Dec. 14, 2024

Proverbs 20:27

Proverbs 20:27

I review a sermon on Proverbs 20:27

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I review a sermon on Proverbs 20:27

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Did someone say chart? Did someone say biblical charting? Well,

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if you did, you're never allowed to use those terms.

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You're never allowed to use the word chart charting or

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the phrase biblical charting.

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Ever.

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Again, you can't. You can't ever, you can't do that.

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You can't use those terms. You can't use those words

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because those words are outlawed. Those words are banned because

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of what well, the disaster that happened in our I

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think it was our last live broadcast. Wow, what a mess.

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We are hoping to avoid a repeat of such a disaster.

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We don't know if that's well, well, we don't really

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know what's going to happen, but we are about to

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find out. Right after I say welcome everyone. It is Saturday,

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December the fourteenth, twenty twenty four. It is currently eleven

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twenty am Central time, and I am coming to you

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live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas.

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And after the last live broadcast where we talked about

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biblical charting, you know, I almost decided maybe we just

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stopped calling this the Theology Central Studios, the Theology Central Headquarters.

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Maybe I just stop calling, just stop even referring to

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the podcast, to the studio, to the headquarters, and just

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give up and just retire, because man, you talk about

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things going so wrong. I mean that that was a disaster.

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But at the same time, it really captures what I've

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been trying to do this whole year with the sermon

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review right, I mean, the sermon reviews are about me

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sitting in front of a microphone say all right, guys,

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we're going to listen to a sermon. And it's it's

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as real as it can be, right, I mean, I

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haven't listened to it beforehand. There's no prep. It's just

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me saying I'm going to listen to a sermon. I'm

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inviting you along, and whatever happens happens. And to be fair,

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I think the last one it captures the essence of that,

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and it captured that in my mind. When I saw

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Biblical charting, I thought it was going to be a

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sermon on how to create charts in your Bible study.

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I had no idea that it was going to be

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like forty minutes of someone just talking about their military career, okay,

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and sometimes trying to draw some correlation to something spiritual.

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So it was more about that, more about naval navigation.

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It was, it was. It was bizarre. I don't even

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really know what the sermon was about, to be honest

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with you, and then it tried to use some things

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in Acts twenty sex. It was just it was. It

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was such a disaster, and probably people listening, hopefully they

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list at least found it humorous. Right, here's someone like, Oh,

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I'm gonna listen to this podcast, and this guy's going

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to review a sermon. He thinks it's all about how

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to make charts in your Bible study, and well we

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found out that the sermon had nothing to do with that.

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It was hilarious. Maybe someone thought it was funny. It

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was man. Well, like as soon as I realize I

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got as soon as I started hearing all of his stories,

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I was like, wait a minute, I don't think this

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is going the direction I think this is going. And

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then I started getting nervous. But you're already in it,

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so you have to see it to some kind of conclusion.

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So I say all of that to say, well, once again,

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here I said in the studio, and I'm going to

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review another sermon, and as I I don't know where

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it's going to go. I know the name of the sermon.

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The name of the sermon is the Spirit of Man.

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What happened is that I was looking I was just

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going through my feed now. Actually I think I was

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under the Newest Sermons tab. I think that's where I was,

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and I saw a message that was a part of

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a series called Spiritual Warfare, and so I clicked on

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the series Spiritual Warfare and I realized it's like one

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hundred and twenty seven sermons. But I was looking at

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the titles, I was like, what has this got to

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do with spiritual Warfare? So I don't really know how

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they created the series. They created a series, they turned

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the series into a podcast is available on Apple podcasting

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app and Spotify. So I thought that was interesting. They

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turned it into an actual podcast because many of the

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broadcasters don't do that. So I thought that was interesting.

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But I was going through, I'm like, there's like a one

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hundred and twenty seven sermons here, but some of these

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things don't seem to have anything to do with spiritual Warfare.

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So is this just like a miscellaneous I don't know

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how they created. It was very interesting looking at it.

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But then I noticed that some of these messages have

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like four hundred, five hundred and eight hundred downloads and streams,

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and I'm like, whoa, Obviously this is very popular. Okay,

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so it's popular. It's a big series. They've actually turned

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it into a podcast. Okay, that's interesting. So I'm like, well,

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let me just go through these. So I was going

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through all one hundred and I think twenty seven messages

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and I saw one called the Spirit of Man and

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that kind of caught my attention. I'm like, I wonder,

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I wonder what they're gonna do with that. Then I

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noticed that it was the text was Proverbs, chapter twenty,

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verse twenty seven. I'm like, well, that's okay. We've been

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talking about Proverbs off and on throughout twenty twenty four,

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so here or there, and we did so we've been

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a few years back. We kind of have a we

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have a series on Proverbs. So okay, I'm like, all right,

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so that kind of fits with some things we've talked about.

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I wonder how he's going to handle Proverbs twenty twenty seven.

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And then I noticed he did like the Spirit of

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Man and then I think the very next sermon dealt

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with the spirit of man. I'm like, well, there was

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something he he thought that this is important. How does

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this connect to spiritual warfare? It just left me with

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all kinds of questions. So that's what we're gonna do.

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I don't know. Now. I'm gonna try to be very

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careful and not tell you my prediction of where it's

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going to go, since I was so horribly wrong. When

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I see a sermon entitled Biblical charting, I think about

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actually making charts for Bible study. I got that completely wrong.

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So the spirit of man, this could be about, I

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don't know. David and Goliath, I don't know. Could it

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be about Noah and Art, Could it be about Could

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it be about Joseph? I don't know anymore. I don't know,

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Like the titles of sermons don't mean anything to me anymore.

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I give up trying to predict. So what we're gonna

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do is we're gonna jump into this again. It's December

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the fourteenth. You know what that means. We're almost done

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with twenty twenty four and the one series that I

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am definitely going to ensure that I stay working on

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is our series the Sermon's two point oh app Sermon Challenge,

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and all I can do to really bring it to

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a conclusion is just keep reviewing sermons, the good, the bad,

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the ugly, and whatever happens happens. So in some ways,

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when it goes horribly wrong, people may mock it, people

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may laugh at it, people may even claim it's a

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waste of time, but it stays true to what it

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was supposed to be.

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Right.

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It wasn't supposed to be me going out there finding

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bad sermons simply so that I could criticize them and

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tear them apart. It was supposed to be, Hey, here's

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this wonderful resource that's available to everyone. It's called the

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Sermons two point oh app. Everyone should download it. There

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are millions of sermons available. Thousands are being added every

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single week between five, six seven eight thousand per week

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are being added. We can't just ignore this resource. We

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should be utilizing it. So I'm going to be utilizing it.

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I'm going to challenge you to utilize it, and I'm

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going to be utilizing it by just grabbing and pulling

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random sermons from it. And I'm going to challenge you

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to pull random sermons from it and we're just going

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to listen. And so the whole goal of this was

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when I review a sermon, is it captures that I'm

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just going to pull a random sermon without any prep

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and whatever happens happens. And sometimes it's gone really really

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really bad. Sometimes it's gone really really good. But in

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that your experience when you choose a random sermon and

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you have no idea who they are, sometimes you are like, Wow,

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that was a good sermon, and sometimes you're like, I

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just lost forty five minutes of my life and I'm

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never going to get it back. And I'm not saying

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that to be mean or rude about any sermons, but

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that's that's I think everyone can acknowledge. Sometimes Now I

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always try to say I try to find something in

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a sermon, no matter how bad it is, so that

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I feel like I didn't waste my time. But let's

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just be honest. There have been some that we're like,

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I mean that one on biblical charting, I mean, I

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don't even know. I mean, if you look at all

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the stuff we reviewed, it was more military stories than

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it really had anything to do with anything. I mean,

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it was really difficult to say, oh, now, it could

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lead to me doing some more discussion about biblical charting.

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So I'm still going to try to find a way

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to do something with it. But I mean, come on,

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that was hard. So sometimes it's not about being mean,

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it's just about Look, we listen to sermons and everyone

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draws some kind of conclusion about them, So let's just

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jump in. I don't know how far we're going to get.

