's the one who sustains it by his power.

773
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:35.000
AI is in conflict with this sermon's approach to the

774
00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:38.199
whole concept, and it says the metaphor could lead to problems.

775
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:44.360
That's the problem with metaphors. Number three Critique of modern Christianity.

776
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:48.880
The sermon critiques contemporary faith practices, but it lacks nuance.

777
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:54.639
It assumes that external behaviors, example lack of shouting or

778
00:48:54.719 --> 00:48:59.280
visible enthusiasm, reflects spiritual dullness, which might not account for

779
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:02.960
cultural or personal differences in worship expressions. So basically, if

780
00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:06.199
you're not acting like them, you're not jelly, you're not screaming,

781
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:10.559
you're not and if you're not doing all of that, Well,

782
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:17.639
then then you're you're spiritually dull, You're you're you're spiritually dead.

783
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:21.480
You know what someone can be just to spiritually alive

784
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:29.800
sitting in a beautiful church with beautiful architecture, with ancient hymns,

785
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.320
you know, and maybe even chanting and it's silent. You

786
00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:39.000
do realize the expression of worship does not necessarily determine

787
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:42.440
whether someone is spiritually alive or dead. When I was

788
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:45.800
a Lutheran right and I worked with these women who

789
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:48.760
are all charismatics, they would be like, oh, you go

790
00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:53.079
to your church is dead. Your church, your church doesn't

791
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:55.360
even know that the Holy Spirit is left your church.

792
00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:58.320
You people are spiritually dead. It's like a going to

793
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.119
church to ice skate. There's life, there's no passion because

794
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:05.880
they didn't not like the liturgical worship of Lutherans. And

795
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:10.400
I'd be like, so I'm spiritually dead. How are you

796
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:13.119
so much more spiritually alive than me? Come on, show me,

797
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:16.000
come on, come on, What it is it about your

798
00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:18.719
life that you're so much more spiritual than me?

799
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:20.519
What is it?

800
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:21.559
What is it?

801
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:22.519
What is it?

802
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:28.360
Come on? Tell me? Oh, because you speak in tongues

803
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:30.360
and you raise your hands and you fall on the

804
00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:33.079
floor and you get slain in the spirit. Okay, so

805
00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:35.880
you're more spiritual. That makes you. Now you looked at

806
00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:38.719
their lives. There was nothing more spiritual about any of

807
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:43.920
their There was nothing, but I was superior, spiritually dead

808
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:51.119
because we went and had a liturgical service. See that's oh,

809
00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:54.760
that's a that's a mess, all right. So AI criticizes

810
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:58.400
the sermon for that critique spiritual dulness and accountability. The

811
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:02.199
preacher place is full responsibleblity for spiritual dullness on the individual,

812
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:08.480
neglecting systemic or external factors, poor teaching, cultural pressures, while

813
00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:11.800
personal accountability is essential and more balanced view would acknowledge

814
00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.639
the role of the church community and the Holy Spirit

815
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:20.119
and spiritual growth. So again AI is challenging some of

816
00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:25.760
these approaches as not being nuanced, not going more in depth. Basically,

817
00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:32.119
this sermons being over simplistic, while the sermon criticized and

818
00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:36.079
is just this funny that the way it's being criticized

819
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:42.679
for the very thing it was criticizing others for the

820
00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:48.639
things related to implications about eschatology. The claim that strong

821
00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:51.920
faith in a small group could result in no lost

822
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:57.880
souls worldwide is hyperbolic and lacks spiritual grounding. Wow, did

823
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:00.719
you hear that that if we all had wrong faith

824
00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:08.480
there would be no lost people in the world. I

825
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:10.679
almost want to listen to this sermon to hear that.

826
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.000
AI does not like this. It says it's hyperbolic and

827
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:19.559
it lacks any biblical grounding. Faith is powerful. Salvation ultimately

828
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:24.039
depends on God's sovereign work. AI goes from us, looks

829
00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:27.679
at it from a sovereign perspective, So this is weird.

830
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:29.760
So this sermon, if it says that if we had

831
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:33.920
strong faith there would be no lost souls, well then

832
00:52:33.960 --> 00:52:38.079
that would mean Wait a minute, So my faith determines

833
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:40.559
whether other people are going to believe or not believe.

