Nov. 20, 2024

Engrafted Word and Law of Liberty

Engrafted Word and Law of Liberty

A discussion about James 1:19-27

A discussion about James 1:19-27

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone.

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It is Wednesday, November the twentieth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently eleven forty five am Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. Well, I can't speak

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for you, I will speak for myself. I definitely don't

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want to talk about Isaiah chapter forty today. I need

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a break from Isaiah forty, right, I mean, wow, I

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am in some ways I know that Isaiah forty, chapter forty,

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forty one, forty two, forty three, Isaiah chapter forty to

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fifty five is going to be a part of my

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immediate future. It's going to be there for a very

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long time. I'm hoping what I can do with Isaiah

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forty through fifty five is I can kind of move

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away from I don't want to say the controversy. I

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can move away from reviewing, critiquing, analyzing, mentioning how it's

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typically handled right, the ripping the verses out of context,

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applying us, applying them to us, moving out Israel, moving us.

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And I feel that that's Look, there's no more point

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in reviewing any more sermons. They just keeps saying basically

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the same thing over and over and over. Now, yesterday

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we did hear a little kind of I guess, a

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unique take. I mean, they made claims that I can't

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find anything to I can't find anything to support their claims,

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So that was somewhat interesting, But overall it was just

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still the same basic thing. Hey, Isaiah forty, it's about you.

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It's about you. It's about you. It's about you. So

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I don't know how many more sermons, I mean, what's

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the point. There's no more point in reviewing any more

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sermons on Isaiah forty and the same thing's gonna happen

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in forty one, forty two, forty three, forty four. I mean,

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maybe we'll throw in some reviews here or there as

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we move through the entire section. But I think what

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I'm going to attempt to do on Sunday is just

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come in and go all right, Isaiah, chapter forty. Here's

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an outline of the entire chapter. I've got an entire

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observational outline, not an interpretive outline, an observational one. I'm

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gonna spend probably the first hour, brick in the whole

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chapter down into outline form, and then we're gonna just

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reset and just say, all right, here's Isaiah forty. The

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first section is I say, Isaiah chapter forty, verses one

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through two, and just start moving through it, right, not

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dealing with all of the controversy, not dealing with all

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of the fake comfort, and just kind of just moving

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through the text and just really being text based and

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not worrying about how everyone else has handled it. I

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think that's what I'm going to attempt to do, because

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I think at this point there's nothing else I can do.

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I still need to do some work on our We

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kind of started that series on false comfort. I still

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need to do a little bit more work on that

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or or you know, I've got to figure out how

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to move there. And I know I need to finish

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up the Six Secrets of the Christian Life. I think

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we're what secret number five or four or five, and

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it's just like, I don't know, I don't know if

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I can say anything new about that, because we know

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Secret four. I mean, look that book. By by the

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time we got done with what Secret two or Secret three,

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we kind of realized the book had already lost its

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ever living mind. So I don't know if I don't

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know what to do there. I feel like I have

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to finish that. So I don't want to do Isaiah forty.

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I don't necessarily want to do I feel like doing

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the series on False Comfort. I feel like now it's

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just going to be somewhat redundant. I think we've kind

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of I think we did a pretty good job on that.

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The Sixth Secrets, I think we did a I think

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we've kind of almost reached a coclusion there, even though

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we haven't reached the end of the book. And I

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told everyone to purchase the book, which is relatively cheap anyway,

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and I haven't heard a lot of feedback on the

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book by anyone, so I don't think there's a lot

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of interest in that. So so we have to move forward.

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And of course, one of the things I am going

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to do, I am going to make sure that we

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bring our sermons two point zero app sermon Challenge to

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a conclusion no matter whatever else, I don't get done

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in twenty twenty four. And you can go back and look,

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and there was a lot of things we were going

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to do in twenty twenty four that fell to the wayside. Right,

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It just this didn't happen because in my mind, once again,

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I mean, if you kind of I mean, if you

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listen to everything, you kind of have an idea. I mean,

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there's lots of twists and turns, right, So we were

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really going to follow the electionary at the beginning of

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twenty twenty four, right, that's really kind of what I

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wanted to do. But when we or did the sermons

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two point oh app sermon challenge kind of along with that,

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there was a mind that I was going to use

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the electionary right to follow to say, hey, here's what

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the lectionary reading is. Now, let's use the sermon's two

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point oh app to look for sermons specifically on this.

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But then the sermons two point oh app sermon challenge

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kind of turned into hey guys, look, let's look at

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what's going on on the app today, Hey what is

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people talking about? What is the newest sermons? Right, really

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kind of going in that direction, and that led to

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stumbling upon this sermon and this sermon and this sermon,

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and it just took us further and further away from

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the other, so that that kind of fell to the wayside.

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I always hate when I get this is the part

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of the year where I look back and go, man,

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I didn't do this right. I didn't do this right.

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But that's okay, that's okay. I think it makes sense.

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So the one thing I know, I can't go back

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and fix the things I did complete or I mean,

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some of those things are just we've we've made it

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too far down the road, right, But we've got the

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Sermon's two point Sermons two point oh app Sermon Challenge,

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and we're still very much involved in that.

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There has been no there's been no pause, there's been

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no detour we have. That's the one thing we've stayed

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consistent on, right listening to sermon after sermon after sermon

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after sermon. So here we are, November the twentieth. I mean,

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just think about it. It's almost over. I mean, this

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year is almost done, so we can at least try

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to just keep going. I mean, I'm just gonna try

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to double down on that. So today I opened up

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the Sermon's two point oh app. I went to Discovery.

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I ended up on you know, new New Sermons tab,

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and well, guess what I saw a sermon entitled now

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someone there's there's a couple of ministries today. I don't

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know if you see it on the sermon's two point

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oh app if you go to the sermon Audio website,

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you can definitely see it. But there's like some new broadcasters.

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And what happens when a new broadcaster comes along. I

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don't know if you've watch witnessed this this year, when

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a new broadcaster comes in, they bring in all of

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their old content, right, because typically a new broadcaster is

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not someone who just started broadcasting. They've been preaching, teaching

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the church, has had their sermons somewhere else, and now

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they've decided to come to sermon audio, so they bring

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in all of their sermons. So on their like their

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first day, second day, they bring in like one hundred

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two hundred sermons, so you can look. I think it's

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called a primitive Baptist broadcaster. And if you'll notice today

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under new sermons, you'll see I don't even know how

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many one hundred two hundred of that one broadcaster, and

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there's another one I don't remember the name of the

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other doing the same thing. So that's cool that they

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bring all of their content over. It's kind of frustrating

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because it all shows up under the new sermonman's tab.

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But those are not really new sermons. Some of those

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sermons go back two thousand and six, two thousand and four.

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They're bringing in their entire library and it all shows

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up into new sermons, So they are new to the platform,

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they're not actually new sermons. That may not matter to you.

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I do like hearing, you know, hey, it's Wednesday, what

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was being preached on Sunday? I do like you know

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that to some level. But so I was like, well,

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do I grab one of these? And then so I

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just kind of kept scrolling through it, and then I

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saw one entitled the Law of Liberty, and I was like, oh, yes,

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the Law of liberty. How does anyone see that and

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pass that up? I mean, come on, right, you know

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where that's from, Right, the Book of James James, Chapter one,

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verse twenty five. But whoso looketh into the perfect law

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of liberty and continue with their in, he being not

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a forgetful here, but a doer of the work, this

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man shall be blessed in his deed. Well, what is

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this law of liberty? What is this? Well? One, It's

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found in the Book of James. And we know all

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of the debates and controversy throughout Church history when it

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comes to the Book of James. You talk about nobody

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agrees on anything, Just go to the Book of James.

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Nobody agrees. Now there is a kind of a more modern,

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majority accepted way to approach the Book of James, which

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is basically, this is a book that says, if you

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don't do this or this or this, you're not saved

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kind of concept. But throughout Church history there's been much disagreement.

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And I know you're going to be shocked by this,

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that phrase law of liberty. Are you ready for this?

