Nov. 20, 2024

James 1:19-27 A New Interpretation Pt 1

James 1:19-27 A New Interpretation Pt 1

An attempt to build a new interpretation of James 1:19-27

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An attempt to build a new interpretation of James 1:19-27

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central. Well, are you

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up for a very big challenge? Do you think you

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have the commitment to see through a very difficult challenge,

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one that's going to require a lot of work, a

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lot of effort, a lot of mental power. Are you

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willing to put forth that kind of effort? If you are,

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then what you need to do right now before I

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give my normal introduction, is you need to run somewhere.

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You need a notebook. You need a brand new notebook.

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There can be no other pages written on and it

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needs to be blank. It needs to be empty. You

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need a brand new pencil. In fact, you probably need

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a box of pencils, right, an entire box of pencils.

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You need a pencil sharpener because you're going to be

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sharpening a lot of them. An entire box of pencil pencils,

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a pencil sharpener, and a notebook that's empty, that has

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nothing in it. Right, if it's got anything else in it,

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set it aside, because you're gonna fill up an entire notebook.

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You need You're gonna probably use up an entire box

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of pencils and you're probably gonna wear out your pencil sharpener,

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because we've got a lot of work to do. Because,

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ladies and gentlemen, what we are about to undertake is

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we're going to work to put forth a brand new

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interpretation of James Chapter one versus nineteen to twenty seven.

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We're going to attempt to interpret James one nineteen through

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twenty seven, probably in a way no one else does,

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probably in a way that no one else will agree upon,

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probably in a way that will put us in the

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minority of the minority of the minority of the minority,

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and may even put us in the category that some

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people will say, we don't know what we're talking about,

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and we are ridiculous. But we're going to do so,

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and we're gonna begin that journey. This is not going

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to happen in one message. Okay, if you think that,

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that's why I told you to get an entire box

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of pencils, an entire empty notebook, right because you're gonna

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use up the end, all the pencils, all the notebook, everything.

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So this is going to be a long journey. I

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know you're like, but we're still working. In Isaiah forty

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through fifty five, and after four hundred hours of broadcasting,

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you can't get past the word comfort. What are you doing? Well?

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I didn't want to be here, ladies and gentlemen. Okay,

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fate do we use that term? I know theologically we

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don't use that. But fate has placed me here. Fate has,

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or we can say, in God's divine providence, he has

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placed me here because it all started with a random sermon,

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and now here we are. So I hope you're ready. Pencils, notebook,

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pencil sharpener, commitment, effort, dedication, a desire for punishment, okay,

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a hatred for self. You loathe yourself so much you're like,

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people like, what are you doing? I'm going to listen

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to this painful five year journey through James one nineteen

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through twenty seven. Why do you do that to yourself?

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Because I hate myself? The only people who listen to

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that podcast are people who hate themselves. Okay, maybe now

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I'm getting a little curried away, but are you ready? Okay,

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I guess I need to do this. Sorry, Good afternoon everyone.

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

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this date so you can always remember where you were

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on November the twentieth, twenty twenty four, when some lunatic

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on the Internet decided to try to put forth a

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new interpretation to James Chapter one, verses nineteen to twenty seven.

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You can remember this date, okay, all right, so let

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me state it again. Let me let me welcome everyone again.

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Good afternoon everyone. It is Wednesday, November the twentieth twenty four.

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It is currently four oh nine pm Central time, and

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I am coming to you live from the Theology Central

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Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. So on your

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paper you want to put Wednesday, November the twentieth, twenty

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twenty four, four oh nine pm Central time. You you

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wanna you wanna remember this right? You wanna you want

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to make sure that this is remembered forever. You can

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keep this notebook right, and and five years from now

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when you dig it out, you'll be like, oh, man,

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don't you I remember November twenty twenty four that that

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guy was an idiot? It was It was a complete Hey, kids,

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gather around, let me tell you the story of when

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I used to listen to this podcast that was hosted

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by this idiot. Look, kids, and you can pass the

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notebook around and they're all like, h that's ridiculous. Nobody

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would interpret James one, nineteen through twenty seven that way.

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That guy wasn't idiot. Why did you ever listen to him? Well,

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I was on drugs back then. Kids, you can't blame me. Okay, However,

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it's going to go down. Write it in your notebook, Okay,

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put down the date so you can remember this, because

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I don't know if we're going to accomplish anything. You

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can look back over twenty twenty four and say, well,

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that podcast was didn't really do much, but maybe this

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will be of great significance. So are you ready. Let's

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begin with the text itself. Let's begin with the text

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itself James Chapter one, verses nineteen through twenty seven. Here

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we go. Let me read where four, my beloved brethren,

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let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,

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slow to wrath, For the wrath of man worketh not

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the righteousness of God. Wherefore, lay apart filthiness and superfluity

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of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which

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is able to save your souls. But be ye doers

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of the word, and not here is only deceiving your

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own selves. For if any man be a hearer of

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the word and not a doer, he is likened to

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a man beholding his natural face and a glass. For

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he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and straightway. Forgetteth

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what manner of man he was. Verse twenty five, James,

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Chapter one. We're looking at verses nineteen to twenty five.

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We've now I'll read verse twenty four, and then we'll continue.

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Right here we go reading verse twenty four again. For

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beholdeth himself, For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way

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and straightway. Forgetteth what manner of man he was. But

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whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein,

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he being not a forgetful here, but a doer of

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the word, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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If any man among you seem to be religious and

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bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth, but deceiveth his own heart,

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this man's religion is vain, pure religion, and undefiled before God.

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And the Father is this to visit the fatherlessen widow

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in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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That is the text you need to write. What I

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would recommend is reading the text over it now. Now, okay,

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let me just do this when it comes to any

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text of scripture. Okay, I don't care if it's Isaiah

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forty through fifty five. I don't care if it's a

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Psalm eighty three. I don't care if it's James one

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nineteen through twenty seven. The question you really, really, really

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really really have to ask yourself. This is the question

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everyone who attends church really needs to ask themselves. How

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dedicated are you really to understanding the scripture? I mean,

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come on, honestly, I mean, do you just go to church.

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You want a little sermon, You want a little bit

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of spirituality, you want to feel a little bit of talk,

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a little bit about God Jesus, have some nice songs,

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and make some good friends, have some activities, and it

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just gives you a sense of meaning. It gives you

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a sense of purpose in life, a sense of morality.

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You feel good about yourself and you're happy with that.

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And I think that's how most people are. Most people

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in the pew, they're not really I mean, come on,

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let's just be honest, they're not really that committed to

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the text and understanding the text, because if they really were,

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the what is required to truly understand a text of

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scripture is far far more commitment and far more work

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than almost No, I don't even think some pastors are

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really willing to put in the work. If you listen

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to some of the preaching, they're not really willing to

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put in the work. So let me ask you, are

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you really, really, really really committed to understanding the text?

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Because if you are, here's what I would write. Here's

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what Here's That's not what I would recommend. This would

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just be the basic expectation. You need to start reading

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James chapter one, nineteen through twenty seven over and over

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and over and over and over and over and over

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and over and over and over and over and over

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and over again. Then what you would want to do

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is create at least at a minimum, and observational outline. Right,

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so you read it over and over, you do an

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observational outline. Then you write out James one nineteen through

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twenty seven word for word, maybe three four times on paper.

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Why because all of that's just observation, so that you

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know the text. Then we go to work, Are you

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really willing to put forth that effort? Most people aren't.

