Aug. 19, 2024

Fake News In Church Pt 1

Fake News In Church Pt 1

I review a sermon about fake news in the church

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I review a sermon about fake news in the church

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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

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It is Sunday, August the eighteenth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently five twelve pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas, where outside it is a furnace.

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It is. It is horribly hot outside, it really is.

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It's horrible. It's horribly hot. It is hot. It is

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a furnace, it is a fire. It is a desert.

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I don't know how you want to describe. It is miserable.

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It's like it's like one o three. I think. I

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think at the high today is going to be one

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oh four. I think tomorrow they're calling for like one

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oh eight, and then I think it's like one o five,

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one o six, one oh four. Like this entire week

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we haven't had rain and it feels like a year. Yeah,

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we're right in the middle of that West Texas summer

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where this area starts to feel like a desert. So

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it is hot outside, but hopefully inside, well we'll have

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a nice broadcast, I hope. So I don't know how

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was your Sunday morning? How is your Sunday morning? Was

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Was it good my Sunday morning? You want to know

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how it went? We arrived at the church. Now, the

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good thing is we had someone go to the church

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about an hour early to turn on the ac which

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was great because when we walked into the building it

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was only seventy nine degrees in the building instead of

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eighty nine. So that was good. So, all right, we

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have air. Great, the air is working. It feels much

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cooler in the building than it did the last time

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we were there. I'm like, okay, okay, that's good. All right,

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Let's make sure everything is ready. Let's get lights on,

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open doors, let's get everything ready to go. And then

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we realized we have a problem. We have a serious problem.

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We have no water. We have no water. So at

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first we thought, oh, there's something wrong here, right, so, uh,

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Sunday school was about to start. So well, first we

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started calling people to say, okay, we're canceling. We're canceling.

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We're canceling because you know, there's no water. That means

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you know, nothing is going to work, right, So well,

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like we're not gonna be able to flush anything. We

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got problems here, so we canceled. We canceled, but the

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people who had arrived for the Sunday school hour that

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the agreement was, well, let's just go ahead.

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We can.

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We can make it an hour and then and then

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everyone can leave. So since we're already here, so we

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went ahead and did the first hour again. We we

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looked around the property. We didn't see that there was

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any you know, visible problem.

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Uh.

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When we finally left after the first hour, we did

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see someone. I think maybe for this well, it's not

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really a city, the it's not really a town. I

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don't know what you call Ovalo, Texas, whatever it is.

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It's so small, there's really nothing there. Okay, but there

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was someone doing some work with the water. So we

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think maybe it was a problem in that area. That's

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what we're hoping. We'll have to get that checked. But

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the end result was we didn't get two hours of teaching.

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So if you've been paying attention, you saw one upload

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today and that was therefore four Greek words. I introduced

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the concept earlier this week where I talked about, hey,

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well today is the first day week so then last week, okay,

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recently and a broadcast I gave this idea that we're

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going to be looking at every use of therefore in

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the Book of Romans, right to get us back into

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the Book of Romans. So I'm like, okay, so let's

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do that. We did kind of an introduction on the podcast.

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So for the first hour, we looked at the four

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Greek words that are translated therefore in the Book of Rome.

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We looked at the nuances of each Greek word. We

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were able to do. It went okay, it didn't go great.

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I mean it was you know, I mean, whenever you're

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doing something like that, it's very it's very academic, it's

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very you know, some may say very tedious, but it's

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required to lay down the framework that as we go

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through the Book of Romans, looking at every use of

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there for, we are going to identify. Hey, remember that

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Greek word. Remember we looked at this Greek word. Remember

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we looked at the what makes this Greek word unique?

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So I think we laid a good foundation. I don't

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you know a lot of people say, well, it wasn't

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very practical or it wasn't really exciting, but it was

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it was important to do. So we did that. So

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we got the first hour of teaching. I uploaded that,

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so then I was like, okay, that's only one hour. Now,

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you know, historically it should be three hours, but you know,

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we know the victory of Baptist Church. The church is

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slowly but surely, we're winding everything down, waiting for the

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cell of the building and then you know it's not

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it's not going to really exist. It's going to be gone.

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So now we're down to just two hours on Sunday,

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which is a little you know, it's a little depressing,

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but you just make use of the time you have.

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And today though, it was only down to one hour,

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so which she was uh. So then I'm like, okay,

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so what do I do. You know, I gotta do

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something today. I mean, I mean that that one hour

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is decent, but I need to do something. So I

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had I have a sort of Lord paper here and

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I'm like, okay, well that's an interesting article. I could

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probably do something with that. So I set that to

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the side. I'm like, okay, maybe I have that ready

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to go. And then I got home from church and

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I think I was I think I was getting ready

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to eat and I got a notification on my iPad

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of one of the podcast apps that I utilize of

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a new podcast episode. And the new podcast episode had

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this title. I mean, if I can find it, here

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was the title. You ready, news from the Church. Fake

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news from the church. Now immediately it got my attention, right,

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fake news from the church. At first, I thought, oh,

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wait a minute, is this, like, is this going to

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be like a podcast it's discussing things going on in

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the church. Is it coming from a Christian perspective? A

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non Christian perspective? What is this? And then I realized,

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wait a minute, no, no, this is from a church.

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All right.

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This is from FBC and Independence, Missouri. FBC. I'm assuming

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that's First Baptist Church Independence. This is the FBC Independence

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podcast And these are the basically the sermons from FBC

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Independence in Missouri. And I'm like, okay, right, that's that

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even makes it more interesting. So this is a sermon

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from a church about fake news in the church. And

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I'm like, okay, okay, this has my attention. One, just

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an interesting subject for a two.

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Okay.

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If you know anything about listening to me, you know

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my feelings about the term fake news. I hate the term.

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I loathe it. I get sick and tired of Christians

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talking about fake news fake news, I'm literally like, whenever

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I hear it in a sermon. You've heard me do

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sermon reviews where someone mentions fake news, and I literally

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and absolutely lose my ever living mind because you know

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what fake news actually means. Any news you disagree with

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is fake news. If you're like Trump, Trump, Trump Trump,

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and there's a news article that's critical of Trump, fake news.

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If you don't like the information, fake news. That is ridiculous.

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Because you don't like it because you disagree with it

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doesn't make it fake. What's fake is your fake outrage

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over information that you simply don't like or it goes

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against your worldview. I can't stand that. So I hate

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the term. I hate the terminology. I hate it because

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it's now just used as so you can dismiss anything. Hey,

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here's some information that may be negative towards President Trump.

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Fake news, fake news. So you don't have anything that

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you just don't like, you label fake news, and you

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can live in your own little echo chamber where you

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only hear what agrees with you, and you'll never be

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offended and life will be wonderful and great, and you'll

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think everyone agrees with you, because anything that disagrees with

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you is just fake news, So I hate the terminology.

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So I'm like, well, a pastor at a church did

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a sermon about fake news. Okay, all right, Well I'm

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fascinated now. Of course, as always, whenever I get ready

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to do or review what do I not do class,

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I don't listen to it first, So all I can

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go with is fake fake news from the church. Is

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he going to be actually talking about how the church

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spreads fake news or how the church use it, or

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is he going to do something biblical with it, like

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maybe how the church shares fake doctrine or I don't know.

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I don't know which way he's going to go, but

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it had my attention. So I'm like, well, we got

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one hour of teaching today with four Greek words. That

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was very tedious academic. A lot of people won't like that.

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It probably won't get many downloads, Okay, all right, so

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what can I do now this afternoon? So here we are.

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We're going to see how far we can get. It's

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only like thirty something minutes, so we'll you know, I

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think we can probably get through it relatively quick. We'll

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just see how this goes I have no idea how

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it's going to begin, but we will see. The only

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thing I regret is I didn't check the volume of this,

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and we know time and time again when you get

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ready to review sermons, so many times are recorded. It's

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such a low volume. I have no idea why, and

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I have to typically go in and artificially increase the volume.

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I did not run this through any software to do that,

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so whatever the volume is is what we're stuck with.

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So I apologize if the volume is too low, But

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are you ready to go to FBC in Independence, Missouri.

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I don't see this was published. When was this posted?

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I don't have a date here, Oh five hours ago,

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so this was uploaded just a couple of hours ago.

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So most likely this was the message from this morning,

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and when I got the notification this afternoon after I

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got home from church, that's probably it just had been uploaded,

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so they seem to have uploaded it relatively quick. So

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this is really good. So well, we'll see. I don't

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know if this was a sermon. I don't know. If

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it's a Sunday school lesson, I don't I don't there's

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a lot of questions. I know that we've been doing,

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you know, the sermon's two point oh app sermon challenge.

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So I should have pulled something from the sermon's two

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point oh app, but well, this is what caught my attention.

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So this is what we're going to do. So grab

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a Bible. I don't know where to tell you to turn.

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Grab a notebook. I don't know if there's going to

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be any notes to take. I don't know if this

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is going to be good. I don't know if this

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is going to be bad. I don't know if I'm

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going to be like wow or I'm going to be

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like wah. Okay, I don't know. I don't know if

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it's going to be good or bad. But we're going

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to find out together. So ladies and gentlemen, here we go.

