Joshua 1:8 Pt 1

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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast

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making Theology Central. What did I
just hear? Okay, wasn't just I

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heard it a few minutes ago?
Well maybe fifteen twenty minutes ago. It's

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been a little while, but in
a sense, as far as this broadcast

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is concerned, what did I just
hear? I'm still baffled by it,

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confused, perplexed. It makes me
question everything I've ever understood about Christianity.

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You see, just a little while
ago, I was on the Sermons two

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point oh app because you remember,
you know, if you happen to have

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forgotten, this is the year of
the Sermon's two point oh app sermon Challenge,

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Right, we're supposed to be using
that app as much as possible.

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So I was on the app looking
at all the current wabcast. I clicked

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on a webcast and there was a
group of young people standing on the platform.

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Most of them were They were all
around a piano. Some of them

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had handheld microphones, and they were
singing different songs. And they sang a

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particular song I've never heard of,
but there was a lyric in the song

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that made me go, what in
the world is that? Like? What

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what is it? And well,
before I tell you what I heard,

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I guess I should do this.
Welcome everyone. It is Sunday, June

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the twenty third, twenty twenty four. It is currently six h nine pm

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Central time, and I am coming
to you live from the Theology Central Studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. So what did I hear? What

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was being sung? Or? Well? I had to write down the lyrics,

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I mean, because I couldn't believe
it. I the first two times

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they sang the lyric, I thought
maybe I was hearing it wrong. So

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I listened to it a third time
and I'm like, you've got to be

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kidding it. This is being sung
in a church. Now, some of

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you may agree with it. I've
got problems. I've got problems with it.

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And if and look, if you
agree with it, I would love

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to hear your perspective. If you
disagree with it, I would love to

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hear your perspective. But here is
what they were literally singing, Are you

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ready? And I quote, God
must have seen something worth saving when he

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saved me. God must have seen
something worth saving when he saved me.

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Now, on one hand, that
sounds very very monegistic. God does the

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saving. But if God does the
saving, well, then God saved me

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because I'm worth saving. But he
didn't save other people because they weren't worth

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saving. So now, if this
is not coming, I don't believe the

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church is a monegistic church. But
whenever you say God does the saving,

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you're saying it's a work of God
alone. But if it's a synergistic church,

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then you're saying God's part in saving
me. He decided to save people

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because they were worth there was something
about us that was worth saving? Was

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there a goodness in us? Well, look, what do you mean that

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there was something in us that was
worth saving? My typical understanding is that

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God did not save us because of
anything of value or worth in us.

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But he saved us out of grace
and mercy, unconditional grace, unconditional mercy.

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He did so, not that we
there was nothing in us of value.

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Now some may say, well,
we're a creation of God, so

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therefore there is intrinsic value in that. But we are sinners, we are

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rebels against God God. We don't
do there's nothing worth saving because we deserve

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hell, what we're worthy of is
condemnation because we are sinners. Well,

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first we're guilty in Adam, then
we're sinners, and practice we're sinners by

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nature. So the lyric literally was
God must have seen something worth saving when

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he saved me. I couldn't believe. I think that that's I think that

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that's problematic. It would be interesting
to see how much disagreement there is in

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the Christian world on this. So
whatever your opinion is of this lyric,

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please email me newsif at yahoo dot
com, news if at Yahoo dot com.

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What I think some are going to
do is someone's going to argue of

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the intrinsic value in us. But
I say, whatever intrinsic value you think

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exists in us, we are rebels, we're sinners before a holy God.

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The only thing we're worthy of is
condemnation, wrath, and judgment. God

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doesn't save us because he sees something
worthy to save. He saves us because

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of grace, mercy, because of
unconditional grace, because of unconditional mercy,

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unconditional love. I don't know.
I could well, well, which way

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would scripture go? So I don't
know, but I saw that, and

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I'm just saying there, what what
in the world. But we're not here

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to talk about that. I'm here
to talk about Well, something else that

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is confusing, and that is Joshua
one eight. Well, I mean,

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I don't really think it's confusing,
but it appears it seems to be very

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confusing, all right, Joshua one
eight. Let me read the verse Joshua

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one eight. Are you ready?
Joshua chapter one, verse eight. Let's

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see here. Let me find it
in this Bibleoshua chapter one, verse eight.

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This book of the Law shall not
depart from your mouth, but you

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shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according

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to all that is written in it. For then for then you will you

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will make your way prosperous, and
then you will have good success. Joshua

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one eight. It should be clear, it should be easy to understand,

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especially if you read it in its
proper context. But for some weird reason,

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the proper context of Joshua one eight
gets obliterated and Joshua one to eight

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becomes about us and a recipe for
us to have prosperity and good success.

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But there's a lot of problems with
that, because this would be conditional,

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and what would you have to do
to have prosperity and good success. Well,

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according to this, this is what
you would have to do. Number

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one, the book of the Law
shall not depart from your mouth. In

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other words, it should always be
in your mouth. I guess you should

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always be discussing it, always be
talking about it. We need to figure

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out exactly what that phrase means,
but we'll just go with that. You

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know, simple explanation. The word
of God should always be in your mouth,

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always, always, always, always. You may be able to think

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you can pull that off. But
the second one, you shall meditate in

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it day and night. Now,
don't even try to pretend that you meditate

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on God's word day and night.
Don't even try to pray. You can

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try to say, well, I
have my devotions in the morning, and

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so that gives me something to think
about all day until you're thinking about other

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things and meditating on other things,
and talking about other things, and discussing

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other things, and getting frustrated by
other things, and either being happy or

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sad or discover there's a million other
things that dominate your thinking and dominate your

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conversation that you may observe to do
according to all that is written therein well

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The third that would be required is
perfect obedience. Well, no one's going

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to pull this off. So you're
not going to pull off any of these,

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So then you're never gonna have prosperity
or good success unless you try to

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grade this on a curve, which
then destroys the meaning of the verse.

