Nov. 16, 2024

Christianity and False Comfort Pt 1

Christianity and False Comfort Pt 1

A discussion about false comfort within Christianity

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A discussion about false comfort within Christianity

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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 afternoon everyone. Yeah,

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there was kind of a dramatic pause there. There was

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kind of a dramatic pause because I was thinking, what

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exactly should I say right now? Should I just go

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in and say my typical introduction or should I just

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start expressing my emotion and my frustration. Which way should

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I go? I guess I'll start in a much more

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positive way, right I guess I'll start sounding at least

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sounding a little bit more positive. Good afternoon everyone. It

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is Saturday, November sixteenth, twenty twenty four. It is currently

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twelve fifty three pm Central time, and I am coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. That is about as positive as

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I can be right now. That's about it, because I'm

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kind of sitting here and that pause is kind of

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symbolic of I don't really know if I know what

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to say or what to do. You know, it was

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such a good idea, It really was such a good idea.

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Let's challenge everyone to take this wonderful resource that's available

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to everyone for free. The sermons two point oh app Right,

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let's get everyone to download the sermon's two point oh

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app well, they will where they will have access to

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millions of sermons for free. They can download them, they

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can listen to them, they can do search by topic,

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by Bible verse, by anything, and they have all of

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these sermons available. Let's get everyone to download this app

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and then we'll have them listen to at least one

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sermon every single day, forever, very single day of twenty

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twenty four. It'll be fun, it'll be interesting. We'll have

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them choose these sermons as random as possible, not picking

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a certain denomination or a certain anything, just or a

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certain speaker. Just hey, look up random sermons, or look

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up sermons on this passage of scripture, or look up

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sermons on this topic. But still make it random. You're

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not looking for your favorite preacher or your favorite kind

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of church. And then you can hear all kinds of

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different perspectives. What a wonderful idea, What a great idea?

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That's exciting, that's encouraging, that's wonderful. And where have I

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found myself? Well, I find myself on this Saturday, November sixteenth,

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twenty twenty four, and the excitement is gone. Okay, the

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even being excited about finishing this has disappeared. I really

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just don't even care anymore. I mean, I hate to

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say that, I feel like that the Sermon's two point

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zero app sermon challenge has turned into a negative thing.

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And I never I never envisioned that it would. I

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knew there would be some twists and turns and ups

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and downs, and there would be some frustration and some irritation.

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But here's where I am on this Saturday, no verm

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the sixteenth, twenty twenty four. This is where I am,

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after listening to sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon

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after sermon. This is how I feel. This is expressing

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my emotion as raw and as unfiltered as I possibly

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can at this point. I feel that Christianity constantly offers

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nothing more than fraudulent promises, that Christianity constantly offers nothing

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more than false comfort, That Christianity constantly offers nothing more

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than shallow peace. It offers me, it offers you an

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illusion of hope. It is nothing more than a lie,

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a sham, and it leaves people confused and broken. That's

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how I feel. I know that that's probably not gonna

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make everyone happy. Let me let me state it again carefully.

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After all of this time I'm listening to sermon after

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sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon, I have reached

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this place where I feel that Christianity constantly, constantly offers

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nothing more than fraudulent promises, false comfort, shallow piece. It

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offers nothing more than an illusion of hope. It is

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nothing more than a lie. It is a sham, and

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it leaves people confused and broken. Those are some strong

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worst you see. You notice now why there was a

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pause at the beginning, because should I even say that? Now?

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If I was to try to set aside my emotion,

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set aside my feelings, I may state that a little

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different differently. Instead of necessarily saying Christianity, I think maybe

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what I could say is Churchianity. The church, many pastors,

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many preachers, many Bible teachers. They constantly offer nothing more

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than fraudulent promises, false comfort, shallow piece, an illusion of hope.

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They offer nothing more than a lie, a sham, and

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it leaves people broken and confused. See. I think if

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I were it that way, then it makes people a

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little bit more comfortable. If I say Christianity. Ooh, I

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can see why that would make people uncomfortable. But if

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I say Churchianity, then I'm taking Christianity and I'm referring

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to the Church what we see, right, I'm not talking

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about the truths of Christianity. I'm talking about the earthly

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representation of Christianity, the Church, what we see, the institution,

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the corporate Church. Well, however you would like to describe it,

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so I think i'll state it this way. At least Churchianity,

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I'll state it that way offers nothing more than fraudulent promises,

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false comfort, shallow piece and illusion of hope. It's nothing

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more than a lie. It is a sham, and it

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leaves people confused and broken. And that's how I feel

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on this November sixteenth, twenty twenty four, after almost an

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entire year, because we started in December of twenty twenty three,

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we're fast approaching the end of our sermons two point

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zero app sermon Challenge, and by the end of this

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I just feel like what happened? Now? Maybe your experience

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is very different, right, and you should write a paragraph

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describing your experience. I would love to know your experience.

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You may feel completely different after a year of sermons,

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you may feel rejuvenated, revived. You may feel excited, you

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may have a passion for God's word, you may feel hopeful.

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You may feel like that the Christianity is at the

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we're in the golden era of Christianity, the Golden age.

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Things are amazing. You may be you may have a

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completely different experience. Now, a lot of that may be

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based on the sermons we chose to listen to. It

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may be on our perception. But I'm here like there's

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almost a part of me that says, do I ever

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want to listen to another sermon? Ever? Again? Ever? Again?

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This is what has happened, especially over the last month

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or so, is I feel like we have found ourselves

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if you've been following along being confronted with false comfort,

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false peace, and false hope, and sermon after sermon after

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sermon after sermon after sermon. Now, there's basically two ways

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in which this has occurred, two basic ways. If I

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wish to summarize how we ended here, what we ended

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here by listening to sermons, but in the sermons, in

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the Bible teaching, we have found ourselves here because there's

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basically two things happening in sermons that I think leads

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you to drawing the conclusion that church entity offers nothing

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more than fraudulent promises, false comfort, shallow piece and illusion

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of hope. It is nothing more than a lie, a sham,

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and it leaves people confused and broken. I think there's

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two things that happen that me to this confused this conclusion.

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Number one is how the church constantly speaks of salvation

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and sin sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon. Somewhere

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in the sermon, it's this idea that, hey, when you

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became a Christian, don don dundah, you were given superpowers.

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Now you can say no to sin, yes to God.

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You basically can stop sinning. You have a new heart,

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you have a new spirit. The old nature is completely gone.