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I guarantee you most people would not be willing to

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do that. So I hopefully you're willing to put forth

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the effort and do some of the things I ask

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you to do, because if you are, I believe, then

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we can get somewhere right. Just see some of the

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things we've been doing in Isaiah forty through fifty five.

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It's just a lot this work that a lot of

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people would say, come on, just move on. But you

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can't just move on. Now. What is our approach going

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to be? Well, what we're going to focus on first,

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So just that you understand is we're going to focus

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primarily at the beginning of this. We're going to focus

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on if you look at James one twenty one, wherefore

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I lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and

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receive with meekness the ingrafted word. And then in verse

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twenty five, but whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,

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Our focus is going to be the ingrafted word and

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law of liberty. That's what we're going to focus on first,

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and we're going to try to build we're gonna look

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at this is what we're gonna We're gonna look at

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an interpretation from a sermon. Now, if you listen to

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the last live broadcast, you'll notice we started reviewing a sermon.

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I'm going to give you an entire analysis of that sermon, right,

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because what I did is I took the sermon and said, hey, Ai,

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put give me an analysis of this entire sermon. So

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we're gonna just look at the analysis of the entire sermon,

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get basically the hypothesis it put forth. We already have

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a pretty good idea, so we're not going to review

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the audio. I'm just going to give you the breakdown

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of really what the sermon was about. Okay, So then

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that's what we're going to do. Then we're going to

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look at AI's attempt to try to offer some kind

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of hermeneutical understanding of James One. Really the main focus

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of the ungrafted word and the law of liberty. Right.

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Then after we've done that, then we'll start putting forth

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some ideas of an alternative, a new interpretation. Now, once

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we have really exhausted all that we can about the

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grafted word and the law of liberty, then we will

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step back and then build a fuller interpretation of nineteen

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to twenty seven. I know, Oh, this is somewhat opposite

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of the way we should We should probably start with

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let's just get a basic breakdown of James one nineteen

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through twenty seven, do some observational stuff. Then we'll get

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into the specifics. But we're gonna start with the specifics

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and then work our way back out. All right, We're

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gonna do this in just an opposite way because all

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of the focus is on the ungrafted word in law

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of liberty. All right, so we've got the text. I've

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already told you should read it, read it, read it,

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read it, do an observational outline, and then write out

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the text. That's if you really care to dig in.

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What I'm going to do is we're gonna start with

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the sermon. We've already reviewed part of it. I could

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continue the review, but that you'll just that'll take three

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four five hours and we're not gonna get We're at

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this point. It'll just start becoming repetitive. He'll say it,

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and I'm gonna be like, no, So that's not gonna

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get us anywhere. Now, Sometimes there's value in that sometimes,

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but in this case, I want to just jump right in.

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So I'm going to rely on AI's analysis of the

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entire sermon. Then I'm going to tell you what AI

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tried to do, and then I'm gonna start giving you

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my challenge to Ai. Then what I'm gonna do is

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I wrote out my own interpretation and I gave it

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to AI, and then I'm gonna have you how AI

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kind of argued with me, and then we'll then we'll

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try to clean it up, and then we'll try to summarize,

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and then we'll try to contrast my interpretation with the

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interpretation of this sermon. There's a lot of things, there's

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a lot of steps we're going to go through here. Okay,

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probably your hand's going to be broken, you're gonna have cramps,

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you're gonna be suing me for you know, all the

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physical damage I did to you, or you're gonna run

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out of pencils. So I'm just gonna go slower and

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then we'll see what we can get. So are you

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ready for this? Are you ready? Are you ready? So?

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of gives you an idea of where we're going, what

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we're attempting to do. It all started because, as you know,

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we're doing the sermons two point oh app sermon challenge, right,

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just listen to random sermons. I chose a random sermon

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EA l y The Law of Liberty by Brandon Neely right,

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and we reviewed part of it. There were some things

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started struggling with, and we kind of ended it with

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well to be continued, because I didn't really know what

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to do. I just knew that there something's just not

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so I had to do some work. So that's how

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it all started. In fact, i'll just let you hear

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remember it started with this sermon.

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

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

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

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just for a few minutes at the beginning.

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so what he tries to do is take the people

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through the text in a very academic way, looking at

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the language, the grammar, the structure. And I love the

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way he tried to do that. I love the way

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he did that. And we got into an entire discussion

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about reading comprehension and remember all of that. So that

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is the sermon. Now, you may want to go listen

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to it, you may want to go download it, but

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that's the sermon that sparked everything he puts forth kind

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of his hypotheses, his thesis on how to understand this.

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I immediately started some pushback, had some issues, and then

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we basically ran out of time. So after it was

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all said and done, I continue to think about it,

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and I like, you know what, I'm going to come

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up with a brand new interpretation because I think all

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of these interpretations, I just think they're flawed to some level.

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gonna how I'm going. This is what I'm going to do.

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new interpretation, I me make it very clear. I am

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presenting to you my hypotheses. Right, I'm not being dogmatic.

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you're a heretic. I'm not doing that, right, I'm saying,

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here's based off all of my education, all of my study,

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here's the best I can come up with, and then

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you can tear it into shreds. Right. But I think

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there has to be really I like, not just oh,

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let's listen to a sermon that already agrees with my

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philological position and just no. I like to challenge things

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and question things. So I could review the rest of

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the sermon, as I've said. But I'm like, well, let

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me grab the text version of this sermon, right, and

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let me give it to AI and say, AI, please

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analyze this, analyze this, summarize this. So we're going to

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go through basically the teaching of that sermon. I'm going

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to explain it. Now. You can go listen to it.

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I already told Look, we've already reviewed some of it.

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I think we already got his hypotheses down pretty well.

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we go, all right, interpretation of the ungrafted word and

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the law of liberty in this teaching. So what I

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wanted to do is I wanted AI to say, Okay,

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in this teaching, focus on how this sermon handles the

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ungrafted word and the law of liberty. As I said,

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that's where we're going to start. I know Hermaneutically, the

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best way to start is go nineteen to twenty seven.

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Let's break it all down and start with the big picture.

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looking at two things, and then we'll back our way out,

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start right there in the midst of the trees looking

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at two things. This slowly but surely we're gonna back

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our way out of the trees, out of the forest,

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and then see the big picture. All right. I know

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it's doing it backwards, but I think it's the right

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way to handle this, okay, because we spent an hour

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really trying to figure out the ingrafted word and the

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law of liberty. So I wanted, okay that he spent

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is the interpretation put forth by this sermon when it

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comes to the law to the law of liberty in

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the grafted words? So AI said this, this is what

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a gives me interpretation of the ungrafted word and the

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law of liberty in this teaching. So if you're going

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to create a notebook, you're going to be like, we

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begin with the text, all right, of giving you the text,

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second we examine a sermon. In fact, the sermon is

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called the Law of Liberty by Brandon Neely, and we're

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going to focus specifically on what this sermon says about

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the ungrafted word and the law of liberty. That's what

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we're doing. So first is the text, Second is the sermon.

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All right? Are you ready? This teaching The Law of

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Liberty by Brandon Neely interprets the ungrafted word and James

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one twenty one and the Law of Liberty and James

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one twenty five as closely tied to the Old Testament law. Now,

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in my estimation, he basically identified the law of liberty

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as the ungrafted word. Basically made them the same thing.

