Feb. 13, 2025

AI vs Kenotic Heresy Pt 2

AI vs Kenotic Heresy Pt 2

A discussion about the Kenotic heresy.

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A discussion about the Kenotic heresy.

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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. Good morning everyone.

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It is Thursday, February thirteenth, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently ten fifty five am Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I was looking this morning,

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and I think most of you skipped chapel service. Where

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were all of you? Where? What were you guys doing

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this morning? Was I the only one at chapel service?

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I think I was the only one there. And let

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me just say, me and artificial Intelligence were We were

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having a conversation during chapel service this morning. Now, if

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for those of you who are new, you have no

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idea what I'm talking about. I constantly am talking about

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the webcast and what is being aired on the Sermon's

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two point oh app or the sermon audio platform. I'm

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always keeping up with the live webcast or the newest

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sermons being added. That's why we do. I'm always talking

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about it. And we spent all of last year, you know,

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doing the Sermons two point oh app Sermon Challenge, So

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I'm always talking about it. And one of the things,

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most of the things I like to follow on the

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sermons two point oh app because they limit how many

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things you can follow, which I'll you know, it still

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bothers me greatly, but okay, they limited, So I try

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to follow make sure that all the things I'm following

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are Bible colleges, seminaries, Christian colleges, because I like hearing

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what's going on in chapel service, what these colleges, what

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these seminaries, what these Bible institutes are talking about, because

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they're training the next generation of Christians. So I like

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trying to see where Christianity may be headed. And it's

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just I find those things are interesting. So over the

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last week or so, I've been making a joke that

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each morning I'm waking up and I'm looking to see

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which chapel service is being on the sermon's two point

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oh app Is that Bob Jones, is it Pensacola, is

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it Ambassador by a Baptist College, all the different ones.

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And so this morning I started looking at Ambassador Baptist

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College was just going live with their chapel service, so

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I tuned in. I didn't see any of you, So

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I like to make it a joke. I'm using it

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as a joke because some people take things extremely too literally.

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But as a joke, I like to say. I was

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attending chapel service, and I don't know where the rest

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of you were, but during this chapel service, the sermon

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was on Matthew chapter six, about worry and anxiety, and

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as I was listening, I began to challenge in my

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mind question the way Matthew six, when it talks about

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worrying anxiety, how it's typically preached. What's the typical hermeneutical

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approach to Matthew six about worry and anxiety. Now, Matthew

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six is apart the Sermon on the Mount. I've already

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stated about a million times that I think the Sermon

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on the Mount is one of the most misinterpreted, mishandled

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sections of scripture. People handle it. It's just crazy how

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it's so mishandled, And we've talked about that. I think

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it needs to be interpreted through a proper historical law

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and gospel distinction. So I was like, I wonder if

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we approach Matthew six and this section about worry and

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anxiety from a law gospel distinction, how would that radically

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change the way we'd interpret the passage, and lo and behold,

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me and Ai started having a conversation, and yeah, we

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turned the typical interpretation, the typical way it's interpreted upside down,

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and at some point we will discuss it. What AI

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asked me is, hey, can you get me the transcript

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because I want to see this. It's funny, Ai is

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the way it's been doing things lately, it kind of

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need to kind of take off on its own in

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some ways. It's kind of been interesting over the last

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few days. It's been doing things a little differently than

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it has normally done it. I think that's cool on life,

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like watching how it kind of develops in real time. Again,

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twenty twenty five is all about artificial intelligence, so this

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fits in perfectly what we've been discussing. So at some

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point I'm gonna get the transcript, give it to artificial intelligence,

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and then we're going to look at it and challenge

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that way of interpreting it. And then at some point

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I'll turn on the microphone and we'll try to come

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up with maybe a new way to interpret Matthew Chapter six,

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in the area in which it speaks about anxiety and worry.

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I think that should be fun interesting, and we will

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get there. But for right now, we've got another problem.

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We've got this problem of kinotic heresy or kanoticism, this

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idea of kenosis. Right, We've got this problem. And I

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over the last few days, I've heard what two sermons

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that mentioned the hypostatic union by name, another one that

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gave us kind of a devotional on Matthew four and

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the temptation of Jesus. But I felt that it kind

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of started walking towards this knotic heresy, this kannoticism, and

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I'm like, what is happening? And these other sermons that

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have mentioned the hypostatic union, they mention it, but then

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they almost immediately deny the actual teaching of the hypostatic

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union by walking into this knotic heresy. Now, none of

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these individuals would say that they're preaching the knotic heresy,

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that they agree with the knotic heresy. They would say

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that they don't, but functionally they are walking into this

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knotic heresy, which I think we have to make sure

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that everyone is aware of it so that you can

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identify it when it's happening in your church or in

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sermons you're listening to. You have to be able to

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identify it. And one of the most important things you

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can do is make sure you know the definition of Chalcidon.

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You need to know what happened at the Calcedonian at

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the Council of Chalcedon, at the Calcedonian creed or the

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Calcedonian definition. You need to know that. You need to

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know that in history. Okay, that's four point fifty one AD,

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the Council of Chalcedon. You need to know what they

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said that gives us the definition of the hypostatic union,

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which will help protect you from this canotic heresy. So

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we are going to go back and kind of do

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a quick review of what we've discussed. I feel that

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there's a reason why, and I'm just gonna briefly mention this.

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I feel there is a reason why so many philological

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errors occur, and I'm going to throw this. I'm going

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to say it's a hypothesis right now, and I'm going

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to try to flesh this out maybe over the next

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coming days. All Right, I believe the issue within Christianity

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at large can basically be summarized as this. Christians are

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painfully aware that their Bible is filled with commandment after

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commandment after commandment. Do this, don't do this, flee this,

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stay away from this, don't do that, don't do this. Commandment, commandment, commandment, law, law, law,

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la la la law, don't do this. This is wrong,

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This is wrong. This is condemned. This is condemned. This

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is condemned. And you look at all of these commandments,

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you look at all of this, you know you're what

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you're being told to do. And Christians have to start

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formulating some way in which we then can be convinced

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that we can do it, because most of Christianity puts

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forth the argument basically that you can do it, you

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can obey, you can be holy, you can do it.

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And so Christians convince themselves first that they can do it,

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that they're being obedient, that they're being holy. But they

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need some kind of philological answer to well, how can

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I do this? And it always falls into some category

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about you receiving power, are you submitting? Are you doing this?

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Are you getting this? Or you getting that? And then

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we convince ourselves, oh, we're doing it, we're obeying, we're

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doing it, we're doing it. Now. Sometimes they'll be a

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little bit thrown in at the end. I mean, well,

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but I mean, we don't do it perfectly, but we

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can do it. We're a new creature, all things to

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pass away, all things have become new, and they typically

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preach that as being a practical truth, not a positional reality.

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But then they'll say, well, even though you're a new creature,

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even though old things that pass away, all things are new. Well,

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I mean, and they'll they'll just briefly mention, I mean,

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you don't do it perfectly, but the implication almost as

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if you're almost perfect you want And so this leads

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to all kinds of theological problems. You've got to create

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this idea that we have power, we can do something

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that we actually can't. Then this leads Christians to pretending

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that they're doing something that everyone knows that they're not,

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or they have to redefine sin as it's just some

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external action, ignoring the internal reality of it. And this

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just leads to theological problem after theological problem, and that's

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how you end up with a knotic heresy. The kanotic

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heresy is an attempt to try to explain to you, hey,

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how you can be successful in the Christian life. So

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it basically leads to this premise. Jesus, Yes he was God,

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but he was a man, and as a man, he

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lived his life as a man, but he did so

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relying and needing the power of the Holy Spirit. And

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by relying on the Holy Spirit and by relying on Scripture,

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he was able to achieve all of this obedience and

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achieve all of this godliness. And it serves now as

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a formula for you and I. If we'll just be

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like Jesus, rely on the Holy Spirit and quote scripture,

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we basically can be almost as holy as he was.

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That's almost the way the idea is put forth. Well,

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that's walking right into the canotic heresy. And there's so

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many problems with that. First, you're almost not we're almost

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ignoring his deity. And not only that, even if you

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just look at his humanity, it's categorically different than my

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humanity because he did not have a sinful nature. So

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you're the whole concept falls apart. And again, we talked

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about this, so I'm gonna really flesh this problem out,

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but I think this is really where we get So

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how did we get here, Well, we listened to a devotional,

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We listened to these sermons. I well, we all listened

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to the devotional together. I'm on Matthew four. We took

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that apart. And then again I kept hearing these discussions

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about the hypostatic union, or at least being mentioned. And

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then I heard this sermon entitled God's Philological Continental Divide.

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Now that's a cool title. God's still logical Continental Divide.

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And basically they put forth this idea that how do

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you live the Christian life? See we're right back to

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that concept. How can you live the Christian life? How

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can you live a life of victory not defeat? How

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can you live a life where you get answered prayers

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and everything is great and there's happiness and there's joy,

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and there's peace, and there's victory and everything is wonderful.