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You're a new creature. Whole things have passed away, whole

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things have become new. You basically can walk on water,

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go do it. Oh wait, you sinned, Well you're probably

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not saved. You're going to hell over and over. That

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type of preaching manifests itself. Now they may try to

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backtrack a little bit, they may try to offer a

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little bit of balance, but you walk away from sermon

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after sermon, thinking, look, I've basically now basically right there,

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I almost threw the microphone across the room. But basically,

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sermon after sermon after sermon, you basically come to the

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conclusion that I should be perfect, that I should be

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basically without sin. I should be basically sin so little

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that it's not really even detectable. And if I do sin,

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it's some insignificant sin. It's not going to be any

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big sin, because you know, Christians don't really commit big

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sins because why well, all of the old is gone

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and everything is new. This happens over and over and

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sermon after sermon, and we have reviewed it. We've reviewed

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so many sermons that present this way of thinking, and

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we've even showed how many of these sermons they contradict

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themselves after going thirty five to forty minutes basically acting

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like you nobody should sin, and they'll say, well, nobody's

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going to do it perfect. Well, we still fight against sin, Well,

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we still fight against the flesh. Wait a minute, you

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said to have a new heart and new spirit. You said,

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I'm a new creature, the oldest gone, And what am

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I fighting against? And it's just maddening and it's confusing.

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But you know what, it leads people with a false hope,

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a fraudulent promise, a shallow peace because you cling to

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this thinking, Okay, this is it. I've got it, And

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then you face reality. You hear all of the preaching

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and it's so disconnected with the reality of what goes

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on in the lives of and the lives of believers,

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and what's going on inside the church. It is so

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disconnected from it. And then we get story after story

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about this pastor and this church and this sin and

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this sin and this sin and this, and everybody's like, well,

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the only thing you know to do is throw everyone

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out of the Kingdom of God, because true Christians don't

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do any of this, because we basically have become superheroes.

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I don't know why we're not all perfect. But then

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they'll say, well, we're not saying you'll be perfect. Well,

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and it's just this circular reasoning, conradictory statements, and it

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is maddening, and after a while you just like, I

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just don't get it. I disagree with everything within within Churchianity.

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I'll use the word churchianity because you just it's so

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it's preaching a fairy tale. It's so it can't face

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the reality of the world around. Christianity should be able

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to speak to reality, not simply create a fraudulent reality

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that we all pretend to be in and nobody can

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be very open and honest and transparent that we all sin.

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God's standard is perfection. Nobody is perfect. Therefore we are

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all in a perpetual state of sin because we can't

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obey the simple command to be holy as He is holy.

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We can't obey the simple command to be perfect as

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your heavenly Father is perfect. We can't obey the command

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to love God with all of our heart, my body,

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and soulf We can't obey. And I can go on

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from scripture after scripture after scripture. Nobody all, but somehow,

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we are told in sermon after sermon after sermon that

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basically we should be perfect. Does that not drive anybody

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else crazy? Is it not maddening? Is it not ridiculous?

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Because it creates a Christianity that is detached from reality.

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We should be able. Christianity should be able to be

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very real with reality. It should be able to confront

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it and speak to it in a correct way. So

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that's the first main way that this has occurred. This

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is what brought us to this point, or at least

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brought me to this point of just I don't know

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what to say anymore. Christianity's constantly offering this fraudulent hope,

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this false hope, this false comfort, and the first way

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they do so is the way they speak about salvation

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and sin, creating a reality that nobody truly experiences. Or

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you have to convince yourself that you're so much better

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and so more godly than you really are. But if

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you would just compare your life to the law of God,

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you would be like I fall short. I fall short,

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I fall short, I fall short. Why can I not

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get to perfection? And if I can't get to perfection,

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then I'm a perpetual state of sin. It may not

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be that sin, it may not be that sin, but

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I'm still in a perpetual state of sin. So then

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can I, who's in a perpetual state of sin pick

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up rocks and throw them at other people who just

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happened to be in a perpetual state of sin but

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they committed the big sins? Where I'm at a perpetual

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stat of sin, but I didn't commit those sins, so

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I can pick up the rocks and stone those people,

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even though I'm in a perpetual state of sin. It's maddening,

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it's ridiculous, it's foolishness. How do you play that game?

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I don't know. So that's the first way this occurs.

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It's this the way the church handles this. Number two,

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The second way that we've watched this unfold with this

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false comfort, false hope, false promises, all these fraudulent things,

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is the way the church constantly misapplies and hijack scriptures

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that were meant for someone else, and we hijacket apply

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it to ourselves. Still the promises claim that is for us,

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and then pretend that somehow these things are happening, when

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in reality they are not. And we watch this over

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and over and over again. In fact, I think what

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became so depressing in all of this is I started

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feeling like that. That's all I do is the I

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turn on the microphone to go, Okay, here's another sermon. Okay,

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here's the passage of scripture. Okay, please know what they do.

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They insert us, They move the people out. Hey, ladies

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and gentlemen, here's another scripture. Look what they do. They

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insert us, they move the original recipients. Hey, ladies and gentlemen,

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here's another scripture. And that's maddening. In the last month

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or so, we can forget everything else we've covered over

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twenty twenty four. But over the last month or so,

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really three passages have kind of emerged to the surface

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as being the issue. The first one we know, right,

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we know the first one. Everyone want to say it Isaiah.

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Come on, everyone want to say it. Isaiah chapter forty

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verse one. Isaiah chapter forty verse one, where we read

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these words comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God,

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and sermon after sermon the people that this was spoken

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to their context, everything about them. They are kicked out,

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they may be mentioned. They may be mentioned as we

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walk them to the door, push them out the door,

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slam the door shut, and say, ladies and gentlemen, this

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is our comfort. Comfort for you, comfort for me. We

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still this comfort. We hijack this text and we make

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Isaiah forty through fifty five, which is the book of comfort,

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a comfort for us and for you and for me.

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And we don't really care about the people who I

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don't know were really suffering in Babylonian captivity. I mean, yeah,

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it's great God did something for them, but it's all

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about us. And then we start taking and hijacking it

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and applying it and ignoring the context and taking the

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comfort that was meant for them, which was very material,

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very physical, very tangible, and then we tell people that

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we get that same kind of material, tangible, physical comfort,

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and you're like, uh, have you looked at the world lately?

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Come on now, So there's the first passage Isaiah forty

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verse one, and what has that led to Isaiah chapter

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forty verse one has led to us now beginning a

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series where we're going to cover Isaiah chapter forty verse

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one all the way to the end of chapter fifty five.

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We're gonna cover the entire section. It's gonna go long,

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it's gonna be tedious, but we're gonna go through it.

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Why because of all of the misapplication, mishandling twisting of

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the text, someone's got to look at it in its

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historical context. So that is what we're going to do.

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So we have this series Isaiah forty through fifty five.

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chapter thirty two, which is Moses' song Deuteronomy thirty two

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to ten. We read these words, he found him in

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a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness. He

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led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as

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the apple of his eye. And what we've saw sermon

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we've sold, well, a lot of sermons don't really address it.

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We definitely found one main sermon, one main teaching, but

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it's coming throughout Christianity. To go to Deuteronomy thirty two ten.

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If I said Isaiah thirty two ten, I apologize Deuteronomy

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thirty two ten. Go to Deuteronomy thirty two ten. And again,

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what do we do? We make it about us. It's

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not that he found him, he found us. It's not

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about he led him. It's about him leading us. It's

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not about he instructed him. It's about him he instructing us.