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We saw that at least some say that these things

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overlap but they are separate. Well, we'll try to get

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into that a little bit more. But he definitely put

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them almost as the same right and grafted word. This

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is how the sermon handled it. Now, now you again,

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you make sure you put sermon and you put the

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name of the sermon. This is their interpretation, their hypotheses.

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interpretation because we because look, if I'm gonna give you

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a new interpretation, you got to know the old interpretation's, right,

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we gotta have a we gotta be able to contrast

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this sermon's interpretation. You're going to get AI's interpretation. You're

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gonna get how this has been interpreted in church history.

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Then we'll get to mine. All right, So you're gonna

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have a lot to compare and trastmind with. Now why

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am I doing that? Well, I'm going to do that

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so that because it's easy if I just come on

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and just say, hey, here's the correct interpretation, and just

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take my word for it. But that's not I hate that.

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I want you to see all the different interpretations and

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then you can struggle and see which one you want

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to go with. So right now we're just considering this

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interpretation from this particular sermon. This is how he interprets

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the ungrafted word meaning. This is the meaning he gave

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to it. The ungrafted word refers to the Old Testament law,

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particularly as a source of guidance, conviction, and moral instruction.

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of the Old Testament. Now, okay, there's a lot we

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could say here, So I already want to start offering

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my critique, but okay, okay, So the ungrafted word basically

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of guidance, conviction, and moral instruction. Please know the emphasis

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is on guidance and moral instruction. The teaching in this

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sermon emphasizes that the law must be received with meekness,

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implying a humble acceptance of its authority over life. So

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the way he puts it is the ungrafted word is

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the Old Testament law, and then we just receive it

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with meekness, and then it becomes the authority over our life.

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You already know my problem. I got so many problems

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Whenever we read the law, whenever the passage is law,

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we may humbly receive it, but it's not that we

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can keep it. We cannot keep it. This is a

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fundamental part of my interpretation. You can not keep the law.

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I state this continually. This is a fundamental principle of

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my entire philological concept, and everything about it is this.

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My entire theological construct is this. You cannot keep the law,

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and I can prove it to you. God says, be

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holy as He is holy. You cannot be as holy

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as God as holy. Therefore you're in a perpetual state

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of sin and disobedience to the law of God. He says,

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love God with all of his heart, mind, body, and soul.

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and soul. You never do that. You're in a perpetual

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state of sin. Be he perfect as your heavenly father

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is perfect. You never do that, do all things without

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complaining and grumbling. Have no other gods before him. I

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can go on and on and on and on and on.

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Die to yourself, deny yourself, just go. Scripture after scripture

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after scripture. You are in a perpetual stat of sin.

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You can't do it. I don't care how meekly you

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receive the Old Testament law. You can't keep it. You

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can't keep it. I want to hit something, I want

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to throw something. All right, So his argument is, say

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we meekly receive, and this implies a humble acceptance of

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its authority over life. It will never be the authority

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over our life, and the sense of keeping it now

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we may want to say it is. It's the authority

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of determining right and wrong. It's the authority of telling

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us when we're right and telling us when we're wrong.

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I agree there, But if you imply at all any

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ability to keep it, everything falls apart. So that's kind

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of what how he defines in the sermon. That's how

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the sermon defined the ungrafted word. Now, the role the

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law is described as capable of saving the soul, not

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through works based justification, but as a means of sanctification

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and moral preservation. Now this becomes really confusing to me.

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and grafted word which is able to save your souls?

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I got a problem here. Now, according to the sermon,

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according to how Ai analyzed the sermon, And again this

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is AI's analysis. So I'm not by any means being

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dogmatic that this is exactly how he meant it, but

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this is how Ai perceived it. And we were already

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starting to have a little bit of these problems with

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it in just the part we reviewed. But the sermon

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seems to imply, I'll say that imply that the law

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is described as capable of saving the soul, not through

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workspace justification, but as a means of sanctification and moral preservation.

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So we're going to connect sanctification and moral preservation to salvation. Uh,

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get a little nervous. It highlights how the law exposes

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since I agree there leading individuals to repentance dependence on Christ. Okay,

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now now we're getting somewhere. I do believe the law

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reveal sin and leads me to Christ because I can't

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keep it. See that My emphasis is you can't do it.

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That's a very important distinction. Now, the practical application from this,

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according to this sermon, is that believers are to do

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the law, meaning they should actively live according to its

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moral and ethical principles. This is seen as evidence of

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having genuinely received the word. Now, of course, the sermon

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basically then is sating, how do you know you've received

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the word? Is because you keep it. If you don't

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keep it, you haven't received it. And therefore, what is

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the logical implication. I'm not saying the sermon would say this,

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but the logical implication would be, you are not saved.

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So if you've, if you've meekly received the word, then

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you'll do it. And so this implies that you can, well,

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the thing's already following. You cannot keep it. You can't

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prove salvation by your keeping of the law because you

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never can keep it. Therefore, you'll never be able to

458
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prove you're saved unless you create a new standard by

459
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which you judge yourself. And it won't be keeping the law.

460
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It'll be like partially keeping it, keeping it some or trust.

461
00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.400
In fact, you'll water it down to ultimately it becomes meaningless.

462
00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:31.160
But anyone honest with themselves will say, no, I'm in

463
00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:37.519
perpetual disobedience to the law. So that's how the sermon

464
00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:43.319
kind of interpreted the ingrafted word. Now, the law of liberty,

465
00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.160
the sermon implied, or the meaning of the law liberty,

466
00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:51.000
refers to the Old Testament law as fulfilled and transformed

467
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:56.160
by Christ. It is described as perfect, a perfect guide

468
00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.880
for living that brings freedom, not bondage. Okay, we got

469
00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:02.599
Now this is where it's going to get a little confusing,

470
00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:06.880
all right. So the ungrafted word is the law. Our

471
00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:10.319
keeping of that law shows that we've received the ungrafted word.

472
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:15.079
That's law base, that's action, that's works. That's almost a

473
00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.960
legalistic approach. The law of liberty, on the other hand,

474
00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:23.480
refers to that Old Testament law as being fulfilled. That's

475
00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:26.559
good because it was fulfilled in Christ, but it's being

476
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:35.160
transformed by Christ. It is described as being perfect guide

477
00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:41.960
for living that brings freedom, not bondage. So now the

478
00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:46.200
law of liberty is the law of the Old Testament transformed,

479
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:50.839
and now it's the perfect guide for living that brings

480
00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:52.799
freedom and not bondage. Now, what kind of freedom does

481
00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:57.160
it bring because once again, if you start implying that

482
00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:02.000
someone is free, well am I If you tell me

483
00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:05.519
I have been freed in any way, shape or form practically,

484
00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:07.720
well then I should be able to be perfect. And

485
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:10.799
if I can't be perfect, then I'm not free because

486
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:14.519
something is keeping me from perfection. I can't be holy

487
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:17.480
as God is holy, so I'm not free. I can't

488
00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:19.519
love God with all my heart, mind, body, and soul,

489
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:23.039
so I am not free. I am free positionally, I

490
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:25.920
am not free practically. You see, I'm already starting to

491
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:32.000
have some problems here. This teaching counters common views that

492
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:35.880
the law is restrictive, has said, presenting it as liberating

493
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.759
when rightly understood. So it's basically, hey, this law of

494
00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:43.359
liberty is the law transformed, and it's liberating. It's not restrictive,

495
00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:46.400
it's not condemning, it's freeing. Okay, now I've already got

496
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:50.400
some issues here, right. So then, according to this sermon,

497
00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:55.559
the law is portrayed as a mirror that reveals imperfections.