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The spirit of man. I don't know how this connects

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to spiritual warfare. I don't know what's getting ready to happen,

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but we're gonna find out together. So Bible's open notebook,

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open pencil in hand, Proverbs chapter twenty verse twenty seven.

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I'll let him read it. We'll see what what's going

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to occur. Let's do so.

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Now, all right, let's go to Proverbs tonight first, and

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let's look in Proverbs twenty verse twenty seven. We're gonna

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talk about this thing tonight again some more. I want

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to talk to you tonight about the spirit of man.

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And we mentioned some things about all this, but it's

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just such a big subject that you have to just

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kind of narrow it down a little at a time.

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Focus on this tonight. It's you know, the whole object

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of all of this is to help us in our

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Christian walk to understand what I sang a while ago.

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We sang that song about hole the fort.

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Now, how many people even know what is spiritual battle?

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What are we talk about being soldiers in battling?

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What does that mean? We're at? What do we do?

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I mean, how we fight? Where's the battle? What is it?

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Well?

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Yeah, it's right in here. Yes, that's right, and this

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is what it's about.

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Okay, So he is connecting this to spiritual warfare. That's good.

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So that means that maybe the entire series is connected

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to it. It may be a unique approach to the subject. Clearly,

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he seems to think this idea of the spirit of

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man is super important, and he feels it's a big subject.

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It sounds like he probably has a small group of people.

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It sounds like a small group of people. May be larger,

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but it sounds like a small group of people. They

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seem very invested. You can hear them saying amen, that's right,

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and they're they're responding all right. So for for a preacher,

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that's always good to have people responding and engage. That's good,

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So he's got it. Sounds like a small group of people.

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They seem to be engaged. He's obviously he does like

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one hundred and twenty seven messages so far on this

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idea of spiritual warfare, and he seems to indicate that

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the subject the spirit of man is a very broad subject,

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a very big subject. He's gonna try to narrow in,

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but it's really it's really going on now it's sat

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now I can't see because this is audio, but he

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says that the spiritual warfare, you know what, he asked

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some of those rhetorical questions, and he says, it's right here. Now.

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I think he pointed in like to his chest in

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other words, that now. I hope he did, because I

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agree spiritual warfare is an internal thing more than it's external.

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I think it's internal. I think we always like, you know, oh,

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we're gonna curse demons, that we're gonna be binding demons,

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and it's like this, we're fighting these external, external forces.

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I think the real issue is internally personally, right, So

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I think that's where he pointed, And it sounded like

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the people there were like, hey man, that's right. So

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if he goes with more. And because this is entitled

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the spirit of man, that would put it inside of us. Okay,

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so we may have some agreement here, We may have

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some at least what appears to be agreement. Now we'll see.

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I don't know what his ultimate thesis is. I don't

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know what his ultimate you know, hypotheses is. What is

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he going to put forth? There's a spiritual war it's

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inside of us, and the spirit of man is involved. Okay,

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how does this all work?

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Let's see, spiritual warfare is spiritual warfare. It's not an

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intellectual warfare. It's not carnal warfare. It's not pride or

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any It ain't got none to doing anything else. It's

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spiritual warfare Proverbs twenty verse twenty seven.

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The spirit.

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Oh no, I don't know. It's not intellectual. It's spiritual.

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Now have a hard time with this, okay. And here's

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the reason why is because you have to have your

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intellect to even do what we're doing, right, like you have.

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It's spiritual warfare. But isn't the mind a part of

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your internal makeup? See this is where we're gonna get back.

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Oh boy, I hope we don't get back to that.

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Remember we had that entire discussion this year trying to Yeah,

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my next four neighbors car. Okay, that's not good, all right,

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soone turn off your car. We're gonna give it a second. Here.

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There's no way I can keep broadcasting with that going on. Okay,

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there we go. All right, Well that was I'm sorry

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about that. There's nothing I could do about that. But

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we had this long discussion in twenty twenty four about Okay,

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so it's the heart, it's the spirit, it's the mind.

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It's the spirit and the mind the same, is it different?

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Is the heart? Is the heart the same as the mind?

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Like?

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And we got it and tried to and remember it

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just got all convoluted and confusing and discombobulated and it

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made no sense. And and people sometimes would speak of

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things as being the same sometimes being different. So what

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role does the intellect have in spiritual warfare?

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I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm going to ask uh Ai.

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I'm gonna ask Ai here because I am curious, all right,

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what is the role of the intellect in spiritual spiritual warfare?

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Because I'm curious of what AI will say here. This

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this is this gets us into an end because the

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reason I'm I I, the reason I'm having an issue

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here is well, because he's getting ready to say, open

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up your bibles and go to Proverbs twenty twenty seven. Well,

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how are you going to read that with the intellect?

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How are you going to understand it with the intellect?

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How are you going to interpret it with the intellect?

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How are you going to decide how this applies to

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spiritual warfare? With the all of it is the intellect now,

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Ai says, the intellect plays a vital role in spiritual

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warfare as it is the faculty through which truth is understood.

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Say that, okay Ai said it better than me. Okay

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let me read that again. The intellect plays a vital

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role in spiritual warfare as it is the faculty through

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which truth is understood, lies are discerned, and decisions are made.

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So the intellect plays a vital role in spiritual warfare

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because number one, it's the faculty through which truth is understood.

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Number two where lies are discerned, and number three decisions

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are made. Spiritual war often takes place in the realm

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of ideas, beliefs, and thought patterns. The intellect becomes a

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key battleground below is a detailed explanation of its role.

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Spiritual warfare is a battle of the mind. The Bible

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emphasizes that spiritual warfare involves confronting false ideas, philosophies, and

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temptations that challenge God's truth. Tewod Corinthians ten four through five,

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for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh,

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but have divine power to destroying strongholds. We destroy arguments

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and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God,

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and take every thought captive to obey Christ. The battle

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is against arguments, opinions, and thoughts that are opposed to

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God's truth. The intellect is essential for identifying and dismantling

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these false ideas and bringing thoughts into alignment with Christ.

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The armor of God includes the belt of Truth and

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the helmet of Salvation, both of which engage the intellect.

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The belt of trith truth equips the believer with accurate

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understanding of God's word, and the helmet of Salvation protects

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the mind by grounding it in the assurance of God's

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saving work. The intellect is a tool for discernment. The

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intellect Okay, well, I could go on and on and

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on and on and on and on and on. AI

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has how many three, four, five, six, six different reasons

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why the intellect is vital in spiritual warfare. So maybe

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we'll have to come back and break that down at

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some point so our So now I'm already having a

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little I'm having a little difficulty here. He just separated

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the intellect from spiritual warfare. That makes literally no sense.

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It takes my intellect to even listen to this, to

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listen to the sermon. How are the people they're supposed

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to be listening to the sermon? They're giving acknowledgment. They're

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saying amen, meaning they're saying that this is true. The

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intellect is how they're doing that. They're hearing something and

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then they're discerning whether they believe it to be true,

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and then saying amen is an affirmation that what they're

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hearing is true. All of that requires the intellect. If

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you remove the intellect, I don't understand. All right, I

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gotta back that up. Maybe I'm making more out of

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that than he would make out of it. But I'm

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just having a hard time following. Let's play this again.

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Doing anything else, it's spiritual warfare. Proverbs twenty verse twenty

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seven the spirit of man.

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Right, let me back that up a little further. Let's

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see here we go.

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All right, let's go to Proverbs tonight first, and let's

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look in Proverbs twenty verse twenty seven. We're gonna talk

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about this thing tonight again some more to you, not

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about the spirit of man. And we mentioned some things

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about all this, but it's just such a big subject

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that you have to just kind of narrow it down

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a little at a time. Focus on this tonight. It's

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you know, the whole object of all of this is

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to help us in our Christian walk to understand what

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I sang a while ago.

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We sang that song about.