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It's not about he kept him. It's about him keeping us.

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And we immediately go in and sert us into the

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text and move everyone out, and it's all about us again.

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And then it takes these promises, which again are very tangible,

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very material, very physical because of the context in which

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Deuteronomy thirty two is found, and we make it about us.

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So what we're going to do is we will do

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some specific teaching on Deuteronomy thirty two, kind of on

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the chapter and then specifically on verse ten. We've already

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done some, we'll do a little bit more and we'll

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try to wrap it up to some level. We'll try

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to wrap it up. Okay, I don't know. Maybe we'll

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make that a little mini series on Deuteronomy thirty two.

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I don't know, but we're gonna work on that. Then

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we stumbled upon again. This one is Hebrews chapter six,

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Hebrews chapter six. We started talking about this yesterday Hebrews

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chapter six, verse thirteen. Hebrews chapter six, verse thirteen. For

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when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear

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by no greater, he swear by himself, saying, surely blessing,

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I will bless THEE, and multiplying, I will multiply THEE.

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For men rarely swear by the greater an oath, for

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confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein

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God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise,

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the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath

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that by two immutable things in which it was impossible

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for God to lie, we might have strong consolation who

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have fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope

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set before us, which hope we have as an anchor

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of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth

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into that within the veil, whether the forerunner is for

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us entered it, Whether whether the forerunner is for us

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entered even Jesus made a high priest forever after the

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order of Melchizedek. Okay, now another way that's written. You

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have to really kind of break it down. But what

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we learned listening to a sermon is that the anchor

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is our anchor, and stop being their anchor. And immediately

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this is a made promises about us, and these promises

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become for us and about us, and said, oh wait,

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what about them? And what is the context? So we

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have Isaiah forty verse one, how are we handling that?

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way to the end of fifty five. We're doing the

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entire series on that. We have Deuteronomy thirty two ten,

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we've already covered it, but we'll do some kind of

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like teaching to bring it to some kind of a

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conclusion once again, to demonstrate that this passage is being

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ripped out of its context and applied to us without

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dealing with the original people, and then making those promises

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somehow applicable to us and almost acting like the promises

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are for our material, physical, tangible lie, you know, in

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a tangible way for us. Then we have Hebrews chapter six,

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verses thirteen through twenty, where clearly, I mean, if you

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just look at the context, it's promises to abra Ham.

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This is written to the Hebrews, so this clearly has

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a Jewish context, and we can go through, wait, what

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are these promises? What is this strong consolation? What is

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it about? Who is it for? And instead of ripping

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it out of its context, we'll do a little work

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and teaching on this to put it in its proper context.

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through fifty five, Isaiah chapters forty through fifty five. We're

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gonna do a little bit of teaching and try to

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wrap up our discussion on Deuteronomy thirty two, and we're

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gonna do a little bit of work and try to

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finish up our study of Hebrews chapter six. We're going

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to do all of that, and maybe we'll take all

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of that and put it in a Maybe we'll put

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all of that teaching in a series that we may

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refer to as Christianity and false comfort or false comfort

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in Christianity are Christianity's false comfort something along those lines,

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And then we're gonna put everything in that series. I

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think that's what we will do, and then we're gonna

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add something to that. What I want to do is

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I want to spend some time looking at all of

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the negative consequences that this false comfort causes and brings

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to people's lives, and then I want to look at

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all the ways Christianity offers false comfort. Now I've already

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given you two clear ways that has led me to

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this frustration, right, how the Church deals with sin and

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its misapplication and hijacking of scripture. But we'll get to

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some more specific ways in this. So that's really kind

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of the introduction we had this, And I want you

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to just realize, how did we end up in Isaiah

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forty verse one a random sermon? Right? How did we

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end up in Deuteronomy thirty two ten, a random sermon.

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How did we end up in Hebrew six thirteen through

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twenty a random sermon. It wasn't like I set out

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to go I'm going to go find sermons that offer

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false comfort and false peace. No, all of this came

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about because we're just going from sermon after sermon after

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sermon after sermon, random sermons, and starting to realize that

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this is what's happening over and over and over and

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over and over and over and over and over again.

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So we have to deal with all of this, right,

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I've got to try to put it all together and

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try to you know, I can use all the metaphors,

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land the plane, bring the ship into harbor, however you

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want to, you know, finish the race, bring the train

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into the station, whatever metaphor works for you. I've got

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to try to put this all together so that yes,

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we're gonna be talking about some of these similar things

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in our study in Isaiah forty through fifty five because

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it's applicable, and then we'll be talking about some of

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these things of you. And then I think, so I

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think we can have our series on Isaiah forty through

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fifty five, and then we can have this series on

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Christianity's false comfort Christianity and false comfort, false comfort in Christianity.

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I don't know the exact title, how I should word it.

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Whichever is probably sounds the best and it's more clear.

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I may have to you know, I'll have to try

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to figure that out, but then create and then put

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all of this additional discussion about Deuteronomy, Hebrew six, and

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just the concept in general in this series. So we'll

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have some kind of at least summer that will have

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at least just two main series dealing with this subject,

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one in the context of Isaiah forty through fifty five,

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the other in a broader context but including discussion on

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Deuteronomy thirty two and Hebrews chapter six, somewhat running parallel

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until we can bring one to the to a conclusion,

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because Isaiah forty through fifty five will go much longer,

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and the hopefully I'm scared to review any more sermons

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like the one sermon on Hebrew six that was part

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that was a a prep sermon for a conference that

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was happening, a preaching conference. I wanted to keep listening

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to the messages in the preaching conference, but you know what,

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I'm scared of that every sermon after I'm going to

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keep finding the same thing, either the how they speak

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of salvation and sin or how they misapply and misinterpret

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scripture and move the original recipients out to insert ourselves

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into it. And I can't. I don't want to find anymore.

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I don't want to find anymore. I'm sick of that.

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And what's crazy about this kind of wild Challenger experiment

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is I never went into it going, oh, this is

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where we're going, this is how we're going to end.

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I never envisioned in December twenty twenty three that I

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would be here on November sixteenth, twenty twenty four, going, hey,

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I'm tired of it. I'm sick of it. I'm fed

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up of it. Christianity offers nothing more than fraudulent promises,

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false comfort, shallow peace, an illusion of hope is nothing

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more than a lie, a sham. At least people confused

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and broken. I never would have thought that's where I

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would have ended up. That was never the intention, that

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was never the goal. I wanted everyone to be like that.

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And again, hopefully it's positive for you. If it's positive

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for you, now that's awesome. I just hope it's positive

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for you because you are listening to discernments and facing reality.

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It's not positive for you because you're listening to discernments

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and denying reality. So how do we deal with false

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comfort and Christianity? Where should we begin? Well? I think

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all of this led me to two passages. The first

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one is in Jeremiah chapter six. Jeremiah, Verse fourteen. Jeremiah

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chapter six. Now I want to go verse to verse fourteen.