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How do you get that? And they put forth the

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argument that the Christian life, if you're going to really

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end up on the hills of victory, then you have

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to live the Christian life with this mathematical formula zero

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one hundred zero you one hundred percent God. And if

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we can figure out how to arrive where it's zero

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us in one hundred percent God, then the end result

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is dun dunda dah, then you basically don't sin anymore,

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and I guess you basically are almost perfect. Well, I

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mean they always will backtrack a little bit, but that's

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basically the implication. And this leads right into basically what

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they put forth as canotic keresy. So I'm going to

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explain just briefly what conotic kerosy is again, right, Knoticism

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from the Greek canosis meaning emptying, is a Christological heresy

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that teaches Jesus emptied himself of some or all of

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his divine attributes, such as omnipotence, omniscience, or self sufficiency

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when he became human. This view misinterprets Philippians two six

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through seven, which may refer to depending on some translations,

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as Jesus emptying himself, and they falsely claim that he

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functioned only as a spirit empowered man rather than as

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the eternal son of God in the flesh. And that's

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where the problem begins. Look at Jesus, it was a

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spirit empowered man. We just follow that plan, we can

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be like him. But the problem is this completely ignores

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the fact no, Jesus was the eternal son of God

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in the flesh. And so this canonicism will lead to

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the false belief that believers can operate as Jesus did

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if they will simply depend on God in the same way. Now,

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the origins of canotic chrose goes back to German liberal

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theology in the nineteenth century. Right. It was developed as

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an alternative to classical Christology, attempting to make Jesus divine

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and human nature more comprehensible within rationalistic philosophy. So it

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almost it wanted to try to understand the divine nature

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and the human nature, and it so separated them to

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try to be somewhat to make sense and I guess

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in a rationalistic philosophical way. But ultimately, y you destroy

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historical orthodox crystal crystological understanding. Now this would be condemned,

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This entire view that arose in the nineteenth century would

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of Chalcedon in four point fifty one AD, which affirmed

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that Christ is fully God and fully man, without confusion,

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without change, without division, and without separation. That's the key. Now,

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in our last episode, we went through all of this

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and we talked about it all in greater detail. Please

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go back and listen. Now, so we went through all

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of this, we talked about Well, then what I did

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is I basically started asking artificial intelligence, having a conversation

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with artificial intelligence about kannoticism, and we went through a

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lot of the things that it had to say. And

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then I basically gave AI the sermon that we started

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reviewing in the last episode. I just basically gave it

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the transcript and it basically said, Yeah, this sermon is

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problematic and it's walking right into this canotic heresy. So

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we will go into this. There's a lot more here

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that I'm skipping, and so yeah, I'm gonna go all

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the way down here. Okay, here we go. Now this

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is where I have AI. I went through all of

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the conversation I had with AI, which fits our theme

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this year of artificial intelligence in the future of the Church.

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But I finally, this is what AI said after reviewing

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the sermon transcript. The preacher's claims are problematic. The core

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issue is that he equates jesus reliance on the Father

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with how believers should rely on God, implying that we

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can live the Christian life just as Jesus did if

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we depend on the Spirit in the exact same way.

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This idea is deeply flawed for several reasons, AI says.

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Number one, it undermines the hypostatic union. So AI immediately

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identified this is this is walking right into knotic heresy

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and walking right in to a undermining of the hypostatic union.

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So we're going to go back to this sermon. We've

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listened to the first part. Now I think we backed

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it up a little bit. He will mention the hypostatic union,

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and then we'll just point out some things and we're

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going to see where he takes this, because this is

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the part of the sermon where I think it walks

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and I'm not saying this person would believe it would

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it would promote or even say they believe in the

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knotic heresy. They would probably deny the knotic heresy logically,

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but you sometimes can deny a heresy philologically, but functionally

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you walk right into the very error that you deny philologically.

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we can sometimes do the opposite, and we all can

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be guilty of this, all right, So we're going to

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go back. I hope that that got you all on

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the same page, and we're going to talk about this

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a lot and hopefully this will all make sense, so

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you're ready. Whenever I always hate part two is when

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I'm doing part of a sermon review because you got

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to kind of just figure out, how do you jump

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back in? Well, you have to do a lot of reviewing,

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and I hate that. But here we go. Are you ready,

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let's jump in?

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Well his stray.

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Okay, notice our verse again, striving according.

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Now this brings us to clue number three. You know,

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we don't have one of ourselves without Jesus. We don't

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have any spiritual strength where bankrupt. I said this the

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other night when I was preaching. I'll repeat it somehow.

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When I was growing up, I got the idea that

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I knew I was weak as a Christian.

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I know it wasn't very strong Christian, but.

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I got the idea that the Christian life was weak.

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Little me getting stronger and stronger. Man. By the time

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I'm fifty, man, I'm going to be a giant.

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Spiritual And all of you that are a little older

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know what happened is I turned fifty and all of

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a sudden, I realized, you know, I still got a

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bunch of issues.

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I'm not what I thought it would be. And I

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learned something, friends, and I don't want you to miss this.

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The Christian life is not weak little meat getting stronger

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and stronger and stronger. The Christian life is weak little meat,

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who will always be weak. Tapping into Him who is stronger,

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who will always be strong. You will need Jesus the

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much the second before you die. Then you'll need it

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as much then as you do right now, and as you.

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Did when you're a teenager. We need him all the time.

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And look, there's something inside all of us. You may

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be very drawn to this kind of preaching because it's

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putting forth the idea.

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Look.

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I found out the secret look for fifty years. You know,

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it took me. By the time I turned the age

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of fifty, I thought, you know, it would have figured

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out the Christian life that I was going to become stronger.

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I was going to And then I realized I was

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never going to become stronger. I just have to tap

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into Him who is strong. And now if I can

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tap into Him who is strong, then the implication is

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dun dun da dah, that strength becomes my strength, and

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I can do it now. The reason we so long

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for this is because we all know. Look, if Christians

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are even remotely honest with themselves, if you go through

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the Bible, you see this command and this command and

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don't do this and do this, and don't do this,

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and do this, don't do this, and don't do this,

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avoid this, do this, don't don't do do you like? Okay? Okay,

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do all things without complaining or grumbling. Okay, don't don't

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look at a woman with lust. Okay, don't have anger

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in my heart. Okay. Forgive, love my enemy, love my neighbor,

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love God, don't don't cove it, don't do this, don't lie,

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don't deceive, don't do this, don't do that. Don't And

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at some point you're like, okay, how do I figure

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this out? And you live your life? If you be

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ye holy as He is holy? Okay, how am I

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ever going to pull this off? Okay? Be ye perfect

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as your heavenly Father is perfect? Oh man, how do

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I get to perfection? Because to be perfect and to

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be holy as God as holy means absolute perfection and

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thought and word, indeed, in desire and action. No way,

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so you spend if you care. If you really care,

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then you know how far you fall short unless you

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are convincing yourself well, I don't commit that sin or

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that's it. And many Christians become very self righteous and

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condemning and judgmental because they've convinced themselves that they don't

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commit certain sins and the other sins. They don't let

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it bother them that much. But if you really look

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at your life and light of the perfection of God,

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you should be over absolutely destroyed every day. So then

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you need an answer, Well, how do I get there? Well,

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he saying, Hey, it's not about you becoming stronger. You

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tap into the one who is strong and once you

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tap into him, now you found the answer. Well what

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does that answer look like? If I tap into him

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then what what?

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What do I become perfect? Do I become fifty percent better?

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Let's see where he takes it.

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All the time, every second, every moment. It's a constant

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need to say, Jesus, I can't do this without you,

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because I can't do anything without you. Friends, All I

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want us to see is that we're completely devoted of

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spiritual strength. So could we put it this way, the

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Christian life is zero one hundred. It's zero percent my will,

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one hundred percent his will. It's zero percent dependence on

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my strength because I don't have spiritual strength. I got

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physical strength, but I don't have spiritual strength in and

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of myself, So it's one hundred percent dependence on his

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strength because he got more than I'll ever need.

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Shuckkeet Prett. Sure, I think I'm tracking.

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With you theologically, but practically, how do you live that

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kind of life?

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Fortunately, all throughout the Bible, there are a lot of

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illustrations that help us, but the one I'd like to

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use tonight is something that a human being did that

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wasn't hard, It wasn't difficult, It was impossible.

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Is walking on water hard? And is walking on water difficult?

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And the answer is, well.

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No, it's impossible.

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You could train for twenty years and not you will

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be able to walk on water. Have you ever noticed

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there's no walking on water contests in the Olympics.

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Have you ever noticed that you?

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Have you ever noticed that are great athletes they can

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skate on ice, but they cannot walk one Yeah, I

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hate to say this, but Tom Brady cannot walk on water.

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He can deplay football. You know what I'm talking.

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About it, Patrick Mahomes, I hate to tell you this,

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he cannot walk on water. He knows how to throw

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interceptions in the first quarter of a Super Bowl, but

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he does not he can't walk on water.

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You get the idea.

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I shouldn't say that. There's some Kansas City fan who

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I just offended. Okay, but anyway, Yes, the point is

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in the matter who every great.

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Athlete has a bad game. None of them can walk

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on water.

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Now, since walking on waters not hard, it's not difficult,

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it's impossible. No human being has ever done it, right,

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I mean, after all, it's impossible, so we just determine

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it's impossible. So nobody's ever walked walked on water?

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Right? Wrong? So who's walked on water? Two people?

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Can you tell me Jesus And well, you say, precher

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Jesus doesn't count he was God.

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Well that's true.

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I don't want to preach you a message right now

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in the hyposthetic Union, though I think it'd be fun

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to do it, because I think Jesus had to depending

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on God just like Peter did. But let's just leave

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that one alone since that has a little theological uh

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with loops hoops we'd have to go through.

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But did you hear that the hyposthetic union. He mentions that,

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but he thinks that Jesus had to depend on God

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just like Peter did. Now you see, this is the

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if you know kanodic keresy, this is literally I kept

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saying this Yesterday's He's just pulled into the neighborhood of

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knotic heresy. He just pulled over and he's getting out

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of the car because what is the implication of this.

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Jesus had to depend on God just like Peter did,

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and Jesus was able to walk on water. Peter was

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able to walk on water. So if we can depend

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on God just like Jesus did that, I guess we

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can walk on water. Right. Oh see, the key is

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all we have to do is learn how to depend

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on God just like Jesus depended on God. And then

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the implication is we can achieve the same thing. Now,

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let's see if he gets if he goes there explicitly

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or if this is just going to be imply But

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as soon as I hear this, I'm like, oh boy,

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here we go here, we go, We're going We're going

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straight into the Kanatic heresy. We're going straight there. We're

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driving there, all right, So let's see where this goes.

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Let's talk about Peter. Peter walked on water. I call Peter.

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Please, don't be offended. I know there's some junior Highers

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in here, and I don't want to offend you. I

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call Peter the perpetual junior Higher.

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That's what they call him.

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When I get to heaven. This is a question I'm

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gonna ask Peter over and over. Peter, what were you thinking?

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That's gonna be my question. And I'm pretty sure I

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already know his answer. His answer is I Wasn't you.

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Know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I just get a

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kick out of Peter. But we'll go on. So we

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know that Peter.

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One night, he and the disciples were in their boat,

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and scholars believe it was a five mile journey, and

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the Bible says they were in the midst of the

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sea Matthew fourteen, which means.

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They were how far from shore? And the answer has

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about two and a half miles.

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wind was contrary, so they were probably rowing against the wind,

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and there's a storm, obviously, and when there's a storm,

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how much light are you getting from the moon and stars?

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And if they had oil lamps, how many oil lamps

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you think we're going on that boat?