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To see how many different I've got the interpretations of

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the early Church Fathers, of the mid Evil Scholastics, of

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the Reformation and post Reformation period, and modern Protestantism. I've

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got how that phrase law of liberty has been interpreted

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in those different periods of church history, the Early Church,

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mid Evil Scholastics, the Reformation and post Reformation, and modern Protestantism.

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So what we will trace how this has been handled.

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But we have a brand new sermon that was uploaded

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today on the law of liberty. So how can I mean,

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come on, how can you pass that up, right, you

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cannot pass that up because you're dealing with something in

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the Book of James. Will you get all of the

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debate and disagreement. You got the phrase law of liberty.

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Nobody has agreed on what that even means throughout church history.

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We've got I mean, at this point you could just

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say law of liberty. I wonder how they're going to

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handle it, and you could just you could create a

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dartboard with all of the different possibilities and just throw

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the dark and you, you know, who knows wherever it landed.

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You probably your guests would be as good as mine.

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I have no idea where this is gonna go, but

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I thought it at least it'll be interesting. You know

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what it is. It's a break from Isaiah forty. It's

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a break from the Six Secrets of the Christian Life

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series where we kind of fell into the you know

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the same thing now, the Strongholds discussion. I really thought

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that would generate far more conversation than it did. I mean,

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come on, Strongholds, I mean, everyone talks about that. That's

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that's gotta spark some well. It's so weird, like sometimes

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you think, oh, the email box is gonna fill up,

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and then it doesn't, and then and then other times

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you don't think it is, and it's going You never know.

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You just never know. But I thought the strongholds would

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really spark some conversation. We'll see, and I really thought

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the exorcism stuff would would have sparked more conversation. I

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guess the bottom line is is I have no idea

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how to read the audience. You just have no idea.

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You don't know when someone's going to say something when

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someone isn't. But the exorcism stuff good, was kind of

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a good. Break was a good We may go back

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to that. I would like to kind of work through

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systematically the Catholic right of exorcism. I just kind of

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walk you through it almost and kind of a verse

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by verse kind of way. So maybe we will go

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back to that. But I needed a break from all

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of it. So here we go. That's what we're going

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to do. We have a little bit of a break.

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We're going to go to the law of liberty. Now,

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the goal here. This is a fifty one minute message,

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so we already know that this would take me about

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three to four hours to review the entire sermon, So

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I think our primary goal here is not to review

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the entire sermon. I think what the goal here is

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let's hear basically their hypotheses that they put forth about

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the law of liberty, how they define it, what it is,

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what it isn't. Let's see what they do. I mean,

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they entitled the entire sermon the Law of Liberty, So

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we're going to hope they're going to at least do

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with it. Now we know we've been We have seen

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many times where you know, you'll look at a sermon

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it'll be like, you know, John chapter one, verse one,

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and you go okay, and then when you're done with

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the sermon, you're like, I don't think they even mentioned

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John chapter one, verse one. Well, I think they were

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talking about everything other. Those kinds of things drive me crazy.

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So there's a chance this could happen because I haven't listened.

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All I've done is I started listening, and I'm like, well,

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once again, churches can't seem to record sermons at a

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decent volume. So I did artificially and cre amplify this.

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It's still probably a little too quiet, but it is

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what it is, So we're just gonna jump in. I

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don't know where it's gonna go. I don't know that.

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That's kind of been the fun of this, right, we

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were just jumping in together and it's a mystery. We

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don't know where it's going, we don't know where it's

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going to end. Typically it ends as a train wreck. Okay,

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I hate to say that, but typically that's what happens.

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the end of twenty twenty four and people say, so,

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tell me about your twenty twenty four, you could just say, man,

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it was a series of train wrecks, one after another

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after another. It was a horrible just the train wrecks

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wouldn't stop, and they'll just look at you, like, what

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happened in your twenty twenty four? Oh? I was just

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listening to sermons, and they'll be like, it sounds like

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it was an unpleasant experience, like you don't even know

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the half of it. All right, All right, here we go.

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Is that that sounds very jaded and negative? All right,

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let's hopefully hopefully well this one. The good thing about this,

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I don't think this is going to be positive or negative.

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I think this one's just gonna be Hey, this is

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how they interpret the law of liberty. Okay, this one

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fits into this historical context. What is the law of liberty?

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If we base it off the actual text? Itself? Sounds good.

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be done with chapter one today. We'll see, therefore, put

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away all filthiness and rampant weak wickedness. All right, I

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want to try something new today, not for the whole time,

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just for a few minutes of the beginning. It's a

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practicum and Bible study. So watch, therefore, put away all

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filthiness and rampant wickedness, and receive with meetness the implanted

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word which is able to save your soul. Now, as

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we read these passages, I want you to use your

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your reading comprehension skills that we're all working on.

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And believe you me.

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You, when you become a Christian, you're not immediately gifted

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with the ability to read.

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Oh wow, Okay, so we got some good things going

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on here, right. He's actually mentioning reading comprehension. He had

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he admitted that when we become saved, we don't just

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immediately gain some supernatural power of reading comprehension. Wow. Okay,

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he's speaking my language. He's speaking my language. I would

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point something out. You're in the Book of James, verse

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twenty one, and when you read wherefore lay apart all

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filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. When it says that we

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have to lay apart this stuff right there, should should,

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should just make you think, Well, wait a minute, pastor.

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After pastor tells me, I'm a new creation. Old things

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are passed away, all things have become new. What wickedness,

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what filthiness, what naughtiness, what ungodliness? What un righteousness? Do

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I have to put away? It's all gone? Do you

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ever notice the contradiction how Christians will teach this and

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they never explain it. Hey, Hey, when you become a Christian,

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the power of God moved into your life. God gave

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you a new heart, a new spirit. You're a new creature.

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Old things have passed away, all things have become new.

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So now you can say notice sin, you can say

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yes to God. You can do it. And then and

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then there'll be another sermon, sometimes within the same sermon. Well,

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we have to fight against the flesh, we have to

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mortify sin, we have to put away Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

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what am I putting away? What am I fighting? It's

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all gone. It's like, don't they hear the contradiction, and

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you say, well, that does sound like a contradiction. What

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is the answer. The answer is simple. Positionally, I'm a

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new creature. All things have passed away, all things have

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become new. I've been declared perfect, righteous, holy. In my position,

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I do say yes to God. I do say noticein

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because in my position I am perfect, totally righteous and obedient.

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But in my practical life I have to try to

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put away this and put away this and fight this

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and fight this and fight this because I'm still in

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the flesh. I still have a sinful nature and I'm

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still going to sin right now. But he wants everyone

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to do something with reading comprehension here, So I'm curious

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what he's going to do here. I'm curious. I'm going

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to back that up so you can hear it all again.

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There's some like kids in the background crying and stuff.

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We do find that common here. So let's see again

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the volume. I hope the volume is loud enough, but

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I'm amplified it like a lot because the original file

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was like, hello, is there anybody there. Hello, are you talking?

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Because I can't hear you, right, So let's see if

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you can hear this. Here we go.

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be done with chapter one today. We'll see, therefore, put

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away all filthiness and rampant weak wickedness. All right, I

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want to try something new today, not for the whole time,

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just for a few minutes at the beginning. It's a

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practicum in Bible study. So watch, therefore, put away all

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filthiness and rampant wickedness, and receive with meetness the implanted word,

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which is able to save your soul. Now, as we

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read these passages, I want you to use your your

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reading comprehension skills that we're all working on.

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And believe you me.

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You, when you become a Christian, you're not immediately gifted

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with the ability to.

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Read, all right, amen.

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You may be gifted with the ability you know, sorry,

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you may be gifted with the desire to read. But

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to be able to read takes time. And most Americans

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are technically.

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Illiterate, or they read on a third or fourth grade level.

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And also most Americans don't know that, and most don't

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care and et cetera. But we as Christians are people

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of the book, and we want to we gotta get

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better at reading and thinking carefully about the words we read.