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So there's a problem right there.
The way this should be understood is this

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is law. We can't do this, So how are we going to be

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prosperous or have good success? Well, Jesus Christ, the word of God

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never departed from his mouth. He
meditated on day and night, and he

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observed everything written in the law,
and by faith. Guess what his obedience

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is imputed to my account. So
in Christ, then I have prosperity,

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spiritual prosperity, and spiritual success.
That's the only way to even make any

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sense if you're going to make it
about us. But the real issue is

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Joshua one eight is not about us. Joshua one eight cannot be understood apart

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from Deuteronomy twenty eight and following,
which comes right before Joshua. And we

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talked about this. In fact,
I did an entire message entitled Joshua one

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eight, a new interpretation. You
can go listen to that. But Joshua

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one eight is just as kind of
frustrating and perplexing to me as listening to

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kids sing a song that says God
must have seen something worth saving when he

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saved me. I don't understand that
from a philological perspective. But guess what,

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when it comes to Joshua one eight, I don't understand half, probably

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ninety percent of the sermons preached on
Joshua one to eight. They leave me

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perplexed and confused because they seem to
completely obliterate the textual context, the historical

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context. They seem to just completely
be oblivious to the fact that we can't

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do those things and nobody ever will. So this entire week, this entire

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week, it's all about Joshua one
eight for the sermons two point zero app

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sermon Challenge. Your challenge for this
week is to do nothing but listen to

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sermons on Joshua one eight. That
is what you're spouting. You can find

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if you want, You can listen
to sermons on Joshua chapter one. Then

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you can go to specific verses.
But Joshua one eight, that is yours.

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That's the challenge this week. And
what I want you to do is

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if you can just let me know
if you can find a sermon that explains

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first our inability to obey Joshua one
eight, and secondly, it connects Joshua

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one eight to Deuteronomy twenty eight and
makes it very much about Israel and not

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about us. And we know even
Israel didn't obey this. Even Israel did

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not accomplish this. That's your challenge. But if I give you the challenge,

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I try my best to participate in
all of them. So do you

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want to listen to a sermon on
Joshua one eight? Well, I grabbed

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the sermons two point zero app typed
in Joshua one eight. The first sermon

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that showed up was was mine Joshua
one ate a new interpretation? Right?

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That doesn't help. The second sermon
was the Secret of Spiritual Success, which

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is the sermon that sparked this Joshua
one eight challenge in the first place.

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And then I don't know was it. I'm assuming it was the third one

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It said a survey of the New
Testament, And I'm like, wait,

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what how is this a sermon on
Joshua on a survey of the New Testament.

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So I was intrigued. So I
looked and it says Joshua one eight

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a survey of the New Testament,
and I'm like, I think it's a

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survey of the New Testament, part
two Joshua one eight. So I'm like,

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I'm intrigued. I'm thinking, hmm, is he going to say that

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Joshua one eight is law and we
have to look to Christ and he's going

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to show us that in the New
Testament, Christ fulfills all of the demands

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of Joshua one eight. Well,
that would be fast, and that would

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be an ought. We would be
off to an amazing start. I don't

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know, because I haven't listened to
it yet, but are you ready to

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listen to it? It's relatively short, so that gives me a you know,

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at least for the first one.
I don't like the first one to

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turn into five hours of review,
so this one is relatively short. We

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may even have the ability to finish
it before this broadcast is over. So

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does that sound like a good thing? Does that look? As confusing as

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the lyrics are, God must have
seen something worth saving when he saved me.

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I'm still perplexed by that. But
you may not be. I'm just

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as perplexed and confused by many sermons
on Joshua one to eight, even though

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you may not be. So you
may disagree with me about the lyrics,

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and there's a high probability there's gonna
be a lot of disagreeing with me on

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Joshua one eight. But that's okay, all right? Are you ready?

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I don't know anything about this sermon. I don't know you know what to

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be. I'm really nervous because I
did not check the volume level. Typically

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I checked the volume level, but
I think I was just in a hurry

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to try to make sure I get
something in for what would be typically our

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Sunday evening service at Victory of Baptist
Church, and so I forgot to do

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that. So if the volume is
too low, I apologize. I'm oh,

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I'm nervous. I'm nervous. I'm
nervous. I'm nervous, some nervous.

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I think I think I got all
discombobulated and frustrated by that those lyrics.

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I was like, what is this? But we'll jump in now for

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those who may be new to what
we're doing again or challenging you to download

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the sermon's two point zero app And
what you're supposed to be doing is each

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day finding the most random sermon.
You're not choosing a certain broadcaster or a

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certain kind of church. You're just
choosing a random sermon. You're supposed to

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listen, write it down in a
notebook, the name of the sermon,

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the name of the church, the
broadcaster, and then write a one sentence

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summary of the sermon you listen to. The goal was by the end of

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twenty twenty four, you would have
a sermon for every day of the year.

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That was the goal. Now,
I don't know how far behind you

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may be, doesn't matter. Just
start now, because can you believe this?