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Hoping your Bibles with me. If you would, you can

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see Romans chapter three. Romans Chapter three, Fake news, A

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couple of sermons on this this one today. You've got

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to be perfect to have God's help in your life.

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You know what fake news is?

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Okay? WHOA that all went quick? All right? Fascinating? I

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choose a random one that happens to be in Romans.

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When we started going back to Romans today, so maybe

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we can put this in our series on Romans. All right,

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So that adds content to the series.

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That's good.

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All right. So he says fake news. You have to

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be perfect to have God's help in your life, right,

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you have to be perfect. So I guess what he's

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going to do. He says, there's a couple of sermons

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on this. I need to go back and see where

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this series started because I'll be fascinated to know how

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he introduced it. So we need to look for if

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we can find the first sermon in this series. But

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all right, so fake news. And I guess what he's

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doing is fake news in the church fake and he's

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calling it fake news. Different things churches teach or believe

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that he is labeling as fake all right, So this

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is kind of a clever way since fake news is

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such a known term he's taking, Well, we're gonna look

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at things said in the church that's not true. We're

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going to reference it as fake news because that's a

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terminology that's very much a part of popular culture. Okay,

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that's kind of interesting. Let's see what he does. I'm

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gonna back this up because he went all through that

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quickly let's just see what he has to say here.

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Here we go, hoping your Bibles with me. If you would,

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you can see Romans Chapter three. Romans Chapter three, Fake News,

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a couple of sermons on this this one today. You've

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got to be perfect to have God's help in your life.

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You know what fake news is. It sounds great, but

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it's wrong. So today we're going to talk a little

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bit about things in the church that are.

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Okay. He defines fake news as something that sounds great,

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but it's not true. I don't know if that's the

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definition most people get would give a fake news, right,

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don't I don't think that's really Fake news is something

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that sounds great but is not true. Is that I'm

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gonna I'm gonna look up, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask Ai.

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Right, I'm gonna ask Ai.

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How would you define it? That's a weird definition. Fake

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news refers to false or misleading information presented as news.

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This can include outright fabrications, exaggerated claims, or misinformation spread

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through various media channels with the intent to deceive manipulate

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public perception. Fake news often mimics legitimate news sources and

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style and format, but lacks the rigor and verification process

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typical of credible journalism. The term gained widespread attention during

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the twenty sixteen US presidential election through the phenomenon, though

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the phenomenon has existed in various formats for much longer.

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So they refer so AI defines fake news as false

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or misleading information presented as news. So I think it

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would be for his sake, I wouldn't say it's fake

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news something that sounds good but it's not true. I

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would say fake news would be teaching. If you're gonna

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say fake news in the church, fake news in the

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church would be teaching, right, would be theology that is

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presented as truth yet it is false fake news. And

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the culture is where you give where you give false

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information but you disguise it as actual news, but you're

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disguising it as news to try to say this is

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credible information when it is actually fake. All right, So again,

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it had a technical definition everyone. I don't think anyone

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ever thinks about the technical definition. But for his purpose,

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I don't it sounds good. No, fake news doesn't have

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to sound good. Fake news just has to be coming

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across as presenting something as factual whether it's good or

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bad news. But it's just misleading. It's not true, all right,

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this well, now we'll let this play a little further.

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Hoping your bibles a thing you would.

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it's wrong. So today we're going to talk a little

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bit about things in the church that are just fake.

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sometimes of recognition say things that just aren't true.

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and they gave you this information that sounds so good,

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it's just not true. So he's not describing it in

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a nefarious way, like, hey, these people are misleading you.

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but the information is fake. So if you want to

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kind of follow his definition, and that's okay, I kind

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of see fake news is just straight up lying, but okay,

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keep your passage open if you would. As always, we

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begin with the time of prayer. So many things deserving

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of prayer, our church's ministry and mission of course, and

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our issues with the older building and what we're going

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to do in the future with that and our ministries here.

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that whole thing there. Pray that we would be given

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You know what I mean by that, that.

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We can act like adults everybody and politicians included, that

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we would speak respectfully.

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issues I apply, I feel bad for it. Like I

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never thought I would be in a position where, you know,

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twenty at twenty three, going on twenty four years, when

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you finally thinking, okay, the church, where the church is

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coming to an end, Now what do we do with

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the building? Like we got to sell this building. I've

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never been so like, let's find a way to sell

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this building. So they have an old building. I guess

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they got to figure out what to do with I

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apologize for that. But now now this is where I

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h Okay. On one hand, I applaud did you hear

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what he said about? You know, we pray that God

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would act like adults and not just call people names

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and things when it comes to the election. Look, I

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wish everyone would start acting like an adults, stop acting

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like children, calling each other names and all the ridiculousness

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that we see. That's why I hate politics. When I'm

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I here's where I get so. I think there's two areas,

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two things church just pray for frequently that almost make

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church members do it, and I'm just tired of hearing it.

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God show us, teach us God. It's all about like basically,

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how God is going to give us understanding of scripture.

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He's going to give us insight, He's going to help

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us understand. I am so sick of hearing churches pray that.

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that is two thousand years of church history would clearly

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indicate God is not answering that prayer. Because if God

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gives us the insight, if he's the one teaching us,

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if he's the one who helps us understand, then after

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two thousand years, you think, at the very bare minimum,

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Christians could agree on baptism at the bare minimum. Christians

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could agree on the Lord's Supper at the bare minimum.

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Christians could have on the meaning of the word repentance

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at the bare minimum, Christians could agree on salvation. To

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some extent, we can't agree on anything. Nobody agrees on

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how to interpret the Bible. No one agrees on which

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system of hermeneutict say is right or wrong. We can't

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agree on anything. Well, if God's giving us insight, if

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God's giving us understanding, if God is directing our study,

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well then I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, something is so

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has malfunctioned so bad. And the second thing that drives

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me crazy about Christians praying is God, in a sense

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help us overcome temptation and help basically help us stop sinning. Well,

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if God is doing that, well, then all Christians should

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just be sinless and be perfect. And if we're not

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sinless and perfect, is it because God is helping us

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but we're refusing the help. Or is it because God

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doesn't really want us to be holy? There's lots of

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questions there, but we pray these things and nobody ever

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stops to go, well, wait a minute, Wait a minute,

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I saw this in you know, seminary, Bible, College, Bible Institute, well, pray,

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you know, pray the give understanding. Well, if we have understanding,

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why aren't people felling the test in Bible College and seminary. God,

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just give me the understanding. It's about your word, God.

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he led the disciples who wrote the Bible in all truth.

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us into all truth, well then guess what, ladies and gentlemen,

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there wouldn't be thousands of different denominations and millions of interpretations.

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give us the gift of adulthood. Well, if God just

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gives us the gift of adulthood. Then all Christians should

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act like adults. Have you ever seen a church split?

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Deal with issues and do so with grace, and help

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us to be better than we are. You know, we

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all struggle against temptation to sin on our dark sides

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well a long time ago, before I realized they were

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bad habits, I picked them up. And some of those

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things come out now and you know, way later. And

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so you probably have some of those two So pray

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that God can help you with those.

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I can't.

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drive me crazy. God help you? So how does this work?

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God just helps you with your sin. God just helps

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you with your bad habits. He's just what now again?

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and help you with your struggles, then he would just

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remove your sinful nature and then the problem is over right,

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Oh sinful nature boom. There is nothing inside of me

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that desires sin. There's nothing in me that wants it,

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I would be I would be in a much more internally,

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I would be at a neutral I would be more neutral, right,

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way Christians are, but we're not. God did not remove

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the sinful nature. If he does not remove the sinful nature,

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then he's he bringing help external to the nature. Or

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is he helping inside against the nature? And why is

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he only helping when he could just eradicate the nature

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and we could just be perfect. Nobody can ever explain

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this to me, Like, let's pray for God to help

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me stop sinning. Okay, well, if God is helping Christians

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stop sinning, then there would be no sin in the

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life of Christians. We could be perfect. But everyone to sue,

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everyone says we can't be perfect. Well, if we can't

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be perfect, so God helps you only get to a

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different level of imperfection. Hey, you're going to sin, but

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God's going to help you with what this sin? But

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He's not going to help you with that sin? Or

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does he help you with all sin? And if he

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helps you with all sinouln't the best way to help

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just eradicate your old nature. Christians pray for God to

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give us insight, help us understand, lead us into truth. Well,

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clearly that's not happening. And clearly God, he's not eliminating

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the old nature. So then how do I Okay, that's

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not the point of the sermon. But I'm telling you,

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every time I hear these opening prayers to sermons, I

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a lot of times just shake my head and get frustrated.

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I'll give you a few moments of prayer where you're seated.

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I'll close and we'll look at this passage together about

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with me?

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Please, okay, this is interesting.

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To allow you to speak.

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We give you this time that He might speak to us,

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influence us, transform us, inspire us, do all those things

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that you can do to bring us to be in

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the image of Jesus.

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mean what he's speaking to you outside of the Bible

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or speaking to you speaking to us through the Bible.

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I mean, Hey, we're here so that we can allow

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you to speak to us. We have to allow God

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to speak. God can't speak without my permission. And if

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God is speaking to us outside of the Bible. Then

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why do I need to come to church? I would

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have the God of the universe speaking directly to me.