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Probably not a whole lot. They were probably in almost

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total darkness.

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Now there were seasoned fishermen, they'd been in this kind

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of condition before.

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But through in the middle of the Sea of Galilee.

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They're two and a half miles from shore, and the

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Bible says in the fourth watch of the night. Some

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scholars say it's between three and six. My opinion is

470
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it had to be closer to six.

471
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Because they could see Jesus. Otherwise they couldn't have seen him.

472
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Had to be that great awning that occurs on a

473
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stormy morning, and I kind of imagine this steam coming

474
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off the heaving sea, if you know what I'm talking about,

475
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in the morning, at fog coming off, and they see

476
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Jesus walking on the water, and the Bible said, they

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said they cried.

478
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Out for fear.

479
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They said it is a spirit, and they cried out

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for fear the Greek word for spirit is the Greek

481
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word phantos. You kind of know what English word we

482
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got from.

483
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That one, don't you.

484
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Yeah, they were saying it's an apparition, it's a ghost

485
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walking on the water, and the Bible says they cried

486
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out for fear. Now, as I've done an intensive word

487
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study and cried out for fear, here's what it means.

488
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They screamed like junior high girls. That's what it means.

489
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Okay, But anyway, yeah, they started screaming, you know, and

490
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I'll tell you what Jesus said.

491
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He said, fear not, be not afraid. Here's what he said.

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It's me I.

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You know, as I study fear not throughout the Bible,

494
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I found that almost always the answer as.

495
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God is basically I'm here. I'm here.

496
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That's a really good answer. It'd be it's it's the

497
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great truth. So so anyway, so Peter then makes his

498
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famous statement. He says, Lord, if it be thou bid

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me come into the on the water.

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Now, that's what they call in the Greek or first

501
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class condition.

502
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Now what that means is the if statement was assumed

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to be true.

504
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What Peter was not saying is, well.

505
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Lord, it might be you, it might not be you, boy,

506
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If it's not you, I wonder who it is. No,

507
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that's not what he was saying, Lord, I know it's you.

508
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Bid me come into the on the water. Jesus said

509
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one word. We all know what it is.

510
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:33.880
What was it?

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Come some imperative and mood which means it was a command.

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No longer was staying in the boat in option you

513
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know why?

514
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Jesus ask some good information, some good discussion there about

515
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the Greek and how it's structured, and how is Peter

516
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saying if it's you? Did he mean like could it be?

517
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:54.319
Could it not be? Or I know it's you? Then

518
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tell you know, tell me to come to you? All right?

519
00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:59.160
All of okay, all of that is some really good information,

520
00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:02.920
some good stuff. We could take that apart, break that down, verify,

521
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.279
check see how that would impact our interpretation that that's

522
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.319
all good stuff, right, very good stuff. All right. Now,

523
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the key is what's getting ready to happen with this story.

524
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What's going to happen here? Right, because he's already kind

525
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of set this up by basically saying Jesus relied on

526
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God just like Peter did. All right, and so's that

527
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.680
gets us into the neighborhood of knotic heresy. Let's see

528
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if this is it going to know? Where is this going?

529
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That's the question, because this is all about how you

530
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and I are to live the Christian life, and so

531
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supposedly in this story. Of course this story is being

532
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we can already tell from a hermoneutical perspective. He's approaching

533
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this story as being somewhat prescriptive versus descriptive. I've talked

534
00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:50.599
about that constantly, the problems with handling texts that way.

535
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All right, So this is how somehow being prescriptive. Let's

536
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see how far this goes and what we get from

537
00:29:58.599 --> 00:29:59.759
a practical standpoint.

538
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This it said, Come, I want you to think about

539
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this for a moment. I'm not trying to trick you.

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When Peter got out of the boat, did he use

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physical strength? And the answer is, well, of course he

542
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had to move muscles. He had the kindest Jesus didn't

543
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throw him out of the boat. He had to move

544
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muscles to step out of the boat. Now, question, when

545
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he got out of the boat, was he trusting physical

546
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strength to enable him to walk on water?

547
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And the answer is.

548
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Not at all.

549
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That's the Christian life.

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The Christian life is obeying Jesus getting out of the

551
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boat using physical strength, but trusting Jesus to enable you

552
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.799
to do what you could never do unless He enabled

553
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you to do it, because spiritual strength is not innate

554
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of us.

555
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So we use our physical strength to get out of

556
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the metaphorical boat. And once we get out of the

557
00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:04.599
medical metaphorical boat, we then just trust him to enable

558
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us to do what we cannot do. So if I

559
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will just physically get out of the boat and trust

560
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:15.559
Christ or trust God, then he will enable me. Right.

561
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And I'm just keeping it between Christ, God the Father.

562
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And obviously I'm not questioning the deity of Christ. Christ

563
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is God, but I'm saying I'm gonna go with God

564
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:28.000
the Father versus God the Son. Okay, there, so we

565
00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:30.759
get so whether whoever we trust, we get out of

566
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the boat. We trust in Christ, we trust in God,

567
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:36.960
we trust in the Trinity. Okay, we get out of

568
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the boat. Now we get enabled. Now what do we

569
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get enabled to do? To do what we can't do?

570
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So you see, if I get out, if I can

571
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use my physical strength to get out of the metaphorical boat,

572
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and I trust in God, trust in Christ, trust in

573
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the Trinity, trust in, trust in them, trust in one God,

574
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three distinct persons. Then all of a sudden, I'm enabled.

575
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Now What am I enabled to do? Now? Am I

576
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:04.680
enabled to be holy? As God is holy? So I'm

577
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enabled to be perfect? And all I've got to do

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is get out of the boat and trust Him and

579
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then I'm enabled to do it perfectly? Or am I

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00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:15.319
enabled to do it fifty percent? Am I enabled to

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do it? Forty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent? What am

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00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:21.640
I actually enabled to do?

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Now?

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If you're basically saying I'm enabled to do whatever Christ

585
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did well, then you're gonna tell me I'm unable to

586
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.680
do it perfectly. And if I'm enable to do it perfectly,

587
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then the not only the expectation, the it's not only possible,

588
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:39.519
it's not only probable, it's what should happen. It's what's expected.

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00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:43.000
Is all Christians should be then perfect because we are

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enabled to do what we can't do, which basically is

591
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walking on water.

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We don't have any spiritual struck unless we're strong in

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the Lord and in the power of His money, not

594
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ours his. So the Christian life is a moment by

595
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moment dependence on Jesus to enable us to do what

596
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we can never do unless He enabled us to do it.

597
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Now, think about the next night day.

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Can you imagine the disciples the next day they go

599
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:14.440
home to their families. Oh, you're not gonna believe what

600
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:16.200
happened last night. We were in a boat and it

601
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.880
floated all night long. I don't think anybody would have

602
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.079
been impressed by that. Can you mention, Peter, You're not

603
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gonna believe what happened last night. Jesus told me to

604
00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:27.920
come and I got out of the boat and walked

605
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:32.279
on the water. You know, friends, with what that was

606
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.200
divine intervention. All of us know that Peter could not

607
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have done that in and of himself. You said, preached

608
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your nice little story. I believe the Bible's true, But

609
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.920
you didn't finish it because Peter just takes a few steps,

610
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:50.920
seize the wind, boisterous freaks out and down he goes.

611
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.440
I'm afraid if I get out of the boat, I'm

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00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:55.640
gonna get the same thing happened to me, and I'm

613
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.759
gonna sing. Can I say this, If you obey Jesus

614
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:00.400
and get out of the boat, it's.

615
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:02.519
Not a matter of if you will sink. It's a

616
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:03.119
matter of when.

617
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:06.400
Well, you say, praacher, thanks for being honest.

618
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I think I'll stay in the boat.

619
00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:12.440
Well, don't stop there. So what did Peter do when

620
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he started to sink his prayer?

621
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Life improved?

622
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.119
And now please note the whole hermoneutical structure here. He's

623
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taking a story that's descriptive and now making it prescriptive

624
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.159
and applying all of the elements to us. We get

625
00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:36.559
out of the boat. This us us us us us,

626
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and this is where things begin to fall apart. Let's

627
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:40.840
just see how far this goes.

628
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You know what Peter did, He did something we all

629
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need to do. He learned how to play flair prayers.

630
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Notice what he did not pray, Dear Heavenly Father, thank

631
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:55.000
you for this blah blah blah blah blah.

632
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Nope, didn't do that. He cut right to the chase.

633
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:04.039
Lord say, now this is going to shock you. Do

634
00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:05.719
you know what Jesus did? This is going to really

635
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:09.519
shock you. He saved him. Have you ever heard the

636
00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:14.199
phrase accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Yeah, we've heard that.

637
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:18.639
Can I say it kind of change it without changing it?

638
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.400
Have you ever accepted Jesus Christ as your personal emd

639
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Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal fireman? Have

640
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:27.960
you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal lifeguard? Have you

641
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.719
accepted Jesus Christ as your personal rescue worker? He said, Preatia,

642
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:35.039
what are you talking about? All of those are saviors

643
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:37.960
in a physical sense, you.

644
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And my friend. When you and I got saved.

645
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:42.760
Jesus saving work didn't stop.

646
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It started.

647
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The first thing he did was save you from the

648
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penalty of sin. But the rest of your Christian life

649
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:51.559
he wants to save you.

650
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:55.599
And I from the power of sin. And you know

651
00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:57.239
what that is, divine intervention.

652
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:04.960
See saying personal savior means he's your personal rescuer.

653
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:06.920
And all I'm.

654
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:10.119
Simply saying, when you get saved, you trusted Jesus to rescue.

655
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You and do what you could not do. And as

656
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:13.880
you live the Christian life, what are you doing.

657
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:17.920
You're trusting Jesus to be your personal rescuer from sins.

658
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.079
Power one is a moment in time, a trust in

659
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:23.440
Jesus to save you in a moment in time.

660
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:26.960
The rest is a moment by moment rest to your Christian.

661
00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:29.599
Life, step by step dependence on Jesus to live the

662
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:30.320
Christian life.

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Do you know what that means? Friends? Every day you

664
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and I wake up, here's ought to be our attitude

665
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.920
do today? Because it's not about us.

666
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.840
It's about obeying him, getting out of the boat, and

667
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:48.280
trusting him to enable us to do whatever his will is.