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We're almost to July. When I
was driving to church this morning,

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I come out of our residential area, there's a stop sign. I turn

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left, just barely go half a
block. Turn right. There's the access

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road. The access road is going
to take me to Highway what eighty three

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eighty four, it's going to take
me towards Tuscola slash O Vala, Texas,

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where the church is located. Well
right, when I turn right,

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right there in the access road,
right there to the side on the right

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hand side, of the road is
well, they're setting up a fireworks stand.

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They set that up every year so
people can buy fireworks. It's right

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there, close to my house.
A bunch of people go there to buy

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fireworks. I don't know why they
sell fireworks in Texas because usually, especially

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in parts of West Texas in July, it's usually a desert and a drought,

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and you shoot one firework, the
whole state burns to the ground.

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Okay, but the point is,
it's right there. And when I saw

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it this morning, I'm like,
man, I can't believe it's already July.

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It's already July. It feels like
it was yesterday that I was like,

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hey, it's December and it's you
know, Christmas time, and trying

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to do broadcast around that, and
what are we going to do in twenty

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twenty four and twenty twenty four could
be a really bad year, and all

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my concerns about twenty twenty four and
the future of Victory Baptist Church and the

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future of this podcast just a lot
of things. And well, here we

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are in the month of July.
It is crazy. So before we know

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it, the year is going to
be over. So I don't know where

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you are and doing the sermon's two
point oh app challenge. But hey,

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let's finish the year much stronger than
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next the rest of twenty twenty four
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don't know how it's all going to
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got there's a lot of uncertainties for
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you ready? In the meantime,
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tomorrow right because we've got today.
So let's worry about today. Let's listen

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to a sermon on Joshua one.
Somehow this is a part of a survey

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of the New Testament. I have
no idea what's about to happen. Fingers

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crossed. That's not actually going to
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fingers. It's not actually going to
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The point is, let's hope that
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we go on the air, so
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difficulties this morning, so we will
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just a moment. We're not ready
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turn us off please and erase that
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so if you'll turn it off.
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hate that for any pastor. I
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is preach. What you want to
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do is broadcast. And then there's
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Internet stops working, the computer needs
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something's not connecting. And it's so
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all your mind is like preach,
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then all of these other things happen, and it is so frustrating, right

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it drives me absolutely crazy. I
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Okay, my neighbor's car alarm was
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frustration right now. Okay, But
how many times when I'm doing a broadcast

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does my daughter FaceTime me, like
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they're like, oh, there's nothing, And I don't know if you're going

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to be able to detect it in
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hear that he's getting a little frustrated
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he he handles it really well.
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projecting my own frustration because I feel
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not starting out good, like here
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I feel bad for him because other
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you're the pastor, it's not funny. Okay, when you want to tell

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everyone, Oh, you think it's
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to say Lord. I think he
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think he's about to say something like
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but he's he's just standing there like
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mean, because it's so short,
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time, and now they're trying to
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the clock, going, I got
how much time left? Now? What

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do I do? I've been I've
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go, and then you're hours now
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what do I do do? I
even try to teach what I was

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going to teach, do I now
just improvise. Maybe that's why this is

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called a Survey of the New Testament, Part two. And we're gonna end

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up in josh Maybe maybe he's frustrated. I don't know. Let's see what

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happens. Okay, let's take our
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verse eight, and I'm sorry about
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least maybe we'll have our Sunday or
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to give you an introduction to the
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introduction or the introduct survey of the
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Joshua, chapter one and verse eight. And of course, this is God's

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promise about the word. This book
of the Law shall not depart out from

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your mouth, but you shall meditate
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may observe to do according to all
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you will make your way prosperous,
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Now we see that the Lord tells
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book. Now, of course this
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promise, though, that is a
universal promise if we okay, so he's

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acknowledging us to Joshua. Really it's
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from God to Joshua. All right, we could get into a discussion there,

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could We could read the context here
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word it. So, but whomever
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us. He says it's a universal
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universal or is it universal meaning only
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a lost person just put the word
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it, be able to speak about
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and obey the scriptures, and then
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success. And what about people who
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who don't know God's word, who
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on it? When you say universal, is that for for everyone or for

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every save person? But again,
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it's becoming about us. And I've
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what we're going to hear all weak. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's

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going, well, no, he's
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it about us. So I think
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already coming true relatively fast. But
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it's not. I mean, I
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going to go on this. We
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and that's what we'll be speaking about
this morning, the light of the

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Word in our hearts. The Lord
is our light and our salvation. The

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Word is a lamp into my feet
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if we will walk in it,
and that's what we'll be talking about this

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morning and some in the service,
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revelation of the Word that God's given
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Now in saying that, I have
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the New Testament, and with that
I gave you a chart of all the

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books. And would you get did
you get a copy of this if you

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did, if you'll give it one
to or get over with Anna, if

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you will give one to or two
newcomers here. But I've been looking at

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a book that I've been thinking about
getting, and in fact I passed out

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some but just going through this.
It's called a Survey of the New Testament

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by Paul Binware, and it gives
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The reason I want to do this
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a teenager and God was really getting
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in and out of church, but
I never had really become serious with church,

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other than going through the activities and
Sunday School everyonce a while and learning

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topics or so forth. But I
was God was really dealing with me,

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and I was aarady in the I
was about ready to go in the Navy

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at the time, and I decided
I was going to read the Bible through.

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And I just started surveying the Bible
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the Old Testament is just it's all
about Jews. I didn't even know it.