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Why do I need to listen to my pastor when

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God is speaking directly to me? Why do I need

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to open up a Bible and read and study and

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understand Greek and Hebrew and hermoneutics and theology and why

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Bible study methods? Why if God speaks, so do you

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mean God speak to us through your word? Now? Does

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God do something special? Like if I don't say God

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speak to me through his word, he won't speak to

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me through his word. Because if it's his word, isn't

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he speaking to me whenever I read it? I don't

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need to ask him to speak to me because He's

466
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already speaking to me because it's his inspired word.

467
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We thank you this more wan Father, for this great life.

468
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We have everything. We are wealthy and fed, We have

469
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clothing and everything here.

470
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Thank you.

471
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We thank your Father for family and for your plan

472
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:19.319
for us, for the ways that our lives can be

473
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enriched when we follow your plan. For your grace that

474
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you give us even when we do not. We thank

475
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you for your forgiveness, salvation, hope, of eternal life.

476
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Peace. Now, thank you Father. This morning.

477
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We come to you knowing that we're a sinful people.

478
00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:48.599
We resist you. Sometimes it's out of apathy, we just

479
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.799
don't care. We let our emotions and the feelings of

480
00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:58.039
the moment turn us away. Forgive us, Father, for our sin,

481
00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:06.400
for our apathy, for our resistance to your leadership. Sometimes

482
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:10.680
are not so subtle rebellion against you. Forgive us, Father.

483
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:17.160
We ask for mercy and cleansing and another chance. Help

484
00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:19.960
us as we lead this life, that we might honor you,

485
00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:24.079
that we might resist sin, that we might love.

486
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Not in word, but indeed.

487
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We pray Father, for the willingness to give grace to others,

488
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to be gracious and kind and forgiving. As always, we

489
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pray for those who have power and authority over us,

490
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some elected, some appointed, Guide and direct them, Give them wisdom,

491
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:57.720
self restraint, a willingness to serve the common good. In

492
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this election year, we pray Father for the po for

493
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the general mood of the country, for our economy, and

494
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.960
all those things. We pray that you could bless us

495
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:12.440
and guide us, that we would follow the good light.

496
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You give us.

497
00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:20.119
Again the guiding thing. If God is guiding, they wouldn't all.

498
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I mean, it's one of the These are the types

499
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:28.359
of prey I I guess as long as I have

500
00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:31.720
been a Christian, I've been grown more and more frustrated

501
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:34.839
with how Christians pray. We pray for things, and then

502
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:37.200
you do like you can never but you're never allowed

503
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:39.359
to go. Wait a minute, this makes absolutely so he's

504
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:41.920
guiding us. Say he's guiding me outside of the Bible,

505
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or is he guiding me in the Bible?

506
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Now?

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If he's guiding me in the Bible, do I need

508
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:48.000
to pray for him to guide me? Or is the

509
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:51.160
Bible the guidance he's given me? So? Is the Bible

510
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the guidance? Or is God guiding outside of the Bible.

511
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:55.400
If God is guiding outside of the Bible. If God

512
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is guiding me outside of the Bible, speaking to me

513
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:00.720
outside of the Bible, then I don't need Bible. I

514
00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:04.200
don't need anything. I have God guiding, I have God directing,

515
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:08.160
I have God showing me, I have God teaching me. Well,

516
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.680
then I like it's so weird. And if the Bible

517
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:14.000
already is doing the guiding and the directing and the

518
00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:18.400
teaching and the leading and the speaking, well, then I

519
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:20.599
you don't. I don't need to ask God for those things.

520
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It's all. It's already right here. It would be like

521
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walking outside it's pouring down rain, and say, Lord, I

522
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:32.880
pray that you bring rain. It's raining already. Why are

523
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:37.240
you praying for rain when it's already raining. I'm holding

524
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:39.920
my Bible, praying for God to speak and to guide

525
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:45.559
and to direct and to It's right. This is it.

526
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There's nothing more. And if there's something more, well then

527
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I don't need this.

528
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And we pray that you'd be with those first responders

529
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:05.279
that serve us. Bless them Father in their efforts at

530
00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:09.000
ministry and making a difference in people's lives. Help them

531
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:12.279
as they work to save people's lives and emergencies and crises.

532
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:18.759
Protect them in their efforts. Help them to see their

533
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:23.640
roles as ordained of God. Thank you, Father for placing

534
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:25.680
people in our midst that want to serve us.

535
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:34.240
Help us to be servants to others as always.

536
00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:37.519
Father, we love you, we want to follow you, but

537
00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:43.480
we are weak in faith. Give us faith in Jesus name.

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We pray Amen. So I plan my sermons out months

539
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in advance.

540
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You know that.

541
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And so when I thought I was going to do

542
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.960
this thing on fake news. I cringed because I knew

543
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:57.000
it was going to be right in the middle of

544
00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.119
election season. And fake news is a thing, an it

545
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:03.000
every day if you watch the news, you're gonna hear

546
00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:06.039
fake news or gonna hear somebody say fake news or

547
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.960
something like that. It used to be called yellow journalism.

548
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:11.279
Did you know that. I didn't know that. I've heard

549
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:13.680
the term, but never really knew what it was. Yellow

550
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:15.960
journalism and fake news is sort of the same thing,

551
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.480
And you know, interestingly enough, so I downloaded several articles,

552
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.960
read quite a bit on the history of fake news

553
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:27.200
in America. Turns out that fake news or yellow journalism

554
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.279
is kind of the norm in America. I thought back

555
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:32.480
in the old day that everybody told the truth and

556
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:35.839
there's just something wrong with us now and George, you're laughing.

557
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.000
Turns out that you've never been able to trust Musch

558
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:40.559
of what you've read in this culture.

559
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Oh boy, here we go. Oh man, all right, now

560
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:49.880
I'm gonna just start. This is where now I'm gonna

561
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:58.079
have emotional breakdown. Okay, all right, I get sick and

562
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:03.000
tired of this. I truly get sick and tired of

563
00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:08.119
this what we Everyone constantly says, well, you can't trust

564
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:10.240
what you read, you can't trust what you hear, you

565
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.559
can't trust what you see because everything is fake news. Well,

566
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:17.440
then what is real? It's always weird, like everybody fake news,

567
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:19.559
fake news. You can't trust it, you can't trust it.

568
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.799
But there's always But then they will have an opinion,

569
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they will have concepts of what they think to be true,

570
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but based off what where did you get your information?

571
00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:31.519
And over and over you can see how this works

572
00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:35.400
if you're conservative. Fox News somehow is real news. Even

573
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:39.880
though they got sued for completely line about the election

574
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.640
being stolen, They got sued for what a billion dollars.

575
00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:46.359
They had to pay seven hundred and something million dollars

576
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:52.000
to settle the lawsuit. All right, because they completely misrepresented

577
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:57.880
and gave fraugilent information. Right American Family Radio they promoted

578
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.440
that's a Christian radio network, promoted over and over and

579
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:04.240
over all these lies about the election. And they had

580
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:08.079
Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani. They were playing clips from these saying,

581
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these people are telling the truth. And come to find

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00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:12.639
out those people had now had to Now they're in

583
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:16.119
trouble and they've had to fall back and say why

584
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:20.039
I didn't know that this information wasn't true. So American

585
00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:24.320
Family Radio published false information. Did they come back and apologize. No.

586
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.719
But the whole time they were doing that, they were

587
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:29.159
yelling that any report that came from any other news

588
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:34.639
source like MSNBC or CNN was fake. So if you're conservative,

589
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:38.840
Fox News or Newsmax or I don't know, Sean Hannity,

590
00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:44.559
Tucker Carlson, who knows Glenn Beck, they have the truth.

591
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.440
Everyone else is fake. Everyone else is fake. And then

592
00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:51.079
if you're liberal, then you have your sources and that.

593
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:57.360
I'm so tired of hearing that, because the mentality is

594
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.800
it's not that what you can't If you can't trust anything,

595
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:03.480
then you don't know what is real. So you can't

596
00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:07.840
formulate an opinion. You can't be dogmatic about anything. So

597
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:11.320
then but the people who scream fake news are always

598
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:15.079
so dogmatic, they're always so able to say that's fake

599
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:17.559
and this is true based off what How do you

600
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:19.000
know what is fake and what is real?

601
00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:19.320
How?

602
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:21.880
Because you don't And it always comes down to if

603
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:24.559
it's liberal, it's fake, and if it's conservative it's true.

604
00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:30.079
Well that's not that's not a pursuit of truth. That

605
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:34.480
is just a pursuit of ideological bias. You have a bias,

606
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:37.320
and whatever agrees with your bias is true, and whatever

607
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.960
disagrees with your bias is false. I am tired of that.

608
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:47.880
We saw this fraudulent information being put forth about the

609
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:51.639
situation in the Olympics with the two boxers, two female boxers.

610
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:54.760
The people were accusing of things that turned out not

611
00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:59.559
to be true. But if you are from the conservative side,

612
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:02.960
if you try to give any information about this information,

613
00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:06.119
here's this and fake news, fake news, it didn't matter.