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Wow, now that's he made a big statement here. I'm

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gonna I'm gonna see if I'm gonna i can verify that. Okay,

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I'm gonna see if we can verify this. I'm gonna,

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna see here. Is it true that

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most Americans read at a third grade level? Okay, I'm

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gonna say, I'm going to see what we can find.

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All right, Well, here we go, all right? Or starting

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off or already starting off? Questionable? All right, Okay, it's

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a common misconception that most Americans read at a third

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grade level. In reality, approximately twenty one percent of US

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adults are considered illiterate, meaning they read below a fifth

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grade level. Additionally, about fifty four percent of adults have

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literacy skills below a sixth grade level. So approximately twenty

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one percent of adults are considered illiterate, meaning they read

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below a fifth grade level. And additionally, about fifty four

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percent of adults have a literacy skill below a sixth

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grade level. This is from the National Literacy Institute. This

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indicates that while a significant portion of the population faces

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literacy challenges, the majority read above a third grade level.

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So I think you could say most Americans are below

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a sixth grade level. Right. These literacy challenges have substantial

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economic implications. Low literacy levels are estimated to cost the

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US economy up to two point two trillion dollars annually.

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That's from the National Literacy Institute. Addressing these issues is

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crucial for both individual wellbeing and the nation's economic health.

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So most Americans read below a sixth grade level, not

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third sixth grade level. So if we want accuracy, Now,

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that always bothers me when pastors say things behind the

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pulpit that are just one hundred percent not accurate. But

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I also know that so many times in a sermon,

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you have your basic idea what you want to say.

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Unless you write out a manuscript, there's times you're going

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to just say something at the top of your head

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that you're that you're adding to and that that's where

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these problems can call it can happen. What you have

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to do, though, is what you have to try to do,

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is you have to say, you have to try to

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quantify or qualify, right, you have to qualify. I I

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have heard or it has been said, or some say

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something along those lines, so that you're not making a

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dogmatic assertion. But here's a question. Now, this is this

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is serious, okay. And now I have heard time and

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time again throughout my entire preparing for ministry, seminary, Bible colleges,

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Bible institutes, every all the education, I have pursued that

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you basically, when you preach, you should not preach above

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a sixth or seventh grade level because the people won't understand.

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And I think that that's ridiculous. And I have rejected

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that from day one, and I don't care who teaches

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me that. I'm like, you're wrong. I'm gonna go preach

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at the highest level I can preach, and I'm and

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if they don't get it, I'll keep preaching it over

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and over and over and over, and if I need to,

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I'll bring a ladder to church so that the people

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can climb the ladder to get to what I'm trying

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to give them. But it's my job to take what

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may be above their level and break it down so

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they can get it. But that's ridiculous to dumb it down. No, no, no,

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I'm not there to dumb it down. I'm there to

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bring the people up. So I'm not going to preach

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at the sixth or seventh grade level. Get out of

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my face. And as a result, I've been accused of

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Your church sounds like a seminary. It sounds like a

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university classroom. It doesn't feel like church. Okay, well, okay,

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well then go to the church and then okay, you

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get the idea. So but here's a real question though.

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This is this is serious, all right. I'm not in

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any way being sarcastic at all. This is a very

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serious thing. As Christians, we believe that the soul authority

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for everything, we believe, for everything we do, that the

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source of truth, the soule authority, the sole source of

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truth is the Word of God, which means God has

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taken his revelation and placed it in written form, and

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that the Christian has a responsibility. This is very true

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in the Protestant world that the individual Christian has the

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responsibility to so know the Bible and study the Bible

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so that it can hear preaching and determine if what

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is being preached is true or false. Well, you cannot

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listen to preaching and determine if it's true or false

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based off your understanding of scripture. If your ability to

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read is below a sixth grade level, you cannot do that.

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How can How if your literacy rate, if your your

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literacy ability, if you're reading comprehension, if your reading ability

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is below a sixth grade level? Then what gives Christians

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the right in the pew to say that's wrong, that's wrong,

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that's wrong, and I disagree?

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Who?

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Well, under what authority?

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Now?

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See, this is why so many Christians teach this idea

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that when you become a Christian, Oh, now, the Holy

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Spirit gives me insight. The Holy Spirit leads me into

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all truth, which I believe. Again, just connect that to reality.

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Obviously it's not true. Because the Holy Spirit was leading

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us into all truth, there wouldn't be a million different interpretations.

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But there's going to be a million different interpretations because

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the Holy Spirit's not leading us into all truth. He

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led the original authors of the New Testament into all truth,

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not us. It's a promise for them, not us. Right,

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So we're left with we have to be individuals who

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can read and comprehend the Bible. I want not.

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This is just I know.

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This is a crazy idea. Okay, And if anyone out

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there young thinking about going into ministry, do not listen

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to my idea. I am an idiot. Okay, don't listen

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to me. Okay, I'm telling you will. You will have

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the most unsuccessful ministry and history. If you want to

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have a church where there's no one there, no one attending,

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and you have no money and no ability to do anything,

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then listen to my advice. If you want a successful church,

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go find and listen to the successful people. All right,

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I mean that that's not even being sarcastic, that's just

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being truthful. But I am curious, when someone becomes a

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member of a church, should it be in the church's

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best interest to administer to them a reading comprehension test

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to see at what level they read and at what

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level they comprehend. Now, I know that sounds offensive, that

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sounds ridiculous, but just just just stay with me here, right,

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this is the word of God. Those Christians who go

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to your church, they're gonna listen to your preaching and

473
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then they're gonna go you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong,

474
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You're wrong, You're wrong. There's gonna be plenty of that.

475
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Not every single one, but there's gonna be plenty of that.

476
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They're gonna be formulating their own interpretation. They may not

477
00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:30.880
argue with you, but they just may. Look, I don't

478
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believe that I disagree with that based off their reading.

479
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Wouldn't it be great to say, hey, now, look, you're

480
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you're part of a church, you own a Bible, but

481
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let's just make sure we see this. Your reading comprehension

482
00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:47.480
is at a fourth grade level. You're reading comprehension you're

483
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:52.279
is at a fifth grade level. How who are you?

484
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:54.680
You need to be more concerned about fixing your reading

485
00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:57.680
comprehension than you are about reading the Bible and telling

486
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.720
me what the Book of Revelation means. You need to

487
00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:03.680
be far more worried about your reading comprehension than reading

488
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:06.480
the Book of Isaiah and telling me that I'm wrong

489
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:10.119
about Isaiah Chapter forty. You need to spend more time

490
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figuring out why you're reading comprehension is such a low

491
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level than you are trying to interpret to me what

492
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this means or this means. I know that sounds crazy,

493
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but if God's revelation is in written form. And if

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twenty one percent of US adults are considered illiterate, meaning

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they read below a fifth grade level, and then additionally

496
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about fifty four percent of adults have illiteracy skills below

497
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a sixth grade level, then how in the world you're

498
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going to take that much of our population, meaning much

499
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of that will be represented inside churches because many churches

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you have people with lower I mean a lot of

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times religious people, not in all cases, but in many cases.

502
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And I would have to look at the numbers. I'm

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gonna see here. I'm going to.

504
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Look this up.

505
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Is is it true that people who are very religious

506
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tend to have lower education? Okay, I know that's not

507
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grammatically correct, but it's okay. I was just trying to

508
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type it fast, all right. So, in general, it says

509
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the relationship between religiosity and educational attainment is complex and

510
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varies across different context In the United States, studies have

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shown that, on average, individuals with higher levels of education

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tend to exhibit lower levels of religion religious commitment by

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certain measure measures such as belief in God and in

514
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the importance of religion in their lives. However, this pattern

515
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does not hold uniformally across all religious groups. For instances,

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among Christians, those worth higher education levels often reports similar

517
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or even higher levels of religious service attendance compared to

518
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those less educated counterparts. This is from the Pew Research Center,

519
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so it says these findings suggest that while there is

520
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some correlation. So when you go to globally they talk

521
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about some different things and other religions as well, but

522
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they say these findings, and I'm summarizing now, there is

523
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.920
some correlation between higher education levels and lower religiosity and

524
00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:39.160
certain contexts, the relationship is not straightforward and is influenced

525
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by various factors, including religious tradition, cultural context, and individual beliefs.