834
00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:43.840
I thought faith was a gift from God. If God

835
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:46.159
is the one who grants the faith, then my strong

836
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:48.840
faith is not going to determine whether someone else believes

837
00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:52.000
or doesn't believe. So the sermon itself may have an

838
00:52:52.079 --> 00:53:01.239
internal logical problem. Logical errors over general is the sermon

839
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:04.880
assumes all modern Christians neglect their faith, which may not

840
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:08.559
be universally true. Sweeping statements about the twenty first century

841
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:12.559
or modern faith risk alienating listeners. It just overgeneralizes and

842
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:17.039
criticizes a false cause. The preacher implies that weak faith

843
00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:19.760
is the sole reason for unanswered prayers or lack of

844
00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:23.760
spiritual growth. This overlooks other biblical factors such as God's will,

845
00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:30.360
spiritual warfare, inconsistent application while criticizing superficial displays of faith.

846
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:34.960
The sermon occasionally equates visible action shouting and running, with

847
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:39.159
spiritual vitality, which could contradict his earlier points about genuine

848
00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:44.320
faith being more than an appearance. Ooh, that's good. Faith

849
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:47.760
is not just an ornament, it's to be used. But

850
00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:50.400
then what does he look for to determine whether faith

851
00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:55.320
is actually being real? Ornamental things running around, shouting, screaming.

852
00:53:56.159 --> 00:54:02.960
So AI catches that logical of problems. Now AI here

853
00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:11.679
goes through suggestions for improvements, deeper application, balance, critique, clarify

854
00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:16.159
the theology in it all kinds of problems. All right,

855
00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:20.119
But I'm going to ask AI in real time if

856
00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:32.639
the sermon claims faith is a gift from God yet

857
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:41.000
claims that if we have strong faith there would be

858
00:54:45.280 --> 00:55:01.440
no lost people. Isn't that contradictory and makes my faith

859
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:16.280
my strong faith hang on the cause of other of others?

860
00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:31.559
Believing if I can typewrite, Oh, come on, why does

861
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:32.360
it keep putting a.

862
00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:34.800
There we go?

863
00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:42.840
Now see what AI has to say here? AI is thinking,

864
00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:48.639
all right, Ai says, yes. The sermons claim that faith

865
00:55:48.760 --> 00:55:50.760
is a gift from God while also asserting that the

866
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:53.719
strength of an individual's faith could result and no lost people.

867
00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:58.079
As contradictory, this creates still logical and logical inconsistencies as

868
00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:01.400
it shifts the responsibility for others salvation on the strength

869
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:05.960
of believers faith. So Ai says, let's break it down.

870
00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:08.519
Number one, faith is a gift from God. The Bible

871
00:56:08.599 --> 00:56:11.079
clearly teaches that faith is a gift from God Ephesians

872
00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:14.000
two eight through nine and Philippians one. If faith is

873
00:56:14.039 --> 00:56:16.800
a divine gift, its strength or weakness is ultimately under

874
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:20.239
God's sovereign control. This undermines the idea that human effort

875
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:26.320
or willpower can generate or increase faith independently. So Ais

876
00:56:26.360 --> 00:56:28.639
like there's a problem already just from the outset of

877
00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:32.480
the entire sermon's premise. The contradiction the sermon implies faith

878
00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:34.400
is a gift from God, a divine act of grace.

879
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:38.119
The strength of a believer's faith could eliminate lostness in

880
00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:43.199
the world. These two ideas cannot logically co exist. If

881
00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:46.960
faith is a gift, then then its strength is also

882
00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:50.920
determined by God, not by human effort. Therefore, no individual

883
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:54.039
strong faith can guarantee the salvation of others. If strong

884
00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:57.199
faith could prevent lostness, that would place the responsibility for

885
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.199
salvation on human effort rather than God's sovereign work, which

886
00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:05.280
contradicts passages like John six forty four salvation is God's work,

887
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:08.320
not ours. The Bible teaches that salvation is entirely the

888
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:11.639
work of God John six thirty seven, Acts thirteen forty eight,

889
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.440
Romans nine sixteen. This means that no matter how strong

890
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:17.920
or weak a believer's faith is, the salvation of others

891
00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.199
is not dependent on their faith, but on God's sovereign

892
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:24.199
grace and calling the danger of the sermon's claim a

893
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:28.320
shifting responsibility, the sermon implies that if people remain lost,

894
00:57:28.559 --> 00:57:30.519
it is due to the failure of believers to have

895
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:33.440
strong enough faith. This is a heavy burden that scripture

896
00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:37.320
does not place on believers. It diminishes God's sovereignty in

897
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:41.639
salvation and elevates human effort to a causative role. By

898
00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:45.960
tying salvation. By tying the salvation of others to the

899
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:49.320
strength of one's faith, the sermon unintentionally promotes a works

900
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:53.079
based mindset. This is inconsistent with the Gospel of Grace,

901
00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:58.519
where God alone saves. How to practical confusion, how does

902
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:02.599
one measure a strong faith? This creates uncertainty and introspection,

903
00:58:03.440 --> 00:58:06.400
as believers might endlessly question whether their faith is strong

904
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:11.079
enough to lead others to salvation a biblical alternative. So

905
00:58:11.199 --> 00:58:13.599
then it goes through and offers a biblical alternative to

906
00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:19.920
the sermon. So AI completely destroys the sermons or tears

907
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:23.840
apart the sermon's claims, shows that it's illogical and it's

908
00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:30.800
not biblical. Once again, AI beats another sermon. But I

909
00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:32.880
want you to show what I really want to show here.