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I mean, it was just one
of those things I knew about Moses

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Sampson. But this whole book is
about Jews. And then I get to

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the New Testament. You know,
I look at I say, well,

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why is it changed? So here
I was biblically illiterate, even though I

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had gone to church most of my
I mean in and out. I didn't

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come up a Christian family, and
so I was more of the fringe of

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a church. You know, I
got ready, Hey, I went to

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church, but I was biblically illiterate. I hear that way too frequently.

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I went to church, but I
was biblically a litle. I went to

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Sunday School, but I went to
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I cannot stated enough too many people
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Because churches in many cases are not
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That's just kind of a that's just
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there to bring people together so that
people can have a sense of community,

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friends, activities, they can do
lots of fun things. They a sense

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of spirituality, a sense of I'm
being spiritual. Throw in a little Bible,

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but no, but it's not really
an institution of higher learning. I

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think a lot of people who go
to church and been to church are really

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are biblically illiterate and philologically illiterate and
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And we have to ask ourselves why. That's a quick, good question.

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I'm getting really nervous that we heard
the last of Joshua one eight.

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I'm getting really nervous. I don't
know why they have that downs as a

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sermon for Joshua chapter one, verse
eight, other than he quoted it right,

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Like, why would you put that
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don't know. Let's see what happens. I went there, but I really

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wasn't a serious student, and so
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I'm sure that's the way many people
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because I don't think I'm that out
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do this Dave with your name.
If I see if I go to McDonald's

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or someplace and I see a young
person and I and They'll have Dave on

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their on their lapel or whatever,
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where's Goliath? And three times since
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people will say, go eath you
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so our culture has pretty well expelled
the Bible. And kids are growing up

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and they don't even know some of
the Bible stories that most Americans would have

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known back fifty years ago. You
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have heard about David and Goliath,
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But kids don't even know anything about
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want to do is give you a
survey of the New Testament. We have

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looked, and we're going through the
Old Testament at night, so I don't

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want to be redundant, but I
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the Bible, of the of the
basic books of the Bible. And so

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we see in the Old Testament,
this is what really stunned me. It's

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all about Jews. In fact,
that's why people are saying, well,

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you know, the Church has replaced
the Jews today, and all the promises

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to the Jews are to us.
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Even in the book Revelation, we
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tribulation, the times, the days
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and then Jacob and Israel, or
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And so we see that the even
the prophecy is centered around the Jew whether

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it's the millennium or it's going to
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Jacob's trouble, or the millennium,
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to Abraham, or even in heaven
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the new Earth with Jerusalem as its
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and of course I get them mixed
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after the Jews, and the foundation
the foundations of all named after the Jews,

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and the gates will to be named
after the Apostles, or the other

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way around. Okay, don't but
I should have written it down so I

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would remember it. But I'll think
about it and then i'll turn. Unfortunately,

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I think we've gotten our Joshua one
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that's it. I think that this
is it. I I just don't understand,

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maybe because this is the only verse
he quoted, so they put it

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down as a scripture reference. See
whenever, whenever you upload a sermon to

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the sermon's two point Oh, app
there's a there's a part, a part

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in the dashboard where you have to
put a scripture reference right now, Well

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you don't have to. Actually,
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don't have really a scripture reference,
I just leave it blank. You can

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leave it blank, so then there's
no reason to put one there. Okay,

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yeah, you can leave it blank. I was thinking, maybe,

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well they were forced to, but
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I know you're not. So I
just okay. All we can do is

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go a little bit further. I
guess. I guess what we're gonna be

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able to demonstrate with this one is
that the first sermon that we've listened to

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for this week and our study on
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us and not and said that it
was a universal promise. Hey, I'm

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assuming he would say it's a conditional
universal promise. But if but by saying

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it's universal, there raises some serious
questions, right, like is it for

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lost people? Is it for like
I mean, I choosing random sermons?

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really fun, and there's times where I'm

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like, what am I doing with
my life? Okay, all right,

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here we go put it around in
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that everything has about the Jew.
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been in our gentiles, have been
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today. But in order to understand
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is a book that God has written
his revelation to us. And the revelation

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and the Old Testament came through the
Jew and in the New Testament it comes

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through. Of course, it comes
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most of the New Testament writers except
for Luke, was a Jew. But

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we see that it's still the Jewish
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you'll notice that in the chart here
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the Pentitook or five Writings, and
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the way that we know this is
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Jesus said, have you not read
what Moses and the prophets wrote? Well,

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he never he'd quoted Genesis and Deuteronomy. So Genesis Deuteronomy, the Lord

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equated with Moses. So that's my
that's my standard. I don't need any

407
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other standard than if Jesus said that
Moses wrote it, then Moses wrote it.

408
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And that's what we'll have an attack
on that because people say, well,

409
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:53.240
no, that there's different people,
and some guy came up with,

410
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.839
well, there's people that called him
Jehovah, and then there's no other people

411
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.640
that called him Elohem, and there's
another and so there's five different people that

412
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:06.119
wrote the peditooc and so they mess
it all up, and of course that's

413
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:14.839
all liberalism. But uh, but
we see that. I so hate,

414
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:22.960
I so loathe when immediately we disagree
with someone's hypotheses, it's liberalism. It's

415
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:28.960
liberalism. Hey, they they have
they've studied, and they have an academic

416
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.759
argument about the manuscripts and the compiling
of the manuscripts, and they challenge the

417
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:39.920
authors. That's liberalism. Or maybe
it's just a very academic approach that's skeptical

418
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.000
about some of the claims in the
Bible. I don't know if I want

419
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.559
to call it liberalism. Maybe you
could call it academia. Maybe you could

420
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:52.400
call it I don't know, challenging
the current understanding. Now we still I

421
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:54.640
still may disagree with it, and
I still may condemn it, but just

422
00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:58.920
referring to it as liberalism, I
don't know. I don't know. I

423
00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:01.359
don't know. To challenge something does
not necessarily make one a liberal. To

424
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:06.799
challenge an understanding, to question something
doesn't necessarily make one a liberal. I

425
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:15.720
understand that mosaic authorship of the Pentitook
was a very important foundational truth for early

426
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.640
Fundamentalism. If you get the five
volume set the Fundamentals, right, I've

427
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:22.640
talked about those books a million times. Tell I've told everyone to read them

428
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:28.359
a million times. They one of
the sections have an entire chapter on mosaic

429
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:34.359
authorship of the Pentitook. So it
was a very foundational issue with fundamentalism.