526
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So that may not I think typically it stated that

527
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the more religious someone is, the less education they may have. Well,

528
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in this particular case, that it doesn't appear according to

529
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those studies that that's necessarily always true. So in other words,

530
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we cannot be dogmatic about that assertion. So I'm glad

531
00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.160
I looked that up. But so let's go back to

532
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:13.000
my basic premise here. The Bible is obviously God's word,

533
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but it's it's written right, so it requires you to

534
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.440
read and if it requires you to read that you

535
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:24.920
have to comprehend what you read. You have to be

536
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able to interpret it, you have to be able to

537
00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:30.799
understand it. So would it not then be imperative that

538
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if we're going to talk about Bible study skills, right,

539
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if we're going to talk about Bible study skills, hermeneutics,

540
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wouldn't the prerequisite for Bible study Bible interpretation and hermonutics?

541
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Would it not be reading comprehension? Now we touched on

542
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a little bit of this when we were working on

543
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Augustine's hermonutical approach, because Augustine was one who said, no, no, look,

544
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your ability to interpret comes to your ability to read.

545
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What you learned in school about how to read is

546
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what's critical, and your ability to interpret the text. So

547
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:08.440
now I know Christianity likes a more mystical approach that

548
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:10.599
you become saved and God turns on the light and

549
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now you have special understanding. Now we do realize the

550
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difficult I mean, there's all kinds of theological problems with that,

551
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as we've already mentioned. So do you think it's a

552
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:24.839
crazy idea? Everyone in your church is given a test

553
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:28.920
about their ability to read. Reading tests and reading comprehension test,

554
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:33.920
and then everyone's placed in. Okay, you're at a fourth

555
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:36.480
grade level, you're at a fifth grade level, you're at a

556
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:39.960
third grade level, you're at an eighth grade level, wherever

557
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:44.240
you fall in now, and the key is for the

558
00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:46.079
It's not for the rest of the church to know,

559
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it's for the individual to know, right, and then the

560
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:54.519
individual should be Hopefully then that should be a wake

561
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:58.000
up call to go, hmmm, maybe before I open my

562
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:03.319
Bible and start telling one what exequ Wili thirty six means,

563
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:07.359
maybe I need to verify my ability to read and

564
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:11.519
comprehend what I'm reading. Because if I lack an ability

565
00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:15.000
or I'm lacking therein my ability to read, and I'm

566
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lacking on my ability to comprehend what I read, then

567
00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:21.519
should I be the one arguing about what Ezekiel thirty

568
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:24.360
six means. Don't you think overall that we'd be better

569
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for the church, And then the church could develop programs

570
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to assist people and becoming better readers and to increase

571
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:35.159
their ability to comprehend and what they read, going through

572
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:39.519
the basic techniques to teach people. And if you have

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a church where people can read and comprehend what they read.

574
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Should that not lead to greater unity and interpretation. I'm

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not going to say it's going to be everyone's going

576
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:58.039
to agree, but at least person as interpretation and persons

577
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:03.400
be interpretation will be based off their reading ability and

578
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:07.760
their ability to comprehend. It won't be that person A

579
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has the ability to read and comprehend when person B

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lacks severely in the ability to read and comprehend, well,

581
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then there's no way you're ever how are you ever

582
00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:19.159
going to come to You can argue all day, You're

583
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.039
never going to come to any kind of agreement. You're like, well,

584
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:26.800
that's literally what the word. Look, it's right there, read

585
00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:30.320
it like. One person is like, what's wrong with you?

586
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:34.239
It's that this word proceeds this word, This word means this,

587
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this is the context. This is the same what And

588
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:39.920
the other person is like, I don't believe, And you're like,

589
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:42.400
never mind. See, at that point, there's no point in

590
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.000
having At that point, there is no point, right, there's

591
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:56.239
no point in continuing on. So I wonder if we're

592
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onto something here. I know this is not we wanted

593
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to get to the law of liberty. But see, this

594
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is why we review sermons. This has just raised an

595
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:14.920
important question. Is it possible that the most important thing

596
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when it comes to Bible interpretation and when it comes

597
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:28.320
to hermaneutics is your ability to read and your ability

598
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to comprehend what you read. Is that the most important

599
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thing about Bible study and harmoneutics? And if you're going

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to teach people to study the Bible and interpret the Bible,

601
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:46.199
you should start with reading and reading comprehension skills.

602
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:54.239
Yeah.

603
00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:56.559
I have a feeling this is going to spark some controversy.

604
00:36:56.599 --> 00:36:58.159
I'm going to back this up a little bit so

605
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we can hear all of that I have started. I

606
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:02.280
may have backed it all the way up, but that's okay.

607
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:02.960
Here we go.

608
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Do today, not for the whole time, just for a

609
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few minutes at the beginning. It's a it's a practicum

610
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and Bible study. So watch therefore, put away all filthiness

611
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:21.280
and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word

612
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.480
which is able to save your soul. Now, as we

613
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:31.400
read these passages, I want you to use your your

614
00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:34.840
reading comprehension skills that we're all working on.

615
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And believe you me.

616
00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:41.239
You when you become a Christian You're not immediately gifted

617
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with the ability.

618
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.119
To read, all right, amen.

619
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You may be gifted with the ability you know. Sorry, yeah,

620
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:55.119
you may be gifted with the desire to read. But

621
00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:59.960
to be able to read takes time. And most Americans

622
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:03.639
are technically illiterate or they read on kind of third

623
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:07.599
or fourth grade level. And also most Americans don't know that,

624
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and most don't care, and et cetera. But we as

625
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Christians are people of the book and we want to

626
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We got to get better at reading and thinking carefully

627
00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:21.000
about the words we read. And so with that stated,

628
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.519
what here's the question for us to do is a

629
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group Bible study practicum.

630
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All right?

631
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:29.639
Right, Before he does it, I'm going to say one

632
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:33.599
more thing. This is this is really to me kind

633
00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:38.320
of disturbing. Now, his his statistics of most Americans third

634
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:40.719
grade level. We've seen most Americans are under a sixth

635
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:44.440
grade level. Okay, so right, so, I mean, it's just

636
00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:47.840
trying to be accurate, but here, this is this is

637
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.280
shocking here, all right, And he says most Americans don't

638
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.039
even realize it or don't care. And I think that

639
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:56.320
most Americans don't know it and don't care. I think

640
00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:58.480
he's probably accurate there. I don't know if we can,

641
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:02.559
you know, quantify that, but I think he's definitely. I

642
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:04.360
think there's at least a little bit of at least

643
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a hint of truth to that. I don't know if

644
00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:10.000
we can statistically prove that, but I feel that that's right.

645
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:13.360
But here here's what I would say. Just think of

646
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:16.760
the system we have in the Protestant world. Right. The

647
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.000
system we have in the Protestant world is we do

648
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not have a magisterial authority. The church does not have

649
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:25.480
the authority. Now we may talk about the church's authority,

650
00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:28.239
but in reality, in the Protestant world, the authority rests

651
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:31.039
with you, the individual. So the way we have it

652
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:33.840
in the Protestant world, you as an individual, you have

653
00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:37.039
your Bible, you hear what is preached, and then the

654
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.639
people in the pew determine if what is being preached

655
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:43.960
is right and wrong, and aroundabout way, the church members

656
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:47.800
kind of stands more, each individual is their own magisterial authority. Now,

657
00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:51.320
just think about a system where people sitting in the pew,

658
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with the majority of them possibly their reading ability and

659
00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:59.440
their comprehension ability is below a sixth grade level, and

660
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.440
they're the ones who's supposed to be determining if what

661
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:06.800
is preached is true or false based off their ability

662
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.679
to read and comprehend the Bible. Where does that leave you?

663
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Is it possible that is why we have thousands upon

664
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thousands of different groups and different theologies and different denominations.

665
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Is that the possible reason why that you can't get

666
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.079
four Christians in a room and read the Bible and

667
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:34.400
come up to anything like an agreement. You may put

668
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:36.719
four Christians in a room with a text of scripture

669
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and they'll walk out with forty seven different interpretations. Is

670
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it possible that's the reason?