910
00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:35.199
We're almost at an hour. I don't think we're going

911
00:58:35.239 --> 00:58:37.760
to be able to get to it. What I want

912
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:40.679
to show here is the discussion that me and AI

913
00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:44.320
had as a result of this sermon. So AI takes

914
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:48.719
the sermon and just literally tears it apart, tears it apart.

915
00:58:50.199 --> 00:58:53.119
So then I ask it a question. When the sermon

916
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:56.079
uses James two to say faith without works is dead.

917
00:58:56.800 --> 00:59:01.639
Is it explain what Dad means? Ai says, No, the

918
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:04.719
sermon does not explicitly define what dead means. In the

919
00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:08.480
context of James two, the preacher uses the phrase faith

920
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:11.920
without works is dead as a central theme, but assumes

921
00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:15.119
the under the audience already understands the meaning of dead.

922
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:18.920
This the emphasis is placed on the practical application of faith,

923
00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:22.440
using faith actively like a tool, but there is no

924
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:30.480
philological or exegetical explanation of what dead faith entels. So

925
00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:34.719
the sermon again does not go into any depth at all,

926
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:39.039
doesn't explain anything. Yet everyone's yelling and screaming and shouting.

927
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:42.239
I don't know what they're yelling and screaming, because do

928
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:50.159
you even understand the text, possible implications of dead and

929
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:54.639
context to fully explore the concept dead in James two

930
00:59:54.920 --> 00:59:58.880
likely refers to faith that is ineffective or unproductive or lifeless,

931
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:01.360
a faith that does not result in the works that

932
01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:04.760
naturally flow from genuine belief without work. Such faith is

933
01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:08.199
not saving faith, but rather a mere intellectual acknowledgment, as

934
01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:13.400
seen in James Chapter two, verse nineteen. Now immediately, now

935
01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:17.559
this is where philological knowledge comes into play. As soon

936
01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:21.119
as I read AI's explanation there, let me read that

937
01:00:21.159 --> 01:00:25.400
to you again. To fully explore the concept of dead

938
01:00:25.639 --> 01:00:29.119
in James two. Or to fully explore the concept of

939
01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:32.159
dead in James two, it likely refers to faith that

940
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:38.079
is ineffective, unproductive, or lifeless, a faith that does not

941
01:00:38.440 --> 01:00:44.159
result and works that naturally flow from genuine belief without work,

942
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:47.920
Such faith is not saving faith. Now, as soon as

943
01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:52.800
I see that with philological knowledge, I'm like, oh, it's

944
01:00:52.880 --> 01:01:00.119
taking that typical approach. I don't like that. Pro So

945
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:03.039
AI goes on to say a lot of other things.

946
01:01:03.079 --> 01:01:09.039
There's almost a page there. So I then challenge AI. Here,

947
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:14.159
this is what I say, it is most common to

948
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:18.199
teach dad means not saved. This creates a large number

949
01:01:18.239 --> 01:01:22.719
of philological problems. Now, proof of salvation is based on

950
01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:26.400
a certain number of works in a person's life, versus

951
01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:29.199
proof of salvation being based on the works of Christ.

952
01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:34.280
How does one know how many works prove salvation? And

953
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:36.880
John three we have the story of Nicodemus, which seems

954
01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:39.480
to indicate that a person not saved can have good

955
01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:43.440
works and be outwardly moral, yet not saved. This would

956
01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:50.039
mean works then don't prove anything. So now here me

957
01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:53.519
and AI are going to go back and forth. We're

958
01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:57.440
going to have a discussion here because I have a

959
01:01:57.519 --> 01:02:03.239
different approach. This is what AI says. You are absolutely

960
01:02:03.400 --> 01:02:07.000
correct that interpreting dead and James two to me not

961
01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:12.880
save does create significant thilological and practical problems. This common

962
01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:15.599
teaching shifts the focus from salvation being based on the

963
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:19.800
finished work of Christ to our performance based evaluation of

964
01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:24.639
a believer's work. Let's break this down. So then AI says, okay,

965
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:27.000
let's break this down. This is what AI does all right.