430
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:38.440
I guess we could call it modernism. I guess you could destinarily refer to

431
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:44.279
it as theological liberalism maybe, But
there was a it's really an argument,

432
00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:47.440
guess higher criticism that was coming out
of Europe. That's really what it was.

433
00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:53.359
So okay, it's higher, it's
it's but it wasn't it. It

434
00:33:53.440 --> 00:34:00.920
is a very important question. If
Jesus is assigning mosaic authorship to Genesis to

435
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:06.240
Deuteronomy, well, then by all
means, if Jesus is truly the eternal

436
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:07.960
son of God. Then we have
to go with what Jesus said, even

437
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:15.760
if academic study, even if manuscripts
study seems to say contrary, we would

438
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:21.000
have to still stick with Jesus if
we're going to accept that Jesus is the

439
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:25.440
eternal son of God. Right,
So, but all right, we're not

440
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.920
going to get to Joshua. I
don't think if God says that Moses wrote

441
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:36.400
it, Moses wrote it. So
we see that the law. Then you

442
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:40.159
have the history, which is Joshua, Judges, Ruth second, first and

443
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:45.039
second, Samuel first and second,
Kings first and second, Chronicles, Ezra

444
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:54.199
and Nehemiah, and Esther. Those
are all historical books. Are you finding

445
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:59.639
something interesting here? This is called
a survey of the New Testament. The

446
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.920
next is Joshua one to eight.
Are we not getting a survey of the

447
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:08.519
Old Testament? Okay, all right, well let's continue. And right now

448
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:13.400
we're in the We're in the Book
of Judges. We've been going through the

449
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:19.000
Bible chapter by chapter and our Sunday
evening services, and we are into the

450
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:27.800
distressing days of the Judges now and
then and we have job Psalm, Proverbs,

451
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.079
wisdom, and the Song of Songs, or the Song of Solomon,

452
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:36.639
which is of course the Books of
Wisdom, and then you have the prophetic

453
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:40.920
books, and you have Isaiah through
Malachi there and you can see on the

454
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.679
chart and well, we can break
those down into major prophets and minor prophets.

455
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:50.519
When you hear a major prophet and
minor prophet, this has nothing to

456
00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:53.559
do with the status of the prophet. It has to do with the link

457
00:35:53.639 --> 00:36:00.039
of the book. So Isaiah is
a major prophet because he wrote sixty six

458
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:08.079
chapters. Jeremiah same way, but
Amos only wrote a few chapters or six

459
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:14.239
chapters, and so he's a minor
prophet. It's kind of interesting because you

460
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:19.000
know, Daniel is a major prophet, he only twelve but we see that

461
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:22.000
that's the way that they were classified. And then we get to the New

462
00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:25.039
Testament and we're already out of time. So this is just kind of an

463
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:30.239
introduction for next week, and that
is you other gospels and we'll be breaking

464
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:34.679
those down. Each one of those
were written to different groups of people,

465
00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:38.599
and I mean they were emphasizing different
groups of people. And then you had

466
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:45.039
the Church history, the one and
that is where the church is coming out

467
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:49.440
of the synagogues and going and starting
their own church, coming out of the

468
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:53.800
Jewish culture into the Gentile culture.
And that's the book of Acts that we

469
00:36:53.880 --> 00:37:00.559
spend an extensive time this past year
on. Then you have Paul's letters.

470
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The epistles are not wives of the
apostles, now, they were the epistles,

471
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:09.360
and so they were letters and from
Romans to Thi Lehman. And then

472
00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:15.440
you have the general letters or the
general Epistles, and those are Hebrews,

473
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:21.159
James first and second, Peter first
and second, third John, and Jude.

474
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:25.840
Now except for first, second,
third John, the rest of these

475
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:34.440
are books that again are written with
Jews in mind. Well, we're written

476
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.920
by Jews, and especially the Book
of Hebrews, because the more you know

477
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:42.480
about the Old Testament, the more
Hebrews comes to life. That's the reason

478
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:45.960
you need we still need to study
the Old Testament. And then of course

479
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.960
the book of that is just mainline
Prophecy, is the book of Revelation.

480
00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:53.480
Now I would in saying that we're
going to be looking at the New Testament.

481
00:37:54.000 --> 00:38:00.599
Three, we're going to be looking
next week we'll start on just overview

482
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:06.159
and uh well b B breaking down
those gospels which one was which group of

483
00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:08.800
people were these written written to?
And why? And why are there four

484
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:17.519
Gospels? And so forth? But
when I talk to people about uh about

485
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:24.559
uh where to start in the New
Testament? Start with John? Because John

486
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:30.800
is the most simple writing. In
fact, whenever you take I know that

487
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:35.840
that's a common thing. Hey,
where do I start? Start with John?