671
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What is the implanted word? What is that?

672
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You read it and you immediately thought the Bible?

673
00:40:56.519 --> 00:40:56.880
All right?

674
00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:59.320
You see, so that's all. That's a good lesson in reading.

675
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You all already come to the text with the presupposition.

676
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You already come with a grid. You read the word

677
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:06.639
word Bible.

678
00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:12.679
All right? But is James saying the Bible? You know?

679
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I don't know.

680
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Let's look at it. Let's follow the flow of argument.

681
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Let's follow the prepositions and the conjunctions and see if

682
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:25.280
we can get something more specific than Bible. First of all,

683
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we know the context of the Book of James. It

684
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:29.840
was the oldest New Testament book to be written. It

685
00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:31.880
was written by the brother of Jesus. It was written

686
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before any other New Testament books were added or written

687
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or canonized. And so what portion of the Bible is

688
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:42.840
he particularly speaking of the Old Testament? So you've got

689
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.599
it down even more narrow, even more narrow. It's the

690
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:48.480
Old Testament he's referring to, and you can't be referring

691
00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:52.360
to the New Testament doesn't exist yet, right, So can

692
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:54.880
we get any more specific? Is it the whole Old Testament?

693
00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.239
Is it a part of the Old Testament? We should

694
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:00.519
receive the whole Bible?

695
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:00.840
Amen?

696
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:04.800
Obviously the Bible teaches that in other places. But I'm

697
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wanting to know this is Bible study here, I'm wanting

698
00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.880
to know what James's unique point is. Is his point

699
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:13.920
just generally receive the Bible? Or is it more specific

700
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.239
than that, which would be much more helpful. Wouldn't that

701
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:18.800
be more helpful if it's more specific? So what is

702
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:20.920
the word we continue to read? It's able to save

703
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:24.360
our souls? Oh, now you know, now that might lead

704
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:26.320
me to think that it's which portion of the Old

705
00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:30.119
Testament or what section? What sections can save your soul?

706
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:36.079
Can the law save your soul? You know, the law

707
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:39.960
is a tutor which leads us to Christ. So you know, ah,

708
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:43.159
you know the Gospel saves our soul? All right, Well,

709
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:44.559
we're gonna have to put that on the shelf. We

710
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:47.079
don't exactly know what he means by saving.

711
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:49.159
Soul just yet. And does he mean.

712
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:53.639
Justification, sanctification, glorification, does he mean salvation broadly and generally?

713
00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:57.039
Does he mean save our soul from particular consequences that

714
00:42:57.039 --> 00:42:58.920
we might face in this life because of the sins

715
00:42:58.920 --> 00:42:59.400
we commit.

716
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:01.320
I don't know yet. We don't know.

717
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:03.039
We have to continue to read. He goes down to

718
00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:06.840
verse twenty two. But that's a conjunction. It can be

719
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:10.599
translated but or and I didn't look it up just yet.

720
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:12.519
But in the Greek it's probably kai.

721
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:16.039
It's probably what it is, could be allah, could be

722
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:18.280
a day, it could be a few other things. But

723
00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:22.000
it's a conjunction. And what do conjunctions do? They add

724
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.400
things together? So we know we're still in the same

725
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:27.679
train of thought here. But be doers of the word

726
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:29.840
ep there's the word again. There's a word again. So

727
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.519
and we know whatever he means by word, it's something

728
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:37.079
you can do. Okay, now that's interesting. Can you do

729
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:44.000
the gospel? Not really, not really, you know Jesus did that.

730
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:48.440
But be doers of the word and not hearers only.

731
00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:51.400
So this word is also something you can You can

732
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.960
hear it, and you can do it, and you can

733
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:55.480
receive it.

734
00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:58.519
Back up to twenty one real quick.

735
00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:03.639
It seems to be contral with putting away filthiness and wickedness.

736
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:09.000
See that right there, put away filthiness, wickedness, receive the word.

737
00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:12.599
So it seems to be contrasted. If you're receiving the word,

738
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:18.199
you can't be receiving filthiness and wickedness, see what I mean?

739
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:22.039
All right, So you're putting away filthiness and wickedness simultaneously

740
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:25.159
with receiving this word, which is something you can do,

741
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:27.719
and it's something you can hear, and it's something you

742
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:29.960
can hear and not do right.

743
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:34.000
Verse twenty three. For if anyone is a.

744
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:36.920
Hearer of the word and not a doer, he is

745
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:39.480
like a man who looks intently at his natural face

746
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:42.000
in a mirror. So what else is this word which

747
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:44.000
you can hear and which you can do, Which is

748
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:46.119
the opposite of wickedness.

749
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:48.840
What else is it? It's also.

750
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:54.000
A mirror in which you can look at your at

751
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:55.960
your face at you can look at yourself with So

752
00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.239
it's now he's given us a great metaphor.

753
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.119
We're getting there. He's helping us. Like, what is he

754
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:03.039
talking about? You know what's he talking about?

755
00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:06.840
The word right verse twenty four for he looks at

756
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:11.000
himself and goes away and at once forgets what he

757
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:15.519
is like. But the one. So here's another. We just

758
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:18.199
got another one right there. When you look into this mirror,

759
00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:23.840
it tells you what you were like, right, and I

760
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:28.280
would I would infer from this. It's telling you the imperfections.

761
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:30.679
You know, when you look in a mirror in the

762
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.880
morning and you're the what is the point of looking

763
00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:38.639
at a mirror to make sure your lipstick in on

764
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:40.719
cricket or whatever? To make sure you need to go

765
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:43.880
and fix yourself, right, And so that's what you're looking

766
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:46.320
in the mirror. And a man who doesn't fix himself

767
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:50.920
and just goes about his natural wayh you know, that's disturbing.

768
00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.760
Why even look in the mirror? But the one who

769
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:58.320
looks into the perfect.

770
00:45:56.800 --> 00:45:58.800
Say that word? What's that word? Law.

771
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:02.519
Okay, now you see, we just got a little bit closer.

772
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:06.159
What is James talking about here. He's talking about the

773
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:12.480
Old Testament law. He calls it the law of liberty.

774
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:19.719
Okay, a lot going on there. Very I love this.

775
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:23.960
I mean, this is getting very technical. He's looking at

776
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:27.679
the flow of the text. He's trying to offer understanding.

777
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:29.320
Now he just referred to the law of liberty as

778
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:31.800
the Old Testament law. Now I'm assuming he's going to

779
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:34.679
do some clarifying here. So but let's go through the

780
00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:38.199
ungrafted word. Just I just was going to make sure

781
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:39.920
we at least look at some things here and try

782
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:42.119
to try to get us somewhere here. I know, we

783
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:45.280
this is turning more into a discussion about reading comprehension.

784
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:49.519
But that's okay. So the term and grafted word, let's

785
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:53.079
go back to that, because the ungrafted word. Now, he

786
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:55.920
seems to be saying that the ungrafted word is the law.

787
00:46:56.199 --> 00:46:59.440
All right, So if that's the way he's handling this,

788
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:03.519
let's at least consider this. When the term engrafted word

789
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:06.440
tends to be I think it is unique and it

790
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:09.719
seems to carry somewhat of a rich meaning, all right.

791
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:18.199
The Greek word here can mean implanted and born are innate,

792
00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:23.400
suggesting something that is planted within and becomes a living

793
00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:25.239
part of the recipient.

794
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:26.519
Hm.

795
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:32.119
Okay, this is something, it is something inside of us.

796
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:36.280
So the ungrafted word or the implanted word inside of us?

797
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:39.480
What what word has been inside of us? I think,

798
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:40.719
I think I know which you direct?

799
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:40.880
Now?