498
00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:59.839
By looking into it and acting accordingly, believers align their

499
00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.880
life lives with God's will, leading to blessings. So the

500
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:06.079
idea is, hey, now you've been free. You look into

501
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:08.640
the law, you see what to fix. The law says

502
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:10.519
my hair is out of place. The law says I

503
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:12.440
need to shave. Oh, the law says I need to

504
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.359
fix this. Now I can do it, and I can

505
00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:18.039
be blessed. So once again, it's the idea that we

506
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.599
can keep the law. That's the implication in the sermon.

507
00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:28.440
The law of liberty, according to this sermon, liberates believers

508
00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:32.079
from guilt imposed by human traditions or cultural expectations, while

509
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.720
grounding them in God's authoritative standard. The practical application from

510
00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:39.920
this is that adherence to the law of liberty is

511
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:44.960
not about achieving justification, but living in alignment with God's design,

512
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:49.720
which results in personal and communal happiness. Do you hear? Though,

513
00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:52.240
the idea on the sermon is that you can do it.

514
00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:56.440
So the ungrafted word, according to this sermon is the

515
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.599
Old Testament law right, and that the is the Old

516
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:04.039
Testament law transformed, and now you can do it. Basically,

517
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:06.799
it's a guide, it's a mirror, and you can do it.

518
00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:14.960
You can do it, ladies and gentlemen. Now the AI

519
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:19.039
goes on and offers some of the ramifications of this interpretation.

520
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:23.880
I'll just give you some of this. The interpretation highlights

521
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:27.119
the practical application of scripture, urging believers to live out

522
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.759
their faith in concrete ways. All right, now, what is

523
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.400
some of the weaknesses of this interpretation that we've looked at. Well,

524
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.519
it emphasizes adherence to the law as a guide. There's

525
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.279
a danger of conflating sanctification with justification. The teaching attempts

526
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.079
to avoid this, but may blur the distinction for some

527
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.680
basically at risk legalism. It blurs the line between justification

528
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:54.359
and sanctification, which is what the Protestant Church seems. It's

529
00:31:54.640 --> 00:32:00.279
their favorite hobby. Let's destroy any distinction between justification and sanctification.

530
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:05.119
And while basically returning you to Roman Catholicism, I'm not

531
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.880
saying the sermon does it that bad, but it definitely

532
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:16.559
seems to lead to this, all right, It says this

533
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.880
interpretation could under emphasize the transformative power of the Gospel

534
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:24.519
and favor of the moral function of the law. So

535
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:28.240
and said, this sermon really kind of under emphasizes any

536
00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.119
transformation we get from the Gospel. It seems to be

537
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:34.160
the transformation comes from looking into the law and just

538
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:44.160
keeping it. All right, So there we go. So in fact, I,

539
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:47.559
in fact, after I looked at all of that, in fact,

540
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:49.720
let me go find it. It may give me a

541
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:53.079
second here to find it. May go find where I included.

542
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:56.839
I didn't copy this down. I've got pages and pages

543
00:32:56.839 --> 00:32:59.440
of notes. I'm going to go back because I was

544
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:05.640
concerned that maybe I was misunderstanding the interpretation. Okay, hang on,

545
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:09.160
let me go up here. All right, here is the

546
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:13.160
the sermon. Right. So, after AI gave me its analysis

547
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.000
of the sermon, I was like, I got a problem.

548
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:18.839
So I asked Ai, well, does this message seem to

549
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:21.799
indicate we have the ability to keep the law? Because

550
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.400
when when I what I mean, that's immediately what my

551
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:28.839
thinking says. And so AI said this, the message seems

552
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:32.720
to indicate that the believer has the ability to keep

553
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:38.519
the law, but with some significant nuance and implication. Here's

554
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:40.920
an analysis based on the teaching, so based on this

555
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.559
sermon that has started all of this again, the Law

556
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:47.559
of Liberty by Brandon Neely, which we spent an hour reviewing.

557
00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:52.200
Now I'm just breaking it down. This is what the

558
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:56.279
message seems to indicate. It indicates that the message suggests

559
00:33:56.319 --> 00:34:01.160
the ability to keep the law, emphasizes sizes on being

560
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:04.279
the doer of the word. The teaching repeatedly stresses that

561
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:06.680
believers are to do the law, implying that it is

562
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.280
within their capacity to live and obedience to it. I

563
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:14.440
cannot stress that enough. The sermon basically was, Look, the

564
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.880
ungrafted word is the law. How do you know you've

565
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.480
received it? You do it? You do it? What's the implication?

566
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:25.480
You can well? If I can keep the law, then

567
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:29.519
don't tell me I can't be perfect, because if I

568
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:32.800
can't be perfect, then I can't keep the law because

569
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:39.639
the law demands perfection. The statement blessed is the man

570
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:43.159
who abides by the law of God suggests that obedience

571
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:48.159
is achievable and leads to tangible blessings. The sermon teaches

572
00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:53.840
that you can do it. The message describes the law

573
00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:57.320
as a guide or a bridle that channels human energy

574
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:01.039
and behavior, implying that individuals can follow when they submit

575
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:04.559
to its authority. See if you'll just meekly receive the

576
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:08.280
ungrafted word, which is supposedly the Old Testament law, then

577
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:20.519
done done, Dundune. You can do it by calling the

578
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:24.719
Old Testament law a law of liberty. The teaching implies

579
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.599
that following it is not only possible but also freeing,

580
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:35.119
countering the idea that the law is inherently burdensome or

581
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:39.719
impossible to keep. The teaching provides specific examples of how

582
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:43.280
adherence to the law can save in a sanctification sense,

583
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:48.920
such as resisting temptation controlling one's tongue. These examples suggest

584
00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.199
that the law is actionable in daily life. The entire

585
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:56.920
sermon puts forth the idea, Hey, the ungrafted word is

586
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.360
the Old Testament law. The law of liberty is the

587
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.239
transformed law. And now you just look at it and

588
00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:04.360
you do it, and then you know you've received the

589
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.599
ingrafted word. You know you're looking into the transformed law.

590
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.000
You're now set free. Basically, you can do it. You

591
00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:11.400
can do it. You can do it, you can do it,

592
00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:13.440
you can do it. You can do it. And that's

593
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.679
where I have a million problems with all of this

594
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:25.039
now at the same time, which is confusing, the message

595
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:31.159
also acknowledges well human limitations, right, so it basically is

596
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:33.920
like you can do it, but I mean, you can't

597
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:38.719
do it perfectly kind of idea. All right, So what

598
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:41.960
is some of the problems with this entire message. Well,

599
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:46.239
it overestimates human ability. By focusing on the practical application

600
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:48.599
of the law and the blessings of obedience, the teaching

601
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:52.039
may unintentionally imply that believers have more capacity to keep

602
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:57.119
the law than scripture actually acknowledges. We can't do it.