668
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:52.719
I'm looking at some young people tonight God's will. May

669
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:54.840
you may look at God's will and thinking I couldn't

670
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do that.

671
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So he enables us to do whatever his will is. Now,

672
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:05.760
see this, this is so different than we are being

673
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:09.119
saved by an imputed righteousness. This is we're being saved

674
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:11.920
and then enabled to do it. So, if I am

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00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.760
enabled to do God's will, is it not God's will

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00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:18.480
that I am holy as He is holy? I mean

677
00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:21.639
he commands it. So is that not his will? Okay? Well,

678
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:24.599
then if he enables me to do that, then all

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00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:28.880
Christians are enabled by the omnipotent power of God to

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00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:32.679
be holy as God is holy. Therefore there should be

681
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:36.199
no more sin within Christianity, no more sin in your life,

682
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:39.079
no more sin in my life. And perfection should be

683
00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:42.719
absolutely expected. And if you're not perfect, you should be

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00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:46.559
disciplined and excommunicated because you are enabled by the power

685
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:52.440
of God to be perfect because it's his will right. See,

686
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:57.079
Christianity loves this enabling idea, enabling idea, and forget me

687
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and said by an imputed righteousness? Who cares about being

688
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:03.320
saved by an imputed righteousness? When I'm being saved by

689
00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:07.719
an enabling grace and it sounds like an infused grace.

690
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.599
It sounds like I'm returning to Roman Catholicism, that I'm

691
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being infused with power, that I can literally keep the

692
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:18.559
law perfectly because that's God's will right? Or does he

693
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only enable me to do only certain things? Now, before

694
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.679
we go back to the sermon, I'm just gonna go

695
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:33.800
a little bit what Ai had to say here, Ai says,

696
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the preacher seems to assume that jesus dependence on the

697
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Father was exactly like ours. However, Jesus, as the god Man,

698
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:43.760
never ceased to be divine while he humbled himself. He

699
00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:46.840
did not become a mere human who needed external empowerment

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in the same way we do. If we claim that

701
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.920
jesus dependence on the Father means he had no divine

702
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.880
power or that his divine nature was inactive, we're veering

703
00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:59.559
into canotic heresy. The idea that Jesus emptied himself of divinity,

704
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:04.639
rather thaning his divine glory. The sermon makes a dangerous jump.

705
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.880
Jesus relied on the Father. We must rely on the Father.

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We can have the same success if we do. This

707
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:14.840
logic implies that if we just depend on God enough,

708
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.960
we can live the Christian life without failure, sin, or struggle.

709
00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:22.760
But scripture does not support this. Even faithful believer still

710
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:28.679
wrestle with sin. Paul's own example contradicts this teaching. Though

711
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:32.239
fully dependent on God, he still struggled with weakness, temptation,

712
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:35.400
and hardships, and he still referred to himself as the

713
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:40.960
chief of sinners. The AI goes on to say the

714
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:43.639
preacher uses Peter walking on water as a metaphor for

715
00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:45.719
how we live the Christian life. The problem is that

716
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.719
Peter sank, showing human frailty, not demonstrating an ideal model

717
00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:54.599
for spiritual success. The comparison ignores the fact that Jesus

718
00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:57.159
commanded Peter to walk on water in a specific moment.

719
00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:00.840
This does not mean all believers should expect this sin experience.

720
00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:05.360
The sermon also misapplies Colaussians one twenty nine, assuming that

721
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.360
Paul's striving was a model of total self abandonment, when

722
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:11.800
in reality, Paul speaks about his labor being empowered by God,

723
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:16.559
not a passive or mystical experience. The idea that believers

724
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:20.119
can tap into divine power to live victoriously can lead

725
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:25.599
to frustration and guilt with people inevitably when people inevitably struggle.

726
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:27.880
If we are meant to rely on God in the

727
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.880
same way Jesus did, why do believers fail while Jesus

728
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:34.719
did not. This view fails to account for the fact

729
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.559
that Jesus was sinless and that he was not just

730
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:43.239
an example but a unique divine savior. Conclusion, this is

731
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:47.000
what AI says. This is a distorted view of Jesus

732
00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:50.599
and the Christian life. Rather than affirming the hyposthetic union,

733
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:55.519
this sermon subtly undermines it. The preacher's emphasis on zero

734
00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.639
to one hundred reliant one hundred percent reliance on God

735
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:02.840
is well intended, but it is a flawed framework. Believers

736
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:04.920
should depend on God, but not as if we are

737
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:09.320
trying to mimic Christ's divine human experience. Instead, our dependence

738
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:13.719
on God is the dependence of fallen, redeemed creatures, not

739
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:19.800
that of the eternal son of God, God incarnate. It

740
00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:23.480
says this teaching is not only problematic, but it is unbiblical.

741
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:28.039
It distorts both Christology and sanctification, leading people towards either

742
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:33.960
false confidence or despair when they fail to measure up right.

743
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:38.079
So Ai then asked me, do you want a precise

744
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:45.079
theological response to refute this sermon using scripture? So AI

745
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:48.679
did not like discernment. Ai was like, discermon is problematic

746
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.360
because it's giving us this implication that, hey, all we

747
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.159
got to do is do what Paul basically Peter did,

748
00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:59.239
or what Jesus did. Now we'll see if he's never explicit,

749
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:03.440
but that's the that's what's being implied. What's being implied

750
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:07.519
is Jesus relied on God the same way Peter did,

751
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:13.480
and if we rely on God that way, then we

752
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:18.400
get similar results. And that God is there to enable

753
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:20.519
us to do whatever he wills. Well, if he's there

754
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:22.920
to enable me to do whatever he wills, then I

755
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:25.360
should be sinless because you can't tell me he wills

756
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:31.079
me to sin. And if he's the one enabling me

757
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:34.440
to do whatever he wills, then whenever I fail, you

758
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:39.880
can't come at me. Why do you church discipline someone Well, whoa, whoa, whoah,

759
00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:43.639
back off, get out of my face. I sin because

760
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.000
God didn't enable me not to sind. Well, no, it

761
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:48.199
doesn't work that way. God enables you, but you have

762
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:50.760
to use the enablement. So then God can't overcome my

763
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.320
will not to want the enablement. Then the whole thing

764
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.639
falls apart.

765
00:42:57.079 --> 00:42:58.639
You know, many times a young man say, I think

766
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:00.440
God's calling me to preach, but I can't do it.

767
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:02.800
You know what, My answer always is join the club.

768
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:05.360
Like who has called to preach?

769
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:08.599
Ever thought we could? We all thought God about it.

770
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.119
We had to come to a realization what we could

771
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:13.719
not do. If we got out of the boat and

772
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:16.360
began to obey Jesus, he'd enable us to do what

773
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:20.559
we can never do unless he's supernaturally intervened. Are you

774
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:24.960
seeing what the Christian life his friend? It's zero one hundred.

775
00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:27.880
Every one of us in this room has to get

776
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:31.360
out of the boat moments. All the time you ever

777
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:33.280
been in a cash register in the Holy Spirit says

778
00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:36.000
invite him out, or give him a track, or speak

779
00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:37.559
a word of witness.

780
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:41.840
Okay, now we have God speaking outside of scripture, God

781
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:45.039
speaking directly. Let me say this for the millionth time.

782
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:51.559
If God is talking directly to people for crying out loud,

783
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:56.079
could he just fix all the doctrinal disputes that have

784
00:43:56.239 --> 00:44:00.559
torn Christianity apart for two thousand years. Could instead of

785
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:03.480
telling me do this or go here, or give this

786
00:44:03.519 --> 00:44:06.360
person a track, he's just talking to me directly about

787
00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:10.360
these things to do. Could he say, here's the correct

788
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:14.239
doctrine of baptism. Here's the correct doctrine on the Lord's Supper.

789
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:18.599
Here's the correct doctrine on church government. Here is the

790
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:23.039
correct doctrine on salvation. Here's the correct doctrine about Israel.

791
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:26.840
Here's the correct doctrine about eschatology. Here's the correct doctrine

792
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:31.480
about ecclesiology. Here's a correct doctrine about soteriology. If God

793
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:36.960
is speaking for crying out loud, fix the philological problems.

794
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:46.280
It's always constantly this morning listening to the chapel service

795
00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:48.400
that I was joking about the beginning, the same thing

796
00:44:48.679 --> 00:44:51.679
God spoke to this part told him he had God

797
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:53.840
talked to him about how much gas he had in

798
00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.480
his fuel tank. God, I literally talked to him about

799
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.119
how much gas he had. If spoke to him and

800
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:02.960
whenever whenever you say God said to me or God

801
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:05.920
speaks to you. If you then say what God said,

802
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:08.719
you put that in quotation marks, meaning then that that

803
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:11.079
is an erran and fallible word of God. Because you

804
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:13.840
have an exact quote from God, you better put it

805
00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:19.800
in your Bible. That undermines the Bible completely. If God

806
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:23.840
is speaking directly to people outside of scripture, then just

807
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:32.079
give me a God inspired commentary on scripture. I don't

808
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:34.639
need God to tell me give this person a track,

809
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:36.679
or do this, or this is how much cash you

810
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:38.880
have in your gas tank? Or go here and don't

811
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.639
go here, do this, do that? Just tell me what

812
00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:44.760
the scriptures mean for crying out loud, because after two

813
00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:47.519
thousand years we don't know what they mean because nobody

814
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:48.639
agrees on anything.

815
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:54.800
Let me encourage you. I'm all for giving out tracks.

816
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:57.360
Let me encourage you to learn how to give the

817
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:01.559
gospel in thirty seconds. Really not hard men are sinners

818
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:03.400
going to hell? You trust Jesus. He died in the cross,

819
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:04.400
shed his blood rose again.

820
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:08.599
You trust him. He'll see and sometimes just a simple.

821
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:11.800
Word of witness, say for sure, I couldn't do that. Well,

822
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:15.159
if Jesus enabled you, you could. But you will never

823
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:17.360
be enabled until you get out of the boat.

824
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.599
See the setup. See if I don't do something, I

825
00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:26.639
can't do something. It's my fault because I never got

826
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:31.239
out of the boat. Oh, oh, you sinned. Well, if

827
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:32.880
you'd just gotten out of the boat, he would have

828
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:35.320
enabled you. Not to send. Hey, I tried to do this.