800
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:44.480
He he identified it as law. Okay, well that that

801
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:46.760
could make sense, right, because isn't the law of God

802
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:49.199
written on our hearts? Is that the direction this is

803
00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:52.039
going to go. Now, if we go through church history,

804
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:54.480
though I know this is going to be a shock,

805
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:58.559
there's not gonna There's probably gonna be a lot of

806
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:01.679
different interpretations. Let's go to the early Church. Let's go

807
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:05.920
with Origin and Augustine. They view the whole idea of

808
00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:11.400
and grafted as the Gospel message planted in the believer's

809
00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:15.199
heart by the Holy Spirit. They emphasize that it is

810
00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:18.079
through God's grace that the Word takes root and grows

811
00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:23.480
within believers, leading to salvation. So they saw this with

812
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:28.519
that the ungrafted word is the gospel message and planted.

813
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:31.000
Now you see, I was immediately going with the law,

814
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:33.360
the law of God, which is written on my heart,

815
00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:39.559
right so they go with the gospel message. Okay, okay, Now,

816
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:44.199
Chrysostom saw this as the transformative word of God sown

817
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:48.400
into the soul, requiring humility and moral preparation, laying aside

818
00:48:48.519 --> 00:48:53.239
sin to bear fruit. So this is just so Chrysostom

819
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:57.360
thought was Hey, went with the idea. He didn't really

820
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:01.239
identify specifically. This is just the transit transformative word. This

821
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:03.920
is like the word of God that just transforms you.

822
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:05.840
All right.

823
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:09.639
That's kind of the early church, right, So they either

824
00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:12.960
the gospel the transformative word that nobody went with the

825
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:16.119
law like I immediately started going. So I may be way

826
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:19.039
off on this, right, So we'll see where he's He

827
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:23.599
identified it as law, which then kind of just connected

828
00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:26.320
it in my brain. But maybe I've got it. I

829
00:49:26.320 --> 00:49:28.039
may have to step back and try to figure all

830
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:29.639
of this out, but we will see. I'm trying to

831
00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:31.880
do this in real time. We just have to work

832
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:35.039
through it. So the early Church went more with gospel

833
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:38.400
and positive Now, if we jump to the medieval period,

834
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:43.480
Thomas Aquinas interpreted the ingrafted word as the internalized truth

835
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:47.360
of God, brought to life through faith and nurtured by

836
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:51.239
the sacraments and obedience. He linked it with divine grace

837
00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:55.280
working within the believer. So this is just the internalized

838
00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:58.639
truth of God that's kind of there, and then with

839
00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:02.199
the sacraments and with faith and obedience, it kind of

840
00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:07.000
grows and begins to do something. All right, Now, if

841
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.320
we jump to the Reformation period, now we're going to

842
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:14.440
have Luther and Calvin. Luther and Calvin emphasize that the

843
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:19.480
ungrafted Word refers to the Gospel, which, when embraced by faith,

844
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:25.719
transforms the believer. For them, the im implementation or implantation,

845
00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:28.960
if I can read correctly, talking about reading comprehension and

846
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.760
reading ability occurs through the preaching of the Word and

847
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:34.639
the work of the Holy Spirit. So they kind of

848
00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.800
go back to Augustine that they ungrafted word, this is

849
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:41.880
the Gospel that's implanted, and this is through preaching in

850
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:46.679
the work of the Holy Spirit. Calvin stressed that the

851
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:53.360
implanted Word is not merely external instruction, but the internal

852
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:57.599
work of God in the heart, aligning it with the

853
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.800
New Covenant promise that God's law would be written on

854
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:05.920
believer's hearts. But again, so now see to me, I'm

855
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:08.599
thinking the law is written on our hearts, but he's

856
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:11.320
he's seeing it as like and of course he quotes

857
00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:14.679
Jeremiah thirty one thirty three, which is typical Calvin. Just

858
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:17.360
remember Jeremiah thirty one thirty three. That's about Israel, not

859
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:19.159
about us. Okay, so we can get into that never

860
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:23.039
ending debate. Right, So hmm, all right, they all want

861
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:25.679
to make this like it's the law. It's it's almost

862
00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:33.280
a positive. Now modern interpretations understand the ingrafted word. Now,

863
00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.079
if we come to kind of the modern era as

864
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:39.920
the message of Christ, the gospel which is received by

865
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.440
faith and works within the believer to bring about salvation

866
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:46.920
and sanctification. It is often often associated with the work

867
00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:49.480
of the Holy Spirit and applying God's truth to the

868
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:53.480
individual life. So it seems that most people look at

869
00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:56.679
that this is the gospel, This is like the God

870
00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:59.679
working in you to transform you into change you. Now

871
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:03.519
we've had these conversations a lot. Now, what if we

872
00:52:03.559 --> 00:52:05.679
look at this and set aside all of those still

873
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:09.960
logical and historical approaches. What if we look at it

874
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:14.199
more from a textual and contextual consideration. We look at

875
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:18.599
it more based off the text and the context well

876
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:24.239
and the surrounding verses. Jay if we put probably if

877
00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:26.840
we go back to nineteen. Maybe if we started all

878
00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:29.000
the way back to nineteen, I think that's probably where

879
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.960
the section begins. James one nineteen because we have wherefore,

880
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:36.199
of course, and the wherefore is connecting it to what

881
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:39.599
comes before. But wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man

882
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:42.320
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,

883
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.119
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

884
00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:48.440
All right, James seems to be emphasizing the importance of

885
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:52.039
both hearing and doing the word of God. The ungrafted

886
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:57.000
word here is presented as something already implanted through preaching

887
00:52:57.199 --> 00:53:01.880
or conversion, that believers are called to nurture and act upon.

888
00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:05.320
All right, So that kind of throws my idea out,

889
00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:09.320
because I was thinking more. We're all born, every single

890
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:12.320
one of us. When we were born, God's law is

891
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:14.559
written on our hearts. We all have the law of

892
00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.599
God written on our hearts. This is why everyone lives

893
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:21.199
with some level of guilt and shame, even if they're

894
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:25.320
not Christian. There's some sense of guilty. They have said

895
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:29.440
before that you know a number of some will say

896
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:32.840
the number one cause, but some say a leading cause

897
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:37.840
of people seeking counseling or a psychologist or or you know, psychiatrists,

898
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:41.800
something along those lines. Is because there's some deep sense

899
00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:44.800
of guilt and shame. And where is it coming from?

900
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:47.440
It comes from God's law, is there? So we always

901
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:51.400
know that we're just there's something not right. That's what

902
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:57.360
I was thinking. They others argue obviously that this is

903
00:53:57.679 --> 00:54:00.119
that this is implanted, That this implanted word is there

904
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:08.880
because of conversion or preaching. So the requirement to receive

905
00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:13.840
it with meekness suggests an ongoing openness and responsiveness to

906
00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:17.679
God's word. So the idea is, okay, in conversion and preaching,

907
00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:20.239
the word of God is implanted in you. Now you

908
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:24.000
have to be willing to be receptive to it, all right.

909
00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:26.440
So this I was thinking more of the law that's

910
00:54:26.480 --> 00:54:29.360
in all of us. And I will argue that the

911
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:31.400
law that's in all of us if we will be

912
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:33.960
open and receptive to what is this pointing it to? Oh,

913
00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:36.360
this is showing me that I'm a sinner, and then

914
00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:38.559
this will lead me to God. And if it leads

915
00:54:38.599 --> 00:54:43.199
me to God, then so I was thinking differently, We'll

916
00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:49.800
see which way he goes. Now, the word lagous likely

917
00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:53.119
refers to the message of the Gospel and God's revealed truth.