603
00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:01.920
The teaching completely risk downplaying on the ongoing struggle with sin,

604
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:05.400
which shows that even the most devoted believers fall short

605
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:08.960
of the law's demands, and it's referencing Romans seven fifteen

606
00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:10.920
through twenty five. Paul's famous passages of the thing I

607
00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:12.119
want to do, I don't do. The things I don't

608
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:14.519
want to do, I do it says this sermon downplays

609
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:19.559
that struggle. It overestimates your ability. You can't you can't

610
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:24.559
do what the sermon says you can do. The emphasis

611
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:27.280
on doing the law as evidence of having received it

612
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.280
could create confusion between the role of grace and salvation

613
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:33.800
and the role of works. By suggesting that following the

614
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:36.880
law brings happiness and blessing, the message could imply a

615
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:39.960
works based sanctification, which might be discouraging for those who

616
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:47.039
struggle with sin, which is everyone. By suggesting that the

617
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:50.599
law is not only actionable but liberating, the message may

618
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:55.280
lead some to place undue confidence. I just loss here

619
00:37:55.559 --> 00:38:00.199
undue confidence. My whole page changed undue confidence and her

620
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:06.159
own ability to obey, potentially fostering a legalistic mindset. Another

621
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.840
problem with the sermon is that it's at tension with

622
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:12.880
human experience. For those who recognize their ongoing inability to

623
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:16.000
keep the law, the teaching could create guilt or frustration

624
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:19.039
if it is perceived as placing too high an expectation

625
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:23.119
on human effort. So AI realizes, wait a minute. The

626
00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:26.079
message is basically saying you can do it, but human

627
00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:29.480
reality shows that you cannot do it if you have

628
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:36.440
any desire to really look at the law. So the

629
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:41.880
sermon interprets the ungrafted word as the law of the

630
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:45.679
Old Testament, and you receive it, and you do it,

631
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:48.280
and if you don't do it, then you didn't receive it.

632
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:55.119
And the law of liberty is that law transformed into

633
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.000
you know something now that brings you liberty and freedom

634
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:06.320
and all of it that now. In some ways I

635
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.599
appreciate the sermon because well, one, it's sparked all of

636
00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:13.599
this discussion. Two, I do appreciate that it takes the

637
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:16.000
ungrafted word and the law of liberty and at least

638
00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.679
connects it to Old Testament law. I think that's the

639
00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:22.440
only thing that makes sense within the context of James

640
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.039
one nineteen through twenty four or twenty seven. As you

641
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:32.119
will see as we go through this. So I have,

642
00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:35.079
you know, some some issues with all of that. So

643
00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:40.920
let's now consider so that that's the So number one,

644
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:42.880
we've looked at the text. Number two, we've looked at

645
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:46.199
the sermon that sparked all of this, and basically, how

646
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:49.559
does it interpret the ingrafted word? The law? The law

647
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:52.519
of liberty is that law being transformed, but basically what

648
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:56.199
it has all turned into, keep the law, do the law,

649
00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:58.920
Obey the law, keep the law, do the law. Obey

650
00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:03.719
the law because you you can. Oh, I mean you can't, really,

651
00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.159
I mean you can. I mean well you can't be perfect,

652
00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:08.440
but you can't. I mean you can, Well you can't,

653
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:11.800
you can't. You just stop talking to me, all right.

654
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:18.280
It reminds me of basic military training, right when you

655
00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.519
first get there to basic training and they're like, pick

656
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:23.880
up your bags, drop your bags, pick up your bags.

657
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:26.000
Who said you can pick up your bags? Drop your bag?

658
00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:28.800
Who said you could drop your bags? Pick them back up?

659
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:31.440
Who told you to pick them up, you just drop

660
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:33.239
them pick them up. And they're doing this to just

661
00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:35.000
try to break you and mess with you, and you

662
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:36.880
don't know what you're doing. You pick up your bag,

663
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:38.360
you get yelled at. You drop the bag, you get

664
00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:40.599
yelled at. You're like, you can't you can put it down?

665
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:43.199
Who said you can put it down at ease? And

666
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.920
you're who said you can stand it? You just told

667
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:47.960
me what can I do? What can I do? And

668
00:40:48.039 --> 00:40:50.159
everything you do is wrong? And they just yell and

669
00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.440
scream and then they keep you up for like twenty

670
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.840
four hours to try to break you with sleep deprivation. Okay,

671
00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:57.000
all the crazy things that they they'll do in certain

672
00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:59.800
parts of basic military training or in other forms of

673
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.920
military training that play these mind games on you. That's

674
00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:05.119
what I think preachers do. You can do it, well,

675
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.599
I mean you can't actually do it. You've been set free. Well,

676
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:09.679
I mean you haven't actually been set free. You've got

677
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:12.039
the power of God to overcome sin. Well, I mean

678
00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:14.320
you're still gonna sin. I mean you're a new creation

679
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:17.039
and everything isn't well, I mean you still got to

680
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:19.360
put away this and still well, I don't undert am,

681
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:21.119
I can I what I could, I should, I what

682
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:23.960
am I? I don't even know anymore, and you just

683
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:27.760
start going and you don't just stop it. I don't

684
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:29.239
want to hear any more preaching. I don't want to

685
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:31.000
hear any more sermons. I don't want to get anywhere

686
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:40.440
near a church. You people are crazy, and inevitably that's

687
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:45.920
where these teachings lead. They always over as. They always

688
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:50.679
promise you basically that you can, but somewhere they kind

689
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:53.440
of tell you really can't. And the persons, the people

690
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:59.119
sitting in the pew always buy into this nonsense. But

691
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:02.400
at least it connected this with the Old Testament. Now,

692
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.840
if we go through church history, we covered this in

693
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:07.039
the last one. I'll just try to do this quickly,

694
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:13.079
all right, if we go with the the how the

695
00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:16.280
church history understands at least the law of liberty, right,

696
00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:22.039
if we go through church history, yeah, we probably could

697
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.159
do well. We'll do well. This We've already covered this,

698
00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:27.280
so I'll go through this quickly. When it comes to

699
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:31.119
the church, the early Church and throughout church history, they

700
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:34.800
kind of take the law of liberty as being something.

701
00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:36.679
In fact, let me do it this way, let me

702
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:40.239
do this, let me do this way. Because now that

703
00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:44.159
I'm thinking about, we really need both, all right, How

704
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:45.920
has let me do this?

705
00:42:48.440 --> 00:43:02.039
How has the engrafted word and grafted word and law

706
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:08.679
of liberty been interpreted.

707
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:17.559
Throughout church? I can typewrite church history, right, But because

708
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:20.159
we've already kind of covered how the law of liberty

709
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:22.079
has been covered in church history, let's see if we

710
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.559
get both. Let's look at both. I mean that's a

711
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:27.119
good thing because we just reviewed a sermon that try

712
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:30.760
to handle both of them. So let's see how church

713
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:35.599
history has handled it, all right. The ungrafted word James

714
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.760
one twenty one and the law of liberty James one

715
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:44.000
twenty five has been interpreted various ways throughout Church history,

716
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:51.400
often reflecting philological debates about law, grace, and sanctification. Here's

717
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.880
an overview of how these concepts have been understood across

718
00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:58.960
different periods and traditions. So we've got the sermon. It

719
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.960
says the ingrafted word the Old Testament law, the law

720
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.719
of liberty is that law transformed. But basically, when it

721
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:09.760
summarizes it, if we're just going to really simplify it,

722
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:11.960
it basically points you to the law that you can

723
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:17.840
do and you can keep, all right, which is majorly problematic.

724
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.159
All right, but how is the early church? How did

725
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.679
the early Church handle this? So let's start with the

726
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:27.280
early Church from the second to fifth century. Let's do that.

727
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:30.400
So we've looked at the text. We've looked at a sermon.

728
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:32.440
All right, you've got the name of the sermon, the

729
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:35.639
Law of Liberty by Brandon Neely. We've broken that completely down.