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Do you hear what he said? To understand? The goal

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of all of this is to help us to understand.

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Understanding is a function of intellect. All right, So I

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don't know how you separate intellect from spiritual warfare. This

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is very confusing to me. I'm very confused. But let

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me see if I misheard him. All right, let's listen

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to it again.

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All the fort Now, how many people even know what

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what is spiritual battle?

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What are we talk about being soldiers in battle? And

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what does that mean we're at? What do we do.

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I mean, how we fight. Where's the battle? What is it? Well, yeah,

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it's right in here. Yes, And this is what it's about.

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Spiritual warfare is spiritual warfare. It's not an intellectual warfare.

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It's not carnal warfare. It's not pride or any It

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ain't got none to doing anything else. It's spiritual warfare.

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I don't know, he asked rhetorical questions. The intellect is

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the only way to answer those questions, he said, it's

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about understanding. That's the intellect. I understand what he's saying.

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It's spiritual warfare. It's not intellectual warfare, but the intellect,

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the intellect is a part of spiritual war I don't

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know how you separate that. I know that's not how

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he meant it. But I'm just like, oh, that makes

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me nervous. But let's just see where he goes. I know,

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I'm I'm you. You may say, well, there's not a bit,

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that's not a big deal. It's a big deal to me, right,

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because it takes my intellect to listen and process this

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anyone sitting there, So the intellect has to be involved.

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That's where we process knowledge, that's how we that's how

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we discern I mean, I mean, even AI acknowledge it's

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a vital role. So let's see. Let's see where he takes.

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This Harbs twenty, verse twenty seven.

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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord

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searching all the inward parts of the belly.

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That's just one verse.

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There are four verses in the Bible that mention the

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spirit of man. Another one is Ecclesy as Hees chapter three,

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in verse twenty one says, who knoweth the spirit of

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man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast

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that goeth downward to the earth. Well, there's some things

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to think about there, but I don't want to get

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sidetracked there. Another time is in First Corinthing, chapter two,

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verse eleven. For what man knoweth the things of a

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man save the spirit of man, which is in him.

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Even so the things of God knoweth no man but

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the spirit of God. I've got a lot of other

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verses to read, Deny, but I just want to delve

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into this and try to get through it, and I

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hope that it'll help you and me to understand.

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That's what I've been struggling with, is.

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Trying to express you know what, I understand.

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It's just funny. He's used the word understand now three

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four times now. He's quoted some of these verses where

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the spirit of man is mentioned. Okay, all right, well,

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just we're just gonna let this. We're gonna let this

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play out and see where it goes. So I know

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he when he meant it's a spiritual war, it's not

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an intellectual war. I understand he was trying to draw

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a distinct. I think he was just trying to make

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sure it's a unique battle. It's a spiritual battle, but

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you should not make it a spiritual battle and separate

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it from the intellect, because the intellect is vital in

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the spiritual battle. Without the intellect, well you can't understand.

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In fact, you don't even understand that it's a spiritual

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war without intellect. To tell people it's a spiritual war,

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it's not an intellectual war. Requires the intellect to be

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able to determine. Okay, all right, the whole thing becomes

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a little just crazy. But all right, let's see where

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he's going to go here. He obviously you can hear that,

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he's obviously been really dealing with this, and he seems

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you know. I like when you hear a pastor, you

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can tell, like, man, they're really this is really speaking

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to them. There's something going on here and they really

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want to try to convey this. So we definitely want

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to understand how he's going to approach this and exactly

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what he's going to do with this, all right, because well, yeah,

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there's a lot I have questions about. But we'll let

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him see he set of me start asking questions. We'll

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let him start. I'll just ask questions as necessary, or

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here we go.

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It's hard when you're talking about something you can't see

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and you can't get people. We're so carnally minded. Actually

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that's a rough word to you use. But we have

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to be able to see it. We have to be

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able to put it here. Now, here's the spirit, here,

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here's the soul, and here's a body. And body is

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about all we can figure out because we can see it.

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Spirit is hard to understand.

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So you've got to just keep looking at it and

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looking at it, and you've got to keep thinking about it.

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And you've got to look at the scriptures all through

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the Bible. Four hundred and some scriptures talk about spirit.

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There's a lot of different things about it too. I

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noticed today in a New Testament, every time the word

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spirit is used, it's the same word except for two times.

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And those two times are in the Gospels where they

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saw Jesus walking on the water, and they said, it's

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a spirit.

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Not the same it's not the same word. It's a phantom.

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It's a ghost.

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They said, that's not the same spirit as we're talking

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about always when we're talking about spiritual warfare.

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That is superstition. Yes, they know that's the thing as

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a ghost. So what is our spirit? What is the

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spirit of man? All right? I just got to say

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a bunch of stuff.

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It is what others sense about us when they're in

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our prisons. It's what they read to get a take

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on our disposition or what kind of person that they're

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dealing with.

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Oh wait, okay wa wa whoa, whoa whoa. Okay, So

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the spirit of man, it's what people sense. It's how

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people read us. Okay, now out now, okay, I'm oh boy,

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all right. So the spirit of man is what people's sense.

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It's how people read us when they're in our presence.

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Now this becomes very subjective here, all right, This is

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making it very that there's nothing tangible here, right, because

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people can read and perceive and sense and be so wrong.

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I mean, people love to act like that. They can

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be around a person and I sense this about you.

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Just stop. You don't know what you're talking about, right,

463
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:36.160
So I'm not I'm not so down with this. I'm not.

464
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.680
Let's see where he's I was thinking he was gonna

465
00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:43.839
give us something more tangible about what the spirit of

466
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.400
man is. I thought he was gonna maybe go to

467
00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:50.279
the Hebrew for the Hebrew here in Proverbs twenty twenty seven.

468
00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:54.400
I I this is this is very interesting. This is

469
00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:57.920
very subjective, Like I under I can understand what would

470
00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:00.440
be difficult to explain this because he's explained it in

471
00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.759
very subjective terms. Let's see if he if he moves

472
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.319
from the subjective to something more concrete, more tangible. Now,

473
00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:09.720
I know it's very tangible, and it's very difficult to

474
00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:12.240
be tangible about a phrase the spirit of man. But

475
00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:13.839
let's let's see here. Let's see here.

476
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:19.599
I told you the spirit is the receiver.

477
00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:28.000
When you meet somebody anywhere, stranger, friend, you start assessing them.

478
00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:29.480
You know people do that to you too.

479
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.559
You know that, don't you're they're sizing the thing up,

480
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.599
sizing the situation up, see what kind of mood you'ry in,

481
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:39.880
seeing what kind of person you They're sizing you up

482
00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:45.079
to see if you are receptive or you're rejecting.

483
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:48.759
What is that?

484
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:49.759
Why?

485
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:56.519
I don't size anybody up. I don't care what. Who

486
00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:58.799
am I to sit there and try to size someone

487
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:03.000
up and figure some one out. I just let you

488
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:05.640
just be you. I don't need to understand. I don't

489
00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:08.480
need to know. I don't need to figure out, like,

490
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:11.759
why do I need to size someone up and figure out?

491
00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:16.839
Are you receiving? Are you rejecting? I don't really care.

492
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:21.119
You just be you and I'll just be me. Okay. Now,

493
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:25.160
maybe as you get close to someone and you start trying,

494
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:30.079
you're developing some form of a relationship. Right now, you

495
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:34.400
may want to start trying to understand. That's that's intimacy.

496
00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:37.599
Right If I just meet a person, just be you.

497
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.359
I I don't really draw. I'm not one to go, well,

498
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:42.359
what did you think of that person?

499
00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:42.599
Well?

500
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.960
I didn't. I didn't have two thoughts about that person. Okay,

501
00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:48.240
I listened to what they said. I mean I have

502
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:50.240
thoughts about what they said. But I wasn't trying to

503
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:55.039
read them, understand them, figure them out, size them up?

504
00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:57.720
What is if people do that? Just hey, then just

505
00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:59.519
do me a favor. Don't talk to me, okay?