966
01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:31.760
Here it says philological problems with dead equals not save.

967
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:34.880
Faith without works is dead. That means a person is

968
01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:38.199
not saved. So this idea of dead equals not save.

969
01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:41.840
This is the common teaching in Christianity, and AI when

970
01:02:41.880 --> 01:02:43.840
it was putting together, part of its response at the

971
01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:47.880
beginning was giving me the common Christian response. But the

972
01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:51.039
good thing about AI is you can reason with it,

973
01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:55.760
you can discuss it. It's going if it's pulling from stuff,

974
01:02:55.800 --> 01:02:58.440
it's going to give you the most common information. I

975
01:02:58.639 --> 01:03:01.559
understand that. But now let's let's get into a discussion

976
01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:05.480
with it, all right. So here we go, shifting the

977
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:09.760
basis of salvation If salvation is proven by works, assurance

978
01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:14.079
of salvation becomes subjective. Believers are left questioning with how

979
01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:18.360
many works are enough, what kind of works qualify? The

980
01:03:18.519 --> 01:03:22.639
shift focuses from christ work on the Cross to human effort,

981
01:03:23.239 --> 01:03:29.440
undermining justification by faith. Loan so Ai acknowledges if you

982
01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:32.800
go with faith without works is dead and dead equals

983
01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:34.960
not saved. And so the way you know you're saved

984
01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:37.880
is based on works, Well, it's going to lead to

985
01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:43.480
some logical problems. It at least acknowledges that Number two

986
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:47.079
AI acknowledges that this approach is inconsistent with the Gospel.

987
01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:50.000
The Gospel teaches that salvation is a gift from God,

988
01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:54.239
not and rewarding for works. Making works the proof of

989
01:03:54.360 --> 01:04:03.599
salvation risk conflating justification with sanctification, misunderstanding good works. John three,

990
01:04:03.679 --> 01:04:06.880
in the story of Nicodemus, highlights that outward morality and

991
01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:12.119
good works can exist apart from saving faith. Please did

992
01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:15.639
you hear that outward morality and good works can exist

993
01:04:15.719 --> 01:04:20.119
apart from saving faith. Nicodemus was a pharisee, morally upright

994
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:23.519
and religiously devout, yet Jesus told him he must be

995
01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:29.119
born again. This demonstrates that works alone do not prove salvation,

996
01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:33.079
the issue of false assurance. If works are the proof

997
01:04:33.119 --> 01:04:36.239
of salvation, what about those who appear outwardly righteous but

998
01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:39.800
lack true faith. Matthew seven, twenty two or twenty three?

999
01:04:39.920 --> 01:04:42.440
Lord Lord, didn't we do this? Didn't we do this?

1000
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:45.559
Didn't we do this? Depart from me? I never knew you,

1001
01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:48.519
meaning that in the case of Nicodemus, in the case

1002
01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:52.000
of Matthew seven, you got outward works but no salvation.

1003
01:04:52.280 --> 01:04:54.880
So that means outward works. Then how does AI say it?

1004
01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:59.119
Ai says Jesus warned that many who do works and

1005
01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:02.519
his name may not truly know him. This would demonstrate

1006
01:05:02.599 --> 01:05:09.159
what that works can does not necessarily prove anything. James

1007
01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:14.639
too in context dead faith as an ineffective faith, James

1008
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:19.519
is addressing believers and discussing how faith manifest and practical ways.

1009
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:23.760
Dead faith likely refers to a faith that is barren

1010
01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:28.760
or unproductive, not that it is non existent or unsaving.

1011
01:05:29.880 --> 01:05:32.719
The analogy of a body without the spirit suggests that

1012
01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:38.559
faith without works is lifeless, not necessarily nonexistent or not saving.

1013
01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:41.800
It's just not going to do anything in a practical

1014
01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:45.199
way just because it doesn't do anything in a practical way.

1015
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:49.920
Doesn't mean someone is not saved. Because saved by faith,

1016
01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:53.079
not by works, you wouldn't be saying works are required

1017
01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:54.960
to prove that I'm saying, but in a roundabout way,

1018
01:05:55.000 --> 01:06:00.400
you're just saying works is required to be saved. Faith

1019
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:03.800
and justification James two to twenty four states you see

1020
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:06.039
that a person is justified by works and not by

1021
01:06:06.119 --> 01:06:08.679
faith alone. However, this must be understood in the light

1022
01:06:08.760 --> 01:06:12.760
of the broader biblical context. Paul speaks of justification before God,

1023
01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:17.320
emphasizing faith alone. James is speaking of justification before others,

1024
01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:23.239
emphasizing the visible evidence of faith through works. Works are

1025
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:27.000
the natural outflow of genuine faith. They demonstrate faith to others,

1026
01:06:27.239 --> 01:06:32.320
but do not contribute to salvation. John three and Nicodemus.