614
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:09.280
You couldn't even try to argue with anyone. You couldn't

615
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:13.159
even say, well, there are clearly medical situations where this

616
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:17.000
could happen, it didn't matter. Fake news. Well, all the

617
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:21.320
church continues to perpetuate this idea you can't trust anything. Well,

618
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:24.400
if you can't trust anything, then how can you formulate

619
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:33.760
an opinion about anything. It's just it's maddening. So we

620
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:36.760
live in a world now where the only thing you

621
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.199
trust is what you agree with, and you distrust anything

622
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:44.519
you disagree with. That, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot function

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00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:48.719
as a society that way. There is no That means

624
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:52.679
reality and truth is now a subjective thing based on

625
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.519
what you think. You think a certain way, and what

626
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:57.760
agrees with your way of thinking is true, and what

627
00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:02.000
disagrees with your thinking is false. That, ladies and gentlemen,

628
00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:05.840
means truth is dead. Truth has been killed, Truth has

629
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:09.400
been buried. Truth no longer exists. Everyone is doing what

630
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:12.920
is right in their own eyes. Relativism rules, and we

631
00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:18.519
have lost the plot and Christians are promoting and perpetuating

632
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:25.760
that flawed way of thinking. When you say you can't

633
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:29.039
trust anything, then you need to come and prove to

634
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:33.679
me where the information is fraudulent. Show me where they

635
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.280
gave false information, and then we can wit by all means.

636
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:42.840
We'll call out whereever is proven to be false, but

637
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:45.800
just because you didn't like it, just because you disagreed

638
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.639
with it, and sometimes you'll say something is fraudulent. Where

639
00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:51.480
all the news is saying is here's what's being reported.

640
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.679
We're not saying true or false. We're saying this is

641
00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:55.840
what's being reported, and they'll say, see, but that turned

642
00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:58.440
out not to be that way. They were simply reporting

643
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:00.400
what was known at the time. That doesn't make it

644
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:03.119
was fake news means they gave the information, and they

645
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:07.920
gave further information five reports later, two days later, and clarified.

646
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:10.960
That's that's one of the problems of twenty four hour

647
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:14.440
news is sometimes you're breaking news and reporting what is

648
00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:21.719
known at the time, but we can't function in a

649
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:24.000
world where you just like, I don't I don't like

650
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:29.280
what you say fake fake fake fake fake fake fake. Okay,

651
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.760
well okay, but why do you why are you so dogmatic? Well,

652
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:36.800
because I've got the truth. Where did you get the truth? Well,

653
00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:39.039
I've got the truth from Fox News. Oh, the news

654
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:41.320
agency that was sued for a billion dollars and had

655
00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:44.480
to pay over seven hundred million dollars because of defamation

656
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:47.519
and false claims. Okay, well, I guess that's the source.

657
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:49.480
I would run to the one that was sued for

658
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:58.519
a billion dollars. I mean, like, all right, let's just

659
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:00.800
see where this goes. I was hoping he was getting

660
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.880
into the theology, but it's he's got to. And of course,

661
00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:07.559
whenever a pastor says you can't trust anything out there,

662
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.840
it's all fake news. Now in this case, I haven't

663
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:12.679
heard anyone, but inevitably, when I hear this, insermons, you

664
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:17.079
always hear the people in the congregation, it's usually the men. Amen, Amen,

665
00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:22.440
it's all fake news, amen, and it's like, just stop talking, please.

666
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:30.320
The truth didn't sell much in colonial times, so they

667
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:33.519
would enhance the truth, or they would lie to sell

668
00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:36.559
papers and letters and things like that, and that became

669
00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:39.440
a tradition of journalism in America, and no one ever

670
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:43.360
cared that. Strangely enough, people knew it. Yellow journalism was

671
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.519
a thing, and everybody knew you couldn't believe everything you read,

672
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:48.800
and people just went with it because it meant at

673
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:52.599
least that the news was interesting, maybe not true, but interesting,

674
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:54.639
and so people were happy with that. So I was

675
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:56.679
reading an article on this, and it's kind of enlightening

676
00:39:56.719 --> 00:40:00.639
to me. This author says fake news. News is as

677
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:05.760
old as journalism. What's new is an interest in the truth.

678
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:07.880
That's new.

679
00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:14.480
Who knew that? So fake news is a norm?

680
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:15.400
Okay, So.

681
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:21.480
Okay, Well, he mentioned yellow journalism and he's saying yellow

682
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.119
journalism is the same as fake news. Let's go through

683
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.559
a little history here. Yellow journalism is a style of

684
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:32.440
sensationalized and often exaggerated reporting that emerged in the late

685
00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:38.280
nineteenth century. It focuses on eye catching headlines, scandal and

686
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:43.119
dramatic stories, often at the expense of accuracy or balanced reporting.

687
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:47.119
The term originated during the circulation battles between and and

688
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:50.400
it names some different magazines and papers here where they're

689
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:53.280
fighting the yellow and yellow journalism refers to the popular

690
00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:56.239
comic strip the Yellow Kid, which was featured in both

691
00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:00.280
newspapers and became a symbolic of the sensationalist tactics used

692
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:04.000
to attract readers. Yellow journalism is usually characterized by bold,

693
00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:08.280
exaggerated headlines, often misleading or sensational. So you have a

694
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:12.320
sensational headline that may be somewhat misleading, you use scare

695
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:16.400
tactics and tended to provoke an emotional response. So yellow

696
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:19.679
journalism as you're like boom boom boom, Fox News alert,

697
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:22.119
we're all going to die, and we're all going to

698
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:24.599
be Communists, and we're going to be put in FEMA camps,

699
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:27.360
and Obama's going to take your Bibles and we're all

700
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:31.320
going to be Muslims. That's a form of yellow journalism.

701
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:33.519
And you hear that constantly, over and over and over

702
00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:35.119
and over and over. I can go through all the

703
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:36.960
things that was said that was going to happen when

704
00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:39.719
Obama was elected, and none of it happened, all right,

705
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:42.400
over and over and over and over. It's the end,

706
00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:47.239
all right. So a lot conservatives do that, liberals do that.

707
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.840
I agree that bold, exaggerated headline and scare tactics, that's

708
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:56.679
what sells. It emphasizes scandal, crime, and human interest stories

709
00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:00.480
rather than substantive news. All right, yeh news does it

710
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.239
all go with the scandal. If it bleeds, it leads

711
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.800
kind of concept. That's yellow journalism. It's not just I

712
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:10.440
don't know if you can clearly say yellow journalism is

713
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:15.199
fake news. I think yellow journalism became a very part

714
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:17.480
of American journalism. I don't know if you call that

715
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:20.920
fake news. But okay, a lack of research and verification

716
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:24.760
resulting in inaccuracies or distortions of the truth. While you

717
00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:28.000
go with the sensational, you don't go with the research.

718
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:31.199
You go with the bold, exaggerated headlines, you don't do

719
00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:38.599
the research. Pseudoscience and dubious experts used to lend credibility

720
00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:41.480
to false or exaggerated claims. You bring in someone with

721
00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:46.840
dubious credentials. Maybe you see all this during COVID and

722
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:49.199
these people act like their experts, and you could do

723
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:51.679
a little research and maybe they're not as the expert

724
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:54.719
as they tended to be. Though the term originated in

725
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:59.079
the late eighteen hundreds, not during colonial times the eighteen hundreds,

726
00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:02.559
yellow journalism continues it to influence some media practices today,

727
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:06.760
especially in tabloids and certain online platforms. So I think

728
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:09.559
there's a distinction between yellow journalism and fake news. He

729
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:13.840
almost made it sound like they're synonymous. They're not synonymous, okay,

730
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.039
but he just acts like fake news is the norm.

731
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:20.159
Fake news is the norm? Well, no, fake news now

732
00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:24.639
is the term people utilize when they don't agree with something.

733
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:28.360
That's the problem.

734
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:34.599
Okay, being interested in the truth? Well that's a new thing.

735
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:40.960
Kind of interesting, isn't it. Here's one statement. The idea

736
00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.039
of objective journalism only really came about in the early

737
00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:49.360
twentieth century. So journalists being honest that's a new thing

738
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:50.840
and not very well practiced.

739
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:51.519
And you know that.

740
00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:56.000
So it's but anyway, the author goes on and on

741
00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:59.280
and several pages down, I'm going to give you the

742
00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.920
whole story course, But interesting, how many of you have

743
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:08.119
ever been on a low fat diet? Yeah, just cut

744
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:12.119
fat you'll lose weight. Now, don't raise your hands. How

745
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:14.760
many you have gained weight on a low fat diet.

746
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.559
Amazingly enough, if you've been on a low fat diet,

747
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:20.920
you've probably gained weight. So I wasn't looking for that.

748
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:23.840
I was just looking under these myriad of articles about

749
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:25.719
fake news and yellow journalism.

750
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:27.719
One example was what.

751
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:32.960
The the Sugar Foundation in sugar industry did back in

752
00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:37.880
the early sixties. Sugar's kind of a bad deal, you

753
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.440
know that. I was taught it was white death and

754
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:41.440
those kinds of things.

755
00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:42.400
Well, back in the.