506
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:00.599
What like?

507
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:02.680
Just let me be me and you just be you

508
00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:05.759
and we don't need to figure anything out, right, we don't,

509
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:10.119
I mean, unless there's a reason to. Just sounds like

510
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:16.440
you're getting into some level of intimacy, isn't it. I

511
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:20.240
don't know. Okay, is this what the spirit of man is? Okay,

512
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:22.160
I'm trying to figure this out. Let's let's see where

513
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:23.640
he takes this. This is interesting.

514
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:31.079
Then that spiritual thing that that's just that's your spirit working.

515
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:33.200
Your spirit.

516
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.839
You know, there's I just started thinking of all these

517
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:41.920
words and there's no end to it. The spirit is,

518
00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:45.960
like we've talked about, everybody has this fragrance around him,

519
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:51.680
this atmosphere around you. You're either a cloud or your sunshine, yes,

520
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.720
or many other things. You know, when you think of spirit,

521
00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.480
you think I'm happy? Will they're happy?

522
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:08.240
The spirit is like a fragrance. An't you just talking

523
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:10.920
about your mood? Your attitude?

524
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:11.640
Is?

525
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:13.920
Is that? Now gonna say that that's your spirit? See,

526
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:16.799
now we're getting into So spirit is your mood and

527
00:31:16.839 --> 00:31:22.440
your attitude. Typically, when if I was to give a

528
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:27.279
definition of the spirit of man, typically it would it

529
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:31.160
would read something like this. The spirit of man refers

530
00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:38.200
to the immaterial part of humanity, often associated with life, conscience,

531
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:42.960
and rationality. You see why I was having such an

532
00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:46.720
issue with him saying spiritual warfare is separating it from

533
00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:50.519
the intellect because when it comes and then I knew

534
00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:52.799
he was reading Proverbs twenty twenty seven, which is the

535
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:55.720
spirit of man. The spirit of man is that immaterial

536
00:31:55.880 --> 00:32:03.319
part of us as humans. It's a social with life, conscience, conscience,

537
00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:10.680
our consciousness, our conscience, rationality. You see the spirit of man.

538
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:14.519
Some would say within a thilological framework, it is the

539
00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:19.880
God given life force, our breath that distinguishes humans as

540
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.079
living beings. That's what makes us humans. It's our rationality,

541
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:29.079
it's our conscience, it's our self awareness. There's something that

542
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:33.839
distinguishes us from the rest of animals. Right that God

543
00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:37.839
breathe into us and we became a living soul, a

544
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.799
living spirit. That the spirit of man is something immateial,

545
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:46.359
it is it's what makes us human. It's it's our

546
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:51.839
it's it's it's our life, it's our conscience, it's our rationality.

547
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:56.359
That's that's something a little bit more tangible. He's describing

548
00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:01.319
it in the most non fil logical way that maybe

549
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:04.160
I've ever heard. I don't think I've ever heard pastors

550
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:08.000
describe it in such a non philological way. He's doing

551
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:14.039
it in a very almost mystical, metaphysical kind of way. Right,

552
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:18.119
it sounds like you're listening to someone who's into like

553
00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:21.559
almost some new wage. I'm not saying now, by no

554
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:23.519
means am I saying this person is new age. I'm

555
00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:26.000
not saying that in any way, shape or form. Okay,

556
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:29.039
I'm saying it's being described in something that sounds something

557
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.200
that you would hear in new age. Oh, I can

558
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:34.839
pick up your aura? I can? I can I see

559
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.960
this about you? I can sense this? What are you

560
00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:44.000
talking about?

561
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:44.480
I don't.

562
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:46.720
Okay, let's see if he he's got to move to

563
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:50.240
something more theological, something more tangible. He has to. He

564
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.680
has to, at least I'm going to hold.

565
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:58.119
Out hope happy spirit. That has to do with their spirit.

566
00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:02.759
If you if you assess somebody is being happy, that's

567
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:06.440
you can account that to their spirit, nothing else.

568
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:22.280
Their spirit it is the spirit of man connected. Two

569
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:39.920
are outward expressions. Hang on, h I gotta, I gotta

570
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:50.719
fix this. Our outward expressions having major problems. There are

571
00:34:50.760 --> 00:35:11.559
outward expressions of let's say, emotions, okay, okay, so okay,

572
00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:15.159
maybe okay, all right, so maybe maybe there is a

573
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:18.119
biblical idea here. So I'm asking Ai AI because and

574
00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:19.880
it doesn't mean I have to agree with AI is

575
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.679
not our authority, but AI says the spirit of man

576
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:26.119
is indeed connected to outward expressions of emotions, though the

577
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.400
relationship between the spirit and emotions is nuanced. Yeah, I

578
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:32.639
think it's yeah more so and biblical thought. The spirit

579
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:35.679
represents the immaterial part of a person that connects to God,

580
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.719
while emotions are part of the soul and often express

581
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:42.840
what is happening internally. In the spirit, the spirit of

582
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:45.280
Man is the core of a person's being, and it

583
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.000
is responsible for their connection to God, moral reasoning, and

584
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:56.760
inner vitality. If I can find where this went here,

585
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:03.400
my page refreshed here. While the spirit is not synonymous

586
00:36:03.960 --> 00:36:10.639
with emotions, it influences them. The spirit reflects a person's

587
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:14.480
emotional state. Proverbs fifteen thirteen. A merry heart makes a

588
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:18.519
cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit

589
00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:22.000
is broken. This verse shows that sorrow enjoying the heart

590
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:25.840
affect the spirit, which can in turn be outwardly visible

591
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:28.719
on the face. But see that seems to show that

592
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:33.519
sorrow and joy affect the spirit. That would be separating

593
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:36.760
the emotion from the spirit. The spirit is impacted by

594
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:41.840
our emotions, so the spirit. See that seems to be

595
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:46.519
separating them, right, I mean read that again. A merry

596
00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:50.280
heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart,

597
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:54.559
the spirit is broken. AI's interpretation. The verse shows that

598
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:57.639
sorrow enjoying the heart affect the spirit, which can in

599
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.239
turn outwardly can be outwardly visible on the face. That

600
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:04.800
would be the emotions impacting the spirit. The spirit is

601
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:10.239
not the source of the emotion. Proverbs eighteen fourteen. The

602
00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:12.639
spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but

603
00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:16.119
who can bear a broken spirit? A healthy, strong spirit

604
00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:19.760
can sustain a person, while a broken spirit often manifest

605
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:23.039
and despair and physical weariness. So that would say a

606
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:26.280
spirit can be broken, but it's not showing that it's

607
00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:28.840
the source of the emotions. It seems it seems that

608
00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:35.800
something can break the spirit Job seven eleven, Job Chapter seven,

609
00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:38.719
Verse eleven. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.

610
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:42.639
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job's

611
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:46.440
emotions anguish and bitterness are expressions are expressed through his

612
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:49.519
spirit and soul, showing a deep connection between the spirit

613
00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:53.880
and outward emotional expression. I think it seems to say

614
00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:57.599
that I think Job is expressing how deep his anguish

615
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.840
and sorrow is. It goes deep in side him. It's

616
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:03.199
not just surface level, don't I don't know if that

617
00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:09.519
necessarily proves anything. My spirit rejoices in God, my savior. Well,

618
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:16.159
this just shows that the spirit can feel emotion, right,

619
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:21.639
I don't know. I don't know here. Okay, I still

620
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:26.320
feel that this is very mystical approach to it. Okay,

621
00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:27.280
let's just see where.

622
00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:31.920
He goes than be happy when her body's a hurt.

623
00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:45.920
Thing, be melancholy thing, be sad, depressed, the obsessed, deceived, oppressed, burdened.

624
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:47.480
You realize this.

625
00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:50.639
You pick up on these things from people, don't you? You?

626
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:52.119
Somebody why the long face?

627
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:55.840
I thought about uh Neamiah, the King's cup bear, when

628
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:57.519
he went into the presence of the King and you

629
00:38:57.559 --> 00:38:58.920
remember what the king said.