1027
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:36.800
Nicodemus exemplifies the good works and morality can exist without faith.

1028
01:06:37.400 --> 01:06:40.880
Nicodemus was a religious leader who followed the law meticulously,

1029
01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:43.320
yet Jesus said he needed to be born again. This

1030
01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:47.639
shows that good works, while commendable, are insufficient for salvation,

1031
01:06:49.159 --> 01:06:53.280
and so works cannot prove salvation as they exist apart

1032
01:06:53.440 --> 01:06:58.760
from saving faith. So AI now here is acknowledging there's

1033
01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:02.280
some problems, all right, So then it gives me some

1034
01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:05.679
key takeaways and it goes on for like another page,

1035
01:07:06.039 --> 01:07:08.039
but for time I'm going to skip. So then I

1036
01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:13.159
asked Ai this question. If the works are supposedly produced

1037
01:07:13.199 --> 01:07:17.920
by God in us, the lack of works would either

1038
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.639
be God's fault or would raise the question that even

1039
01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:24.679
if someone has enough works to supposedly prove so when salvation,

1040
01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:27.599
it would still raise the question. If God is producing

1041
01:07:27.639 --> 01:07:31.000
the work, why then aren't all Christians doing perfect works?

1042
01:07:33.159 --> 01:07:35.840
If faith is from God and God is the one

1043
01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:38.039
doing the work through us, then why isn't all of

1044
01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:43.400
our works perfect? Well? Then, Ai says, this is an

1045
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:46.199
excellent critique of the common teaching that works are proof

1046
01:07:46.280 --> 01:07:49.280
of salvation. If works are produced by God in us,

1047
01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:53.880
then several theological tensions arise. Let's explore these. Number one,

1048
01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:57.159
if works are produced by God, why is there a

1049
01:07:57.239 --> 01:08:00.599
lack of works? If God is the one producing works believers,

1050
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:03.079
then the absence of works could logically lead to one

1051
01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:06.719
of two conclusions. God has failed to produce works and

1052
01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:09.840
a believer or the believer is resisting God, which would

1053
01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:13.400
imply that human effort and cooperation play a role. Here's

1054
01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:17.520
the theological problem. This view creates tension with God's sovereignty

1055
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:21.439
and omnipotence. If God is fully sovereign and omnipotent, how

1056
01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:23.680
could his work in a believer's life fail to produce

1057
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:27.079
the desired result. On the other hand, if human cooperation

1058
01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:32.680
is required, then salvation and sanctification becomes synergistic rather than monogistic,

1059
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:36.800
which conflicts with the idea of salvation being entirely of God.

1060
01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:41.000
So immediately, these are theological issues that are raised. If

1061
01:08:41.039 --> 01:08:44.800
you'll just start having any kind of meaningful conversation struggling

1062
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.760
with James two fourteen through twenty six, then this sermon

1063
01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:49.960
that we heard they didn't bother to get into any

1064
01:08:50.039 --> 01:08:55.279
of these questions. Number two, why don't all Christians do

1065
01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:58.079
perfect works? If God is the one producing works and believers,

1066
01:08:58.239 --> 01:09:01.319
then the logical expectation would be the all Christians perform

1067
01:09:01.479 --> 01:09:06.479
good works consistently produce works of perfect quality, reflecting God's

1068
01:09:06.560 --> 01:09:10.439
perfect nature. The reality is that Christians continue to sin

1069
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:13.279
and fall short if works are entirely God's doing. This

1070
01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:16.439
raises all kinds of questions. Why are the works imperfect

1071
01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:19.079
if they come from God? Why do Christians vary so

1072
01:09:19.199 --> 01:09:25.239
greatly in the quantity and quality of their works? Possible explanations.

1073
01:09:25.359 --> 01:09:27.880
So it tries to give some possible explanations for all

1074
01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:32.840
of this. It goes on. It says works as a

1075
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:36.680
proof of salvation is a flawed measure. If works are

1076
01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:42.680
the proof of salvation, several inconsistencies arise quantifying works. How

1077
01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:46.520
many works are enough to prove salvation? Scripture provides no

1078
01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:52.560
objective standard. This creates subjectivity and an arbitrary measure, leading

1079
01:09:52.600 --> 01:09:55.840
to doubt and legalism. So if you're going to make works,

1080
01:09:55.920 --> 01:09:58.720
the measure AI is like, well, we've got a problem here.

1081
01:09:59.279 --> 01:10:03.319
The quality of works. Are all works equal improving salvation?