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Let's go to verse thirteen, right, Jeremiah chapter six, Verse thirteen.

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For from the least of them, even unto the greatest

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of them, everyone is given to coveteousness. And from the prophets,

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even unto the priest, everyone dealeth falsely. Oh, now, this

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is Jeremiah bringing words of rebuke and condemnation to the

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religious leaders. Listen to that. Again, From the least of them,

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even unto the greatest of them, everyone is given to coveteousness.

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All right, So a lot of what motivates what they

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do is coveteousness, money, position, fame, popularity. They covet something

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right and preaching. If you covet anything other than just

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being faithful to the text, You're in trouble, and let

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make it, make it very clear. I covet other things

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other than just the text. I have my entire ministry

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just like other people, because we're human beings and we

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have a sinful nature, right, but we have to be

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aware of man. Am I doing this because I want popularity?

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Am I doing this because I want fame? Am I

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doing this because I need a paycheck? Am I doing

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this because I need people to support the ministry? Am

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I doing this because I want more downloads? Am I

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doing this because I want more streams? Am I doing

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this because I want, you know, people to not in

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this case for me pay money to go to my conference?

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Do I want this for people to buy my books?

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But look what happens and from the prophet, even unto

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the priests, everyone dealeth falsely, They dealeth falsely, and what way?

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Look at verse fourteen. They have healed also the hurt

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of the daughter of my people slightly. Hey, hey, you've

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brought healing to the hurt, just slightly. It almost feels

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like almost a little sarcastically because this is what you're saying.

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You're saying peace, peace, when there is no peace. The

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priest the prophets. The religious leaders are running around, say no, no, no, everyone,

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hey hey hey hey peace, Peace, find comfort, find hope, peace,

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everything is okay, But there is no peace. It's an illusion,

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it's a lie, it's false comfort. Go to Jeremiah chapter eight.

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The exact same words are used. Jeremiah chapter eight. Look

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at verse ten. Jeremiah chapter eight, Verse ten. Therefore will

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I give their wives and to others, and their fields

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to them, that she'll inherit them. For everyone from the least,

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even unto the greatest, is given to consciousness, from the prophet,

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even unto the priest. Everyone dealth falsely, for they have

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healed a herd of the daughter of my people, slightly

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saying peace, peace, when there is no peace. Jeremiah is

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upset with the religious leaders for running around and they're

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acting based off more covectiousness than anything else, and they're

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telling people everything's good, everything's okay. Here's a little bit

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of comfort, here's a little bit of peace, here's a

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little bit of hope. But it's all fraudulent. So if

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you know anything about the Book of Jeremiah, you know

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it serves as both a warning and a message of hope.

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Addressing the spiritual, moral, and social corruption of Judah during

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a critical people a critical period in its history. Jeremiah

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was commissioned by God to call the people of Judah

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back to faithfulness. The book emphasizes judas persistent idolatry. They're injustice,

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the rejection of God's covenant, and through vivid imagery and prophecies,

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Jeremiah warns that have failure to repent will lead to judgment.

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He's like, hey, you're idolatry. You're doing this, you're doing

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this and doing this. You need to repent. Judgment is coming.

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While he's running around telling everyone that you got the

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other religious leaders go no, no, no, no, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys,

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he's all negative. And now I'm paraphrasing here, all right,

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So I'm not saying that this is exactly how it

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went down. I'm just trying to be illustrative here. Hey, hey, guys,

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that Jeremiah. He's all negative and he hates the country.

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Whatever their arguments would have been, but I want you

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to know you don't need to worry about it. It's peace,

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it's comfort the central and I think this and this

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very much connects us to our Isaiah forty verse one passage.

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What was central to Jeremiah's message is the announcement of

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the coming destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile. This

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judgment is portrayed as a result of Judas covenant covenant unfaithfulness,

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illustrating God's righteousness and justice. But what's central to Jeremiah's

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message is judgment is coming, captivity is coming. And the

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religious leaders are like, no, no, no no no no no

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no no no no. Peace is coming. Peace, everything is okay.

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When there is no peace, it's fraudulent comfort. Throughout the

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Book of Jeremiah, the religious leaders, the prophets, the priests

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consistently offer a people a false comfort, a false peace,

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a false hope, which directly contradicted Jeremiah's warnings from God.

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This dynamic is a significant theme in the book. It

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highlights the corruption of judah spiritual leadership and their role

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in leading people astray. And I think the same thing

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is happening today. Pastors stand behind polpe. It's offering people, Hey,

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when you become a Christiann, I guess you become superhero,

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You're and never well, that's not true. It's fraudulent it's

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fake and instead of being hey, the reality is you've

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been saved, you're saved by an imputed righteousness, not in

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infused righteousness. You're still a sinner and you're still going

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to sin and thought word. Indeed, by what you do

534
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and by what you leave undone. Nobody's excusing it. But

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we've got to have a Christianity that exists within this

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00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.599
reality because this is reality, or we can all pretend

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that we're great when we're not. And pastors stand behind

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pulpit's going to passages like Isaiah forty and saying comfort, comfort,

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00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:35.880
you get comfort, you get comfort, and stilling other people's

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comfort and then applying it to us in a way

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that is not even applicable, or going to Hebrew six

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or going to Deuteronomy thirty two, and that stuff has

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to stop. So let's consider the consequences of false comfort today.

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Just like or Amaya's day, they were offering false comfort,

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they were offering false hope and it was not a

546
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good thing. Well, it's not a good thing that it

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00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:14.599
happens today and Christianity constantly offers up this fraudulent stuff.

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So let's look at the negative and unintended consequences of

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00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:29.440
preachers offering false hope, false peace, and false comfort. I

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hate to see this now when I listen to sermons,

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I'm just like, Okay, Where comes the false message? Where

552
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:36.639
comes the false hope? Where comes the false comfort? Where

553
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:40.280
comes the false peace? I'm waiting for it? Where comes

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the misapplication, misinterpretation, ripping scripture out of context and inserting

555
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:47.480
us where we don't belong. Come on, let's go. How

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long does it take before one of these things happen? Well?

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The first negative consequence that occurs because of false hope

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is dissolute illusionment and loss of faith. It leads to

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disillusionment and loss of faith. That is one of the

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unintended consequences and negative consequences of this false, false comfort

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and false hope. It leads to disillusionment and loss of

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faith when a pastor stand and promise some kind of

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guaranteed healing or some kind of prosperity, or some kind

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of deliverance, and it fails to materialize. When you say

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trust in God and he will protect you from this,

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and he will fix this, and he will do this,

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and he will do this, and they still verses from

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the Old Testament that are very much directed towards Israel

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based off their covenantal promises. The promise is based off

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the Covenant, still them applied them to us and say, hey,

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God's going to do this, and God's gonna do this,

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and God's going to do this, and God's going to

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do this. And when those things don't materialize, when the

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healing doesn't happen, when the prosperity doesn't come, when the

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00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:03.400
deliverance doesn't come, you know what happened. People feel betrayed

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by God, they feel betrayed by the church. This leads

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to cynicism, This leads to doubt, This leads to even

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abandonment of the faith altogether. It leads to deconstruction, It

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00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.559
leads to disillusionment. It leads to a loss of faith

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because you've given all these promises and then sooner or

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00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.440
later you're like, wait a minute, this is just not materializing.