630
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:00.599
Why is your count? And sad?

631
00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:05.039
You know he picked up See the king picked up

632
00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:06.679
on something wrong here?

633
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:12.119
He picked up he picked up his facial expression, almost

634
00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:15.239
knocked the microphone halfway across the room. He picked up

635
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.159
his facial expression. And I don't think he read the

636
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:24.880
spirit like I am not. This sounds very ah, I'm

637
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:28.199
having some major issues here. I'm having major issues here.

638
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:32.519
Now that again, this is real time reaction. After further

639
00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:36.559
thought and consideration, I may change my opinion here, but

640
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:42.559
I I'm not so sure about this. Let let's let's

641
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:43.280
see where this goes.

642
00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:50.000
How how do you do that? Spirits?

643
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:54.599
Yes, it's your spirit. Your spirit tells on you. Your

644
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:58.079
spirit communicates to other people what's going on in here.

645
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:07.920
Your spirit communicates to other people what's going on That

646
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:12.719
is not I that is not true. How many times

647
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.280
has someone committed suicide? And never like I had no idea,

648
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:18.880
I didn't see it. I wish I would have. Well

649
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:22.599
were the signs? I didn't see it? Because people are

650
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:28.639
great at externally showing one thing where internally something else

651
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:34.920
is completely going on, completely separate. He making alection like

652
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:38.119
your spirit will just tell on you. Your spirit will

653
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:40.280
be like, hey, hey, hey, things are not right on

654
00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:46.079
the inside. So now is it the spirit is this?

655
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:51.280
I don't even This is getting into something way different

656
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:55.440
than biblical theology. So I'm supposed to be looking at

657
00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:58.119
a person and then you're going to assume that you

658
00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:01.239
can read someone's spirit because spirit is talking to you.

659
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:03.760
This is sounding like something like that out of the

660
00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:06.239
Force be with you. This is sounding like something from

661
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.239
Star Wars. I can sense you. Oh they are the

662
00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:12.480
Force is telling me they have a right. I know

663
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:14.440
that's not what he's saying, but I'm like, this sounds

664
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:21.079
like something so contrary to biblical theology. Your spirit communicates

665
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:28.599
to other people what's going on inside of you. People

666
00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:32.960
make wrong assumptions about people all the time, and so

667
00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:34.480
is are you going to say, well, you've got to

668
00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:37.679
learn how to read someone else's spirit? So how do

669
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.119
I read someone else's spirit? Do I get a sense?

670
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:44.840
Do I get a feeling? Do I look for an aura?

671
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:49.760
H Okay, now this is getting okay. I don't know

672
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.239
where this is going, Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know

673
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.920
where this is going. But even AI tried to draw

674
00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:58.519
a correlation, it's still distinguished. Them, and even some of

675
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:01.559
the verses Ai was providing me, it seemed to say,

676
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:05.320
my emotions can impact my spirit, or my emotions can

677
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.239
be felt within my spirit. Doesn't seem to say the

678
00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:10.400
spirit is the thing that's giving the emotions, which would

679
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:13.400
separate emotion from spirit, which would say they're separate things.

680
00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:15.920
So I'm I there is nothing so far that I

681
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:19.280
have seen that is convincing me that this is going anywhere. Well,

682
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:21.360
this is going in a direction I never would have

683
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:26.599
even a million years predicted. So I got But we've

684
00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:31.639
got to let him. He's got to make it more

685
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:34.760
biblical and philological. He has to write he I mean,

686
00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:36.920
he's got a text right here, so you know he's

687
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:38.800
going to go to this text. Is he going to

688
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:41.920
take all of these assumptions that he's presenting and read

689
00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:43.960
it into the text. Then this could get really weird.

690
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:44.639
Let's find out.

691
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:49.519
And you can really read people better than you think.

692
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:50.519
You can't.

693
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.880
Always reading about ways, reading about Jesus, and you know

694
00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:58.679
how different times in the Gospels he knew their thoughts,

695
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:01.280
reading their spirit.

696
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:03.119
That's what it is.

697
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:06.960
Okay, Now wait a minute, wait a minute. You can

698
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:11.800
read people's spirits better than you think you can because

699
00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:14.840
we have Jesus who read their thoughts, meaning he read

700
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:18.039
their spirits. We're not Jesus. Okay, wait a minute, Wait

701
00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:25.360
a minute. You cannot read someone's spirit. Don't try. You

702
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:30.039
can't do it. You can't judge it, you can't read it.

703
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:35.840
If you think you can, you are an arrogant, conceited person.

704
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:41.400
You have you cannot. Your ability to understand someone is

705
00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:46.840
greatly limited, greatly limited. And if you go around thinking

706
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:50.559
you're reading and seeing into other people, you're gonna become judging.

707
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.679
You're gonna become judgmental. You're gonna think you know them,

708
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:57.719
you're gonna speak about them as if you know Stop it.

709
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.039
You don't know people. You can't read inside of people.

710
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:04.320
You cannot do that. You can't judge the inside of

711
00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:06.559
a person. You don't know the inside of a person.

712
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:10.280
You are limited by the external expressions that they give

713
00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:13.519
you and they can complete. And it's not your job

714
00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:16.559
to try to determine if they're deceiving you or fooling you.

715
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:25.679
That is not your job. You can read someone's spirit,

716
00:44:26.159 --> 00:44:28.719
That is ridiculous. No, you cannot.

717
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:41.000
Oh man, Okay, he was keen on spiritually he was God.

718
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:43.760
He did this many times.

719
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.480
What I'm telling you tonight and trying to get across

720
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:48.480
to you tonight, if you just watch Jesus and what

721
00:44:48.519 --> 00:44:52.159
he did, he wasn't a supernatural mind reader.

722
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:55.000
He was sensitive to the spirits.

723
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:04.239
Jesus was not a supernatural mind reader. He just was

724
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:12.199
sensitive to the spirit. So Jesus discerning their thoughts was

725
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:19.039
not a supernatural act. He just was keen to reading

726
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:20.440
their spirit.

727
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:22.159
It was a.

728
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.440
Natural thing he did that I can do. Are you

729
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:28.800
saying that what Jesus did was not supernatural? It wasn't

730
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:32.360
divine act. It's just something you and I can do.

731
00:45:33.239 --> 00:45:37.079
What is happening right now? What is even the and

732
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:41.679
just this is like almost five hundred downloads. I think

733
00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:43.840
what I have to start doing to get more downloads

734
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:45.440
is I need to just start saying things that are

735
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:48.079
completely like I don't even know what that is. He

736
00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:51.440
literally just said what Jesus did, he wasn't a supernatural

737
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:55.320
mind was It wasn't a divine act. He was just

738
00:45:55.440 --> 00:46:00.559
keen keen. Is that even that's a very data Okay,

739
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:03.519
He's just very good. Maybe it's still used in certain

740
00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:08.400
geographical locations, but I just know Keen as a radio

741
00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:11.880
station here in Abilene Keen. What is one five. I

742
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.239
don't know. It was the big country radio station that

743
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:15.800
was so popular back in the day. I think it

744
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.400
still exists. But okay, I mean, all right, wait, I'm

745
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:23.800
getting all distracted. The point is he basically just said

746
00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:27.400
that we can read people's spirits better than we think

747
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:30.440
we can. Just look to Jesus, because what Jesus did

748
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:34.079
is he was reading spirits. He was not utilizing. He

749
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:39.079
was just sensitive. He wasn't utilizing any supernatural or divine.

750
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:48.679
It wasn't demonstrating divine or supernatural ability. That is whoa, whoa. Okay,

751
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:51.280
all right, he's got to explain that. I bet you

752
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.519
he's gonna he's gonna walk this back a little bit.

753
00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:55.360
He's gonna have to walk this. He had to just

754
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:56.239
hear what he said.

755
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:02.599
He was aware of them. He worked in that realm,

756
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:04.639
he lived in that realm.

757
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:05.960
He thought in that realm.