488
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:40.280
I would say, start with Genesis. It happens to be first,

489
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:47.079
right, Or start with Matthew happens
to be first, right. I mean,

490
00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:51.960
you know, like what I understand, I probably at one time used

491
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:53.239
to teach that, probably a long
time ago. Start with John because I

492
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:58.960
was taught that my whole life.
But how about you start with Genesism start

493
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.000
with Matthew? Right? And again, when when you say where start start

494
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:08.000
for which thing? Start in your
reading or start in your study because you

495
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:13.679
know you're there's there, or start
in your devotional Like which thing are you

496
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:15.000
going to Are you going to be
doing extensive study? Are you going to

497
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:19.199
be doing just reading? If you're
just reading, then definitely. If you're

498
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:22.239
just reading, start in Genesis,
and then you can do like if you're

499
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:25.360
gonna do like two times a day, you're gonna read. Then in the

500
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:30.320
morning read Jena or starting the Old
Testament with Genesis in the evening, start

501
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.320
with Matthew. If you're just going
to read straight through, just start in

502
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.239
Genesis. Just start that way and
mat If you're gonna take off on an

503
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.719
extensive study, well then yeah,
well, I mean even if you just

504
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:45.039
starting Genesis, you can start an
extensive study. I don't know. Everyone

505
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:50.280
always says goes say to go to
John. I don't know, because they

506
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:53.320
say that it's a a big I
think he said it's simple, but you

507
00:39:53.400 --> 00:40:01.559
start off in the Gospel of John
with these words. I'm gonna start off

508
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.599
with the Gospel of John, right
Like, I don't know if this would

509
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:07.840
be simple, if this would be
easy. I don't know if I'm going

510
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:12.719
to start off my study of the
New Testament with these words. I'm gonna

511
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:15.159
read it directly from the text.
I could, I could recite it,

512
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:17.239
but I'm going to turn there.
So there you go. You open up

513
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:21.679
your Bible to John chapter one,
and you read in the beginning was the

514
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:28.239
word wait what is that? And
the word was with God? And the

515
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:31.760
word was God o wait wait wait
wait wait, So what is this word?

516
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.679
Thing? Is that a person?
Is that not a person. See

517
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.159
the Greek word is lagous. What
does that mean? Okay? Is that

518
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.199
a principle? Is that a concept? And how can it be with God

519
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:45.519
and God at the exact same time? Okay, I like ladies and gentlemen.

520
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:50.559
There's nothing simple about that, not
even a little bit. Okay,

521
00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.840
not even not even not a little
like maybe the reason Matthew would be difficult

522
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:59.039
to get someone to start as you
start with that long genealogy and you're just

523
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.679
like, you're just kind of stumbling
over the names and even how to say

524
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.639
them correctly. So I don't know. So I can understand that, but

525
00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.440
I don't know. I don't know
that. You can have your own theory

526
00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:13.639
there, all right, But let's
this is about Joshua one aid and we're

527
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:24.599
not oh boy, Greek language,
the Bible Greek in the in uh school

528
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:30.800
and college. You start off with
John because John is the easiest to translate

529
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:34.840
and yet the most he's the most
profound writer of Maul. Yeah he's he's

530
00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:37.400
just a fisherman, but boy,
he puts it down on our language for

531
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:42.039
God so loved the world. You
know, I mean, that's pretty simple,

532
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.400
isn't it. And so he that
hath the son hath life he that

533
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.599
hath not the son of God hath
not. That's one syllable words. But

534
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:52.400
my it changes everything, doesn't it, whether you accept it or not.

535
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.280
So, uh, John is uh
the person to begin with. Don't start

536
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:07.639
with Matthew because now these books in
the Bible are the order of the books

537
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:13.199
is not inspired, the content of
the books is inspired. Does that make

538
00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:16.679
sense? In other words, Matthew
was probably not the first book or gospel

539
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:22.119
written. Mark might have been,
you know, Okay, that's a good

540
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:27.000
argument. The order of the books
are not inspired, the contents are.

541
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.920
That's good. I still would say
start with Genesis, like the order may

542
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:36.280
not be inspired, but Genesis is
clearly the book of beginnings. Okay,

543
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:39.119
there's no way to get around that. Okay, So you can make an

544
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:43.960
argument that Genesis may not the order
of Genesis name may not be inspired,

545
00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:46.840
but the content demands it be the
first book. So I would start with

546
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:53.400
Genesis. I don't know why you
would say don't start with Matthew. I

547
00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:57.920
don't know. If you want to
put them in chronological order, then I

548
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:02.440
guess you could start with Mark.
So whatever, so and John was the

549
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.559
last we know and so, But
John is the want of the beginning,

550
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.039
because if you look in Matthew,
all these things were written, which were

551
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.239
all these things were done, which
were written in the prophets, saying in

552
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:20.920
other words, he's a it's a
fulfillment of the Old Testament. What does

553
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:24.079
it begin with? What does the
New Testament begin with? A genealogy of

554
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:30.800
the Old Testament from from Abraham to
Jesus. So you have to know a

555
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:36.159
lot about those people, Hagar and
other people that are in there, and

556
00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:39.239
you start seeing the grace of God
of what he did in bringing through all

557
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:46.639
that convoluted sinful people. From Abraham
we got Jesus Christ. And so you

558
00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:51.000
don't begin with that because the more
you know about the Old Testament, I

559
00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:53.000
love it, because I've you know, the more you get into the Old

560
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.559
Tipman, more you love than you
you know. It's just one of those

561
00:43:55.559 --> 00:44:00.199
things. And so but it's not
a good book to start on. So

562
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:06.079
start with John. And another book
is not good to start on is acts.