756
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.880
Sixties, there was some research to support that, and some

757
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:49.679
Harvard and Yale research you did their thing due diligence,

758
00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:51.760
and they came up with the report. Didn't make a

759
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:55.039
lot of news, but it said that sugar was really

760
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:57.519
the problem in America and that was the problem with diets.

761
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.159
People were beginning to get heavier, and there were the

762
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:03.639
problem that heart problems were beginning to increase in America.

763
00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:07.280
And the research said that sugar may be the culprit.

764
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:13.519
So a gentleman that was in charge of one of

765
00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:17.079
the sugar industry giants, you know, that's a problem. We

766
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:20.239
need to stop people from figuring this out. So they

767
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:24.519
commissioned some scientists and experts to do some studies, and

768
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:27.400
they produced studies that said, well, maybe not so much,

769
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:31.000
Maybe maybe sugar isn't the problem. And they had some

770
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:35.840
research done and they didn't careful how the author said it.

771
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:40.800
They did not falsify evidence, They just purposely misinterpreted it.

772
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:45.239
So their research proved, and I don't want to do

773
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:48.159
the quotation thing, but their research proved that the problem

774
00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:49.719
in American diets was fat.

775
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:53.039
So they said, what we need to do is make

776
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:54.320
sure everybody hears this.

777
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:57.079
Let's see if we can bury that sugar thing and

778
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.800
lift up the fat thing. So for the next now

779
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:04.599
forty fifty years later, we're still hearing that fat is

780
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:06.239
the problem in our diet. If you just cut fat,

781
00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:08.519
you'll lose fat, and blah blah blah. And you and

782
00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:11.239
I know it isn't true, but it's still being out there,

783
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:13.960
isn't it. If you want to lose weight, cut fats.

784
00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:17.159
That is a result not of research. That is a

785
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.679
result of fake news from the sixties onward.

786
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:30.280
Now, wait a minute, was it fake news? Okay, my

787
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:34.320
understanding that Okay, here's what I asked AI to help

788
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.440
me out here there is evidence suggesting the sugar industry

789
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:39.719
played a role in shifting the blame for heart disease

790
00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:41.880
and other health issues from sugar to fat. In the

791
00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:45.679
nineteen sixties, As he said, the Sugar Research Foundation known

792
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:48.960
as the Sugar Association, funded research that downplayed the link

793
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:52.000
between sugar and heart disease and instead emphasized fat as

794
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:56.079
the primary dietary culprit. And twenty sixteen historical documents were

795
00:46:56.159 --> 00:46:59.800
uncovered showing that the Sugar Research Foundation paid Harvard scientist

796
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:02.519
to publish a review of research on sugar, fat and

797
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:06.159
heart disease. The scientists selectively reviewed studies that minimized the

798
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.840
role of sugar and heart disease and highlighted the dangers

799
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:11.719
of saturated fat. The review, published in the New England

800
00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:15.800
Journal of Medicine in nineteen sixty seven, influenced dietary guidelines

801
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:20.440
for decades, promoting low fat diets while not addressing the

802
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:26.000
risk associated with sugar consumption. This manipulation of research contributed

803
00:47:26.039 --> 00:47:28.800
to the widespread belief that fat, rather than sugar, was

804
00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:31.440
the main cause of heart disease, leading to a significant

805
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:34.760
impact of public health and dietary recommendations. Now was that

806
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:42.079
the news that did that? Or was that researchers a

807
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.039
New England Journal of Medicine was it? I mean, do

808
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:49.559
we call that fake news? Now? What you could argue

809
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:54.000
is that this demonstrates how information can be manipulated and

810
00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:57.039
how information can be incorrect. Now, look, that should tick

811
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:01.239
everyone off that they did that. Look that that should

812
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:04.079
bother you. That should bother me that. But you see

813
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:08.119
where we this is the issue. Has this kind of

814
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:12.880
stuff happened? Yes, this stuff has happened, probably in every industry.

815
00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:16.519
It's probably happened everywhere. Who knows how many times it's happened.

816
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:19.159
And it should make you angry, It should make you mad.

817
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.039
You should always want it exposed. You should want the

818
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:24.440
truth to come out so that people have the truth

819
00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:28.079
so that they can make better decisions impacting their health, finances,

820
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:32.679
whatever the issue may be. But here is what this

821
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:36.320
is where my problem is. I got no problem pointing

822
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:39.440
out that this has happened. My problem is this, and

823
00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:41.719
this is very key. All right, listen to me. This

824
00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:47.960
is very key. This creates a situation where then people

825
00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:51.800
take this, well, look what happened in the nineteen sixties

826
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:56.840
with sugar. Now, because that happened. Now you can't trust anything. Well,

827
00:48:56.960 --> 00:49:00.480
but what that turns into now is you don't trust

828
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:06.239
anything you don't like what they say. Well, my doctor

829
00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:09.000
or these health experts are giving this information. Well you

830
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:11.400
can't trust them. You can't trust them, so I'm just

831
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:14.039
going to do the opposite. Well, whoa whaa, wait a minute,

832
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:17.280
just because someone said something false in the past doesn't

833
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:20.440
mean now just because you don't like what they tell you, you

834
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:23.760
just don't listen. See, that's where it becomes problematic. It

835
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:28.400
creates such a mindset of I can't trust anything. Then

836
00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:31.360
you become the arbitrator of what is true. You become

837
00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:33.719
the decider of what is true and what is false,

838
00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:35.880
and if you don't like it, you just immediately say

839
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:38.559
it's false. And then you argue, well, fake news has

840
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:41.480
been a part of our culture from the colonial times.

841
00:49:41.800 --> 00:49:47.800
Then well then who gets to determine truth? Then you do,

842
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:53.719
And then this becomes this concept becomes weaponized. Every issue

843
00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:57.440
where you can prove that fraudulent information was given, people

844
00:49:57.480 --> 00:50:00.639
should be exposed, it should be pointed out out and

845
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:05.159
then we should make correction. But I don't take those

846
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:09.079
situations and then weaponize it. Where now well, I don't

847
00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:11.960
like that. I disagree with that. I'd fall fake fake

848
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:17.400
fake fake fake fake fake fake fake fake fake. And

849
00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:21.519
that's what that's the issue in twenty twenty four is

850
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:22.960
the weaponizing of this.

851
00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:28.760
And to this day, this sugar industry still says that

852
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.280
fat in the American diet is the problem, not.

853
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:32.719
Sugar, in fact is.

854
00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:36.320
One wag that was a representative of a candy company

855
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:39.480
said that if kids would eat more candy, they would

856
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.760
be healthier and stronger and even happier. My grandkids adhere

857
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:47.039
to that, and so far they're they're good. And so

858
00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:49.679
I sure I get them candy all they can, but

859
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.679
I know and my daughter knows I shouldn't do that.

860
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:54.079
But I'm Grandpaul, so I can do that.

861
00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:56.400
But anyway, a little bit of fake news there. The

862
00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:59.599
reason I tell you this is because we have been

863
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:03.360
lied to in a lot of ways, and we and

864
00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:05.880
as a culture, lie to ourselves and lie to others.

865
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:08.920
Sometimes it's not always an out and out lie. Sometimes

866
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:12.880
it's just a subtle distortion, sometimes a little bit of manipulation,

867
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.960
and sometimes it's done so as to make a point

868
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.559
about something else. So as Christians, we're to be people

869
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:21.599
of the truth who want the truth and want to

870
00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:23.639
hear the truth and want to tell the truth.

871
00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:25.360
So that's a problem, isn't it.

872
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:28.159
And we bring what we do in our culture, we

873
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:30.639
bring it into church. And you know that when there

874
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:33.760
are trends in our culture, ways of thinking and talking

875
00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:36.639
and doing things, those trends come into church.

876
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:38.840
And that's always the case.

877
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:41.920
In the passage you're going to read the day in

878
00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.039
Romans chapter three, this is exactly what was happening.

879
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:46.679
There were cultural trends.

880
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:53.800
Now, I completely agree that there are multiple times we've

881
00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:58.719
been lied to agree. Now, the issue is that cannot

882
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:00.199
lead to you just saying, well, I'm not going to

883
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:04.480
trust anything other than what I think. That's the problem. Second,

884
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:08.400
I completely agree that as the as the culture thinks

885
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:12.039
it comes into the church. I'm in complete agreement. My

886
00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:15.800
only issue is when we say you can't trust anything,

887
00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:20.039
that creates a major problem that creates them and what

888
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:24.599
and what ultimately that turns into is I can't trust anything,

889
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:28.719
which I don't agree with. That is that that'll that

890
00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:32.119
never allows your worldview to be challenged, and that that

891
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:34.559
gets you into a very cult like way of thinking,

892
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:38.559
a brainwashed way of thinking. And that's what I'm always

893
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.320
trying to combat. And it's frustrating because so there can

894
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:44.000
be a story and I'll be like, well, wait a minute,

895
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:45.760
here's a problem with this, this and this, and then

896
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:48.320
here's like this source and this source and this Nope, nope,

897
00:52:48.320 --> 00:52:50.920
fake news, fake news, fake news. Okay, well, then all right,

898
00:52:50.960 --> 00:52:53.639
never mind, there's there's no point in having a discussion

899
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:56.159
about it. I just wish when the church brings this up,

900
00:52:56.400 --> 00:52:59.960
it would deal with the damaging effects because it constant.