1082
01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:07.279
For example, does helping a neighbor carry the same weight

1083
01:10:07.359 --> 01:10:11.560
as a lifelong missionary? If the quality of works varies,

1084
01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:17.319
how can they reliably be prove salvation? False assurance. A

1085
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:21.840
person could produce outwardly good works without true faith works

1086
01:10:22.119 --> 01:10:26.000
then cannot definitively prove salvation. If a person who's not

1087
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:32.720
saved can produce outwardly good works well, then by logical implication,

1088
01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:40.479
works then cannot prove salvation. Nicodemus, morality and religious devotions

1089
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:43.119
show that works can exist apart from saving faith. This

1090
01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:46.920
demonstrates that works by themselves are not a sufficient evidence

1091
01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:52.560
of salvation. All right, So then I know it goes

1092
01:10:52.640 --> 01:10:54.960
on for about another half a page, and then I

1093
01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:59.960
say this philologically, saying works are evidence seems still problem

1094
01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:03.880
to me. The only work that has evidence of salvation

1095
01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:06.319
is the work of Christ. I know that puts me

1096
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:09.439
at odds with most of the Christian world. But if

1097
01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:12.760
I'm not going to follow the Catholic teaching of justification

1098
01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:16.079
based on an infused righteousness and I'm going to follow

1099
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:20.880
justification based on an imputed righteousness, it seems my approach

1100
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:24.199
is the only way to make everything maintain some logical

1101
01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:29.600
consistency and biblical consistency. So then I give AI basically

1102
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:32.399
my approach and here So now AI is going to

1103
01:11:32.439 --> 01:11:34.760
tear my approach apart, or it's going to either agree

1104
01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:37.640
with me or disagree with me, just like it agreed

1105
01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:40.720
or disagreed with the sermons. So here we go. This

1106
01:11:40.920 --> 01:11:45.720
is what AI says, my perspective. Your perspective is deeply

1107
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:48.680
rooted in a commitment to maintain the Biblical doctrine of

1108
01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:54.560
justification by faith alone, grounded in the imputed righteousness of Christ.

1109
01:11:55.840 --> 01:11:59.600
This approach avoids the pitfalls of both Catholic teaching on

1110
01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:05.640
in fused righteousness and the common Protestant emphasis on works

1111
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:12.520
as evidence of salvation. Let's unpack your position to see

1112
01:12:12.520 --> 01:12:17.760
if it maintains logical and biblical consistency. So now, Ai,

1113
01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:21.479
So we started with a sermon, but because you see

1114
01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:24.720
what AI can do, after the sermon, we can reason

1115
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:28.399
about the topic of the sermon. So now we have

1116
01:12:28.600 --> 01:12:31.960
reasoned ourselves all the way to the point where now

1117
01:12:32.159 --> 01:12:37.680
AI is going to critique and analyze my theology. And

1118
01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:41.520
here's what AI says. Number one, imputed righteousness as the

1119
01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:45.840
sole basis of salvation. Biblical basis for this idea Romans

1120
01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:48.279
four to five. To the one who does not work

1121
01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:52.520
but believe in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith

1122
01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:57.520
is counted as righteousness tewod Corinthians five twenty one. For

1123
01:12:57.640 --> 01:12:59.520
our sake. He made him to be sin, who knew

1124
01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:02.159
no sin, so that we might become the righteousness of

1125
01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:05.960
God Ephesians two eight through nine. Salvation is by grace

1126
01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:09.279
to faith, not by works, so no one can boast.

1127
01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:13.319
So AI is saying that my belief in imputed righteousness

1128
01:13:13.359 --> 01:13:17.479
as the soul. Basis of salvation has biblical basis, How

1129
01:13:17.479 --> 01:13:21.960
about logical consistency. If justification is based on the imputed

1130
01:13:22.119 --> 01:13:28.359
righteousness of Christ, then human works, whether as evidence or proof,

1131
01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:37.680
cannot factor into salvation. Christ work is complete and sufficient,

1132
01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:45.600
leaving no room for human contribution. So AI says, if

1133
01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:47.960
you go with if you truly believe in the salvation

1134
01:13:48.119 --> 01:13:52.640
by imputed righteousness, then then you can't look to works

1135
01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:59.079
as either evidence or proof because everything is found in

1136
01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:05.920
the complete and sufficient work of Christ. Problems with infused

1137
01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:13.279
righteousness infused righteousness definition and Catholic theology, justification involves God

1138
01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:17.319
infusing righteousness into the believer, making them inherently righteous and

1139
01:14:17.479 --> 01:14:23.159
enabling them to perform meritorious works. This shifts the focus