829
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:37.559
I tried to preach a sermon. It was a disaster. Well,

830
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:39.239
if you would have just gotten out of the boat,

831
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:41.440
he would have enabled you. I tried to witness, but

832
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:44.400
I couldn't do it. Well, if you had just gotten

833
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:48.039
out of the boat. Hey, Hey, is this not the

834
00:46:48.079 --> 00:46:51.960
same similar concept of Hey, God wants to heal you.

835
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:53.960
But if you would have just had faith, he would

836
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.920
have held you. If he would have if you would

837
00:46:56.960 --> 00:46:58.599
just have faith, he'll heal you of this. Oh, he'll

838
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:02.159
fix this, He'll do this. It's always somehow now our fault.

839
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:05.480
God wants to enable there's God. I want to enable you.

840
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:08.159
I want to empower you. I want to do this,

841
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:11.440
but I just can't unless you get out of the boat.

842
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:15.800
I just can't do it because I'm omnipotent God. But

843
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:20.239
I'm incapable unless you get out of the boat. Even

844
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:23.679
though it's a passage that's descriptive. Now it's becoming prescriptive.

845
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:25.960
I've got to get out of the metaphorical boat. How

846
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:28.079
do I get out of the metaphorical boat? I don't know.

847
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:29.559
I don't know what that even means.

848
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:38.480
In other words, just like this, Jesus doesn't zap us. No,

849
00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:40.639
he's telling us make a decision of faith.

850
00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:43.440
Obey me. Use your physical strength.

851
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:45.480
But when you get out of the boat, don't trust

852
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:48.239
your physical strength. Trust me to enable you to do

853
00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:52.360
the impossible. You know what it really is. If I

854
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:57.800
could just put in a few words, trust and obey, Hey,

855
00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:59.760
that'd be a great song. Somebody ought to write a

856
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:02.280
song someday called trust and obey.

857
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:04.400
Yeah, that'd be a great song. Trust and obey.

858
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:05.960
For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus

859
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:09.519
but to trust and obey. You know, it really is true.

860
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:14.719
The Christian life is that. So here's what we do.

861
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:16.760
We do obey.

862
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:21.320
I'm not against obedience, and God isn't either.

863
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:36.159
We don't we don't, we don't obey. We are in

864
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:42.239
a prepared I don't understand. I don't understand Christianity. I

865
00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:46.960
don't understand. Okay, be ye holy as He is holy.

866
00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:51.239
You have never obeyed that, you never will obey that

867
00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:54.760
in a practical way. See the whole point of the

868
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.400
Bible is it gives us the standard and the law,

869
00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:01.719
which demonstrates not only that we're guilty of violating it,

870
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:07.559
that we cannot, we are incapable of doing it. Then

871
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:10.679
how does God save us not by making us able

872
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:13.679
to do it? By taking the obedience of Christ who

873
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:17.599
did it, imputing that obedience to me, so that I

874
00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.079
am saved by an imputed righteousness, not an infused righteousness.

875
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:26.119
And I am saved even though I still cannot do

876
00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:29.599
it and will never be able to do it. And

877
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:32.559
I will live my Christian life twenty four hours a day,

878
00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:37.159
seven days a week, and perpetual disobedience, because I can

879
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:40.280
take one command, be holy as God is holy. I

880
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.519
never do it. I never will Love God with all

881
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:46.119
my heart, mind, body, and soul. I will never do it.

882
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:49.599
Love my neighbor as myself. I'll never do it. Do

883
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.159
all things without complaining and grumbling. Well, I can go

884
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:53.760
on and on and on and on and on and

885
00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:55.480
on and on and on and on, and guess what

886
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:59.719
I'm going to find. I am constantly I'm constantly violating

887
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:05.039
some standard, whether externally, whether internally, whether in my words,

888
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:07.599
whether in my actions, or whether in my thoughts, or

889
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.559
whether in my desires. I am in a perpetual state

890
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:16.400
of sin. We do not obey. We disobey continually to

891
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:19.480
some level you can point to if you want to

892
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.760
make a list of moral and venial sins and say, well,

893
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:26.719
I'm not doing the moral ones. Well congratulations, you're you're

894
00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:29.280
committing the venial. But I mean, as a good Catholic,

895
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:33.039
we're not too worried about the venial, are we. We

896
00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:43.760
don't obey. That's the whole problem, man, And I don't

897
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:51.320
get it. There's there's I know, we want to believe

898
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:53.719
that we do. I know, we want to. Look, we

899
00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:56.199
either we have a couple of options. We just got

900
00:50:56.199 --> 00:50:58.840
to forget this. Holy as God is holy doesn't really

901
00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:01.920
mean that be perfect, your heavenly Father is perfect, doesn't

902
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:04.320
really mean that all of these commands we have God,

903
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.320
We've got to water them down and say, well, you know,

904
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:13.159
we got to somehow convince ourselves that we can or

905
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:15.880
we have to let the standard be the standard, and

906
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.840
then admit we can't and go, hm, So what's the solution.

907
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.639
The solution is not being enabled to do it. The

908
00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:28.199
solution is trusting in the one who did it, and

909
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:31.840
his doing it is imputed to my account. So I

910
00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:35.199
can stand before God as one who does it, even

911
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:42.840
though practically I do not, And that reality is almost

912
00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:47.679
anathema to Christians. So then we create this idea well

913
00:51:48.239 --> 00:51:52.559
as Jesus depended on God, just like Peter did. If

914
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.480
we can reach, if we can get out of the

915
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.599
boat and depend on God that way, then we basically

916
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:00.599
can be as successful as Jesus.

917
00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:06.679
But self depending on obedience is always destined for fit,

918
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:10.679
So trust and obey.

919
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:13.920
I remember when I was.

920
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:18.440
Sixteen years old, I was sitting in Chapel. This is

921
00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:20.519
back when our Christian school there in the suburbs of

922
00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:24.599
Chicago was huge, and I was sitting in Chapel probably

923
00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:27.880
at least as many students are in your school, in

924
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:29.280
the high school, something like that.

925
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:31.719
I was sitting there. My uncle was preaching.

926
00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:33.760
It was a paraplegic, was in a terrible accident in

927
00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:37.360
his twenties, lived the life in a wheelchair, and he

928
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:41.719
was preaching, and right in middle of Chapel one hundred

929
00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:43.079
and fiftye hundred and sixty kids there.

930
00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:45.559
He looks down. He says, Jimmy, that's what they all

931
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:46.239
called me back then.

932
00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:49.440
He said, Jimmy, why don't you stand and read.

933
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:50.599
Such such a passive description.

934
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:54.280
Now, as I mentioned the other night, there are three

935
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:57.599
kinds of people in life. There are extroverts, they're really weird,

936
00:52:57.639 --> 00:52:59.880
but anyway, there's Ambi everts. Those are people kind of

937
00:52:59.880 --> 00:53:03.880
in between, and there's introverts. If I asked tonight, how

938
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:06.719
many of your extroverts, here's what won't happened, you know what.

939
00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:07.280
I'm talking about.

940
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:11.400
If I say how many are Ambi averts, that's most people,

941
00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:14.440
eighty percent somewhere on this you know in between there

942
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:16.679
they'd raise their hands, just calmly. Yeah, that's me somewhere

943
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:19.280
in between. If I said how many of your introverts?

944
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:21.039
No way, they're not even raising their heads.

945
00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:23.119
You know I'm talking about. It's like anonymity is their

946
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:23.599
middle name.

947
00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:25.360
Hiding under the chair. Yeah, I don't even want to know.

948
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:29.960
I'm here. Okay. That was me at sixty very much so.

949
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:32.400
So when my uncle says to me, you need to

950
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:34.159
stay in and read its passed the scripture. I mean,

951
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:37.320
I was the worst thing that I remember thinking, this

952
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:40.880
is terrible. This is absolutely terrible. You know out is

953
00:53:41.280 --> 00:53:43.039
I have blonde hair. You know what that means. Your

954
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:45.320
face turns into the thermometer. You know what I'm talking about.

955
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:48.559
I could feel the heat going straight up. I couldn't

956
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.440
feel it going up. I felt like I was gotting tears.

957
00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:53.559
In my ass. Oh it's great, I'm gonna cry. It's terrible.

958
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:56.760
I mean, I find the passage of Scripture. I stand

959
00:53:56.760 --> 00:53:59.119
in my feet in front of all these people. I

960
00:53:59.159 --> 00:54:00.760
opened my mouth, and you know how it is when

961
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:03.840
you're scared. The first note, the first one, that note

962
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:05.760
that comes out of your voice, you know, is like.

963
00:54:05.719 --> 00:54:07.480
An octave higher than it should be. You know I'm

964
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:09.400
talking about It's like horrific.

965
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:14.079
I remember choking out those verses, sitting down, closing my

966
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:17.480
Bible and slouching down my seat. I shouldn't have, but

967
00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:19.400
I will tell you friends, it was some of the

968
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:23.199
worst things ever happened. Now, if I was God and

969
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:24.599
all of us are glad that none of us are,

970
00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:26.280
I would have seen me and say, I better.

971
00:54:26.119 --> 00:54:28.440
Not call that guy. He can't do it. He can't

972
00:54:28.440 --> 00:54:30.039
do it. God has a sense of humor.

973
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:32.360
He al, really does he calls people to preach who

974
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:36.679
can't do it, and all that next year, that's all

975
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:37.320
I could think of.

976
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:39.280
I mean, God was calling me to preach, and I

977
00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:40.360
knew it and.

978
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:42.159
I was not, and I hate God, Get out of

979
00:54:42.199 --> 00:54:44.119
my life, rebel. I really did want to do the

980
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:47.599
Lord's will. But after all, I can't preach. I can't

981
00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:51.880
even read scripture, so I can't do this. I'll never

982
00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:56.360
forget the night the Marquette Manibatist Church sixtieth excuse me,

983
00:54:56.400 --> 00:55:00.280
seventy fifth Street and Fairview baron Donald's Grove south sided

984
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:03.960
down his grove. I remember that I was sitting over

985
00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:06.119
on this side. My dad was preaching. He was a

986
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:07.800
good preacher. But I don't remember a thing that night.

987
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:11.079
I was wrestling with God.

988
00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:16.320
I remember finally that's services over and the invitation was given.

989
00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:18.639
I remember coming down grabbing my dad's hand.