758
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.320
He dealt with people in that realm, and we don't.

759
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:12.800
We deal with them in the intellectual realm. We deal

760
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:15.880
with them in the earthly realm. In the carnal realm.

761
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:20.440
We look at people as trees walking. That's what we do.

762
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:23.960
We don't even count this as nothing. We don't even

763
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:27.199
think about it. We don't even enter into this realm

764
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:28.039
in our thoughts.

765
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:31.280
It's all just you know, we're fighting, but it ain't

766
00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:34.079
no spiritual fight. We just fight with each other. That's

767
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.800
why there's strife and envy and all that. And people

768
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:43.280
who don't walk after the spirit. You can only walk

769
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:46.159
after the flesh or after the spirit. It's the only

770
00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:48.920
way you can walk. And I'm just saying to you,

771
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:52.880
the people who call themselves God's people walk after the

772
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:57.239
flesh way more than you ever see anybody ain't walking

773
00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:01.880
after the spirit to have the whole this is it's

774
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:07.159
just a cliche. It's a meaningless phrase to most people.

775
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:09.519
They don't even know what it means, don't understand what

776
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:10.840
it means.

777
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:15.039
A people can be. You pick up on him, be

778
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:16.360
in trouble, being proud.

779
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:20.599
There's a proud spirit, haughty spirit, humble spirit, kind spirit,

780
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:30.119
deceitful spirit, you know, deceived, depressed, hot, burdened, free.

781
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:33.360
Well, he never backtracked from it. So I don't know

782
00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:36.719
how else you interpret that, Like, I'm left with a

783
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.719
million questions. But it's all about and he seems to

784
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:44.639
be saying that walking in the spirit means not walking

785
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:48.679
in accordance to the spirit, but walking in the spirit

786
00:48:48.760 --> 00:48:54.320
of walking and looking and seeing and understanding and reading

787
00:48:54.320 --> 00:49:05.079
everyone else's spirit. Ah man, this is getting really confusing.

788
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:08.119
I'm trying to understand. But I've got to give him

789
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:10.119
the opportunity to clarify it. I got to give him

790
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:12.079
the opportunity. I don't want to speak for him, So

791
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:13.320
let's let this continue.

792
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:24.239
Caring, sympathetic, cruel, uncaring, cold, warm, respectful, hateful.

793
00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:27.840
You pick up on those they're just how we just

794
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:28.119
go on?

795
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.480
No, can't we what we pick up on other people,

796
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:35.519
what we assess when we're in somebody else's presence.

797
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:41.519
So you can pick up those things by their outward expressions.

798
00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:46.880
But that doesn't mean you're reading their spirit. This is crazy.

799
00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:51.639
He's like, basically, I can see beyond your Hey, I

800
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:55.039
walk in the spirit, so I can see even though

801
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:57.840
you're telling me this, I can see what's really going

802
00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:06.079
on inside of you. This is mysticism. This, in fact,

803
00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:11.760
it sounds very charismatic to me. Sounds very charismatic to me.

804
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:14.320
Now there are those who've been a part of the

805
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:18.239
charismatic world. You can correct me. But this sounds very charismatic,

806
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:27.519
very very charismatic, and.

807
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:31.320
We discount it to moods. All they're in a bad mood. Ah,

808
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:33.920
they're just in a sad mood. Oh, they're just in

809
00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:36.960
a melancholy mood. Oh, they're in a happy mood.

810
00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:43.039
That's what we call it, and that's not what's causing

811
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:49.559
it at all. When we speak of the soul, we're

812
00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:55.239
referring to that immortal part of an individual person that

813
00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:58.800
is the essence of his being, and it's part of

814
00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:02.679
us that that it is the part of us that

815
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:09.360
enables us to think, our soul and to reason. And therefore,

816
00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:15.599
because we are a living soul that God breathed life into,

817
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:20.679
put a spirit in, and gave life to, we're subject

818
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:25.920
to moral government because we're a living soul, because we

819
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.599
can think, because we can reason, because we are aware

820
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:33.239
of the universe around us and other people around us.

821
00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:38.400
We are accountable. Whether you want to be, whether you

822
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:39.360
think you are.

823
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:42.719
Whether you want to reject God completely, you are going

824
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:44.440
to give account.

825
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:48.840
Okay, So I don't know what's going on, because he

826
00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:53.400
still hasn't even gotten into the verse. I'm having a

827
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:57.039
hard time following this. So I wanted to ask Ai, hey,

828
00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:00.760
is it possible for us to be able to read

829
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:05.079
the spirit of another person? AI said, it is impossible

830
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:07.239
for us to perfectly read and understand the spirit of

831
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:11.119
another person. The human spirit represents the deepest, immaterial part

832
00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:14.119
of a person, and only God has the ability to

833
00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:18.159
truly know and judge the spirit with complete accuracy. God

834
00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:22.920
can through because it's supernatural, didy, not because he's just

835
00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:27.719
keen or sensitive. I mean, okay. The Bible consistently teaches

836
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.000
that God alone has the ability to search and know

837
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:33.880
the spirit of the inner being. Proverbs twenty twenty seven.

838
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:36.199
The very verse that this sermon is supposed to be

839
00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.760
about the spirit of man is the candle of the

840
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:41.679
Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly. This

841
00:52:41.840 --> 00:52:45.079
verse shows that it is God, not humans, who use

842
00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:47.639
the spirit of man as his lamp to search the

843
00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:53.039
inner depths. Humans lack this capacity. The heart is deceitful

844
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:56.039
above all things, and desperately sick. Who can understand it?

845
00:52:56.480 --> 00:52:58.840
I the Lord search the heart and test the mind.

846
00:52:59.079 --> 00:53:02.559
The human heart and spirit are so complex and corrupted

847
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:08.480
by sin that even we cannot fully understand ourselves, let

848
00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:12.000
alone others. Let me say that again. Let me read

849
00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:15.960
this again. The human heart and spirit are so complex

850
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:23.239
and so completely corrupted by sin that we cannot fully

851
00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:31.920
understand ourselves, let alone others. He's calling for sinful human

852
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:36.400
beings to read the spirit of other sinful human beings

853
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:41.400
and draw some conclusion. That is ridiculous, that is unbiblical,

854
00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:45.440
That is theological malpractice. That will lead to people drawing

855
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:50.239
wrong assumptions, wrong conclusions, judging people, and assuming things that

856
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:54.719
are fraudulent and wrong. You worry about reading yourself before

857
00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:58.239
you worry about anybody else. Judge yourself. Look at the

858
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:01.440
look at you, look at the mirror, Stop looking out

859
00:54:01.480 --> 00:54:04.440
the window, Stop looking at other people. Stop trying to

860
00:54:04.480 --> 00:54:07.880
read other people, start trying to make judgments about other people.

861
00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:18.239
One Corinthians two eleven. For who knows a person's thoughts

862
00:54:18.280 --> 00:54:21.360
except the spirit of that person, which is in him.

863
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:24.800
So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God accept

864
00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:28.159
the spirit of God. Paul explicitly states that no one

865
00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:32.920
can know another person's inner life, their thoughts, motives, or

866
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:36.559
spirit apart from God's revelation. God is the only one

867
00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:39.320
who knows it. You can't know it. You can't know

868
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:43.079
another person's thoughts. You can't know another person's motivations. You

869
00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:47.440
can't know that. And I don't know what Proverbs twenty

870
00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:56.000
twenty seven has to do with any of this. First

871
00:54:56.000 --> 00:55:00.239
Samuel sixteen seven. Man looks on the outward appearance. The

872
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:03.039
Lord looks on the heart. Humans are limited to judging

873
00:55:03.159 --> 00:55:07.480
external actions, expressions, and words. Well, these can give clues

874
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:11.559
about a person's spirit. They do not provide full or

875
00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:13.679
accurate insights.

876
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:24.480
For everything you do and every idle word you speak. Yes,

877
00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:26.159
because you have a soul.