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This is just this is just not true. You say, well,

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God's gonna do this, and God's gonna do this in God,

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00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:35.639
and you're like, wait a minute, Well, there's this happening,

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and this happening, and this happening and this happening, and

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this is going on in my life. And sooner or

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later you're like, wait a minute, all of this that

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you've you've been selling me a fairy tale. It leads

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to disillusionment and a loss of faith. You can't make

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all of these promises and they don't materialize. You can't

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00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:03.639
make a promise at all that God's going to show

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00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:08.679
up and do anything for anyone in a physical, physical, tangible,

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material way. I can spend all day promising what God

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has done in Christ, Jesus forgiveness, forgiveness of sins, imputed righteousness,

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not an enfused righteousness, right that I am adopted into

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the family of God. My sins has removed as far

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00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:27.119
as the estes from the west. I can go all

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those spiritual things. I can dogmatically promise and tell people

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00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.079
that's what Christ has done. But making any promise that

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00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:37.039
God is going to show up in this way or

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00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:41.199
this way in our physical life, you're out of your mind.

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00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:49.239
You're just lying to people. So the first negative and

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00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:53.960
undetended consequence of all of this false comfort and false

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00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:59.280
hope is disillusionment and a loss of faith. It destroys

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people's faith. It leads people broken and battered and confused.

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If they're willing to admit honesty. Now, if they're willing

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00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:14.960
to admit reality, I may add something to this before

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00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.639
we're done, But okay, disillusionment and loss of faith Number two.

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It could lead to spiritual complacency. False comfort lulls people

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00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.639
into a false sense of security, making them less likely

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to seek repentant spiritual growth or a deeper reliance on God.

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Without being challenged by the reality of sin and the

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00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:37.639
need for holiness, believers remain stagnant or nominal in their faith.

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If you basically convince everyone, hey, hey, you can say

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notice sin, yes to God. You're a new creature. I

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think you become you can maybe spiritually complacent. I mean,

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what else do I need to do. I'm a new creature.

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The old is gone. I mean everything is good. I'm

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good to go now. I know what happens in churches

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is they do this weird contradiction. Hey, you're a new

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You're a new creation, the oldest gone. Everything is new.

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You have a new you have a new soul, you

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00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.039
have a new spirit. Everything is new. But you've got

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to fight against sin. You've got to fight against the

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old man. I thought it was all gone, so it contradicts.

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But I think it can lead people sitting in the

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pew going well, well, I do think it just leaves

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them confused. I don't know if they become spiritually complacent

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because of that, but you could see how you would

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be why do I need to worry about sin? I'm

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good to go, I'm golden. I mean you basically make

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it sound like I'm basically, you know, almost perfect. So

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disillusionment and loss of faith. Number two, it could lead

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to spiritual complacency of such to some degree. I think

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Number three it leaves people unprepared for trials. When people

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are taught that basically their faith will just shield them

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00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:57.880
from suffering, they're going to be ill equipped to endure hardship,

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00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.480
leading to confusion and despair when life becomes difficult. They

639
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:06.280
may question God's goodness or presence when their expectations are unmet. Look,

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00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.679
when you're being told, hey, basically, God's gonna do this

641
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:10.519
for you. God's gonna do for this for you. This

642
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:13.320
promises for you, this promises for you, this promises for you.

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Then you're like okay, great, and then all of a sudden, boom,

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00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:18.320
you get punched in the face. You're like, oh, a

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00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:21.519
nose is bleeding. My lip is bleeding. What just happened?

646
00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:25.199
Reality just hit? Okay, okay, all right, God's gonna show up.

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00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:32.039
I'm sorry your child's still dead. I'm sorry they you're

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still have cancer. I'm sorry you're still paralyzed. I'm sorry

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00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:38.000
children are still being molested in churches. I'm sorry this

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keeps happening. I'm sorry that. But wait, wait, wait, God's

651
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:43.320
going to show and sooner or later. You're kind of like,

652
00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:47.000
what just happened? You're not prepared for the reality. People

653
00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:49.920
have to be prepared that even as a Christian. Here's

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the reality pain, suffering, death, disappointment, sin, brokenness, heartache, despair, betrayal.

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You say that sounds stinking negative, It is because that's life.

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You give everybody all these fraudulent promises. That what do

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you do. You're not prepared. If you got priests running

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around in Jeremia's day going hey, no, no, guys, guys, guys, guys,

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00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:27.159
forget Jeremia's message about judgment and the Babylonians forget all

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of that peace peace. Well, then when the Babylonians is

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00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.599
knock kicking in your front door with a sword to

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00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:35.239
your throat, You're like, what just happened. I'm not prepared

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00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.320
for this. Of course you're not, cause you listen to

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stinking sermons that give you false promises. So number one disillusionment,

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loss of faith number two, spiritual complacency number three, unprepared

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for trials number four, and erosion of biblical understanding. This

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00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:09.039
kind of nonsensical teaching erodes any hope of biblical understanding.

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When you misuse scripture to offer false hope, it undermines

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people's ability to understand the Bible correctly. When you got

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pastors standing behind the pulpit taking this text and this

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text and this text making about you and you and

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you and me and me and me just the people

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00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:31.119
in the pew, how are they ever going to understand

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the text correctly? How are they ever going to figure

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it out? When all they ever hear is the misapplication, twisting,

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and misapplying of scripture. What this basically leads to is

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a shallow, selective approach to scripture, where promises are taking

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out of context and harder truths are ignored. Hey, hey,

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look everyone, we're in Isaiah forty verse one. Hey, I'm

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glad you came to church today because I'm gonna offer

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you comfort, even though I'm gonna use the text literally

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out of its context. We're gonna go to Deuteronomy thirty two,

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We're gonna rip it out of context. We're gonna go

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to Hebrews chapter six. Forget the people who suffered in

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seventy eight, just a few years after this was written,

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who turned to cannibalism and was eating one another, and

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they suffered, and they died, and over a million people died.