1140
01:14:23.239 --> 01:14:26.680
from Christ's finished work to the believer's cooperation with grace,

1141
01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:31.520
leading to uncertainty about salvation and reliance on human effort

1142
01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:39.600
works as evidence. Many Protestants teach that works are the

1143
01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:43.439
evidence are fruit of salvation, showing that a person's faith

1144
01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:49.800
is genuine. Problems subjectivity, how many works are required, what

1145
01:14:50.039 --> 01:14:53.279
quality of works is sufficient? These questions lead to doubt

1146
01:14:53.399 --> 01:14:58.960
and introspection. Inconsistency with imputed righteousness. If Christ's righteousness is

1147
01:14:59.079 --> 01:15:02.960
credited to the belief, why are additional works needed as evidence?

1148
01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:10.239
If Christ's righteousness is imputed to me and credited to

1149
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:13.239
my account, why do you need proof of anything You

1150
01:15:13.359 --> 01:15:21.760
can't prove imputed righteousness by human works. James is addressing

1151
01:15:21.840 --> 01:15:25.960
the practical outworking of faith in the community, not establishing

1152
01:15:26.039 --> 01:15:29.760
a litmus test for salvation, even Ai says, James two

1153
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:32.800
is not about giving you a test for salvation, even

1154
01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:38.680
though that's how all kinds of preachers preach it. Now,

1155
01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:41.880
Ai says, my position about Christ's work is the sole evidence.

1156
01:15:42.199 --> 01:15:45.359
Here's the philological strength of my position. By emphasizing that

1157
01:15:45.439 --> 01:15:48.079
the only work that evidence of salvation is Christ's work,

1158
01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:53.560
this maintains the sufficiency of Christ's atonement and righteousness. It

1159
01:15:53.640 --> 01:15:58.000
avoids the philological confusion of blending justification and sanctification. It

1160
01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:01.600
preserves the assurance of salvation, which rest on God's promises

1161
01:16:01.760 --> 01:16:06.840
rather than human performance. Biblical support. It gives me James

1162
01:16:07.479 --> 01:16:10.920
Romans five to one, John six twenty eight through twenty nine,

1163
01:16:11.159 --> 01:16:15.640
and Hebrews ten fourteen, so it says there's biblical support.

1164
01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:22.359
Addressing James two. James two does not contradict justification by

1165
01:16:22.399 --> 01:16:26.840
faith alone when understood in context. James critiques of faith

1166
01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:29.920
that is merely intellectual assent. He is not saying works

1167
01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:33.720
are required for salvation. By that genuine faith naturally expresses

1168
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:39.479
itself and love and obedience, Justification by works speak James

1169
01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:42.359
two twenty four speaks of justification in a relational sense.

1170
01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:45.359
Faith is demonstrated to others by works, not to God.

1171
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:48.840
This aligns with Abraham's faith being credited as righteousness in

1172
01:16:48.880 --> 01:16:52.279
Genesis fifteen six, long before the act of offering Isaac,

1173
01:16:52.439 --> 01:16:56.760
and Genesis twenty Genesis twenty two. So basically it's saying, hey,

1174
01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:01.239
James talks about justification by works, is justification maybe in

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front of others, not to God, because Abraham was declared

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righteous before he ever did any of those works. All right,

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So and again the proof of my justification is not

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what I do, It's what Christ did. H Then, Ai,

1179
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and there's more here. I'm skipping it because we're now

1180
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well over our time limit here. Well, don't really have

1181
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a time limit, but you know, over a reasonable time.

1182
01:17:32.079 --> 01:17:35.279
AI says this, Your position avoids the thiological and practical

1183
01:17:35.319 --> 01:17:39.359
problems associated with both infused righteousness and works. As evidence,

1184
01:17:39.920 --> 01:17:43.239
By anchoring salvation solely in the imputed righteousness of Christ,

1185
01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:47.720
you uphold the Gospel's core message, salvation is by grace alone,

1186
01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:52.199
through faith alone, in Christ alone. Well, this perspective, now,

1187
01:17:52.239 --> 01:17:54.159
this is sad. Listen to what Ai says, he, I'm

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01:17:54.199 --> 01:17:57.079
going to read this to you again, speaking of my interpretation,

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your position avoids the philological and practical problems associated with

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01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:08.720
both infused righteousness and works. As evidence, by anchoring salvation

1191
01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:12.279
solely in the imputed righteousness of Christ, you uphold the

1192
01:18:12.319 --> 01:18:16.159
Gospel's core message, salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone,

1193
01:18:16.199 --> 01:18:21.560
and Christ alone. While this perspective may put you at

1194
01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:28.640
odds with much of the Christian world, it is consistent

1195
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and biblically defensible approach that prioritizes the sufficiency of Christ's

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finished work. That is sad that AI knows that my

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01:18:44.319 --> 01:18:50.600
position puts me at odds with most of the Christian world.