878
00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:32.320
The soul and the spirit are different, They're distinct. We

879
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:36.079
speak of the spirit, we're referring to that part of

880
00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:41.360
us which influences others and also allows our soul to

881
00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:49.039
be influenced by others, both spiritually and earthly. The spirit

882
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:53.239
of man is that which perceives both that which is

883
00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:56.280
earthly and natural and that.

884
00:55:56.159 --> 00:55:57.519
Which is supernatural.

885
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:01.400
Now we talked about this spirit is your receiver, and

886
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:03.639
that's what makes you able to perceive.

887
00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:06.679
That's the part of you that looks and sees.

888
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:16.079
Just so you know, soul and spirit same are different.

889
00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:20.400
If you've been if you're a student of theology, you

890
00:56:20.519 --> 00:56:24.400
know there is not necessarily agreement on this. One of

891
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:27.199
the schools I went to. We spent I think an

892
00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:32.320
entire semester trying to determine is soul and spirit always

893
00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:35.920
used separately in the Bible or are they used synonymously?

894
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:39.599
Are they different or they just interchangeably? Right? I mean

895
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:42.760
I had to spend an entire semester working on this, Okay,

896
00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:46.239
so the I asked AI while this was going on,

897
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:51.679
the question of whether the soul and spirit are distinct

898
00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:55.199
or synonymous is one of one of philological nuance. Scripture

899
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:59.440
used these terms in overlapping ways at times, but they

900
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:03.920
also have distinctions depending on the context. Several passages suggest

901
00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:07.239
that the soul and spirit are distinct but interconnected components

902
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:10.360
of the human person. Hebrews four to twelve. For the

903
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:12.480
Word of God is living in active sharper than any

904
00:57:12.519 --> 00:57:17.679
two edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit.

905
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:20.360
All right, so there seems to be. The verse implies

906
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.840
that soul and spirit can be distinguished though they are

907
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:27.760
closely related. The imagery suggests their separation requires divine insight.

908
00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:32.639
One Thessalonians five twenty three. Now may the God of

909
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:35.760
Peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit

910
00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:39.760
and soul and body be kept blameless. Paul lists spirit, soul,

911
00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:46.360
and body as distinct. All right, my soul magnifies the Lord,

912
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:50.039
and my spirit rejoices. Mary uses soul and spirit and parallel,

913
00:57:50.239 --> 00:57:55.480
but the distinction could suggest nuanced expressions of praise. Biblical

914
00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:58.639
evidence for the overlap, and many passages, soul and spirit

915
00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:03.199
appear interchangeably or at least closely linked, leading some to

916
00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:07.800
argue they're essentially synonymous. Genesis two seven. Then the Lord

917
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:11.559
formed in deman of the dust from the ground, breathed

918
00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:13.719
into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became

919
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:17.519
a living soul. The soul here become seems to encompass

920
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:22.639
the whole person animated by God's breath. Job seven to eleven.

921
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:25.000
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I

922
00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:28.440
will complain the bitterness of my soul. Job uses spirit

923
00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:32.320
and soul and parallel to describe the inner anguish, suggesting

924
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:35.519
that the terms can overlap. Matthew ten twenty eight. Do

925
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.239
not fear those who can kill the body but cannot

926
00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:40.920
kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy soul,

927
00:58:41.320 --> 00:58:45.559
and both soul and body and hell. Here soul seems

928
00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:48.639
to encompass the spiritual immaterial aspects of a person, which

929
00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:51.840
could also describe the spirit and other context. All right,

930
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:53.840
so I could go through all of this, but just

931
00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:58.360
note there's is it, which one is it? Which is it?

932
00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:01.760
Is it synonymous? Then some will say man is made

933
00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:05.079
up of three parts body, soul, spirit. Others will argue

934
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:07.960
man is made up of only two parts body, soul

935
00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:12.800
and spirit are synonymous. Trichotomy of man, the dichotomy. I mean,

936
00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:14.800
we could get into all of them. I mean, these

937
00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:20.440
are deep theiological issues here, but he's not. This is

938
00:59:20.480 --> 00:59:22.639
the This is where this is, once again why I

939
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:26.639
complain about the church, the church versus podcasts. This is

940
00:59:26.639 --> 00:59:31.840
where I complain about it like the church. Okay, let's

941
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:34.239
just we're almost at an hour. Let's let's let's just

942
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:36.599
see if this goes anywhere. We haven't even gotten to

943
00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:38.719
the text. Let's see if we get anywhere here, and

944
00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:39.719
we'll try to wrap it up.

945
00:59:43.159 --> 00:59:44.719
There's so many other things we want to say here.

946
00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:46.119
But the spirit is light.

947
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:51.199
The candle, the spirit of man is the candle of

948
00:59:51.199 --> 00:59:51.559
the Lord.

949
00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:54.760
What is candle for light?

950
00:59:54.800 --> 00:59:58.239
It's so you can see the spirit of man is

951
00:59:58.320 --> 00:59:59.920
the candle of the Lord.

952
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:02.960
He put it in you, and he put light in you.

953
01:00:03.039 --> 01:00:04.679
He's the light to light of every man that comes

954
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:11.760
into the world. Our spirit is that part of us

955
01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:13.960
that sees and hears.

956
01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:18.599
We receive information and knowledge through our spirit.

957
01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:25.599
He just said, we receive information and knowledge to this spirit. Okay, man,

958
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:27.960
I am having and he just kind of referenced Proverbs

959
01:00:27.960 --> 01:00:31.639
twenty twenty seven. He's not taking it apart. I am

960
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:34.199
having a hard time following this. I've got to let

961
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:35.880
him go just a little further and try to find

962
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:40.039
a good stopping point. But yeah, this opens up a

963
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:46.039
door of discussion that could take months. It could take

964
01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:49.599
a year, and you think I'm exaggerating. This could take

965
01:00:49.639 --> 01:00:50.840
forever to try to unpack.

966
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:54.480
And so where my phone go? Here?

967
01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:58.880
I had to look up this verse because it didn't

968
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:02.039
write it DOWNBS sixteen thirty two. He that is slow

969
01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:05.119
to anger is better than the mighty, and he that

970
01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:11.679
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city supposed

971
01:01:11.719 --> 01:01:13.840
to rule your spirit. You got a rule of your spirit.

972
01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:18.039
If you just let her run free wheeling, you're going

973
01:01:18.119 --> 01:01:21.639
to be moody and you're gonna be subject to every

974
01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:24.320
devil that comes along and wants to sit on your

975
01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:30.360
shoulder and talk to you. Our spirit is that part

976
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:33.320
of us, its season heres and it's that part of

977
01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:35.400
us that is aware.

978
01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:39.239
Of the universe around us. Spirit.

979
01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:45.239
You think a dog is aware that there's stars in

980
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:48.880
the heavens that the moon wrote goes around to Earth.

981
01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:53.000
You think a dog is aware of what's going on

982
01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:57.480
in Washington or over the over the pond as they

983
01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:00.119
used to say.

984
01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:04.880
Now is the dogs? Does the dog lack the ability

985
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:13.519
to understand because he doesn't have the spirit like the

986
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:16.079
spirit of man? Or is it because the dog does

987
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:21.800
not have the intellectual capacity to understand? Do we understand

988
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:28.360
the stars Washington orbits of planets because of our spirit?

989
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:31.519
Or do we understand it because of our intellect? And

990
01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:34.559
is the intellect and spirit hote? Now we're getting into this.

991
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:39.639
Oh boy, okay, all right, let's just see where.

992
01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:43.760
This goes across the Poland think a dog or any

993
01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:47.079
kind of what other kind of creature on this art

994
01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:51.800
has any consciousness of the universe like that?

995
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:56.119
Does he think about the future? Does he look at

996
01:02:56.199 --> 01:02:58.480
he look squirrelsbabe like right up.

997
01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:01.639
Nuts all summer? No, they just do that like the

998
01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:04.239
birds and flies out. They can't help it. They don't

999
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:05.559
know what they don't know.