730
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:40.760
Now number three, let's now look at how the church

731
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:47.559
throughout history has understood the ungrafted word and the law

732
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:50.199
of liberty throughout church history. I think that's a I

733
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.199
think that's a fair way of breaking it down. And

734
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:54.039
we have also looked at the fact, I mean, we

735
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:56.800
were looking at the sermon that the sermon basically says

736
00:44:56.840 --> 00:44:59.599
you can keep the law, and which is already so

737
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.320
I'm gonna reject the concluding principle of the sermon we

738
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:06.480
reviewed because it says I can keep the law, and

739
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:10.079
my fundamental principle is that we can't. So already I'm

740
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.599
gonna be at odds with that sermon. Now, let's see

741
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.719
what the church fathers did second to fifth century and

742
00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:21.800
grafted word moral law and the gospel. The early Church

743
00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:25.599
often saw the ungrafted word as the internalization of God's

744
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:30.320
moral law or the Gospel message. Now that's a radically

745
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.719
different approach, right, I just want you to see that.

746
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:36.760
That's like the Grand Canyon. Oh it's the moral law. No,

747
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:39.480
it's the Gospel message. Woh, whoa, whoa, woah. Those are

748
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:44.280
completely different. So whenever you get to the second to

749
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:48.199
fifth century, you had madeor divide that's the moral law. No,

750
00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:50.760
it's the Gospel. It's the moral law. It's the Gospel.

751
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:52.840
Where does that leave the person sitting in the pew

752
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:57.599
trying to figure this out? The early Church often saw

753
00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:00.840
the ungrafted word as the internalization of God's moral law

754
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:03.239
or the Gospel message. Again, how can it be both?

755
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:07.119
Origin viewed it as the truth of God implanted in

756
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:11.320
the soul, transforming the believer and leading to salvation. Please

757
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:14.280
know what Origin did. It's the truth of God. It's

758
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.079
put in your soul. It's implanted in your soul, and

759
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:22.360
it transforms you. You see this transformative idea. Everyone's gonna

760
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:26.000
almost every interpretation is gonna go with this idea. Right, Hey,

761
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:30.280
the ingrafted word boom, it's gonna be the thing that

762
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:36.079
changes you whatever however you define it, right, and it

763
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:41.960
leads to your salvation. Augustine linked linked it to the

764
00:46:42.039 --> 00:46:45.440
grace of God, emphasizing that the word can only take

765
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:48.679
root in the heart through divine action. So basically, no

766
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:51.719
matter whether it was origin, no matter it was Augustine,

767
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.239
the bottom line is, this is something put inside of

768
00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:56.440
you or it ends up inside of you, and guess

769
00:46:56.519 --> 00:47:00.679
what it gives you. Basically, it transforms you, it changes you. Basically,

770
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:03.679
now you can somehow keep the law. This has been

771
00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:08.039
the Oh, this is always the way Christianity handles these things.

772
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.920
So that's the ingrafted word. Now I will go instead

773
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:16.400
of going with the early Church, I go more with

774
00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:19.960
the sermon. I think the ungrafted word deals with law

775
00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:24.039
old Testament law. In fact, I think it goes to

776
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:26.559
something else other than the Old Testament law. I think

777
00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:30.159
it goes to the law of God that is written

778
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:34.559
on our hearts, that everyone has. So I say, I'm

779
00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:38.000
already going to distinguish myself. Some say it's the Old

780
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:42.679
Testament law. Some say, well, it's truth or it's the Gospel.

781
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.440
I just so that you know, no, no, no, no, it's

782
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:48.320
the law written on everyone's heart. Everyone is born with

783
00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:51.639
the law of God written on their heart. Right that's

784
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:54.800
because it's ingrafted, it's inside of you, all right, So

785
00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:56.800
we'll talk about that now, the law of liberty. How

786
00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:59.400
did the early Church and the second to fifth century

787
00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:03.360
handle the law liberty? Well, they interpreted this as the

788
00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:06.719
freedom through Christ. The fathers often interpreted the law of

789
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:10.400
liberty as a moral law fulfilled in Christ, bringing freedom

790
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:14.159
from sin and legalism. Now, okay, the law of liberty

791
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.800
is the law, is the moral law fulfilled in Christ.

792
00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:20.519
Now I say amen to that. Now, when you say

793
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:24.199
freedom from sin, that's where I get problems. Freedom from sin?

794
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:28.159
In what way? I'm free from sin? Positionally? I am

795
00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:32.679
not free from sin practically? Right. Augustine wrote that the

796
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:35.079
law of liberty is the spirit's work and the believer,

797
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.519
enabling joyful obedience to God's will. See, Augustine's going to

798
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:42.199
go with that. Hey, now you can do it. You

799
00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:45.119
can do it. So the law of liberty is the

800
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:48.800
spirit's work, and so now you can joyfully obey God. Well,

801
00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:55.519
then then that means that could be perfect. Right. Chrysostom

802
00:48:56.119 --> 00:49:00.719
emphasized that the law freed believers from the mosaic law burdens,

803
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:06.119
but upheld moral obligations. Hey, the law of liberty. It

804
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:10.079
frees you from the mosaic law of burden, but you

805
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:12.320
still have a moral obligation. I don't know exactly what

806
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:17.360
that even means, but okay, So the ungrafted word was

807
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:20.840
either in church history was the moral law or the Gospel,

808
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:24.199
but in either case they really emphasized that it changes you.

809
00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:29.679
The law of liberty is somehow basically freedom through Christ,

810
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:32.400
whatever it may be, you get freedom. Now freedom from

811
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:35.960
what is not clearly articulated. Augustine would seem to say

812
00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:38.480
that freedom means you can do it. Well, the others

813
00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:43.599
just seem to articulate some form of freedom. So that's

814
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:47.079
not super helpful. All right. How about so that's the

815
00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:50.679
second to the fifth century. How about the eleventh to

816
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:54.599
fifteenth century. Now let's go to medieval period, eleventh to

817
00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:59.159
fifteenth century. What was the ungrafted word during that time? Well,

818
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:04.960
the church and interpreted the ingrafted word as grace and scripture.

819
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:10.239
Thomas Aquinas understood the ungrafted word as divine grace and

820
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:14.639
revelation and planted in the soul, leading to moral transformation.

821
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:17.920
See how everything's going to go this direction. Whatever the

822
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:21.199
ungrafted word is, whatever the law of liberty is, all

823
00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:24.199
it's all going to be described as doing the same thing.

824
00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:28.880
It changes you, it frees you, it empowers you. You

825
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.519
can do it. But you know what was true from

826
00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:35.119
the second century all the way to twenty twenty four

827
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:38.320
is we sin sen sin sin sin sin sin. But

828
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:43.920
nobody ever seems to want to admit that he linked

829
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:48.000
the ungrafted word to the written word of God, emphasizing

830
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.440
scripture's role and shaping the believer's heart and life. I

831
00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:54.559
disagree with Thomas aquinas this is not the entire Bible.

832
00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:59.239
It's not when James wrote, there wasn't even an idea.

833
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:03.039
I mean here it's like forty forty two, forty three AD.