901
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:03.039
He creates the idea you can't trust anything. Everyone in

902
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:05.800
the PEU says amen. But then they're giving it opinions

903
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:09.559
about this subject or this subject as if they are experts,

904
00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:11.280
and you're like, well, wait a minute, where did you

905
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:14.960
get your information, because there's all these sources that come well,

906
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:17.480
all of those other sources are wrong, they're fake news.

907
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:18.639
Okay, well all.

908
00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:23.639
Right, but I completely agree that we've been lied to, yes,

909
00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:26.119
and that should bother us. I'm in agreement. I'm in

910
00:53:26.199 --> 00:53:29.639
agreement that what happens when the culture comes into the church.

911
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:34.760
I'm in agreement. So it's not that I'm disagreeing. I'm

912
00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:37.880
just trying to express my frustration with the way the

913
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:40.760
term is utilized and how people then weaponize it.

914
00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:49.119
Cultural trends in the church that said certain people couldn't

915
00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:54.079
be saved. They said God loves the Jews, and they

916
00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:57.559
would preach that. Tilly got tired of preaching it, and

917
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:01.559
they relied on this idea of and others too, so.

918
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:08.840
They Okay, here, now we may have a slight disagreement.

919
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:12.719
He's saying that there was a cultural trend that God

920
00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:15.840
loves the Jews and when it comes to who can

921
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:18.519
be saved, that there was a cultural trend that came

922
00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:27.320
into the church. Ah. I think this was a theological

923
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.599
trend that was present in the church because the early

924
00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:37.840
Church would have been Jewish. I don't know if this

925
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:41.480
was the cultural trend. I think this was the theilological trend.

926
00:54:41.639 --> 00:54:44.199
This was the trend of the early church because it

927
00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.239
was Jewish in nature, and when the gentile started coming in,

928
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:49.639
they were like, what do we do with these people?

929
00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:52.480
So I think it was already I don't think this

930
00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:54.760
was a cultural trend that came into the church. I

931
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:57.400
think this was in the church from the beginning because

932
00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:01.960
the church was Jewish and identity. So I don't know

933
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:04.400
if that's a good example of a cultural trend coming

934
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:08.960
into the church. Ah, I don't know, you can. You

935
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:11.119
can tell me which Let's just see how he unpacks that.

936
00:55:11.159 --> 00:55:13.800
But I kind of struggle with that. When being a

937
00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:15.800
cultural trend.

938
00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:19.000
It would preach strong messages of God loving the Jews

939
00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:21.599
and Jewish people and people who pronounce the Jewish faith,

940
00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:24.920
and they would soft shehew this idea that God loved

941
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:27.800
everybody because they didn't want to hear it. So they

942
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:31.639
mixed truth with a falsehood. And that was a problem.

943
00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:34.320
So follow along with me, if you would. In Romans

944
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.960
chapter three, all read verses nine through twelve, and then

945
00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:42.800
twenty through thirty. Chapter three, Verse nine, Paul, what then

946
00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:46.119
are we better than they? Well, not at all, for

947
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:49.159
we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are.

948
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:57.760
Okay, now here's here's a preaching sermon kind of question.

949
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.880
All right. He spent a long time in that introduction.

950
00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:03.440
He spent a long time in that introduction. We had

951
00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:05.880
the prayer, we had kind of the moment of silence,

952
00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:07.880
we had his closing prayer, or we had the kind

953
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:10.440
of the prayer request the moment of silence where people

954
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:15.960
could pray his prayer then his introduction was fake news,

955
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:19.599
fake news. They're lying to his fake news. And then

956
00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:24.360
he immediately goes into well what's in the culture comes

957
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:27.800
into the church, and then boom he goes with there

958
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:30.800
was there was a cultural idea in the church that

959
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:33.719
God did not love everyone, He only loved the Jews.

960
00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:40.039
What does that got to do with fake news? And

961
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.360
was that a cultural idea? Like the introduction here, wouldn't

962
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:48.079
it like I mean, if I was structuring this, wouldn't

963
00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:50.400
it wouldn't better to go take your bibles. Let's read

964
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:53.519
Romans chapter three, starting in verse nine. Let's read it

965
00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:56.360
Romans chapter three, verse nine. What then, are we better

966
00:56:56.400 --> 00:56:59.199
than they? Not at all? For we have previously charged

967
00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:01.679
both jew and Greek that they are all under sin.

968
00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:04.760
As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one.

969
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.159
There is no one who understands, There is no one

970
00:57:07.159 --> 00:57:09.880
who seeks after God. They have all turned aside. They

971
00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:12.400
have all together become unprofitable. There is no one who

972
00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:18.920
does good, no, not one. So wouldn't you, then, argue Paul,

973
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.039
here is addressing a problem that has come into the church,

974
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:24.440
And the problem that has come into the church is

975
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:27.840
that God doesn't love everyone. Now how did this problem

976
00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:30.840
arrive in the church. Well, it arose in the church

977
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:34.000
because the early church's identity was Jewish, and when the

978
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:36.800
Gentiles came in, they were basically like, God doesn't love

979
00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:40.440
the gentiles, It's all about us. So how did he

980
00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:43.519
correct it that. I don't know where the fake news

981
00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:46.400
part attaches to this, But let's see how he's going

982
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:47.360
to put this all together.

983
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:52.199
They're all under sin. As it is written, there is

984
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:56.039
none righteous, not even one. There is none who understands.

985
00:57:56.760 --> 00:58:00.880
There is none who seeks for God. All have turned aside.

986
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:05.559
Together they have become useless. There is none who does good.

987
00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:09.199
There is not even one. I dropped down to verse

988
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:14.400
twenty eight. For we maintain that a man is justified

989
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:17.000
by faith apart from the works of the law. Or

990
00:58:17.079 --> 00:58:19.440
is God the God of the Jews only? Is he

991
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:23.559
not the God of the gentiles? Also, yes, of gentiles? Also,

992
00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:28.280
since indeed, God, who will justify the circumcised by faith

993
00:58:28.920 --> 00:58:32.199
and the uncircumcised through faith, is one.

994
00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:34.840
So you can see that the issue there.

995
00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:41.360
Remember, Paul wrote in response to a situation, well we had.

996
00:58:41.199 --> 00:58:46.199
The therefore we have Romans three twenty eight. Therefore we

997
00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:48.440
conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from

998
00:58:48.440 --> 00:58:50.880
the death of the law. There is the therefore. Now

999
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:53.559
he was reading a section, then jumped to twenty eight.

1000
00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:57.159
He jumped to the therefore the transition. Now is he

1001
00:58:57.199 --> 00:58:59.199
going to go back to that therefore and explain what

1002
00:58:59.280 --> 00:58:59.800
the therefore?

1003
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:00.599
Oh?

1004
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:03.639
All right, So it's just fascinating that we ended up

1005
00:59:03.639 --> 00:59:06.960
in Romans without even trying. I think that's I find

1006
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.079
that fascinating you or you may not. It would have

1007
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:10.719
been better if he would have just went to Romans

1008
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:13.159
than I think doing all that fake news stuff. I

1009
00:59:13.239 --> 00:59:15.960
don't know really what that benefited from. But okay, so

1010
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:19.239
he's saying Paul's addressing an issue. I believe he is

1011
00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:21.920
addressing an issue that many of the churches would have

1012
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:24.719
addressed at this time or would have faced at this time,

1013
00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:31.199
which was Gentiles and a Jewish church. Gentiles and a

1014
00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:35.880
church whose identity was Jewish, Gentiles and a church where

1015
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.599
the identity of the church was Jewish. How how do

1016
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:42.320
you process that? What do you do? I don't know

1017
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:44.719
what it has to do with fake news. That would

1018
00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:47.760
have just come You can argue from a cultural misunderstand

1019
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:51.119
I think it would have come from a religious theological misunderstanding,

1020
00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:55.599
nothing with the culture, with the Old Testament, and how

1021
00:59:55.639 --> 00:59:58.480
maybe they would have understood certain parts and missed other

1022
00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:01.480
parts like I think they're they would have. They were

1023
01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:04.519
looking for a promised Messiah to get rid of the enemies,

1024
01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:06.840
to restore the kingdom to Israel. It was a very

1025
01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:10.840
Jewish mindset, a very pro Jewish, pro Israel mindset.

1026
01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:17.559
All of Paul's epistles are in response is something already happening,

1027
01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:19.639
So you can go back where you read what he

1028
01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:22.599
says and figure it out. Obviously, there is a Jew

1029
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:26.960
and Gentile clash. Jews were what you think of Old

1030
01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:30.679
Testament related peoples. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all those kinds

1031
01:00:30.679 --> 01:00:34.000
of people practiced the Jewish faith. Gentiles was everybody else

1032
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.119
in the world. So for the Jewish mindset, it was

1033
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:38.719
very simple. There were two groups of people in the world.

1034
01:00:38.920 --> 01:00:42.880
There were Jews and then there was everybody else, Gentiles.