1000
01:03:05.920 --> 01:03:07.559
Consciously what they're doing.

1001
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:11.159
They just do it because God hard wired it into

1002
01:03:11.199 --> 01:03:19.119
them to do it. Man, the spirit of man goes upwards,

1003
01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.639
the spirit of the beast goes downward. That's why they

1004
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:26.159
all look at the ground all the time. I learned

1005
01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:28.960
that when we was trapping hogs. You know you if

1006
01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:32.480
he won't look up, if that gate on that trap

1007
01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:34.639
is above his head, he ain't gonna say it. He's

1008
01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:35.719
looking this way.

1009
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:37.360
He don't look up.

1010
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:39.679
Tell me a cat's the same way. And I fooled

1011
01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:41.440
with him enough to see it' stright.

1012
01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:45.719
They don't look up. Man looks up to the heavens

1013
01:03:47.880 --> 01:03:55.000
and wonders. He's aware that there's more to everything then

1014
01:03:55.039 --> 01:03:57.400
he can see. He knows it.

1015
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:00.199
Because he's got a spirit in him that God I'm

1016
01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:04.880
put there a light, a divine light in his soul

1017
01:04:06.199 --> 01:04:07.519
that is aware.

1018
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:11.639
Your spirit is what makes you aware that you're alive.

1019
01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:14.679
Right now sitting here listening to me, you look around,

1020
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:17.159
You ever just marvel that you're alive? Do you ever

1021
01:04:17.239 --> 01:04:20.960
do that? Do you just look around saying you know what?

1022
01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:25.760
In the world. I'm alive, I see all these things.

1023
01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:29.199
What am I doing here? What kind of creature am I?

1024
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:32.960
That's your spirit?

1025
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:38.599
Okay, we'll have to stop there. And we're sixty four minutes.

1026
01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:42.760
When it says that the spirit of man is the

1027
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:49.239
candle of the Lord, this is a metaphor. It's using

1028
01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:53.400
the metaphor of a candle or lamp, suggesting light, guidance,

1029
01:04:53.559 --> 01:04:58.840
and revelation. In ancient context, a lamp was used to

1030
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:05.559
search dark play, symbolizing illumination or discernment. All right, So

1031
01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:08.360
the verse seems to imply that the human spirit was

1032
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:11.199
created and sustained by God as act as a divinely

1033
01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:16.119
ordained instrument of introspection and moral discernment. It functions like

1034
01:05:16.159 --> 01:05:18.679
a lamp that searches the depths of a person's being,

1035
01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:23.440
exposing hidden thoughts and motives. So this seems to be

1036
01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:26.039
going more with the idea the spirit of man is

1037
01:05:26.119 --> 01:05:29.119
kind of connected here to the conscience. That we have

1038
01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:33.519
a conscience that we sense things. So I think in

1039
01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:37.599
a sense that the way this works is that we

1040
01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:41.719
have the external word, we have the external law of God,

1041
01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:43.719
and we have the law written on our hearts. So

1042
01:05:43.719 --> 01:05:45.960
we have the law written on our hearts. We have

1043
01:05:46.039 --> 01:05:49.519
an internal law of God. There we have an external law.

1044
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:52.599
If the more we see of the external law, the

1045
01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:57.079
more our conscience inside of us serves as a lamp

1046
01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:01.559
right searching all the inward parts. And we're and it's

1047
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:03.639
going to tell us we're guilty. We're guilty, We're guilty.

1048
01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:06.440
We're guilty. We're guilty, We're guilty, we're guilty. And then

1049
01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:10.119
that internal conscience, the spirit of man, I think this is.

1050
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:12.039
I think this is more of a reference to kind

1051
01:06:12.079 --> 01:06:14.000
of our conscience. We could say, is the conscience and

1052
01:06:14.039 --> 01:06:16.000
the spirit of man the same? It's nuanced, We could

1053
01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:18.079
separate them a little bit, But this is the way

1054
01:06:18.119 --> 01:06:21.199
I think it works. We have the external law right,

1055
01:06:21.440 --> 01:06:23.039
and we read it and we writen. Now there's an

1056
01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:26.920
intellectual part. Our mind reads it, We comprehend it. God says,

1057
01:06:26.920 --> 01:06:29.960
don't do this. God doesn't do this. Our inner conscience,

1058
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.559
the spirit of man, I think is tied here to

1059
01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:35.119
our conscience here in Proverbs twenty twenty seven, serves as

1060
01:06:35.119 --> 01:06:37.639
a lamp and it shows us we're guilty. We're guilty,

1061
01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:40.400
and we sense that guilt, we feel that guilt, we

1062
01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:43.719
know that guilt we also have the internal law inside

1063
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:47.400
of us, and that conscience that that this the spirit

1064
01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:50.320
of man, this candle inside of us shows us we're guilty.

1065
01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:52.960
We're guilty, We're guilty. The conscience, the spirit of man,

1066
01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:57.079
constantly testifies to us of our of our sinfulness, of

1067
01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:00.480
our corruption and our guilt. And the more and formed

1068
01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:04.559
our mind becomes, our conscience becomes, the more the spirit

1069
01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:06.880
of man inside of us, because it's the only thing

1070
01:07:06.920 --> 01:07:10.239
that it's inside of me. It's only me who can

1071
01:07:10.280 --> 01:07:14.039
know me. So if me is informed by the word

1072
01:07:14.079 --> 01:07:17.840
of God, I'm going to see my failure, which then

1073
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:31.639
drives me to Christ. In a sense, the conscience, informed

1074
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:35.679
by divine truth, well kind is now betrayed as an

1075
01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:40.760
internal guide. God uses the human spirit to bring awareness

1076
01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:46.000
of moral failure and sin. The conscience is the lamp. See,

1077
01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:49.519
the word is the lamp right that lightens the conscience

1078
01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:55.599
so that we then see and acknowledge what's there. I

1079
01:07:57.239 --> 01:08:00.000
this seems to have more to do maybe with conscience here,

1080
01:08:00.760 --> 01:08:03.079
but we're sixty eight minutes. I'm going to have to stop.

1081
01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:08.480
I am perplexed by this, but his at least I'm

1082
01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:10.320
not saying it's I don't know if he ever gave

1083
01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:12.639
us a thesis statement. So I don't know if there's

1084
01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:15.280
even a thesis statement in this sermon, but one of

1085
01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:19.039
the major points, I won't call it a the major thesis.

1086
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:24.119
The major point seems to be that Jesus was able

1087
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:28.239
to read people's spirit, not because of supernatural ability or

1088
01:08:28.239 --> 01:08:30.840
even divinity, just because he was sensitive to it, and

1089
01:08:30.840 --> 01:08:32.359
that we can do the same thing, that we can

1090
01:08:32.399 --> 01:08:39.000
read other people's spirits. I man, I don't even know

1091
01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:42.079
what to say and anything else he said, I don't

1092
01:08:42.119 --> 01:08:44.800
really know what to do with because I don't know.

1093
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:48.000
But we definitely will come back to this at some point,

1094
01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:50.359
but you can let me know what you think in

1095
01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:52.319
regards to all of this. But in the meantime, I'll

1096
01:08:52.319 --> 01:08:57.520
stop there. There's another sermon in our sermon's two point

1097
01:08:57.560 --> 01:08:59.720
oh ap sermon challenge. We didn't review the whole thing.

1098
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:03.319
We may come back to it. I don't know. I got, yeah,

1099
01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:05.279
I got other things, So I gotta worry about Isaiah

1100
01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:08.279
chapter forty, verse one through two tomorrow. That's what I got,

1101
01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:11.880
and then verses three through what five, So that's my focus.

1102
01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:14.840
But for now we'll leave that there. We'll put a

1103
01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:17.960
kind of a kind of a possible bookmark on this.

1104
01:09:18.520 --> 01:09:21.000
We'll come back to it and we'll have possibly more

1105
01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:24.319
conversations about it soon. Thanks for listening. Everyone, have a

1106
01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:26.720
great Saturday. God bless