918
00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:56.760
This is consistent with the New Testament broader usage of

919
00:54:56.800 --> 00:55:00.519
the term word. So the term word there, planted or

920
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:04.440
ingrafted word, the word there and Greek as lagos, and

921
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:08.719
that it typically refers to the message of the Gospel

922
00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:11.840
and God's revealed truth. Right. So I was thinking the

923
00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:14.800
Law of God, like you know, the Ten Commandments, do

924
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:17.360
this and do that. They tend to focus this on

925
00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:22.639
being the Gospel, all right. Implanted resonates with agricultural imagery

926
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:28.159
used throughout scripture, where in Matthew thirteen the parable the sower,

927
00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:29.840
where the Word of God is likened to a seed

928
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:33.280
planted in soil. So the phrase which is able to

929
00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:36.079
save your soul links the ingrafted word directly to the

930
00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:42.960
process of salvation. The salvation includes justification and sanctification. Right now,

931
00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:45.039
the idea that it says the ingrafted word is able

932
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:50.079
to save your soul, that is true. That's right there

933
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:54.679
in twenty one, which is able to save your soul? Now,

934
00:55:54.679 --> 00:55:57.280
what do we mean by saves? See, if it's saved

935
00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:00.679
and it sin tends to be the gospel, But is

936
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:03.519
it the law a part of that? So the law condemned.

937
00:56:03.559 --> 00:56:05.840
So I know the law can't save me, but the

938
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:10.119
law is very is essential to salvation. Without the law,

939
00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:18.719
I won't be driven to the cross I am. Let's

940
00:56:18.719 --> 00:56:22.360
see where he goes here. Let's see I'm struggling with this.

941
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:29.280
But he connects the ungrafted word with the law of liberty.

942
00:56:31.199 --> 00:56:35.440
So he connects those. Let's see what he does here.

943
00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:41.920
Which might go against our immediate thoughts on law, and

944
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.719
he tells us to persevere in it. Don't just hear

945
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.239
it and forget it, but do it. And if you

946
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:52.440
do it, you will be blessed. So did you see

947
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:53.239
what I just did there?

948
00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:53.920
Now?

949
00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:55.679
If I just told you back up at the top

950
00:56:56.400 --> 00:56:59.239
twenty one, therefore, put away all filthiness and rampid weakness

951
00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:00.920
and received with me stand playing of the word. If

952
00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:02.840
I just told you like I would in a sermon,

953
00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:05.199
he's talking about the law of the Old Testament right there?

954
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:08.800
Who would believe me? Some of you wouldn't, all right,

955
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:11.639
but some of you wouldn't. Some of you be like, oh,

956
00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:12.719
I don't know, I don't know.

957
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:16.679
Now. Is it true that you should receive all the Bible? Yes,

958
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:17.159
of course.

959
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:22.400
But he's specifically talking about receiving the Old Testament law. Now,

960
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:24.840
we might need to take the next forty five minutes

961
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:28.480
and go through all the various nuances of well which

962
00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:29.519
Old Testament laws?

963
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:35.519
Okay, So his interpretation is that the ungrafted word is

964
00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:38.280
the law of liberty, and the law of liberty is

965
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:48.440
that we need to receive Old Testament laws. All right,

966
00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:52.239
So let's go with this. Oh this is interesting. Oh man,

967
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:53.280
this is like a puzzle.

968
00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:54.039
Man.

969
00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:57.840
We're gonna need charts, We're gonna need we're gonna need markers,

970
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:04.360
We're gonna need Oh boy, this is interesting. Okay. So

971
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:05.840
I did a little bit of work. I did a

972
00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:08.840
little bit of work here the law of liberty because

973
00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:11.639
I saw the law liberty, so I already started right

974
00:58:11.719 --> 00:58:14.480
before I went live. I'd already done a little bit

975
00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:16.639
of work on what this is and what it is,

976
00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:19.119
so I was a little bit prepared for this, all right.

977
00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:25.639
So the law of liberty and the ingrafted word in James, Now,

978
00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:29.239
this is how some would state it. Are closely related concepts,

979
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:37.280
but they're not identical. They represent overlapping aspects of God's

980
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:41.599
transformative work and believers, so according to at least some,

981
00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:44.199
it's not the same he seemed to me. Now, I

982
00:58:44.199 --> 00:58:46.440
could be wrong. He went through a lat there, so

983
00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:49.280
we may need to listen to that multiple times. To me,

984
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:51.639
it sounds like he's saying, the law of liberty and

985
00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:56.039
the ingrafted word are the same thing. Now, what is

986
00:58:56.039 --> 00:59:00.119
the connection. Some seem to say they're not identical, but

987
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.760
they overlap. So is there a connection between the law

988
00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:05.199
liberty and the ingrafted word where the ingrafted word in

989
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:09.239
James one twenty one seem And now again, this is

990
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:12.800
so based on how you understand this right, because many

991
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:16.599
believe that the ungrafted word is the Gospel implanted in

992
00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:20.239
believers by the Holy Spirit. He seems to think the

993
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:23.519
ingrafted word is the law of the Old Testament, which

994
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:25.800
is the law of liberty. So I think this is

995
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:30.280
going to determine how you're interpreting this. The word is internalized, transformative,

996
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:33.039
and able to save souls. It requires a humble reception

997
00:59:33.320 --> 00:59:37.320
and results an ongoing moral and spiritual renewal. The law

998
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:41.000
of liberty refers to the perfect, freeing moral standard of

999
00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:45.320
god fulfilled in Christ. It describes as perfect and liberating

1000
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:49.480
because it reflects God's will and frees believers from sins, bondage,

1001
00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:54.280
empowering them to live righteously. They so, according to at

1002
00:59:54.360 --> 00:59:58.039
least one source, the ingrafted word is the Gospel, and

1003
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:03.000
the law of liberty is the perfect, freeing moral standard

1004
01:00:03.039 --> 01:00:05.760
of God fulfilled in Christ. I look into the law

1005
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:09.000
of liberty and here's the moral standard fulfilled in Christ.

1006
01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:13.480
And then somehow this frees me from sin's bondage and

1007
01:00:13.559 --> 01:00:16.440
empowers me to live righteously. Okay, obviously I'm going to

1008
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:21.199
disagree with this completely, all right, So, oh where what

1009
01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:27.639
I am in struggle? I'm going to struggle with this,

1010
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:35.880
all right. While they are distinct, these two they overlap

1011
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:39.840
in significant ways. It seems that both the ingrafted word

1012
01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:42.559
and the law liberty share the same source. Both the

1013
01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:45.239
ungrafted word and the law of liberty ultimately come from

1014
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:50.239
God and are centered on His revelation through Christ. The

1015
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:53.119
ungrafted word leads to the law of liberty being obeyed

1016
01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:59.360
and lived out. In practical terms, the ungrafted word emphasizes

1017
01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:03.360
God's truth and planted within the law of liberty emphasizes

1018
01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:07.400
God's standard of living, which believers are empowered to fulfill.

1019
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:11.960
Oh man, I've got major issues with all of these views.

1020
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:19.239
Oh man, I've got I don't agree with any of

1021
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:21.760
this at this point. Let's see what he's going to do.

1022
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:26.639
So he says that the law of liberty is the

1023
01:01:26.800 --> 01:01:30.559
ingrafted word, and that this is the law of the

1024
01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:36.360
Old Testament. Okay, let's see what he does here.

1025
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:41.360
All of them, some of them, Do we receive them

1026
01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:43.960
in light of the fact that Jesus has come and

1027
01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:44.679
fulfilled them?

1028
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:47.440
Yes, yes, all of that, Amen, all of that, all that.

1029
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:49.199
But even though all of that is true, and Jesus

1030
01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:53.400
has come, and the ceremonial laws have been changed in form.

1031
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:57.119
We still it's still true for us as.

1032
01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.880
New Testament Christians that we have to here and do

1033
01:02:01.639 --> 01:02:06.039
receive the law of God in the Old and the

1034
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:08.840
New Testament. His point of here is particularly in the

1035
01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:11.480
Old Testament. Now, if we only had the laws in

1036
01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:16.920
the New Testament, would we have much guidance on doing art?

1037
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:19.199
Can you think of anything in the New Testament?

1038
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:22.440
Not a ton? Can you think of any passages in

1039
01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:25.480
the Old Testament which ill regulate art and apply art

1040
01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:26.519
and talk about art.

1041
01:02:26.599 --> 01:02:28.480
And beauty and music and song.

1042
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:31.719
Yes, of course, there's even one guy who's filled with

1043
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:33.199
the spirit of God who builds the temple.

1044
01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:35.599
There's a ton ton of things you can learn about craftsmanship.