1035
01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:49.840
And they would say this loudly. God really loved the Jews,

1036
01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:58.719
loved them first, gave him a special calling everybody else maybe,

1037
01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:01.440
and they would do that, and they did that from

1038
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:04.639
the pulpit, and it was just so hard, and even

1039
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:06.760
when the preachers got it right, and sometimes they did.

1040
01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:09.760
And even when they were taught the correct thing, it

1041
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:12.760
was so hard for the Jewish people who had gotten saved,

1042
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:15.559
who had grown up as Jews and received Jesus as savior,

1043
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:18.519
it was so hard for them to acknowledge that other

1044
01:01:18.679 --> 01:01:24.639
people from other cultures, other colors, other music, other foods,

1045
01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:29.159
other languages, it was almost impossible to acknowledge that God

1046
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:35.239
loved them as much as us. Can you imagine anyone

1047
01:01:35.239 --> 01:01:39.239
thinking that way? So the Church has always struggled with that.

1048
01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:45.400
They struggled because of a religious piological understanding, not from

1049
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:52.920
the culture, from their religious theological understanding and training. So

1050
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:56.639
this would be the church, if you want to use

1051
01:01:56.679 --> 01:02:00.760
their fake news analogy. The Church taught fake news and

1052
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:05.840
promoted the fake news, and it had to be corrected, right,

1053
01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:11.000
I mean, I don't the fake news introduction is I'm

1054
01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:14.559
trying to maintain that fake news the fake news introduction,

1055
01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:16.480
But it just seems like you could throw out the

1056
01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:19.440
fake news introduction and the sermon would make far more

1057
01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:21.760
sense to me. But okay, let's see if he's gonna

1058
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:23.920
he's got to attach it to the fake news, right,

1059
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:25.199
Let's see what he's going to do.

1060
01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:29.719
Here, and sometimes the church has failed.

1061
01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:37.000
Sometimes it comes across pretty subtly, not always racist, sometimes

1062
01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:39.679
just dumb. I remember that I told this story before

1063
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:42.000
because it was one of those moments in my life

1064
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:45.400
where I go what And I was a dumb kid,

1065
01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:48.920
college kid in college with six hundred other preachers and

1066
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:53.039
thought we knew everything because well, because we just did.

1067
01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:54.400
And it was that simple.

1068
01:02:54.519 --> 01:02:57.519
And the preacher said in chapel one day, God cannot

1069
01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:00.800
use anyone with sin in their life. And we all

1070
01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:05.239
said amen, because you know, you got to get you

1071
01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:06.119
your sin out of life.

1072
01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:08.599
You got to get perfect here before God can use you.

1073
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:12.599
And wow, Now I don't know what this has to

1074
01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:16.039
do with this, Okay, I don't have any correlation in

1075
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:18.360
how this has to do with this problem in the church,

1076
01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:20.920
but I completely I have heard that same thing in

1077
01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:25.280
Bible college. God cannot use you if there is sin

1078
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.159
in your life. If there is sin in your life,

1079
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:31.760
God will not use you. You will never be And

1080
01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:35.079
so you would come to the altar, you would confess everything, Okay,

1081
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:38.559
And so that started me down. We talked about this

1082
01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:41.519
path of like I've got to be perfect. I gotta

1083
01:03:41.559 --> 01:03:44.760
be perfect. I gotta be perfect, I gotta we scrupulosity.

1084
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:49.719
We talked about this, and so yeah, very damaging, very damaging.

1085
01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:52.280
And obviously, if God can't use anyone with sin in

1086
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:54.840
their life, then there's no one to use because I'm sorry,

1087
01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:57.920
everyone has sin in their life because everyone is a sinner,

1088
01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:00.719
all right now, But what does that have to do

1089
01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:05.159
with Romans three and dealing with a problem about God

1090
01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:08.679
only loving the Jews? Right right? Okay, so we have

1091
01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:16.400
fake news, yellow journalism, the sugar Foundation. God only loves

1092
01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:21.000
the Jews. Now. God can only use you if there's

1093
01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:24.079
no sin in your life, all right. He seems like

1094
01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:27.159
very separate things. There's got to be a thread that

1095
01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:29.599
connects all of this. Let's see how he connects all

1096
01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:29.800
of this.

1097
01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:35.440
God can't use you, and I have preached that did

1098
01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:41.360
for some time. And then one day I ask myself, Wait,

1099
01:04:43.199 --> 01:04:45.840
if God can't use people with sin in their lives,

1100
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:49.440
who's left.

1101
01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:51.960
Well, nobody?

1102
01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:55.360
I mean, I was I could be honest with myself

1103
01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:59.360
sometimes and I realized that if I God couldn't use

1104
01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:01.239
me because I had in my life, doesn't matter what

1105
01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:03.960
it was, it was there and I knew it. And

1106
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:06.760
I started looking at the people that God was using

1107
01:05:07.320 --> 01:05:12.360
some missionaries, preachers and other things, and most of them

1108
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:14.440
didn't claim perfection factism.

1109
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.239
Most of them complained about their sin.

1110
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:20.599
And then Paul, at one point in Romans, said, you know,

1111
01:05:20.679 --> 01:05:23.599
I can't do the things I want, and I do

1112
01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:25.880
the things I don't want to do. I can't seem

1113
01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:29.440
to get it fixed. And so the preacher had in

1114
01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:33.199
me said, wait a minute, what that preacher said sounded

1115
01:05:33.239 --> 01:05:35.639
really good, and I knew what he was trying to do.

1116
01:05:35.679 --> 01:05:39.199
He was trying to emphasize righteousness and obedience to scripture.

1117
01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:41.280
But he went too far, didn't.

1118
01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:44.840
He That whole hyperbole thing went too far, as hyperbole does.

1119
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.639
And what he did was distort the truth because he

1120
01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:53.800
said one thing, but it simply wasn't true, and that's

1121
01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:55.360
how fake news starts.

1122
01:05:59.119 --> 01:06:02.000
Okay, so now he's connected this back to the fake news.

1123
01:06:02.159 --> 01:06:04.840
But in the middle we have God only loves the Jews.

1124
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:06.880
So is he using this as an example of the

1125
01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:09.199
idea of God only loving the Jews? Maybe that's how

1126
01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:12.280
he's going to connecting this. It seems somewhat disjointed and

1127
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:15.519
trying to follow a logical flow of thought, But okay,

1128
01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:17.320
let's see if this all comes together.

1129
01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:22.000
A lot of other types of fake news things have

1130
01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:25.480
gotten into the years into the church, and sometimes it's simple,

1131
01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:28.079
it's simple pragmatism.

1132
01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:29.960
Preachers will say things, or.

1133
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:32.239
We will come to the conclusion that this is the

1134
01:06:32.239 --> 01:06:35.559
way it is, this is what I like, this is

1135
01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:39.840
what I'm used to, and we readily dismiss anything else.

1136
01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:41.800
And if we go to a different church and they

1137
01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:44.679
don't do things right, or the preacher isn't like the

1138
01:06:44.760 --> 01:06:47.440
last preacher you've had, or something, we can't worship there.

1139
01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:49.760
And I've had people say that they go to this church,

1140
01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:52.039
whatever church, it is not this one, of course, but

1141
01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:54.280
if they go somewhere else and the preacher doesn't do

1142
01:06:54.320 --> 01:06:56.599
something just right, well I just can't worship there.

1143
01:06:56.639 --> 01:06:58.039
The Spirit isn't working there.

1144
01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:01.400
Some times I knew the preacher, knew he was a

1145
01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:05.639
pretty good fella, and they were interpreting things with a

1146
01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:10.440
narrow lens, and they were practicing fake news. They didn't

1147
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:14.000
say it, but it seemed as if they would almost say,

1148
01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:18.679
God isn't working there. See how that works, Well, God's

1149
01:07:18.719 --> 01:07:21.800
not working there if I don't like it. God can't

1150
01:07:21.920 --> 01:07:24.800
use that kind of music. And I remember being taught that.

1151
01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.039
My mom hated new music. She was a piano teacher,

1152
01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:34.719
church musician, started playing worship music when she was eleven

1153
01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:38.360
a long time ago, so the early thirties, and she

1154
01:07:38.519 --> 01:07:43.199
played music and she was a traditionalist, hardcore. She hated

1155
01:07:43.239 --> 01:07:48.840
that new music. She wasn't sure God could use it.

1156
01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:51.119
It took her about thirty years to come around. She

1157
01:07:51.320 --> 01:07:55.679
ended up finally loving some of it, but still tended

1158
01:07:55.719 --> 01:07:56.559
to like the old stuff.

1159
01:07:56.559 --> 01:07:57.920
God can't use that stuff.

1160
01:07:58.079 --> 01:08:01.119
And see, that's how things creep in becomes fake news,

1161
01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:04.000
just based on conviction and believe in comfort. And so

1162
01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:05.840
my mom was guilty and she was a great gown.

1163
01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:08.639
She wasn't trying to be fake news or anything. Fake

1164
01:08:08.719 --> 01:08:10.800
news just kind of creeps into it, doesn't it.