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Who cares about them? We'll just make it about us. Well,

689
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:34.880
how is anyone going to how is anyone going to

690
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:47.719
understand the scriptures? In how we have to understand the

691
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:49.639
text and we got to know, you know what, sometimes

692
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:55.199
we have to do. M Okay, what can I do

693
00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.760
with that? How is that really applicable? Is that really applicable? Now,

694
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:01.039
there may be a lesson in it, but a lesson

695
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:03.480
is far different than making it applicable to me. In

696
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:06.280
other words, there may be a lesson about God, but

697
00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:08.239
that doesn't mean that that God is going to do

698
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:11.559
for me what he did for them, Because, especially in

699
00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:17.760
the Old Testament, Israel is under a covenant or under

700
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.039
covenantal promises that are not applicable to us. Promises of

701
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:26.679
land a blessing of all. Just look at Deuteronomy twenty eight,

702
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:29.440
all the promises given to them and all of those Look,

703
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:31.840
they get all the curses over and over and over

704
00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:33.400
and over, and so when are they going to get

705
00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:35.519
the promises? They're going to get the promises when you

706
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.360
go to Ezekiel thirty six, Jeremiah thirty one, you look

707
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:40.239
at the New Covenant, then God is going to bring

708
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:42.760
them into land, and all of those Deuteronomy twenty eight

709
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.599
promises is now going to be fulfilled, not because they

710
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.079
ever finally kept the law, because God is going to

711
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:51.360
save them. And then we go to Romans, and we

712
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.199
can put it all together. It can make sense if

713
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:57.480
you put it in any kind of actual context, but

714
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.960
we so want to insert ourselves, rip them, rip the

715
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:03.239
verses out of context, shove them out of the way,

716
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:05.280
and then say it's all about us. Well, I don't

717
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:10.599
know how anyone is ever going to understand scripture. And

718
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:12.559
even if you rip the scripture out of context and

719
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:14.719
apply it to you and apply it to me, kiss

720
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:17.840
what sooner or later one day you're gonna wake up going,

721
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:20.280
wait a minute, none of this works the way I've

722
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:22.960
been told. I've been told this my whole Christian life.

723
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:26.239
That's just you're going to see your own sin. You're

724
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:28.199
going to see your own failure, You're going to see

725
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:30.400
your own hardship. You're going to see the pain and

726
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:32.960
suffering around you. And at some point you're gonna go,

727
00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:37.039
wait a minute, guys, this is all a sham. Now,

728
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:39.639
some of you will. The rest of you are more

729
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:46.519
than happy. You're comfortably numb. You the you know, religion

730
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.599
has become the opium opium of the masses. You've gotten

731
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:53.159
a little bit, You've been drugged into a false sense

732
00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:55.599
of security, and you feel great, and even when tragedy

733
00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:58.719
comes you, you still will just hold on to this illusion.

734
00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:01.159
And that's great. If you hold on to the illusion,

735
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:04.480
you probably will enjoy Christianity better than those of us

736
00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.559
who the illusion has been shattered. And for some weird reason,

737
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.360
we can't stop staring into the face of reality, and

738
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:13.119
we keep staring into the face of reality going hmm,

739
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.760
I think I've been lied to my entire Christian life.

740
00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:26.239
So it leads to disillusionment loss of faith number two.

741
00:48:26.519 --> 00:48:29.719
It leads to a spiritual complacency to some level. I mean,

742
00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:37.119
it's gonna have issues there. Number three, you're unprepared for trials.

743
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:40.920
Number four, it's an erosion of biblical understanding. I don't

744
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:43.760
know how you can't see that. Number four. It leads

745
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:49.519
to a mistrust of church leadership. When pastors repeatedly offer

746
00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:54.000
empty assurance, people begin to lose trust in their leadership.

747
00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:57.760
This leads to divisions within the church and causes individuals

748
00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:03.079
to leave organize religion altogether. This leads people to say,

749
00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:06.000
forget it. The church is trash, the church is just

750
00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:09.760
a fairy tale. It's not dealing with reality. And guess

751
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:12.920
what it's not church attendance continuing to drop. Now we

752
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.760
could get into the d why people have left the church.

753
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:19.360
Some people say politics, So I think at some point

754
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.000
there's always gonna be Look, they may always be in

755
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:25.000
the minority. They may always be in the minority. But

756
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:28.039
I think the minority of people who become disillusioned and

757
00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:31.719
sick of Christianity and the church. And when I say Christianity,

758
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:37.719
institutionalize Christianity Churchianity, I think because they can't stop looking

759
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.079
at reality and they go to church, they're looking at reality.

760
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.119
They look at all these people talking like what is happening?

761
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:47.199
It's like you live in a foreign world. They're like,

762
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:50.440
You're like, you're speaking a different language. You're like from

763
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:52.519
a different country, and you're like, what is wrong with

764
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.159
all of these people? And they're all talking, and you're

765
00:49:55.199 --> 00:50:04.119
like everything you say is just garbage. Just stop it now.

766
00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:06.440
For some of you, you never see it. And that's great.

767
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:09.679
I almost envy you that I could just go back

768
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:12.440
to those days where I kind of bought into all

769
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:14.559
of it, and now it's kind of like the whole

770
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:17.320
thing has been blown apart. It's like, come on now.

771
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:22.320
And so it leads why would you trust pastors who

772
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:26.639
keep saying this trash from sermons where they're clearly taking

773
00:50:26.679 --> 00:50:28.800
scripture not meant for us and ripping it out of

774
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.159
context and trying to give me the You know, you're

775
00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:34.360
trying to give me comfort that belongs to them. Now

776
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:36.440
if you want to take it and try to explain

777
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.480
how it connects to me, that I know this, those

778
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:44.360
promises are not for me in a material, tangible, physical way.

779
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:46.840
That would only relate to the promises I've been given

780
00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:51.639
in a spiritual way, which then lays the groundwork for

781
00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:55.239
fulfillment in a physical way. But that's an eternity not

782
00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:57.559
now see now we can try to put it together.

783
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:10.440
So it's a mistrust. It leads to a mistrust of

784
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:15.599
church leadership. It also leads to continuing to perpetuate, continuing

785
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:24.920
to spread false theology, false teaching about God's promises spreads.

786
00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:29.719
It leads to widespread misunderstanding of core doctrines like suffering

787
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:33.199
and the nature of God. This creates a circle where

788
00:51:33.239 --> 00:51:36.719
new preachers and believers adopt and propagate the same eras

789
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:41.039
it only perpetuates false teaching. You continue to give this wrong,

790
00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:43.480
this false comfort, and this false hope, and then you

791
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:47.000
continue to sell it those people. They continue to spread it,

792
00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:51.559
and it perpetuates this false idea about life, about Christianity,

793
00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:55.239
about God, about reality, and it perpetuates it, and it

794
00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:09.159
spreads it, and it's got to stop at some point.

795
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:13.440
Number one, at least to disillusionment and a loss of faith.

796
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:16.800
Number two, it leads to spiritual complacency. Number three, It

797
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:20.960
leaves us unprepared for trials. Number four, It erodes biblical misunderstanding.

798
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.239
Number five, It leads to a mistrust of church leadership. Next,

799
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:30.800
it perpetuates false theology about reality, God, sin, pain, suffering.

800
00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:37.639
Number seven. It leads to a neglect of genuine spiritual needs.