1045
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:40.440
Is there anything in the New Testament about who you

1046
01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:43.599
can marry? There's a New Testament ever, say don't marry

1047
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:45.960
a non Christian the New Testament?

1048
01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:51.320
Okay, yeah, where does that passage come from?

1049
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:51.440
Though?

1050
01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:54.519
What's he talking about? He's pulling stuff from the Old Testament?

1051
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:56.199
And the New Testament is built on top of the

1052
01:02:56.199 --> 01:02:58.760
Old Testament. It assumes it. It assumes you already know it.

1053
01:02:58.800 --> 01:02:59.639
Does the New Testament?

1054
01:02:59.679 --> 01:02:59.760
Ever?

1055
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:01.760
The beast reality is bad?

1056
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:03.039
No?

1057
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:07.599
But is it? Because the Bible says so. It just

1058
01:03:07.639 --> 01:03:10.039
said it a few books earlier. You understand what I mean?

1059
01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:13.519
All right, So that's all very important to say. But

1060
01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:15.840
I think it's interesting. I think we need to say

1061
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:19.320
it very clearly. We have to hear, and do and

1062
01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:25.679
receive the Old Testament law. All nuance goes right here.

1063
01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:30.679
If we're gonna be happy, amen, if we're gonna be happy.

1064
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:42.360
And blessed, yes, sir? Well, and well, how is a rule?

1065
01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:45.440
It's not necessarily a condemning rule that just hits you

1066
01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:47.800
over the head and crushes you. But it's a guide.

1067
01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:50.639
It's a guide, it's a pathway, and that is the

1068
01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:51.239
Old Testament.

1069
01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:51.440
Law.

1070
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.199
It's a lamp to our feet, it's a light to

1071
01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:53.719
our path.

1072
01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:58.199
It offers correction, it restrains evil, it teaches us how

1073
01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:02.760
to live. And aren't you happier if you follow it?

1074
01:04:02.800 --> 01:04:04.920
Doesn't it make you happy? Amen?

1075
01:04:05.039 --> 01:04:08.719
Yeah, it seems to be going with the idea that

1076
01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:19.199
we can keep the law. I'm all right, So wherefore

1077
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:22.519
lay apart? Okay, we may have to do a lot

1078
01:04:22.559 --> 01:04:27.199
of work here. I'm having I am really struggling here.

1079
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:37.599
I'm really struggling here. So all right, we're at sixty

1080
01:04:37.679 --> 01:04:42.639
four minutes. Okay, we've just stumbled upon what may keep

1081
01:04:42.719 --> 01:04:46.559
us preoccupied for the rest of twenty twenty four. Ladies

1082
01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:50.760
and gentlemen. Oh, we've got work to do. We got

1083
01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:52.639
a lot of work to do. We got a lot

1084
01:04:52.719 --> 01:04:56.000
of work to do here. I am not a fan

1085
01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:59.000
of any of this. I'm not necessary the way he's

1086
01:04:59.079 --> 01:05:01.960
going a fan. He seems to be like, Hey, we

1087
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:03.559
just look at the law and we can do it. No,

1088
01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:05.800
we can't. The law we cannot keep.

1089
01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:11.599
So I.

1090
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:19.480
There's got to be there's gotta be a different way

1091
01:05:19.480 --> 01:05:21.119
of looking at it. So what I'm going to do

1092
01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:25.039
where it's sixty five minutes? So at this point. This

1093
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:26.840
is one of the beautiful things of listening to a

1094
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.159
sermon and responding to it in real time. I'm just

1095
01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:31.599
gonna be very honest with you at this point. What

1096
01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:33.119
I need to do right now is I need to

1097
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:35.159
stop and I've got to figure this out, right I

1098
01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:37.880
am I don't know what to do, Like if I

1099
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:40.880
even pretend right now, I don't know what to do.

1100
01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:44.320
So I Am going to go have to do some

1101
01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:49.639
work here because my all of this, the way he's

1102
01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:52.320
approaching it, and the way other sources of even how

1103
01:05:52.360 --> 01:05:55.719
Ai is approaching it basically is like, hey, this is

1104
01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:58.480
the word that's implanted in you, and now he thinks

1105
01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:01.199
the law of liberty and the word is the ungrafted

1106
01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:03.719
ward is the same. Other sources say this, it's not

1107
01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:06.039
the same. So there's not even agreement on that. He

1108
01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:07.920
seems to say the law of liberty and the grafted

1109
01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:10.159
ward is the Old Testament, but he seems to be

1110
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:14.320
looking at it as a positive thing, right that Basically

1111
01:06:14.639 --> 01:06:18.880
all of this is what, well, especially according to other sources,

1112
01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:21.079
all of this is what then frees you from zen,

1113
01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:24.800
gives you the power, and no, don't I'm so tired

1114
01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:27.320
of hearing about the power we supposedly have, and we've

1115
01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:31.079
talked about that in a million times. So there's got

1116
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:37.159
to be a different approach here. There has to be

1117
01:06:37.280 --> 01:06:41.519
a different approach. So I'm going to see what I

1118
01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:44.800
can come up with. We have so really our goal

1119
01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:51.119
here is James one nineteen through twenty seven. James one

1120
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:53.280
nineteen through twenty seven. Now, what you may want to

1121
01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:55.599
do is you may want to start looking on the

1122
01:06:55.599 --> 01:06:58.760
sermon's two point oh app and finding other sermons that

1123
01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:04.000
deal with and since twenty one the ungrafted word and

1124
01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:09.719
twenty five, which is the law of liberty. How many

1125
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:12.119
of those sermons say the ungrafted word and the law

1126
01:07:12.159 --> 01:07:15.559
of liberty are the same? How many say they are different?

1127
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:19.199
And then how do they identify the ungrafted word and

1128
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:21.760
the law of liberty? Are they the same? Are they different?

1129
01:07:22.639 --> 01:07:25.559
And what are they?

1130
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:26.519
Now?

1131
01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:30.719
We already seen in church history there's some disagreement. I mean,

1132
01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:41.719
of course, I mean on all of this. So yeah,

1133
01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.159
we're sixty seven minutes. There's no way for me to

1134
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:47.480
figure this out. Now we are gonna We're gonna have

1135
01:07:47.519 --> 01:07:56.000
to do some work. So stay tuned. This is a

1136
01:07:56.079 --> 01:08:00.360
developing situation, and we're going to have to figure out

1137
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:04.800
out and it's going to require reading, comprehension, it's going

1138
01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:09.000
to require logic, it's going to require research, it's going

1139
01:08:09.079 --> 01:08:12.159
to require thinking. It's going to require putting a taking

1140
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:15.559
this puzzle apart and then putting it back together. And

1141
01:08:15.599 --> 01:08:19.479
then we have to determine if our conclusion is consistent,

1142
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:23.119
it's coherent, it's in line with the rest of scripture,

1143
01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:27.079
and it corresponds with reality. If you're gonna tell me

1144
01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:29.680
that all of this means dun dunda done, I have

1145
01:08:29.800 --> 01:08:32.960
power and now I can I can basically obey God.

1146
01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:36.359
That does not correspond with reality. So I'm already gonna

1147
01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:38.840
throw anything that leads me that direction. I'm gonna throw

1148
01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:41.960
out because reality, well, is the is the guardrail that

1149
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:45.239
says no, no, no, no, your interpretation is nonsense, because

1150
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:49.079
reality tells you you can't that that's not true. So

1151
01:08:49.119 --> 01:08:51.800
I'm going to use that guardrail of reality to keep

1152
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:54.359
me somewhat on the road, and then see what, how

1153
01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:57.640
what are all the variations that keep me on the road,

1154
01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:01.159
and then see which one works the best from there,

1155
01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:06.319
because some of these are already problematic. All right, we'll

1156
01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:12.079
stop there. Oh well, we got a lot of fun

1157
01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:14.600
to work on, now, don't we all right, we'll see

1158
01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:17.319
what we can do. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening.

1159
01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:21.439
Now go hey, get to work. Get to work. Let's

1160
01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:24.279
see what we can find. God bless