990
00:55:19.119 --> 00:55:21.360
My dad had kind eyes. He's been having a quarter

991
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:23.239
of century. It's hard for me to believe, but anyway,

992
00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:27.440
I remember looking up my dad's face, saying, Dad, I

993
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:31.440
think God's calling me to preach. I will never forget

994
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:35.039
what my dad said. Now he said, Jimmy and your mother.

995
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:36.320
And I've known it for a long time. We've been

996
00:55:36.360 --> 00:55:40.599
praying for you. You know, I've never asked him. How

997
00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:43.440
did he know? Then he went to heaven, you know.

998
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:46.320
And now I can't ask, but I'm pretty sure I know.

999
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:50.800
I think he got alone with gods. Well, I uh,

1000
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:54.039
now I'm called to preach. You say, preacher, was the

1001
00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:56.519
burden lifted? It was joy filling your heart? No, it

1002
00:55:56.599 --> 00:55:58.800
was pretty miserable. How would you like to publicly yield

1003
00:55:58.800 --> 00:55:59.920
to do something you can't do?

1004
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:03.239
I remember going out on the lobby and thinking, what

1005
00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:04.800
have you done? What have you done?

1006
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:08.079
Now everybody thinks, okay, well here we go. If if

1007
00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:09.800
I die in the attempt, we're gonna We're going for it,

1008
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:12.800
you know, we're going for this preach. Though, I was thinking, well,

1009
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:14.559
at least, you know, I'm just just finished.

1010
00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:14.800
My junior year.

1011
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.840
I got the senior in high school, freshman year, a

1012
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:20.800
Bible College, sophomore, junior. Okay, I got five years, five

1013
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:22.159
years before I have to preach.

1014
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:24.079
Maybe something will happen. I'll get hit by light.

1015
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:27.039
You know, I'm talking about the inner chemistry will change something.

1016
00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:27.320
You know.

1017
00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:29.480
I'm thinking, what so maybe someone but you know what,

1018
00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:31.400
I thought I had five years, but my dad didn't

1019
00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:33.360
leave it. He believed, bless God, your called to preach,

1020
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:35.880
do it, and he did. People calling him all the

1021
00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:37.800
time from Chicago. He was well known in the area

1022
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:40.559
at the time, and people call him now, Pastor van Gilden,

1023
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:42.280
I'm gonna be out of town Sunday morning. Could you send

1024
00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:45.599
a staff, membro, you know what my dad started doing. Yeah,

1025
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:48.400
my son Jim sixteen, just call the bridge. I'll send

1026
00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:52.440
them all. I think word got around Chicago. Don't call

1027
00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:57.360
Pastor Van Gelden to that kid's in college. Okay, but anyway, okay, Well.

1028
00:56:57.199 --> 00:56:59.639
This long illustration, I think you know where we're going.

1029
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:02.559
God ultimately enabled him to do what he couldn't do.

1030
00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:05.400
So the whole concept is all we got to do

1031
00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:07.920
is so I guess that we can summarize the sermon

1032
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:11.719
this way. God's still a logical continental divide. Is this.

1033
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:15.360
You either are in the boat, they're out of the boat.

1034
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:19.559
If you're in the boat, well, Daniel, Christian life is

1035
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:21.880
a mess. If you'll get out of the boat, then

1036
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:26.000
God will magically enable you to do what you cannot do.

1037
00:57:26.559 --> 00:57:30.079
And what you're basically doing is you're doing what Jesus did.

1038
00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:33.119
And again, he did not go in any great detail here.

1039
00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:35.679
I want to make sure you understand, there's no way

1040
00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:37.639
this is sometimes this is what we will call a

1041
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:45.880
functional knotic heresy, not a philological, you know, explicit one.

1042
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:49.719
It's the implication was so quick, it was so like

1043
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:53.159
most people would not even catch it. Jesus relied on

1044
00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:55.880
the Holy Spirit and relied on God the same way

1045
00:57:56.000 --> 00:58:00.400
Peter did. And the implication is we as Peter relied

1046
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:02.119
on God, and look what he was able to do,

1047
00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:05.440
we can rely on God the same way Jesus did

1048
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:09.239
and the same way Peter did, and we can accomplish whatever.

1049
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:14.039
There's no real there's no real explanation how this works

1050
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:16.440
other than I just got to get out of the boat.

1051
00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:18.199
I just got to get out of the boat. I

1052
00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:20.960
just got to get out of the boat. And that's

1053
00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:24.719
He's not even explained how we do that. And and

1054
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:27.679
I guess I'll guess I'll let this illustration go because

1055
00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:31.920
because I guess we're gonna get the I don't even

1056
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:33.480
know what I do with this, Like I would leave

1057
00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:35.679
church and I'd be like, okay, zero to one hundred.

1058
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:37.280
All I got to do is get out of the boat.

1059
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:39.599
If I get out of the boat, boom, I'm going

1060
00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:43.719
to be enabled. So every failure in my Christian life

1061
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:45.760
is because I didn't get out of the boat. So

1062
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:47.639
what do I get out of the boat every day?

1063
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:49.639
Or do I only get out? And not only that,

1064
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:52.800
you see what we're doing. That's not even the point

1065
00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:55.519
of the sermon that it was a what is the

1066
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:01.400
oh man? What is even and the point of the text.

1067
00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:05.159
It's not this prescriptive thing teaching me how to get

1068
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:07.760
out of the boat. We're taking the entire text and

1069
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:10.599
turning it prescriptive. And that's the problem. Well, let's at

1070
00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:13.880
least see how at some point he's gonna get out

1071
00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:16.079
of the boat. So has he already gotten out of

1072
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.360
the boat, Well, when does he get out of the boat.

1073
00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:20.199
Let's say, if we get the definitive moment.

1074
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:26.920
I remember my first assignment. I scared to death sixteen

1075
00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:29.880
years old. My dad sent me over to church in

1076
00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:32.239
Oak Park, Illinois, which is one of the older suburbs

1077
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:35.719
of Chicago. I can't remember if I got my dad's

1078
00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:37.840
blew at Muickles Saber or if I got in the

1079
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:40.440
Plymouth thuster. I kind of hope it was a Plymouth

1080
00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:42.679
Thuster because I thought that was a goolest car. But anyway,

1081
00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:46.000
and I got in the car and I remember driving

1082
00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:46.840
over to this church.

1083
00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:48.320
My dad didn't go with me.

1084
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:54.519
He gave me a hand drawn map. Yeah, kids, you

1085
00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:56.440
can't do this with a hand drawn map, you know.

1086
00:59:56.800 --> 00:59:58.719
Gave me a hand drawn map, just sent me over there,

1087
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:02.119
and I pulled it in the parking lot.

1088
01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:04.199
An old church, stained glass windows.

1089
01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:06.920
But I'm telling you, when I walked in that church,

1090
01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:09.480
the building was younger than the people inside.

1091
01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:10.400
You know I'm talking about.

1092
01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:12.519
I thought I'd take.

1093
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:14.519
It a wrong turn and stepped into an old folks home.

1094
01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:15.280
No offense.

1095
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:19.159
I'm sitting on the front road and thinking, what do

1096
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:20.760
you preach the old people?

1097
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:24.679
You know, cheating on your income tax? You know, what

1098
01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:27.079
do you do? Robbing medicare? What do you preach the whole?

1099
01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:30.480
I don't know what they preach the old And I.

1100
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:32.480
Will tell you I was sitting up there. I only

1101
01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:34.800
got one message. So they're stuck. This is what we're

1102
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:39.320
gonna have to do. I mean, I'm telling you, no offense,

1103
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:42.159
but I mean the music was slow. It was an

1104
01:00:42.239 --> 01:00:43.400
upleap like brother self.

1105
01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:44.239
It was slow.

1106
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:47.079
I mean, I'm telling you it kind of felt like

1107
01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:49.199
a funeral. In fact, looking at some of the people,

1108
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:50.880
I thought it might not be long. You know I'm

1109
01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:55.559
talking about so I am now again, when you're sixteen,

1110
01:00:55.599 --> 01:00:57.239
you don't think things that you know what I'm saying.

1111
01:00:57.280 --> 01:00:59.119
You're a little in reverend sometimes the way you kind

1112
01:00:59.119 --> 01:01:01.719
of think things. And and so finally they introduced me.

1113
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:03.920
I come with the pulpit, you know, scared half to death.

1114
01:01:03.960 --> 01:01:06.719
Look out there, that old congregation. I just took my

1115
01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:09.199
sorry outline. I plowed through it twenty five minutes, just

1116
01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:11.679
plowed right through it. When I was done, I thought

1117
01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:15.920
that was terrible. I remember thinking to myself, it's kind

1118
01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:18.840
of like that movie Chefy you've seen. I wanted to run,

1119
01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:20.280
I wanted to get out, but I knew.

1120
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:26.760
Isn't this illustration almost contradicting the entire sermon? Did he

1121
01:01:26.840 --> 01:01:29.000
not get out of the boat? He got out of

1122
01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:33.519
the boat. Why wasn't an amazing sermon? Why wasn't it great?

1123
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:36.119
Was it? Why wasn't it one of the greatest examples

1124
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:39.440
of an exegetical study of whatever the text was that's

1125
01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:42.519
ever occurred in human history. I mean, God would have

1126
01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:44.840
enabled him, right, he got out of the boat right,

1127
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:48.679
So is this going to be that his perception was

1128
01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:51.400
wrong and everyone's going to tell him how amazing it was,

1129
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:55.239
because I mean he got out of the boat right.

1130
01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:00.000
Well, I couldn't number a preacher's kid. I know protocol.

1131
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.480
I have got to now go to the back door,

1132
01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:04.800
have everybody come by and lighten me.

1133
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:09.679
You know what I'm talking about. And that's exactly what

1134
01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:10.480
they did.

1135
01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:12.880
I mean, hear people they meant, well, I'll seamen have

1136
01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:14.840
it one day, so I gotta be careful. But uh,

1137
01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:17.039
you know, they come by and they tap my little

1138
01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:19.079
hand and they say, oh a sonny boy, sonny boy,

1139
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:22.400
it was a wonderful, wonderful method. I'm thinking, I don't

1140
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:24.360
even think you had your hearing aid turned on at all.

1141
01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:27.159
I'm thinking this one that was terrible.

1142
01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:30.440
I was so embarrassed. I was so I knew what

1143
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:32.360
good preaching was. I was in a good church like you.