1165
01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:15.519
Now? Okay, now he's kind of returning to the point

1166
01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:18.039
that I spent so much time making. See what happens

1167
01:08:18.039 --> 01:08:20.960
with the fake news claim is if you don't like something,

1168
01:08:21.199 --> 01:08:23.800
well then that's fake. But you're the one the one

1169
01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:27.039
promoting fake news. But you're because you're promoting fake news

1170
01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:30.800
because you will dismiss anything that you disagree with, so

1171
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:33.079
you will call the other thing fake when you're the

1172
01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:37.319
one actually promoting the fake news. All right, but again,

1173
01:08:37.680 --> 01:08:41.720
what does this have to do with the Romans passage? Okay,

1174
01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:47.239
I'm trying to follow this from a like a structural stamp,

1175
01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:49.800
But from a structural standpoint, I'm a little perplexed. I

1176
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think there's some good stuff here, but I'm just trying

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to follow the structure of it. Okay, and we're already

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over an hour. Ohh, I don't want to have to

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do two parts to this. This is what always happens

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to me. Right, let's see if we can. There's no

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01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:02.359
way we're going to finish, but lit'sten if we can

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01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:03.880
get to a good stopping point.

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01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:10.079
It's conviction and emotion and all those things rolled into

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one without being tested against biblical teaching. Remember, the test

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is always biblical teaching.

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When again, I know we love to say that the

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test is always biblical teaching. No, the test is what

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you think the Bible says. Because everyone says that they

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01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:35.840
put their belief to the biblical test, and their belief

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is based on the Bible. Everyone says their belief is

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01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:40.560
based on the Bible. A Presbyterian will say their belief

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01:09:40.560 --> 01:09:42.359
is based on the Bible. A Lutheran will say their

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01:09:42.359 --> 01:09:45.079
belief is based on the Bible. Hey, charismatic will say

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01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:47.920
their belief is based on the Bible. Hey, one is pentecostal,

1195
01:09:47.960 --> 01:09:51.239
will say nit Church of Christ, you name the group.

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They all say it. So then we always want to

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01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:58.880
say the test is it agrees with biblical teaching? No,

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01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:02.199
it agrees with you your interpretation of biblical teaching. So

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01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:05.279
in reality we become the authority and not the text,

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even though we say the text is the authority. But

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if the text is really the authority, that we should

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01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:16.399
all come to pretty close in doctrine and theology.

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You say something, have a conviction, it's okay to hold it,

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01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:23.359
but before you say it, test it does the Bible

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01:10:23.479 --> 01:10:24.840
say x?

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01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:28.359
If it doesn't, then you got to be careful.

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Sometimes fake news tends to divide us because they are

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these kinds of people and those kinds of people like

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01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:37.439
in the passage in Roman Jews and non Jews. Now,

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01:10:37.479 --> 01:10:40.399
the problem with the gentiles in church wasn't that they

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didn't claim Jesus.

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They claimed the very same Jesus.

1213
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They got baptized, they got saved, they made all those commitments,

1214
01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:49.159
they were tigers and all those things in a church.

1215
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:51.960
It's just they had a different background. And because they

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01:10:51.960 --> 01:10:57.920
had a different background, well they ate different foods, they

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01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:02.880
liked different music, they dressed differently, they were just different.

1218
01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:06.560
And it was just so much easier to say, well,

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my people are God's people. And that's what they said.

1220
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In regards of what the preacher said, people.

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01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:19.960
See the way he's describing the problem, don't. I'm not

1222
01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:23.359
I disagree with the way the problem is being presented.

1223
01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:26.319
He's presented the Gentiles came in and said, well, I

1224
01:11:26.359 --> 01:11:28.680
don't want to deal with these people. God just loves

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01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:31.680
the Jews. I think they already had a Jewish mindset

1226
01:11:32.119 --> 01:11:36.119
God and the Jews first, before the Gentiles ever showed up.

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I think that's what made it so shocking when the

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01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:40.840
Gentiles showed up. I don't think they came up with

1229
01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:44.760
this idea after the Gentiles came up or showed up.

1230
01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:48.159
They already had the idea before the Gentiles showed up.

1231
01:11:51.560 --> 01:11:54.359
We're hanging on to that because old habits die hard,

1232
01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:58.880
you know. And so Paul had to write listen, and

1233
01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:01.800
then he wrote the passage we read for all sinners,

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01:12:02.239 --> 01:12:06.680
none righteous, no, not one. So on screen are some

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01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:10.640
ideas of fake news and how it can take shape.

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01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:11.560
Don't want to spend too.

1237
01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:15.960
All right, we'll stop right there. He's gonna have a

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slide that gives us supposedly fake news. I guess he's

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01:12:20.880 --> 01:12:24.159
talking about in the church. So I'm gonna go twenty

1240
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:28.960
fifty and we'll stop there. This is a long introduction

1241
01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:31.520
to get to his slide. And I don't really know

1242
01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:36.199
fake news or yellow journalism. He kind of made them synonymous.

1243
01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:39.399
I don't think they're quite quite synonymous. I do agree

1244
01:12:39.399 --> 01:12:41.920
that we've been lied to. Yes, he kind of creates

1245
01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:44.720
the idea then you don't trust anything, which then creates

1246
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:47.479
a problem. He didn't address the He didn't really address

1247
01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:50.199
the fact that it can be weaponized, which is my problem.

1248
01:12:50.600 --> 01:12:52.840
Then he went to Okay, now we're in Romans three.

1249
01:12:53.239 --> 01:12:53.520
Okay.

1250
01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:56.680
Then he reads a passage saying, Okay, so this cultural

1251
01:12:56.720 --> 01:12:58.600
problem came into the church. But I don't think it

1252
01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:00.600
was a culture problem came into church. It was theological

1253
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.039
problem that already existed in the church, because the church

1254
01:13:03.319 --> 01:13:07.000
was its identity was Jewish from the very start. Okay.

1255
01:13:07.159 --> 01:13:10.119
Then he kind of legs that. Then he goes to

1256
01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:14.800
then he skipped to something else. Then he came back

1257
01:13:14.840 --> 01:13:16.920
to that then he kind of went back to the

1258
01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:24.880
fake the logical. I'm hard, I don't get I don't understand.

1259
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:27.000
So now he's just going to go to the slides. Well,

1260
01:13:27.199 --> 01:13:32.319
he's not addressing how Paul. How did Paul fix the problem.

1261
01:13:32.680 --> 01:13:36.000
If the problem was, hey, God only loves the Jew,

1262
01:13:36.079 --> 01:13:38.359
then what was Paul trying to argue in Romans three

1263
01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:41.399
starting in three nine by saying we're all sinners? Is

1264
01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:43.239
that the problem Paul was trying to fix.

1265
01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:48.880
I don't.

1266
01:13:54.119 --> 01:13:59.199
Well, until next time, I don't know what to say.

1267
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:01.760
I don't know what to say. I am interested to

1268
01:14:01.800 --> 01:14:04.079
see what's on these slides or hear what's on these slides,

1269
01:14:04.279 --> 01:14:07.279
and we will do that tomorrow because I'm going to

1270
01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:10.199
stop for today, but we'll do that sometime tomorrow. We'll

1271
01:14:10.199 --> 01:14:13.039
start tomorrow with looking at these slides. So you better

1272
01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:16.520
tune in tomorrow right here, not the same time, but

1273
01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:19.520
the same channel, the Theology Central podcast, where we'll find

1274
01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:24.920
out what these slides about fake news. I don't understand, really,

1275
01:14:26.439 --> 01:14:30.439
I don't really understand kind of what the thesis is yet.

1276
01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:33.399
I don't really other than there's fake news in the church,

1277
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:35.600
and I guess the fake news is the fake news

1278
01:14:35.600 --> 01:14:38.800
in the church, the news we produce. I don't really

1279
01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:41.640
understand exactly how this is working. Maybe you have a

1280
01:14:41.680 --> 01:14:44.239
better understanding of what's being said. But we'll figure it

1281
01:14:44.279 --> 01:14:47.039
out together, and hopefully by the time the next message

1282
01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:50.960
is over, or by the time the next review is over,

1283
01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:52.800
we'll have a better understand I'm going to say the

1284
01:14:52.840 --> 01:14:55.439
next message because it almost sounds like the first half

1285
01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:58.000
was one sermon and the second half is a second sermon.

1286
01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:00.319
But I don't really know if the first ser Yeah,

1287
01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:04.439
but we will see, So we'll wait and see. All right,

1288
01:15:05.159 --> 01:15:06.640
there we got I know, I kind of turned into

1289
01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:08.800
more arguments about what fake news is and isn't, But

1290
01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:11.600
hopefully I was able to express my frustration with the

1291
01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:16.319
term because it's been weaponized and that's a problem. All right,

1292
01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:22.039
Thanks for listening. Have a great Sunday night. Tomorrow we'll

1293
01:15:22.079 --> 01:15:25.239
try I'll try to get started relatively early, hopefully, maybe

1294
01:15:25.279 --> 01:15:28.199
earlier than normal. Maybe I don't know. I'll start when

1295
01:15:28.199 --> 01:15:30.600
I'm ready, and then we'll just jump right in and

1296
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:32.960
just listen to what's on those slides and see what

1297
01:15:33.039 --> 01:15:36.119
to do with that. I'm not going to know. Yeah,

1298
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there we have it. Thanks for listening hereyone, have a

1299
01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:39.560
great night, God bless