563
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:09.400
Again, you're coming out of the
Old Testament the Temple into the New

564
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:15.039
and he's talking to people about baptism. Those Jews them what baptism meant.

565
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:17.920
I mean, if you were baptized, and you were being baptized into Israel

566
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.760
as a gentile, you were claiming, hey, I'm becoming a Jew.

567
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:28.199
And even and boy, we don't
have time to get into it all today,

568
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:31.440
but even baptism today. I've had
Jewish friends and say that they when

569
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:36.280
they were baptized, their mother came
to church and with a doll in her

570
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:38.880
hand, and she threw it down
and walked out, symbolizing that she disowned

571
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:44.239
her child. I mean, that's
how serious baptism is to the jew.

572
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:49.719
But we all know repent and be
baptized, well, you know, to

573
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:53.760
us a big deal, but to
a Jew it means a lot. And

574
00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:57.119
so there again, the more you
know about the Old Testament, the more

575
00:44:57.119 --> 00:44:59.840
you know about than you And then
the Book of Hebrews, oh my,

576
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:05.239
you've really got to know about the
Old Testament because he quotes the Old Testament

577
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:09.840
more than anybody. I will agree
that you have to know a lot of

578
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:15.360
Old Testament to appreciate the Book of
Hebrews. But I would argue you need

579
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:22.079
to know about seventy a d more
than anything to understand the Book of Hebrews.

580
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:27.159
Because the Book of Hebrew Brews was
written just a few years prior to

581
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.719
the destruction of the Temple in seventy
a D. So the entire interpretation of

582
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:35.480
the book is that it's being written
to Jews are about to face the complete

583
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:39.920
eradication and destruction of their religious system. And then some of those warnings make

584
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:44.639
a whole lot more sense. But
we do some very weird things when we

585
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:47.480
remove it from the historical context of
seventy eight D. So if you don't

586
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:51.920
know what happened in seventy eight D, you should become an expert on how

587
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:59.519
well what happened to the Temple in
Jerusalem else. And so there again we'll

588
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:02.320
get into did Paul write to the
Book of Hebrews or did someone else?

589
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.440
I don't think Paul wrote the Book
of Hebrews. Now, does that make

590
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:09.480
me a heretic? No, I
just don't believe that Paul wrote it.

591
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:15.039
After trying to translate the thing,
after translating John, excuse me, alright,

592
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.360
translating anything that Paul wrote, you
can't translate first Thessalonians, then go

593
00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.119
to Hebrew and say that's the same
writer. I mean it just, I

594
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.679
mean, I just you've got to
know so much about you got to know

595
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:31.559
so much more about Greek to translate
Hebrews than you do for Thessalonians, and

596
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:36.239
so and I didn't. And the
reason I say is because I didn't even

597
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:42.039
try to. We spent a whole
year, now, a whole semester in

598
00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:46.320
grad school translating Hebrew. Where it
takes you know, a couple of weeks

599
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:51.119
in John, you know, or
for Sean or whatever. So so it's

600
00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:53.519
there again. We'll get into all
that. But so I hope of what

601
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:58.039
did your appetite. We've had technical
problems this morning, so we this is

602
00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:01.719
a rush job. But next week
we will start on the New Testament.

603
00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:05.960
And of course, in starting on
the New Testament, I've got to refer

604
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:09.599
to you refer to the Old Testament
quite a bit, because the Bible as

605
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:14.920
a whole, all scripture is given
by the inspiration of God, as we

606
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:19.800
saw last week. And so we'll
be starting on our survey. And like

607
00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.280
I said, I've got several of
these books. I'm going to order more,

608
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:24.039
but I've given out several of them. But if you don't have it,

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it's survey of the New Testament.
I'm going to be ordering several more,

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but I can't just hand them out
because they're about ten dollars apiece.

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So if you want to throw an
extra dollar in the kiddy or whatever,

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that's fine too. But if you
don't have one, I've got two left

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in my library and I'll be ordering
more this coming week. I know that

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several of you have them. But
we'll start, well, we've got to

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stop here, and we'll start next
week on our survey of the New Testament.

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And now, Lord, we pray
that you will bless this time we

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have together. Lord, give us
a hunger for your word. Give us

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a great deep desire and a delight
as we see that the writer of Psalms

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had that we made. Your word
is is sweet to our taste. That

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we love and desire your work.
Oh Lord, bless your people. We

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pray make us successful Christians because of
what we know about you. We meditate,

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we obey, we honor, we
love you because of what you've revealed

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to us through your word. For
a pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Wow, we meditate. I guess
that's day and night. And we obey.

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It's pretty strong to tell God that
you obey. I obey everything God,

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I obey. I am the most
obedient. Okay, that's a pretty

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strong prayer to tell God, all
right, here's my I don't even know

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what to say. I know what
I would have done if I would have

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been at that church and that would
have happened to my Sunday school lesson,

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I would have deleted that thing and
it never would have appeared on the internet.

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I would not have done that.
I don't know why that's labeled Joshua

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one eight. If you come across
that sermon Joshua one eight a Survey of

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the New Testament, well you can
skip it because it's not about Joshua one

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eight. What we got from that
is this Joshua one eight. He immediately

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made it about us, and he
made the claim that it's a universal promise.

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He made no, he did not
place any limits on it. It's

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universal, it's it's for anyone.
Now I'm assuming he would have to say

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it's only for Christians, but it
so once again, is this the idea

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that, hey, if you know
God's word and it's always in your mouth.