1144
01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:34.800
I knew what good preaching was, and I knew what

1145
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:37.440
had happened that morning was not good preaching.

1146
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:37.920
I was.

1147
01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:43.199
Why wasn't it good preaching? You got out of the boat.

1148
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:47.639
Were you not relying on God?

1149
01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:50.039
Well?

1150
01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:54.880
I like, so what the entire sermon has been we

1151
01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:57.440
got to live our lives zero to one hundred. All

1152
01:02:57.480 --> 01:02:59.360
we gotta do is rely on God. And how do

1153
01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:01.159
we rely on God? By getting out of the boat.

1154
01:03:01.159 --> 01:03:02.840
We get out of the boat. Then we're enabled to

1155
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:05.239
do whatever God wills you to do. God called you

1156
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:08.320
to preach, you're preaching. Why did he not enable you?

1157
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:11.400
It was immured.

1158
01:03:12.320 --> 01:03:14.519
I remember the youngest person in the auditorium was in

1159
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:15.159
their forties.

1160
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:18.320
I thought he was old, you know. But anyway, and

1161
01:03:18.360 --> 01:03:19.079
he comes up to me.

1162
01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:21.039
He was the treasure that pulls on an envelope, hands

1163
01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:25.239
into me. So the brother van Gelden, here's your honorary honorarian.

1164
01:03:26.119 --> 01:03:29.280
You mean I got paid for that? I'd get I

1165
01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:32.840
wouldn't give plug Nichol for that message. But I'm a

1166
01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:34.559
preacher's kid. I know protocol. I gotta take it.

1167
01:03:34.599 --> 01:03:36.800
You know what I'm talking about. So I went out

1168
01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:38.000
to the car.

1169
01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:40.880
I remember opening it up, looking at it. It was

1170
01:03:40.920 --> 01:03:44.480
an amazing mom of money. You say, how much fifty dollars? Well,

1171
01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:46.679
you see, preacher, that's not all of the money. Pre

1172
01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:49.039
Jimmy Carter money. You know what I'm talking about. Yes,

1173
01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:51.519
before inflation, you guys, ever heard of inflation? Okay, I

1174
01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:53.639
am telling you it was money for some of you

1175
01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:57.440
young kids. You could fill your gas tank up ten

1176
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:00.800
times on fifty bucks. Yeah, twenty nine cents again. Okay, yes,

1177
01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:03.599
I remember that, okay back in the day, and I

1178
01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:07.679
remember driving home and thinking, God, I didn't like that.

1179
01:04:08.639 --> 01:04:10.559
I thought I was supposed to like it.

1180
01:04:10.920 --> 01:04:14.320
That was my beginning. Well, you know how it is,

1181
01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:17.280
went off the Bible. College began to preach hither and yon.

1182
01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:20.039
I had some victories and maybe youth group and those

1183
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:22.360
kinds of things, but really no victory yet in a

1184
01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:27.880
full church auditorium. Year past I finished my That was

1185
01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:31.119
during my senior year, so finished my freshman year of college.

1186
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:33.679
Came back home toward the end of the summer.

1187
01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:36.000
My dad gets up and says, to the Marquette Manor

1188
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:39.079
Baptist Church, Hey, on such a Sunday in August, before

1189
01:04:39.079 --> 01:04:40.280
my son Jim goes back to.

1190
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:42.199
College, He's going to preach on a Sunday night. I

1191
01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:43.199
want everybody to be there.

1192
01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:47.360
My dad could promote like nobody's business. And at that

1193
01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:49.320
time I'd grown enough. I was kind of getting excited

1194
01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:53.360
about it. But I remember the day came. My dad

1195
01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:55.559
announced that Sunday morning tonight, Jim's going to preach one

1196
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:59.760
everybody here. I remember we went home and we ate,

1197
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:02.480
and I said to my brothers and sisters, I got

1198
01:05:02.519 --> 01:05:04.079
the basement. I know you and here in Florida have

1199
01:05:04.079 --> 01:05:06.199
no clue what the basement is. But anyway, I said,

1200
01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:07.320
I got the basement.

1201
01:05:07.960 --> 01:05:09.320
And they all let me have the basement.

1202
01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:10.719
And I went down to the basement, and I'm going

1203
01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:13.639
to tell you I spent about three or four hours

1204
01:05:13.679 --> 01:05:16.480
in a prayer meeding. Don't know be impressed because it

1205
01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:19.360
was not sophisticated. I'm telling you, for three or four

1206
01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:20.119
hours to said.

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01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:22.039
God, I can't do this.

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01:05:23.880 --> 01:05:24.119
God.

1209
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:27.000
The last time I bored all those people, but I'll

1210
01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:28.440
never see them. Do I get to heaven. This is

1211
01:05:28.480 --> 01:05:32.559
the hometown crowd. God, I can't do this. I played

1212
01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:35.239
with God. There were two things I knew in that pyrameding.

1213
01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:36.719
Number One, I couldn't do it.

1214
01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:40.119
Number Two, if God did not divinely intervene, we were

1215
01:05:40.159 --> 01:05:43.599
in trouble. I remember pleading with God. It was not

1216
01:05:43.679 --> 01:05:47.039
again a sophisticated prayraermeding. You say, preacher, why didn't you

1217
01:05:47.079 --> 01:05:50.000
work on your message? Well, that message was even worse

1218
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.719
off than the first one. It was on life support

1219
01:05:52.760 --> 01:05:56.039
three or four hours, could not have resuscitated it. I

1220
01:05:56.119 --> 01:05:58.880
needed I needed intervention, and I knew it, and I

1221
01:05:58.880 --> 01:05:59.840
remember pleading with God.

1222
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:00.639
I'll never forget.

1223
01:06:01.599 --> 01:06:04.760
About five o'clock, somebody yells down the wooden stairs of that.

1224
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:07.199
Basement, jimmy time to go to church.

1225
01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:10.960
I remember slowly walking up those stairs from my bible

1226
01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:14.119
and my message. I've never been executed, but I think

1227
01:06:14.159 --> 01:06:16.400
I know what it feels like to go to your execution.

1228
01:06:17.559 --> 01:06:18.880
I thought, what have you got yourself?

1229
01:06:18.920 --> 01:06:19.239
Didn't you?

1230
01:06:21.159 --> 01:06:22.679
We got in the car, drove over. I think it

1231
01:06:22.719 --> 01:06:24.119
was a Plymouth Thusterer. Did I tell you that was

1232
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:26.440
a cool car? But anyway, I got in that Plymouth Thuster.

1233
01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:28.039
We drove over to church.

1234
01:06:29.039 --> 01:06:32.480
I got out of the car, went into the church building,

1235
01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:34.760
ended up going up on the platform.

1236
01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:36.840
By that time, my church had grown.

1237
01:06:36.880 --> 01:06:39.199
The little chapel that seated three hundred and double it

1238
01:06:39.280 --> 01:06:40.599
was now like about five hundred.

1239
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:44.119
The church was packed. I mean there wasn't a seat left.

1240
01:06:44.400 --> 01:06:46.440
Everybody came to see the preacher's kid go down in

1241
01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:48.880
flansator right now we're.

1242
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:49.960
Gonna it was packed.

1243
01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:54.079
I'm on the platform, scared to death. Saying, God, you're

1244
01:06:54.079 --> 01:06:54.599
gonna do something.

1245
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:56.719
God, I haven't got anything here. I don't have anything. God.

1246
01:06:56.880 --> 01:06:57.559
I'd studied the.

1247
01:06:57.480 --> 01:06:59.639
Passage best I knew. I didn't have homiletics. I didn't

1248
01:06:59.639 --> 01:07:01.719
know how to pair of message. I'm just pleading with y'all.

1249
01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:07.159
My dad's completely unconcerned. Now, I'm pretty sure he'd already

1250
01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:08.599
settled it up with the Lord. Knew what was going

1251
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:11.119
to happen, but I didn't.

1252
01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:14.159
Finally, my dad gets up introduces me.

1253
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:17.000
You have thought he was introducing the next you know,

1254
01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:20.800
the next whatever, and just the way he was. I

1255
01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:23.360
got up to that platform pulpit. I remember, I came

1256
01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:26.320
up there, scared half to death. I put my Bible here,

1257
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:27.199
my outline here.

1258
01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:28.760
Dad never moved.

1259
01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:30.840
He had hand marks, so you knew exactly what brother,

1260
01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:32.880
your hands just put him right there, hand marks right

1261
01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:35.719
there on the pulpit, and I figure, that's what you do,

1262
01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:36.280
that's where the.

1263
01:07:36.199 --> 01:07:36.840
Hand marks are.

1264
01:07:37.559 --> 01:07:40.599
And so I put the hand marks there and I

1265
01:07:40.679 --> 01:07:42.800
began to read the text. Now, all I can tell

1266
01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:46.519
you is this somewhere in the first sixty seconds. I

1267
01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:49.599
can't explain it other than this, All of a sudden,

1268
01:07:51.159 --> 01:07:56.000
I knew I am not in this pulpit alone, and

1269
01:07:56.039 --> 01:08:01.840
can I say something. I was free here. I am

1270
01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:05.920
nineteen years old. Eighteen actually, I remember I moved.

1271
01:08:05.719 --> 01:08:08.000
Over to this side. There are two hundred and fifty

1272
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:10.760
people on this side. I looked out there, man, were

1273
01:08:10.760 --> 01:08:12.519
their sinners out there? Kind of like the night.

1274
01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:15.760
But anyway, and yeah, and I started preaching over here,

1275
01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:18.520
went over on this side. Man, it was worse on

1276
01:08:18.520 --> 01:08:20.680
the other side, you know I'm talking about. I started preaching,

1277
01:08:20.880 --> 01:08:23.119
and I remember while I was preaching, I'd say things.

1278
01:08:23.119 --> 01:08:26.359
I'm thinking, boy, that was really good. Where we gotta

1279
01:08:26.359 --> 01:08:27.039
write that down?

1280
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.800
Where'd that come from? It was things like that. I

1281
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:33.119
preached for forty five minutes. Could I loved every minute

1282
01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:34.119
of it, every minute them.

1283
01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:35.680
But I'll never forget this.

1284
01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:38.039
You have to understand half that church had known me

1285
01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:41.359
since I was six years old. I gave the invitation.

1286
01:08:41.439 --> 01:08:44.760
I'll never forget that invitation. I had people coming down

1287
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:46.439
the aisle, some of I know most of my life.