834
00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:05.679
There is no New Testament. So if it could refer

835
00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:07.840
to anything, it would only be the Old Testament. And

836
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:09.880
then you would say, is the Old Testament and grafted

837
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:13.079
in me? So now we get into all kinds of

838
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:19.480
issues here, but just note so in this Medievil time,

839
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:23.239
Thomas akwanis kind of is the main spokesman, and that

840
00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:26.199
this is somehow grace and scripture, that's what the ungrafted

841
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:29.480
word is. How about the law of liberty, Well, they

842
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:33.440
saw this and in that mid Evil period that it's

843
00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:36.480
moral guidance and freedom. The law of liberty was interpreted

844
00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:40.000
as moral law properly understood, freeing believers from sins dominion

845
00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:43.119
and guiding them towards virtue. So this gets weird. So

846
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:47.440
now the moral law frees me from sins dominion. The

847
00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:52.159
moral law frees me from sins dominion. That's ridiculous. That's

848
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:54.920
the idea. Here's the moral law. Just keep it and

849
00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:59.760
you're free. You can't keep it, that's the whole stinking point.

850
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:03.360
So see you can already tell where I'm already against

851
00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:09.480
all of these interpretations. A Quinnas highlighted the distinction between

852
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:15.199
the ceremonial law and the moral law. It's binding and freeing.

853
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:17.880
See all you got to do the moral law will

854
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:20.440
free you. You just obey it. Obey it with love

855
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:23.039
and dun dund tone. You're free. So you can see

856
00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:27.079
the sermon throughout Church history. No matter how they identify

857
00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:31.440
or define the ingrafted word or the law of liberty,

858
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:34.840
they all basically say the same thing. This is something

859
00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:37.599
that will free you, empower you. You can do it,

860
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:39.559
you can keep it, and you've got to keep it

861
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:42.480
to prove it that you've received the word. No, so

862
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:45.920
it all becomes do law, law, do this, do this,

863
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:48.840
don't do this, do this. It's all about obedience. This

864
00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:53.679
has been and especially when you go to the Early Church,

865
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:59.280
you got the influence of Roman Catholicism all over this stuff.

866
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:03.400
So what happens when we get to the Reformation sixteenth

867
00:53:03.480 --> 00:53:07.119
and seventeenth century, the Reformation and post Reformation. Well, the

868
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:10.440
ungrafted word. How do the reformers handle this? Well, the

869
00:53:11.039 --> 00:53:16.159
ungrafted word now becomes the gospel. Reformers like Luther and

870
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:19.920
John Calvin emphasize that the Gospel as the ungrafted word.

871
00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:23.880
So now they forget the Old Testament law here and

872
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:26.760
now it's the Gospel. Calvin saw it as God's truth

873
00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:29.400
written on a believer's heart through the Holy Spirit, convicting

874
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:32.000
and pointing to Christ. They stress that this word brings

875
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:35.400
life not through works of law, but by faith. I

876
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:40.800
got it. So now the ungrafted word is the Gospel. Now,

877
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:43.840
in the early Church they would mention it, but they

878
00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:46.360
almost always went back to the law or the moral law,

879
00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:49.199
which would make more sense than the context of James.

880
00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:51.280
But the Reformers were like, no, no, no, no, no, this

881
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:55.960
is the gospel. This is the gospel. They stressed that

882
00:53:56.079 --> 00:53:59.719
this word brings life. So the ungrafted word is the Gospel.

883
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.239
How did they handle the law of liberty? Well, the

884
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:05.920
reformers distinguished between justification by faith alone and the believer

885
00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:09.000
sanctified life. Calvin argued that the law of liberty is

886
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:12.320
the moral law has fulfilled in Christ, guiding believers and

887
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:16.000
joyful spirit empowered obedience. So we look into the law

888
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:19.079
of liberty and we now have the We have the

889
00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:21.360
freedom and the power to do it. Once again, it's

890
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:26.000
going to turn into power. Lutheran Calvin rejected the idea

891
00:54:26.039 --> 00:54:29.320
that the law could justify, but affirmed its role as

892
00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:33.079
a guide for sanctification. So once again, no matter how

893
00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:36.119
whatever anyone does in church history, with the ingrafted word

894
00:54:36.159 --> 00:54:39.599
of the law of liberty, it all turns into what

895
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:42.239
you can do, what you can do, what you can do,

896
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:46.079
what you can do. So what happened in the eighteenth

897
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:50.880
century to today, the Enlightenment to the modern era, Well,

898
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:57.760
the ungrafted word is interpreted as word as gospel and scripture.

899
00:54:57.840 --> 00:55:00.360
Many interpreters have emphasized the ingrafted world. It is the

900
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:03.960
gospel message and planted into the believer's heart. Drawing from

901
00:55:03.960 --> 00:55:06.960
one Peter one twenty three. Others see it as scripture,

902
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.840
broadly focusing on its transformative power when internalized and applied.

903
00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:15.400
So again, God, whether it's gospel, whether it's law, whether

904
00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:21.320
it's scripture, everyone says, look the ungrafted word it you

905
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:24.760
can do it. It's going to help you obey, it's

906
00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:31.599
going to help you be obedient. I what about the

907
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:34.719
law of liberty? Well, moral freedom and christ fulfillment. The

908
00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:38.079
law of liberty has been widely understood as the moral

909
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:43.079
law interpreted through Christ's fulfillment. Evangelicals often stress the believer's

910
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:47.800
freedom from sin's penalty and power, emphasizing grace rather than works.

911
00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:50.960
But again, once again, even in the evangelical world, oh,

912
00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:53.800
the law of liberty shows you're free from the power

913
00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:56.400
of sin, meaning you can do it now. Holiness traditions,

914
00:55:56.519 --> 00:56:01.960
especially Wesleyans, emphasizes the spiritual and enabling believers to live

915
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:06.880
out the law as evidence of sanctification. So, no matter

916
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:09.760
how you interpret the ungrafted word, no matter how you

917
00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:13.119
interpret the law of liberty, throughout Church history, it always

918
00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:17.880
comes down to you can do it. You can, You've

919
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:20.119
been set free, you have power.

920
00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:24.639
Now.

921
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:29.079
If we come to contemporary views, the ungrafted word is

922
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.519
often interpreted as God's truth, scripture or Gospel working internally

923
00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:36.760
to transform lives. Some modern scholars emphasize the moral convicting role,

924
00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:40.559
aligning with james practical focus on faith in action. But basically, again,

925
00:56:41.360 --> 00:56:44.800
whether it's the word, the scriptures, the Gospel, the law,

926
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:48.440
it's all about change, personal transformation, and the law of liberty.

927
00:56:48.480 --> 00:56:51.800
In contemporary times, the law of liberty is interpreted as

928
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:54.920
a call to ethical living. Many theologians highlight the tension

929
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:57.039
between freedom and the law's condemnation and the call to

930
00:56:57.039 --> 00:57:00.840
live in obedience as a response to grace. So what

931
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:03.679
are the key themes across church history if we take

932
00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:07.480
all of these view Conviction and transformation. The ungrafted word

933
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:09.880
has been consistently been seen as something that convicts of

934
00:57:09.960 --> 00:57:14.760
sin and transforms the heart. Whether it's the Gospel, whether

935
00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:17.400
it's the moral law, or whether it's the scripture. That's

936
00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:21.000
that's what everyone seems to agree on. It convicts and

937
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:26.320
it changes you. The ungrafted word changes you. The law so,

938
00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:29.679
and the law of liberty frees you or changes you.

939
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:34.519
So that's it's conviction. So they everyone seems to agree

940
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.760
on conviction and transformation. Number two, everyone seems to agree

941
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:39.920
on freedom through obedience. The law of liberty has been

942
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:42.480
understood as the freedom to live according to God's will.