801
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:41.960
By focusing on superficial comfort, pastors often neglect deeper spiritual

802
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:50.199
issues such as repentance, salvation, the pursuit of holiness, God's law, grace, gospel.

803
00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:55.159
People's real struggles, both spiritual and practical, go unaddressed because

804
00:52:55.199 --> 00:52:57.639
all you're doing you're not really dealing. You're just giving

805
00:52:57.639 --> 00:53:02.280
everyone a false sense of trying to make them feel better.

806
00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:05.000
But you're not dealing with anything real. You're not dealing

807
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:08.280
with anything tangible, especially with the sin thing. You don't

808
00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:10.800
deal with people's sin. You just say basically, you should

809
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:13.039
stop sinning because you're a Christian. Is saying, wait a minute,

810
00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:15.039
The reality is you're still a sinner and you're going

811
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:16.800
to sin, and you're going to sin. Well, guess what

812
00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:19.719
the law is going to show you your condemnation and

813
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.079
is going to condemn you. Let me present to you

814
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:25.079
the medicine, not a false comfort, but the medicine of

815
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:27.719
the gospel. And the Gospel is needed for those who

816
00:53:27.719 --> 00:53:30.199
are lost, and it's needed for a Christian every single

817
00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:33.159
day because every single day you need the Gospel because

818
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:36.119
every single day you are in sin. And so therefore

819
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:41.480
the real needs of people are not met. You just

820
00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:45.480
continue to give them the almost, pushing them into pretending

821
00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:47.960
and putting on fig leaves and a robe of self

822
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:50.440
righteousness because nobody wants to be able to nobody can

823
00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:55.159
handle reality, so genuine needs are not met. A genuine

824
00:53:55.159 --> 00:53:57.400
need is not met if you give people false comfort

825
00:53:57.400 --> 00:54:04.400
and false hope and a lie to believe number eight,

826
00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:11.920
it has harmful and emotional mental effects. Offering false comfort

827
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:16.039
can lead people emotionally devastated when reality doesn't align with

828
00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:19.360
the promises they were given. You begin to feel guilty,

829
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:23.000
You begin to feel inadequate, and often this feelings often

830
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:26.519
arise when people are told they lack faith or obedience

831
00:54:26.559 --> 00:54:30.800
has a reason for their unfulfilled hopes. It leads to

832
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:34.519
all kinds of mental crises. It leads to emotional problems.

833
00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:37.000
You begin to look, wait a minute, I'm getting to

834
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:39.559
all this hope, all this promise, all this comfort, and

835
00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:42.800
then reality just slaps me and slaps me and slaps me,

836
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:44.719
and sooner or later you're like, wait a minute, wait

837
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.679
a minute, what is going on here? So then you

838
00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:49.239
start thinking something is wrong with me. I keep sinning.

839
00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:52.360
Maybe I'm not saved. What's wrong? With me. I struggle

840
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:54.320
with this, and I struggle with that, and what's wrong

841
00:54:54.360 --> 00:54:57.039
with me? Where's God? Well, maybe God is not helping

842
00:54:57.079 --> 00:54:59.159
me because I'm not being good enough. And then you

843
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:00.800
try to be good enough, and sooner or letter you

844
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:04.719
have an emotional breakdown. Thanks to Christianity, who breaks people

845
00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:06.880
and leaves them at a pull of their own blood

846
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:24.159
and walks away acting like they're so godly. You offer

847
00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:27.679
this false stuff. It's gonna leave people confused and trying

848
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:30.360
to figure it out. And yes, you heard my emotions

849
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:37.159
right there, because I get tired of it. You listen

850
00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:40.599
to these some of these sermons and you're like, okay, man, man, okay,

851
00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:42.280
I gotta do this, and I gotta do this, and

852
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:43.920
I gotta do this, and I gotta do this, and

853
00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:45.360
if I don't do this, and if I don't do that,

854
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:48.360
then I'm probably never saved. And it's not like I

855
00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:54.039
can trust and rest in the Gospel. They give you law, law, law, law, law, law,

856
00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:56.039
law to beat you down and beat you down and

857
00:55:56.079 --> 00:56:00.239
beat you down. So you so either you start pretending

858
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.719
or you start facing a reality that's going to lead

859
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:07.400
you to all kinds of problems. You start believing that

860
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:09.000
God's going to do this for you, and this for

861
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:11.079
you and this for you, and then when it doesn't happen,

862
00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:13.440
you're like, what do you do? What do you Where

863
00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:15.679
is God? I thought God was going to do this,

864
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:17.960
and I thought God was going to do this. I mean,

865
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:20.440
you told me that I could find comfort that God

866
00:56:20.519 --> 00:56:22.719
is all powerful. Well, right now I need the all

867
00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:27.159
powerful God? All right? Well then why am I having

868
00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:29.199
comfort in God being all powerful when he's not going

869
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:32.159
to use his power to do this? Well, I mean

870
00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:34.320
we didn't mean it that way. Well, yeah, well you

871
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:50.119
led me to believe that. Now I'm just going to

872
00:56:50.159 --> 00:57:01.320
stop right there. I got like seventeen of these. The

873
00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:09.239
harmful emotional and mental effects to me is outrageous. I

874
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:12.159
think a lot of people's time and Christianity, by the

875
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:16.800
time it's over, they're an emotional wreck. Their mental health

876
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:24.119
has been trashed again for people who can't stop looking

877
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:26.960
at reality. Look, there's a lot of people who they

878
00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:28.920
come out of Christianity and they feel better and they

879
00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:32.320
feel wonderful because they buy into the fraudulent hope. They

880
00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:36.159
feel better, so it heals them slightly, That's what Jeremiah said.

881
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:39.559
They slightly heal the people. There is a slight healing.

882
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:43.039
You feel comfort, you feel peace, you feel warm, you

883
00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:46.159
feel great, you feel like you know all is well

884
00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:48.599
with my soul. And remember the person who wrote all

885
00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:50.800
is well with my soul, Things didn't turn out so

886
00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:53.920
great for him afterwards. Right, Okay, he had an emotional

887
00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:56.400
complete breakdown because things aren't weren't all well with the

888
00:57:56.440 --> 00:58:01.400
soul because his family was dead. Okay, how about we

889
00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:08.519
face reality sometimes we don't have to say all as

890
00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:11.599
well with my soul when things aren't aren't all as well.