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I mean, if it's always in
your mouth, you've got to know

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it, right, You got to
know it. It's always there, you're

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always speaking about it. We do
need to kind of really drive down to

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exactly what that phrase means. Right, I don't have my other Bibles here

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to look at other different translations.
But we won't do that now. But

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so in Joshua one eight, right, the book of a wall show not

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depart from your mouth. We got
to know exactly that seems to me to

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give the impression we're constantly talk about
it. We have to meditate on it

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day and night, and then we
have to obey everything that's in it.

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If those are the three conditions he
makes it, he seems to imply that

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we can do it, we can
pull it off. And I reject that

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out right. You cannot obey that. You will never even come close.

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Israel did not come close. We
do not come close. We're always in

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a perpetual state of disobedience. We
do not meditate on it day and night.

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And I'm telling you, the word
of God is not always in your

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mouth. You think about all the
things you talk about in a day,

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and how much of it is scripture. So but then he says it's universal.

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So is it universal? So first
we need to just determine is it

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universal? Can we meet these conditions? What does it mean that it's always

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in our mouth basically, and then
guess what he did not connect it to.

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He did not connect it to do
to around on me twenty eight,

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which is what I feel like most
preachers are not going to do. I

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have no idea why. I guess
the only reason they made that the scripture

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for that is because that's the one
he quoted. Should have just left off

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scripture references should have just left off
scripture reference, or the scripture reference should

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have been Matthew to revelation because it's
a survey of the New Testament. There

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we go. No, it was
fifty one minutes. We're off to a

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very rough start. We're off to
a very rough start in our journey of

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Joshua one Pint eight. We're still
working on Saw eighty three. I mean

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my attempts on Saw maty three this
morning went relatively rough as well, So

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you know, but I do feel
bad for him. I do feel bad

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that the technical difficulty clearly messed up
his entire lesson. You can just tell

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that he's just trying to figure out. He's probably just improvising making it through

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that. So I feel bad for
him. But man, I would have

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deleted that. I never would have
uploaded that. Never in a million years

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I would have deleted that so fast, and I would have been so frustrated.

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And then all I could have really
what I probably would have done is

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I probably would have just said,
Hey, we're going to be supposed to

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be doing the survey and of the
New Testament, but let's start in Joshua

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one to eight, and then just
taught Joshua one eight. Now, if

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I taught it the way I would
have taught it a long time ago,

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then I would have said, well, we're getting ready to do a survey

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of the New Testament, and you
whin do we do the survey of the

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New Testament? Because God has given
us a promise that if we know the

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word and it's constantly in our mouth, and if we meditate on it day

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and night, and if we obey
what we learn, then we will have

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good success. And I really would
have driven home those three points and applied

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it to us. Now I reject
that interpretation now outright, but that's what

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I would have done. I would
have just turned it into a devotional message,

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not titled that Survey of the New
Testament, and do a devotional message

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on Joshua one to eight, and
then that's what I would have done.

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But it's easy for me to say
because I was in that situation. It's

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easy after the fact when you're in
that situation and you're just like, well,

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all right, just go. But
man, I sure wouldn't have uploaded

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it. I would have deleted it
and then just walked around for five minutes,

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ten minutes before the next service began, saying I'm quit. I quit.

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That's it. I'm going to the
liquor store. I give up.

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I'm never doing this stuff again.
I'm getting too old for this, right,

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I don't know. I would have
just been complaining the whole and then

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I would have got up the next
hour and then tell everyone how frustrated I

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am, because then I would feel
like I'm not being transparent. Yeah,

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and then the second hour would have
probably been a disaster. Yeah, preaching

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technical difficulties, all right. I
wish I could give you something on Joshua

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one eight. So I guess the
question I'll leave with you Joshua one eight.

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Is it a universal promise? And
by that I mean if anyone simply

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knows the Word of God and it's
constantly in their mouth, they meditate on

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a day or night, and they
obey it. Let's just say it's possible.

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If it's a universal promise, then
it's universally possible for everyone to obey

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it. That's very Pelagian. Pelagianism
teaches the idea that anyone can obey because

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your will is I guess if you
believe in a hardcore free will theology,

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you have to be semi Pelagian or
full bloom Pallagian. So then that you

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do not basically have a sinful nature, or the sinful nature does not impact

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your will, or if your will
is free of your sinful nature and the

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sinful nature has no impact on your
will and your will is absolutely free,

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then I guess maybe you could argue
it's a universal promise and even someone who's

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unregenerate, their will is free,
so they can then obey the word of

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God. So if you took a
lost person, they knew it, it's

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always in their mouth, they meditate
on it, and they obeyed everything in

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it. Would they be prosperous and
have good success? Now? You would

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that be? You would mean that
they would be prosperous and have good success

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in this life. I'm not gonna
I know, I'm gonna get emails.

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You do oh you do is ask
questions and you never give answers because the

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goal of this study is to get
people participating. So what do you think

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about it being universal? I would
love to get your thoughts. You can

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email me news I f at yahoo
dot com. That's news, I f

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00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:29.559
at yahoo dot com. And we
can declare that our first sermon review on

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Joshua one to eight was an abysmal
failure. That's what happens when you choose

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random sermons. But it's also the
fun part of this so but it's probably

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my fault. I saw survey of
the New Testament. I should have known,

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but I had to hear it,
right. I thought maybe this was

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some something unique. I thought,
oh, this is gonna be interesting,

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and well I was seriously wrong.
All right, thanks for listening everyone,

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Have a great night. God bless