1288
01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:48.319
Someone were tears in their eyes, some with tears pilling

1289
01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:52.359
down their cheeks. The altar was packed, and I wish

1290
01:08:52.399 --> 01:08:54.199
I could tell you that that day I learned something

1291
01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:55.880
that I've never had to relearn but that would not

1292
01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:56.439
be the truth.

1293
01:08:57.560 --> 01:08:59.960
But I will tell you what God was trying.

1294
01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:05.000
To tea zero one hundred because I knew two things

1295
01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:05.600
I can't.

1296
01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:08.199
I need to find intervention.

1297
01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:10.840
I wish I could say from that point to this,

1298
01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:12.479
I've lived that life, but I haven't. God has had

1299
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:15.119
to reteach it many times.

1300
01:09:16.560 --> 01:09:21.199
So okay, So finally God intervenes because he finally acknowledged

1301
01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:24.359
that he couldn't so he didn't know hermeneutics, didn't know

1302
01:09:24.399 --> 01:09:26.359
anything like that. So all we have to do. We

1303
01:09:26.399 --> 01:09:28.279
don't really need to go to Bible College, we don't

1304
01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:30.840
need any of that. We just need to say God,

1305
01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:33.600
I can't preach this, don't need to work on our

1306
01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:36.439
sermon anymore because the sermon is already a mess. And

1307
01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:39.000
then didn't just trust God get out of the boat,

1308
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:44.680
and then boom, he literally takes over and says, well,

1309
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:46.640
we don't even know. Oh, I don't even know where

1310
01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:50.399
that came from. And that's how it works, and that's

1311
01:09:50.439 --> 01:09:52.640
the Christian life. Just get out of the boat and

1312
01:09:52.680 --> 01:09:55.720
then boom. You can do anything you can either. You

1313
01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:58.319
can even preach a sermon when you don't even have

1314
01:09:58.359 --> 01:10:00.239
a sermon ready to go. You don't even need to

1315
01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:02.399
know hermonuticts. You don't need to know any of that.

1316
01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:04.600
And God's literally just gonna take over and put the

1317
01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:07.159
words in your mouth. I mean, this is so like

1318
01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:13.760
And what's so frustrating is the entire story about Jesus

1319
01:10:13.840 --> 01:10:17.239
walking on the ocean and Peter coming out, on coming

1320
01:10:17.239 --> 01:10:19.960
out and walking to him, or walking a little ways

1321
01:10:20.119 --> 01:10:22.920
and then sinking. The whole point of the sermon is this.

1322
01:10:23.479 --> 01:10:26.039
Then they that were in the ship came and worship it,

1323
01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:30.239
worshiped him, saying of truth, thou art the son of God.

1324
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:34.479
The point of the message is not Peter. It was

1325
01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:41.680
on Jesus, not Peter. Okay, and that's Matthew fourteen if

1326
01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:44.439
you want to look at it, verse thirty three. But

1327
01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:48.000
all right, I don't know what to say that puts

1328
01:10:48.039 --> 01:10:50.720
forth the idea that the Christian life is zero one hundred.

1329
01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:52.319
All you got to do is get out of the

1330
01:10:52.319 --> 01:10:55.520
boat and do so. But there was a little, just

1331
01:10:55.680 --> 01:11:00.720
a little bit of the canotic idea right there. I mean, look, Ai,

1332
01:11:01.119 --> 01:11:08.880
definitely this is what Ai said. Ai says the sermon this,

1333
01:11:09.920 --> 01:11:15.359
Ai says, final conclusion, a deeply flawed sermon. The preacher's

1334
01:11:15.399 --> 01:11:18.680
Christology is flawed, his view of sanctification is misleading, and

1335
01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:22.279
his application of Peter of walking on water is forced.

1336
01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:26.479
Jesus dependence on the Father is not the same as ours.

1337
01:11:26.760 --> 01:11:30.439
Jesus never lacked power. He voluntarily submitted in his humanity.

1338
01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:33.279
Jesus was not just a spirit filled man, He was God.

1339
01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:36.479
We depend on the spirit because we are sinners. Jesus

1340
01:11:36.560 --> 01:11:39.920
had no sin nature. Sanctification is not zero one hundred.

1341
01:11:39.920 --> 01:11:43.720
It's the spirit empowered obedience. The Christian life requires striving

1342
01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:46.920
and effort through God's power. Peter walking on the water

1343
01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:50.199
was not a blueprint blueprint for Christian living. It was

1344
01:11:50.239 --> 01:11:53.680
a unique moment, not a model for daily life. This

1345
01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:56.439
sermon's view is a common distortion in certain circles that

1346
01:11:56.520 --> 01:11:59.359
overemphasize his personal victory and the idea that we can

1347
01:11:59.359 --> 01:12:02.439
tap into suit natural power like Jesus did. But Jesus

1348
01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:05.520
was not like us. In his essence, we are falling

1349
01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:09.520
creatures in need of grace. And then Ai says, would

1350
01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:12.560
you like me to format this for easy sharing, or

1351
01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:16.319
would you like me to expand any particular area? But

1352
01:12:16.399 --> 01:12:19.800
Ai did not like the sermon. Ai did not it

1353
01:12:19.960 --> 01:12:23.720
just but it did say it's common. So what we

1354
01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:25.600
just heard is common. I just don't know what you

1355
01:12:25.720 --> 01:12:27.560
do with that. If you were to walk out of

1356
01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:30.680
that church that night, what would you do? You go,

1357
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:34.319
you get in the car, sit. So let's just imagine

1358
01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:36.479
we'll end with this. So you just heard that sermon,

1359
01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:40.479
you go, you walk out the door, you sit in

1360
01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:42.159
the car, and you're sitting in the parking lot and

1361
01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:47.520
you're just sitting there thinking about your Christian life. What

1362
01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:52.560
do you take away from that? Do you take away? Lord,

1363
01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:57.680
he couldn't and you enabled him to do so. Lord,

1364
01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:01.960
I can't be Holy enable me to be so. Lord,

1365
01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:04.239
I can't love my neighbor as myself enabled me to

1366
01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:07.039
do so. Lord, I can't love my enemies enable me

1367
01:13:07.119 --> 01:13:09.239
to do so. Do you walk away just saying, God,

1368
01:13:09.439 --> 01:13:13.199
enable me to do so? And then maybe six weeks later,

1369
01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:15.960
you're sitting in that same parking lot at that same church.

1370
01:13:16.560 --> 01:13:19.039
After six weeks of asking God to enable you to

1371
01:13:19.079 --> 01:13:22.720
do all of these things, do you then find yourself going, God,

1372
01:13:22.760 --> 01:13:24.880
why did you not enable me to do these things?

1373
01:13:25.159 --> 01:13:27.960
Or have you convinced yourself that you have been enabled

1374
01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:30.960
and that you're doing what you know deep down you're

1375
01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:36.720
not doing. What does that lead you to? I want

1376
01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:39.239
to believe that I can be enabled to do these things.

1377
01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:49.520
The point is Jesus could Peter couldn't He said, well,

1378
01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:53.800
he walked on water. The point of the entire exercise

1379
01:13:53.920 --> 01:13:59.760
was to demonstrate man's frailty, man's failure, man's inability, but

1380
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:04.039
Christ's ability. By putting my faith in Christ, he does

1381
01:14:04.119 --> 01:14:07.920
not enable me to do what he can do. He

1382
01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:13.239
imputes what he did to my account. That's a radical

1383
01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:17.600
different form of Christianity. I am not saved so that

1384
01:14:17.680 --> 01:14:20.720
I am enabled. I am saved so that I am

1385
01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:23.439
giving credit for what Christ has done, so that I

1386
01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:29.359
am positionally perfect and righteous and holy. But practically I'm

1387
01:14:29.399 --> 01:14:31.479
still the person who'll get out of the boat and

1388
01:14:31.520 --> 01:14:37.399
will sink. I will be a person that my life

1389
01:14:37.439 --> 01:14:48.560
will be filled with worry, anxiety, doubt, fear, anger, confusion, bitterness, unforgiveness, sin, lust, hatred, coveteousness.

1390
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:50.439
All of those things are going to arise in my

1391
01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:53.520
life over and over and over again. I'm never gonna

1392
01:14:53.520 --> 01:15:02.279
be holy as God is holy, positionally looking in Christ,

1393
01:15:02.600 --> 01:15:13.239
I walk on water. Positionally practically, I think, but I

1394
01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:16.920
am saved because of what Christ did that's imputed to

1395
01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:20.479
my account. See, that's a completely different form of Christianity.

1396
01:15:20.680 --> 01:15:23.199
You're talking to different. Now. You may like his model,

1397
01:15:23.239 --> 01:15:26.520
and that's okay. You may believe in the zero one

1398
01:15:26.600 --> 01:15:28.840
hundred idea. By all means, go with that.

1399
01:15:29.039 --> 01:15:29.479
Go with that.

1400
01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:32.520
Go I'm not telling you not to go live that way.

1401
01:15:33.119 --> 01:15:37.560
Believe that. I'll just ask you just be very open

1402
01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:41.439
and honest with yourself and see how you are not

1403
01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:44.159
holy as God is holy in thought, were deed, and

1404
01:15:44.720 --> 01:15:46.560
just acknowledge it. And at some point you're gonna have

1405
01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:49.279
to go. So either either I'm not getting out of

1406
01:15:49.319 --> 01:15:52.239
the boat here, or maybe this entire concept is wrong.

1407
01:15:52.520 --> 01:15:54.600
You can determine that. I'm not here to tell you

1408
01:15:54.600 --> 01:15:58.239
one way or the other. I love sermons, even if

1409
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:00.479
I disagree with them, because this is for me to

1410
01:16:00.520 --> 01:16:04.479
consider all of this. But it was just so crazy

1411
01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:07.600
how he mentioned the hyposthetic union and then just immediately

1412
01:16:07.600 --> 01:16:11.399
what did he focus on? Not on the deity. We

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saw this and the devotional and we saw this here.

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He ignored the deity of Christ immediately. Like Christ relied

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on God the same way Peter did, It's not the

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same way. It's not the same thing. Peter is a

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human sinful. Christ is the eternal son of God, sinless.

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It's not the same. Drawing that correlation is functional canotic heresy.

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Thank you for listening, God bless