943
00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:45.199
At liberty that comes from not abandoning the law, but

944
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:48.320
from fulfilling it. And Christ so now you but see

945
00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:51.519
somehow christ fulfilling it frees you to do it. That's

946
00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:54.599
the weird thing. Hey, christ fulfilled it, but now you

947
00:57:54.679 --> 00:58:00.280
can so. Throughout Church history the sermon everyone see to

948
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:04.960
go with conviction and transformation, freedom through obedience, and number

949
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:09.440
three sanctification versus justification. A reoccurring theme is the distinction

950
00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:12.880
between the law's role and justification none and the role

951
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:16.719
in sanctification guiding believers and righteousness. So there is an

952
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:19.239
attempt to at least to straw a distinction, but I

953
00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:25.400
think the distinction typically gets obliterated. All right, So that's

954
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:28.480
how church history has handled it. So what have we

955
00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:32.079
done when we've looked at the text James one nineteen

956
00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:37.679
through twenty seven. I've drawn your attention to two basic things,

957
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:42.119
the ingrafted word and the law of liberty. You got that,

958
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:47.760
We listened. We considered a sermon which took these two

959
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:51.280
concepts and basically emphasized what you can do it. You

960
00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:54.119
can do it, you can keep it, you can obey it,

961
00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:58.400
and basically implied that you have the ability to do so,

962
00:58:58.519 --> 00:59:01.000
even though trying to pull it pulls back a little

963
00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:05.840
bit and tries to qualify it, but still the implication.

964
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:08.480
As you can. We've gone through a quick journey through

965
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.880
church history looking at both how they handle the ungrafted

966
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:15.800
word and law liberty. No matter how they define it,

967
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:18.239
it becomes about what you can do it. You can

968
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:19.639
do it, you can do it, you can do it,

969
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:21.039
you can do it, you can do it, you can

970
00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:22.440
do it, you can do it, you can do it.

971
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:26.079
And guess what all of those attempts, all of those

972
00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:31.079
approaches lead us to. It overestimates your ability. It's in

973
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:35.000
conflict with reality. It denies the fact that if you

974
00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:38.199
look at the law of God, nobody's doing it, no

975
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:40.719
matter how much people are pretending to do it. So

976
00:59:40.840 --> 00:59:44.280
what does all of that scream? All of that screams

977
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:49.840
someone give me a new interpretation that makes sense not

978
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:54.800
only textually, not only historically, but it also has some

979
00:59:54.920 --> 00:59:59.400
correspondence to reality, and ladies and gentlemen, that's what we

980
00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:02.400
are going to do. But we're not gonna do it

981
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:09.679
now because it's been one hour. So in our next

982
01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:15.400
thrilling episode, we're gonna start, Well, what we're gonna do

983
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:18.159
next is we've looked at a sermon, We've looked at

984
01:00:18.199 --> 01:00:21.280
church history. We're gonna give Ai a shot and see

985
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.480
what Ai does. We're gonna give a little We're gonna

986
01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:26.840
get a little insight to what Ai does. And then well,

987
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:29.960
then I'm gonna start putting together an alternative. Well, I

988
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:34.480
do ask Ai from for some alternative interpretations. I do

989
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:37.800
ask Ai, hey, give me some different interpretations. It tries

990
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:40.840
to give me some alternative ones, and then I start

991
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:47.960
building my own because even Ai recognizes HM. When when

992
01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:53.239
you push Ai, Ai has to go, well, reality is,

993
01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:56.079
we don't act if people don't actually keep the law.

994
01:00:56.119 --> 01:00:58.920
If we understand God's law to be this demand for

995
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:03.159
perfection internally externally, nobody does so. To emphasize, to say

996
01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:07.840
that this somehow says that we can is just logically wrong.

997
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:11.119
It's just not true. Even Ai can acknowledge that if

998
01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:14.599
this is the law of God, nobody does it. If

999
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:17.719
Ai can recognize that us as people should be able

1000
01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:19.239
to look at our lives going, come on, now, we

1001
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:26.280
don't ever do this, all right, I think that's a

1002
01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:32.719
pretty good start, right, the text a sermon history. Now

1003
01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:36.159
where does that leave us, Well, we're going to consider

1004
01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:39.840
ai attempts to interpret it. We're going to ask AI

1005
01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:42.920
to come up with some alternative interpretations, and then we're

1006
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:46.079
going to come to a new interpretation. We're getting there.

1007
01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:49.000
But you don't just start with a new interpretation. You've

1008
01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:51.679
got to see all of the twists and turns that

1009
01:01:51.719 --> 01:01:53.920
this passage has been through throughout church history. Because I

1010
01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:58.679
don't care where you open your Bible, there's a history.

1011
01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:04.519
There's two thousand years minimum of history of people trying

1012
01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:09.599
to interpret it. People have been trying to interpret the Bible,

1013
01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:15.719
and nobody ever comes to an agreement. All right, we'll

1014
01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:19.320
stop there. I hope your paid or your notebook is

1015
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:22.039
filled up already starting to be Well, it's not all

1016
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:24.280
the way filled up. You filled up a couple of pages.

1017
01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:27.679
Hopefully you're ready to go. And the next time we're together,

1018
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:30.440
we're gonna go further. We're gonna go deeper, and we're

1019
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:32.559
gonna figure this out. We're gonna we're gonna at least

1020
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:35.199
come up with a different interpretation. I'm not saying you're

1021
01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:36.840
going to agree with it. I'm not even going to

1022
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:39.039
say it's right, but we got to have something that

1023
01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:42.719
makes more sense than basically saying, hey, whatever the ingrafted

1024
01:02:42.760 --> 01:02:45.039
word is, whatever the law of liberty is, you can

1025
01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:48.800
obey God perfectly. Well, let me take it back. Not perfectly,

1026
01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:50.760
but you can do it. I mean, well, you can't

1027
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:52.599
do it. You've got power, Well you don't really, and

1028
01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:55.159
all of that nonsense. I'm so sick of that. I

1029
01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:58.039
am so sick of it. Everyone who goes to church,

1030
01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:00.400
anyone who's been a Christian for more than fifteen minutes,

1031
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:05.320
you should be sick of it because it's contradictory, convoluted

1032
01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:11.880
double speak that leaves people. It should leave you broken, frustrated,

1033
01:03:11.960 --> 01:03:14.519
and wanting to start drinking heavily is where it should

1034
01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:17.599
probably lead you. But somehow Christians convince themselves that it

1035
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:20.559
all makes sense. I don't know how they do it.

1036
01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:23.840
I don't know how they do it. I really don't.

1037
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:26.519
I really don't. And then we get what did we

1038
01:03:26.559 --> 01:03:28.679
look at yesterday? And then we have all these statistics

1039
01:03:28.679 --> 01:03:32.280
about how many Christians are looking at porn. Something contradicts

1040
01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:34.719
all of your claims that you can do it. Yeah,

1041
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:37.199
you can do what sin Guess what you've always been

1042
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:39.639
able to do sin. Guess what you can still do sin.

1043
01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:41.679
Guess what you do sin? You know why because you're

1044
01:03:41.719 --> 01:03:47.000
still a sinner. So yeah, all right, we'll stop there.

1045
01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:50.599
Thanks for listening, everyone, have a great evening. James one,

1046
01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:58.039
make it come on, focus read. Think we're going to

1047
01:03:58.079 --> 01:04:00.119
come up with some answers right now. We're left with

1048
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:02.440
a lot of non answers, but we're gonna come up

1049
01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:04.599
with some good answers, all right, God bless