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AI's like, Hey, Logically, biblically, everything you're saying seems to work,

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it seems to hold together. It's biblically defensible, it's logically consistent.

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Everything about your view is great. But Hey, I got

1201
01:19:09.680 --> 01:19:13.479
bad news for you. Most of the Christian world is

1202
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:16.880
not going to accept your view. That is frightening that

1203
01:19:16.960 --> 01:19:19.960
that's where we are in twenty twenty five. Even AI

1204
01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:22.560
knows just you just as well give up. You're not

1205
01:19:22.640 --> 01:19:24.880
going to be accepted in the Christian world because your

1206
01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:30.119
view is so out of touch with how Christians teach today.

1207
01:19:31.199 --> 01:19:34.840
But Christians today teach more inligned with an infused righteous

1208
01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:37.640
view than an imputed righteous view. This is what I've

1209
01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:46.479
been screaming about for I don't know twenty years. Notice

1210
01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:49.359
how this all started. Hey, review this sermon, See if

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AI can handle it. AI not only handled the sermon,

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this is the strength of AI. I was able to

1213
01:19:55.880 --> 01:20:01.000
engage it. We had we addle our plug slung conversation

1214
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with AI about the sermon, which led to then me

1215
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formulating and putting forth my own interpretation, my own philological hypotheses,

1216
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and then letting AI test my hypotheses. Now AI destroyed

1217
01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:20.479
that sermon, tore it apart, so it was completely logically inconsistent,

1218
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philologically shallow, did not handle the scriptures in any meaningful way.

1219
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So when it comes to the knife versus AI, well,

1220
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the knife lost. They had been some people may love

1221
01:20:40.960 --> 01:20:47.279
the illustration, but even AI criticized the metaphor and spoke

1222
01:20:47.319 --> 01:20:52.399
about some of the problems with it. AI won again,

1223
01:20:52.840 --> 01:20:54.840
how many different ways do we have to demonstrate this

1224
01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:59.079
this year? Now, that was a lot of reading, and

1225
01:20:59.159 --> 01:21:01.079
I know I had to go through that quickly. I

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should have broken this down, probably into separate parts. We

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01:21:03.880 --> 01:21:06.039
can go back and redo more if I need to

1228
01:21:06.079 --> 01:21:08.640
clarify anything. But I just want you to see that.

1229
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AI was like, hmm, there's problems here. But then AI

1230
01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:17.600
acknowledge my perspective was great, but it's just you know, hey,

1231
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:20.199
you just better just give up. You know, don't don't

1232
01:21:20.199 --> 01:21:22.960
bother going to Christian You're not going to be accepted

1233
01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:24.760
in the Christian world, so you just as well find

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01:21:25.079 --> 01:21:28.920
another place to go. Which is kind of depressing because

1235
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AI knows that my approach goes against most of what

1236
01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:39.520
Christians say. That's crazy. All right, I'm going to stop there.

1237
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My stomach is starting to growl. I am starving, so

1238
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I'm going to go try to find some food and

1239
01:21:45.319 --> 01:21:49.880
hopefully that eighty one minutes will prove to be somewhat beneficial.

1240
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I know that.

1241
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I Ah, I'm kicking myself. See AI would have done

1242
01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:58.079
this better than me. I went too long and I

1243
01:21:58.359 --> 01:22:01.159
was reading those things way too fast, so I already

1244
01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:04.680
know the criticisms. I already want to delete this because

1245
01:22:04.680 --> 01:22:07.560
I know I could have done it better. But would

1246
01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:09.560
I do it better the next time as a human being,

1247
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I doubt. I don't know. Other things could impact how

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I do.

1249
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It next time.

1250
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This I had too much information here and I tried

1251
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:20.600
to cram it all together. I messed up. So all right,

1252
01:22:21.119 --> 01:22:23.680
thanks for listening. That's a lot for you to consider.

1253
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But I want you to see. If you see AI

1254
01:22:26.840 --> 01:22:30.399
as just a Google search, you miss the point. It's

1255
01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:34.399
about this having a back and forth with it, reasoning,

1256
01:22:37.800 --> 01:22:41.119
and if you really and if you have some philological knowledge,

1257
01:22:41.520 --> 01:22:45.720
you can raise questions and create philological hypotheses and test

1258
01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:49.399
them and challenge them and mold them and shape them

1259
01:22:49.479 --> 01:22:53.960
and form them. All right, Thanks for listening.

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God bless