891
00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:14.199
We don't have to pretend to be perfect when we

892
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:17.880
know we're sinners. We don't have to pretend that promises

893
00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:22.880
of comfort that are not for us are ours. We

894
00:58:22.920 --> 00:58:25.639
can face the reality of the world around us, where

895
00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:28.360
there's pain, suffering and death, and we can face the

896
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.519
reality that pain, suffering and death impacts the believer and

897
00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:37.519
the unbeliever alike. And if we can't now again, if

898
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:40.199
you can pretend that none of that is true, then

899
00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:44.440
then your mental health is probably better. I think Christianity

900
00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:48.480
it has a for some. They go in, they're bro

901
00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:51.360
they just are destroyed, and they finally walk away from

902
00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:55.159
the church. They leave the church they're done. Others stay

903
00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:58.000
in it and they just oh, it's great, it's all wonderful,

904
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.920
and you listen to them talk. Sometimes you just kind

905
00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:05.800
of listen to them talking like you're completely delusional. You

906
00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:10.719
have lost your you've lost all touch with reality. And

907
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:13.079
you know what's sad is sometimes you just kind of

908
00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:15.480
sit back and you're like, oh, praise God, I'm glad

909
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:17.559
things are going so good in your life. But when

910
00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:20.960
the wills come off and the car crashes into the

911
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:25.639
tree and bodies are broken, they sometimes don't know what

912
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:40.480
to do. So Jeremiah gives us two places. There's a

913
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:43.880
lot of other places in Jeremiah where Jeremiah confronts the

914
00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:48.079
religious leaders for selling and promoting their fraudulent comfort, their

915
00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:53.159
false hope. And I think it's very relevant because as

916
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:55.639
we've listened to sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon

917
00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:58.320
after sermon after sermon in twenty twenty four, probably more

918
00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:01.000
sermons than maybe you've ever listened in in your life.

919
01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:03.760
If you've participated, I don't know how you feel, but

920
01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:06.679
I know this that there's two ways this fraudulent comfort

921
01:00:06.679 --> 01:00:10.000
has presented itself in all of these sermons. The constant

922
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:13.239
handling of sin and salvation, but basically telling you that

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when you become a Christian, basically now, I guess you

924
01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:17.599
can just stop sinning, you can keep the law, you

925
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can obey God, and not dealing with the reality of well,

926
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we're still sinners and we still sin. That's the first way.

927
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Second is the constant misapplying, misinterpreting, hijacking scripture and taking

928
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things that are not for us and making it for us,

929
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even though there's no way that those It's completely in

930
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a different setting, it's completely to a different people. It's

931
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under a completely different use the word dispensation if you

932
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want to use it. And we have those passages of

933
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scripture Isaiah forty verse one, we're handling Isaiah forty three

934
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one because Isaiah forty verse one, because we're going to

935
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cover every verse in Isaiah forty to Isaiah fifty five.

936
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We've looked at Deuteronomy thirty two. I'll try to put

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it together and try to wrap it up. And then

938
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we've got Hebrews six thirteen through twenty. We've already looked

939
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at it. We'll try to do something and try to

940
01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:09.599
wrap that up. And we're going to do that all

941
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:12.880
in this greater context of looking at the false comfort

942
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:19.800
in Christianity. Are Christianity's false comfort? And obviously, when I

943
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:27.559
say Christianity, I'm talking to the institutionalizes the Churchianity, and

944
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:30.000
by no means I am I calling into the question the

945
01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:41.440
truth of Christianity. So what are the consequences of this

946
01:01:41.559 --> 01:01:44.480
false comfort? It leads to disillusionment and a loss of faith,

947
01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:50.199
leads to spiritual complacency. It leads people completely unprepared and

948
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:55.760
unprotected for trials. It leads to an erosion of biblical understanding.

949
01:01:56.960 --> 01:02:03.760
It leads people to mistrust church leadership, It perpetuates false theology,

950
01:02:04.599 --> 01:02:10.880
it neglects genuine, real spiritual needs, and it has harmful

951
01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:24.400
emotional and mental effects. All Right, Yeah, I got very

952
01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:27.000
upset in all of that, because I do. I've kind

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of just I've reached kind of a breaking point in

954
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:36.400
all of this, I really have. It's one thing to

955
01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:38.719
try to say, okay, and that's what I'm going to

956
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:40.760
attempt to do when I do the Isaiah forty. What

957
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do I want to do? I want to go through

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01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:43.840
Isaiah forty through fifty five and put it in its

959
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:47.400
proper context. When I go to Deuteronomy thirty two. What

960
01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:48.559
do I want to do? I want to try to

961
01:02:48.559 --> 01:02:50.480
put in its proper context? What do I want to

962
01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:53.199
do with Hebrew six? Put in its proper context? There

963
01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:55.440
is a little bit of fun of doing that, teaching

964
01:02:55.559 --> 01:02:59.920
about it. But my frustration is it's just like it's

965
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like that's one thing that there's positive in that I

966
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:05.400
think there's positive and trying to put it in its context.

967
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The frustration is, Okay, let me go pick a random

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sermon today and see what happens. Let me just what

969
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happens if I just choose a random sermon today? What

970
01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:16.960
how quickly is it going to fall into either the

971
01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.679
whost salvation and sin problem or the misapplication ripping verses

972
01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:29.239
out of context? Where is it going to go? That's

973
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:33.840
the frustration. I can continue to try to do something different,

974
01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:37.239
which is great at times, can be fun. Hopefully it

975
01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:40.400
provides something different, but the frustration is, like, for crying

976
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out loud, it can't be every sermon I pick randomly

977
01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:49.519
falls into these this this this constant mess. There's got

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01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:52.159
to be it can't be that way. I'm not saying

979
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:57.320
every sermon does, but considering how many has fallen into

980
01:03:57.320 --> 01:04:00.760
one of those kind of two categories throughout twenty twenty

981
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:06.440
four is somewhat staggering considering they're being chosen at random.

982
01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:08.960
All right, it would be one thing if I was

983
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going in to try to prove a point. I'm going

984
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:14.079
in just to listen to preaching, and I'm walking away

985
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:19.480
going this is madness, this is not this cannot be happening.

986
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All right. Yeah, I don't know what else to say

987
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at this point. I just know this. If you have

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01:04:37.599 --> 01:04:41.320
found yourself the victim of all of these fraudulent promises,

989
01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:48.679
false hope, false comfort, this illusion, this pretend, stop pretending.

990
01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:51.840
Free yourself of the game, take off the fig leaves,

991
01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:54.639
throw away your robe of self righteousness, and just be

992
01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:58.480
honest and real with how you feel. And then pick

993
01:04:58.519 --> 01:04:59.760
it up and let's try to get back to the

994
01:04:59.760 --> 01:05:02.239
BI and try to get back to what it actually

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says to the people it was actually written to in

996
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an actual context, and not just immediately run in there

997
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and say I'm gonna put myself there and then I'm

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01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:16.719
gonna get all the stuff they get. Or you can

999
01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:19.559
just continue to pretend and by all means, get some

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01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:23.440
extra fig leaves, get an extra robe, cover yourself, pretend

1001
01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:30.000
have have some slight healing, feel better, be excited, feel comfort,

1002
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:33.119
get rid of you don't have any of the cynicism

1003
01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:36.559
and the negativity, and you can avoid people like me

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01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.519
who for some reason can't stop looking at reality. And

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I want to make it very clear that reality sometimes

1006
01:05:42.719 --> 01:05:45.119
is my own self. I know, I know my own sin,

1007
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my own and my own life. All right, thanks for listening.

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God bless